If he's really reading a 100 books a year then why is his vocabulary so limited? I've never heard him use a word that you wouldn't usually hear. Something isn't adding up. Also 100 seems a lot for someone with such a limited vocabulary. I don't think he's actually reading them or understands what he's reading.
Is he reading YA novels or video game adaptation novelizations? Also gamers must be a very easily impressed group of people if they start worshipping someone for reading like 6 philosophy texts lmao.
>>25356529He's an ESL.
>>25356529>Dune and MishimaYeah he's not learning shit
>>25356529Many anglophones and ESLs from the Germanic sphere are afraid of anything "latin" sounding.
>wannabe alpha male thinks reading mishima will give him testosterone
>>25356529Look at that facial expression, lmao. No wonder he spent his entire adolescence and early adulthood with videogames and internet memes. Man is just built retarded.
>>25356573See, I can't figure out if this might be a chicken or the egg problem. Does video gaming cause retardation or are people who are already retarded more easily gravitate to gaming?
>>25356580>Does the car crash make you use a wheelchair or is it the other way around :thinkingface:
>>25356593>no one is ever born with shitty legs, like, literally everAirtight argument, I feel omega-owned
>>25356568What a fall from grace
>>25356608Not my problem you have the thought patterns and thinking habits of literal chimps
>>25356612>Asks retarded questions>N-no! You are the retard!
>>25356616>OOOOOOGA BOOOGA KILL CRACKLY WHITEY BOOOGUH
>>25356593Retard>>25356568Fucking disgusting>>25356605That thing went from sub5 to eyesore, genuinely painful to glance upon
>>25356529compared to the staple of this website which is a pepe the toad post with a "books for this feel?" comment?why are you so obsessed over ecelebs
>>25356620>He's having a melty after discovering the chicken-egg dilemma is not a real philosophical problem nor it represents a real world issue
>>25356529I doubt he's understanding them either, but even if he is, he's definitely watering-down his thoughts and vocab. Gamers are extremely insecure and fragile, they need to be coddled or they will immediately abandon ship and find a new talking head daddy to worship. He doesn't actually want to create a proper bookclub, he wants to reinstantiate the same content-driven relationship he has with his viewers but with a pretentious sense of bookish prestige or whatever.>>25356580I think it used to be the latter but now it's the former; games are way more addictive and manipulative these days so I think they are causing a lot more harm now. Whether that harm is cognitive or intellectual or psychological or whatever, that I'm not very sure of.>>25356593Loaded question + strawmanning.>>25356616Personal incredulity.
>>25356616>>25356640>>25356621Same fagging is against the rules
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>>25356529He's reading them alright but he's not looking up the words he doesn't know.
>>25356529I can assure you that anyone who "reads 100 books a year" has effectively read zero.
>>25356670Are you retarded? Your picture and your reply are not related at all
>>25356688>Are you retarded?No, I'm quite punctual.>Your picture and your reply are not related at allCorrect; I omitted "pic unrelated" because I knew it would be obvious.
>>25356529His core audience is kids, anon.The stuff that he talks about is all entry level.The video is directed in such a way to sound chill, not pretentious.Learn the context clues.
>>25356740>pewdiepie doesn't sound pretentious
>>25356670>I can assure you that anyone who "reads 100 books a year" has effectively read zero.People who don't read love to project their deficiencies on the rest of the population. Comments like these should be glowing as brightly as the words of a nogunz on /k/ or the dyel on /fit/.
>>25356670Was it really that cheap to eat out almost every day back then?
>>25356580It exasperateds it, just think about the literal billions of collective hours people waste yearly on it that could go to anything else. I say this having blown personally thousands on Xbox live growing up. I have an advance degree now but know im a husk of what I could have been otherwise, having only narrowly escaped perpetual gaymer loserdom. Most gamers dont make that escape and they utterly seethe when you point out how much time they wasted and fucked up their lives because "time enjoyed is not time wasted," a mantra of drug addicts if there ever was one.
>>25356529>I've never heard him use a word that you wouldn't usually hear. that's called 'having nothing to prove' and it's a quality possessed by many excellent writers, pewdiepie's particular merits aside.
>>25356769>It exasperateds it, just think about the literal billions of collective hours people waste yearly on it that could go to anything else.The opportunity cost of excessive gaming is undeniable, but the causal link to "retardation" or permanent cognitive decline is often overstated. Many people who spend thousands of hours gaming do eventually pivot to careers in tech, design, or community management, using skills like problem-solving, resource management, and coordination.>Most gamers dont make that escape and they utterly seethe when you point out how much time they wasted and fucked up their lives because "time enjoyed is not time wasted," a mantra of drug addicts if there ever was one.Dismissing the "time enjoyed" argument entirely ignores the psychological need for relaxation and stress relief. For many, gaming is a hobby that provides genuine joy and social connection, similar to how others might spend hours on sports, reading fiction, or watching movies. The issue isn't the enjoyment itself, but the lack of balance and the inability to self-regulate.Framing the entire gaming community as "drug addicts" or "losers" because some struggle with addiction is a generalization that prevents constructive conversation about responsible gaming habits. The solution isn't to shame people for enjoying themselves, but to encourage better time management and diverse activities.
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>>25356775LLM? getdafuggouttaheah!
>>25356775nice spacing
>>25356775If I wanted to talk to a LLM I'd talk to a LLM
>>25356670comfy>>25356764>"cheap"if his work is just him writing until noon (no idea how long his bath and coffee took) then he had money to live off.
>>25356620Books for this feel?
>>25356529It's something that I'm starting to realize: Most people, even these proud "accomplished" readers, read a bunch of dumb easy stuff. Just look up profiles in Goodreads. I'm not critiquing them for it, just saying.
>>25356740>is kids, anon.Maybe a decade ago anon, not anymore. Hes a boomer unc now.
>>25356932Anything written by a nigger or woman since 2008.
>>25356562It's called good taste
he would be an idiot to use dense vocabulary in a youtube video
>>25356944This. If you're reading 100 books a year, you're not reading challenging books. You're not looking up vocabulary words in the dictionary. You're just reading for plot and skipping over stuff you don't understand.
>>25356769>>25356580>Internet and Video Games: Causes of Behavioral Disorders in Children and Teenagers (Dec 2022)>https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/10/1/86Quote from the discussion section on one their seven hypothesis, this specific hypothesis being about the causation between video games and mental disorders.>Finally, H7 says “playing video games provokes attention deficit and hyperactivitydisorders (ADHD). At first, it was rejected because we found that ADHD was the causeof video game addiction. However, we also found a negative relationship betweenplaying time and sustained attention or attention problems. Moreover, videogames predispose players to hyperactivity . In this sense, numerous authors affirm ourresults; there is a significant association between playing video games, Internet addiction,and ADHD. In fact, pathological Internet use is correlated with social anxietydisorder, anxiety, obsessive–compulsive symptoms, and depression. All of these arepossible characteristics of ADHD. Moreover, it was affirmed that the child group mostlikely to be addicted is ADHD students, even more than students with other psychiatricsymptoms.>Brackets containing the numbers for the citations were removed.This section ends with a citation from Weiss et al. suggesting a bidirectional relationship. A makes B more appealing, A is exasperated by B affecting A. I did not do a super rigorous look through of this study as I am not personally interested in this subject but it still feel inclined to agree with (>>25356775). The study seems based mostly on statistical correlations, comparing them to whether they match up with the authors' seven hypothesis. Enjoyment in video games through moderation is the key, in my (unsubstantiated) opinion.
>hating on pdpjust say you're brown
I read literature in two foreign languages for 2-3 hours a day and have done so for the past 2 years and I literally cannot string together a single sentence in either of those languages
>>25356769Right. They should've just spent their time instead reading retarded philosophers and going on /lit/ to shit up the board with how le intellectual reddit they are and get into retarded debates with anonymous people.
>>25357308and those languages would be?
I remember him giving a summary of a book and he got so many basic things wrong
>>25356642>>25356646ok, I lied, sorry. I did samefag. Please forgive me.
>>25356621>That thing went from sub5 to eyesoreThat's Sam Hyde, newfag. He manipulates his new photos to look as grotesque as possible.
>>25356529Reason number 1: English is his second language and the skill to pronounce difficult words might not be as high as his skill to read difficult words. Speaking skills are related but not the same to reading skills. It's why some people who spend all day on the internet posting in relatively fluent English to the point of being a grammar nazi about American's butchering the language with their casualness, but they can barely string a sentence together when speaking. Reason number 2: He is aware that the overwhelming majority of his audience are children. So using simple language that his audience can easily understand is a sign that he is good at communicating on his audience's level. Which makes sense given what his job was/is and how absurdly successful he was/is at it. Speaking at a level beyond what your intended audience can understand is a sign of arrogance and being a bad communicator. Such people rarely go far when it comes to being public speakers. Both explain his use of simple language when speaking despite reading a significant amount. I think a good example of his communication skills are his linix videos, where he clearly breaks rather complicated concepts into plain language and intentionally avoids jargon whenever possible to make it as easy for his audience to understand as possible.
>>25356670legend
Being eloquent and being erudite are two different skills. It takes training and effort to use advanced vocabulary that is apropos to the discussion.
my only problem is the retention of information.taking notes while reading help but still.
>>25357308>>25357627English is not a foreign language to any reasonably educated young person in Western Europe, especially if they've spent most of their life playing video games.
>>25357567>filename is literally "file"
>>25357323At least that's a step in the right direction
Leave my e-celeb daddy alone. He's a polymath and you're just jealous.
>>25356670It's perfectly possible to read 100 books a year if you're unemployed like Pewdiepie. My own routine allows me to read 300 pages a week despite the fact that I work 9-6 and only read on the weekends. On the weekends I simply leave my phone at home, go to the park with my hammock, and read all day. That lets me do max 150 pages a day. Obviously if I'm reading Kant or something it's going to be less.With Pewdiepie's wealth he could easily do what I do every day and get to over 1,000 pages a week. Which is 2 big books, one doorstopper, or 3 normal sized books.
>>25356529I kinda feel bad for this dude actually, he has a family and is successful yet he still doesn't seem to know what he wants from life
>>25356879You are buddy.
>>25360524Because those things don't matter and if he read Schopenhauer he would know that
>>25356670The more I learn about ol' Artie, the more I admire him
>>25356529That's not his first language and also after a certain age you tend to talk how you'll tend to talk.
>>25360518"Effectively zero."You could very easily read 100 genre fiction, YA novels, etc. Nothing wrong with that. If those 100 books are the works of Plato, Kant, Hegel, etc. then it's unlikely they've truly been *read*, simply finishing them cover to cover. Especially if they were all read in the same year.
>>25360921for a dumb youtuber you're correct, but not correct for a grad student in any real uni in any real country
>>25360921You think Kant, Hegel, or any other major thinker didn't read all of Plato (and the other great philosophers) in a year? They spent their time on their phone, on anime and video games, on porn instead? Retard.
>>25356529He's not reading 100 books a year and he's taking the most surface level skimmings from them.
>>25360932>then it's unlikely they've truly been *read*, simply finishing them cover to cover.Somehow I feel like it took more than a year for them to digest the likes of Plato, even if they read all it. Yes you could very much read them cover to cover, check them off on your Goodreads, then move onto the next. But that's not how you read serious literature.>RetardRetard what?
>>25356529You mean to tell me some right-wing, grifter faggot that lives in animeland and loves Mishima reads only the most surface-level books imaginable?Holy fuck!!!11
no one who's reading 100 books a year understands even 5% of what they are reading (unless they are reading some kind of YA slop, OR are my 500 IQ sister with her photographic memory and at-a-glance ability to read pages)
>>25361244Whatever helps you read less :)
>>25361244Lemme get your sister's digits, nephewYou need a new stepdad
>>25356529His parents are corporate big wigs. Like Steve-o, they are both educated and here to corrupt us.
>>25360921>If those 100 books are the works of Plato, Kant, Hegel, etc. then it's unlikely they've truly been *read*, simply finishing them cover to cover.Why not Kelsen, Zagrebelsky and Blackstone? Why not Weber, Durkheim and Marx?Niggers on here always resort to naming philosophy as the difficult kind of literature, not realising it's academic non fiction, not literature. That's because they lack the understanding of literature as being "high art", it is pure consumerism to them.Pathetic performative readers, baka. Can't even try to grasp the soul of the work.>truly been *read*You mean studying kek?
>>25361234probably
>>25361234>right-wing,People who randomly call people "right wing" are really only revealing their own mental state.
>>25357265>>25356740Yes, it would be unnecessary. But using that kind of vocabulary once in a while has never hindered the content of this guy here.
>>25361286>You mean studying kek?What does Kek have anything to do with it?
>>25356529He talks retarded for Youtube.>>25361382Nobody watches whoever that is.
