/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12356729]

>want to read
>can't stop playing videogames and browsing 4chan

[Anonymous No.12356758]

>want to become a person who doesn't take a couple of decades of AIDS infested dicks straight into the asshole every day
>can't stop frogposting

[Anonymous No.12356775]

>>12356758
This is NOT the type of reply I was looking for. This used to be a nice board. Wtf has happened to this place..

[Anonymous No.12356796]

>>12356729
get audiobooks.

also this place was never nice, in fact shitting on whatever you like is pretty much our MO.

[Anonymous No.12356822]

>>12356796
listen, it's cute that you're trying to act like le wise oldfag, but we can all tell how new you are.

[Anonymous No.12356823]

>>12356758
>HILLARY SAID YOU HAVE TO STOP USING THE RACIST FROG MEMES THAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND BECAUSE THEY PREDATE MY DISCOVERY OF THIS SITE ON REDDIT

[Anonymous No.12356834]

>>12356729
some anon said dopamine hits
how can you get dopamine hits reading?

[Anonymous No.12356838]

What games cant you stop playing? They have been garbage for 15 years

[Anonymous No.12356846]

>>12356775
aggressive pol retards and desperate r9k incels attacked

[Anonymous No.12356850]

>>12356775
>Wtf has happened to this place
Tons of blogposts like yours that don't carry any sense except the expression of feelings. If you want to get a helpful reply, try to make a decent OP in the first place

[Anonymous No.12356858]

>>12356729
Both of these activities objectively cause your brain to release more dopamine than reading some shitty book.

[Anonymous No.12356872]

>>12356838
>le contrarian NEW THING BAD poster
yikes. take it back to /v/, sunshine. this board is for adults.

[Anonymous No.12356883]

>>12356729
>Want to read
>All night playing videogames and browsing 4chan gave me a massive headache and cloudy vision

[Anonymous No.12357895]

>>12356846
This. Fuck off, /pol/.

[Anonymous No.12357965]

>>12356729
>you must read the 12 rules book by J. Peterson to learn adulting skills
>you must embrace the incel tradition of NoFap
>you must get a job, maybe two, to fill the hours of your day productively.
>you must turn off the fucking TV and internet.
>read 5 pages a day, as a beginning, no matter how long it takes. then, work your way up to 10 pages, then 20.
Just Fucking Do It.
>unless /pol/bait, then kys

[Anonymous No.12357969]

>>12356729
Same for me with youtube

[Anonymous No.12358041]

>shitpost on /lit/ instead
great start

[Anonymous No.12358194]

>>12356729
That sounds like a "you" problem.

[Anonymous No.12358225]

>>12356729
go to a park and read

[Anonymous No.12358243]

>>12357895
/lit/ is rightfully an erudite reactionary board, not some rabble-rousing popular fash-flavor-of-the-month crap.

[Anonymous No.12358247]

>can't stop playing videogames

what does that feel like? I've spent the last 5 years trying to genuinely enjoy videogames again.

[Anonymous No.12358250]

>>12357965
>adulting
YIKES

[Anonymous No.12358303]

>>12356838
Blood Bowl 2 is good

[Anonymous No.12358314]

>>12356775
stop making shit threads. you deserve shit responses

[Anonymous No.12358360]

>>12356729
What’s a good book to start with?

[Anonymous No.12358465]

>>12358243
Anyway back off to /pol/ incel

[Anonymous No.12358472]

What are some books similar to Legacy of Kain?

[Anonymous No.12358480]

>want to play videogames and browse 4chan
>can't stop reading

[Anonymous No.12358506]

>>12356729
Just stop then, it’s that easy. I stopped playing games after I played terraria for 36 hours straight, became disgusted with myself and destroyed my computer

[Anonymous No.12358514]

>>12358247
Honestly, if I take more than 3 hours playing videogames I feel like an absolute piece of useless garbage, tired and with sore eyes. How the fuck NEETs do it?

[Anonymous No.12358664]

>want to enjoy video games again
>can't and can only get joy from literature

[Anonymous No.12358681]

>>12358514
it's called stamina and fortitude

>>12358360
The Hobbit. It's a children's book but it's good and it's a quest.

[Anonymous No.12358694]

>Tfw want to get into reading but have like 20+ different things I could
>Can't decide
>End up wasting my day online
HELP ME PLEASE

[Anonymous No.12358699]

>want to do coke
>read all day, finish half a novel and a few essays in one sitting, can't stop thinking about coke

Literally hell

[Anonymous No.12358831]

>>12358694
Do you wanna read because you really desire it? Or is it just because you think it'll make you feel good about yourself to say that you do it? Be honest now, because it's only good to play with art when you want to do it unselfishly. If there's something else you want to do and you think you can do it without being selfish do that instead. Reading can wait, books will always be here, your impulse towards a humble and charitable approach to art or whatever else will change and mutate.

Tl;dr don't in desperation search for "self improvement" through so called noble things like literature. Instead work genuinely with whatever else and you'll be content

Be happy anon! I think you'll do great!

[Anonymous No.12358836]

>>12356729
Sexual release is what depletes motivation. You fail to establish the proper cause and that is why you are stuck. Abstain and gain.

[Anonymous No.12358877]

>>12358831
I want to read to: Build vocabulary, learn things, get my noggin jogging, and for fun I guess. I don't know. Pretty much anything other then shitposting online and playing vidya has to be a better use of my time.

[Anonymous No.12359152]

>>12358877
If you want to live happily you should try not to beat yourself up over the things you love. I also like video games and things that people like to call arbitrary or lowbrow. They're narcissists who want everyone to adhere to some chart because they like to tell themselves that they're good and right.

If you wanna read, how about Madame Bovary or Thousand Cranes?

[Anonymous No.12359294]

>>12358681
>it's called stamina and fortitude
>playing videogamos
>stamina and fortitude
Holy shit man, I hope this is bait

[Anonymous No.12359428]

>>12356729
>tfw the only video game I still enjoy is FIFA offline
I just like leading non-league teams to glory, buying shitters to see them grow into top players and daydreaming about being tactical genius.

[Anonymous No.12359462]

>>12356872
Faggot, list me ten good games in the last 15 years. You better not slip up.

[Anonymous No.12359488]

>>12356872
name a couple of fiction books published in the last 10 years that /lit/ sincerely cares about and discusses without insulting others for caring.

[Anonymous No.12359493]

>>12359428
A tip anon, don't ever try the football manager drug. Sounds like your demise.

[Anonymous No.12359502]

>>12359462
>15 years
So, since 2004?

Star Wars: Battlefront II (PS2)
Pokémon Emerald
Pokémon Platinum
Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver
Pokémon Black/White
Pokémon Black 2/White 2
Pokémon X/Y
Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

If you stretch back to 2002, I'd throw in 007: Nightfire.

[Anonymous No.12359787]

>>12359462
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Resident Evil 4
Shadow of the Colossus
Bioshock 1
Fallout New Vega
Dark Souls
Bloodborne
Persona 4
Persona 5
Yakuza 0

[Anonymous No.12359862]

>>12356838
>its been 15 years since Metal Gear Solid 3
>its been 16 years since Silent Hill 3
shit, you are right

[0 - Guy !pRqJctqU3c No.12359909]

>>12356775

I'll tell ya. Hope everyone's fellin - heh, feelin good today. settle down, i'll tell a brief story...

someone stole my story. bunch of pilgrims came to the fifth world. see, i'm secretly steven king's son, and steven king secretly sent me to establish a b each head for the fifth world, to do fifth world things. grow weird plants that talk about the lives of bricks, upsdie down text, that kind of thing.

bunch of pilgrims came. wanted a story of their own. wouldn't recommend ya look for it. don't like to read it myself. i just kinda use it as floss. therapeutic, have a laugh. and the story.... the story went -- we are the heroes of our own stories.

well, you're not. a person like me is important, and i'm pitiful compared to the unknowables upstairs. not pitiful, i'm just cute. it's all for show, bit of a laugh. well, the cables are falling. the cables of the Big Show. hope you'll be joining me.

I'm a bit of a writer myself. trying to get my pen to draw too. but all it wants to draw,.... is a burning house. now, fellas. just imagine the following picture. i think it's easier to write imaginative words, with my hands.

A burning house, of someone's home.

[Anonymous No.12359940]

>>12356858
that's why they must be avoided anon
a life of complete abstinence is the only way to think free of base earthly pleasures.

[Anonymous No.12359946]

>>12357965
are these adulting skills actually a thing? can you tell us more?

[Anonymous No.12359949]

Use a kindle and pretend you're reading a VN

[Anonymous No.12359955]

Same. Here I am on 4chan as a way of putting off starting the book that is on my table. How do I cut out the trash activities in my life??

[Anonymous No.12359966]

>>12359955
Join the army.

[Anonymous No.12359972]

I've managed to cut out video games and it wasn't really that hard for me. I feel like I just 'grew out' of them and just stopped being interested

[Anonymous No.12359982]

In an ideal world the only things i'd do in my free time are reading, gym, and psychedelics

[Anonymous No.12360276]

>>12359966
Maybe I should. I have no structure or purpose in my life and have no idea what I want to do

[Anonymous No.12360769]

>>12360276
What's the book on your table, anon?

[Anonymous No.12360827]

>>12358831
this post is a very good one

[Anonymous No.12360849]

>>12358831
Based and redpilled.

[Anonymous No.12360874]

>>12356872
you mean /vr/ right?

[Anonymous No.12360955]

>>12359462
The Talos Principle, The Sea Will Claim Everything, and To the Moon are /lit/ material

[Anonymous No.12361107]

>>12360955
To The Moon's writing is painfully juvenile. Its recommendation is damning