If your favorite philosopher couldn't solve this then you've been following theories of some midwit pseud, congrats. What are some philosophers who could conceivably solve pic related? I imagine Descartes could have a shot at solving it, Whitehead and Russell probably too, any other non-brainlet philosophers I should read?
>>24797134Tolstoy could solve it
>>24797134Only answers the "how" not the "why"
>>24797191>caring about the opinions of random anonsI shall do as I please.
>>24797456Who do you think had a higher IQ, Euler, or Schopenhauer? Keep in mind that Napoleon was much better at math than just about any other subject
The reason why people can answer questions like this is because they've been taught to solve similar problems before and were able to recognise that this problem is an example of X or Y
Now that we've all had time to read it, what do we think of it?
>Korbel mentioned in a work of high literature before E&J, Paul Masson, or Christian BrothersMidwest bros... we won
>>24797462I don't like Pynchon, he never spoke to me personally, but I am also sad to see this release pass by as such a non-event. It is hard to see literature as anything but a dead medium. The few remaining greats may as well not bother for all people care.
I've only just got up to Hicks on the boat, enjoying it so far. Typical Ruggles-lite fare.
>>24797462I thought The Passenger was pretty great. Didn't need to be an event. I'm certain it will be looked back as a top 5 McCarthy book.
>>24797419I love how literature triggers the right on /lit/ lol.
Books that show how incelism leads to homosexuality?
>>24798694There's literally only one tranny shooter
>>24798694Where did these numbers come from? The Bureau of /pol/'s Imagination?
>>24798036Genuinely looks like they rented a bus and driver and awkwardly invited him in assuming he wouldn’t do so. Then he did so.
>>24798698Catholic poster spotted!Man, not all of them are gay or pedophiles, but they do all protect them. That's just why it seems so damn common. "Self-professed" Dude, like anyone is going to admit that! "Have you molested any of your choir boys, padre?" Um. He would only confess to one of his friends OF COURSE.
>>24798698>let alone a self-professed gay Catholic?You never heard of Peter Thiel huhalso picrel
Why do we never mention the library and always talk about pirating? It's like a legal form of pirating and you can watch cool movies too with Kanopy.It it a psyop to destroy trust in communities and make posters scared to leave the house?
>>24795067>>24795518>>24797157It's possible that you are big/scary enough to where they respect you, they are a primitaive, maritial based tribal people afterall. I'm Dutch/Dalmatian Croat mix and tall as fuck, I lived in shitty areas in Detroit and Chicago for a lot of my life, and they usually just leave me alone.But in general, the interactions I've had with them aren't "pleasant" older black women are a bit of an exception, but most black women under 65 are emotional volatile, and abrasive. Black men are retarded, seem generally unware of anything outside the bounds of a sport. I played basketball with niggers for years, they are special-ed tier on average intellectially, and they ALL hate other races, not just Whites. The one's in Chicago hate beaners and spics with a passion.
>>24784124Because only Nepalese and Ghanaian immigrants are in the library nowadays, even in my formerly 99% white country :(
>>24787657It's the duty of the government to sponsor arts and provide everyone with a liveable income, otherwise why would society even exist?
>>24798152Yeah and then all your shit is in a database.
>>24784124So where does everyone even download things that aren't individual books that you have to find and they have terrible truncated filenames? I just want to download things like "Greek Collection" or "19th Century Poetry Collection" or "Art History Collection" or whatever.
I've been trying to get into Jules Verne because he's supposed to be the greatest fiction author of all time, everyone references him and loves him, but I'm having a really hard timeI finished Journey to the Centre of the Earth which was decent, even if nothing really happened and they never actually got to the centre.But then I started reading 20,000 Leagues and it's just so utterly dry, ironically for a story about the ocean, and just hyper autistic and detailed with fish descriptions and fish facts. What am I missing with the Vernester?
>>24798781Well that was a whole lotta nothingYou wasted 5 minutes of my life and I want them back
>>24798544> hyper autistic and detailed with fish descriptions and fish factsI feel like this is similar to the whining about whale facts in Moby Dick. You have an explosion of readership in the 1800s but there's no fucking wikipedia, no Jaques Costeau documentaries - what the hell does your reader know about the ocean and fish? Likely nothing. About fishing and whaling? Probably nothing. The ones who do know aren't likely to be your readers anyway.I think it's about equivalent to how some scifi goes out of its way to explain what being in zero gravity is like or how relativistic speeds would fuck up navigation or space combat. If you zoom ahead 200 years and everyone's taking a shuttle to Mars this would probably come across as trivial bullshit or even condescending to have to explain shit that everyone knows.Well, you're in the future relative to Verne and you have access to all kinds of information he and his readers did not. Learning fish facts and thinking about submarines was a cool futuristic thing once.
>>24798870I know, and people say the same thing about old games and old movies, the "bro just cast your mind back bro" but I find it impossible in some cases
>>24798657I have something to admit. I never read Verne. I just applied a general rule to an indevigual I have no direct experience with. He may in fact be good. I like wordy authors like Jack vance who is the king of wordy words for the sake of wordy words.
>>24798874>old gamesSome videogames are still good>old moviesMany old movies are still great.This medium hasn't changed that much after the advent of sound, it turns out. I mean, we have colors now but still.
>commits suicide for absolutely no reasonHas any author suicide ever backfired like this. They think it will make them an epic legendary author, like Virginia Woolf, but everyone is just like, naw, we're good.
>>24798198There some mothers here and there, but they aren't the focus of the stories.
>>24795824>some professorwalker percy is kinothe moviergoer is a classic and he's written a bunch of other good stuff
>>24798198>in massYikes!
>>24796678He's probably the poster child for pulp.
>>24797397>>24797440>>24797540>>24798338...I have white fatigue.
Which authors have the most interesting familial background?
>>24797176The correct term is mulatto. "Mutt" is any mix.
>>24793635>do jewish women goon to nazi films?Israel had to make nazi porn illegal cause it was so popular.
>>24792191I only read Thank You For Smoking and I can confirm that had a femdommy in it. I can’t speak for any of the other books though.I’m reading the dads books and those have sex in them too so I don’t think the dad would be too disappointed.
>>24792162harper lee collins
>>24793944>it's an american thingYou live in a random crab fishing village You've never met a single one.
Will reading make me a better more intellectuel of a person?
>>24796685>proof?Not possible outside of mathematics and logic>Who determines what is "high aesthetic value"?Longevity. Books, or really any piece of art, that has a high aesthetic value will leave a deep emotional or contemplative impression on the observer. I'm surprised you don't know this>You can definitely show that a person's mind will not improve in any way by reading texts that have not been objectively rated as high aesthetic value?You can't think deeply without memory, and what you remember matters greatly. If all you is smut, then your mind will primarily think in terms of degradation and primal power dynamics, irrespective of the person's raw iq.
>>24795434reading will make you fit in with people who identify themselves as intellectual and better than others, very soon after joining their company you will realize what they are and either join them for good because of the perks and status or leave them for good and only reading things that you actually enjoy as a read assuming you won't just quit reading as a hobby over it and switch to other entertainment
>>24797626Sorry, I'm not buying it. Prove that the books you say are superior, are.
>>24798758Whatever. Believe what you want
>>24795434ESL post
>Throughout the book the reader is encouraged to root for a psychopathic narcissist who rapes and controls his wife, racially abuses everyone who isn't an English toff, uses hate-filled slurs against gay men and women, and bullies everyone else. Oh and he beats his horses, which Jilly does frown upon - before presenting him as a romantic hero again on the next page. In interviews she sets up this creation, Rupert Campbell Black, as a bastard, but a ravishingly sexy one who must be indulged.>Other characters are almost as bad. A seemingly affable showjumper beats his wife (or 'blacks her eye' as Cooper puts it, casually). Another showjumper that we are invited to admire refers to a woman's vagina as 'a loose box'. Epithets for Italians and Travellers are standard fare for the characters. It almost reads like an intentional parody of bigotry, but then our breathless author reports that hero Rupert Campbell Black simply must waltz off for a dinner date with Generalissmo Franco.
Classics written by woman > classics written by gay manExcept Melville, he gets a pass
>>24798875Wait, you're right! And why does it only go down halfway?
>>24798875wtf, you are right. This is crazy.
>>24798882a flannel half zip? tha fuck?
>>24798875I had a flannel half zipper a few years back. >>24798882>>24798884>>24798885Ask me anything
>>24798889what brand was it? where did u cop it?
Recommended 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>Previous:>> 24779834>Thread Question: Did you forget that the next Black Company novel starring the raped witches and Croaker’s son will be out November 4th?
The Strength of the Few is out btw
>>24798802>first person present tense
>consider phlebasOK it has been considered, what now?
>>24798855now you look to leeward
>>24798658I thought Hyperion was alright, but when you get to Fall of Hyperion you realize how much the frame story was holding the first one together. By the time I got to the end of Fall there's so much shit going on and the connection between cause and effect is getting so blurry that I just had to shrug.
> You have the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen.This sounds so corny and played out a thousand times. Whats a more poetic way of saying it? > Your ethereal eyes are the most beautiful I've seen.?
>>24794798>Of all the eyes I've looked into, I love my reflection in yours the mostBut of course, you have to be playful about it
>>24794888Height > status > eyes > face > personality
>>24794798>In her eyes I saw salvation, a reprieve from every worry of the world or some shit like that
>>24794860*no one should complement a girl’s eyes when looking like 4channers
Wait a minute guys! She blowing on his dick!
The more I read, the more I realize I know nothing at all. By no means am I stupid but there's so much classic literature that I'm never going to get to read and I read really, really fast. I'm upset that I'm going to go out of this world just as bewildered as I came into it. I've read philosophy, religion, nonfiction so much and yet I've pulled very little practical knowledge from it. I can't even read for pleasure anymore because genre fiction is so dreary and boring. I've read some wonderful books this year, and none of it is sticking.. I'm still the same wasted brainlet I was last year. Everything is going to rot and ruin and all I can do is die calmly. I'm fifty-four. My kids are grown. My friends have flown. My family is distant. I have nothing left but words and now, they are failing me too. What can I do? I feel like a rabbit is a trap, ready to gnaw my paws off for just a smidgen of meaning. I've read thousands of books and absolutely none of it can help me, ever? What is the fucking POINT
>>24798746If you just want to be 'right' take the moral high ground and become a christkek
>>24798765I am a Christian now, but not out of a sense of moral superiority but because it feels right
Life is but a dream silly OP. We were never meant to read anything ever.
>>24798805Life is a shitty stage and we’re all shitty faggot actors
Tropical Beach 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: >>24667235
>>24797341Two schools of thought>It works by bending light to create an illusionThe shield would hide any part of the wearer hiding behind the shield>It works by making itself transparentThe shield would be invisible and you would see all of the wearerFrodo's cloak is the first type>But bending light wouldn't actually work like th-Yes, we know, but that's the conceit behind it.
>>24797341>invisible material made into a shieldSounds like it would work like someone holding up a window pane, though hopefully more durable.>Frodo's cloakSounds like you're mixing together two or three different fictional universes that don't work the same way.>>24797822The One Ring in Tolkien works by partially shifting the wearer and his equipment to a closely connected parallel dimension/world frequency thing called the wraith-world/the Unseen.
>>24797033Those sloppers are seething 24/7 about something>Muh /wg/ >Muh discord cabal >Muh /wbg/ >Muh woke westernslop Just ignore them
I want to create a world centered entirely around my fetishes. How do I start?
>>24798833Outline.
Absolutely buried trannyism. I've yet to see it be disproven.
>>24798700It's about equal according to this census:https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/genderidentity/bulletins/genderidentityenglandandwales/census2021However ftm's have increased in number at much higher rates than mtf so it's not unlikely for them to outnumber them today.
>>24798369shrier claims within the book that there are some "real" trannies out there, and that the social contagion is a fake transgenderism. read "trans: ideology vs reality" by helen joyce, for a more comprehensive takedown.
>>24798369>pro franklin cover up false memory foundation screedNo.
>>24798468>Based TERFsThey don't hate trannies because they are trannies they hate trannies because 1) they hate men2) any woman that wants to be a man is a traitorI hope more men win trophies in womens sports.
>>247988341. Sure is the case for some, no argument here2. Not true, radfems always see FtMs as some kind of victim, either of sex abuse or running away from societal wide misogyny. At worst, they'll poke some fun at them, but they'll never full on hate them. t. Spent a lot of time in TERF circles during covid. They're "on the right side of history", but the hard-core TERFs are annoying and do damage to their own movement. They should chill and just be funny like JK Rowling.