What were they forced to read?
>>744084779No idea. It clearly didn't improve the game.
>>744084779Not all books are equal. Doesn't this just guarantee they were reading light novel and YA slop to get through the mandated 100-200?
>>744084779they probably mean by a book a manga book
>>744084779One of the most retarded headlines I've seen all year.
>>744084779Captain underpants.
Must've been children's books because even at 3 hours a day, there's no way you could finish minimum 100 books and absolutely not 200 books a year
How many writers did they even have? Wasn't it just that one guy? Post an article link so I can read what it actually says.
>>744084779I hate when they say exaggerated shit like this just to hype a shitty game.
yeah I'm sure they were reading literary masterpieces like war & peace and les misérables and not "morning glory milking farm" or "how I was bred by the werewolf ceo : a short story"
>>744084779after battler's whole rant about not being a 'book-reader' because he didn't read 100 books a year in umineko, i'm somehow not all that surprised if ryukishi also saw it that way
>>744084779One book every 3.65 days, while working Japanese hours.
>>744085025maybe you should try not having the reading skills of a toddler?
>>744084779Women's studies textbooks and feminist theory
>>744084779
>>744085179People on this board never miss an opportunity to embarrassingly attempt to flex, huh?
>>744085168so anyone who hardly reads books can do itt. did it a few years ago with a few books
>>744085248i've managed to read a book in 4 days and i hardly read booksits not a flex, you are fucking retarded
>>744085258Name 10 books.
>>744084779Thats like a little more than a book and a half every two days. Unless their job is to just read books all day, no way they were hitting that mark.
>>744085302There is absolutely no way you are over the age of 18. No adult could be this fucking pathetic. Kill yourself you embarrassing faggot.
>>744085302So you wouldn't hit the 100 books minimum mark and definitely not the 200 markAnd you're also doing that every single day for a year without breaks so you can't have other things going on in your life that'd slow down your reading progress
>>744085302The book in question:
>>744085302One book in 4 days "once" is nothing like reading more than half a book every day for a year.
It's so like them to reduce things to a meaningless metric
Explains why the game is so well written.>>744085376Look at this grown man having an emotional outburst over nothing at all, how pathetic and embarrassing. Is this one of those things where you rage at everything because you have a really small penis and can't talk to women?
>>744084779Books I've read had way more depraved content than any game I've played and those books were considered classics of literature
>>744085025at 50 pages an hour, 3 hours a day = 150 pagesx 365 = 54750, / 100 = 547. You could finish 100 books at an average length of 540 pages. Most books are not that long. 200 books in a year is an average book length of 273. If you were mixing short novellas (>200 pages), books between 200 and 300 pages, and occasionally longer ones up to 600, you can feasibly read close to 200 books in a year.I've finished 100+ in a year. It's not insane. Some days I don't read at all, and still manage it quite easily.
>>744085394>So you wouldn't hit the 100 books minimum mark and definitely not the 200 markof course i wouldn't i just say i hardly read books so somebody that does it can do it easily
>>744084779Reading one good book and spending time with it is worth more than speed reading 1000 contemporary pieces of booktok slop.
>>744084779>The books
>>744085448Nta but I don't want to be accused of sexual harassment.
>>744085376lol i was right with you being a toddler
>>744085409If your job was about reading sure you could do it, it's simply a a pointless thing to do otherwise but it's not impressive, you can read any non-philosophy at a rate of 200 pages per hours easily.
>>744085376UH OH MELTY!!!
post your shelves/stacks /v/
>>744085494Wow that's very impressive. What are your favourites from the last year? Should be easy to NAME 10 BOOKS for you.
I don't respect people who say that they read 100 books a year.I respect even less the people that think that this is a hard task or an intellectual one. Reading is easy. Information synthesis and retention is not.There's people that have spent their entire lives analyzing a single or a couple of books and there are idiots who think that speedrunning books makes them feel smart.
>>744084779probably all 50 page dimestore novels. no way any human can read 100 proper 700 page books a year.
>>744085406it was thisno fucking idea what shit you just posted
>>744085302While working ungodly hours gamedeving?
>>744085621need to get me some kafka
>>744084779Shitty korean manwha considering the absolute state of that game.
>>744085621>120 Days of Sodom>The Holy BibleHoly larp
>>744084779eh?
>>744085754I'm not a massive pussy like you, so yes. It's extremely easy. I'm also literally a trillionaire and currently balls deep in your mother's anus right now. This isn't a joke, I'm not exaggerating, I'm just that superior to you.Care to try and debate against me or are you too scared? Too scared, just like I thought ...
>>744085754while procastinating 12 hours daily and 3 hours in the gymdoes it count?
>>744084779Pastel horses & Sonics fanfics. The edgy kind.That's how you get someone to write demented shit.
>>744085647Not him but are you really that amazed that people actually read? I read at least 100 books per year and I only read before sleep because it helps me relax.
>>744085780nta but why i'm not allowed to read them?
>>744084779The few books I've read was because of school and university and that was the most painful experience. I don't hate reading but I do hate reading books.
Books are so ungodly fucking boring I can't imagine ever willingly subjecting yourself to them. Your imagination is never going to be even remotely as stimulating as your actual senses experiencing something. Reading about a battle is not even 1/10000th the thrill of playing one in a game.
>>744084779Why didnt they play games instead?
>>744085946I really hope this post is just bait>>744085940same for this one
>>744085780fwiw i'm not really christian in any meaningful sense. i just think it's neat as a cultural object (also job and ecclesiastes are really good)
>>744084779>READ NIGGA, READ!
>read>Not finishThis thread is dumb. Bookfags should hang
>>744085946you are underage right?theres no way your creativity is so fucking dead
>>744085883I'm baiting because I guarantee both him and you are skimming over slop.
>>744085518m8 even commies don't read marx (they know it's pointless to, it's just overly ponderous sophistry)
>>744086014Why the hell would you half-read a book?
>>744085940Because they purposely give you shit books to read to make you hate it.
>>744086014if you read a book you are implying you finished it
>>744086049>sloptwitter is that way
Maybe if they’re all short stories.If you’re going through full books that fast I don’t believe you’re actually comprehending anything.
I doubt even 5% of /lit/ reads over a 100 books year for leisure much less for work
>>744086002>>744086028I'm 37, argue otherwise or fuck off. Reading is literally less stimulating than watching an ant crawl on the ground.
>>744086014i wouldn't say i've read the perfume, because i droped it after reading 10 pagesyou are the dumb one
>>744086078So they could capture the disappointing ending every single game has had for the past 30 years.
>>744085179>>744085883I don't think you actually read, which is to say "absorb the information from," any of these books you claim to blitz through. You probably come away from them with a cliff-notes level memory of the event (at best) and then you move on to the next one, scrolling your eyes from left to right without actually learning or growing as a person from the experience.
>>744086163I've read moby dick over a weekend.
>>744085693Japs love their Mason-approved goyslop
>>744086156Well I originally wrote dogshit but I'm trying to swear less.
>>744085693>adjusts spectacles
>>744085772his short stories are my favorite - i adore "In the Penal Colony". his novels are also great - The Trial is probably the most direct (not quite the word i'm searching for here), The Castle is dreamy, like wading through knee-deep slow in the evening. amerika is a silly novel, but i quite like it
>>744086216there's nothing to argueyou are a fucking toddler without creativity
>>744086049I'll give you my favorite books that I finished this month:John LeCarre - A Murder of QualityJohn LeCarre - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, SpyJohn LeCarre - Smiley's PeopleJohn LeCarre - The Spy Who Came in from the ColdJohn LeCarre - The Honorable School BoyFrank Herbert - DuneFrank Herbert - Dune Messiah
did you guys know theres a board like JUST for books, wtf
>>744086251>I don't thinki know you dont
>>744085448Post tits or GTFO.
>>744086216>has no inner monologue>cannot read and picture something using his imagination simultaneously Unironic NPC behaviour
>read 100 books a year>the best you could come up with was le subversive independant woman who dont need no man gets groomed by man she doesn't need also her parents are abusive or whateverZzzzz
>>744086251This is absolute fucking projection, anon.
>>744086332now if there was a board for e-retards and generals...90% of /v/ wouldn't be shit
>>744085647last year I read a bunch of crap, so I wouldn't even say I had 10 'favorites'.Frankenstein (read it right before the dogshit movie came out)CS Lewis - Till We Have FacesLolitaDostoevsky - Netochka Nezvanova (unfinished but still very good)Mike Mentzer American Odysseus (a must read if you're /fitlit/Parasite Eve (not a favorite but I read it before playing the game, utterly bizarre book but makes sense since it was written by a pharmacologist and not an 'author')I got into reading Jung and read a couple of his Collected Works.Dickens - A Tale of Two CitiesMoscow to the End of the Line is an underrated druk classicwhatever I'm not listing anymore>>744085621current to-be-read shelf. Nietzsche has been finished since this pic.
>>744086317Based smiley enjoyer
>>744084779im 35, i have never read a booknot even when you had read and do book report at school
>>744086216>37 years old and can't readAbsolute state of /v/. It's hard to believe the people who post on /x/ are dumber than this.
>>744084779probably light novels. explains the game quality too
>>744086392i'm going to assume they didn't allowed the writers to pick the books to read and forced specific ones on them
>>744086345When my point is about you failing to truly read the books you're claiming to read, and you stop reading my post at three words into two sentences, it is not the own that you think it is.>>744086412It's not projection at all, it's the same standard as zoomers who watch shows and anime at 2x speed to "experience the content" and move on to the next thing. They usually don't remember anything they "watched."
>>744084779Mein kampf, written from the point of view of a 40y old cat lady.
>>744086454Congratulations on being illiterate. I'm sure your african ancestors are proud of you.
>>744084779/v/ be like 'yeah I read' and then tell you their favourite book is some 40k slop or Sanderson because 'his worldbuilding is just like a vidya!' kek
>>744086514> it is not the own that you think it is.yeah, because i'm not going to argue with a projecting retard
>>744086446I just finished Smiley's People 3 days ago and I'm itching to watch that tv show now.Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was so good. I wish they had done a full adaptation of The Honorable School Boy too
>thread about anons bragging about reading>all of the books mentioned are fictionlollmao
>>744084779They had to read the modern version of their favorite books so they would know how to butcher traditional stories.
>>744086382Who said this?>>744086480Who said this?>>744086279Where is your argument?
>>744086263Nice.My point is that is not a good pace to maintain non-stop if you want to actually take anything away from them. Non-stop being what would be necessary to hit the numbers in the OP.
>>744086251Not sure if trolling or genuinely mentally retarded>blitz throughReading a couple hours a day if that is 'blitzing' to you? What?
>>744086514All your arguments so far are pure projection. To make matters worse you started this whole thing by telling us you are illiterate since consider impossible to finish 100 books per year. That's more than 3 days per book, even if you said that you only consider something a book if it has 1k pages it would still be easily doable.
>>744086662because the moment you post anything philosophy related you're going to get even more tards and pseuds going >YOU CAN'T REEEAD ALL THAT IN A YEAR NO NO NO YOU'RE NOT REEETAININGit's pointless trying to discuss books on /v/
>>744086662>bragging about readingAnon people telling you they read books isn't bragging, do you think people telling you that they watch movies or play video games is bragging too?
>>744084779Dude that's like a book every 2 days, they definitively just read the summary for most and called it a day
>what were they forced to readInstructions on impregnationDetailed descriptions of Japanese women's creamy inner thighs.
>>744086423I like to just call them e-tards
>>744086662>bragging>thread is split between people saying "reading isn't hard and you too can finish 100 books in a year easily" and spergs saying it's impossible like >>744086251)
>>744085621need to make a point to clean up my shit one of these days.
>>744086753its not about how many hours you spend a day you absolute fucking moron.The fact that your response is so mentally handicapped has me convinced you are a midwit trying to impress others with speedreading 400 pages thrillers.>>744086798and you're the pseud that will pretend you read a million philosophy books as if anyone gives 2 shits about the quantity of words you glaze your eyes over
>>744084779When you're just reading for a big fucking number then you're just not letting a book sink in. You immediately forget it and grab the next one to meet a quota You start skipping shit because you're falling behind This is the worst way possible to try and educate people especially since if they're going to be on a creative team they're all going to be pulling from half remembered disparate sources.Why not just settle for making an in office book club where anyone can join but it's mandatory for the writers Guided discussion and a conversation on themes, what works and what doesn't would go much further than just checking boxes and having no one actually confirm if you read them or anything.
>>744086901Depends on the literature. If it's a typical short story you can easily burn a book every 2 days. Doing a full analysis on the themes would take longer I suppose.If they're getting paid to do it too it's not even an issue at all. Would be around an hour daily unless you had serious trouble with reading.
>>744085406I vastly prefer Eric Carle's other works, namely this existentialist masterpiece.
>>744086871>I read sooooo many books and i barely even care heh no biggie>DOOD IM JUST TELLING YOU I READ IM NOT BRAGGING
>21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.>54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).I always thought statistics like this were absurdly exaggerated or just outright lies but this thread has opened my eyes
>>744087119do you need to sit and take notes for an hour after every 2 hours of reading or something? what does proper comprehension look like to you?
>>744086798Because most people are midwits who think that reading is a task that consists on consuming a book from start to finish and nothing more. It's kind of funny because it's applying a completionist mindset to reading that videogames usually have. So /v/ is basically projecting the feedback loop of videogames to reading.I'd rather read one book 10 times than 10 books a single time.
>>744086425>guenon (PBUH)...based???also, what's in that wittgenstein? is it just tractatus + investigations?
>>744086680The fact that you write the entirety of reading off as a worthless activity because you find it boring is an offensively stupid thing to say. You *should* be embarrassed to say such things, because people will look down on you for saying them. Is that enough "argument" for you? Or do you still think you're in the right for being a moron on purpose?
>>744084779>read 100 to 200 books a year>end result is thisgrim
Reading = makes you smart, is the single most midwit opinion to exist.The same people that flaunt about reading a lot read shit like >>744085068There's only so many good books you can read before you've read them all, and 99.9% of books are just pure garbage.
>>744086782Impossible while enjoying the book
The only thing I was reading recently was The Court of Owls Batman story. I don't think that counts. Cool story so far though.I really should re-read Aristotle and St. Augustine books one day. I liked their stuff.>>744085621What Kafka storied would you recommend? We had to read Metamorphosis in school and I really didn't care for it because of the story itself.
This is just consuming books without engaging with themI'm still thinking about books from months ago and these people have no time to analyze the wordslop they're forcing on themselves .
>>744087232it doesn't look like dragging your eyes as fast as possible over characters on a page so you can pretend you are smarter than you really are on 4chan.
>>744084779I did 100 books last year.200 is retarded.I think that article is retarded.
>>744084981200 books at least 100 (actually 300+) pages are 20000 pages (60000) while working full-time and overtime and obviously the residing isn't paid. Want to learn new things for your profession? No, read book.
>>744087445Except that's your own butthurt personal interpretation of anon's claim.
>>744086798>it's pointless trying to discuss books on /v/Why the fuck are you even discussing books on /v/?Best case scenario you'll get people reading hmofa fanfics, and everybody knows you book snobs love to call them plebian scriptures not worth your time.Fuck off the vidya board.
>>744087358>There's only so many good books you can read before you've read them allThis is only true if you actually dedicated your life to reading books or never tried anything that isn't a best seller. Otherwise you will run out of time before you run out of books.
>>744084779Do you think they got Steven Ogg to consult?
>>744087427This. Any good piece of media requires a digestion period to think back on it. Treating yourself like a LLM just means you'll produce slop like one too.
>>744084946It's still better to read any kind of literature than to sit on your ass playing video games and posting on forums all day.
>>744087427>I'm still thinking about books from months agoI'm not sure how that would stop you from reading new books.Do you stop playing new games after you finish a really good one?
>>744087448>Want to learn new things for your profession? No, read book.For a writer, reading books would involve learning for their profession.
>>744087119You are a very odd person. Nobody is pretending to be a pseud. I'm telling you to read, because it's easy.You also seem to have the wrong impression about philosophy, because I believe you think they're long books, when in actuality they're usually quite short. Will To Power is the outlier here and that took me 2.5 weeks to read>>744087230grim...>>744087271It's Tractatus, The Blue and Brown Books, and On Certainty. Idk why publishers refuse to include the Investigations, and the one version you can buy is like $40.
>>744085179Don't forget to retain the info you get from reading retard
Isn't it more important to find something meaningful in what you're experiencing, rather than just consuming it? If you're reading 200 books a year, are you thinking about them? Their story? Their themes? Their messages?
>>744087605people ITT are acting like you need to decompress for a week after finishing anything kek
>>744087665This isn't a problem if you actually enjoy the book you are reading. What you have been describing is a person who is literally engaging in an act of pointless torture, spending hours and hours PRETENDING to read. No one does that, anon. Not unless someone is holding a gun to their head.
>>744086425The hubris to claim you have learned Nietzsche Heidegger Kierkegaard Guenon and more in a single year without dedicating yourself at all to reading.As someone working my way through Heidegger and Guenon right now I know you are a complete poser.
>>744087385my favorites:>in the penal colony>the burrow>the judgment>a hunger artist>the great wall of china
>>744087652you did not understand the philosophy, congratulations on running your eyes quickly over the words so you can post photos of it on 4chan (obviously your goal, you hit the big payday congrats)
This thread is so kafkaesque
>>744084779The collected works of Chuck Tingle
>>744087742Not any poster prior to this conversation, but I kind of do? If something really resonates with me, I sit with it for a bit. Could be days. Could be years.
>>744087769>anon who is insecure about his intellectual prowess is unable to accept the possibility that someone else might be reading and comprehending things faster than himMight be better to actually discuss the book with said anon instead of accusing him of being a fraud.
>>744087868i prefer "lynchian" myself>>744087691Yes, you are. If you aren't, then you aren't actually reading the book.
>>744087263Fear not the man who read 10k books once, but the man who read 1 book 10k times
>>744087652Anon, people have dedicated their entire lives to understanding Nietzche. The fucker contradicts himself on purpose and most of his books were written in a manic state.If there's a genre where "it took me X days to finish" shouldn't apply, it's philosophy.I have a copy of Being and Nothingness that I've read over 20 times in the span of 6 years and I still don't know what the fuck Sartre was on about.
>>744085302>>744085248>>744085025The average contemporary book running roughly 250 pages in standard size print only takes me a couple days to read once I get invested honestly.Obviously NOT ALL BOOKS ARE CREATED EQUAL in the sense that some are fucking long, but most books fall under 300 (standard) pages. Not every author is Sanderson or Bakker after all.I don't know why people think reading a hundred books is a super difficult feat, it's hard to do that and have something meaningful to say about all one hundred books, but the point isn't to review them, it's to indulge them and gleam something from their text.Most of you probably haven't even read a real book that wasn't derivative of Star Wars or some other massive franchise probably since you were 12 anyways, so you really would know nothing. I do have some recommended starter books for the average /v/ user if anyone wants to try actually reading>Kizumonogatari (yes, by Nisio Isin, it's a book for teenagers and is simple to pick up and read)>The Annotated Alice (a scholarly version of Alice in Wonderland)>How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (slotting this one in here for fun, non-fiction)>The Death Mage (another LN, probably appeals to the more base desires of some anons)>The English Bible, KJV, The Old Testament (Norton Critical Edition)
>>744087769Did I claim I read all that in a year? I've read 11 Guenon books, 5 in 2024 and 6 in 2025 (which isn't hard btw because most of his books are like 80-100 pages)I've focused on Nietzsche this year and read everything he published, and just started Heideggers early works as in >>744087652I probably won't read Being and Time this year.And I've not read Kierkeegard Either/Or yet. I did The Concept of Irony tho.
>>744086871There's a lot of people who think chievos are cool
>>744087292>The fact that you write the entirety of reading off as a worthless activity because you find it boring is an offensively stupid thing to say.Why?>You *should* be embarrassed to say such things, because people will look down on you for saying them.Why? You think others shaming me is enough to discourage me?How is it stupid in the slightest to write off engaging in a leisure activity that is absurdly boring?
>>744087927>Might be better to pose online with other posersno thanks, I'd rather be actually reading the books, considering what I've read, studying the context and previous lectures, writing flash cards, and in general understanding the things that I'm reading, rather than brag about how quickly i can run my eyes over words on the internet.
>>744084779>How to make the worst slop of a video game>How to kill a video game series >Junko Furuta biography
>>744087981How much are you thinking? How much do you think about book 112? There are pieces of media I've spent years talking about and thinking about on and off. And there are pieces of media I've forgotten I've even experienced until reminded. For those, I do question if I should have tried them at all if they did nothing for me.
Tolstoy was an annoying neurotic narcissist who had no business arguing about morality ever when he fucked and impregnated servants during his early life on multiple occasions.>dude without God le nothing matters!!!
>>744088008Yea, and I'll reread Will To Power too. I've read Thus Spoke Zarathustra twice, and I plan to reread Birth of Tragedy again in a couple weeks cause I want a different translation.>>744087829I guess man, whatever helps you cope at night. I hope you actually start reading.
>>744086753>>744087119The average adult reads at a pace of 238 words per minute. This number is likely weighed down heavily by a large number of non-readers within society.The average book is around 85,000 words long.Presuming you read at the mentioned standard pace with little deviancy, it would take you a little over 357.14 minutes to read the average book.That is roughly five hours.>b-but you BLITZED and didn't ABSORBYou will never understand any novel on your first readthrough in any significant way. You will be able to grasp vague ideas, but annotating and pontificating throughout the entirety of a first reading will sap both your attention span, as well as your ability to appreciate the work.I imagine this disability people have comes from many of you, deep down in your heads, holding books up as an intellectual effort, worthy of more attention. They're not. You read them leisurely, taking in what your brain deems is necessary, and enjoying the writing. If you finish and enjoy the work, that is when you begin the process of annotating and delving deeper, holding dialogue with the author through their medium. But pausing midway through the author's argument (their novel) to do this, without experiencing the full breadth, is asinine and how you waste your own time.
>>744088097Lel, bookfags itt are just ecksbawks fags, now everything makes sense
>>744088104Because when I read something I like, it is a lot of fun. It can even be awe inspiring. The fact that you find reading in general to be absurdly boring makes it sound like you are completely ignorant. Reading CAN be boring, yes. But it can also be a lot of fun. And more importantly, it can help broaden your mental horizons.
>>744087358>There's only so many good books you can read before you've read them all,Nobody will ever read every good book. Unless you limit to specific genres then MAYBE, but even if you just limit to fiction there's so much. Even if you were paid to JUST READ, it's impossible to read every great book.
>>744084779That's good, all writers should do that. Didn't help them write a good Silent Hill though
>>744088125Was the ironic pretentiousness of that post deliberate or are you really just that dense?
>>744085406They used to make us read this in Catholic Private School, shit was fucking torture
Why do book elitists treat reading as some kind of special kids club? You're not special because you read words on paper, books are entertainment, treat them as such.
>>744088324>Because when I read something I like, it is a lot of fun.pic>you are le ignorantWhat a meaningless word. You might as well just call me a smelly dumb poopyface.
>>744088283Don't bother man.If you told these people you read Don Quixote in a couple weeks they'd sperg out about BUT HOW MUCH DID YOU RETAIN, without knowing it's basically one long sitcom.They have a misconstrued perspective on what books and reading is, because they've done so little of it.>You read them leisurely, taking in what your brain deems is necessary, and enjoying the writing. If you finish and enjoy the work, that is when you begin the process of annotating and delving deeperthis is a great evil in their eyes. you need 100% retention rate on your first read through, and you need to fully relay the book back to them for it to "count", even though this isn't realistic in any sense.
>>744088283sorry but you might be retarded if you need to need multiple reads to significantly understand the bulk of the average book. you don't need an exhaustive understanding with all the historical context and every supplemental essay written.
>>744086425> last year I read a bunch of crap, so I wouldn't even say I had 10 'favorites'.Frankenstein (read it right before the dogshit movie came out)>CS Lewis - Till We Have Faces>Lolita>Dostoevsky - Netochka Nezvanova (unfinished but still very good)>Mike Mentzer American Odysseus (a must read if you're /fitlit/>Parasite Eve (not a favorite but I read it before playing the game, utterly bizarre book but makes sense since it was written by a pharmacologist and not an 'author')>I got into reading Jung and read a couple of his Collected Works.>Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities>Moscow to the End of the Line is an underrated druk classicI meant good books
>>744088464admittedly, partaking in a hobby that necessitates sitting alone in silence for hours on end may entitle people to a sense of superiority (valid or not) over those who enjoy easier media
>>744088464nah man you don't get it, philosophy makes you smart and has value, it totally isn't a giant waste of time reading some faggot neurotically question himself "but what does being GOOD actually mean" for 200 billion pages trying to treat basic concepts of right and wrong like it's a fucking math equation, only to come to the same conclusion literally everyone already knew intuitively (don't be a dick, try to do the right thing)
>>744088172>How much are you thinking? How much do you think about book 112?I have no idea how to answer these questions. I guess about as much as one can when they're visualizing the information and relating it to their own life and experiences. This doesn't mean I retain everything I read in great detail. In fact, sometimes the bigger picture is all that I really get, if I even get anything at all. I'm not the anon who claims to read 200 books a year or w/e, btw-- I read pretty slowly unless the thing is so godamn entertaining that I choose to engage with it over the arsenal of other activities at my disposal. But anyway. It's really not a pissing contest. No idea why anyone ITT is turning it into one.
>>744088565>my superiority is valid because I have fun in an annoying, gay and difficult wayI do bungee jumping with the cable wrapped around my nuts, don't speak to me you FILTHY peasant
>>744088542Name a good book
>>744084779Probably feminist propaganda and otome slop.
>>744088464>books are entertainmentIt depends, the vast majority of books are that and no different than the trashiest tv show or game, others require much more thought and can help you have a different perspective on life, change your thought patterns or teach you new things.
>>744088472Well, I can't verify whether or not you actually *are* a smelly dumb poopyface because I've never seen your smelly dumb poopyface. But I can definitely verify that you're ignorant based on how you write. So far, all signs point to "ignorant" as your primary status.
>>744088283>You will never understand any novel on your first readthrough in any significant way. You will be able to grasp vague ideas, but annotating and pontificating throughout the entirety of a first reading will sap both your attention span, as well as your ability to appreciate the work.Quite the self-admission there that you don't actually understand anything you read. When you say you're reading 200 books per year, does that actually mean you're reading 100 books twice each so you can know what they said?
>>744088660Admittedly, I could never do this. You're a braver man than me, anon.
>>744088725Ignorant of what? How boring books are? I think I'm aware of that.
>>744088569This is probably the most retarded approach to philosophy I've ever read. Which is hilarious because thinking that morality consists on "don't be a dick" is the reason why the West is being overrun by low IQ rapist subhumans.
>>744088663Call of the Crocodile by F. Gardner (PBUH)
>>744088283I hope wasting this much time is worth the feeling of superiority you get from doing it because godDAMN does that sound miserable
>>744087576The average story based video game has a better narrative than the average manga
Well, /v/? You HAVE read the 4chan canon, right?
>>744088464tl;dr, when people actually had to pay for education literacy was a practical division between the classes, so the nouveau riche tactlessly flaunted it as they did every wealth marker, then with state education that attitude trickled down to the emerging middle class
>>744088789>pseudo intellectual retard who actually wastes his limited life on this Earth reading philosophy and thinks it is teaching himself anything at all>underage faggot who pays attention to and cares about modern political rhetoricyep it checks out
>>744088787You're ignorant of how fun reading a book you enjoy can be. The claim that reading books is automatically boring is ignorant because it is not true. Reading CAN be boring-- but not always. The fact that you believe it is boring by default means that you have never experienced otherwise and refuse to accept that your own personal experience may not reflect the experience of others. And that makes you, by definition, ignorant.
>>744088886>jordan petersonthere is no way anybody actually read that garbage
>>744088905>thinks societies falling because of a misunderstanding of empathy and morals is a modern thingOh so you don't read historical books either. Glad to know.
Reading between the lines I can see that this implies sex
>>744088948Your experience is gay and retarded and not mine and therefore worthless to me. Recommend me a fun book otherwise.
>>744089000my clean room and penis say otherwise
>>744089025>misunderstandingoh god he's REALLY retarded
>>744088886Started with 12 Rules in 2018 and have been a total brain/lit/ ever since. >no 48 Laws of PowerI thought this was considered essential reading for any disaffected edgelord?
>>744088565Meditation is better than reading then
>>744089034Not him and probably a cliched answer but thus spoke zarathustra is one of the funniest books I've read.
>>744088540Read the qualifiers in my post. >If you finish and enjoy the work, that is when you begin the process of annotating and delving deeperThis can apply even to trashy genrefiction if you deem it worthy of your time to do that. Or you can choose not to because you see no merit in doing that.The point is simply that this idea that analysis and perfect retention HAS TO HAPPEN during a first reading is fucking dumb, and something only proffered by dumb or mentally challenged people. >>744088738This post is a self-admission that you're a pseudo intellectual. You sit at the height of ignorance and act as if you're completely knowledgeable on anything. You people are fucking idiots who likely don't even read books at all.>>744088831Again, this is saying more about you than anything, that the idea that you MIGHT be ignorant is 'miserable', that you might go through something once and not truly understand it is something shameful.How many times do you play a video game and actually understand everything happening in it? I don't mean the dumbass half-baked plot that every game comes with, I mean the functionality of its designworks, the intentionality in things like character design, how you're introduced to game mechanics and setting ideas, stuff like that. That's part of the artistry of the work, and for video games far more so than any shitty storyline that some guy cooked up in a night.
>>744089092Says the retard who'se entire understanding of morality has been stuck in preschool kek
>>744085406There's no way you can finish reading any of Carle's works in 4 days, let alone comprehend it. Just reading enough of the supplementary works to have the contextual meaning behind the it would take years.
>>744089141True
>>744089158oh wait you are both>>744088948and>>744088283nevermind I don't value anything you have to say at all and I genuinely laughed out loud at your 238 words post for a full minutes, holy shit you are such a caricature it's incredible. I really hope this is like a roleplay character you are working on or something.
>>744087795Nice, thanks anon. I'll give Kafka another shot.>>744088569>don't be a dick>try do to the right thingPhilosophy asks both the how and why to those principles though. It is also supposed to be self-reflective as well, so you go 'oh yeah I was a bit rude back then' or 'wait was I don't the wrong thing in that interaction?'. You may even change your mind on your stances on things in the world, like how you conduct relationships, arguments, socializing, etc. I personally learned a couple very important things reading some philosophy books that helped me in life I wouldn't have thought of by myself.Ironically, I think the people that need philosophy books the most are the ones that will probably avoid them since it makes you self-reflect.
>>744089000>waste of tripsPeople liked him here until he became popular. Then, in typical 4chan fashion, the contrarians who get all of their opinions from YouTube came out of the woodwork to make shitting on him a full-time job. 12 Rules is a 10/10 book. Shit blew my mind.
>>744089296didn't read, thanks for illustrating my point Mr. philosophy major
>>744084779light novels, that's why the writing was shit
>>7440892751/10 at least you tried
I don't really know what life is any more than others, but I can tell with absolute confidence that it's NOT a race to ingest the most fiction.
>>744089025Societies current failings are a lot simpler than that actually.It's mostly a few technocrats who got thrust into immense power due to being around at the right time (the Obama election campaign and administration) who are perpetually scared of death and being dethroned doing everything they can to prove their value and ingratiate themselves so far into the annals of government that they can't be removed (Peter Thiel is the most explicit example of this, to the degree where his company would lie about how helpful it was on things like the assassination of Bin Laden, and I'm sure most people here can connection Elon Musk to this).There's also a significant rise in populism tied to these technocrats in a way that wasn't intended. Namely through news media discovering how easy it is to manipulate and drive attention in ways that are profitable, which goes back to Steve Bannon and his actions which propelled gamergate and saved Breitbart News from dying.>inb4 "why is this only america??"Most of this current shit really only affects America in terms of what country will have significant impacts. Every other country will inevitably weather the storm.
>>744089034This one >>744089096. Enjoy.
>>744089275No...>I genuinely laughed out loud at your 238 words post for a full minutesThat is the statistical average.
>>744089362is it a race to play the most video games though?
>>744089340>changing IPs is hardEven if you aren't, you defended him which is just as bad
>>744089158>analysis and perfect retention HAS TO HAPPEN during a first reading is fucking dumbperfect retention is unrealistic but I think it's normal to analyze as you read. I often pause for a few seconds and think about how the current chapter relates to an established theme or juxtaposes with a previous section. this doesn't require notetaking or a significant about of time, it's just come naturally.
>>744089034Buddy is reading in a forum for entertainment and is saying reading can't be fun. He just likes reading PvP because something can potentially feel bad on the other side. Probably doesn't play single player games either because it's made to be beaten so it's doesn't matter if you complete it.
>>744089362Life is extremely simple and anyone arguing otherwise is a pseud, morality is also extremely simple and anyone arguing otherwise is just a sadist trying to justify their evil.
>>744088886Ten Little Niggers and A Confederacy of Dunces are fun little novels. The rest looks like shit though.
>>744087576Nah. At least vidya doesn't give you delusions of pseudointellectual grandeur
>>744089416That's more in line with general pontification or thinking, not true analysis.Analysis, the way I'm using it, goes hand in hand with annotation.
>>744089301Ok crybaby. Doesn't his daughter fuck niggers or something?
>>744088868The average video game story is the type of shit that would get laughed out of a TV writer pitch meeting.There is no video game story worth caring about.
>>744089467/v/ is proof that yes, it does. Just pop into a Disco Elysium thread to see sometime.
>>744089469He is not her daughter, women are dumb
>>744089469Probably. I imagine your mom is fucking one right now as we speak. Doesn't make the book any less 10/10.
>>744089301He cries about people being mean online. He's a narcissist who willingly inflates his own image and appears online. He has no value.
>>744089301>I needed a Canadian con man to tell me to clean my roomlol
>>744089158>This post is a self-admission that you're a pseudo intellectual.You aren't learned enough to distinguish between a pseudo intellectual and a real intellectual. You just said so yourself - you would have to read my post two or three times before you understand what I'm saying.To claim complete knowledge of anything is foolishness. Claiming knowledge of a subject is not claiming complete knowledge.
>>744084779200 books and this is what you shat out for silent hill?must've been the lonely 30 year old feminist fantasy scenario section of the bookstore, they even incorporated the furry/animal fucking stuff
>>744089574ahuh
>>744089365scitzobabble. society's current failings are derived from ww2 killing the will to live of western societies. they made hitler satan and decided that doing the opposite of whatever he did is good. which is why not forming families or having children and literally killing your own society is now considered morally good. but you are correct that it's very simple, just apparently still not simple enough for some people to realize itthough all the current transhumanist technocrats are obviously driven insane form fear of death and push all the singularity shit in order to create something that will hopefully let them become immortal somehow and they genuinely don't care about the future beyond their own lifespan. but that's just more anti-hitlerism. not caring about the future is "god is dead" in a nutshell and on steroids.
>entire thread reinforcing the stereotype of bookfags being insufferable pseudointellectual faggots who use rhetoric to sound smart while saying absolutely nothing at allVideogames?
>>744089464>Life is extremely simpleExactly!Life is just: "you are gifted with life, you are free. Do whatever."
>>744089416When I was around 12 or so, during class when students had to read out loud, everyone read so slow that I couldn't help myself to read entire books ahead of everyone else.My teachers reprimanded me (can't have a kid being ahead I guess) so I just kept reading the same page over and over again until the loud reading caught up.Over time I made it a habit and I kind of subconsciously read one page or chapter over and over, creating a mental image of what I'm reading. Sometimes the ideas form as diagrams that connect each other, sometimes it's a spatial image, like a room where subjects, characters or ideas take form.It's kind of cool, honestly.
>>744089698I suspect you might be part of the 54%, see>>744087230
>>744089515>>744089528>all i know about him is from YouTube memesRight, I already knew that. >>744089504DE threads usually have pretty good discussion when people are talking about the actual game instead of having to tell retards who haven't played it to fuck off. And there are a ton of those. And they always make a point to try to shit up the threads.
>>744086662Oh yeah? Post some good non-fiction then. And it better not be biographies or memoirs and especially not one of those "History of (Popular Thing) For Knuckledraggers, Best Selling!", that shit is on a level below even the lowest of fiction. Don't bother saying philosophy either, there's only two kinds of people that say they read philosophy: pranksters that want to trick fools into reading nonsense, and future tyrants.
>>744085025I've read a 20+ book series in less than 2 weeks, and those were full sized novels, not novellas or children's books.
>>744089464Life is fucked up but yeah, it's really not hard to learn how to behave and treat yourself and growing up, the amount of injury and death over ultimately nothing by the hands of someone retarded is baffling
>>744089817>doubling down on it
>>744089869There are several examples ITT. Pic related is one and so is >>744089096.
>>744084779Nothing good apparently
>>744089694>calls reasoned, factual ideas schizobabbles>insists on ideas primarily invented in his own headThe irony is that you did have me in the first few words, because WW2 is why America is in so much decay. WW2 was America's first, and only, truly great war. It's why it's held up so highly as America's war despite their resistance to joining in and their actions in the war primarily being remembered as just>Completely obliterating a few million civilians and then doing it again>Showing up on a beachWhich is nothing compared to the great wars of a lot of other countries. The infatuation with WW2 is because it allows for the idea of how great America is to be perpetuated. It transforms from "America was a great ally in the war" to "America won the war", and that carries the country to the same table as other countries with centuries, if not millenniums of history behind them. But instead, your post is about how people hate Hitler (which they should, he was legendarily retarded and you should be infatuated with smarter dictators) and that's why people don't have kids (and not because you can jerk off to anything you want at anytime you want, and you can't even afford a house, let alone school, food, and clothes for a child).
>>744089846>no argument
>>744086078same reason fake video game fans pretend to play games by watching playthroughs, to be part of something and to describe the basic parts when someone asks them, to then demand changes when they're invading their circles.
>>744089698>use rhetoric to sound smart while saying absolutely nothing at allLmaoYou should at least post an example so we can verify that you aren't just an idiot.
>>744089365>claims to be simple>argues that the technocratic NWO is a casuality>argues that media being profitable goes back to Steve Bannon>completely misunderstands gamergateHoly fuck you are clueless
>>744090035>doubling down on it
I would have asked "any recommendations?" followed by "how many have you read this year?" followed by "how will reading random books improve anything?"
>>744089593To be fair, there are more layers to the story in the second playthrough that aren't present in the first. And to be fair again, many people aren't going to do a second playthrough nor should they have to do a second playthrough to get the full picture. I do hope future Silent Hill games don't do that approach again, its not fun.>>744089698I am getting more of an impression that people who don't like reading books think that reading books makes you smarter (for some reason), so they take offense to others reading books trying to better themselves. In reality, book reading is a hobby like video games. People read books for a variety of reasons, mostly to entertain and/or get different perspectives in life. Unfortunately the people that don't like books probably are like that because their exposure was only through school, having to read stories they didn't enjoy for a grade instead of out of entertainment. Books aren't better or worse than video games as a medium, they are different.I hope they someday they go out of their shell and pick a book for fun to read that they'll also enjoy. Same for book people who look down on video games, for them to pick a video game they'll like and enjoy it.
>>744090012Both of my arguments are plainly stated in the post.
>>744090064>Incapable of posting an example.Sad. Fully illiterate it seems.
>>744087080nice shelf bro
>>744090121>still no argument
>>744084946article says “pushed” you say “mandated”two very different words
>>744090137>continues to double downlol
>>744090241yep.
>>744090090if you were a writer and ask your boss how many books he read this year after being tasked to read some, you would first get a weird look from your boss. and if you didn't back down, he would get annoyed with you and start to look for a replacement.
>>744090115case in point
>>744090180Mamma mia... he really is fully illiterate!
>>744085025Its certainly possible if you actively try to reach 100+ books. You're going to read a lot of slop, which is a breeze to get through. It's not like you're trying to read 100 Cormac McCarthy books.
>>744090330>still no argument at alllast word times infinity no takebacksies since your childish ass continues to try and defend your undeserved ego
>>744089949That 'so is', is a blatant self-help book. That puts you on a level below even biography reading pinheads. And the example you yourself give is, unfortunately, a mere multi-character biography posing as a deeper work, but really that is itself obscuring the reality, that it too is a self-help book for unaffected artists looking to ape the works of notables, but at least it hides the fact, as all embarrassing works should. If you're going to start touting self-help books, nothing can be done for you, you lack that essential, undefinable quality of a human being.
I read a lot, actually>LNs, xianxia and litrpg sloppa doesn't countS-shut up
>>744090056>argues that the technocratic NWO is a casualityYeah it is. The belief in shadow groups masterminding everything for millennia and having perfect control is a fantasy. A fiction. We see these people try and plant seeds and fail in real time (like with Thiel and Vance, Musk ingratiating himself with the Trump admin to advance his own interests and his own ego, or the one successful case of Gates openly buying up acres of farmland for years as AI was slowly ramping up in the background before OpenAI blew the lid and started a race).And their motivations are plainly obvious, the motivations of the elite always are. It's often just hedonism and fear of their own mortality.>argues that media being profitable goes back to Steve BannonNot what I said. My point was that he initiated the current wave of populism through his knowledge of lower, non-politically inclined groups (in this instance, gamers, which he became aware of through his years of selling literally WOW gold).>completely misunderstands gamergateNo, what I said was a factual read of it. How you experienced gamergate might've been significant to you, but the reason it got pushed so far in the media was because a media group was actively nurturing and pushing it. Moot was even open about it in his last streams, how groups were coming in to ignite anons in certain directions- and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Bannon, who already had employed serfs to farm WOW in the past, and Milo, an employee of Breitbart who was openly active on 4chan, were behind that.The goal of gamergate, at the start, might've been something different, but its push into the mainstream was done to save Breitbart and give Bannon the career boost he needed to eventually ingratiate himself with Trump during the republican primaries. We also saw that plan fail for him since he was ousted in 2017 because the guy's a slimy used car salesman type.
>>744089949>>744089096Hey can you recommend any books that are actually interesting and not complete fucking garbage, like you are being asked to, instead of the equivalent of diarrhea being splattered on some pages?
>>744090340But anon, Cormac McCarthy IS slop!I've read Blood Meridian and The Road and enjoyed both, but I shan't be reading anymore of him.
>>744090373Maybe try reading a book you dumb nigger lmao>>744090375This might actually be exactly what >>744089698 meant by >insufferable pseudointellectual faggots who use rhetoric to sound smart while saying absolutely nothing at allBoy, we've really covered a lot of ground ITT.
>>744084779probably feminist slop and horror stories that were not actually scarypeople dont realize that >books90% of them are not good in fact they are worse than 90% of vydia or 90% of music or almost any other art because anyone can write, the average writer is a retard. Congratulations for being literate and knowing how to write, thats a kinder level skillset you got there.
Most of the posters ITT deserve to be banned. I don't like knowing I share a board with human shit that reads Jordan Peterson or argues about politics.
>>744090416>he didn't want to read diarrhea splattered on some pagesCould've fooled me.
>>744090440you should read Suttree, it's his best imostella maris is slop though. i pirated it and still felt ripped off. it can be read in a single sitting if you want to hit 100 easily
>>744090416georges bataille "la part maudite" (the accursed share)
>>744087605>Do you stop playing new games after you finish a really good one?For a week or so, yeah.Have you never had that feeling before?
>>744090463no actually I meant people like you, the other guy shitting on you is completely right, don't try and pull a switcheroo you insufferable egotistical narcissistic nigger filth
>>744090484"off-board discussions are always better than on the actual board"fags are in absolute shambles right now, this decisively proves that maxim a falsehood.
>>744090567>a 1949 book about political economy by the French intellectual Georges BatailleIs "fun" a foreign concept on whatever alien planet you come from?
>>744090592Is the other guy shitting on me in the room with us right now?
>>744090635That only applies when the subject matter is fun and cool, not something that attracts egotistical retards like this one.
>>744090635>the same people who ruin vidya threads are now ruining off-topic threads asd wellImagine my fucking shock
>>744090647you didn't say "fun". also bataille is deranged so it ends up being wildly engaging
>>744090673people like you are why books were burned and "intellectuals" beaten in public in the past
>>744090720Or perhaps, /v/ has so strongly embraced it's off-topic nature, that off-topic threads are now effectively on-topic, and so /v/ is incapable of having not only good /v/ threads, but also threads of any variety. We've reached a new level of shittiness.
>>744087448>60000 pagesI just finished a series this long. Took me a month of casual reading during downtime. Sounds easy.
>>744090563did you read The Passenger before Stella Maris? I've not read either, just curious.
>>744090768I said interesting which means the same thing, don't argue otherwise, and a deranged retard screaming about economics is less entertaining than reading the messages left behind on the walls of a padded cell written in human shit. I'm not even slightly joking when I say that Goosebumps is elder god tier literature compared to the utter dreck you read.
>>744090151>Moebius on the left sideI enjoy the Moebius artwork I've seen online, yet I have no clue what the comics are about. Is the story good beyond the nice art?>>744090635Usually they are. There are some good posters in here, but there are also a couple posters arguing over nothing while being jerks to everyone else for no reason. What >>744090742 said.
>>744090819We did it, we shitposted our way to the other side.
>>744085621I'd buy these if they weren't nearly $300 a piece
>>744090928>Is the story good beyond the nice art? I haven't read it yet..
>>744090802So what you're telling me is that *YOU* being a gigantic insecure retard is what led to people burning books and beating up nerds in the past? Say it ain't so!
>>744090845yes. The Passenger leaves a lot of things unanswered and Stella Maris answers them poorly while also being blandly written transcripts
>>744091024>>744091019what the fuck?
>>744090854>interesting = fun???this falls apart under even the slightest scrutiny. people have dedicated lives to the study of the cruelties done by man, presumably because they found them "interesting" - if you asked them, do you think they would tell you that they found the study fun? quite jocular indeed? get a gripalso deranged != retarded
>>744091024>insufferable piece of shit narcissist collects gifs of social media using whores abusing animals for attention onlineyou don't deserve the oxygen you breathe
>>744091019>>744091024
>>744090949I also have this, but this is just for casual reading
>>744090403>technocratic NWO is not a mastermind planNever claimed that, there's a difference between groups desiring a shared outlook even though the end result is ideologically different. On the other hand, you use the Thiel mafia as a scapegoat for this causality when it's a fact that social media was engineered as a voluntarily surveillance system. Right before facebook was announced, DARPA abandoned LifeLog and Total Information Awareness which aimed to do exactly what facebook did. There's a difference between going into platitudes about the Luciferian AI NWO Matrix system jargon and actually recognizing the fact that social engineering has been occuring since methods of mass media distribution have been available and to what end those systems are being implemented.Then you do a laughable claim about a "factual read" on gamergate when you are just spreading propaganda which takes advantage of a couple of opportunists. Gamergate blew up because 4chan uncovered how mainstream media was completely taken over by DiGRA as another method of social engineering and how videogames would be the #1 method of mass media distribution in the future, which made glowniggers panic and create the "Gamers are dead" campaign, which proved how much power these shadow organizations had over the dissemination of public opinion to the point where the coordinated campaign was even pushed in small, obscure gaming publications in non-English language.Again, you are clueless.
>>744091019>>744091024>the same fella who has the same books on his shelf as me also has the same reaction images
>>744091125I really hope you got bullied a lot growing up because you deserved it.
Why do they think this is helpful? Where do they get their ideas about training? Standing under waterfalls or doing a thousand pushups it’s just a waste
>>744091198You're the clueless one, but you can't recognize that since you're so schizophrenic that you can unironically say>Luciferian AI NWO MatrixWithout realizing how deranged you sound. Without recognizing that your assessment of gamergate is one likely only recognized as true on 8kun.
>>744091238you have a wretched soul. your misery shall kill you someday
>>744091205worthless shit minds think alike>memegenerator watermarkthis is the genetic waste we have posting here these days
>>744091174>you don't deserve the oxygen you breatheummmm sorry (not sorry) but that's projectshin sweaty kthxbai
>>744087576LOL no. The slop that gets churned out to fill the shelves of B&N every year is every bit as insipid and uninspired as even the worst vidya. You don’t get a stat bonus to your intellect for consuming poorly written trash just because it’s delivered to you via text on a page vs. on a screen during a game. Not unless you’re someone who can barely even read to begin with.
Post books you love and would recommend to others. I need more reading material.
>>744084779games > booksbooks are for midwits who think just becase something is older then it's better and more highbrow
>>744091313I literally mentioned that that was just jargon, you illiterate retard
>>744091439>arguably vidya relatedSlavs are pretty good at writing I tell ya hwat.
>>744089498average video game story is way better than slop average person watches every day on tv
>>744091561No it really isn't.Your choices for video game stories are just>Propagandaor>Middle School Writing Contest Participation Award
>>744091439everyone on /v/ should read Book of the New Sun, along with the followups Long Sun and Short Sun.
>>744089698trvke
>>744091621Read BotNS last Winter. It was every bit as awesome as people say it is.
>>744091439>The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth>Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol>J R by William Gaddis>Libra by Don DeLillo
>>744090949Neat! any good places to DL?
>>744091319>the guy who can't into fun>telling others their misery shall kill them somedayI believe you-- you definitely seem to be an expert on being miserable.
>>744091767I've just been using the latest iteration of z-lib (unironically go on reddit, it has its own board with the up to date sites linked).
>>744091439
>>744091439"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale CarnegieHighly recommend it to everyone because it gives you skills to be better at socializing and bonding with people.
>>744084779We're they LGBTQ+ books? Because whatever the fuck they were reading it did nothing to help this dog shit game
>>744092048I've read it, it was meh. But I guess I've never had much of an issue socializing to begin with.
>>744085940>The few books I've read was because of school and university Nigga...I love reading shit but anything that was part of school (at any level) was absolute suffering and I skimped it as much as possible.Give normal-ass books a try. The stuff at school is the absolute bottom of the barrel.
A friend of mine worked for Skydance and his job was basically to read hundreds of books and find IP to rip off.
>>744084946>>744084981Worse, they read LNs
>>744092185That sounds like jk Rowling.....
>>744092127Sometimes the books they forced us to read were unironically too advanced for our age. Like, Grapes of Wrath meant literally NOTHING to me back when we read it in 11th grade. I don't even think I understood what the actual fuck communism/socialism/capitalism was back then kek...
>>744091439I've been reading the old Perry Mason novels. Quite fun. Quick reads.
>>744092253She does that naturally.
>>744091954Thank you, Anon.
>>744092185i would love that job
>>744092405>you are in charge of reading femoid romance and american dungeon-crawling LNs
Imagine having to watch 10 different seasons of tv or 10 video games instead of the 100 books, it just seems a giant waste of time
>>744092301I recently read To Catch a Mockingbird because I didn't read it in school and they kept referencing it in Ghost in the Shell SAC. I liked it, but man my younger self would have hated that book because I wouldn't have got it.Also I recently read 1984 and had to stop because it was depressing me too much for how realistic it is. I am sure my younger self would though the whole story was too absurd.
The only books I read are Hentai
>>744084779>What were they forced to read?Pseudo intellectual Jewish subversion trash like Anne Frank.
>>744092519>job is to read the equivalent of weapons-grade-autism tier shitposts and search desperately for something marketableThey actually pay people for this? Sounds like an utter waste of time and money.
>>744088020>>How Europe Underdeveloped Africal*btard
>>744088020>How Europe Underdeveloped Africa>non-fiction
>>744091019>>744091024>3dpd
>>744085025Mate, I read 85+ books per year, and I do it at easy speed. At the same time I know a bunch of folks reading even more than me. 100 is nothing special, and these writers were paid to do it.
I have 2 stem degrees and haven't even read 100 books in my entire life lol. I have read a load of medical journals though.
>>744092676Brother how do you feel about monsterfucking porn fanfiction?
>>744092954I have 0 stem degrees and I've read 0 books in my entire life. Ask me why I'm smarter than you.
>fags itt wish they sounded half as cool as linkrelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBxByrz5BRE
>>744093041Thats fine. I'm ok with people being smarter than me.
>>744093157Wait... WHAT??No, wait. Lol, anon-- you don't get how this works. See, it's *impossible* for you to be ok with that. Right? I mean... I definitely am not ok with that... Isn't it normal for young men to not be ok with that? Like, how can someone else be smarter than me? That's not ok.
Every time I try to read I get about 80% of the way through a book, then get bored, then I just google a summary of the end, and then I forget everything I read
>>744092963It's based.Futa hentai is also based.Furfag shit is were the line needs to be drawn
>>744085621>Sadet. Homosexual
>>744085494>devs having time to read 100 books>devs, the normal job that has people working no less than 12 hrs a day including weekends when crunch is hitting hardI doubt they could have the mental capacity to then digest certain books.
>>744084779Human horrors beyond our comprension
is this really as bad as /v/ says? should I play it?
>>744095380Basically nothing is as bad as v says
I fear not the man who has read 100 books, but the man who has read one book 100 times.
