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For all the anons on this board, take notice:
When you see a long hyphen like this one
>—
Know that post which has it has been made by AI. Humans dont use that hyphen cause it isnt on keyboard, we use -, shorter version.
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>>24965397
For all the babbies on this board, take note:
When you see this, —, it's an em dash, and, if you want to be a dick in Scrabble, em counts as a word, as does its diminutive cousin, the en dash, –.
Know also that tah counts, and you can easily convert it to Utahn
t. Grandpa from the typewriter days, hey remember shorthand?
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By the way — OP is a faggot

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>>24965417
I once banged a girl in the morning and then left her place for work. After work, I went straight to another girl's apartment and banged her. There is your hero's journey. Stop being a fag.
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>>24961634
???
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>>24957976
*womens
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>>24963535
Dreams and fantasies are often conjured from deep desires and deflected insecurities.
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>>24958299
shes not gonna let you hit bro

Trillions of species have lived on this planet, with unfathomably more throughout the cosmos. So, yeah, I don't give a shit about human life. The Earth is hurtling through space and we have no power over that. Similarly the current of evolution is largely out of our control, a series of accidents fortuitous for some elevate certain species to the category of apex predator. But I have no respect for accidents. Maybe, yeah, the grandeur of nature is worthy of respect, but none for those chimp-men who dominate human hierarchies.
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>Trillions of species have lived on this planet,
False
>with unfathomably more throughout the cosmos.
Not necessarily. See: anthropic principle
>So, yeah, I don't give a shit about human life.
Does not follow, even accepting prior assertions.
The Earth is hurtling through space and we have no power over that.
Irrelevant to larger discussion
>Similarly the current of evolution is largely out of our control, a series of accidents fortuitous for some elevate certain species to the category of apex predator.
Irrelevant to larger discussion
>But I have no respect for accidents.
Non-sequitor
>Maybe, yeah, the grandeur of nature is worthy of respect,
Why?
>but none for those chimp-men who dominate human hierarchies.

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>>24965574
What larger discussion? It's my opinion

Why is it that when I listen to an audiobook on the bus on my way home, my focus is razor sharp,
but as soon as I arrive home, lie down somewhere and continue listening, I don't understand what's going on at all and fall in a weird state that's half asleep and half awake?
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Your brain enters potato mode when it enters the potato room.
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>>24965452
This.

Human brains react significantly to environment. If you are in your "rest" environment, you are more likely to feel at rest. This is why you can't mix work and home.
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>>24965447
>on the bus
lol poorfag
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>>24965482
Is your heart full of hate?
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>>24965447
cant (conveniently) goon on the bus.

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>>24964423
Explain what's deep about Gravity's Rainbow. I'll wait.
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>>24963010
It's the exact same because /lit/ is a reddit colony.
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>>24965533
I've been posting on 4chan since 2007 and I've never once been to Reddit.
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>>24965546
That's exactly what a redditor would say
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>>24962573
I've read all of them AND I recited Finnegans Wake as I read it

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No literature published post-2020 has gotten even close to how engaging the writing is in this vidya. Face it, games are the new literature medium of the 21st century. Prove me wrong.

Oh and pro tip? You can't ; )
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>>24962945
What are you talking about? There’s a mountain of copycats. They’re just all terrible.
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>>24963676
>I didn't think you could even die.
You can kill yourself trying to grab your tie in the first 5 minutes of the game lol
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>>24965032
They are the de facto police force in the area and didn't include her. You get the simp emotional and he reveals he's butthurt about getting cucked. As soon as that's revealed they know you'll find the girl who lives next to you.
The two simps, the lesbo and big hardy assumed the girl must have killed him in self defence and ignore her when she says she didn't. They want to protect the slut but more importantly present the union as something you don't mess with. When she doesn't go along with the fantasy the simp gets angry at the slut. From his perspective he protected her instead of arresting her and she repays him by lying about it to the cops. You're then given the option of following him down the simp route or jailing the slut. She needs to be locked up but we also know she didn't do it so many players are reduced to simping by a video game.
The killer is the wound on the city you see in every frame. The guy himself is presented as a puppet with no life in the eyes.
>>24965100
He didn't "explain" shit about anything. He presented plebian, unreasoned opinions based on not being able to read simple subtext in a fucking videogame.
To sum up:
>awful
Handled great.
>not edgy enough
ok faggot
>cartoonish
The character is more realistic, relatable and internally consistent than any of you deranged zoomer retards.
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>>24962941
>workers rights group included for no reason
>magical cryptid for no reason
>it wasn't communism or oneitis he was suffering from a magical crytpid
>game ends with "ah ha I was the janitor in the cafe all along" dialogue even though you literally couldn't talk to them
>one of the most painfully boring maps of all time, even less imaginative side characters than in Elden Ring
>it's an RPG but you can't avoid talking to the same exact characters every playthrough
>if you complain about the game seeming meaningless, well it was designed to be meaningless and boring chud, that's social commentary, what are you a le fascist?
one of the few games I regret playing, to quote Peter Griffin, it insists upon itself.
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>>24964728
both comments were coherent and make a salient point, why make a game if you just want someone to read mountains and mountains of text, why not just make it a Choose Your Own Adventure book, the gameplay is walking around a purposefully dull place and equipping a tie every 4 hours, it's confused, and none of the mountains of text actually immerse you, it's very un-natural dialogue. It's a bad game.

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English is such a shit language. For me the nail in the coffin for English was when I learned that the problem of ambiguity between argument and explanation, where all you have to disambiguate is context, which they talk about in logic books, is not something which is universal in logic, but rather is a problem of English. Other languages don't have this problem. English is a low IQ language. All it's good for is dumbing down the masses.
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>>24965384
>he Englishly Englanded across the Anglosphere
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maybe you should stick to hindi bro
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esl thread, ignore
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>>24965384
Great. Leave us alone now.
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>>24965277
I look forward to the day that all other languages are exterminated. The process has already begun. English is the most spoken second language in the world. English loan words are seeping into every foreign language. English is the language of the internet and media. If you want to be relevant, you have to speak English. One day we will finally be free of all the chirps, clicks, grunts, and whistles you thirdies call a "language". Kneel before your Anglo betters, ESL, and weep. Weep that you have no Shakespeare. Beg us to preserve some vestige of your inferior native tongue. Beg us to make the language less ambiguous so that it's easier for you wretched ESLs to comprehend. Kiss the boot, you miserable bastard.

Did anyone in this board read this work ?
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>>24963774
It's on my radar, since I'm prepared to read anything by Crowley. But I found his short stories generally disappointing, and concluded that fiction was not his medium.
Would still like to hear from anyone who's read this though.
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>>24963788
I really love the idea of a moonchild and that mysterious world, It reminds me of Jean Genet's Lady of flowers even tho i haven't read it
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>>24964782
Why do you have pictures of black homosexuals?

You're not a real reader unless you've read a dictionary cover to cover. How can you read if you don't know words?
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I just read between the lines.
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>>24965545
But there are no words between the lines
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>>24965551
You can get the gist of it, more or less. It's a vibe thing.

>duuuude life is not serious
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this book should be administered via IV to every angsty young man who self isolates and says the word normies unironically
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>>24963515
I don‘t think that‘s an accurate summary
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is this a more meaningful novel than siddartha? I had read siddartha and thought it was so empty and didn't take much away from it. maybe I wasn't in the right headspace for it, but it didn't speak to me really.
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>>24963515
duuuude stop trying to read books that are way over your head
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>>24965513
Steppenwolf is meaningful to middle-aged men struggling with their individuation crisis. Nobody else will get it. That's why zoomers always make such retarded comments about it.

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Yeah, Women with swords. That's long overdue? Subverting expectations, don't need no prince. Am I right? eh? eh?

Bow to your new Queen /pol/
>>>/pol/524134834

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My lust died the second I wrote the average feminine nature on paper and stratified it according to its moral nature. I am now convinced that the only thing you are supposed to do as a soul, as a man is to wrestle your own flesh into submission, find God and develop a prosperous and altruistic relationship with our creator in order to escape this prison. 99% of women are half humans with no souls, everything they strive for and enjoy is ultimately evil in its nature. The very core of femininity is absolute evil that seeks to devour good men with the same glee and joy youd get from stomping out some dorky kids sand castle.

Once I realized why women are the way they are, it's like I've finally been enlightened as to why hermit monks become hermits in the first place. It's all a lie, its all a joke. This planet is a prison, women are archons who genuinely don't give a fuck about anything but they have to pretend to have interests beyond themselves just so men dont become suspicious and notice the huge disparity in the nature of each gender. It's not a complimentary nature, it's completely one-sided and parasitic. The entire role of women is to entrap a mans life force and pull another soul onto this false reality incarnation trap. Thats all they were designed to do. Satan takes a hold of their hivemind vessels with comedic ease and no resistance. They are all beyond corrupt, they fall apart once a month and endure pain unless they fulfill their ill-natured task. There is nothing in this world worth striving for besides Gods love. There is absolutely NOTHING in this world that is worth your place in heaven.
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>>24963146
you haven't studied people in power if you think women are in control.
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>>24964541
Are you new?
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>>24964541
>Every single person that posted in this thread is an irredeemable retard.
Okay, irredeemable retard.
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>>24964744
Yeah it's a given I'm included. If I wasn't a retard I wouldn't have even entered this thread. If I wasn't a retard I would've stopped browsing this board years ago like every other person with something interesting to say.
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>>24956843
>replace women with Jesus/God
do you have any idea how gay this sounds, you're literally making Jesus into a tulpa

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>>24965154
I would hardly call Brideshead Revisited, The Opposing Shore, Pale Fire, Aesop's Fables, or Justine "random shit". They won't make it now indeed, but easily might have had they been there from the beginning. But that's just on the voters, and not on the retarded pollmaker!
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>>24951578
Can we all agree to let Blood Meridian drop by atleast 10 ranks? The author is literally a pedophile.
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>>24951578
>bible
i had no idea lit was majority brainlets, you'd never guess with the sophisticated prose
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>>24965391
How much are we going to drop the bible for being written by a sect of a pedophile ethnicity?
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>>24965296
>Pale Fire won't make the list
It's beating Paradise Lost you fucking retard. Kill yourself and stop shitting up the thread.

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Heraclitus
>everything is one except it is in motion
>>Parmenides is dumb

Parmenides
>everything is in motion except it is the same
>>Heraclitus is dumb

Polybus
>everything is One.. full stop.
>>Both of you are dumb. Everyone is dumb except for me!


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