/lit/ - Literature

>>14764079
I know this person and he doesn't read (or watch) JBP, nice try though

>>14764096
We all know this person, it's your average redditor.

>>14764079
>normalfags
>reading
Make it Harry Potter or Hu

>>14764079
Peterson is more of a counter culture thing.
He is not the author for Marvel and GoT fans. Ta-nehisi Coates, Harry Potter and Handmaiden's Tale are more popular among those that follow the mainstream.

>>14764107
*Hunger Games

POPULAR BAD!

>>14764079
Author would be J.K. Rowling

>>14764108
At this point, this image can hardly be said to make a point... You have a music reviewer, a film maker, a mass shooter, a film critic... I have a feeling this is more of a "here's everyone I don't like" type of thing.

>>14764117
This but unironically. The vast majority of so-called “popular” things today are pure astroturf and cashcows pushed upon NPCs in order to make money. The TV or Internet tells them it’s the new hot thing, so they start to like it as well to fit in. I think contrarianism for the sake of being different is gay but let’s not pretend that what the plebs consume and engage in is anything of value.

>>14764117
You just outed yourself as an NPC.

>>14764108
Is it bad I can easily name at least 90% of the people here?

>>14764079
>using the word NPC
>parroting words you here on 4channel/the internet

Is this irony? You literally are being the mindless drone you are afraid of.

>>14764147
Yes, too much time on the internet. I know all except 4 and it's because I'm the internet 14 hours a day.

>>14764156
Let me guess, you like some of the things in the image.

>>14764156
NPC is only a modern term for a phenomenon that people have recognized since time immemorial. Whether we are referring to NPCs, hylics, shudras, natural slaves or lemmings, it’s all describing the same thing – the natural slavishness of the unthinking vast majority of humanity.

>>14764108
>AVGN
>Jim Carrey
fuckin keked

>>14764107
if they read anything it's self help books

>>14764172

>>14764079
I have dogs. They're cool. That's all.

>>14764180
I washed my penis and straightened up my room but I’m still a virgin NEET with no friends, what do?

>>14764117
Yes.

>>14764192
get addicted to benzos and move to russia while your daughter fucks bald pseudo-e-celebs and has children out of wedlock

>>14764192
>>14764204
AYOOO APPLY ALOE TO BURNED AREA AMIRITE GUYS?

>>14764204
Based and traditional

>>14764127
Are you retarded? The image is clearly a joke

>>14764115
In previous centuries, no; today, yes: popular bad. You think something that appeals to the majority of people all over the world isn't going to be the blandest shit ever made?

>>14764079
They don’t read. Petersonfags are at least disaffected with society somehow.

>>14764108
>kafka
>joyce
>russel

>>14764108
That's not even DFW, but Jason Segel playing DFW.

>>14764079
Anyone who askes "books similar to____ (video game/popular movie) are peak NPC

>>14764347
>Dostoevsky
>Nietzsche
>Jesus

>>14764079
what's a good non npc pet bros?
is it common to get a pet shortly before you commit suicide? i've seen this pattern a few times.

>>14764108
>tfw your old fantasy of being dominated by laci green and that feminist anita milf will never be fulfilled

Ready Player One
All works by James Baldwin
Any Ya lit

>>14764354
how postmodern

>>14764079
Fortnite is the /lit/ choice for video games

>>14764079
I would say self help books like other said.
The unironic belief that
>the system is great!
>it's you who is not great

And then spending money on trying to fit into the system, instead of reading literature expanding your view on why it is you dont fit in.
A self help book can be good if its an actual good one, and if it makes you wonder about what motivates you and gives you tips on how to get it, but most people buy them and tries to follow their advice and then never make a change. It's also some of the most sold books ever, and it just goes to show how many people are dysfunctional or feel they have an inherent need to improve themselves all the time, instead of taking it slow and pondering things over.

>>14764108
Ummm, hello, based department? Yes I would like to order one order of based please!

>Would you like a side of based with that sir?

Well Golly gee! I think I might!

>>14764363
a dog which you train to be useful. a german shepherd for example. anything else like a cat or one of those small dogs that are useless that you only buy because they are so cute, thats npc.

>>14764079
stephen king

>>14764307
It wasn't initially. Got edited over time.

“I have no personality and I must express”

>>14764795
If people are after actual self-help, tell them to read Seneca.

>>14764914
cats don't protect from the otherworld?

>>14764108
i fucking love this picture just seeing sam hyde next to yanis varufakis below alex jones, fuck the context and shitm, brings me euphoria

>>14764108
what's the point this picture is making? Most of them are pseuds, yes, but then you have Jesus, David Bowie, Christian Bale playing Bateman, Kafka, Nietzsche, Zappa, Bowie, Lynch, Borges... is that Descartes? I wonder who wouldn't qualify as pseuds in your viewpoint

There's nothing wrong with a little pizza from time to time.

>>14764969
Cats at least protect from rodents and most bugs. I lived with a particularly active cat for over a year and didn't see a single bug that wasn't being murdered.

>>14764363
Birds are noble-tier pets.

>>14764167
I don't know about the poster you're responding to, but I definitely do. I like dogs and especially my pet dog.

>>14765086
Maybe if you live on a farm where that’s necessary, and if you have a particularly good cat. A lot of cats catch like one or two mice then just let the rest go cause it’s lazy.

>>14764079
Dogs are the most patrician pet...

>>14765086
>>14764969

Cats carry toxoplasmosis, which infects you permanently and changes your personality. Cat shit is literally a biohazard.

>>14764108
>Elliot Rodger
>Stefan Molyneux
>Paul Joseph Watson
>psuedo-intellectual rhetoricians
yep I'm thinking cringe

A large charismatic dog is the only non-bugman pet

>>14764079
Young Adult fiction, generally.

The subtle art of not giving a f*ck
12 rules for life
How to win friends and influence people
Rich dad, poor dad
Spirituality bullshit
YA

BONUS ROUND

Harry Potter
LOTR
A brief history of time
Astrophysics for people in a hurry
A song of ice and fire

>>14764079
Human Action
Capital
Wealth of Nations

>>14764108
>which brand-recognizable niche public figures do you dislike?
>All of them! Especually which ever one you like the most! Please respond.

>>14764108
okay, now this is epic

>>14764079
Is /lit/ basically /v/ but with books?
What's this contrarian, "popular = BAD" shit doing in the front page?

>>14765848
This is the actual answer. Waterstones bestseller tier.

>>14764079
>not Stephen King

>>14765953
Basically yes, /lit/ also doesn’t read books

>>14764363
having pets is npc tier in the first place

>>14764363
a dog that goes actually hunting and or camping with you or just out in general, not something that sits in your apartment and maybe occasionally you treat to a walk on a cement path where hobos piss on

I'm the most boring faggot in the world. I can't engage in small talk for shit. I'm totally divorced from consumer culture and have no idea what the fuck people are talking about media or news wise. I can only talk about obscure autistic pseud topics which wouldn't interest anyone even if it got passed the "it's impolite to have any mentally engaging conversations because this confuses the normalfag into thinking you are arguing with them or about to murder them" filter.

I'm just attractive and have just enough of a normalfag persona to generally get "nice" people to try to be my friend, get to know me and invite me to places. Although I instinctively turn them down, if i'm forced to be around them a lot for work or whatever they quickly learn there is absolutely nothing to me. No hobbies, no jokes, no opinions, no talents, anecdotes NOTHING.

>>14764117
>popular good because popular
>popular is popular because good therefore popular
t.f.w. alt-smart with cool contrarian opinions

>>14764363
Retired military dogs
Stray dogs and cats that just sticked around without you asking
Scorpions
Mico
Snakes
Skunks

>>14766352
what did he mean by this?

>>14766352
Have you tried expanding your interests?

>>14766352
For curiosity, what are your interests?

>>14764108
It's like a collective art project, every time someone posts it, it gets bigger.

>>14764108
Why is Mahler on there? Is he an Easter egg?

It would be some book that everyone reads in highschool; they haven't read anything since... although they are planning to start reading more.

>>14765742
>changes your personality
in what way

I like pizza and dogs, not necessarily in that order.

>>14767886
It actually raises your testosterone, but makes you like cats more.
It might fuck up your memory when you're old.
But if a cat has been de wormed, it's not a threat. Even if it hasn't just be hygienic about cat poop/

>>14764192
walk the path of a hero

>>14764108
This meme has powerful voodoo

>>14764192
stop needing to be told what to do

>>14764079
The Sparrow

>>14764363
You're over analyzing. Pick the pet who suits your lifestyle best, read up on it. If you prefer to stay inside pick a cat or sofa dog, if you're more active pick a more active dog

>>14764079
Pepperoni pizza, dog, and JBP check out as OK. The other stuff is NPC tier.

>>14764108
This image really is the ultimate pseud detector.

>normie NPCs:
Anything with the word "bestseller" on the cover

>hipster/English major/"intellectual"/ironic NPCs:
David Foster Wallace

Gödel, Escher, Bach

>>14769092
Imagine how much of a coping midwit you'd have to be to consider this NPC.

>>14764079
Cervantes, Kafka, Joyce, David Foster Wallace, Quevedo, Shakespeare, Tao Lin

>>14764161
>I'm the internet 14 hours a day.

>>14764079
if the book has a picture of the author on the cover of the first edition, its a good sign

>>14764117
>“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. ... A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”

Schopenhauer

>>14764108
What the hell is up with the bottom half of the image? Makes no sense

>>14765062
Are you implying Zappa wasn't a pseud? He was the epitome of one, saying nothing and presenting it as profound. also he was a cia ni*gger pretending to be a hippie for psyop access

>>14764108
the quality of this meme exponentially increases as you get closer to the bottom

liking Don Quixote is pretty NPC
>muh windmill crazy man! LOL!

>>14764127
>I have a feeling this is more of a "here's everyone I don't like" type of thing.
It's more like a "here's everyone" type of thing

>>14764108
>Nietzche
>Tolstoy
>Russell
>Socrates
??

>>14764169
Based

>>14767886
>>14768275
From what I understand the personality changing aspect of toxoplasmosis is unsubstantiated, at least in humans, and I think it’s a relatively rare phenomenon where people to get infected with it.

>>14764108
>cheech and chong

>>14764079
I think its changing. Theres a polarshift in whats normie as millenials get older and less relevent. I work in a resteraunt with a bunch of zoomers and none of them know what Lovecraft, Bob Dylan, D&D or reggae is.

>>14769834
thank god, dylan is absolute garbage.

>>14764079
You leave dogs and pizza out of this conflict. They've done you no wrong. That other shit sucks tho.

>>14769834
I was born in 94 and when I was a teen I would say that what you've suggested was also true of my cohort, in general. I think even many in their mid 20s now couldn't name any Reggae artists or Lovecraft stories (although I don't know why you choose those examples).

Point is: those who are actually clued in and care about culture will always go digging and judge things against their own principles, not those of the masses. Not everyone in their teens is a complete, hyperactive retard. Nor is everyone in their 60s an out of touch, bumbling cretin.

>>14764079
>I define my personality by what I consume
How do I know you're actually the npc?

>>14769309
Frank Zappa openly hated hippies and hippie culture.

>>14764079
new york times best seller list
amazon best sellers
jordan peterson
self-help books
oprah bookclub books
"why are X the bad guys" polemical books

>>14766710
I was just about to ask the same question

HARRY FUCKING POTTER

>>14764079
I would fucking love to be this person. I wish I could have been an NPC. Ignorance is always the least painful path.

>>14764108
everyone on here belongs except lindybeige

>>14764354
it's called irony simp

>>14764079
books affirming one's view instead of confronting it.

>>14764079
I've never played fortnite so i'm not sure if it qualifies as NPC or not. I've also never watched a marvel movie, so again I can't confirm its status as NPC. Dogs are okay, especially if trained well. I watched almost all of season one of GOT and decided it wasn't for me. Pizza, of course, is fine (although it's really the toppings that count). And I used to think Peterson was a stand-up chap, then I didn't, and now I'm pretty much indifferent to him.

>>14769309
Zappa was both an extremely talented musician and an enormous pseud. He was responsible for some of the best rock albums of all time, and also made countless unlistenable ones, ruined by his self-impressed and unfunny social commentary.

>>14764108
solid bait

>>14764127
The point of the image is to make fun of people who make such images.

>>14764079
I love pizza, dogs and Marvel movies.
Never read Peterson and GOT was only decent for the first 3 seasons.

>>14764363
Rats

>>14764108
>glenn gould
absolutely based

>>14764108
I laughed so hard to how Onision is between Borges and Tolstoy, man you guy really know how to make funny stupid incoherent stuff

>>14771996
the point is literally just to get (you)s

>>14764108

>>14764079
>fortnite
Boring and boomer at this point really
>marvel
you have to admit that the avengers cycle is ambitious
>labrador retriever
literally nothing at all wrong with this dog. I bet the person who made this has a fucking pitbull or some other accessory breed
>game of thrones
meh
>pizza
chad eats PIZZA
>jbp
nothing wrong with jbp

>>14769072
>DFW
Who should I use to belittle him and display my patrician taste.

>>14766352
this is literally me

But it happens with relationships.... I always end up feeling like I dont want this mediocre life with this girl and end it, even when she is literal 10/10. (I even bang high earning intelligent chicks) What do

>>14764354
good catch anon, based as fuck

>>14766710
>mehler

>>14765916
admit it anon, you got trolled & pwned

>>14764108
>Why yes, I am that faggot from Candide. How could you tell?

>>14764096
clean your meth pipe

>>14764079
>"The NPC says, 'We have found happiness.' and he blinks."
CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL
A MILLION LITTLE PIECES
OPRAH BOOK CLUB [published after 1950]

>>14764130
>The vast majority of so-called “popular” things today are pure astroturf and cashcows pushed upon NPCs in order to make money.
This, cargo cult baggage train of the astroturf wagon jumpers

>>14769309
>Zappa glow ape larp
Playing with military base runoff mercury and radioactive materials prefigured this

>>14773277
>brush your meth teeth

>>14764108
>sam hyde appears 2 times

>>14764363
Imagine trying to stand out so hard. You are a fucking generic faggot with no personality.

>>14770173
Pizza is junk food and thus it's bad though.

>>14764108
Richard Spencer is literally smarter than anyone on /lit/. He diagnoses the world's ills with terrifying precision and lucidity and always comes across as an eloquent gentlemen barring the times he lets his faustian rage take over

>>14764108
not sure if DFW or Jason Segel is the Psed in question.

>>14764108
>Jesus
>Patrick Bateman
>an actor playing David foster wallace

>>14764117
popular is not always bad, for example take the Witcher books and vidya. But Witcher from Netflix? It's a fucking cancer. Because Witcher books were written when no one knew about Sapkowski, and the netflix shit was released just to milk money from empty soulless retards like you.

>>14764079
Anything from Orwell

>>14772975
Cringe.