/lit/ - Literature

Per the Big 5, are you conscientious? Specifically, are you industrious?

Then you'll probably argue for literature. If not, then for video games. If you're in the middle, you'll argue that both have their place.

How intelligent you are will also play a factor. Video games are by nature repetitive. Lower IQ people are suited for more repetitive. less abstract activities and vice-versa.

Reading great books by great men for the purpose of changing yourself, the world, your skills, etc. requires industriousness and high IQ.

Reading books for pleasure is likely going to be associated with relatively lower industriousness and lower IQ depending on what is being read.

Playing video games is likely associated with lower industriousness and lower IQ. Same shit, different day. You're just flipping bits on a computer and mashing some buttons.

That is not to say playing games / having fun is some terrible evil. Playing around is required for proper development of children. Read Jean Piaget if you're not convinced.

How is this thread still even going I have no idea.

Posting a couple more of his pieces for reference.
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Hey /lit/.
I hate the halloween party bullshit. For me it was always a time for self-reflection and visiting the graves of my family (I'm from Eastern Europe).

Please recommend me some poems dealing with the topics of death, passing, fatalism, entropy etc.

Don't be picky. You have a lot of freedom, choose what you feel is right for this.
I will read all suggestions.
Thanks.

Just finished At the Mountains of Madness right now.

Please /lit/, recommand me now some books who smells like Zdzisław Beksiński or H.R. Giger's artworks.

Something atmospheric, unsettling, that feels out of this world.
A bit like Dark Souls universe, but too bad I'm not that much into vidya