This makes /lit/tards piss and shit their pants
>>24961221>>24961224>>24961225kek
>>24960712Im riding the plane
>>24960712Depends on what frame of reference.>relative to the plane, you are stationaryI'm in the plane (emphasizing structure)>relative to the earth, you are moving quicklyI'm on the plane (emphasizing transportation)The subtle difference is one implies movement, the other doesn't.
>>24960712on an plane, in an stewardess
>>24960829are you in the phone too?
Vote for your top science fiction and fantasy books. https://forms.gle/h1puBAFsy337X3PN7The poll will remain open for as long as feels appropriate. Let me know if there are any errors on the list.
>>24959343The best part about it is that it is Lyonesse, Vance's true best work.
>The Hobbit over The Silmarillion List discarded. What a fucking disgraceful bunch of retards you are.
>>24960025Of course it is. Anyone who says it's contrarianism is ironically being a contrarian themselves.
>>24961097This isn't compelling or good writing. Monotonous mechanical slop. Is it /his/fags this appeals to?
>>24961120The larger scaled combat is written mechanically, they are set up for maximum clarity and realism, while trying to maintain a kind of romanticism. Large battle scenes were something he struggled to write, he mentions how happy he was with the battle he wrote for one of the Bran Mak Morn stories in one of his letters.
You see me. I see you. Most fundamental is such a relation between humans, beings who have their being in others. Imagine then the horror when, like a thunderclap, the insight that all may not be as it seems flashes across your mind, as if the tabula rasa, as imagined by Locke, were firmly polarised, and that the truth of it was you began with a BLACK slate, one which flecks of white crudely illuminated the phenomenal world, and this insight, you may fear, is but the first fleck of white on a pitch black slate. So radically idealist is it that you may find sitting down and ceasing the entire ordeal of philosophy is in order. Really, you have just begun. I speak in Descartes's language when I say that truly, nothing outside of mind can be known to be true. And whose mind is it? Yours. Well, mine actually. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Descartes brought the multitude of doubts we can have to our attention. A mathematician, Descartes employed the analogy of an Evil Demon who could fool our senses, and that until one can rule out universal deception, even math is doubtable in principle. Maybe others have expanded as I now shall. Regardless, it could all prove quite useless. Say, then, that a demon IS tricking my senses. I can only doubt the DEMON'S existence through a strange mental leap, and that is that I am the demon tricking my own senses. Let's go back to the original statement of "Cogito, ergo sum". I only know that I exist. That brings radical doubt into the equation. How then could I not doubt even this demons existence? I must doubt this demon. For my doubt of mathematics to employ another doubtful entity, one might call this an overstretching of the original phrases reach or employ Occam's Razor. But should I say that I am the demon, which can be doubted to be true, but can also be doubted to be false, one finds a more parsimoniously becoming idea wherein I assume this demon exists, while also assuming I exist, but doubting anything beyond myself, I must therefore consider that I am this demon which causes me to doubt, and, rather obviously, it is my mind which causes me to doubt, as this demon does, so evidently this demon and my mind are ontologically indistinguishable.
>Ho, ho, ho Merry Christmas /lit/
>>24960766COPE AND SEETHE MORE SANTA BELIEVER
>>2496074810 million UKROPS pigs. You got that right
https://youtu.be/-CQo1236Hbs?si=RS2XFyCnwfxtzLAO
>>24960714>I'ze red mein camp and schmeeet nigga>I'ze suckin all dem liberalist dicks nigga I'ze a nogocrat and a nogpublican >nigga I finna be dosto hard out here suckin dick n sheeeet I'ze political correct is what I'ze comin atchu wit duhawgYou make a made up holiday crystal clear for me then.
>>24959712>rambles about nonsense cause he is bored as fuck and Engels keeps giving him money so he doesn't need to work>ends up killing millions and millions Honestly? Based
sansa editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24922194
>>24960720Did he write this after watching that Blender 3d goblin gangbang animation?
>>24959606Could be worse, 900 second of page.
>>24949686Do you guys like superhero fiction like GRRM's Wild Card series? I want to get into the genre because there's heaps of magazines that call for it.
What's his endgame?
>>24956914NorthStarkWarghot wildling with thick ginger minge
hesitatingi exist for othersliving life is for othersand staying alive is for mesaying no is for othersand saying yes is for meat least i can live vicariously, imaginativelyim happy for themexperiencing everything i dream oflike having roommates and a cator hugging a friend who's sadagoraphobic and isolatedComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Poetry of DeparturesSelf's the Man
I heard this guy got in trouble with faggots because it came out he was a Catholic so I picked up the first book in his series to check it out. So far it's been>setting ripped straight from Dune down to the shield belt swordplayok, whatever Dune is cool>diversity fucking everywhereNo, not in the cool worldbuilding way, in the "look here's another guy that's randomly a difference race for no reason even when logically everyone here should look the same" way, but whatever it's a book in the current year.>women as bodyguards and arena fightersThis is beginning to get seriously immersion-breaking. Have you ever rolled with a woman? It's really unfair, even girls that far outclass me in skill I cannot lose to since I can simply power out of whatever they do. >faggots fucking everywhereYuck, and the themes are all>feudalism bad>corporal punishment bad>organized religion bad>religion in general fakeDoes this series ever become chuddy? Is this guy actually even religious? I'm at a point where the main character is meeting with a black and gay space noble in a gay marriage with kids and the space alien is a hermaphrodite. I think I'm out man, I've had enough of this. I'm not that picky, if it was just a few of these things I wouldn't mind but this is getting out of hand and the core themes have literally the opposite lessons of what I expected.
>>24959708malding
>>24956775>women as bodyguards and arena fightersThat's hot thoughbeit
>>24960438You have to remember this board loves men.
>>24956775>women as bodyguards and arena fightersRetard. Does the story not literally open with our mc being a lab grown baby? They lab grow muscle mommies in this world.
one of the biggest flaws in the human species is the strength disparity between men and women, making women stronger in fiction is just right.
"Chanukah" editionPrevious: >>24940898/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24960046I've rewritten it.I've shared with them and they're too lazy to read it.I finished it almost a month ago and it sounds decent-ish. I'm still new to this whole writing thing.Where do I post it online?
>>24960957whodunnits are the most intellectualized and formulaic genre. they're pure slop
>>24961259answer the fucking question, douchenozzle.
>>24960962Reddit has several fiction-oriented subs. https://reddit.com/r/nosleep/wiki/similarsubreddits has a pretty big list. You can start there.
>>24960957https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rian_Johnson>Johnson has often said that he looked to the novels of Dashiell Hammett as inspiration for the film's unique use of language.So, in his case, voluminous research.
Is he perhaps the most successful writer in his lifetime?I mean, he got a baronetcy for his efforts, built a massive manor for himself and got a free cruise courtesy of the Royal Navy
>>24961167Calm down buddy
>>24958535He fucking bankrupted himself.
>>24958535Ivanhoe is high-test kino.>the black knight revealMust have made 19th century gentlemen point at the book and do basedjak facesalso>characterization includes phrenological description of skull shape
>>24958574What kinda takes are these? Do you just make up opinions by putting some random writers on a dartboard and throwing some random adjectives on whatever writer the dart lands on?
>>24961331Please just shut the fuck up
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
>>24959572>implying they don't deserve to suffer a horrible death
>>24959572He wasn't promised a horrible death, he was promised that nobody would mourn him or remember him fondly. Do people not remember you fondly or unfondly based on your actions?
>>24961268He was promised to exist in a private hell in death on account of living in a private hell in life, by his own choosing. He had to live in heaven in life to go to heaven when he died.
>>24961281Neither heaven nor hell were what convinced him to change his ways, it was seeing that all the people of the mortal world had neither love nor respect for him.
>>24961281You only watched a movie adaptation. In the book all he's shown is that after he dies he'll be unceremoniously robbed by strangers and promptly forgotten.
Who was the best writer? Who would win in a fight?
Perseverance editionStubbed >>24954601>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24961114>they
>>24961255>lesbian bunny girlI don't think he ever presented himself as anything other than a raven in a tophat
>>24961307I know they're a man. Using they is part of language and especially common when you're referring to someone with a silly username instead of "Dave Smith".I've almost certainly got posts on here calling people like steven king they. Quit being histrionic.
>>24961343>Quit being histrionic.not likely, that guy spergs out at least every other thread about pronouns. the libs own him body and soul
>>24961343>they
>If it can't be written in formal logic, it is not a philosophical position; it is not a proposition at all, and cannot be proved for or against empirically, or logically. It's just sophism.the most retarded thing i've ever read on this board by a mile. stirner is the only philosophy related image i have btw
>>24960345>Philosophy is finished, reason reigns supreme.What? Anyways Anti-philosophy is always self refuting.
philosophy is not logiclogic is not philosophyYou can use logic to argue your philosophy, but it is not your philosophy. Valuing logic is itself a philosophical stance.In other words, it’s a fucking opinion.You’d have to be sub-zero IQ level retarded to not automatically understand that.
>>24959445Of course the negation of a proposition is also a proposition. But according to the quoted post, is the positive statement a proposition?Is the statement "philosophical positions must be written in formal logic" written in formal logic? You can use that statement in a logical derivation, but it doesn't follow from the axioms of formal logic and it can also not be tested empirically.If all he meant was that it can be used in a formal derivation, then the quoted text would be saying almost nothing.
>>24959847people think thoughts imagination and thinking are a "tool" so we are in this LLM-AI problem not because AI itself but because people thoughts and retarded worldviews. so this is only the beginning. because they think everything is materialist and science is the real search for (holy grial) Truth. they are already believing human mind can and should be resumed studied and eventually used. so because this is the basic thinking of modernity about the mind, this thinking is what give window to create a tool to use that tool (the mind) better, so LLM create not a singe problem for this kind of normie behavior, is completely harmonic and nice. you have a tool in your head, (rememeber, your depression is chemical, your satisfacion and love too), so why dont use another tool to help maximize the tool you have in your head?, perhaps you are a sanctimonius redneck who believe in soul? (lmao with the emoji crying laughing) .so this kind of depersonalization of the mind is completely schizophrenic even if they are so used to it they think is completely sane and nice. now, IA will only fail with a resurgence of soul as a concept, something even luddites and anti-ai types cringe themselves to death just by thinking about it. but apart from retarded workers afraid to lose their jobs, the kind of anti AI sentiment have a yearning for soul. even if they dont know where to search, what to say, how fucking howl at the moon, so all their arguments fell the moment they said it because they really are materialists at heart and they are not really prepared to get out of that framework without a fear of missing out being part of the cool kids gang who invent rockets and internet. so even if they cant´ articulate the yearning for soul they know AI will never have it so even when they materialist view give birth to a monster to their very eyes they just can´t really criticize it. they just cant. so the problem is that LLM´s is an unconscious proposition of the human mind and if it succeds as a model of the mind peasants in the future and future intellectals alike will think and will funnel human thinking through llm´s and their adjacent evolution. this is a problem only if you think science have a limited view of human thought. if you dont think that im sure unconsciously you think ia will be limitless and the ultimate faith of humanity to follow and conquer the stars.i think profundity of thought will be a completely (non-threatening) rarity once LLM´s become mainstream. the future of human thought will have a violent and agessive cut.the problem is that nobody think this is a cut because they think this is the correct way.
>>24957719poe:The mathematics are the science of form and quantity; mathematical reasoning is merely logic applied to observation upon form and quantity. The great error lies in supposing that even the truths of what is called pure algebra, are abstract or general truths. And this error is so egregious that I am confounded at the universality with which it has been received. Mathematical axioms are not axioms of general truth. What is true of relation --of form and quantity --is often grossly false in regard to morals, for example. In this latter science it is very usually untrue that the aggregated parts are equal to the whole. In chemistry also the axiom fails. In the consideration of motive it fails; for two motives, each of a given value, have not, necessarily, a value when united, equal to the sum of their values apart. There are numerous other mathematical truths which are only truths within the limits of relation. But the mathematician argues, from his finite truths, through habit, as if they were of an absolutely general applicability --as the world indeed imagines them to be.ray peat:In the 19th century, biologists were usually competent painters, but as specialization took over at the beginning of the 20th century, both science and painting became "abstract." Mathematics came to be called the language of science, and a science was considered to be more scientific when it was more mathematical. The mathematical habit of mind inclines biologists to see organisms as disembodied information, ultimately as the information contained in the genetic code. Change (they are likely to say) is random, "chaotic," ultimately unknowable. There is no place in this system for a radical critic of the purpose and direction of the system.If physicists and biologists learn to see the world in a lively way by exercising the power to paint, they will learn to prevent the atrophy of their critical powers.
recommend me some audibooks. i have a long commute. i just finished 1776.>pic unrelated
>>24960053>>24960057>>24960137>>24960246>>24960268thanks anons im making a list>>24960296its some japanese bodybuilder meeting politicians. forgot where i saved this from.
endurence written/read by astronaut scott kelly. his wife sent him a poem while he was on the iss, and he has her read it.>>24960415obviously sun and steel, though maybe patriotism would be easier to follow while driving.
>>24960296you certainly must read patriotism and confessions of a mask, if you have not already. you are the target audience.
Jeff Wayne's musical version of War of the Worlds.
the odyssey: a modern sequel
Any book recommendations that are similar to this
>>24961065Saaaaar
>>24960584Who's the varbie?
>>24960628That account is one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen. Please nuke the internet
>>24960584This is the brownest thread on the board
>>24960628This right here is why free speech works better than censorship for maintain a reigning systems control. The moment any movement gains momentum it will get flooded by shallow retarded grifters that will wear the movements beliefs as a skinsuit for attention and money slowly destroying all credibility or appeal said movement had built up.
