ye olde: >>24835665Recommended 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>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Thread Question:What's your favourite decade of sci-fi?
>>24850457If it's not on tik-tok it doesn't get discusses.
>>24850423what is there left to write about the thing?
>>24850479Ummm... it's literally absurdly, insanely massive. You could make any story about exploring it and finding weird, interesting shit on it.
>>24850487don't make me tap the sign
>>24850495What sign? There is no sign.
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>>24849453You're projecting, anon
>>24850147Yes weWHAT IS GARDNER'S FIRST NAME?WHAT IS GARDNER'S FIRST NAME?I NEED TO KNOW!
>>24850273*are
Do you guys use Vectorpea and Photopea to design your book covers? I've found them to be just as good as the Adobe products. Kind of amazing actually everything you can do just in browser.
>>24850475i used to hate web app shit, but now that i have a real job with a locked down work laptop where i can't install photoshop and it's not a mac so can't use pixelmator, i've realized the appeal of just opening your browser and using some shit. i get that they have to lock down work computers or normies will install a horror show of malware but it's like i actually need photoshop for this project tho. pain point alleviated, thank you entrepreneurs.
What is your favorite novel, short story, or poem from 1925 (the year which some have called “the greatest year of literature”)?
>>24850245just looked at the Wikipedia page '1925 in literature', and the only ones i've read are:>Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway>Franz Kafka, The Trial>William Carlos Williams, In the American Graini've never seen In the American Grain discussed on here, it's pretty interesting.
>>24850287Thank you for your paranoid racism, Mr. Buchanan.>>24850298How have you not read Gatsby? Everyone has to read it for school.Might as well knock it out now before the year’s over so you can get in on the centennial celebratory fun:https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-scott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby
>>24850245Is metropolis a novelization of the film?
>>24850245Great Gatsby had a reference to Lothrod Stoddards Rising Tide of Color - yes its truehttp://www.google.com/search?q=great+gatsby+reference+rising+tide+of+color
>>24850245I have recorded 3 things that I have read from 1925:The Great GatsbyMockery Gap (T.F. Powys)The Heart of a Dog (Bulgakov) Probably Heart of a Dog has stuck with me the most.
where are all the contemporary conservative philosophers?
I wish I could kill everyone who disagrees with me
Libtards and the left expend a lot of energy defining their identity according to their political beliefs and a lot of time patting themselves on the back. What a bunch of midwits.
Conservatives spend all their time in a futile attempt to make the clock run backwards and blaming the other for their various spiritual and sexual failimgs.
>>24847254>philosophy without epistemic humilityNow that's a fucking disaster waiting to happen.I bet these people are Act-Utilitarians too.
>>24849075this
Why hasn't he won the big one yet /lit/? He's more than deserving.
>>24846006It's ok to be retarded anon
No he sucks big white cocks you moron. Fuck off back to goodreads
>>24847749You don't even know why you like it dipshit. No one with unironic bike-cuck psychology (as the book advocates) is a basket weaving forum user. Not even our trannys.You like it because you want to be seen as the sort of person who likes him.
>>24842420My Murakami > Your Murakami
>>24849253both Murakamis suck though. what a cursed surname
Give me one good reason why he isn't the greatest writer to have ever lived
>>24848880Seethe
>>24848106This sounds very gay.
>>24849140>What are his essays/critiques like?Against sainte beuve is a must read. On reading is alright and iirc it also contains the neat inciting incident that lead to the recherche. The rest is not life changing but if you like him so far you will like the rest as wellHaven't read his other novel and only skimmed his verses which I found unimpressive but tbf I don't really get poetry generally
>>24848297You've been missing a lot
>>24848423>sprawling verbosityIs that really what you got from his prose?
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>>24850382Are you referring to the action-adventure NES/SNES/Turbografx action-adventure platformers, or the PS1/GBA Metroidvania ones?Because Aria of Sorrow is fairly different to Super Castlevania IV.
>>24850390Metroidvanias
Wrote a shitpost short story about my friends. I like to ask AI what it thinks of my story, as a baseline for the average reader. It described my story as dysphoric. Suffice to say, I'm not going to take AI seriously anymore.
>>24847640Dead eyes, dead eyesAnd are you just like me?>>24847745>Adrion HirschiYou just know he was a /g/fag, and not the linux kind.
This is a weird thread. >>24847856 is wrong because I don't wanna see animals dying. But he says his points well. Meanwhile >>24847891 writes like an ESL middle schooler in the projects and is focused on the irrelevant points. Which is he can have one, two, five, ten, hundred animals of dying hippos, they're all irrelevant. The fundamental issue is I don't want to see it. But I don't want to agree with someone who says "lol idk" in the literature board, so hippofag you have my blessings to keep posting your gross shit.
When you read a book, do you visualize the landscape and the people, like a movie scene flowing through your mind?
>>24843673I agree, that it is hard to really visualize truly foreign things you've never seen before. And this has tripped me up, reading some speculative fiction that deals with alien concepts, because my visualization defaults to more familiar memories and I have to remind myself of the differences. This is why I like to look at art of strange, alien places and beings. It broadens my familiarity with things outside my experience and makes my imagination richer. The same logic behind training generative AI models, I guess.
This thread actually makes me wonder if some people don't enjoy reading plays or even fiction in general just because they can't imagine what's happening.
>>24847693This is exactly how I operate. I've had running stories or 'scenes' that I day dream or think about before bed. I add little bits or change bits, I don't write it down though. I just remember it all.
>>24842322I can't see or hear anything at all. For me, the main part of the enjoyment I get from reading is how the author is using language, as well as the concepts he's coming up with. I don't like film adaptations of books I've liked, because they're so slow compared to my reading speed and they (by necessity) miss out the myriad of small details and prose quirks of the author. It's just a film and I know the actors are just actors and everything is fake. With text, it feels as real as any of my memories are, because I have no ability to visualise those either. When I think back to things that have happened to me in the past, I'm essentially describing those events to myself in prose. My pet theory of aphantasia is that it's a fundamentally different "operating system" that a certain percentage of people are running.
>>24842322I don't tend to visualise as I'm reading, I just read and remember the words. When I'm thinking about certain scenes afterwards they'll manifest visually without needing to think of the words.
Is Buddhism the most pessimistic of all the sacred traditions in existence?>no explanation for 'samsara'/contingent existence to begin with, if you try to ponder or believe in a cosmogonic account you're insane and trapped in delusion>this samsara is meaningless and our lives are always caught in suffering no matter what, dukkha is the sole enduring truth of this world>transient existence caught between different modes of being, continuity between gods/devas, humans, animals, etc>Mahayana tries to make Buddhas into the equivalent of deities/benevolent gods I guess>you have absolute free will to escape samsara if you wish, but that may take many lifetimes. or you're born into a society without buddhist teaching, and if you can't find one elsewhere, you're screwed>even beauty, goodness and the wonder inherent in existence is a trap. it makes you temporarily forget dukkha and then you expend your good karmic 'points' and go to hell on the rebound, like if you're reborn as a deva >the Good is just one side of the duality, Nirvana is beyond bothMeanwhile, Neoplatonism or Tantric Shaivism or Advaita Vedanta have a similar totally transcendent dimension to their practice, but they revere the world and believe it to be inherently good and a ladder to be climbed via appreciation/love/gratitude and ultimately knowledge of the divine author (not separated from self) behind it. The world IS to be left behind but it isn't some Gnostic-tier nightmare trap or as dark as Buddhism says Samsara to be. Am I in delusion as Buddhists would believe? I used to be quite hostile to Buddhism on account of dogmatic metaphysical principles but don't view it the same way anymore. The actual ascetic practice is heroic. But this particular attitude toward the cosmos is a significant hurdle
>>24850028The Buddha was essentially a via negativa philosopher of transcendence and his whole project is concerned and engaged with achieving transcendence. Thus he isn't interested in metaphysics.You're an uneducated dilettante normalfag that hasn't read the suttas. Filtered bitch.
>>24850379>yet none of these losers have any superpowers besides accepting things as they are.Which is unfortunately a very hard thing to come by. Its quite the irony that the ends of deep introspection is often a base attunement to causality and those attuned to more basic causal things get distracted by abstractions.
>>24850393this is why I think Buddhism actually gets the way to transcendence more or less correct. because Buddhist meditative states somehow align with the experiences of Christian or Islamic mystics, and there's no good reason why besides the possibility that they're all converging onto the same thing.
>>24850329>humans have managed to answer many smaller 'why' questionsThat's the problem. We think that because we can have answers to these other "why's" we can have answers to questions for which there are no answers (that will please us). This is a matter of evolution and the way we are designed to work by Nature. It's a question of optimization of energies. Why am I tilling this field? So I can grow the crops. Why am I moving this rock? To make a path. We are NOT wired to do things for no reason, and so we ask why are we even here in the first place? This question, as you can see, is just a side effect of evolving to survive as human beings on this planet and the necessity of managing our labors.The real insight is to stop asking this question, to recognize it for what it is.Buddha did not speculate on cosmology because he knew it was beyond our ability to ever actually know. If he was around today, he would say the same thing to the question of what was there before the Big Bang or why the Big Bang happened. And he would have completely accepted evolution and natural selection (and cosmology as scientifically laid out since the Big Bang). Nothing he taught would have changed.
from what i've read on it (all by thich nhat hanh) it doesn't come across as pessimistic to me. but if i'm understanding correctly his schooling of it is the hybrid one that involves some of the chinese stuff
>says whales are fish fucking droped lol
>>24848311You are the retard.
>>24848223He knew it would rile up autistic moderns like (You), OP.
>>24848223>droped
>>24848223Melville was right all along, whales are a type of lobe-finned fish
>>24849348shut up you clade-loathing freak
I need an electornic word processor that>cannot EVER connect to the internet>can manage, import, and export text files via usb>has little to no other functionThere's too much shit on my laptop to distract me from writing. I realize there's pen and paper but I don't want to have to rewrite everything I've already written. Any recommendations?
I just write on an old laptop I never connected to wifi, the only program running is notepad. The battery seems to be dying but idc.
Nigga just get a typerwriter and fax it if you need to nothings going to be as good as that.You’re just hyperfixating on some retard issues so you have an excuse to not write. Typewriters are fairly cheap and u can fax em if you need to or whatever tf
>>24842178>>24842191Holy shit this is hilarious, lazy retards will do anything except sit down and actually write lmao
>>24850358Yep. They externalize their flaws. Such people will never be successful.
>>24842178honestly at this point just use this setup as a virtual machine. SInce it has no GUI it wont need much resources and you wont have to reboot when you'll need to do research.
>peak>mid>slop>crash out>unaliveWhat the hell is up with modern speech turning into newspeak straight out of 1984? The word "ungood" genuinely wouldn't look too out of place with all the neologisms I just listed.
>>24850324Hes retarded and probably a zoomer too who has never existed before this time, so he doesnt know that theyre just modern versions of those words because he hasnt existed long enough.
>>24850309>unaliveThis one is just people trying to avoid having their posts flagged on instagram and stuff, I've never heard anyone say it irl and I would assume they were joking if I did. And I swear peak and slop originated on 4chan, or we were at least very early adopters
>>24850309I have found it conceptually satifying that the "median" (mid) has become the center point for the uneventful. rather than "shit" or "low". It is not longer about a linear progress of betterment, but of the two extremes of the infinite, infinitely large and small in quality and quantity.
>>24850309Dear god, the children are speaking in colloquialisms!?!? This is unprecedented, I can not believe this is happening
unalive only exists because if you say "murdered" "killed" or "suicide" algorithms censor you so no one sees your post. I've seen news platforms say "gen" because they get censored if they talk about the "genocide" in Palestine.
So I finally got around to reading this book and I must say, it's a pretty good apolitical introduction to the history of migration. I came out believing the same thing I did coming in, that we humans are a nomadic species and migration is a fact of life. The right to roam shall not be infringed, chuds.
>>24850235Like he said, we are nomadic and "countries" are artificial abominations created to control a peasantry. But the current immigration crises in the West world is a plot to rile up rightwing fervor, to get us to have a "civil war" instead of a revolutionary war against them. In the aftermath the rightwing/control-wing will clamp down on all these rights of the former age. Those left alive will be too war weary and autistic to resist and the media will write the history and claim the nation simply wanted all this. CIA/mossad/FreeMasons plan.
>>24850210You're half right. Humans aren't a nomadic species in general, but becoming nomadic is our natural response to hard times. When the crops fail or an earthquake hits the obvious thing to do is to take the best and hardiest of your group and leave for pastures new. When life is easy, there's no reason to abandon your homes and your fields and any of your friends and family too weak to make the trek.
>>24850210>migration is a fact of lifeIt is, but it's also sometimes associated with civilizational collapse. In Why The West Rules For Now by Ian Morris, migration is one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
>>24850427and what do u suppose happened if u "immigrated" into the land of some other stateless group? do you suppose the remote south east asian communities scott writes about in that book would welcome random migrants showing up and just living among them? if there's no state there's no police or immigration courts to protect you. leftists forget that the police and "juridical systems" exist to stop people from enforcing their own community rules with as much violence or little due process as they see fit.
>>24850453In general, people are welcoming of immigrants when they come in small numbers. You can safely immigrate anywhere in SEA.A takeover is a completely different thing, though.
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>>24850183>anymoreConservationism has NEVER been a serious ideology. It's an ideology that fully embraces its own enemies' stances after 10 years of opposing them. Conservatism is about getting defeated and trying to save face.
his biggest sin is presenting himself as some sort of biblical scholar. his bible series is abysmal
>>24840620>when the young generation doesn't want to die for Israel
I study French, German and Latin, study European history and reject American tyranny/corruption
>>24850183>>24850218Conservatism doesn't mean standing still you absolute retards. Holy shit you people are dumb, lol.
Oracular edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24816688>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.
>>24849360Show us some pages
>>24848766>learning curveWasn’t so bad to learn all the grammar/basic vocab needed to read Caesar and Cicero’s easy speeches, the most difficult thing is the discipline to do it daily>impact ability to readYes, but not in a way that I couldn’t have also gained from a better English education in my youth
>>24849407What which why whenever whoever however whysoever whichsoever…
>>24849407Skill issue
greek would be better with the locative
