What's the video game equivalent
>>741359495of what, some spooky artwork?
take a generic open world game modded with some edgy shock content
>>741359495Pretty much any colony sim I play I end up turning into great examples of why laws are necessary to curtail barbarism>>741359571I'm 99% sure that's blood Meridian artwork.If you don't know what that is, read a book.
>>741359495kenshi
>>741359785I know what that book is. This is just a big skull on a hill with red on it and some cowboys on a trail.
>>741359785The people that post about Blood Meridian watched a youtube video on it.
>>741360143me? I watched Wendigoon
>>741360143I read it then watched the 3 hour-long breakdowns including wendigoo like the other anon said
>>741359495>dude, extreme violence, gore and rape lmao, also evil itself that's it ? boring as fuckif you want some gore and rape try Doom, Fear and Hunger, Termina, Black souls, Diablo etc
>>741359495I'm probably ignorant, but I've never understood the big deal about this book. I finished reading it last week and it didn't make any major impression on me, yeah some of the Judge's quotes are memorable, but I just don't get it. The violence and gore described in a casual way wasn't that shocking, the story seems to go nowhere but I guess that was the point, and McCarthy's writing style is sometimes annoying. Maybe if I was from the states I would understand.
Call of duty world at war
>>741361324You’re an idiot.
>>741359495deltarune and persona because people who do not play games say they love these games
RDR2
>>741359495If you think the Judge is the devil than I am sorry but you got filtered
>>741359495dwarf fortress
>>741359947>he doesn't know
>>741362889There’s a part near the beginning where a guy is more or less exactly like “yup there he is, that’s him that’s the devil right there” and then he proceeds to do devilish things then and throughout the book upto and including the whole cheeky “that would be a HELL of a zoo” and “only room for one beast on the stage” scenes throughout the book. Ontop of spout off heresies every chance he gets. I’m not outright saying he is or isn’t the devil whole thing is upto and open to interpretation and it’s more fun that way but I think there’s more argument that he is in fact the devil or a manifestation of him on earth in the book than there is otherwise and that that theory isn’t anymore far fetched than any of the countless others, thoughbeit.
>>741362824Chrono trigger too>OMG THE PERFECT JRPG EVER>didnt play it but the omg the ost
>>741359495>>741359706>>741359785Watership Down mogs the hell out of Blood Meridian btw.Thats how basic bitch it is.
>>741363417THe devil's not real anon
>>741362529>"It ain't country you've run out of"That did nothing for you?>>741362686tranny projection
>>741363475I have anti-McCarthy fatigue
>>741363524Neither is don Quixote or moby dick. It’s a fiction book, that doesn’t matter.
>>741362529Man if you hate McCarthy's writing in BM don't ever read The Road or No Country For Old Men, that shit's drier than the desert it takes place in.
>>741362529Yes you have to be from the states to fully “get it” just like you have to be some sort of filthy Hispanic to “get” 100 years of solitude literature is funny that way same with women and the shit they read you won’t enjoy jane Austen as thoroughly as a woman would as a man
>>741363475You know anon two things can be good at the same time. I will check out WD
>>741363603whales and windmills are real
>>741363524The devil is real but I agree JH likely wasn't him. Likely a Gnostic archon
>>741363912Source?
>>741363998uhh
>>741359495>take a job>get fucked>make it to a town>terrorize the town>take another job>fuck up and get fucked>have the whole Mexican army behind them>take another job>repeatWas Judge and Glanton just retarded, or what?
>>741363578I have anti-anti-McCarthy fatigue fatigue
>>741364053worse, Ch*ds.
This book sucks assThe retard who wrote it doesn't even know basic grammar
>>741364156Cool. Let’s see your published works anonymously I’m sure there real page turners
>>741364156filtered lol
>>741364156Ya cain't read tween the lines. *spits*
>>741364305>>741364219Be honest with me, Wendigoon isnt here.You actually like this shit or just like the fact Wendigoon made it seem good?
>>741364356I don't know who that is
>>741363475>Watership Downthat shit fucked me up as a kid
>Read book>Entire conversations in SpanishFuck your wokeslop book.
>>741363747NTA but I did have to look up some of the words kek. He used words from the frontier days I swear. There was one word he used for carriage I can't recall but I've never heard of it before
>>741364356idk I just watch creepcast
>>741364426That’s part of the reading experience and part of what makes it good and worthwhile, learning new words.
>>741364472Even worse than I anticipated...
What's the vidya equivalent?
>>741359932Pretty accurate
>>741364618Maniac Mansion
>>741364587yeah well your taste is shit sobeit
>>741364356You didnt get used to it after a few pages? It's clear when someone is talking
>>741364386Spanish is a language of subtly, something you don't understand.
>>741364695We arent that different then, it seems.
>>741364386McCarthy lived a gazillion years in Spain and is fluent in it.
>>741362529Theres nothing to "get." Its just a western book with more overt sexual, societal or violent themes than most. You've been duped by places like here or reddit into thinking everything needs some kind of cultural landmark or zeitgeist.
>>741365225So its just another run of the mill book?Thanks anon.
>>741359495Mass Effect 2: Arrival
>>741365225At least the scenes are laid out beautifully. Would make a good painting if that makes sense.Lots of stinky men feet tho.
>>741359495Memory of a broken dimension.The original demo. Not the steam remake.
>>741362529>>741362529You read McCarthy for the prose. Never forget this. His most personal book that some consider his magnum opus, and I can only recommend is Suttree. The start can be a little slow but that's the kind of book that might stay with you for the rest of your life. Time after time I just find myself returning to it for various reasons. Maybe because it takes some maturity and life experience to "get it" and probably the more you have to more it resonates with you. I feel the same about The Border Trilogy as well.
>>741365836They really are
>>741366265I used to "get it", then they changed what "it" was. It'll happen to you.
>>741366265I thought The Road was his most personal one because he wrote it after having a kid
>>741366842The Road is his most brutal, misanthropic book. The main characters don't even have names.
>>741366837Maybe I should've phrased better but I only meant to indicate that the book might not leave a lasting impression on very young readers or those who lived a sheltered life. >>741366842And he wrote Suttree after he stopped drinking. It's a lengthy farewell from McCarthy to his old life. I'm not saying the protagonist is literally his younger self but you can definitely feel the personal ties.>>741366958Don't read too much into the lack of names. Granted it fits The Road extremely well and it doesn't feel like a gimmick for a second, but would BM have been better if the Kid had a definite given name? No, not really. The real reason behind this practice is that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. He's just a random kid and that's all there is to it. A name might humanize him but the story doesn't need him to be more than a faceless individual with just enough background so he feels real. That's why it takes like a page for McCarthy to summarize his first 14-15 years of his life.
>>741359495Red Dead Redemption 2. Zero Honor playthrough
>>741368539>"Gawd damnit Dutch, I know we are ciminals but callin lenny a negro? That's too far man."
Game equivalent to this?
>>741365480Yes, it’s just a book. It’s fiction written for profit. It’s a good highly entertaining one for those who enjoy that particular slice of genre fiction. like it or not it will be included (arguably is already) as “classic literature” in part at least because the contemporary bar is set so low but it is indeed just a purple prose biblical and violent spin on the western genre. There are people who consider it more than a book and McCarthy some sort of “knower” profit leaving coded messages for oh so smarter than you pseuds to pick up on for whatever reason, but theyre misguided jackasses desperately looking for something to latch unto and books a personality around, a depth in life they missed somewhere else. I
>>741368610Yes, the only member of the gang that understood why they were out there and unapologetic about it was Black Jackson. Niggers are based.
>>741368776... VtM:B, as a high humanity Toreador?
The only quote I remember from this book was when right in the middle of one of his autistic 20 page descriptions of the scene he had:>A small boy came from the house and pulled down his pants and shat in the yard and rose and went in again.Just out of nowhere, no relevance to anything going on or any reason to include it. Was laughing for a straight hour.
>>741366265Based Suttree enjoyer. That and the crossing are his finest.
The parts about the judge and his pet retard he adopted are pure gold hasn’t been a reflection/portrayal of autism/lack of mental development so poignant since faulkner’s benjy
>>741369263I think the darkness in The Road is one of the best depictions of autism in fiction
unironically overall a better discussion of books than most threads on /lit/ what a shit board that is
>>741369487Cold autistic dark was a neat little bit I agree and think of that one often
What is the video game equivalent of pic related?
>>74136867528 Days Later?
I'm too retarded and non-media literate to be reading this book even though i want to. But it'd just be wasted on me
>>741369942Listen to the audiobook by Richard Poe. It's on YouTube for free
>>741369942Kys
>>741370105Shuddup
>>741369942Listen to the audiobook and paint the scenes in your mind while you also rotate apples. You CAN rotate apples in your head, right anon?
>>741369942Start off with something small and less challenging. Keep reading consistently every day and at some point you'll rekindle(or discover if you haven't already) your joy for reading.
>>741364386>got filtered by the propheciesCome on
>>741370416NTA but I can rotate apples in my head while thinking about hypothetical conditionals
>>741369942This, but my case I'm too smart and tech-literate to be reading books. It's all faggy midwit garbage beneath me
>>741370416I've got aphantasis because of some shit i went through. Used to do that when reading redwall and lotr as a kid a lot tho>>741370426I've never been media literate. Even if i had straight A's until highschool i could never understand themes and shit like that kek
>>741359495Spec Ops The Line in terms of tone and themes.
>>741364356name ten books you like that have never been covered by a youtuber
>>741370859Blood Meridian is a book you can appreciate just with events and the prose, no real need for themes. In my experience themes are hard to pick up on during a first read anyways.McCarthy describes the old west environments beautifully and those aspects are what really stuck with me personally. I still think about his description of the desert with a thunderstorm brewing on the horizon and that's what makes me want to re-read the book, not wondering if the Judge is a demon or not.
>>741370787What are some books that you've read dude?
>>741371479I've read that some people think the judge becomes a supernatural being at the end of the book. I call those people retards.
>>741371581She was a supernatural being throughout the book. Yes, she. Often overlooked or glazed over is the judge is actually a female it’s alluded to subtly repeatedly
>>741371479I don't know what prose is
>>741369042For me it was this description of the sun:>(...) at the edge of creation the top of the sun rose out of nothing like the head of a great red phallus
>>741371581That whole last chapter seems like a dream or a mental break or something, it's weird. I feel like if anything he would have always been a supernatural being but that's besides the point. I think people are too focused on solving mysteries, an author can leave something with no intended explanation and there's nothing readers can ever do to truly solve it.>>741371940Plain text, as opposed to poetry which uses a specific rhythm. I thought it meant something slightly different desu but my point still stands.
>>741371510I remember the Odyssey, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet, Red Death, and Cask of Amontillado in school. Something about symbolism and what the author meant. Bad grades because I didn't understand why the hell anyone cared.
>>741372181>Plain text, as opposed to poetry which uses a specific rhythm.I can't interpret shit like that at all
What's the video game equivalent?
stealth /lit/ thread, i like those
brigand oaxaca
>>741372313It's pretty challenging, at a certain point it does click, especially when you know the rhythm but I don't read it much. The most I ever read was Shakespeare in high school, and like I said it was tough until one day it just clicked and I didn't need to look at the bland modern english version on the alternate page.
>>741372227I think i read romeo and juliet in middle school. Didn't understand shit. Still got an A because i was charismatic and knew how to bullshit. I read a bit of amontillado too but i didn't understand shit there either so i went online and read a bunch lf reviews and shit for it to get an A lol
>>741372675What am i looking at?
>>741372684You got off easy. Ulcers and sanity problems are a cross that don't apply.
>>741359785>read a book.Any book?
>>741373065Shakespeare butchered to make it accessible for high schoolers.
>>741359495old cod lobbies
>>741373065Literary sodomy.
>>741359495Fallout 1, or the first half of Fallout 2.Video games are almost creatively bankrupt at this point. Just look at the equivalent wild west game (RDR2) and how sterile and dull it is
Post you’re stacks
>>741373065if you took shakespeare and applied one of those modern bible translations to it so barely literate morons could read the words and still not understand it
>>741370787literally the opposite, you think you're intelligent but can't understand why somebody would use theme and prose to illustrate a greater point, rather than using plain language
>>741374180
>>741373673Huh?>>741373828>>741374010Lmfao wtf. So that's why emily wilson is hated on here. Was in a dune thread yesterday where people said no thanks to her work but i forgot to ask why
>>741359495Clive Barker's Chris Jericho
>>741374180We threw away the lotr books i had since i was a kid some months ago because the rats i had destroyed them years agoNo idea where the book to the far left came from but it's the book which the movie the line from jack nicholsom say "you can't handle the truth" comes from
>>741371837Why she? It’s 7 feet tall.
>>741359785Splatterpunk shit is the male equivalent of women reading books about being raped by a werewolf. Like, yeah, they're books but it's trite pulp fiction.
>>741374180circa 2 months ago
>>741374971XD40 4 in 1 gaming pack? that one might be by steinbeck
>>741376327Not seeing steinbeck anywhere. Dad bought it for me in a hurry because my mouse stopped working. 30 bux for it iirc. Cheap as shit garbage and low quality but all i needed was the mouse
>>741359495RDR2 is a sanitized, Hollywood version of it, basically.
>>741371837either baiting for you’s or the single most tranny take I’ve ever seen
>>741359495That one FONV mod set after the courier won and everything went to shit
>>741377326Dust?
>>741376491No wait, it was because my headset broke
>>741364356honestly, I think wendigoon kinda sucks at presenting stuffI don't know how he got that big
Ratbump
>>741359495Mortal Sin
>>741359495Combine Red Dead Redemption with manhunt, I guess.
>>741359495Last of Us 1
>>741364618I heard it's boring and hard to finish. Whats it about?
>>741380537do you mean narratively (i.e. the plot) or thematically?
>>741381428Both.
>>741381563>narrativelyIn a near-future Boston (now part of a continent-spanning country), teenagers at a tennis academy cope with their psychological problems, typically either by smoking a lot of weed or by trying to become very very good at tennis without going insane. Down the hill from this academy is a halfway house for those who have coped with their psychological problems by drinking or drugs - the inhabitants of this place learn how to live after having to give up their addictions. Some of the people in these venues become (often only slightly) enmeshed with a plot by wheelchaired Quebecois terrorists to manufacture copies of a film created by the founder of the aforementioned tennis academy (the titular Infinite Jest) - which film is said to be so addicting that all viewers lose any desires excluding continued viewing - and use it as a bargaining tool to a) secede the Quebecois state from the greater continental union and b) get the aforementioned union to stop using lower Quebec as a grand landfill.>thematicallyIt is mostly about the nature of naivety as America's most shunned vice, as well as love, obsession, image, addiction, and the pursuit of happiness. It's good fun
>>741382442thanks
>>741359495
>>741369645HOMM3 or Dominions 5
I started hating this book after learning it was about Gnosticism all along
>>741386450Stop being a hylic then.
>>741359932This is probably my favorite pick so far.
>>741359785The actual cover looks nothing like that
>>741359495He's right about the 4 Evils.
please read All the Pretty Horses or some Faulkner or anything other than the meme book you're currently too jaded to engage with properly.
>>741388481Faulkner was a pseud, his books aren't even that great. He just obscures everything behind complicated nonsense
>>741359495Probably spec ops the line
>>741388672skill issue
>>741359495Tainted Grail Fall of Avalon, actually.
>>741359495Pathologic 2
>>741363475Whilst WD is traumatic its still not close to topping the level of Blood Meridian honestly. That one scene from that flick about the dogs (with the hunter) was more shocking and traumatic anyway
>>741363475Based and Lord El-Ahrairahpilled
>>741364053They sort of did their job but they were too evil
>>741364356Just use the audiobook and stop being a fag. >>741364386This level of american.. I..
the equivalent thematically is pathologic 1 and 2. just pure exhausting misery where you are just trying to survive an indifferent, hostile landscape while dealing with deeply strange, philosophical locals who speak in cryptic, poetic prose
>>741368367Honestly I get what you mean.. a lot of the book just reads like shock value pulp, thats how debauched it is.. its like a snuff film, its indescribable how red it is really after a certain point.. just blood and footsteps
>>741372675I didn’t know it was possible to rape a mans works after death till now
>>741386450its not really, it just has gnostic elements as a means of narrative communication in terms of that evil, darkness and death being a sort of aesthetic default in blood meridian. does not mean that blood meridian ITSELF is gnostic, if that makes sense.
>>741374941There is no famous game that has been memory holed as much as this one
>>741363578anti-McCarthyism is literally, like everything on 4chan, spawned from pseudointellectual contrarianism simply from the fact that blood meridian is well known among zoomers on youtube now. 4channers then feel the need to retroactively hate on the work because of it. a very childish hipster mindset, indeed.
>>741374941this is nothing like the essence of blood meridian besides "dude violence!!"
>>741389840Im still trying to grasp the annuls of contrarianism myself. The psychology of it.. in my opinion its the attempt to control ones own life and mind by gating out entire works and debasing them, does that thesis hold credence?
>>741388772Give me 34 good reasons why Sound and the Fury had to be as complicated as it was
>>741387019>anon learns that books often have several covers beyond first editionlol welcome to the world of literature, babby.
Are there any video game characters that could defeat Judge Holden?
>>741390058>buying books after the first editionFucking piece of shit pleb
/vlit/fagas, I picked up lonesome dove a couple days back. Will I like it? Trying to get into Westerns
>>741359495Fallout Tactics
Hunt: Showdown added a Judge skin a few events back that I enjoy playing as.
>>741359785I read the actual book and the cover was some desert you retarded faggot. The Road was also just completely black. To answer your faggot ass question the equivalent would be Planescape Torment. A good story with bad gameplay (Blood Meridian is written like shit 80% of the time).
>>741389938you are definitely on to something there, yeah. it definitely is some kind of "perversion" for lack of a better word regarding ingroup-outgroup differences. the love contrarians have of perceived obscurity or unpopularity often comes from a sense of having some kind of cultural capital in the sense of having knowledge, taste, style in order to attain a sort of status. couple that with a highly active sense of psychological reactance within their minds that perceives the spreading of information beyond the "ingroup" as dangerous. it of course can be dangerous depending on the topic, but over something as silly as merely knowing about a book that was already quite popular in literary circles, is indeed rather contrived
>>741390252>being so obsessed with frivolous aesthetic veneers of books like the fucking coverbet you are one of those who does not dare break the spine of his books because it would "ruin the friggin looks maaaannn...."
>>741359932WinRAR
>>741390375horrifically cringe
>>741364156>t. faulknerlet
>>741369942why would you read a book brojust use your imagination brothink brouse your brain bro
>>741390478My paperback books look like they were raped by god himself, but my hardcover's are pristine like Mother Mary
>>741390304I think yes. You can't go wrong with LD. Maybe starting with an epic novel that lasts like 1,000 pages is not the easiest beginning but you shouldn't be intimidated by the number itself. The second and the third book of the series is roughly that long combined, then the fourth one is a good 700 pages. So if you end up liking LD you will have plenty more from where that came from.
>>741374180>gave most of my books away to a charity>only got a handful of kids books based on Horrible Histories for sentimental valueWon't be surprised if those get thrown out too since my shit was never worth anything.
>>741370787>help desk IT slave studied for the CCNA for 3 days and now thinks hes too smart to read books
>>741359495Xenogears.Both are too kino to ever be portrayed faithfully.
>What's a suzerain?
Hack away you mean red nigger
>>741374180Is this supposed to be books already read or those on deck? Whatever, here’s a mix. I don’t know how I’m gonna finish Grapes of Wrath when I want to go back to Chapter 5 every time I pick it up.
Obsure posting.
>>741393103Kino death desu
>>741362024you read it for the judge, he is an all-time villain
>>741374180Most of the books I own are non-fiction, besides BM these are all recent purchases.
>>741362529it's the vibe
>>741395882Thanks for reminding me to get that Tojo biography
>>741381428I felt like it was a book that was mostly an inside joke of authors making fun of other authors by satirizing the whole trade/art in a subtle way while also making nods to "reader culture"it felt very pretentious, and annoyingly aware of it while also kinda pretending not to be but then just pretending to pretend and actually not feeling bad about it at all
>>741390221Holden from The Expanse would beat him by being a dumb and stubborn good guy with a spaceship
>>741373828>Shakespeare butchered to make it accessible for high schoolers.*brown high schoolersAmerican high schoolers never had a problem reading it until recently, now that they're 50% nonwhite, and maybe 20% white in the cities
>>741374180it's over, I only read books for fake /lit/s
>>741374180>kindle.jpeg
>>741396664PDFs and audiobooks are NOT books and DO NOT count as reading.
>>741396781We where listening to camp fire stories far longer than we even learned how to read.
>>741396058Consider picking up Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941 by Michael BarnhartAnd Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945 by Yamashita too.
>>741359495New Vegas bounties
>>741365225Wrong.
>>741362529Let me guess: you like catcher in the rye?
>>741364156The way people reply to posts like this so defensively really tells you how insecure they are about their taste
>>741397001Is watching a playthrough on youtube the same as playing a game?
>>741389840yeah, they're like this with everything. even berserk is said to be bad now because it has gotten some mainstream popularity in the west
Currently reading The Gambler and it's shockingly not a hard read, I always assumed Russian lit was tough compared to natively English literature. Audibly laughed reading the main character ranting like a psychopath to the girl he likes but man everyone aside from Astley is kind of an asshole.
>>741398297Even a dumb animal can dance.
>>741389938It's just effeminate christfags who are afraid of depiction of violence of any kind.
>>741360143i, on the other hand, post about infinite jest because i have watched, count 'em, several videos on it
>>741362024>>741395029you read it for the descriptions of desertsi listened to it as an audiobook while roadtripping from Utah to Texas and it was a divine experience
The only book worth reading
>>741369263It's a pretty common theme in King's novels too : evil making use of retarded to do its bidding.
>>741372523Detroit Become Human
>>741362529BM is literally a meme book at this point, you know all those 14yo edgelord faggy types? this was their first book they read besides the ones they had to read for their english classesif you want a really good book read Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by mishimaand Silence by shusaku endo
>>741383208Not even close. The violence in Drakengard is not senseless.
>>741398058Another author once said "brevity is the soul of wit." Also don't screencap your own posts on a mobile device of all things.
>>741400726Even with the child soldiers?
>>741400726All violence is senseless, immoral, and inherently destructive. The greatest lie ever told is that there is such a thing as "justified violence" or "noble murder"There is not. Under any circumstances. Any "one" resorting to violence is inherently less than human, just another animal.
>>741401234Especially them, since it's a scene filled with shock value that is made to demonize the actions of Caim initially, only to then be turned around when you realize that they are in fact possessed by evil spirits and will attack and kill you the moment you turn your back on them.>>741401362Cuck.
>>741362843Fuck no, RDR2 wouldn't have the balls to create a character like Nigger Jackson
>>741360143it took me only one day, it's not War and Peace, you lazy fucks.
>>741362529College aged midwits who want to get into reading google "top books reddit" and see that everyone has updooted blood meridian to the top of all the lists and then proceed to act like it is the best book ever writte because it is the only other book besides harry potter they have ever read
>I'm smart because I'm miserable now something something human condition Riveting
>>741401456God! I love Drakengard.
>>741401998Very few people could honestly read Blood Meridian. Maybe listen to an audiobook while zoning out constantly. it's slow
>>741359495Death Stranding
>>741400480>Mishima lmao
S U T T R E E UTTREE
For me, it's Child of GOD.No video game has the balls to show this level of depravity
>>741359495>lmaooo rape, murder, eating kids, violence, descriptive gore midwit book for midwits
>>741374180love hina 1-19 is my stack
>>741401456>Leonard begging Caim to have mercy on them>Angelus being somewhat surprised at how readily Caim kills them>Caim genuinely not caring whether they were children or monsters in disguisePeak
>>741403931You're the reason we can't escape this prison.
