(The Melancholy of) the Defective Pixel

[Anonymous No.4438843]

Sup /lit/

My name is Adrian and I'm currently writing a book on the following themes

>Depression
>Cyber culture
>Internet and video games addiction
>Solitude
>Anxiety
>etc

The title is The melancholy of the Dead Pixel, but I'm actually writing this down in french, so the title would be La melancolie du pixel mort wich sounds way better. I guess you understand what it revolves around. I have a publishing accord with Les Editions du Soleil and possibly another one, but odds are good that it will be published.

I'm here because I'm looking for testimonies, stories, slices of life, everything you would like to share.

if it's particularily long I can post email / skype, etc, but you can also ask me questions and answer here

[Anonymous No.4438848]

I'm 19 years old.

I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.

I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.

I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.

I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.

Both my parents are alive and in good health.

I have no regrets.

I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.

I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.

I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.

I will live a good life at your expense.

[Anonymous No.4438855]

>>4438848
>I look like a spotty fish

[Anonymous No.4438858]

How old are you Adrian?

Are you French, or just autistic?

[Anonymous No.4438866]

>>4438843
Will that be a collection of short stories and people's testimonials? did you alraedy write something?

[Anonymous No.4438878]

no you aren't taking my story, fuck you

[Anonymous No.4438895]

>write my book for me
piss off you frog cunt

[Anonymous No.4438907]

>>4438843
Which authors do you use as inspiration for your book?

[Anonymous No.4438910]

>>4438843
please make it the hyper-realistic post-cyberpunk we are all waiting

[Anonymous No.4438912]

>>4438907
not op but he will surely answer William Gibson and Neal Stephenson

[Anonymous No.4438915]

>>4438843
Hi frenchie
I also feel like a dead pixel in this high definition display we call reality

[Anonymous No.4438925]

I was asked to go to prom by the cutie I sat next to in English, I obviously turned down her offer because I was scared I would fuck it up.

[Anonymous No.4438997]

>>4438925
who knows, maybe it was nevada-tan

[Anonymous No.4439011]

>>4438848
>I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.
8/10 you almost had me there

[Anonymous No.4439037]

Sounds like a cool idea for a book. Here is one of my journal entries. I hope you enjoy it for what its worth... "Another day, another dollar. The need for excitement sometimes consumes me. Regardless of social desires, the need to fulfill anything in my mind becomes a passion like none other. Letting yourself be defined by anything at all , when sometimes it even becomes a chore brushing off a grouping of your core passions. It all seems like fair game, finding enjoyment in even the most simple things, as simple sounding as that seems. Simple mindedness has become a pleasure and challenge all in its own. There is no need to induce the dimmer switch, for repositioning your conventions of perceptions to a more realist type purpose is enough to keep from thinking I’m too smart for my own good. Keep it simple stupid, more so each and every day. Keeping to a more fundamental approach can be a truly humbling mindset to experience. Childlike tendencies no longer resemble currency, yet being demeaning of any other perception becomes the pejorative factor. Disparaging thought creeps in from time to time, but overall, I get the sense that my life and all that happens , happens in the best way possible. Just a type of thought that is somewhat self-deceiving , yet it helps me enjoy my day to day. With 7 billion people on this planet, I feel happy just getting to experience it with the idea I am one individual person, my perceptions whole heartedly my own, with any ideas of being part of the collective consciousness being contradictive to the sense of firsthand experience. I truly enjoy life and know of nothing better going on."

[Anonymous No.4439040]

>>4438843
>>4438843
You got a totally different reception at /r9k/

Oh Iit

[Anonymous No.4439042]

Hey OP! That sounds like a cool idea for a book. Here is one of my journal entries. I hope you enjoy it for what its worth...
"Another day, another dollar. The need for excitement sometimes consumes me. Regardless of social desires, the need to fulfill anything in my mind becomes a passion like none other. Letting yourself be defined by anything at all , when sometimes it even becomes a chore brushing off a grouping of your core passions. It all seems like fair game, finding enjoyment in even the most simple things, as simple sounding as that seems. Simple mindedness has become a pleasure and challenge all in its own. There is no need to induce the dimmer switch, for repositioning your conventions of perceptions to a more realist type purpose is enough to keep from thinking I’m too smart for my own good. Keep it simple stupid, more so each and every day. Keeping to a more fundamental approach can be a truly humbling mindset to experience. Childlike tendencies no longer resemble currency, yet being demeaning of any other perception becomes the pejorative factor. Disparaging thought creeps in from time to time, but overall, I get the sense that my life and all that happens , happens in the best way possible. Just a type of thought that is somewhat self-deceiving , yet it helps me enjoy my day to day. With 7 billion people on this planet, I feel happy just getting to experience it with the idea I am one individual person, my perceptions whole heartedly my own, with any ideas of being part of the collective consciousness being contradictive to the sense of firsthand experience. I truly enjoy life and know of nothing better going on."

[Anonymous No.4439056]

Jeff pls go

[Anonymous No.4439062]

Protip: If you're going to research, do it discreetly and not in a way where you seem like you're just trying to make shekels from autistic neckbeards

tl;dr: lurk moar

[Anonymous No.4439097]

[Anonymous No.4439099]

>>4439062
>>4439097
epic :-)

[Anonymous No.4439113]

[Anonymous No.4439122]

>>4438915
Simulationbro

[Anonymous No.4439170]

>>4438843
Interesting and highly relevant. I'm not sure how many other books like this are going to sum up the voice of a generation. Whos the main torchbearer? what does he do? What's the cover going to look like?

[Anonymous No.4439176]

>>4439042
This is some of the most pseudo-intellectual bullshit I've ever read on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.4439215]

>>4439097
Fucking lol'd

[Anonymous No.4439227]

>>4439042
>keep it simple
>uses cryptic description with big words all over the place
wat

[Anonymous No.4439230]

Your title is shit

[Anonymous No.4439237]

You will never finish it. Also in this day and age what sort of sick fuck wants to be a writer of novels? No one reads anymore.

[Anonymous No.4439240]

>>4438843

I suggest you watch Serial Experiments Lain.

Pretty much touches on all of those aspects.

[Anonymous No.4439263]

I had a really odd extended experience in which I was more rapidly developing close personal relationships w people online than I was w people in life. the self-selection of joining topical forums made it easy for me to instantly connect with people that shared my explicit interests, and also made for deeper conversations and more rigorously interrogated opinions. despite the interesting benefits of the experience, I, as a person who had already exhibited the social tendencies that I've described, began fucking up actual relationships I had established and became nearly entirely incompetent when it came to making good impressions or sparking conversations with new people passing through my life. my life began 'falling apart' in a pretty cliche fashion – bad grades, no friends, bad eating habits, no apparent future – and I fell into a pattern of behavior that, with the distance I have from this period of my life, I suppose can be identified really only as depression. my return to the social competency I wanted and arguably have achieved at this point in time began with me throwing myself back into real things with actual people that required me to develop a sense of myself that I can be in the present at all times, rather than a curated, online version of me that had unlimited time to edit and revise what I said, did, and was.

[Anonymous No.4439330]

>>4439263
this is so true

[Anonymous No.4439329]

>>4439097
/pol/ plz stay

[Anonymous No.4439333]

Dead Pixels is a better title

The melancholy of makes it overwrought,

[Anonymous No.4439337]

>>4439263

[Anonymous No.4439367]

>>4439333
Agree.

[Anonymous No.4439380]

>>4438843
>that title
>those themes

wow a book about disenchanted young men, i think that might just be to radical

[Anonymous No.4439386]

>>4439380

[Anonymous No.4439391]

>>4439042
simplesimplesimplesimplesimplesimplesimplesimplesimplesimplesimplesimplesimplesimplesimplesimplesimple

[Anonymous No.4439413]

>>4438848

>I am not self-pitying
>I have already experienced three existential crises

kek

[Anonymous No.4439414]

>>4439380
>>4439386
epic replies
listen to these two replies op they might take a while to digest though, as does all great criticism

[Anonymous No.4439427]

>>4439414
it doesn't deserve thorough or constructive critique, it's a fundamentally terrible idea.

[Anonymous No.4439434]

so is it dead or defective

[Anonymous No.4439443]

i think you should have a better cover

[Anonymous No.4439444]

>>4439414
you sound really old lol

[Anonymous No.4439447]

>>4438848
you forgot
>I wear a fedora and attend internet socials unaware that Anon is laughing at my acne and fat rolls

[Anonymous No.4439470]

>ITT: subtle plagiarism

[Anonymous No.4439492]

Have you even considered what all these themes are in actuality?
Depression can and is thought to be never brought on by the person who chooses to perceive it. Is that the truth? No. Some people like the feeling of depression and the truth is society gives us ways to induce it just as we do any other form of escapism.

I believe the more important thing than these themes is "why" these themes.

[Anonymous No.4439495]

>>4439492
Also why you chose these themes because why they actually relate to each other.

[Anonymous No.4439515]

>>4439427
I disagree. I really like OP's title, even if there's a tinge of haughtiness about it. Not so sure about his idea as it is the type of one that is hugely dependent on its execution.

[Anonymous No.4439517]

>>4439444
;) wanna find out?

[Anonymous No.4439551]

>>4439414

[Anonymous No.4439570]

>les editions du soleil
>not les editions de minuit
>try again
>fail again
>fail better

[Anonymous No.4439580]

>>4439230
How about:
>Cyberminge - a lost generation

[Anonymous No.4439611]

that cover is really pretty bad OP. The title seems a little overwrought as well

but from the looks of things I don't seriously think you actually intend to "write" this anyways

[Anonymous No.4439686]

>>4439551
>>4439414
>>4439380
I dreamt about these exact posts a few months ago. What is going on?

[Anonymous No.4439767]

>>4439551
i can't figure this face. should i feel bad? who is this? she reminds me of a billboard somewhere.

[Anonymous No.4441469]

>>4439495
Anon you need to learn english. That sentence killed a part of me while I was drudging through it, the purest suffering I've ever felt while reading.

[Anonymous No.4441510]

>>4439443

Would read