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>>46545
Tbh literature is extremely trend-based now, a single popular book about female cannibalism is enough to spawn two hundred imitators, it doesn't mean the idea is resonating across the public consciousness.

>>46592
Yeah, everbody chasin that algo

Getting close to wrapping up Zola's La Débâcle about the utter misery of the Franco Prussian war, from the peasantry, to the army rank and file, all the way up to Napoleon III himself. He's done a great job of building up a sense of scale for the sizes of the armies and the landscape of northeastern France, then painting a picture of a landscape peppered with the debris of battle and flooded with torrents of shattered men and the victorious Prussians. Also love the way that even the largely defeated men can turn on a dime when they have nothing left to lose.
I've previously read Zola's Germinal, about a coal mining village in France developing class consciousness but then being utterly defeated. I definitely recommend it if you're not interested in constant talk about army maneuvers.
Anyone recently read any interesting fiction that they would recommend me? I want to read several more fiction pieces before I dive back into historical literature, I find that fiction does a better job of improving my reading stamina. Even memoirs can do the trick tbh.

i read le rivage des syrtes last month
in it we become acquainted with the venerable and illustrious country of orsenna, a country somewhere in some mediterranean sea experiencing some hundreds of years of peace after an unfinished war, outwardly rich and peaceful, the people of orsenna have grown restless beneath the surface as society slowly decays and retreats from the borders to take refuge in the heartland.
in front of orsenna and across the sea lies the country of farghestan, a sleeping giant of an oriental amalgam and perennial foe. the people of orsenna have been forbidden contact with farghestan after the last war and contact on their end has also stopped after farghestan collapsed into petty feudal clan wars yet now strange and mysterious forces are at work in farghestan just as in orsenna the people cry out for change, for something that makes them step out of their monotony and allows them to feel something new, no matter if the cost is the likely self-immolation of orsenna.

the book makes an excellent work of creating an atmosphere of foreboding, that something ominous and ineluctable is on the horizon even as you scream at the characters to get a fucking grip on themselves! and think about the consequences but they can't stop and even if they know what might happen they care not for they're sick and tired of the never ending peace.

excellent book to read if you're an fsl (french as a second language), the writing is very beautiful but you do need a somewhat high vocabulary to enjoy it. lots of florid internal monologue and reminiscence. don't know how well translated the english version is.

>>46696
forgot to add that i can't help but being reminded of the current state of the world in some aspects or with regards to certain people when reading it which gives it a certain layer of grimness

Sorry if it's offtopic but the reactionary obsession with lotr is fascinating to me.

Why Is The Right Obsessed With Lord of The Rings?
by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)
<Every fantasy franchise has an insufferable part of its fan base. But this one takes the cake. Powerful conservatives are obsessed with The Lord of The Rings. We know this because they name their military tech companies, surveillance companies and venture capital firms after objects in Middle Earth. Billionaire Peter Thiel has named 10 of his companies after things in Lord of The Ring, including Palantir, the Trump's regime's authoritarian surveillance company of choice. JD Vance has called himself a "Lord of the Rings guy," Elon Musk has hot anti-woke takes on The Rings of Power, and Jeff Bezos helped make that series by buying the rights to the franchise via Amazon. Even the far right even in Spain and Italy identify with the Lord of The Rings.

>>46620
Not a bad video

<Original – The Nine Sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII, photographed on 20 May 1910. Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of the Bulgarians, King Manuel II of Portugal and the Algarves, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King of Prussia, King George I of the Hellenes and King Albert I of the Belgians. Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King George V of the United Kingdom and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.
I wonder if this influenced the 9 rings for mortal men

>>46667
It's an interesting detail in that regard that they're all wearing riding boots.

>>46542
>52:44 minutes
Nostalgia Chad did it in 3 minutes

>>46553
>the Schwartz(tm)
Please say sike

>>46283
>>46294
Apparently they crammed like 4 seasons into one or something lol

>>46123
So I do this largely forum-based RP and one of the big things there is 'faction' RP, where there's a big emphasis put on geopolitical stuff. Since like 2019 I was doing RP partly as an exercise in social fiction. I also run a character who left the Jedi Order because it was full of idealist pussies and liberals. He has since become Mand'alor and rides a boomer-ass Basilisk droid into battle, it's kino shit.

The Solidarity started as a coalition of Outer Rim spacers, droids, and AGIs who rose out of a massive slave revolt during the Hutts’ collapse. By ~300 ABY, they’ve grown into a hyperstate of around 100,000 planets, running on a centrally planned economy and labor-credit system. Their alliance with the Republic is pragmatic: both need each other against the Sith, but the Republic also keeps ties with the Hutts, who are quietly reviving slavery as debt peonage.

Militarily, the Solidarity fields smaller but far higher-quality forces than their rivals, avoiding clone or droid armies out of principle; they uphold a “joint dictatorship of the organic and synthetic proletariats.” They’ve just finished a war that quadrupled their territory and can’t sustain more fighting, so their focus is political: undermining and delegitimizing the Hutts while preparing their own Force traditions alongside the Jedi.

Alien Earth is a fine show but they really need to stop with the Gen X rock on the soundtrack, it completely throws off the tone

>>46602
It was weird to me, but its literally only on the credits? just skip them.

>>46602
I'm just disappointed it's a prequel (ugh), that it isn't an adaptation of the Aliens comics from the 80s/ early 90s where the xenomorph takes over the Earth, and that it recons the communist bloc out of existence in favor of corpo domination.

ᴉuᴉlossnW: Son of the Century is worth a watch

>>46605
It turned out to just be crap. Not terrible, but not really any good either.

What's crazy to me is reading the discussions about it on reddit. I know, more fool me, but where else do people go to talk about shit any more?

At least r/alien seems to mostly be able to see its flaws. You've still got people going to the mat for it though. I can see people generally liking and enjoying the show. It's a bad show, but that doesn't mean it can't be enjoyable. What's making me crazy are the morons that defend AE as some kind of great work and accuse anyone that points out any or all of the many, many problems the show has of being "comic book guys," haters, nitpickers, joyless, overzealous fanboys, etc. They'll straight up invent justifications for the show and act like YOU'RE the retard for not getting it.

Yeah, some of them are just bots, but it can't be ALL of them. I don't know, it just makes me feel crazy for some reason.

>>46606
Not to bring vidya into the kino thread but CoD 1-3 (WW2 CoD) are peak CoD. It's been all downhill since Modern Warfare dropped.

>>46608
I guess it really helps your game to just take the best setpieces from top Hollywood movies verbatim and stitch them together

"Bottoms" (2023)
Finally scratched it from the backlog and it was way better than I expected. It is an astute satire of both modern fascism and the liberal reaction to it: appeasement and compliance. It presents itself as a parody of the usual cliches not only in western romantic comedies, but also K-dramas and streaming-oriented media in general, but the mask slips rather easily and it makes it clear that those element are only there for comedic relief.

Vidrel is a good example: the fight parodies action movies, but what makes the scene funny is that nobody reacts negatively to the guy kicking the girl in the head, instead they feign consternation at the protagonists for not being completely pure and politically correct.

anyone here uses rateyourmusic to rate movies?

I'm here to tell everyone to watch "Time" (2006) by Kim Ki Duk. Try to watch it blind without knowing anything about it. Legit one of the wildest rides I've ever had watching a movie. Ever.
One of those movies that make you think "how in the fuck is this not considered a massive classic?"

Pretty good so far, another banger on Glitch's belt.

It was good and I can't wait for the whole thing to be released. But it just made me think, why can't Western animation do spacial consistency. Like it feels like the world does not really have distance and the characters just bend the rules of reality to get places. Most western animation has this kind of consistency / pacing issue. But yeah it was great.

>>46659
I hadn't the words for this until you said it, but I think you're right. With anime you sometimes get a lot more liminal / en-route scenes, like stuff is still happening but they aren't teleporting just to The Place Where The Next Thing Happens as often.

>>46659
>But it just made me think, why can't Western animation do spacial consistency. Like it feels like the world does not really have distance and the characters just bend the rules of reality to get places.
I've noticed that a lot, especially in GoT. Like in the 5th season one character makes a trip of thousands of miles in a sailing ship in a matter of days. Recently in alien earth similar disregard is shown for the time it takes to travel. The general tendency just seems to be "whatever the plot needs."

Imo it's part of a much larger writing problem that seems to be effecting media where little or no thought is paid to how things actually work or why. The only consideration seems to be how spectacular or melodramatic a particular scene might be in the moment.

>>44628
OP is right though. autistic or not.

The whole world is pretty much the same. People all do the same things, live in cities and drive cars to their boring regular jobs, everyone in the world eats Big Macs and watches Family Guy. The only escape you will ever find from this homogenous cultural wasteland is the sweet release of death. But feel free to piss away all of your savings on your cliche whitebread bourgeois journey for a feeling of catharsis that you will never find.

>>46616
>take psychedelics
Remember Lenin was a mushroom and Stalin is god

Have a nice trip 🙂

>>46463
I've been to Switzerland too. It's not that good uygha damn.
>Every place I visited looked like a fucking bob ross painting.
We got mountains all over America too if that's your thing. Switzerland was my favorite country I've been to in Europe, but like have you ever been to the Grand Canyon? Utah? Sedona? Yosemite? Colorado? C'mon.
> The people were kind.
I didn't really talk to them but I got more weird vibes from them. Whole place has Disneyland kind of vibes. I'll take your word for it.
> The people were kind. The quality of everything I ate was better than anything I've eaten state side.
The food in Europe is better on average because they have regulations and sheeit, but that's a ridiculous statement.
>The airport had smoking sections.
Vegas airport has smoking lounges.

So I mostly saw, like Zermatt and Lake Geneva, but I didn't even go to Geneva the city. I briefly stopped in Zurich and that place gave me a headache. Their roads seem to be designed by lunatics.

>>46489
>child pregancy bad
that was the point of the album you massive retard LOL

>>46503
it was at dashcon2 2025

>>46504
>that was the point
child pregnacy bad
the mods were chads
toby fox stinkyface

>>46503

ye

>>45547
Wouldn't even really need AI, just some way to check it isn't static, and something to check if it's unique would deter some more primitive bots.

>>45546
anon, I….

>>45546
Tbf I only go there when I'm high or drunk so I was legit angry someone was spamming the website for like 20 minutes while trying to jerk off.

(Beakless) bird

>>46154
no. it is an epic just like 300 but with fascism instead of the greco-persian wars. it is fascist apologia disguising itself as liberal victimization - if there was ever a difference to begin with. the premise here is that being a fascist is heroic and cool

>>46155
I think you might be retarded, anon.

>>45976
it shows him taking money from porkies to betray socialism and invent fascism in episode 2, but i don't recall the british intelligence connection being shown

>>46155
it depicts ᴉuᴉlossnW as a brutal monster in the very first scene.

K-On!