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ITT: Post vidya, get a /lit/ recommendation

>> No.22365018

>>22365003
Did they add a semen demon to TF2? This game was in my dream last night despite not having played it since 2012.

>> No.22365022

>>22365003
Call of the Crocodile

>> No.22365029
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what's a book/series that's like the tf2 comics?
>mostly comedic with slight moments of drama sprinkled in
>cast of colourful, morally dubious, fun characters
>absurd lore
>will give me brainrot thinking about how these characters would interact with eachother and their dynamics
I hear the city watch series in discworld is kind of like this. Any other recs?

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>> No.22366808

>>22365018
You didn't watch expiration date homie?

>> No.22366842

>>22365029
Don Quixote is the closest thing I can think of.

>> No.22367449

>>22365003
Comics were shit tbqhwya

>> No.22367471
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Something that captures the dark, gritty 19th century atmosphere of this game?

I like to listen to its OST when reading Russian novels

>> No.22367477

>>22367471
Disco Elysium

>> No.22367484

>>22367477
you're supposed to recommend a book nigga

>> No.22367498

>>22367484
he did xdddddd

>> No.22367509

>>22367498
looks like there is a book but it's not in English

>> No.22367518

Fortnite Campaign Mode

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>>22367484
Oh, then Germinal

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>>22365003

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>> No.22367679

>>22367531
Boring answer, but probably Stoner

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>> No.22367780

>>22367756
Larteguy - The Centurions

>> No.22367837

>>22367660
Hussite Trilogy

>> No.22367849

>>22367837
>fantasy

>> No.22367855

>>22367660
The Henriad

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>>22365003

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>>22365003
>>22365029
>>22366068
>>22367471
>>22367520
>>22367531
>>22367660
>>22367692
>>22367756
>>22367864
>>22367871

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>>22365003
WHERE'S ENGIE

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>>22365003

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>> No.22369032

>>22367692
Titus Groan

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>>22368798
With the administrator.

Generally he doesn't do much, maybe because his actor is never coming back so they don't want to put any emphasis on him. He barely shows up.

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Honestly can't really think of any Urban Crime Drama book that achieved critical praise.

>> No.22370325

Games are for children.

>> No.22370556

>>22370325
So are books. How many books are made with the intention of being read by children or their parents to them compared to video games?

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please there has to be something

>> No.22370713

>>22370325
yeah, i wish it would evolve into something more mature. Its so cool having a medium where you can interact with 3d space that its a shame most of it is wasted on trite shit

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Not looking for something political, but instead something that captures the noir atmosphere of revachol, and a complete fuckup of a main character who everyone (including his own station) makes fun of and has everything stacked against him, but still pushes on.

>> No.22371231

dota
factorio
ksp

>> No.22371650

Shadow of the Colossus. Looking for recommendations, preferably not from lit 100

>> No.22371654

>>22371177
dirk gently's holistic decteive agency.

>> No.22371656

>>22371177
> a complete fuckup of a main character who everyone (including his own station) makes fun of and has everything stacked against him, but still pushes on.
my diary, desu.
but seriously, The Yiddish Policemen Union seems to have been an inspiration to the developers.

>> No.22371687

>>22367509
My copy on steam is :DDD

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>>22370163
H:LotS?

>> No.22371693

>>22365018
They added her like 10 years ago, she is very cute. Gives you contracts and stuff in game

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>>22365003

>> No.22372625

>>22370136
Damn, that's quite the shame

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please

>> No.22372739

>>22370713
Make something!! The tools are out there, and there's a massive audience for games that feel like mature works of art. AI will help massively. I completely agree with you and am hard at worn on my own project. This is the new frontier.

>> No.22372934

>>22370689
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place by Jean Baudrillard

>> No.22373090

>>22367531
The Confusions of Young Torless

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Yeah it's cliche, but I love the aesthetic. There's something undeniably cozy about a dead world.

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Already read Alice + fairy tales.

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>> No.22375460

>>22367837
I didn't know Sapkowski other series also got English release. Neat.

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>> No.22375651

>>22374102
La peste by Camus, i know its got nothing to do with undeads or fantasy, but despite the deads, i find this book tremendously comfy

>> No.22375774

>>22375373
Nigga, for real?

>> No.22375837
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Saya no Uta

And no please don't give me De Sade... I tried that guy and he still doesn't beat this game.

>> No.22376012

>>22369022
LIGHT DOOR LIGHT DOOR LIGHT DOOR

>> No.22377170

>>22375373
Heart of Darkness which it's based on

>> No.22377222

>>22374102
Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique stories are pretty close to this.

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Resident Evil 5

>> No.22377384

>>22377362
Biohazard by Ken Alibek

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>> No.22377621

>>22377495
Programming from the Ground Up by Jonathan Bartlett

>> No.22377626

>>22377262
Plato's Republic and The Virtuous City by al-Farabi. Or just anything about utopian cities.

>> No.22377651

>>22374102
The Book of the New Sun series

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>> No.22378262

>>22377651
oh shit that's good. I'd toss in Hebdomeros for the sort of obtuse world and wandering around in it

>> No.22378487

>>22370689
A Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner

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>>22375837
>he still doesn't beat this game
Sade never played games, dumbass. He died hundreds of years ago.

>> No.22378786

>>22365003
>get a /lit/ recommendation
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Suicide-Prevention/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_28%3ASuicide+Prevention

>> No.22378791

>>22368070
/thread
>>22365003
>>22365029
>TF2 comics
>Playing since orange box
>Never read the comics
>Didn't know they exist until this thread
Zoomers are a cancer that humanity must stamp out.

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Need rec for this feel, sunny is literally me.

>> No.22378890
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No "The Road"

>> No.22378984

>>22378791
TF2 is pre-zoomer, zoom zoom

>> No.22379019

>>22378890
The Postman

>> No.22379027

>>22377262
Caesar's Column

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Been playing it lately. It's good.

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>> No.22379304

>>22379192
the luzhin defense
>>22378818
libra

>> No.22379317

>>22379192
The Chess Story by Stephan Zweig, also it doesn't teach you a bad opening like that recommendation>>22379304

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>> No.22379625

>>22379332
A Confederacy of Dunces. or Wilt.

>> No.22379668

>>22367756
Fist of God - Frederick Forsyth

>> No.22379817

>>22371177
The City and the City is the obvious choice, since Disco Elysium is heavily based on it.

Atmospherically it's perfect. Guy who's made fun of by his station, and has everything stacked against him? Also tick.

It's political though, sorry.

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>>22377495
Zachtronics games are hard but a good time waster

Anyways, my pick
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>>22375468

>> No.22380023

>>22378791
I bet I could beat you up butter bones.

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>> No.22380343

>>22379817
I read a little bit into the first chapter. It seemed not very character focused.