Fun With Math EditionStubbed >>24732394>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'.>Advice for Noobs!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24740377why don't we just invent our own fantasy sub-genres based on popular korean/chinese/japanese media, which then explodes in popularity making us rich literary pioneers
>>24740367>>24740371I just had a look at that 'Delve' and I am so glad I have never set foot on that Royal Road website, what the fuck is this nonsense.
>>24740406Burgerpunk revolution soon. Its coming. You can t stop it.
>>24740368>My story is about a guy becoming king>30 chapters in he's still a fucking prisoner who has just now convinced his cellmate to not be a dickI just get carried away. I really should plot things out but I find it almost impossible to write a chapter by chapter guide. It just smothers my creativity. I'm a retard.
>>24740401cultivationslop low diffs litrpgslop fr though.
Fess up. I know you have at least one. I'm talking phrases or words that you can't stop overusing in your writing. What's yours? Maybe we can help each other. For me, it's "after a moment/minute." I'm 700 words into a short story, and I've already used this three times.
>>24739793um kinda???
I don't do any writing.
>>24739808It could work if you're deliberately trying to make your narrator insufferable, like what this guy did >>24739798. If not, wew lad.
>>24739808Kek
>>24739757Not so much in my writing, but I noticed a while ago that I say "I've seen/heard it said, and I believe rightly so, that:..." all the time. I don't know why but it's a very useful construction for prefacing that a thought isn't your own.
>"Directly after copulation, the devil's laughter is heard"What did he mean by this?
>>24739690if you're a man, both fill you with meaningless.masturbation makes you feel worse but there's still no wholesomeness in the afterparty either way.
>>24739700masturbation is the same. You are just masturbating with a living fleshlight.
>>24739707somehow it isn't the same (you can't trick your instinct, there's a real life woman there)
>>24739442Pretty sure humans envy/wanting to be something other that what they are is their defining trait
>>24740044envy won't make you jump in front of a bus for someone. love might.
Why does stuff written by Nasu have such a strong flavor? I can't seem to figure it out on my own. Whenever I compare it to other anime/VN/LN-sloppa it seems on the surface to be very similar. There's nothing really remarkable about his vocabulary, subject matter, or characters. But there's such a distinct intensity of immersion when you're reading something written by him.Am I being fooled by some little trick, or is it just "a lot of little things done well."
Aristotle Chads report in and tell me what the FUCK is he talking about. Or post quotes from Aristotle and discuss their meaning. I'll start.>Metaphysics II.2 "Again, nothing infinite can exist; and if it could, at least being infinite is not infinite."What does he mean by being being a limit?
>>24730893Metaphysics is the study of the illogical.
>>24737937>>24737962response?
>>24737962>What's the argument for that without positing something analogous to God?Everything in the universe is connected, it's all moving, there must be "something" that keeps it all together, but there is no need for this "something" to be a being, it could just as well be WHAT the universe is. So to insist "no there must be this super-being ruling it all" is nonsensical, it would be just like insisting your body must be possessed by an immaterial soul in order to account for your self-movement. Furthermore, the concept of a being beyond being besides being unnecessary is nonsensical, the people who think of this thing are not thinking of anything, then if you point this out they will say it's beyond thought/logic, but then we're back at faith, i.e. we are back at Kant. The entire point of course of Kant on this question is that God is not something we believe in for theoretical reasons.>I disagree. The only way to skirt the teleological argument is to posit a multiverse and even Bertrand Russel says the ontological argument is sound.>blablabla Bertrand Russell, multiverseI'm not responding to this, have you even read Physics 8? You don't know what you're talking about, now you'll get buttblasted and claim I can't answer you, I don't care. It's true I can't answer you because you don't know enough for us to have a conversation. Also you mention Kant's "moral argument" but have you even read the CPR? Apparently not.
>>24740163>the concept of a being beyond being besides being unnecessary is nonsensicalI don't have a problem with God being an actual being. > there must be "something" that keeps it all togetherYeah, there must be. And teleology is a glairing clue about what that something is capable of.> Physics 8Yeah, I read it and his arguments that there must be eternal matter and motion aren't convincing. I like the part where he says "Plato alone asserts the creation of time, saying that it is simultaneous with the world, and that the world came into being." It's almost as though Einstein and big bang cosmology corroborate that. > you even read the CPR? Apparently not.Of course I haven't. This is an Aristotle thread where I'm beginning metaphysics.>blah blah multiverseIt's true, thoughbeit, you must posit a multiverse to explaine the telos of the cosmos lmao.
>>24737937You can't even define or locate consciousness. I can't think of many things more "philosophically boring" than asserting that consciousness emerges from brain activity.
Why don't more authors use incest as a plot device?
>24740245Yes, you are.
>>24740217She identify as a black female, respect her pronouns.
Nigga are for real?
>>24740384name actual literature
>>24740416no u
James Rolfe aka AVGN just released a book
>>24732721>>24732681Hmmm... yes... Shallow AND pedantic
mogs him as a youtuber and as an author
>>24739846Is it any good? Always assumed it was ass.
>>24739848ive read 4 of his novels they are fun, he's always done point and click adventure games with narrative stuff so he has some experience and has some interesting ideas. definitely slop but it's interesting/fun slop and he has only gotten better. If you like his sense of humor worth checking out at least. Without question they shit on avgn's garbage.
>>24739846Yahtzee's a cunt.
tyrion stroll 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: >>24704184
>>24739670It was the Rhoynar who gave them the power to do that by teaching them how to work iron and even then they were still btfo by Theon Stark.
>High Septon dies>no one gives a shit except the political leaders who see him as a pawn to control the smallfolk>except the smallfolk don't give a shit about him eitherIt's kinda crazy, Cersei let a radical sect take over the church and no one gives a fuck until they start doing militant shit. You'd think we'd hear from the smallfolk while Brienne is wandering around bumfuck nowhere like, "Oh yeah the Sparrows are in charge now, things are looking grim/better. They'll drag the kingdom into heresy/greatness as they spread their lies/restore the true faith. And no, I don't care that priest is doing miracles in the name of the Red God, I'm quite content with my nothing happening while I starve to death during the winter."No, it's only brought up when it's an inconvenience to Cersei and Kevan. Honestly he could've just copypasta'd some early Christian heresies like "The Father is the only uncreated God, the other 6 are created beings or forms" since the Seven emulates a lot of the aspects of Trinitarianism. It'd be SO EASY. But George didn't even take time to write a creed or confession of faith for the Fot7. He is beyond lazy.
>>24739947Counterpoint, rhoynar are brown
>>24739645Magic isn't 'given' in ASoiAF. It's genetic or "blood" related. There is also the whole theme of forgetting and lack of any real history. So it's evident that the ways of magic have been forgotten. >>24739912The Varymer Six Skins chapter makes this very clear when he journeys to his second life. There is also the case of Drogos soul being swapped with the horses. The birth of Danys dragons may have something to do with that too.
Was he autistic?
I hate new words for things that already exist. Can you imagine how much of a ASS shakespeare was? He was tge ewuivalent of todays people creating pronouns and sexualities
>>24740181Think he was just having fun
We need a new word for hating white people. I came up with the word 'leukomisandry', and now I can finally live my life without any accountability
>>24740242you already get that and the government pays for it
>>24740242it sounds like a word for really hating male leukemnia patients
>>24740242thirdy envy
What are some books that explain this problem.
>>24732496>I'm not like the other capitalists>I would never ever cheat a worker out of the wages of their labor or profit off an unequal exchangePretty much, they see the writing on the wall and expect to exempt themselves from what's coming.
>>24739515You apparently are trying but have failed to make a point.
>>24732502>Capitalism is only private property>no other economic systems have ever had private property until based capitalism came alongThe economic illiteracy is astounding but predictable
>>24738498>It's literally the only system where if you work hard and you aren't retarded you can get ahead:I know you will say there is no real capitalism, but where in Europe or Anerica that applies?Not to mention, Sorokin already wrote how capitalism ends in same place as socialism, as people by shares and stocks. In the end you have multiple owners of a company, managed by people who don't own it.
if you read this thread you will get dumber
I’ve been getting told to „embrace tradition” for like 10 years now, after all this time I’ve decided totake religion more seriously. So seriously in fact that I started looking into biblical scholarship. What Ifound out was surprising, I have no idea what I was expecting, but one of the interesting facts Ilearned is that the gospel of Mark was written first, both Matthew and Luke used it as a source.This has been proven, in my understanding, basically beyond a shadow of a doubt. It also hasprofound implications as to how to interpret the bible on the whole, since with the knowledge thatboth the authors of Matthew and Luke had Mark in front of them, we must now make sense of thechanges and differences between those and Mark, since this would make them editorial changes.This makes a lot of the bible make more sense and was very eye-opening as far as understanding thetext goes.I could talk about the implications of this single discovery further, but this isn’t the point of thethread. The point is: only after re-reading the bible in this light did I realise, the catholic church insiststhat Matthew was in fact first, going against pretty much all scholarship on the matter, I assume inorder to place the founding of the church by Saint Peter arbitrarily early.
>>24735407>Yes, and also Mark being last is supposed to solve the synoptic problem by claiming Mark wrote down what Luke and Matthew agreed upon.Any claims that one of the Gospels was copying another make absolutely zero sense when you actually read them, because there are plenty of unique passages in all three.In Mark, you have:– Mention of Jesus going to Capernaum (Mark 2:1a)– Jesus teaching the multitude by the sea side (Mark 2:13)– Jesus getting on a ship because of the multitude (Mark 3:7-12)– The parable of the seed growing up (Mark 4:26-29)– Jesus heals a man who is deaf and mute (Mark 7:32-37)– Jesus partially and then fully heals a blind man (Mark 8:22-26)– The much longer version of Jesus rebuking the dumb and deaf spirit (Mark 9:14-29)– Jesus' teaching about being "salted with fire" (Mark 9:49-50)– Mention of Jesus staying in Bethany the second night (Mark 11:19)– The fulfillment of Jesus being numbered with the transgressors (Mark 15:28)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24735175>How does one actually "embrace tradition"?very carefully
>>24735200>Evola was a hylic poser who whined to Guenon about the crippled leg he couldn't cure.this>>24735203>why didn't he just cast a healing spell?kek, the magic has died, and evolatard threads have never been the same since evola was revealed to be just another wop trying to make a buck
>>24740352>evola was revealed to be just another wop trying to make a buckwhat happened?
>>24735175You don't!
The son of god dies.And the world cried for him, but the traitor refused to shed a tear for him.He is later hanged, and his guts spill over.What is the origin of this history? Is it older than christ?
>>24733628>are you saying that those narratives reached the nordic world via the greeks?The Greeks and Norse were more connected than is usually acknowledged but I think the geneology of myths tend to be more complex than that, it's not one directional or something that just pops out of nowhere, different cultures can be referencing a shared precursor or a shared history. All the stories and mythologies are written in a context we have little access to.The scientific community until industrialization was a relatively small group but spread across the European world, it seems to me the bronze age scholars were similar. They lived in an international environment due to being educated into the bronze age international worldview while the farmer still just farmed his patch of land.The Icelandic manuscripts don't just contain the Norse Sagas, they also include translations of ancient Greek texts generally not available in mainland Europe at the time. When someone like Audur the deep minded is said to be a scholar it means she's part of that ancient tradition, not just literate or whatever but owning and reading the Greeks in Greek.
>>24739979The standards and rules for behavior laid out by Christ are straightforward and immediately accessible to each person and could be aspired to as soon as said person is willing. Marxism relies on the fulfillment of several dubiously plausible sociological phenomena and expects widespread altruistic behavior without a personal code of ethics.
>>24740081>The standards and rules for behavior laid out by Marx are straightforward and immediately accessible to each person and could be aspired to as soon as said person is willing. Christianity relies on the fulfillment of several dubiously plausible theological phenomena and expects widespread altruistic behavior without a personal code of ethics.
>>24730716It’s probably an archetypical phenomenon in human society that has been engrained into our subconscious's as universal myths. A man comes along who seeks to elevate his people to a higher moral level so as to enable a greater degree of group cooperation and prosperity. But someone doesn’t want to bear the responsibility, and so takes this great man down out of envy and pride. Only to make that man a martyr remembered by his people. And him seen as a verminous traitor.
>>24740168The first is actually true thoever
What did the analytic idealism guy mean by this? What is he up to?
>>24740055is it cheaper though?
>>24740055>the raw material is the idea>the process is multiplicity>the result is a conceptConcepts are dead and lifeless for the most part. Some ideas go on to grow organically though. The old Dutch dog isn't showing how the sausage is made just yet.
>>24740055>the analytic idealism guyNobody with a heart wants materialism/physicalism to be real, but the argumentation in his book is so terrible that even the panpsychism he ridicules looks like a more cogent take by comparison.
>>24740365If it is there's no purpose to life and everyone should commit sedoku asap
>>24740365Maybe if you can write a good critique of him he will sponsor you.
Why do you read? Be honest.
>>24738911For entertainment generally speaking. If the story isn't thoroughly interesting or a page turner I WILL abandon it. This includes things like history AND philosophy.It must be at the very least INTERESTING.
>>24740091ok cool :3
No one else I know does so it makes me feel superior to them
to pass the time
>>24738911To make my Goodreads list look bigger.
What was the first book you read that made you interested in reading?
>>24740246I had this exact book around age 4. I knew how to read some simple picture books, but definitely didn’t have enough to get through this. I distinctly remember sperging out at daycare pretending to read this book, laughing at random passages and flipping around. The counselor came over and asked what was so funny and I didn’t know how to respond so I just pointed to a random passage and then slammed the book shut. Never actually did get around to reading it.
>>24740246Couldn't tell you, but in 4th grade we did a play based on this book. I was Mr. Popper. Even got to use a cane which I kept for many years until I broke it swinging it around.
