What's the Great Gatsby of videogames?

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>>376078956
You mean something recommended for kids in 9th grade, is outdated, and is extremely overrated? OoT

>>376078956
The Great Gatsby for NES.
Stop asking retarded questions.

>>376078956
Super Metroid

The Great Gatsby has better writing than any videogame out there. It's just superior

http://greatgatsbygame.com/
Fuck off, Quentin

>>376079646
Maybe because it's a fucking book known for its writing you nerd

>>376078956
metal gear solid 4

>>376078956
Fuck off Quentin

I'm blazing that 420 and aint gonna read no stupid ass school book fag

A beautiful, deeply resonant, and often misunderstood game that normies resent because they were forced to play (i.e. skim) as teenagers?

I can't really think of any.

>>376078956
Overrated piece of shit that people read to make themselves feel sophisticated and superior to others?

MGSV

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What's the Lord Of Flies of vidya?

>>376078956
My cousin just read this last week for his high school english class, are you underaged anon?

>>376079739
butthurt kid spotted. your garbage game story just can't compare

>>376079940
This is the only accurate description in the thread. Gatsby is so easy to read because of its length and its slick as fucking porcelain prose yet there's so much you can get from it. There's no excuse to not have done an active reading of it.

>>376079447
second post best post

What's "The Scarlet Letter" of videogames?

YOUR HEART IS A MESS

Was it just me or does Nick seem super gay for Gatsby? I remember him rejecting advances from women and talks praises Gatsby pretty highly.

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Bioshock Infinite 2bh

>>376079447
You're a fucking idiot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4D7oZsVenE

Skyrim

>>376080370
I don't understand why this shit is typical high school reading. Stuff like gatsby and 1984 but this book is just boring as fuck.

The Great Gatsby is the number 1 killer of high school students' interest in literature. With The Scarlet Letter being number 2

>>376080027
you misspelled Undertale my dude

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What would be The Hobbit of video games

>>376080531
>thinks that required reading should be fun for teenagers

Fucking retard.

>>376080258
I hate the meme that books taught in high school are for high school kids. The reason they're taught is because they're both excellent in terms of literary merit and accessible. Protip: the two are not mutually exclusive.

Though they are getting rid of classics in favor of YA in some curriculums, so I guess that's all going out the window.

>>376079653
I beat this every time it's posted.

>>376079447
the fact that a book recommended for kids has better writing than planescape torment is proof that vidya just can't compare

>>376079447
I was gonna say metal gear 1 but that's fine too

>>376080584
Fine, what actual value was scarlet letter suppose to have? Its just outdated as fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94-tCIoxb9I
this

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>>376080573

>>376079447
Man a book that is decades old is outdated, who would have fucking guessed

>>376079447
Fucking this

>>376079447
what books so you like then

What's the VALIS of video games?

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>>376080719
ANON WHAT THE FUCK

>>376080684
I didn't get it either, especially when there are classics that are more entertaining.

I suppose it's an introduction to the style of the period writing. Or maybe it's to prep students for reading dense articles or academic literature

>>376080646
Kek. So true it hurts.

>>376080760
Red Dead Redemption

>There are no books less than half a century old in the required HS reading list

If this doesn't tell you our civilization is declining I don't know what does.

>>376080202
MGSV

>>376080569
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole was worse

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>>376080719

>>376080719
I actually have to ask, how did you find this? I am genuinely interested.

>>376079447
This tbqh Nintendo btfo

>>376080860
>wah, it can only be good if its old
Then help society and kill yourself.

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>>376080617
>Doesn't even show your score at the end
Goddammit.

>>376080684
I don't know. We didn't do that book at my school because I didn't go to pleb school.

>>376080901
my younger brother found it
iirc the kid goes to his school

>>376079447
Please explain how it is outdated? Is Shakespeare outdated as well then? Im having a hard time understanding your complex analysis

>>376080626
>>376080773
>>376080343

In this topic, kids that didn't want to do their homework.

>>376080860
There are many good contemporary authors. It's just that literature is a very old art form with lots of established texts as it is. Shit, there are some books that only just miss the date of your criteria anyway.

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>>376080719
This is actually really disturbing

>>376081102
Interesting.

As desensitized as this site has made something about about people playing corpses seriously is creepy to me. It was actually hard for me to watch that.

>its a poorfags cant relate to the masterpiece that is the great gatsby episode
Lmao

>>376081243
What is the "Hop on Pop" of videogames?

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>>376081174
Yes, luckily there are talented individuals working hard to scrounge the few nuggets in his words that are worth a shit and make them accessible to modern society

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>>376079447
>Great Gatsby
>Overrated
This is what happens when you force kids to read books. Literature teachers are fucking retarded.

>>376081449
>rich white people problems: the book
Literally no character is likable or at least interesting. Daisy is just a bitch, Gatsby is pathetic, Nick is naive and has a huge ego, and Tom is just a typical asshole.

This novel basically created and defined the modern American tragedy, and half of our favourite stories probably wouldn't exist today without it, and everyone here is calling it boring and pretentious. What a bunch of neckbeard autist faggots.

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What are some video games where I can complain about men and be raped by a pack of clowns at a carnival after my friends ditch me to hang out with their boyfriends?

>>376081603
That's the point you fucking moron.

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>>376080719
>its a dead rat
>on strings
>in tinfoil
???

Theory: everyone who hates The Great Gatsby is a fan of Platinum shit.

>>376081449
>Trust fund babby couldn't even understand one of the least subtle modern classics

>>376081605
>created and defined the modern American tragedy
Ah, so a book about some beta rich guy talking to a beta poorfag for 60% of the plot and then getting cucked and shitted on for the last 40% is that compelling, huh?

Please fuck off. GG has nothing to do with the American Dream - if anything, it just discusses what happens to the people who learn the hard way that the original Dream is dead and they can no longer have their cake and eat it too. If it seriously inspired any writers it'd be numales and literal faggots who endorse that kind of thinking.

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>>376079447
.t someone who has never read anything beyond recommended high school books

>>376081865
>GG has nothing to do with the American Dream - if anything, it just discusses what happens to the people who learn the hard way that the original Dream is dead

So it does have something to do with the Dream

>>376081185
Sorry, but that doesn't change the fact The Great Gatsby was terrible, even by literature standards.

>>376081865
You seem to just be mad at the book because you disagree

>>376081969
>The Great Gatsby was terrible, even by literature standards.
You have literally no idea what you're talking about.

>>376079447
What grade did you get on the book report, anon?

>the characters are supposed to be unlikable!
>the writing is supposed to be boring
>the story is supposed to be shit

The only thing Great Gatsby fags can praise about this shit book is its prose. Which means very little in the grand scheme of things. All the prose in the world can't change the fact that this book is stupid and boring.

>>376081969
How?

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>American """"""""""literature"""""""""

>>376081960
All right you little pedantic faggot, it's about the American Dream the same way Macbeth is about the political climate of 11th century Scotland. It's there but it's not what the book is about and people deliberately misinterpret it because Gatsby is such a 'deep and misunderstood' writer

>>376078956
If you wanted to post an overrated work of literature you should've posted Catcher in the Rye.

>>376082086
Who said it was boring or shit?

>>376081174
Have you tried reading Shakespeare? That stuff's outdated to hell and back

>>376080370
Oblivion.

With sex mods.

>>376082202
I did. Because that's exactly what it is.

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What is the Neuromancer of video games, but not the actual Neuromancer video game?

>>376082164
>Gatsby
>misunderstood writer

Like, are you literally retarded?

>>376080719
An actual fucking psychopath made this

>>376082164
But I'm using your fucking words here. You said Gatsby is not about the Dream and then went on to say a few words later that it is about the Dream but not a way of glorifying it, it instead shows the realities of this new time period. This still means it's about the American Dream.

Trying to argue that Gatsby isn't about the American Dream at all is a pointless argument anyway, there's just too much supporting the assertion.

>>376078956
Something that pretentious kids like but has no real substance?

Last of us.

>>376081696
Malcolm in the Middle

>>376082202
Gatsby intentionally wrote all the characters to be unlikable because he wanted to push his nigger agenda that 't-the rich are evil, gibs me dats' and he was an actual poorfag. The plot never goes anywhere except for the last third of the book when Gatsby decides to man the fuck up and then he just gets killed and that's it. The story is virtually nonexistent, it's a bunch of adults acting like 14 year olds in high school with Gatsby revealing more of his 'tragic' past which I guess the reader is supposed to care for.

>>376082220
/v/ is full of the biggest plebs. I'm going back to /lit/

>>376079447
this

>>376080370
A game that everyone plays but no one actually likes?
Something like Overwatch or League of Legends

>>376082510
/thread

>>376082220
Lmao, let me guess; you're American.

>>376082220
>Literature
>Outdated
Fucking listen to yourself.

Reminder

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream 6,000
Seven Samurai (film) 8,000
Dr. Strangelove (film) 9,000
LotR: RotK (extended version) (film) 10,000
The Godfather Part I (film) 11,000
Citizen Kane (film) 12,000
Aesop’s Fables 12,000
12 Angry Men (film) 12,000
The Cherry Orchard (play) 17,000 (stage directions included)
Macbeth (play) 18,000
Romeo and Juliet (play) 25,000
Hamlet (play) 30,000
Heart of Darkness (book) 37,500
The Art of War 54,000
The Trial 81,000
Average Modern Novel Length 85,000
1984 100,000
The Aeneid 100,000
The Divine Comedy 110,000
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 110,000
Pride and Prejudice (book) 120,000
The Iliad 140,000
Crime and Punishment (book) 200,000
Cross Channel (visual novel) 250,000
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 260,000 (this is the longest in the series)
Ulysses 260,000
The Canterbury Tales 270,000
Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo (visual novel) 320,000
The Lord of the Rings (book) 470,000
Ever 17 (visual novel) 500,000
Atlas Shrugged 540,000
Les Miserables 560,000 (it’s less words in french)
War and Peace 590,000
Tsukihime (visual novel) 600,000
Clannad (visual novel) 740,000
Planescape: Torment (game) 800,000* (this is an unreliable, poorly defined figure)
Fate/Stay Night (visual novel) 820,000

>>376079646
This.

There has not been an existent game which has come close to approaching the quality of narrative, characterisation, or general writing of even mid-tier literature. It might happen one day, but it hasn't happened yet.

But: Duke Nukem is The Great Gatsby of video games, because it's quintessentially American.

>>376079447
Kill yourself and go read a book for once, millennial ADD faggot.

>>376078956
Gone Home, The Last of Us, Firewatch, Bioshock infinite, etc

>>376082751
>only ELEVEN THOUSAND PEOPLE have seen The Godfather Part 1

Unbelievable!

>>376082751
The longest piece of literature ever is Super Smash Bros. Brawl fanfiction

>>376082381
Yes, people thought he was misunderstood, he was a poorfag who tried to be romantic and artistic in everything he did. Then a bunch of new age faggots walked in and started proclaiming his shit to be the 'quintessential American literature' and now today this shit is being put it in middle schools.

>>376082436
No, my words were that it does not focus on the Dream, it focuses on a bunch of losers and morally horrible people in an era where people were losing sight of what the Dream originally was.

>there's just too much supporting the assertion
And none of it's in your post. Wew.

>>376082751
What do these numbers mean?

>>376079447
This. A bunch of unlikeable rich fucks kill each other and fuck off into oblivion. What a masterpiece.

>>376082510
Woah, the character in the novel wrote his own book? How did he do that?

>>376082884
How many people have killed themselves while watching/reading the listed piece

>>376082884
Words.

>>376082863
I remember that. Someone post it.

What's so great about Gatsby anyway?

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>>376082940
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

>>376082954
H1Z1

>>376082919
kek

>>376080719
1, what fuck anon
2. pls include me in screencap

>>376082883
But you're still bringing it back to the American Dream. These people are the way that they are BECAUSE of the ideals presented with the Dream.

And I don't need to post anything. There's a million and one critics out there who've done so better than I could ever hope to do, I'd just be regurgitating their findings anyway.

>>376082940
Prose, themes, and narrative.

The skillful use of unreliable narrator, class obfuscation, comments on The American Dream, early modern capitalism, and just the beautifully wilting prose.

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>>376079875

>>376080973
He said exactly the opposite, you are retarded and probed his point.

>>376082510
>>376082587
So you just disagree with his politics
Pathetic

>>376081598
The Great Gatsby was shit.
The Jungle was shit.
Hamlet was surprisingly okay.
1984 was bretty gud

>>376082940
The story is okay but its prose is beautifully written.

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was. . . .

. . . One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight. They stopped here and turned toward each other. Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year. The quiet lights in the houses were humming out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars. Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees — he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.

His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something — an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man’s, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound, and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

>>376078956
can't think of a archaic game which failed at the time, then a century later became incredibly overratedly popular.

>>376083178
ive been trying to find one of the quentin comics where he argues with a weed smoker and ends with "morrowind sucks" or some shit like that.

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Threads like these reminded me how young /v/ is. I should just move on before it gets worse.

>>376083319
>can't think of a archaic game which failed at the time
Gatsby has been identified as a classic since WWII you dumb fuck.

>>376083358
Leave and never return faggot

>I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness. At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others — poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner — young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

>>376083387
It wasn't initially popular though. Fitzgerald never lived to see its success.

>>376083201
No, I disagree with the excuse an author uses to make his characters unredeemable sacks of shit, because there shouldn't be an excuse in the first place.

It's a fucking romance novel, there's barely any politics involved, anywho. Honestly, how anyone could read >>376083262 and not think this is out of some gay fucking twilight fanfic is beyond me, absolutely atrocious writing

>>376083358
>posts Danganronpa

Haha oh wow
Kys

>>376083320
>ive been trying to find one of the quentin comics where he argues with a weed smoker and ends with obvious bait
Doesn't narrow it down.

>ctrl+f
>Cormac McCarthy
>0 results
You all fucking disgust me. To the very bottom of my being you disgust me. You are all a disgrace and don't deserve literature.

>>376083320
I know that one, haven't been able to find it again though.

>>376083405
>a creeper that stalks women and imagines starting lives with them but is too beta to actually say hi

Hahahaha

>>376083558
If it were set in the 2010s we would own several fedoras, katanas, and capes

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>>376083320

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>>376079447
>People actually agree with this
Am I being meme'd?

>>376083652
thanks my wigga.

>>376083619
>>376083652
This shit was way ahead of its time

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>>376078956

>>376081174
thing with Shakespeare is I don't understand all that old English. I have to stop every few sentences to decipher what the fuck I just read.
other than that, it's great stuff.

>>376083652
>>376083704
dump the rest please, i think theres 1 more that I havent been able to find.

>>376081598
>Literature teachers are fucking retarded.

This cannot be stressed enough. Literature teachers tend to be biased as fuck to their own pet forms of thinking and frequently don't get or don't care that someone might have reasons to think differently.

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>>376083784
I'll try, but I doubt I have all of them

>>376083619
This is several levels of irony deep.

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>>376080719
Anon you should've posted this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OOYftUJaTU

>>376082751
Intresting.
Vice City - 13000
FF5 - 33000
San Andreas - 40000
FF6 - 43000
GTA 4 - 130000
Katawa Shoujo - 490000
FF7 - 600000
Steins;Gate - 620000

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gatsby related one

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>>376080202
Rule of Rose.

Except instead of an island, it's an airship.

And instead of an insane British schoolboy waving around a dead pig head, there's an insane British schoolgirl waving around a dead rat, yet being very posh about it.

I unironically want Quentin back

>>376084124
Fuck Quentin, I want Nigba back.

>>376084159
Even when I read this as a rebellious teen in high school I could tell the main character was acting like a massive faggot.

>>376083619
smug jesse james and ted bundy always get me

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>>376078956
>>376079447
Fun Fact:
Meyer Wolfsheim is based off a real person in the New York mob called Arnold Rothstein

>>376083515
Wish he would use more punctuation to bee quiet on its, senpai.

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>>376083790
the best literature teachers I had were genuinely accepting of student's various perspectives as long as they could back it up with textual evidence

holy fuck those were some based classes just freestyling ideas back and forth punctuated by essay midterm/finals that i slam dunked

thank you based Prof. Burt I will never forget you boss

>>376079447
This, I don't even see what was so enjoyable about this. The Westing Game was a much better book they had us read, I was thinking of reading it again soon.

>>376080408
its not just you. queer readings of TGG are quite common

>>376083178
>Hello 911?

Slays me every time.

>>376082291
either Policenauts, System Shock, or Shadowrun for the Snes/Genesis

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>>376080408
pretty sure there's an early chapter where nick ends up in a dude's room like standing next to the guy's bed while the dude is under the sheets or something

he was a borderline fag for sure
that was pretty funky shit for me at the time
then a couple grades later i read Equus
>mfw

How dumb of an idea would it be to let high school students pick out of a pool of classics to read?

Seems like the reason why people hate these books is because they were forced to read them.

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>>376083862
Quintin was before his time and this site is more shit without him here.

>>376082091
>Someone told me that their school made them read it in 8th grade, and that they didn't like it. I haven't read it.

>>376084532
There is no word for the amount of disgust i feel towards you right now. It's an artistic choice and he is a living legend. So SHOW SOME FUCKING RESPECT.

>>376082510
>Gatsby wrote

Please, tell me more.

>>376082940
he pops up out of nowhere in the arena of high society throwing extravagant parties, and no-one knows where he came from or how he made his fortune, so the socialites started building him up as this mythic figure and quintessential made-man

the twist is that he's not that great after all. He's just some low-born handiman who was in the right place at the right time, got handed a shitload of money on a whim from a dude with no heirs, had no idea what to do with it, and spent all his days pining for a girl and hoping to lure her to one of his parties rather than just take a short boat ride and go try to woo her

>>376078956
depends on what qualities of Gatsby you define to translate to other media

but >>376079447 is right

>>376080719

This is hilarious and everyone responding to this like it's some kind of degenerate holocaust-tier display of disturbance is a fucking redditor.

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>>376078956
What's the Guernica of literature? it's shit

>>376085107
>How dumb of an idea would it be to let high school students pick out of a pool of classics to read?
It would actually be better than straight up forcing them to read specific books. If there is one thing i learned about literature is that you do NOT fucking force people to read books because its a really personal thing.

>>376085107
Personally I didn't like it because I was "forced" I just didn't enjoy it. It was only one of two books I didn't enjoy out of 20 or so they had us read during high school, don't remember the other one.

>>376083672
>Video game board on anime website
I don't know what you were expecting.

>>376083474
>No, I disagree with the excuse an author uses to make his characters unredeemable sacks of shit, because there shouldn't be an excuse in the first place.

How can anyone be this fucking dumb.

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>>376078956
>/lit/posting on /v/

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>>376085346
>when studying you must only study what you are interested in or conforms to your worldview

>>376085526
>Literature
>Studying
That is where you're wrong.

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what's the animorphs of vidya?
not counting the gameboy game

>>376079447
Is correct about the book, but OoT is not the Great Gatsby of vidya.

>>376085639
If it's not an area of study it doesn't need to be in school. Are you advocating removing lit as a class in schools?

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>>376078956

What would a game be or be like if made/starring Hunter S. Thompson?

Does one already exist?

>>376083652
Who is the guy in the picture? Ive always wondered

>>376085780
>Are you advocating removing lit as a class in schools?
Considering the way its being taught in schools, yes.

>>376085817
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. How can anyone be this stupid?

>>376084486
Is the skill "gonnection" in SMT an anti-Semitic reference to this character?

I like the idea of what anons are saying to give students a more of a variety to read from. I think there would be less people thinking that they hate reading if they read something that fits more with their interests, what's the point of lit class if it's going to have an adverse effect on some people?

>>376086204
I know that my summer reading lists in high school let you pick which books to read from a list; more of that would be good

>>376086204
What's the point of lit class if it's just kids reading whatever Twilight/Warhammer/Tom Clancy BS they want?

>>376086483
obviously you'd provide a pool of books to choose from

>>376086132
Well the usage of "gonnection" in the book was used to capture the New York Jewish dialect through the text. So I would say yes on that.

>>376080472
t. cuck scott fitzgerald

>>376086483
I think it would be more beneficial if they come out of a class enjoying literature rather than have them write a book report on a book they didn't enjoy in the slightest. One will benefit them greatly and may give them something else they will want to enjoy for years to come, the other will probably give them a bad impression of books and will never pick up a book again.

>>376085346
>you do NOT fucking force people to read books because its a really personal thing.
muh special snowflake

>>376080785
The DSM-IV

>>376086001
You were saying you can't teach it.

>>376086483
Developing an interest in literature is always good. It really doesn't matter if they start with absolute shit tier if there is a chance they will eventually move on to better stuff.

>>376078956
A game that is pure shit, that no one actually likes, and get talked up by pretentious assholes?
Gone Home

Fallout: New Vegas

>>376086703
Fitzgerald wasn't a cuck
Guy was a "vicious" anti-semite who made the tribe angry by staying around their Jewesses too much.
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/fitzgerald-and-the-jews

this
http://greatgatsbygame.com/

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>>376080719
What the fuck, man

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>>376080719
truly a work of art

>>376086983
>The Jew Yorker
Nice try, shill

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>all these people defending Gatsby as a good book
I'm sorry but I just don't see why. I read it and yeah I get it, but it wasn't very thoughy provoking or that interesting if you haven't been introduced to the topics and ideas it presents.
I could see someone in highschool reading it and thinking it's such a great intellectual piece, but anyone older than that should probably read some more books before they put the Great Gatsby in their top 10 must reads

>>376082940
It's an example of how a complete piece of shit can get praise if you write pretty enough

>>376087261
Liking Gatsby is something you grow out of

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What's the Grande Sertão: Veredas of video games?

>>376079646
lel so this.

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What is the Stephen Crane's "The Monster" of videogames?

>>376080719
toodrunke to undersatand
happycinod mayo youfuckers

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You guys should try some real books like pic related

>>376087261
I've yet to see a better presentation of its ideas. The book is beautifully written. If the function of literature was only to present ideas, it would be rendered redundant by essays, philosophy, science, etc.

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>>376084000
>Dragonball music out of fucking nowhere

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What is the L'Étranger of videogames?

What is the Black Company of video games?

>>376085961
It's Ozymandias from the Watchmen movie. Quentin fancies himself something of a geniius, rightfully so.

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>>376080573
Trails in the Sky FC
>Both about a first adventure
>Both have relatively naive protagonists starting out
>Both comfy as fuck
>Both take place in a setting with a metric asston of worldbuilding

>>376088091
Thabks brony

>>376082751
I don't know if films really belong in the list. I can't really get a good feel of comparison because a lot of background and most of environment is communicated via picture instead of text. What would LotR: RotK be if descriptions of environment and action were largely removed and it was reduced to just mostly being dialogue? Not trying to reduce the importance of the book, but the comparison doesn't actually tell me much.

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>>376080719
???

>>376082751
Isn't Clarissa the longest book in the English language? I feel like it should be added to the list.

>>376079940
>>376080340
right on. always loved fitzgerald, used one of his other short stories for my term paper. got the best grade i've ever gotten in a class.

>>376080468
with the aforementioned being said, this is 100% true. infinite could've been written by reddit, desu. will N E V E R understand the praise.

Does anyone remember that most of the characters just started fucking dying out of nowhere? I thought I had skipped a chapter by accident or something.

>>376078956
Mediocre titles that people mindlessly praise? Spec Ops: The Line

>>376084003
What about something real like Umineko

>>376091204
gut urself

>>376091969
>omg you didn't have to kill those people to proceed you could have just turned off the game instead 11/10

>>376090553
I mean it was only three, and they were a direct result of each other.

Lmao at public school cucks having to read these shit books
>city of God
>meditations
>the Republic
>captains and kings
>the prince

I enjoyed almost all the books I read, except for walden fuck that book

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What's the Ficciones of literature?
I've heard someone say Pathologic, but I was wondering if there were any others.

anyone actually have any recs for fiction books? I'm scared of /lit/

>>376085817
Thompson the man or Thompson the myth? The myth would be some weird Suda51 type shit. The man would be Fuck Nixon Simulator '72, or just Madden.

the great gatsby was schlock

the grapes of wrath is much better

>>376086867
Not 5?

>>376092907
Focault's Pendulum, Illumminatus, Starfish, Draconian Symphony, The Passion, House of Leaves, Schismatrix, Good Omens, Permutation City, Playing for Keeps, Journey to the West, Great God Pan, Curse of Capistrano, Cryptonomicon

to name a few I enjoyed the past couple years

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I fucking hated reading this shit and how faggotty Holden Caulfield was, especially when my teacher said that he's a likeable boy.

>>376093610
Holden is supposed to be fagotty, he's the stereotypical teenager.
Could really identify with him when i was 16.

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>>376080719
Sweet Jesus Christ

My favorite book is Dracula.
That is my contribution to this thread.

>>376093970
your contribution is recognized.

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>>376080719

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>>376080719
fucking incredible

>>376079447
This is the equivalent autism of fucking faggots getting upset that people like popular music. You get upset people like Shakespeare too? Fucking idiot. If you didn't know, exposing yourself and your society to the classics is extremely important in building culture.

>>376093610
I read it a few years ago to see why everyone has such a hateboner for it. It ended up being about a cynical kid reeling from the death of his brother and not being mature enough to really voice his problems with everything.

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>>376082919
lost

>>376082863
No it's some fanfic a guy from /sp/ wrote about a tripfag from /sp/

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>>376093610
>had to read this in class full of black kids
>get to the part with the word nigger

>>376094405
but that's objectively not true

Is this the high school literature thread?

Brave New World >>>> 1984

>>376094606
I'm at a loss

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>All these elitists jerking themselves over how "smart" they are, and how inferior others are if they don't read boring literature

>>376079447
both are true
/thread

>>376094673
They ever finish We Happy Few?

>>376094726
I honestly don't see how anyone who willfully read The Great Gatsby could find it boring. Unless you only read genre fic, I just can't understand.

>>376094726
>being bored by literature
low test
I bet you're a straitedge too

>>376093515
He probably thinks Asperger's still exist.

>>376093610
It's the character study of a shithead proto-/r9k/

Maybe he's too much of a white knight for /r9k/, I unno. It's a good book though.

>>376082751
No Golden Sun? That shit had like 10000000 words

>>376094827
That's probably the thing, a lot of people probably just read it for high school and saw it just as a quota and didn't really think about it.

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>tfw the game is official vaporware

>>376095179
what is this and what does it have to do with quake?

>>376082751
>800k+ words
>To talk about how 1 retarded high schooler faggot realized that, no, you can't actually save everyone.

>>376095219
Where in my post did I say it had anything to do with Quake? I was responding to OP.

>>376095254
You didn't, a lot of those symbols look extremely similar to the Quake logo though

>>376087771
The Undertale of /lit/.
>>376087824
Super Mario Bros 3, angry sun level.
>>376093610
Rockband: Beatles

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>>376095082
>It's the character study of a shithead proto-/r9k/
pic related is the sequel

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>>376080719
hahah-

>trail of blood

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>>376095315
They're from a book series. Idk where inspiration of the artist came from.

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>>376095179
>dude
>worldbuilding
>lmao

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>>376095343
>Super Mario Bros 3, angry sun level.

>there are actually people defending the great gatsby ITT

The retrospective narrative, despite being necessary, is done in a muddled and confusing way. In the final chapter, it's a muddy mess attempting to follow what/who/when. Nick is a massively tedious narrator. The book glamorizes Gatsby, but he's actually kind of an overbearing asshole to Daisy. I didn't like Daisy either, but I understood why she didn't choose Gatsby. He's an insecure and demanding control freak, and on that not, most characters are vapid, selfish pricks. Last but not least, the setup for the car accident was completely contrived.

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>>376080719
I'm taking some solace in thinking that's a little kid not realizing how weird he is judging by that vo----

what

THE

FUCK

>>376095418
>being a plebe

Sorry for your short attention span.

>>376095450
>The book glamorizes Gatsby
We must have read different books.
>most characters are vapid, selfish pricks
Character flaws are not a flaw of the book.

>>376095584
when said flaws make the characters one-dimensional and uninteresting, it sure is.

>>376095343
>The Undertale of /lit/.
Anyone who's read it will tell you it's the Dark Souls of /lit/.

>>376095450
>it's confusing
>I didn't like the characters
Dude what kind of criticism is this.

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>>376095418
The meta is pretty neat, yeah

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what is the vidya equivalent?

>>376095683
Nah, Undertale works because it's just one work. Souls memefest comes from a whole series+bloodborne.

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When will we get a new good Dune game?

>>376095751
Super Mario Maker

>>376093970
I liked it. The ending was kinda shit though.

>>376095845
when you make one

>>376079447
I would've said Half-Life 2 honestly.

>>376093970
My favorite book is World War Z. I don't read many books, obviously.

>>376095792
>including the whole series
Nonsense. Dark Souls has the perception of being super impossibly difficult and one of the best games ever among people who don't play many games.

This fits IJ much better than "wow this is the meme that people won't stop talking about and making me mad" like with your Undertale.

>>376095983
I just can't take any zombi apocalypse that tries to be too grounded seriously
unless there's some dark magic that repairs the zombies they should all be completely immobile in a matter of weeks from random injuries, carrion feeders, and all those micro-organisms devouring their delicious rotting flesh

>>376096042
Doesn't make me mad at all, I think IJ is actually a good book.

But you best be joking if the whole Souls series isn't memed to death here.

Souls would be equivalent of the Greeks in /lit/.

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>>376080719
oh MY GOD

>>376096231
I feel like Max Brooks tried to take that into account in his books but it's been a long time.

>>376096042
Real life, Souls is probably Lacan or any other author with an unfair perception of being hard to understand.

>>376082751
Gaijin by Thomas Cleary, 1,000,000+
You can literally kill someone with that book.

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>>376080719
>My grandfather died on the beaches of Normandy just so you could play with rats in your fucking backyard infront of a camcorder

>>376095672
>when said flaws make the characters one-dimensional and uninteresting, it sure is.

No it isn't. They are supposed to be one-dimensional and uninteresting. That's the whole point. They're vapid, frivolous idiots.

>>376096268
I don't go on /v/ much anymore but my memory of what Dark Souls was for people before the sequel came out feels exactly like how people talk about IJ. The biggest part for is how it's popular with people who don't read much and is also seen as a daunting difficult to understand work by the same people.

>Souls would be equivalent of the Greeks in /lit/.
See my argument is also that IJ is a recentish book just like DaS is to vidya.

And yeah I like it too.

>>376096527
>lol old fart died for the jews

>>376096680
I think /v/ thinks DS2 is the best in the series. The way I see it, is that git gud is the equivalent of starting with the greeks.

Now, if we put in context the new sincerity shit, neither Souls or Undertale is.

Fuck it, Mario Tennis is the correct choice.

>>376095849
needs more consensual rape

>>376094214
The Great Gatsby is a legitimately retarded book though, both as a concept and in execution.

Nice use of language doesn't make up for a boring as fuck story.

>>376096949
it does though
jack shit happens in ulysses, people read it for joyce's wordplay and fun prose

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>>376096949

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>>376096949
>Nice use of language doesn't make up for a boring as fuck story.

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>>376095672
Gatsby represented everything that was wrong during the roaring twenties. His charming demeanor was nothing but a facade and it was later revealed that he gained his fortune through smuggling liquor during the prohibition. There is nothing to admire about these nouveau-riche folks.

>>376096881
>I think /v/ thinks DS2 is the best in the series.
That's terrible.

Nah 'git gud' seems like something you could say to someone saying that IJ is too long and hard.

The greeks is probably gradius or castlevania or actual classic that no modern gamer would ever touch.

>Now, if we put in context the new sincerity shit, neither Souls or Undertale is.
Honestly I don't even know wtf new sincerity is. I only remember IJ pondering on the idea of sincerity, like if you can even be knowingly sincere or not, and didn't really have a clear statement of "this is your new sincerity". THAT's the real meme here desu

>>376097261
Why is Dorothy such a much better waifu than Rei despite being so similar

>>376097501
>waifuing a robot
Damn dude at least Rei can take a dick.

>>376096881
>I think /v/ thinks DS2 is the best in the series

You're an idiot then if you don't see obvious b8 threads for what they are.

>>376097568
As if the whole series wasn't a meme here m8.

>>376097501
Rei was made to be a bad waifu. all the traits she has were chosen to make her as frustratingly bland as possible, to try and make a statement about how creepy and unhealthy it is to pine for a suicidal doormat

Dorothy was written to be Roger's equal, an empowered woman who doesn't take shit and makes her own life choices

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>a thread related to great gatsby on /v/

i see you underage sophmore fucks got assigned the book and finally worked your way through it. try reading something in your free time and not cling to the shit your teachers assign you and act like you're cultured or in the know

>>376097501
I suppose because she is somewhat under-appreciated compared to Rei and that Dorothy is seen more as a companion.

>>376097779
pls, recommend us some books

Duke Nukem.

This game had strippers you could throw money at in the 90s and was mainstream. Still use catch phrases to this day.

>>376097852
Anything by Ayn Rand :^)

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>>376080719
what the fuck bro, why would you post this.

>>376097947
yo dog, that shit aint rad yo

>>376078956
A game about out of touch unlikable jerks that constantly backstab each other with "what-a-twist" surprises revealed with each backstab, until the biggest wanker wins, and the players is so disgusted with the absolute scummy behavior of everyone, he'd rather just walk away than finish the game, feeling as if he gained nothing?

Mass Effect 3?

>>376082751
Fate is pretty good, I don't se the issue

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>>376080719
I don't know if I should laugh or be terrified.

>>376097779
students just watch the movies dude.

Nobody reads it until later when they actually aren't forced too.

Also most assigned reading is crap being old doesn't make it good, though Gatsby is good.

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>>376079447
Here's your (You), faggot.

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>>376080719
>>376098127
NOPE I JUST SAW THE BLOOD TRAIL NOW I'M FUCKING SCARED