/lit/ - Literature

>>7118107
I'm REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEing right now, but not because of some Youtube video, but because you implied Civ games are GSG.

>>7118079
There should be some kind of an internet law that states everyone who posts those shitty internet laws should be banned from the internet.

>>7117899
>Why not revive the oral tradition in a contemporary style?
Audio books?

>>7117152
Bujold's Vorkosigan saga was pretty fun.

>>7117854
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution

>>7117791
Two reasons.
First one is that they're insecure manchildren who base their identity on their hobby and have a persecution complex since they believe that people dislike them and bullied them because they have a nerdy hobby and not because they're obnoxious people no one wants to be around.

Second one is that they're sick and tired of hearing about this shit. Talk about sexism in video games has been constantly shoved down their throats for years, long before this retarded GG bullshit started, and it was coming from what is supposed to be gaming media. It's one thing if feminist websites talked about sexism in video games and all that inane shit no one cares about, but people who go to gaming websites want to read about their interactive children's toys, not hear about how they're rapists for killing prostitutes in GTA.

>Do gamers just not see games as important works that merit such criticism?
Dude, what? It's the other way around. Only gamers are deluded enough to believe video games have any kind of merit and that it's worth trying to analyze them.

>>7105028
They only derail threads if you let them derail threads. Just ignore them when they start crying about it, and if you want to be a passive-aggressive faggot, keep replying on-topic with other anime reaction images to annoy them. Just don't do it with every single post or the mods might misunderstand it as avatarfagging.

Just using anime reaction images isn't breaking any rules, as long as the posts they're attached to are on-topic. And if the idiots waste their time reporting your posts, they'll probably just get warned/banned for frivolous reporting.

>>7100543
Moses never set foot in the Promised Land, dude. Joshua's the war criminal.

>>7099097
>Reading in coffee shops
Poseurs who want to be seen reading in public. Only acceptable if you're waiting for the next train or bus and got nothing better to do.
>Haunting used bookstores
Luddites. Only acceptable if you're looking for stuff you can't find online, if such stuff even exists.

Nothing wrong with the rest of them. Writing poetry is a bit gay, but it's the 21st century, nothing wrong with being a fag.

>>7100550
Isn't it the other way around? Surely an individualist ideology would be all about being on top while a collectivist ideology would be about being useful to the collective?

>>7100445
Chalcedonian Christianity and the Bible predate Rabbinic Judaism and the Talmud.

>>7097942
I don't go to /sci/ often, but every time I did, it gave me the impression of being a scientism and homework help board. I wouldn't be surprised if the average IQ is lower than /tv/'s.
Just opened the board and the first thread I saw was the "Positive Eugenics" one. And the thread is more than two days old, so you can't even call it an anomalous troll thread.

>>7097940
I'm just humoring him and accepting it as a possibility. If you're going to nitpick about the lack of realism in that idea, nitpick at the timeframe - his utopia happens in less that 150 years, which is barely a couple of generations. No way you'd be able to racemix a race like that even if it was possible in such a short time frame.

In truth, 90% of the ideas you people posted are awful and for fags and barely a couple of them are anywhere near as cool as my idea from >>7082840

There's a few cool ones like >>7097751 >>7097506 >>7096062 >>7086895. Stuff like >>7085518 would be cool since he wants to exterminate worthless endangered species like the pandas and bring back cool ones like the dragons, but he's also a fag because he wants to control birth, practice eugenics or hurt people for saying mean words. >>7097074 would be cool too if he didn't ruin it with pedoshit.

>>7097884
/wg/ as in Wallpapers/General?
Are there actually people who have /wg/ as their main board?

>>7078402
>all are mixed with lightly tanned skin, sandy blonde hair and vibrant green eyes. Everyone is attractive and in perfect health with slender figures.
>Sex is seen as primitive and no longer desirable for pleasure,
What's the fucking point, then?

>>7091077
It was a hyperbole, dude.

But seriously, go to the archives and look up /a/ threads where the OP contains the term misogynis* or sexis* and compare it to /v/ threads that contain them. There's a huge difference in mod tolerance, poster behavior and post count, and quantity of those threads. /v/ probably gets more of those threads in a month than /a/ does in a year, and /a/ threads rarely reach more than a dozen posts before 404ing.

And who the hell wasn't around when CA first started, it barely finished airing a season ago? Why would I even use Ange as an example if I wasn't familiar with the episode one "ass rape"?

And how the hell is this thread still up after 18 hours?

>>7089849
There was no stormfag invasion. That was just a meme. Stormfront as a site stopped being relevant before 4chan was even created. It has the fame of being the most famous white supremacist internet forum, but that's about it. It's userbase and demographics are completely different from the type of people you'd find on /pol/. Our "stormfags" are homegrown stormfags, most of them are too young to have ever posted on a traditional, phpBB-type forum since those mostly died out 5-10 years ago, back when the average /pol/luter was still in elementary school.

>>7090009
>I think it would be a bit of a stretch to classify most people in 2007 as leftists and atheists.
Eh, I could be biased here. I was a contrarian little shit back then and acted contrary to 4chan's contrarianism and was always annoyed by leftist/atheist circlejerks and wished they would stop. Talk about a monkey's paw wish, huh?
>The strange thing about reddit to me was how unilateral the relationship between it and 4chan was. 4chan cared about reddit way more than reddit cared about 4chan.
You have to remember that Reddit is like 10x-100x times larger than 4chan, and it's an extremely (even more so than 4chan) mainstream site, meaning that literally everyone here knows about it. Most of Reddit doesn't even know 4chan exists. Just like how, say, most of Facebook doesn't even know Reddit exists. The two sites aren't really rivals, it would be like having USA and Belarus as rivals.

>>7090026
You always had boogeyman, but none of those sites were ever as huge and influential as Reddit was, comparatively. Well, SA pretty much gave birth to 4chan so it was pretty influential, but 4chan quickly eclipsed it in popularity and left it behind. Even before 4chan became a generally right winged side, Reddit was already seen as the enemy, and to a much larger extent than any previous enemy. I remember coming back to 4chan after being away for a few months and suddenly everyone started calling everyone else redditors. I thought it was some marketing trick at first, something like Kimmo Alm's spam.
But yeah, Obama winning was more important than Reddit becoming mainstream. I should have worded that differently.

>>7089068
Anime has nothing to do with it.

I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to claim that in 2007, at least two thirds of this site would consider themselves atheists and leftists, and most of the last third apolitical. The cultural and political climate was completely different back then. The enemies of free speech and the establishment were the conservatives, Bush and friends. If you took the average 2007-era poster and brought him to this site today, people would call him a cringy fedora and tell him to fuck off back to Reddit.

The site changed over the years, starting with Obama and /new/, which became the breeding ground for political discussion on this site, replacing the old, tamer /r9k/, which back then wasn't a board for failed normalfags but a "general" board, where you went to talk about anything - /adv/, /lit/, /new/, /soc/, etc. didn't exist yet.

The biggest change was the rise of Reddit, 4chan trying to develop a culture contrarian to Reddit and the internet culture becoming more "politically correct". Ten years ago, if you complained about censorship and advocated free speech, you were considered a leftist. Now, a rightist. Reddit's atheism board made people aware of how cringeworthy they can be, and influenced 4chan in looking down on "internet atheism". Reddit being sexually progressive made 4chan call fags degenerate, despite the fact that 4chan literally created the term "trap" and that gay porn has been posted on this site from the start.

This is all related to /b/, the original board of 4chan, which started the internet activism on this site - which was, ironically, leftist. People today seem to know that old 4chan would spam "NIGGER" and think this must mean that 4chan was racist, but you have to remember that internet was much different back then and leftists were the "defenders of free speech". This was just teenagers being edgy. Real racists were considered the enemy - look up Hal Turner, a radio host, racist and Holocaust denier, who Anonymous raided.

There are two main subcultures on 4chan. Weebs and normalfags. Weebs came to 4chan because of anime and other weeb shit. Normalfags came because they heard of /b/, discovered the joys of what is today called "shitposting", being able to post whatever they want on a site with no usernames and seemingly no moderation, and eventually went on to discover and post on boards like /r9k/, /v/, /pol/, etc. /a/ isn't responsible for /pol/, /b/ & /v/ are. Those boards are generally out of touch with 4chan's weeb heritage and look down on anime as something for pedos and degenerates. Different boards, different cultures. They developed separately.

If you post a thread on /v/, linking an article by an SJW talking about how MGSV is sexist, you're going to get a 500+ posts thread. If you try to post a thread on /a/, linking an article by an SJW talking about how Cross Ange is sexist, you're going to get 30 posts telling you to fuck off and have your thread deleted.

>>7089035
Most major boards have huge overlaps in userbase. /v/ in particular is an extremely popular and loosely moderated board, so it's probably either the most visited or the second/third most visited board for ninety percent of this site.

>>7088021
Dark Enlightenment is such a dumb, chuuni term. It sounds like a name someone would give to his Forsaken-only RP guild in World of Warcraft.

How do these people expect to be taken seriously when they name their "movement" like this?

>>7087576
So what exactly am I reading here? Some TF2 fan fiction?

Lorgar did nothing wrong.

Only blogs I read are the ones on 4chan.

>>7077682
The world is divided into thousands of competing city states. No city state has a population exceeding a hundred thousand. Half the population lives in the capital city while the others live in nearby towns and villages that economically provide for the city.

City states engage in ritualistic warfare with each other every year to ensure the virility of the populace. The wars are fought with pre-gunpowder era weaponry. The loser has to pay a tribute to the winner, but there are no territorial changes, and no state subjugates another - the other neighboring states ensure the status quo.

Every city is ruled by a council of elders, the wisest citizens over the age of 60. Voting is restricted to citizens over the age of 40. Citizenship is only given to males who have engaged in ritualistic warfare in their youth - every year from their 15th to their 30th birthday. Only citizens, their families and property are allowed to live in the city. Indentured servitude exists and people can sell themselves to slavery to clear off their debts, but only criminals can be forcefully enslaved - a child of a slave will not become a slave.

Each city states develops its own language distinct from its neighbors and its own culture. Every city has its own religion - it can either be a native religion or a denomination of a world religion, but there is no religious authority that surpasses the borders of one state.

I think this about sums it up.