/lit/ - Literature

>>11910269
It's like a chat room - these threads are temporary and transient, gone in a couple days, purged from the Internet (barring archive that no one cares about) a little after that. More to the point, we're all anonymous. Both of these greatly contribute to why no one ever bothers to say anything truly meaningful: there's no recognition to be had for an unknown speaker, and the words won't last for long anyway.

>>11887125
It's both. It was written back in the day when the two were not separated at all. Don't try to bind books of the time into one genre - you will fail.

>>11823230
As a fantasy enthusiast, I cannot possibly limit myself to only what I like. I pride myself of knowing what I'm talking about and being fully aware of what sort of books modern readers enjoy, even if it means wading through some unimaginable shit in order to obtain that knowledge.

>>11803813
There are no rules in writing, only guidelines - guidelines that the inexperienced and the incompetent should follow like gospel, but that a great author can readily disregard.

"No first person" is one such guideline.

>>11790656
Mixing two separately delicious things into one hot fucking mess?

litrpg.

Artificial intelligence can never emulate true human minds, because they think differently and more limitedly by default.

A human mind is a complex mess of a million factors and modifiers working together in ways we can probably never truly predict, or trace back to see what exactly caused what - it's all chemicals and shit, and there's so many different kinds. But with machines, it all boils down to One and Zero, Yes or No, If and When: you can make them as complex as you wish, and they can occasionally work in unpredictable ways, but at the end of the day it's never anything you couldn't figure out after the fact, a process of easily traceable cause and effect.

In fact, I personally believe that it is just this incomprehensible soup of deja vus and other random shit that gives humans consciousness and free will. Robots, on the other hand, remain only machines unless we one day come up with a way to build them an organic brain or something that simulates all the random nonsense of organic brain... and why the hell would we ever want to do that? Who would ever deliberately build such a fucking mess full of useless incomprehensible shit?

>>11748207
Greeks were big on hospitality.

The whole war didn't begin because Menelaus got cucked and was jealous and angry, but because Paris going off with Helen was a severe breach of hospitality. To let him get away with that was an insult to Zeus. That's why it was even possible for Cuckulaus to gather such a vast host: if it were just about some broad, no one would've given a fuck.

>>11719878
It was stitched together from a hundred better nations, made to wield a worse version of the single worst and most unwieldy language in the world, then filled to the brim with niggers.

It never had a chance.

>>11701055
Because middle-aged adults lead boring-as-fuck lives, having settled down and gotten children and started to get all these weird aches and pains and midlife crisis is at full swing.

They want to escape their dreary lives, into something actually exciting and a bit scary. They want to live through the eyes of these protagonists and have crazy adventures. But they're too fat to go on one themselves. So they pick up a book.

>>11691958
Because if we look out for other people, the other people look out for us.

>>11670542
If you can't ask them? Well, I suppose the whole analogy is already stupid enough anyway that we can add that little bit of retardation on top of it.

If you can't ask anyone else, then ask yourself - would you allow your own life to be taken under the same circumstances? Would you be all right with sacrificing your own life for the greater good? If so, you should probably just kill yourself, for you know you are ready to die and do not know the same of these other people. If taking your own life doesn't count for this clusterfuck of a moral dilemma, then perhaps you can make some assumptions on those you would have to kill for this, and pick the ones you deem the most likely to be okay with it.

If on the other hand you would not be willing to sacrifice your own life to save five people, or a megacity, or the world... then I guess you're all fucked.

Honestly, it kind of amuses me how someone can come up with some utterly unrealistic scenario like this, then claim to have lolDESTROYED and BTFOd the whole moral system. Like you people knew shit.

>>11643401
I'm cool, provided they're rare and hide their gender. You can go on about diversity and gender equality, or about how women would be weaker than men or whatever, but at the end of the day it's just really boring when like fifty percent of armed forces is women and nobody thinks about it any.

Have a woman want to join the army but everyone tells her she can't. Have her disguise herself as a man to get in. Have her get into tense situations where her disguise is threatened or compromised. Have her train hard and push herself through her limits in order to be taken seriously, to the point where she could match most men in battle out of sheer determination alone. Ultimately, have her prove herself as a capable warrior and a great hero, earn the respect of everyone around her, and (optionally) save the day.

There's so much drama in there! So much tension, so many hooks, so many things going on. You should take advantage of them, instead of just having everyone go "Okay, you're in, have fun", and have her be just as good as the rest from the beginning and no one giving a shit - just taking all that cool stuff and flushing it down the toilet because "muh misogyny" or whatever.

It could be great, but it rarely is nowadays. Alas.

>>11632049
If you don't care about anyone but your family and friends, then why should anyone outside that group care about you? Then how will you avoid being robbed or killed by some other dickweed like yourself, and why should you be allowed to cry if that ever happens?

>>11616755
>The real challenge now is figuring out what to do next.
Write another one.

I'm serious. Your very first novel is most likely ineligible for publication. The second one as well, probably. Trying to publish them would be kind of like a guy running around the block one time and thinking he can take on the marathon: not entirely impossible, but most likely you're still a bit pudgy and out of shape and might want to keep on working out a little bit more.

You'll have to keep on writing shit until you're legitimately sure that it's something worth throwing out there. I wrote about four before I ended up with something I considered worthwhile, and even that's not taking into account a decade's worth of fanfiction and other shit that was either too short to really count or that I never really finished. If this really is your "first attempt", you're nowhere near ready.

Keep at it, though! I have faith in you: if I could do it, then anyone can.

Studying science does not improve you morally. The only kind of progress that truly matters is moral progress.