/lit/ - Literature

>>19836737
Idk but I love subahibi

>>15561677
Like it or not the written word, novels in this case, are dying as a means of popular entertainment. Most people who are of the age of 30 or lower would faster watch stuff on Netflix, Youtube, or a multitude of other streaming services or play a video game to entertain themselves. Then of the few who are committed to reading, many fall into one of two categories. The first category would rarely if ever read fiction written in the past 20 years sticking to the proven classics, and then you have another audience of mostly teenage girls who are only really interested in YA. In other words, for the contemporary story teller, writing a novel is a dead end, and as a means of entertainment to consumers it is also by in large a dead end.

Visual Novels are the natural evolution of the novel (not in their content which is 99.9% weeb related), but in what they are as a medium; words > visuals = audio. Meaning they as a medium are reliant on narrative, words first and foremost and visuals and audio are secondary in importance, which are significant because they create an immersive aspect to the experience.

DFW was correct when he said that the problem many have with reading these days is that it is a quiet and lonely experience. VNs are not a lonely experience because the sensory stimulation of vision and aural are being actively used, but text and narrative are still the primary way in which most information is communicated.

Like it or not, but VNs are going to replace books. And we should be grateful, because the alternative is a death of the written word as a means of communicating fictional entertainment and we will be stuck with shitty TV and Netflix shows.

>The greatest work of literature of the 2010s is a pornographic picture book from Japan
What went wrong?

Not even lying. I've enjoyed many "actual" books, but none have effected me as much as this. Its been almost a year now, and still nearly everyday I think about this work. Ultimately it pushed me to take a more active role in my life, and to finally develop my more masculine personality traits.

>>7932295
Would you say its a good idea to reference Wittgenstein and Herman Hesse in a pornographic visual novel?