Let's discuss some real literature, not some crappy books for old people! New book has just been released! How is excited!? Glurp! Glurp!
>>25289856What's the litlore behind glurp glurp?
>>25289865An in-universe tv show host who hosts a show popular with teenage boys, and his catchphrase is “glurp, glurp!” and he gets the whole audience chanting it
>>25289865I have seen Matt Dinniman going on stage, doing 'glurp glurp' and the crowd going wild
>>25289878Okay, this is epic.
>>25289856It's so good. I love how much depth Donut has now the minute he can talk. A talking cat!
>>25289865The phrase "Glurp, glurp!" in DCC is basically the peak of Matt Dinniman's dark satire. It's not just a dumb sound effect; it's a massive, multi-layered metaphor for corporate brainwashing and absolute degeneracy.1. The "Piglet" Dynamic & Forced SubservienceThe phrase is the official interactive catchphrase for Death Watch Extreme Dungeon Mayhem, a hyper-exploitative talk/game show hosted by Prince Maestro. Maestro treats his intergalactic viewers like absolute garbage, straight-up calling his audience his "piglets." When he commands them to "Suck it! Suck it good, piglets!", the entire arena choruses back with "Glurp, glurp!"Dinniman is using this to show absolute psychological subjection. It reduces a massive, space-faring population down to brainless livestock, conditioned to beg for slop and celebrate a corporate system that literally broadcasts the live torture and murder of humans for entertainment.2. The Acoustic GrossnessFrom a phonosemantics perspective, it's deliberately disgusting. It replicates the visceral sound of a pig feeding at a trough or a parasitic, suffocating fluid exchange. It has a crass double-entendre built into it, highlighting that the ruling elite of the universe are morally bankrupt, predatory voyeurs who find the degradation of lesser species amusing.3. Carl's Based ReclamationThe absolute best part of the writing is how Carl turns this psychological weapon back on the aliens. When he drops the line "Glurp glurp, motherfucker!", he's executing a flawless semantic inversion.He strips the phrase of its forced submission. He takes a sound meant to represent a piglet feeding submissively at the corporate trough and transforms it into a hyper-violent battle cry. When Carl says it, he isn't the one consuming submissively—he’s promising to make the dungeon creators choke on their own chaos
>>25289898Is this AI
>>25289900>It's not just ...; it's a ...>emdashes>numbered lists when no channer uses thoseYes.
You know you’re in for a literary treat when the author’s portrait features a smug neckbeard smile
>>25289856I envy his success but I can't tolerate his writing style
>>25289900Yes.
>>25289882>A talking cat!ripoff
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>>25289910glurp glurp bitches!
>>25289856Yeah I'm thinking based
>>25290491>goes out of his way to gender everythingWhat an obnoxious cunt.
>>25289929why is this facial expression so repulsive?
>>25290550Because he mogs you and he knows it
>>25289910AI detectors are fucking stupid. I once fed it The Lord of the Rings, and it was 90% sure it was made by AI.
>>25291010What if it was. If computers can write books, how far away are we from time travel?
>>25291031That's an interesting thought. We have no way of knowing, I suppose. Are we butterflies dreaming we're humans?
>>25291039Yes.
>>25289929this looks like he just took a shit on your carpet and knows you haven't seen it yet.
>>25289910you're just not smart enough to understand the multi level meaning behind glurp glurpI pity you
>>25289929This legit looks like a wojak will be made tracing it and it will go viral.
>>25289898>a critique of the reader for enjoying goyslop is itself the epitome of goyslopHow meta is this?
I started hate-reading this book expecting to be revolted, then I started to ironically enjoy it 20% in and then I started to genuinely enjoy it 70% in.I also read the 2nd book but the shtick ran its course and got stale by the 3rd book. The writer tries too hard to drop the gimmicks and "litRPG" elements in favor of more classic character arcs, but he isn't a good enough author to pull it off. So the book series goes from "Best written litRPG" to "Mediocre fantasy novel series" which is a big mistake. The third novel for me, where he drops the viewer counts, levels and TV show recaps is where I lost interest in the story.People here also seem to not realize the book is double-subversive. It first tries to "subvert" in the reddit way with the talking cat that is "cringe" but then it double subverts things by secretly being serious and kind of poking fun at the exact type of people that would enjoy these "random reddit moment" all in good fun. It's also a bit funnier than expected.It reads more like a 4chan anon wrote a novel to subtly troll reddit users by pretending to be written for reddit users while in reality making fun of them. It's hard to explain but I feel the author is definitely a 4chan oldfag.
>>25290070>here's the full disclosure Money-to-Matt breakdown per version.>Paperback. Cost $20. The money to Matt: $2.03>Buy on Kindle for $4.99. The money to Matt: $3.35>Read on Kindle Unlimited. The money to Matt: ~$4.00.>audiobook is almost always the best..basically 35% of whatever you actually paid.>Kindle Unlimited is about 70% of my non-audiobook income. It alone is five digits worth of income a month. That's way more than I earned doing anything else in my life, including porn.DAMN
>>25291427he was doing porn? are webnovel sloppers reading shit written by amateur gay porn stars?
>>25291416oldfag my ass, 2 chapters in he's calling goblins incels and goes to reddit to brag that he got death threats for it
>>25291492I don't know how literal he was being. He HAS mentioned doing porn more than once.
>>25291515Rather, to clarify that last sentence: He has mentioned on more than one occasion that he has done porn.
>>25291427I would be totally fine making $10k a month. How do I achieve this?
>>25291509idk in the new book he literally names 4chan in reference to the brony holocaust of 2010, longer than like 90% of this shithole has been here at this point.
>>25291416I think it gets better and gets a lot more depth to it later on. I'm not going to call it fantastic prose or anything, but I swear at least it actually is going somewhere. By the 4th book the dungeon is steadily coming completely out of the showrunners or government's control and there actually is a kind of realistic horror to the scale of the situation.Things like the viewer counts literally never mattered and get mentioned in one sentence. The recaps are just there to foreshadow other characters that join the cast and early on just sort of frame how people outside the dungeon or haven't communicated with him are viewing him. I don't even remember the recap getting mentioned a single time after the 3rd book except to mention what some of the other bubbles were like in book 4.but seriously, I'm definitely not going to deny that the main attraction is just "here's another clusterfuck" happening one after an other and stringing you along, that's really the entire thing. Sometimes it's lighthearted, sometimes it's serious, sometimes it's dark and depressing, but it's pretty much always a clusterfuck. I personally cannot blame someone for not making it through the first 3 books because practically nothing important happened in any of them. Pretty much the first 4 books are all just set up for the 4 books after and the actual events that happen are mostly just random bullshit happening.
>>25290491WTF I didn't know this book had literally me in it
>>25291585The issue is that nothing happens in all 8 books. It is all 'lol random' clusterfucks that are difficult to follow what is happening with random quirky cat remarks about 90' and 00' pop culture. Even the supposedly more serious moments lie flat due to being surrounded by unreal quirkyness and main cast constantly breaking in-book rules or being given some gotcha solutions by side cast.It did have potential in first book, as this Glaser 'Running Man' combined with Hitchhikers Guide' and some litrpg elements. But after first book everything is just stale and goes nowhere. You can see that the author never had a plan for how to end this plot or where is it going, and that he started coming with some plan around book 6.Also Karl is obvious shameless self-insert.
>>25291427>Cost $20. The money to Matt: $2.03dire
>>25291644Capitalism
>>25291648True, under mercantilism an author would get far more money per copy.
>>25291649Under mercantilism the author wouldn't be able to read
>>25291655Somehow that sounds better in this case.
>>25291585Katia's book with the Iron Tangle was my favorite.
>>25291659There are plenty of places in the world where illiteracy still reigns if you find that appealing
>>25291673I don't think forcibly relocating the author will cause illiteracy, so I cannot say that I am aroused.
>>25291638>You can see that the author never had a plan for how to end this plot or where is it going, and that he started coming with some plan around book 6.I honestly think that's the one criticism that's not true. I think he always had certain things established since very early on. The moment to moment has always been made up along the way, but especially with this last book it is increasingly clear how much he planned the key points of the worldbuilding and broad strokes planned of the plot planned early on. Like bare minimum by the 2nd book.Odette was always supposed to become an antagonist. Apito was always going to be the Apothecary. There was always gonna be a showdown between the Apothecary and Eulogist and the earth AI, Carl and Donut were always going to break out of the dungeon and stop the Eulogist from firing up the Halo. Carl was probably always meant to use the doomsday scenario to do it.like these are just theories and maybe I'm wrong, but the hints strongly lead to these points. Pretty much just every meta detail about the Scolopendra lore and associated floors has had significance Matt has been beating the readers on the head over since book 2. All the inbetween floors, all the dumb gags and shit, sure he just made that shit up.
>>25291682I think you ascribing problems caused by a low and declining level of social literacy, to literacy.
>>25291698I disagree with thatIn first books author was throwing hundreds of random concepts and characters, with not much link, meaning or coherence between them. He wake up by the book 6 with 'oh gosh, there needs to be some plot!', grabbed some of them, dismissed most, and decided that 'this is now the main plot of this book series!'. I think you're reading too much into it, hoping there was some meaning behind this mess. What I see is author trying to quickly scramble some resemblance of plot, based on his past ridiculousness.
>>25291010Obviously because it's in the training data
>>25292722>>25291698>I will grab this bag of trash and spill it on your carpet! Add more trash every year!>oh, you're not glurping the trash anymore? Is it getting stale?>then look at this! will grab this banana peel, communist manifesto and used condom! Now pile them together!>this is now the main part! look how cleaver I am! I planned all of this from the beginning! don't look at rest of the trash!
>>25289856I made it to book 6 and I just don't care anymore man. The stakes and enemies all feel the same and underwhelming. The novelty wore off after book 3 but I kept going thinking it might get better.
>>25293051Everything is in the training data
>>25292722I'm not really saying a lot, this shit is like bare minimum bullet points he could have wrote down while writing book 2, like 98% of the shit would still be made up bullshit. It's like a 1 hour brainstorm he did and then spends 3 sentences a book making sure some of it gets mentioned.
>>25292722>>25293225He has mentioned here >>25290070 that>I don't have the end in mind. I do zero plotting. I am what is called a pantser. I make it up as I go. I keep VERY careful track of everything behind me...I usually end up changing it up at the last minute...I find joy in writing my way out of situations and making it look like it was the plan all along.But this was admittedly a few years back so he could have an ending in mind, especially with how the plot has recently progressed.
