How many books have you read so far this year?
quite a few. more than last year already
>>24717124bcuz mafs is hard bruh. nawmsayin, bruh
18
>>24716793I don't keep track because I figure it will depress me, I am a slow reader
I don't know how I would find out when I finished and begun each book
>>24715905(You) forgot to impose your own significance upon that most common and fundamental word, retard.
>>24715793If on a Winter's Night a Traveler... is far superior.
>>24716781>You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!" Raise your voice--they won't hear you otherwise--"I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!" Maybe they haven't heard you, with all that racket; speak louder, yell: "I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!" Or if you prefer, don't say anything; just hope they'll leave you alone.>Find the most comfortable position: seated, stretched out, curled up, or lying flat. Flat on your back, on your side, on your stomach. In an easy chair, on the sofa, in the rocker, the deck chair, on the hassock. In the hammock, if you have a hammock. On top of your bed, of course, or in the bed. You can even stand on your hands, head down, in the yoga position. With the book upside down, naturally.>Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find. In the old days they used to read standing up, at a lectern. People were accustomed to standing on their feet, without moving. They rested like that when they were tired of horseback riding. Nobody ever thought of reading on horseback; and yet now, the idea of sitting in the saddle, the book propped against the horse's mane, or maybe tied to the horse's ear with a special harness, seems attractive to you. With your feet in the stirrups, you should feel quite comfortable for reading; having your feet up is the first condition for enjoying a read.>Well, what are you waiting for? Stretch your legs, go ahead and put your feet on a cushion. on two cushions, on the arms of the sofa, on the wings of the chair, on the coffee table, on the desk, on the piano, on the globe. Take your shoes off first. If you want to , put your feet up; if not, put them back. Now don't stand there with your shoes in one hand and the book in the other.Somehow I doubt that
>>24717665Who wrote this? Chuck Wendig?
>>24717735It's the 1st 4 paragraphs of the book. I'm shocked this caught on, as it reads like what every undergraduate tries to do in their 2nd or 3rd creative writing class
maekar I targaryen, first of his name 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: >>24681455
>>24716568Yeah, bro, and so is Joffrey.
>>24708511This still means they're different. And mindlessly equating the show and the books is still retarded.>>24708573People won't ever get it. They're either showfags or got mind broken by the fatman being lazy that they started shitting all over his work out of spite.>>24709164I couldn't stop giggling throughout. I need more.
In the CK2 mod it seems like the Blackfyres are just the best dynasty for power gaming.>All the same benefits as Targs>All the same bloodlines as Targs, up to Viserys II>Eternal claims on all of Westeros, even if none of your ancestors have ruled it in centuries. >The Blackfyre bloodline itself has the same benefits as the Targ bloodline, and they stack, so it’s basically just Targ x2>After that they get Daemon Blackfyre, amazingly good bloodline, really OP. Also Maelys the Monstrous, mid bloodline, has bad effects but they’re countered by good effects.>Targs get Aerys II, one of the worst bloodlines in the game, worse than Walder Frey or any of the individual Bolton bloodlines. After that you’ve got Jon+Rhaegar (both good but Aerys II more than cancels the strongest benefit of either, opinion boost, same for Aegon+Rhaegar), and Dany (really good)Most strategic move is to be Aegon, declare Blackfyre heritage, get all the sweet Blackfyre bloodlines and lose Aerys’ shitty one (at the minor cost of losing Rhaegar’s good bloodline, but you gain Illyrio which is also good) and then breed Daenerys to just absorb the best post-Vizzy 2 bloodline.On the obverse the most gimped dynasty are the Boltons, all Bolton bloodlines are really bad, people will be really racist to you because your ancestors are evil. You can save the world from zombies and the bloodline you get barely makes a dent in the handicaps put on you just for being named Bolton. Truly the hard mode of Westeros.
>>24707031"I never win anything," Dolorous Edd complained. "The gods always smiled on Watt, though. When the wildlings knocked him off the Bridge of Skulls, somehow he landed in a nice deep pool of water. How lucky was that, missing all those rocks?""Was it a long fall?" Grenn wanted to know. "Did landing in the pool of water save his life?""No," said Dolorous Edd. "He was dead already, from that axe in his head. Still, it was pretty lucky, missing the rocks."
>>24713858Forming opinions about the things you read is a very basic human thing. What type of automaton are you that you just consoooom without thinking about it at all?
Books to teach leftists to use their words?
>>24717543They‘ve got a ways to go until reaching the Iranaryan position of legally forcefemming anyone a little fruity until it‘s unquestionably straight to put your dick in there, but it‘s a work in progress.
>>24717342You sperged out because someone reminded you that you cheer when kids die lmao>you deserve to be heckin eradicated!!1!!You'll do nothing
>>24717335>missed the point entirelyI'd almost prefer it if you went back to pretending to be smart. Let me explain it to you as if you were a small child. I can be your daddy -- sorry, I mean teacher, sorry -- and you can be the student. If I built a career out of traveling around the country and telling people "car crashes are the price we pay for having cars, there is nothing at all we can do about cars crashing, nothing whatsoever, nothing at all, and if you think there is something we can do then you're an idiot," and I dismissed car crash victims' families who suggested things like 'speed limits' or 'stop signs' or 'merge lanes' as libtards trying to emotionally manipulate carchads, and then I died in a car accident because a speeder blew through an intersection without a stop sign, then yes, it would be valid to mock me. This is exactly what happened to Charlie Kirk with guns. You are going to read this, realize I'm right, and get very, very upset. Please select your next response from the following options>oh yeah? oh yeah? well you're a TRANNY>oh yeah? oh yeah? well you're a JOO>oh yeah? oh yeah? well you're a BROWNOID>oh yeah? oh yeah? well you're a WOMAN>oh yeah? oh yeah? well I'm gonna KILL YOU
>>24717539nta but I'll give you a genuine answer. some scientists did a study where they tried to figure out where different people placed their outermost sphere of moral concern -- ie, what's the furthest thing from them that they cared about. they found a bunch of correlations, and one of them they found was that left-wingers cared about things very distant from themselves, like wild animals, and right-wingers mostly cared about their families, ie the things closest to them. the scientists made a heat map of concentric circles to visualize the data, with "myself" at the center and some shit like "space rocks in another galaxy" at the very rim. /pol/tards seized on this and went "ha! this proves leftoids don't care about their own families" but that isn't what the study said. (A /pol/tard will read that and get very upset, watch.) The rings are inclusive, not exclusive, meaning that the left-wingers in the study cared about everything from wild animals down to domesticated animals down to pets down to strangers down to you get the picture, while right-wingers cared about their families and themselves and not much else. (can't recall what the actual rings were but just giving you the general thrust.)
>>24717440>four people allegedly firedKirk status: AVENGED
I love you Anna's Archive <3 thank you for all the booksWill SciHub ever allow uploads again?
>>24713954Yeah, same. I already have everything i'm interested in reading in my lifetime. It must suck dick for anyone that won't be able to figure it out once its all gone.
>>24716032Kike hands typed this.
>>24716032How do you figure? There mentions of copyright laws and the internet in your book of worship of choice?
Is it worth getting an external hard drive for ebooks and pdfs or is that retarded
>>24717709Only if you intend to hoard rare scanned books or something. Pictures take a lot of room, but text files not so much. To give you an idea my library is a few MBs shy of 10GB and I have 2600 books.
Sorcery, Wizardry, Witchcraft, Psionics, and General Magic and Powers EditionFAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Old thread: >>24567943
Any examples of worldbuilding with platonic, neoplatonic, even Hermetic themes? It seems like most genre fiction these days is modernist atheistic, or some variety of gnostic.
>>24716389>It seems like most genre fiction these days is modernist atheistic, or some variety of gnostic.Please elaborate on this.
>>24715989>Okay, so how would you add other abilities to the different elements then?Of the top of my head: Highly proficient benders can turn their bodies on their own elementEarthfags can sense people through the vibrations on the ground, travel through the ground without being crushed by the pressure, create earthquakesWaterfags gain an immense speed boost underwater, can breathe underwater, travel the deep ocean without being crush by the pressureFirefags are immune to extreme temperatures, have thermal vision and can create heat related miragesWindfags don't need to breathe at all, can fly, can modify atmospheric pressure on a small area
>>24717395>Earthfags can travel through the ground without being crushed by the pressure.horrifying
>>24716036>Can you honestly say you can think of any other time a elemental magic system was done even slightly well besides ATLA that wasn't just thinly flavored game mechanics for a more complicated system of rock paper scissors for strengths and weakness?Have you ever heard of the webcomic Aurora? >>24716047>Meaning > matter. So like powerful curses that take time,I'd love to hear more about this concept, just how much time would you think it should take for stuff, and what about things that each element can be used for besides manipulation of the physical element itself? Like, maybe fire magic can enflame emotions?>>24717395Neat ideas! What about elements beyond those four, like Light or Darkness (besides obvious shit like being able to see in the dark for the latter)?>>24717450I'm getting claustrophobia just looking at this! The Hell?
Gollum should have been killed simply for being ugly and disgusting. Tolkein’s slavish, decadent, obscene moralism is infuriating. He builds a world that looks pretty, with the pleasing scent of the untamed European, but is sick with the putrid rot of herd values. Image how great he could have been if he wrote about blonde beasts instead of leftist midgets
>>24717434>the individual Where is “the individual?” Where is his location in time and space? Who are you to say what respects this thing is owed if you cannot tell me where it is at? Oh right, you’re just parroting a universal construct of the decedents, a dream of the sick metaphysicians. The only thing that demands respect is the concrete instance of living power.
>>24717401*creampies you*
>>24717401Just one more ugly race bro, just one more, we just need to kill just a few more, than everything will be perfect for all time. Fucking Stalin-Sauron
>>24717448Yes because you can locate something as diffuse as "power".
retard thread
The gaping hole in his philosophy is the utter lack of engagement with the "Apollonian". Following his line of thought to best disclose Alethiea we may as well go back to mud huffing troglodytes worshiping the great juju up the mountain otherwise we're "enframing" with "metaphysics". I mean even his taste in art is embarrassingly gushy... He really seems to think that simple bongo rhymes are superior to Wagner because they are more "immediate to being". He seems one step away from just becoming an outright primitivist.
Wagner is, without a doubt, over-intellectualised slop. Thus isn't because his work makes use of theory and sophistication, but because it *only* makes use of theory and sophistication. Well-execution expression of nothing in particular. All craft, no art. In this respect, Ongo Bongo from the depths of the Congo certainly is a greater artist.
>Non German doesn't understand HeideggerMany such cases. OP, youre just another casualty.
>>24716722I recommend you make more of an effort to get into the spirit of the people you're reading.
>>24716722Thread going how you hoped?
fuck this Nazi bitchhe has absolutely nothing of note to sayjust wankery
>it's ok to have a gay phase as long as you grow up out of it>but if you don't you, you will end up bitter, poor and diseasedwow
>>24717524Based. I face similar internal contradictions and Brideshead was the first work of fiction in a long time to make me feel deeply. in all honesty I think being gay, and being a gay man specifically, is a very longstanding catholic experience. That’s not meant a slur - I think monasteries, the priesthood etc. were a refuge for a lot of dudes.
>>24717524I'm Protestant and straight
>>24717429The italian lover of Sebastian's father kinda points out they were kinda gay for each other.
>>24717724but that it was a passing schoolboy thing
>>24717350To be fair, Charles did just more than trying to convert Julia. He also ruined her life by setting her up with scandals and making her have a divorce. On top, he also ruined his own wife and children in the process.
>God invented and made the universe — like a man making a picture or composing a tune. A painter is not a picture, and he does not die if his picture is destroyed. You may say, "He's put a lot of himself into it," but you only mean that all its beauty and interest has come out of his head. His skill is not in the picture in the same way that it is in his head, or even in his hands.but what’s the paint and canvas supposed to be?
>>24717528>nothing existed
>>24717577Suppose that there once was no thing. No thing was. One can't really picture it, but one can think it. One can contemplate the fact, and indeed one can contemplate this very no-thingness. And in a sense wouldn't this nothing underlie all that is? Wouldn't nothing be the Absolute and all that exists be Contingent? Doesn't existence feel quite arbitrary?
>>24716890The answer is the necessary being whose essence is existence, subsistent being itself. The structure of reality is that being uttering its Eternal Word, the Logos, and breathing into creation its Holy Spirit.
>>24717645Incredible
>>24716773polytheism>>24716776pantheism >>24716829dualism>>24717002dualism>>24717645pantheismyou must answer OP without falling into heresy
If you want a long, detailed fantasy series that has tons of lore, monsters, magic, gods and whatnot, you can't beat this. The heroes feel virtuous and the villains make you hate them. 10/10 fantasy series here and there's thirty-two books to delve
>>24713070>Did you ever play Myth? It has beautiful animation sequences and a great story, Never even heard of it, the only Video Game backstories I ever got into were Castlevania and Mortal Kombat, from playing them as a kid. However I wonder if the future for many fantasy authors now is in creating lore and dialogue for Video games like, God of War Ragnorok, and Elden Ring, rather then trying a straight up novel.
>>24713934It's great. Written by a university professor, i.e. someone who can actually construct a sentence.It's not fantasy, however, but science fiction. It's a "planetary romance" inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
>>24712715>just read the two books with no Drizzt. The pretty good one thats all Wulfgar, and the one thats all Artemis and Jarlaxe which fucking ruled.Which two are those?
>>24717365I think it's called the Assassins trilogy
>>24713694Can you read these in any order?
"Catzilla" editionPrevious: >>24698741/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.
>>24717458>it took a near death experience for me to turn my life around and try go completely honest.Then why you just said " I spent the last week having an affair with my youngest niece"?I mean, sure you probably went from 0 to 70 or something, but that still sounds off.
>>24715097https://litterbox.catbox.moe/
>>24716980 >>24715154Okay, how’s this? https://litter.catbox.moe/ts9q6x75fy6umos6.pdf
>>24717653people don't like to click on pdf files, fren
>>24717716Goddamnit
To what extent do you think modern humans are beholden to natural evolution?By that I mean: natural selection is the process where genetic differences lead to certain individuals being more likely to reproduce, and thus pass on the specific genetic traits that made them more likely to do so, leading to organisms changing over many generations. But for modern humans, there are many factors beyond the purely genetic that determine whether someone reproduces or not, and these factors aren't (necessarily) inherited as genetics are, which would suggest "natural" evolution isn't at play anymore.Wealth, status, education, occupation, political or spiritual membership and community in general, personality; some of these you could potentially argue can be traced back to purely genetic differences, but many have nothing to do with the material makeup of the person being born, and even larger abstract factors like "the state of the nation's economy" or "the geopolitics of the continent" have an effect on if or when humans reproduce. At that point we are lightyears away from genetics mattering.Not to mention, if we assume that free will exists, someone who is in the position to could simply choose not to reproduce simply because they can. Is "natural selection" still at play there?And no, I'm not really interested in how you think your god(s) factor into this.
>>24714661Lack of coitus. Freud had a point.
>>24717234Unfortunately I'm referring to the retarded personality cult around people like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander rather than the genuine philosophical movement.
>>24717240Oh I should have known. Carry on.But on the topic of mimesis and mimetics what literature is relevant?
>>24717236People are more promiscuous nowadays than ever before.
>>24716532I meant Lucifarians are the ones who engineered and promulgated this false doctrine under the guise of scientific discovery and enlightenment. Succeeding generations of scientists are oblivious to its true origins and propagate it like useful idiots.
Τῆς ὀπώρης edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24669573>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24717105seemed excessive at first but I guess it can be quite useful, is it automatic?
>>24717105Wouldn't it be autismus? It's ecce homo, not ecce hominem.
>>24717105Anything to avoid reading smoothly.>>24717425Aint dat da vocative or sum shiet? Agreed.
>>24715647there's more ON poetry than skaldic such>>24711564>>24712136worst fucking approach imagineable
>>24717628ESL detected.
does /lit/ have an opinion on Johnathan Haidt? I remember him floating around the Sam Harris/Rogan circles a decade ago then vaguely recall falling off for being a junk science charlatan but I still see him pop up in mainstream interviews about cog-sci culture matters.
Happiness Hypothesis is also very good. It covers the various components (genetics, environment, actions) for achieving the state.
>>24716985he is threatening to pseuds who overvalue their metaphysics masturbation
>>24716985He just applies Hume to political psychology honestly
>>24717396>Would YOU have taken the empty seat in Yes, city buses are astonishingly safe compared to cars. Much, much, much more likely I'm killed in a car crash while driving alone than killed in a bus crash, and a bus crash is much, much, much more likely than someone stabbing me on the bus>factor in all that and the probability of being stabbed to death skyrocketsIf you vividly imagine someone stabbing you on the bus, it's more likely you'll be scared of it happening, yes
>>24717411Guessing you thought Haidt's book was really good
