/lit/ - Literature

>>10609634
This is from the Introduction:

In the modern age, gaming has become the king of the entertainment world. It now rakes in more money and soaks up more quality time than any other entertainment medium in existence. This has earned it some prominent enemies, as well as some unlikely champions.

Today’s average gamer may not remember the “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s, when the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was assaulted by evangelicals who feared that the pen-and-paper hobby was a gateway into mysticism and the occult, but it stands as an early example of children’s games being demonized as serious social problems. It spread across society like wildfire, fueled by half-informed observations and the occasional unverified shock story about what could happen when you started rolling the dice. Parents didn’t want their kids turning into sedentary, antisocial nerds playing out unhealthy fantasies in simulated worlds; they didn’t have anything like that when they were growing up. Before long, video games showed up and added graphics, sound effects, and controllers into the mix. Gruesome and suggestive video games started making waves in the 1990s and a similar vanguard emerged to protect the young, only this time from the political left. Fearing that games had an even more insidious power to corrupt the minds of the youth, some worried about a wave of degeneracy and crime sprees based on the availability of “murder simulators.” Outspoken senators discussed how to regulate such a “dangerous” industry, but this only made these mature video games seem even more rebellious and cool.

Opponents of video games and the free market have come and gone over the decades, but only a handful have managed to make a dent. By now there’s a slew of highly lucrative video games inspired by that evil old Dungeons & Dragons hobby, and fans look forward to seeing how the new virtual reality tech will allow one to lose themselves in such worlds on a whole new level. It seems video games have won the war. They still have plenty of resistance from other sects of society, however. The old fight about morality and decency has been replaced by a new fight about political correctness—you know, the endless struggle for equality, diversity, and the promise of a Nanny State that gets regurgitated by students of Critical Theory and Cultural Marxism. The difference between the old opponents and the new is that the new opponents aren’t on the fringes; they’re embedded into the liberal institutions that dominate academia and journalism. They aren’t showing much sign of success either. Both sides of the culture war have tried to either kill or control gaming in some way, and yet it’s thrived. Japan's immunity to Western ideologues is partly to thank for that, since they’ve always been one of the biggest producers of video games in the world.

Any thoughts? Questions? I'm proud of my work and I hope you guys buy it, because it's a good read even if you're not into MGS itself

I’m the bunny killer. I come for what I want and I take it. There is no begging or forgiveness I slaughter with the quickness. I’m the bunny killer. I come for what I want and I take it. Male or female or does not matter their brain their blood I splatter. I’m the bunny killer. I come for what I want and I take it. I keep my knife by my side if I was caught I’d be fried. I’m the bunny killer. I come for what I want and take it.

Do it.

>>10317002
yeah but maybe the faggot just really likes andy and wants to read the same books as him

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Tom Jones

The Buk of Moron, of curse!

Book Of Mormon, desu.

mrs doubtfire. legit watch mrs doubtfire.

Eurofag trying to improve English. Help me /lit

>>10243814
The Catcher in the Rye made be beat the phony bastard crap outta my elevator attendant/doorman.

Trust me, there is better fiction than you think. Some is repurposed into new fiction, and some has survived the tests of time itself.

So, kinda new here, I've read The Laundry and Harry Potter I've only heard about.

What if the characters of Harry Potter finds out about the top secret organization of The Laundry and that there are "muggles" doing magic without wands.

So, I've been reading a lot of The Laundry Files by Charles Stross, and I've only heard but never read about Harry Potter, discuss what if's here.

(￣人￣) Hello. I am "Mr. Likes To Sage Threads". I do believe this thread is in need of Sage, so I would like to sage it. That is why my name is "Mr. Likes To Sage Threads"

Hey /lit/menstrators is it truck that in Huckel BerryFin, Tom Soyer says nigger?

>>9179677
oh no! my wife! quick! i'd better hide in that can of spaghetti!

>stop frogposting
>work hard instead

>>9009777
>Read less, work more
this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSY18zIHQAU

He ended the show early, and then he showed some more Animaniacs reruns.

>>8607763
I am not discrediting what you say; I just wish that you would take you're high quality of dialogue to /pol/ so as to enhance the quality of that board

>>8605834
>I've just finished reading a novel that is held in high esteem and now feel that I need to validate my intellectualism by proclaiming my choice in literature as superior
Whew...

>>8607734
This is a shit thread that will, in turn, render shit.