/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11670219]

Just a friendly reminder that books are an outdated medium. You are wasting time that could be better spent playing games or watching movies.

[Anonymous No.11670364]

>brings back pamphlets

[Anonymous No.11670387]

>>11670364
Basically what zines are

[Anonymous No.11670476]

>>11670219
I want to burn a square inch of her skin with a blowtorch for every time she fantasized about fucking a nigger.

Fuck roasties. Fuck whores.

[Anonymous No.11670489]

>>11670476
I'd rather just pay her to suck my dick

[Anonymous No.11670491]

You're absolutely right, books are shit
Netflix is much better

[Anonymous No.11670494]

>>11670489
>paying
dork

[Anonymous No.11670597]

>>11670219
Not really. There are many feelings I've felt while reading a book that I've never experienced while watching a film, much less a videogame. Not to mention the thoughts I've had. Why don't we accept the fact that each medium has its own virtues instead of acting like autistic 12 year olds who play Minecraft exclusively?

[Anonymous No.11670607]

>>11670597
>much less a videogame
what did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.11670615]

>>11670219
>Jordyn
Literally perfect qt3.14/10

[Anonymous No.11670618]

>>11670219
Millennials are most likely the last generation of readers. Zoomers don't read and hate every medium that isn't Youtube and video games.

By the end of this century you will start seeing English classes assigning films in place of books; and by that point even movies will be considered outdated to the new generation of VR addicted ultra zoomers of the time. Books will be looked at the same way as neanderthal cave paintings.

[Anonymous No.11670622]

>>11670219

90% of the people who say movies are a better medium than books have probably never seen a Tarkovsky film or a silent film in their lives

[Anonymous No.11670624]

>>11670607
Not him but most video games don't leave much space for introspective experiences, it's mainly about action.

[Anonymous No.11670629]

>>11670618
We're heading to Idiocracy, aren't we?

[Anonymous No.11670644]

>>11670476
Probably not. A lot of blondes like that are racists. My girlfriend is

[Anonymous No.11670678]

>>11670219
this, but unironically. this entire board is basically
>literature is old and unpopular, so I must pretend to like it! Reading Infinite Jest is f-fun! Time to google the meaning of this chapter and then shitpost on /lit/ for the rest of the day because I can't even stomach the same medium I claim to "love"

[Anonymous No.11670699]

>>11670678
Why are you here? Your kind should be put to sleep.

[Anonymous No.11670710]

>>11670699
>why isn’t everyone else a brain dead loser like myself
Ehl oh ehl

[Anonymous No.11670720]

>>11670699
>NO! STOP! I AM SUPERIOR BECAUSE I FORCE MYSELF TO READ EVERY SINGLE DAY, WISHING I WAS DOING LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE! ENTERTAINMENT IS FOR PLEBS! YOU SHOULD HATE WHAT YOU'RE DOING!

[Anonymous No.11670730]

>>11670494
I'm too ugly to get it for free

[Anonymous No.11670738]

>>11670720
I enjoy all mediums, retard. I'm not an autistic bookworm.

[Anonymous No.11670757]

>>11670720
why do non-readers assume that readers hate reading?

[Anonymous No.11670758]

>>11670678
Infinite Jest is legitimately a hilarious book and people who pretend it's boring or hard and read purely for pseud-cred have clearly never even read the first ten pages.

People definitely buy it for pseud-cred, but it's laborious enough that you have to enjoy it at least a little to get through it.

[Anonymous No.11670760]

>>11670219
How would it be 'better spent'?

[Anonymous No.11670762]

>>11670720
I read because I enjoy it and have done so since elementary school.
Not everyone here is a poser.
I come here because I am genuinely looking for more interesting shit to read especially these days as most content produced by Netflix etc is lazy qnd unimaginative.
Take the most recent season of Rick and Morty for example

[Anonymous No.11670771]

>>11670760
alcohol
cigarettes
weed

[Anonymous No.11670790]

>>11670219
Unironically the hottest pick if have seen in quiet some time. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.11670799]

>>11670771
>life is best spent on an early death

[Anonymous No.11670802]

>>11670799
>weed
>early death
Spotted the boomer

[Anonymous No.11670803]

>>11670771
I mean how would specifically movies and playing vidya be better spent than books?

[Anonymous No.11670815]

>>11670799
>short life experiencing the maximum amount of pleasure
vs
>a century of being a miserable pseud pretending that reading 200 year old tomes is enjoyable in the slightest

Yeah, tough choice.

[Anonymous No.11670822]

>>11670720
>he doesn’t about the monastics who spent their entire life ascetically only to be rewarded with serenity and perhaps a beatic vision.

[Anonymous No.11670841]

>>11670815
>>short life experiencing the maximum amount of pleasure
Pleasure is limited by one's biology and income. If you live an objectively mediocre or shitty life, literature is best form of escapism there is

[Anonymous No.11670880]

>>11670841
>Pleasure is limited by one's biology and income. If you live an objectively mediocre or shitty life, literature is best form of escapism there is
This

[Anonymous No.11670890]

>>11670771
>corrupting the eternal soul for cheap and transient pleasure

[Anonymous No.11670892]

>>11670841
video games are objectively superior to books when it come to escapism.

Toss weed into the mix and books simply cannot compete

[Anonymous No.11670912]

>>11670841
If you live an objectively mediocre or shitty life, masturbation is best form of escapism there is
fixed

[Anonymous No.11670931]

>>11670892
>not enjoying reading while high
Must be literally retarded

[Anonymous No.11671000]

>>11670892
Videogames don't let you vicariously live the lives of smarter and more successful people. It mostly just consists of power fantasies. With books you can read the thoughts of actual geniuses, which is almost like living in their heads.

[Anonymous No.11671012]

No other medium captures human thought like literature does. Film consists of images that require interpretation, and video games consist of feeling satisfied over accomplishing arbitrary goals. Only literature lets you live in someone else's head.

[Anonymous No.11671160]

>>11670219
Is photography an outdated medium? Is black and white movies outdated? Is 8bit videogames outdated? On what basis do you take literature as outdated?

[Anonymous No.11671234]

>>11670219
a game like nier automata is pretty much the highest form of art in our age. books really cant compete. even film pales in comparison

[Anonymous No.11671277]

>>11671234
nier is barely literary, it's an ok aesthetic but there's games i'd hold up as being more narratively and thematically interesting

i'd heard people jacking off over it as some sort of aesthetic masterpiece and in the end i just got jpop goth pseudo-nietzschean ramblings with a repetitive quest structure. wow so deep

[Anonymous No.11671282]

Artists should create illustrations for texts, might even be profitable. Could make for a kind of visual novel too.

[Anonymous No.11671292]

>>11671160
360° video is pretty cool though.

[Anonymous No.11671312]

>>11670476
Your impotence won't help you get women.

[Anonymous No.11671380]

>>11670892
My mood is
Much better being a NEET with books than when I was a NEET with vidya

[Anonymous No.11671405]

>>11670802
>alcohol
>cigarettes
Aren’t you missing something?

[Anonymous No.11671440]

>>11670890
>Not reveling in the cheap and transient pleasures of life before settling into a life of intellectualism.

Can one really be an intellectual if they haven't done this?

[Anonymous No.11671448]

>>11671405
Anyone who ‘misses’ those is a net winner

[Anonymous No.11671574]

>>11671440
What do you think?

[Anonymous No.11671664]

>>11670678
Why do people think Infinite Jest is so hard? Because it isn't. It's overly long, yes, but it's also funny and interesting, and there's hardly any other book that feels so contemporary, despite being written more than 20 years ago.

[Anonymous No.11671728]

>>11671282
lots of people do that. myself included. i even incorporate gifs. it isnt that hot.

[Anonymous No.11671792]

>>11670629
It wasn't supposed to be a documentary, but in the end, ultimately, it turned out to be one. Sad.

[Anonymous No.11671835]

>>11670476
*snap* this is going in my cringe compilation