>anon posts his work>other anons tear him a new one>in reality their prose and writing ability is far above most selfpubs, YA fiction, web novels, and the shlock you find in writing subreddits>anon never posts work again even though if I hadn’t had a three day vacation for posting Nicoavocado’s slimy asshole, I could have told him that his work really was cool and then he should keep up the great workMany such cases!
>when video game philosophy is more profound than Marx'sbut for real, I have never read anything more profound than this.
I'm afraid the counter to this is the argumentum ad cringium
>>23819699This is just Hegel's master/slave dialectic, which was further interpreted by Marx, Nietzsche, and Sartre. The video game didn't come up with this.>I have never read anything more profound than thisEvidently. Read more.
>>23819714how?The idea that the vast majority of people fear the death of their "master" more than their own deaths. All the heroes who sacrificed their lives for "the greater good" were nothing more than slaves. "If you dies, your society/country/kingdom/family will go on. If they cease to exist, you are nothing."It's simple but so profound.
>>23819730no it's not you illiterate. Hegel said nothing of such nature. He said nothing of death.
>>23819699When election summer is over and the underage Evola and culture war fags get replaced by NEETfag gamers and cartoon anus gooners. I think it's still an improvement.
>9 years into the war and Priam needs Helen to sit down and explain to him who each king of the enemy army (Agamemnon, Odysseus, Menelaus) he is fighting is Did Priam have dementia? Wtf?
It's joever, Priambros...
It's been 9 years, he needed a reminder.
>>23819729He’s also pretty homoerotic with his descriptions of the enemy kings if you think about it, especially Agamemnon. “So who’s that tall, muscular guy over there? That guy must be a famous warrior! uWu”
Horror lit thread! last one got archived. What are you guys reading?
>>23819488Jumpscares are shit and not what I was talking about. When using your own imagination, you are in control. Terror is instilled by a lack of control. It's like tickling yourself versus getting tickled. Humans are primarily visual, as is reflected by the relative amount of brain matter dedicated to each sense. Literature is like a recipe, your imagination does the cooking. With audiovisual medium, you are an observer, you are no longer the chef.>>23819493>live action is infinitely more limited than literatureTrue, live action is inherently bad because it is too dependent on human performance.>decadesHave you been living under a rock? Frontier AI is already smarter than the average person. We will likely have AI generated movies better than anything human made within the next 2-4 years.
>>23816288https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V8SqCr263g
What a I in for?
>>23819605*am
https://youtube.com/@theslashtraxnetwork?si=jcUsd-NYd0-trc96
>Your favorite book>A book or author you can't stand>A random fact or memory >American Psycho>Lord of the Rings (the entire series)When I was little my childhood home had a pool. I would regularly find frogs there and throw them up in the air just to watch them land.
>Your favorite bookStoner by John Williams.>A book or author you can't standMurakami.>A random fact or memoryI like girls feet.
The Fates of Human Societies
>>23819643>Moby Dick>David Foster Wallace>I once masturbated under the desk at the back of a classroom to see if I could get away with it, and I did.
His prose is horrible. I can’t go a paragraph without involuntarily convulsing. I’m editing mentally as I read. Fucking dropped.
>>23815739There is no excuse for bad writing, ever. Gurm writes as if English were his second or third language. He's an incompetent hack who can barely construct a sentence. His subject matter is irrelevant.>>23814381Maybe /lit/ isn't the board for you. Have you tried /lgbt/?
>>23818884The punchline is that Gurm is laughing in his sleeve at all the plebs who made him rich.He doesn't give a shit about his novels anymore, much less the suckers who read them.
>>23811160>I got filtered.
>>23818919>He doesn't give a shit about his novels anymoreHe never did, his works are just another of the thousands of generics The Lord of the Rings rip offs, he's just like those animuh isekais
>>23811186>doesn't read fantasy>watches the trashiest soap opera trash ever and casually owns it as a badge of honor?
Discuss pulp stories here, including, but not limited to:>Sword & Sorcery >Hardboiled detective stories >Weird fiction >Cowboy westerns
>>23819083Don't hate the gigachad, hate the game.
>>23819309I'm tired of his stupid knock-out gas balls and machine guns that only stuns people.
>>23819438Then read a different flavor of pulp. There's lots to choose from, like sword & sorcery, westerns, and swashbuckling pirates. Hero pulps might not be your thing.
>>23819438Try The Avenger or The Skipper. Similar flavor, but sharper edge.
Think we should start a new thread? We're over 300 posts now.
What’s the key in creating a interesting, investing and immersive fantasy world?
>>23816911Study a historical period.https://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/04/on-thud-and-blunder/
>>23817782This has ended my writers block, which I have been struggling with for over a year, thank you.
>>23817782it do be unironically like this
>>23817782based
>>23817233>19th century India >Call it Kasrot controlled by the Colonial West Wing Company >A detective teams up with a mage (obscure class) to hunt down warlock serial killer Kino or cringe?
>got to the part of the torah where it says i am specifically not welcome at the synagoguework arounds?
>>23819567I thought you had to fall out of one
>>23819609Have you read the Tanakh? Conversion has always been a thing (Ruth, Obadiah, and of course Abram > Abraham). Besides, mistreatment of converts is forbidden by halakhah [Devarim 10:19].
>>23819695>t-the big book sez you can't bully me! stop laughing!!!not sure that's the way it works pal
>>23819700Don't convert then, retard. If you're afraid of some grumpy old men giving you the stink eye when their daughters flirt with you, then you're not ready to be a man, much less a Jew. >inb4 let me tell you about your religionHere's a reading list for you before you do that: Devarim, Shemot, Vayikra, Shabbat 30b, Baba Metzia 59b, De'ot, Yoreh Deah, you know what, just read the entirety of the Mishneh Torah.
>>23819560Deuteronomy 23OP is a tranny
Is this just cheap anti-communist propaganda?
>>23811276It's anti-communist.
>>23818444Nice digits. I also forgot to post the link https://redsails.org/jones-on-animal-farm/
Mao, Che Guevara and Tito all said he was all the things in that book.
>>23818431>It's the opposite>Orwell believed in absolute free speech and popular voteIs that really so? I got the impression that the farm animals wouldn't have made it past the first winter or two giving equal input to all the animals. The book goes out of its way to show that many of the species were stupid despite the potential of free 'unlimited' education (in this case, literacy). In fact, the only animals having complete literacy were the pigs and Benjamin the donkey (the author insert). Muriel the goat and the guard dogs could read, and Clover (the female horse) knew all the letters but couldn't read. Every other animal was dumb.So when I imagine what would be the most ideal outcome for the farm, it is an elite lead socialism headed by the pigs, for the benefit of all the animals on the farm, despite the animals' intellectual capabilities. It's certainly not democracy, republic (many of the animals were swayed by which pig was the most passionate), capitalism, communism, or socialism. I doubt a meritocratic socialism would work either.Taken at face value, the short length and direct writing style of the text does come across as antisoviet propaganda. I do not believe that the farm's problems would have been solved with popular vote, yet maybe Orwell wasn't planning this as a commentary on ideal government but simply a hit piece about bad government.
>>23811276George Orwell has sadly become the pinnacle of litslop. Thanks Jordan Peterson, and for your shit poem
Does /lit/ like Madlibs?
>>23819308"And then... i read my heckin' mad lib about the rooster named Bob who drove an ice-cream truck. NOBODY laughed, everyone just talked amongst themselves, all so normal, they're all so normal. I knew then that I was an incel, thats when I took the black-pill. That fateful day in 4th grade yep, when all the normies were busy talking about Spongebob, they didn't recognize my genius for what it was. My stupid stupid autist life."If you are a grown man, and you are genuinely throwing pity parties for yourself about a pretty underwhelming/inconsequential event that happened to you in grade school, you are so far fucking gone man. Just sitting here and actually thinking about this makes me so mad. Maybe you were unpopular in school because you were miserable to be around, obsessing and wallowing in self-pity over weird shit like this.Everybody has had moments like that in their lives, the only difference is they just moved on and didn't become a weird incel fag about it. Nobody feels bad for you, and it is worryingly delusional that you believe people should feel bad for you. We all have our own problems.
>>23819547That painful memory was on-topic. Also, thank you for reminding me why I'm obsessed with omnicide, shithead. Some people meditate and ascend to become one with God...I do it to end all life in all of existence. And people like you motivate me to do so.
>>23819554>.I do it to end all life in all of existencemore dumbass words from a waxing crybaby. you can dream of omnicide all you want, doesnt change the fact you are a booger-picking faggot who thinks his life is a movie.
>>23819308"Anon's Sad Day">I remember how, in [noun] school, the teacher would do a Mad Lib for us, and as she [verb, past tense] the result, the [adjective] class would laugh their [body part] off. I tried doing one [adverb] in front of the class, but when I tried to read it back, in the same sort of [adjective] way I'd seen it done so many times, the entire class [verb, past tense] me, and started [verb, ending in -ing] among themselves. They were so [adjective], they [verb, past tense] me out. I finished reading it, sat down, and never tried that again. At the time, I didn't realize that level of unpopularity would persist for the rest of my life. But things never really changed. In short, [verb] [diety], [same verb as previous] my [noun], [same verb as previous] [noun] itself, and by extension, [same verb as before] [noun].Thank you for reading my [noun].
>>23819678Kek
It's Been 4 Fucking Hours, Where's the Thread? Edition>Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive>https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreadshttps://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>>23807402 Previous thread
what fiction to read when at your objective lowest (preferably fiction)
Suttree
>>23819428Gargantua and Pantagruel
>>23819464Second this>Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of the cities. His work lies all wheres and his hounds tire not. I have seen them in a dream, slaverous and wild and their eyes crazed with ravening for souls in this world. Fly them.
>>23819428antoine de saint exupery - citadelle
>>23819428Against Nature
This book is great. It's like if Hunter S Thompson was in the Vietnam War.
Post any good history books.>The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson>Recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force. It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes a brilliant battle captain; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves to be the wiliest of diplomats; George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. The story is also told from the British perspective.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41812830-the-british-are-cominghttps://www.amazon.com/British-Are-Coming-Lexington-Revolution-ebook/dp/B07HF349XK
>>23819209Yes. Read Titan recently and it's awesome.
>>23816859Add the devils chessboard.Great biography of Dulles and history of early CIA.
I just realised that the holy Roman empire was not actually Roman. I feel betrayed.
>>23796003This counts as environmental history although most of it is about the various wars and revolutions that occurred as a result of the little ice age rather than about the ecological or economic effects
>>23818250I pirate all books that are not cheap.
