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And then they volunteered that they thought the holocaust was made up for a ya novel they read in middle school until they were almost adults
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Nov 20, 2023 16:48
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Sounds like it would’ve been better for everyone if they’d stuck to reading 40k novels. Another clear victory for genre lit.
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Nov 20, 2023 16:53
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Like I was reading the book and realized in 100 pages there were three gunfights and it suddenly occurred to me this had the plot of a video game and then I realized there are entire people who only read this and think this is what books are and I got overwhelmingly depressed.
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Nov 20, 2023 17:24
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Like I was reading the book and realized in 100 pages there were three gunfights and it suddenly occurred to me this had the plot of a video game and then I realized there are entire people who only read this and think this is what books are and I got overwhelmingly depressed. Literally in the time you have been gone from here a whole new genre has arisen It is called "litrpg"
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Nov 20, 2023 17:45
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Maybe they should issue revised classics in a transitions to lit type series... like Anna Karenina could be a badass elite bodyguard who wields dual chainswords on top of the intense humanistic character studies.
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Many years later, as he faced the Chaos Space Marine Obliterators, Primach Roboute Guilliman would remember that distant afternoon when the Emperor of Mankind, donator of his transhuman gene-stock template, took him to discover ice.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Literally in the time you have been gone from here a whole new genre has arisen One of my neighbors has a license plate that says "litrpg" and I constantly consider keying the car
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Nov 20, 2023 17:56
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Creating an alter ego to drive mel insane: My literary escapism is _______ [swords and sandals/detective stories/Golden Age sci-fi/fantasy sagas/space opera/YA dystopia], this time mixed with the video game mechanics of ______ [Call of Duty/Pac-Man/Final Fantasy VII/Tetris/Skyrim/Solitaire on my grandparent's computer] The literary classic I dismiss offhand is _____ [Moby-Dick/The Canterbury Tales/Gilgamesh/Journey to the West], because who cares about _____ [whales/the month of April/the city of Ur/a monkey]!! Incidentally, the historical atrocity I know shockingly little about is ______ [Pol Pot's killing fields/the Black Death/the Irish potato famine/chattel slavery]
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Lobster Henry posted:Many years later, as he faced the Chaos Space Marine Obliterators, Primach Roboute Guilliman would remember that distant afternoon when the Emperor of Mankind, donator of his transhuman gene-stock template, took him to discover ice. "Why do I want to read a sad book about hillbillies you think ice is amazing" - that person
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Jrbg posted:Creating an alter ego to drive mel insane: Lol
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the literal mentality i had in my 20s: if it could happen in real life why would i want to read about it?
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But ice is amazing 
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pixel bitches posted:But ice is amazing It’s not as good as ice-nine
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pixel bitches posted:But ice is amazing Haha chernobyl and I lost our minds trying to explain that to them. It was also funny she and her other friend kept going "oh these two just want to show off they dont like popular books." Like, imagine a world where you genuinely believe warhammer has a stronger place in culture than 100 years of solitude
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Nov 20, 2023 18:08
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a Warhammer fan that also doesn't think the Holocaust is real? I might be more concerned about things other than this person's taste in lit if I'm being honest
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Mel Mudkiper posted:And then they volunteered that they thought the holocaust was made up for a ya novel they read in middle school until they were almost adults is this what the famed "collapse of american education" is all about?
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Nov 20, 2023 18:15
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i got more emotional about them bringing the squats back than i ever did reading about colonel emiliano buendia so i think that person is right
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also when her friend was making fun of me for being pretentious and high fallutin' they said "Why dont you go back to reading Hillbilly Elegy" because that was what they thought literature was and then they thought Pynchon wrote Infinite Jest.
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Nov 20, 2023 18:53
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saying all of this out loud makes me realize these are very not smart people
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Mel Mudkiper posted:saying all of this out loud makes me realize these are very not smart people Fair but Mel Mudkiper posted:It was also funny she and her other friend kept going "oh these two just want to show off they dont like popular books." I'll grant she's wrong about the "just" :p
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Fair but There is no world Gabriel Garcia Marquez is more niche than Warhammer I refuse to allow it
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Mel Mudkiper posted:There is no world Gabriel Garcia Marquez is more niche than Warhammer Many years later, as he faced the illiterate firing squad, Mel Mudkiper was to remember that distant afternoon when Hieronymous Alloy took him to discover the combined Amazon sales rankings
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I know about two people that are really into warhammer as, like, a universe and concept, and they’re both turbo nerds
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Come to think of it, I have never had an irl conversation about warhammer (40k or not) and 99% of what I know about it comes from these forums
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Clark Nova posted:Come to think of it, I have never had an irl conversation about warhammer (40k or not) and 99% of what I know about it comes from these forums People in the military tend to have read them because there were lots of copies floating around Iraq and Afghanistan and in that situation you read what's available.
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I'll read anything but I've never come across a single Warhams book. Marquez is all over because he was one of the most successful authors of our (my) time
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I'm in awe of people who can hoover up so much garbage. There are people who can put away half a dozen terrible Lotr knockoffs or litrpgs in a week, and for what reason? Unhealthy behavior, it reminds me of the way people treat YouTube or podcasts. You start with finding something you'd like to listen to, and then eventually you end up just consuming more and more media just to do so rather than for the substance they hold.
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Gaius Marius posted:I'm in awe of people who can hoover up so much garbage. There are people who can put away half a dozen terrible Lotr knockoffs or litrpgs in a week, and for what reason? To pass the time, just like people who read anything else?
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Gaius Marius posted:I'm in awe of people who can hoover up so much garbage. There are people who can put away half a dozen terrible Lotr knockoffs or litrpgs in a week, and for what reason? When I realized that there are people who read only this and think this is what books are I finally understood Platos cave viscerally instead of intellectually
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3D Megadoodoo posted:To pass the time, just like people who read anything else? lollllllll forever if you read to 'pass the time' jesus gently caress
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3D Megadoodoo posted:To pass the time, just like people who read anything else? Its consumption without sustenance. A spiritual diet of dirt and rot
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so what is the story behind the diaper mudkip avatar I've been curious
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CestMoi posted:i got more emotional about them bringing the squats back than i ever did reading about colonel emiliano buendia so i think that person is right Did they bring the squats back??
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Everytime I've tried to "reach across the aisle" and read someone's no really this one is actually good genre fic recommendation I become deeply saddened and embarrassed for everyone involved
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Tree Goat posted:Did they bring the squats back?? they did, friend tree goat
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Its consumption without sustenance. Rabbit Starvation
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Mel do you just share a discord with this person or what
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pixel bitches posted:Everytime I've tried to "reach across the aisle" and read someone's no really this one is actually good genre fic recommendation I become deeply saddened and embarrassed for everyone involved I was pleasantly surprised by Neuromancer and Kim Stanley Robinson when i tried back in like 2017
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