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When a game is actually Literature, no really. 2017-02-05 01:31:42 Post No.9061887
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When a game is actually Literature, no really.
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So this game Sunless Sea? It has some game play, you can hunt Lifeburgs North of Venderbight or run out of fuel by Hunter's Keep. You can give your crew shore leave in Gaider's Mourn or become unaccountably peckish... but, what you will spend most of your time doing in this game is reading. What you will read is by far the most immersive bit of world-building I have ever seen in a game.
The whole thing is more akin to a really well done choose your own adventure novel, like, really well done. At one point I found myself on Nuncio, an island populated entirely by lost postmen. I did work on the beaches dredging up the post that would constantly drift onto shore, and swapped many a story with former postmen in the local tavern. Another island was home to a society of feudal guinea pigs who had their religious artifact stolen by rats. Another voyage took me to hell where crucified dragons spilled forth milk and blood and water while crying out the market's daily deals.
It's a fun game, too bad most people would rather complain about how easy it is to kite pirate dreadnoughts.
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>>9061887
t. manchild
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When is literature actually a game?
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>>9061889
It's not my fault that everyone I know who's into games doesn't read.
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is there a shittier franchise than Harry Potter?
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Yes. By far
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i know one that is far shittier
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I want to learn about Zen.
Which books do you recommend?
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zen mind beginners mind
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/zenmind.pdf
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also Alan Watts is considered a good entry, The Way of Zen
and of course DT Suzuki stuff is always recommended
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>>9061911
>DT Suzuki
literally hitler
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Has anybody ever read the Halo novels? Are they any good? i know they're written by different authors, are some better than others?
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I read one cuz I bought it for my brother. It was palatable, but not much more than that.
straight up it was pretty cool. I enjoy not really sci-fi sci-fi. I've read way worse adaptations, but keep in mind that I've only read the first two. I'm reading Stargate 2 right now.
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>>9061778
Fall of Reach, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx, the Forerunner Trilogy and Halo Evolutions(the collection of short stories) are the good things I've read
I haven't read all the new stuff and Karen Travis' books are written by Karen Travis so take with that what you will
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I'm writing a story about girls on a farm in the 1800s, but I have no idea what farmers do, let alone do back then. So they milked cows. Churned butter, and plowed the fields? How do I learn some authenticity? I was born and raised in NYC so as you can imagine I don't know a thing about that.
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What a stupid thread.
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>>9061561
They would've both sat in the sitting room all day sowing, washing up, cooking and maintaining the house. Sowing especially. Both the sisters could spend hours knitting in silence. Just sitting on opposite sides of the room, throwing eachother cursory glances until the sexual tension explodes and they pounce on one another in orgasmic, incestual lesbian sex.
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why can't you just change the setting lmao
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Write a better version of this. 2017-02-04 11:53:50 Post No.9061496
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Write a better version of this.
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>In a world devastated by weakness, I choose strength.
no memes pls
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>>9061496
that's... really embarrassing .
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Im a world where Red chose fire, I choose water.
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>>9061496
Weakness is beautiful. Strength is unnecessary.
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ITT: Books you hate that everyone likes
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my diary desu
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>>9061346
Not gonna try to a make an argument for why you should but why my dood?
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>hating gravity's rainbow
i can imagine what kind of person you are
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Do I read all eight? Or just the ones by frank herbert?
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>>9061292
Just the first one, they all get progressively worse as the series goes on
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The first 3 by F H
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>>9061292
Defnitely skip the post-Frank ones
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welp 2017 is off to a good start. press f to pay respects. If dubbs gass is next.
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You're going to make me fucking google this you piece of shit
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HOLY FUCK ITS REAL
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I'm back from google you lying fuck
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What is your favorite piece of fiction? 2017-02-04 09:48:42 Post No.9060920
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What is your favorite piece of fiction?
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>>9060920
All of TBK including that chapter which is so great
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The Bible
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Commentarii de Bello Gallico :^)
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So I'm a few pages into this book and I could not care less. Does it actually get interesting or is it just this guy eloquently talking about some girl he tried to fuck when he was a kid?
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>>9060824
kil u r self tqbh my dairy desu!!
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>>9060824
Dude that's right at the fucking beginning. And yes it gets better
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>>9060824
At least give something a full chapter before you think about putting it down. Also maybe read some Poe.
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Dostoyevsky/ Tolstoy Translations 2017-02-04 09:27:01 Post No.9060821
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Dostoyevsky/ Tolstoy Translations
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Does it really matter what translator your reading as long as its not P&V? From what Ive gathered all the english translations are pretty solid except P&V. Im just wondering if theres any other translators I should avoid when I purchase these novels in the future
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>"From what Ive gathered"
>he takes opinions from this board seriously
>he thinks P&V hatred is anything more than textbook 4chan contrarianism
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>>9060843
I didnt get that from this board you fucking twat. P&V are only liked by publishers and widley regarded as shit
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>>9060857
This. I actually went to buy C&P at the local bookstore and the clerk was like "uhh you dont want that translation, lets find you a better one."
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Daily reminder that God is dead.
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>>9060736
daily reminder that germans killed him
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>>9060736
Daily reminder Nietzche's vision isn't to discard the 'God project' completely but to create new idols.
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oh he is is he?
Write a haiku about anything.
"The world keeps spinning
The white moon keeps orbiting
Nothing is changing"
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It is a damn shame
barnes and noble does not have
aldous huxleys island
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cuck kike leftist shill
get the fuck off my board retard
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I am very sad
I drink to stop the hurting
who wants to have fun?
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200 pages in and I'm fucking bored
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>>9060648
Then drop it.
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>>9060648
Yeah. I tried to read .... edge of the world? Two pages in I dropped it. Obvie.
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I can't think of anything more nihilistic than a Murakami novel. The novels, not the writing.