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Fuck it lets just keep it like this
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No it's fucking shit, my dude
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Unironically I'd love that
sadly that's not gonna happen
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>>17933
id love that, sadly i dont think this is gonna stay.
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Are farfetched settings best portrayed in visual or interactive-visual mediums like movies or video games?
In a book, you're naturally limited by how much you can 'explain' a setting. You can't just halt the action to have a bunch of paragraphs explaining minute details that are important to the feeling of the environment. It grinds the plot of the book to a halt and messes with the reader's immersion.
In a movie however, these details are always displayed, with no penalty to the narrative flow of the story. Your worldbuilding isn't at odds with your story in a visual medium.
Games take it a step further. You can actually interact with the surroundings seamlessly, meaning if there's a detail that interests you, you can uncover more about it, without the creator needing to have predicted your specific interests. And none of this interrupts the story at all.
The problem with this is that extremely skilled worldbuilders often lack the technical skills needed to portray their worlds in a visual format like a movie or video game, since all their experience is related to worldbuilding and writing. And they are rarely particularly skilled writers also. No one would argue Tolkien had beautiful prose. Maybe he would have if he spent those 15 years writing books instead of designing Middle Earth.
Given all that, is there no hope for non-standard settings? Are we destined to see them forever limited to textual portrayals which can't do them justice, with movie or video game adaptations only coming later, by people uninvolved with the world's creation (and who are, thus, likely to misportray the setting?)
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A picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes less is more. A visual portrayal of a setting concretely hammers out every detail of that world. For people who want to sit back and sedately consume, with little mental energy spent on imagination, that might be a comforting thing.
But the best settings are intentionally vague, giving the reader only the thoughtstems from which the details of the setting can grow according to his or her personal tastes. My idea of the setting of Neuromancer is probably entirely different from how you envision it, and there's no doubt we would be upset if either of us had to accept the other's conception of it.
Movies or games don't give you this luxury of imagination. If your first experience with a setting is in a movie or video game, your personal imagination of the world isn't just contradicted, you're prevented from ever forming one at all. It's all laid out in front of you, often in a way which panders to the widest audience possible without appealing deeply to anyone in particular. That's the penalty of having every detail of the setting defined visually.
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>trying to make a serious thread on april fools
brah...
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>>16477
This. Instead of saying worlds are limited to words, prose allows the reader's imagination to also build on that world. Imagination is limitless. Instead of one world you and your readers create many versions of it.
As there are details that can only be conveyed visually, there are also qualities that only prose can convey well. In my opinion, I feel feelings (comfy, spooky, etc.) more when reading settings instead of watching or playing them.
Can someone tell me what the fuck is going on with the boards?
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My ass is the board in which you're posting right now
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Look at your calendar nigger
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ebin jokes
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>at my local librym
>mirin everyone's vocabulary
>see readlet squatting only 20th Ed. Textbooks
>fucking normie
>quickly set up at the tablerack next to her
>load up two sets of The Vedas translated 3rd Ed. w/Footnotes by Brahman elites
>5x5 sentence analysis while making eye contact with readlet
>assert my dominance by letting the books slam as hard as possible
>what did you do today /fitlit
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>>17916
I didn't read OR workout.
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>reading translations
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Not bad, kind of reminds me of my day.
>me and my bros go to the local gymbrary
>see this DYER asian kid on the Hemmingway table
>he's struggling with lmao1pageaminute
>go up to him
>start turning the pages while he's struggling to keep reading
>my boys are laughing in the background and grabbing more Hemmingway
>load up A Moveable Feast and A Farewell to Arms in both his hands and make him flip the pages with his face
>he's in tears at this point
>my boys are going crazy
>he drops the books and sprints out of there while everyone shushes him
Haven't seen him in weeks lol
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Thanks to Spacex, what are some good books about Mars?
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>>17138
the dispossessed is good.
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how would martian gravity influence squatting?
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>>17138
Just play DOOM.
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Does /fitlit/ meditate? Post your routine.
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1 hour in the morning after working out
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>>16809
I do guided meditations 10 minutes a day every morning. I want to increase the time I meditate for but I feel like every time I try to meditate for 15-20 min I'm lost in thought the entire time. I also want to get to the point where I can do unguided meditations but I feel like I've become dependent on the guide and the guide is somewhat of an anchor for me. What do?
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What's the best book on learning to mediate?
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A book for /fitlit/. How to be an ubermensch 101.
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>high IQ
>well read (fiction and non-fiction)
>toned otter mode body
>tfw no gf
I'll give you one guess why.
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Social maladjustment?
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Because you're a homosexual
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>>17945
Charisma, looks, circumstance, luck
pick one or more
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What are some /fitlit/ idols?
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Men who showed equal respect for excelling physically and expanding their mind. Men worth of /fitlit/ admiration?
>Bruce Lee is known to have had over 2500 >books in his own personal library.
>He had books on many topics: from nutrition >to bodybuilding, to guides on mental mastery >to fencing; and books on all types of martial >arts and philosophy.
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Musashi would qualify,I think.
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the one
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Mishima
Head over to libgen.io to download his complete works for all of your electronic devices.
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What is the best book of the twentieth century and why is it The Fountainhead?
Also, general Ayn Rand/Objectivism thread.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j56IiLqZ9U
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>>16649
Typical that the stupidest person in South Park is against Ayn Rand
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/fitlit/ JOCK VS NERD DEATH BATTLE
ROLL TRIPS FOR THE JOCK
ROLL QUADS FOR THE NERD
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>>17956
LIT FAGS GET OUT REEEEEEE
YOURE RUINING MY GAINS
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itt: we post a picture of ourself and say what board we come from
me
/fit/
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/lit/ here
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/fit/ here (although far from fit...)
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/fit/ senpai
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>Your face on the last page
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/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc. If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/. Philosophical discussion can go on either /lit/ or /his/, but ideally those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.
Check the wiki, the catalog, and the archive before asking for advice or recommendations, and please refrain from starting new threads for questions that can be answered by a search engine.
/lit/ is a slow board! Please take the time to read what others have written, and try to make thoughtful, well-written posts of your own. Bump replies are not necessary.
Looking for books online? Check here:
Guide to #bookz
http://www.geocities.ws/prissy_90/Media/Texts/BookzHelp19kb.htm
Bookzz
http://bookzz.org/
Recommended Literature
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading
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THIS LINK COVERS THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:
- Proven, effective exercise routines
- Diet
- How to lose weight
- How to gain weight
- Supplements
CLICK AND READ THIS BEFORE STARTING A THREAD ABOUT THESE TOPICS
Supplemental reading: Harsh's /fit/ Wiki
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Diet & Body Re-composition
Initial Body Fat and Body Composition Changes
General Philosophies of Muscle Mass Gain
Sample Diets
Read the above articles, and decide whether you need to bulk (add muscle), cut (lose fat), or maintain.
Calculate your Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) in calories
Bulking Diet:
Calories: TDEE + 500 calories
Protein: 1+ grams per lb. bodyweight
Cutting Diet:
Calories: TDEE - 500 calories
Protein: 1.5+ grams per lb. bodyweight
Maintenance:
Calories: TDEE
Protein: 1.25+ grams per lb. bodyweight
Adjust calories as needed based on your goals / results.
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Mobility, Stretching, and Self-Massage Resources:
MobilityWOD: A blog that focuses on maximizing mobility - also covers some self massage. Here is a great selection specifically for squats.
This article covers some essentials with a few references to MobilityWOD
Molding Mobility and Starting Stretching: Concise beginners guides to mobility & stretching.
Foam rolling the critical bodyparts
Make your own foam roller