How can movies even compete?
Fucking cringed
HoD is amazing, that guy is an absolute pleb.
>>68740577
>Heart of Darkness is amazing
>DUDE COLONIALISM BAD COZ NIGS GONNA NIG LOL
Apocalypse is vastly superior tbqhfam
Subnormality is one of the first webcomics I think of when someone says "pseudointellectual."
>>68740577
It's Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-video-games-do-better-than-any-other-forms-art_p2/
Literally the bottom of the bottom of the barrel.
>>68740657
This is the most surface-level appreciation of the beauty known as Heart of Darkness' prose I've seen.
Stick to your war flick tbqh famalam.
I played the game in a single evening. It was a shitty and generic third person shooter that only covered the incredibly basic points of the HoD story.
It's fans will literally tell you that they made it bad on purpose.
>>68740496
You know when someone puts Spec Ops the Line on the level of HoD and Apoc Now that their opinion can be immediately discarded. Mediocre in storytelling, visual design, and gameplay. Relies way too much on shock value to get a message across.
>>68740744
>Heart of Darkness
>Beautiful prose
What the fuck you smoking nigga? It's almost unreadable.
>>68740815
but dude it uses vague and archaic steamboat vernacular lmao
>this is what /v/ actually believes.
would you happen to have a smaller version of this picture in less legible font
>>68740815
>In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished spirits.
>Unreadable
Stick to your war flick
Coppola would laugh at you
>>68740960
say no more senpai
>>68740496
>It's Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-video-games-do-better-than-any-other-forms-art_p2/
>>68741023
Stilted, contrived lyricism.
Read some Nabokov, fag.
>>68741123
>Calling literal virtuosism and finding the exact word to describe things "contrived"
>Recommending Memebokov, that has actually contrived prose
Recommend Carver or Dostoievsky if you're going to recommend something dry.
Thanks for wasting my time with your feelings of inadequacy.
>>68740496
Rowntree is enough of an hipster to know why that picture is bullshit. He's not being serious, it's self-depreciating humor.
Cracked used to churn out lots of quick entertaining articles. Now it's full of snarky political shit. Sad.
>>68740892
it's not vague at all it refers to very specfic parts of the boat and sailing tasks. it also wasn't archaic at the time because people used to actually ride boats and know about boats. just because you personally don't know anything about steamboats doesn't mean it's bad you fucking mongoloid
>>68740815
>>68741023
>>68741123
>>68741214
>hurrrr muh 2deep4u congo manga is smarter than your 2deep4u russian pedophile manga
You /lit/ autists are the funniest shitflingers.
>>68741347
cracked used to be a paper magazine like MAD actually
>>68741123
The fact that you only cite Nabokov as an example of good prose shows that you have a pretty rudimentary idea of what makes for a good stylist. Yes, he's brilliant. But it's also incredibly easy to see WHY he's brilliant.
You should read more Joyce, Beckett, and Faulkner.
>>68741360
>using "mongoloid" in this context
>thinks anyone here believes that he reads at all
>>68740496
/tv/ literally BTFO
>>68741420
>using "mongoloid" in this context
whats wrong with that faggot
>>68741501
"Mongoloid" is supposed to be an inoffensive name for a race of people. It got appropriated as an insult by unread retards who thought it sounded funny.
Does that answer your question, retard?
>>68741418
>Joyce
Literally unreadable
>but muh annotations
Yeah must be a great book if you have to spend the majority of your time looking up what it actually means.
>>68741567
You are one dumb cat
>>68741581
Why do you even think that you have a standpoint to spew your garbage opinions from?
Just because you can't read Joyce doesn't mean his work is unreadable.
>>68741638
I can tell you know more about it in me by the fact that you feel like avoiding a debate about it.
There is room on the stage for one beast and one alone. All others are destined for a night that is eternal and without name. One by one they will step down into the darkness before the footlamps. Bears that dance, bears that dont.
>>68740800
>>68740807
Have any of you read the developers interviews? It followed Ahmad themes, but it wasn't based on it. The ENTIRE point of the game was to highlight how boring, sterile, and linear modern military shooter games are. It highlights how you have no choice in these games, except to not play them.
This game basically criticized the military shooter genre for everything that /tv/ criticizes it for. But you "patricians" are so dogmatically against anything that isn't cinema, that you're fighting against yourself.
Also, it really did have an awesome soundtrack.
>>68741581
>Literally unreadable
Simply untrue. Start with Dubliners, and you'll be pleasantly surprised.
>>68740895
/v/ hates this game. I'm not joking. It exposed them as idiots, and they got ass lasted about it. The point of the game was to show that you can't always be the hero, and that sometimes the best thing you can do is walk away.
The number #1 complaint on /v/, I shit you not, was:
"They should have allowed you to choose he correct option to win."
>>68741699
See? Like I said.
>hurrr it's shit on purpose
>>68741790
>ass lasted
>I'm actually okay with his typo
>>68741699
>It was supposed to be boring!
That's probably the best defense of a video game I've ever heard.
You know a good parody of how boring and linear the modern milshooters are? That fucking joke game released to promote Bulletstorm. That was about 10 minutes long and did it's job just fine.
You know how you don't want to criticize milshooters? By making one by the book.
>reading books
>dude check out this book noone ever heard of lmao
Fucking /lit/ autists are the worst
>>68741347
Failed website Cracked are shedding viewers and money big time. They are a bunch of low energy dummies. Sad!
>>68741674
i'm not that guy you fucking retard. i have no clue what the fuck you're babbling about but "mongoloid" became an offensive term because people used it to refer to kids with down syndrome. it's like calling you a retard. and so in this context it fits perfectly.
>A video game ripping off films and literature
Color me surprised
>>68741806
So, Starship Troopers was the worst movie ever made, right? How unrealistic were those fight scenes!
>>68741880
>Implying anything anyone has mentioned ITT is remotely obscure
Must be hard having your only cultural background be capeshit, Star Wars and Drive.
>>68741674
There is no debate here. You're flat out wrong about the origin of Mongoloid as an insult.
>>68741790
>the only way to win is not play the game you spent 20 bucks on haha aren't we clever and meta
>>68741699
>We need to criticize shitty generic shooters
>We'll do it by making a shitty generic shooter. That's a good trick!
>>68741806
>Adventures in Missing the Point
>Starring: Anon
The point of the game was to show that killing people who aren't evil is bad and shouldn't be fun.
>>68741894
Nice strawman retard, but I'll bite anyway since you clearly didn't think it through.
Starship Troopers gets its point across and is still an entertaining movie with likeable characters and amazing effects (for the time). Spec Ops is a fundamentally boring, painfully linear, by the numbers 3rd person edgy dogshit shooter. You cannot tell me that they made such a gimped game on purpose, for the sake of of some meta-commentary that the average video game player couldn't give a rat's ass about anyway.
>>68741880
It's Heart of Darkness. You'd have to be a fucking cave dweller to not have heard of it.
>>68741884
>>68741989
But have you been laid?
>>68740892
>>68740815
>For the rest, after his hours of work, a casual stroll or a casual spree on shore suffices to unfold for him the secret of a whole continent, and generally he finds the secret not worth knowing. The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine.
You're idiots. Conrad's writing is always very clear, possibly a result of his learning English as a second language. I can't imagine being as stupid as you. How do you live?
>>68742038
That message kind of falls apart when you realize it's just a video game
>Spec-Ops: The Line
A poor man's Sons of Liberty.
>>68742086
Yeah twice on Saturday
>>68741880
>conrad
>joyce
>nabokov
who the fuck haven't you heard of? these are some of the most famous and important writers in the language.
>>68742049
>you payed no attention to the scenery
>or the imagery
>or th dialogue
Why don't you just play COD and stop complaining? A video game finally tried to give a decent story, and you get butthurt that it even tried.
>>68742116
>I lie on a congolese rubber mining forum to substantiate my literature arguments
just end your life famalam
>>68741699
I don't give a shit, it's a fucking video game so in my opinion worthless
what is this shit doing here?
>>68742157
>A video game finally tried to give a decent story
And like all video games, it failed.
>>68742157
Why would anyone pay attention to a sophomoric retelling of heart of darkness?
Heart of darkness already exists
>>68742119
I have no fucking idea who is Joyce, Beckett, and Faulkner, I know the rest
>>68742086
>actually being this stereotypically meme-retarded
At least you're secure enough to admit when you're wrong. Have a lovely evening, anon.
>>68742228
>I have no fucking idea who is Joyce, Beckett, and Faulkner
Were you dropped on your head as a child?
>>68742228
Do yourself a favor and read some Faulkner ASAP
>>68742157
>scenery, imagery, dialogue
Boring shit, edgy shit, and laughable shit. in that order
>decent story
A shitty and diluted version of a decent story.
Face it anon, your opinions are shit.
>>68742228
>These are the people you're talking too on /tv/
Jesus fucking Christ, /film/ cannot come soon enough
>>68742166
Lemme guess you're a virgin and can't comorehend that other people don't have problems getting laid
>>68742250
>meme-retarded
How mad do you have to be to spit out such a nonsensical and irrelevant insult?
>>68741790
>The number #1 complaint on /v/, I shit you not, was:
>"They should have allowed you to choose he correct option to win."
No it isn't, reddit fuckboy. The biggest complaint is the "bad on purpose" generic gameplay. Also, any emotional impact the White phosphorus scene had is pointless when you couldn't have made a choice that would have circumvented it in the first place.
>b-but you could've turned the game off
>>68742228
fucking seriously?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce
>...regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century
>basically Ireland's national writer, he's on a fucking coin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett
>...widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century
>won a fucking Nobel Prize
>wrote Waiting for Godot, which is ridiculously famous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
>...one of the most celebrated writers in American fiction...
>another fucking Nobel Prize winner
are you retarded, or just deliberately culturally unaware?
>>68742296
If it's so easy, why haven't you done it?
>>68742369
I ain't none of them fancy words
Just a good ol' 'Murrican
>>68741402
I used to have a bunch of issues of it when I was a kid. I actually got a few taken away from me at school.
>>68740496
/v/ doesn't understand anything not handed to them on a silver platter, things like subtlety and symbolism are totally lost to them.
they attribute value to time wasted, they aren't worthy to judge anything.
>>>/v/
>>68742279
I read As I Lay Dying and couldn't really get into it 2bh, what am I missing?
>>68741893
It's called homage
You know, like the simpons would do all the time
>>68742413
I did. Twice on Saturday.
>>68741880
nice trolling my friend
>>68742273
>>68742369
Our shitty education mostly focused on poets and the most basic stuff like Kafka here
>>68742417
>Just a good ol' 'Murrican
then you should read some Faulkner immediately. speaking as an American, I'm very proud he came from my country.
>>68741790
>it w-was shit on purpose!
>t-the point of the game was to not p-play!!2
>>68742462
Why lie? Do you really think anyone cares either way?
>>68742493
I'm not him, I was joking.
I also love Faulkner
>>68742441
Taste
>>68742435
This post is hilarious, especially because you were probably just posting in a cunny thread or complaining about The Force Awakens.
>>68742511
why be so deliberately annoying, anon? you were categorically, objectively proven wrong. you're just doing as obvious a shitpost as you can to distract the people who proved you wrong from mocking your idiocy.
>play Spec Ops
>not a total fucking idiot, so don't bomb obvious civilians and wait for the other choice
>there isn't one
>game forces you to burn all those people
>do it
>game calls me a bad person
Fuck that piece of shit, it's pretentious garbage. And on top of that, it plays like total crap.
>b-b-b-but your choice was not to play :^)
What an awful use of the videogame medium.
>>68742580
>He unironically thinks I care
Don't project your fragile virgin sensibilities onto me, kiddo
>>68742642
clearly you do. otherwise you wouldn't be wasting time making dumb posts on 4chan to cover your ass by trying to look more and more absurd.
>>68742580
And you keep replying to him. So you not see your own complicity in his shitposting? He's not going to see the light and apologize and ask to suck your dick, he's going to keep replying to you because he knows you can't help yourself, and then the next time this thread is reposted again, he's going to do the same thing.
Remember what mark twain said about teaching a pig to sing?
>>68742682
You realize you are doing the exact same thing, right?
In your case it's likely because I brought your sex life into question.
Your blatant insecurity about it indicates that I am correct.
>>68742484
Where is "here"?
>>68742417
Where are you from?
Why do kiddies always think that they don't have to read Heart of Darkness in order to talk shit about it simply because they watched Apocalypse Now?
I love Apocalypse Now as the next guy but Heart of Darkness isn't part of the canon simply because.
>>68742484
Keats is the only one worth your, time to be honest famkov.
>>68742735Colombia, South AmericaI read HoD out of particular interest, didn't read it in HS like most people in the US.
>>68742715
you're ultimately correct.
which means I'll just stick to the point with this last one:
>>68742725
you're a retard for actually walking around as an adult human being and not knowing the etymology of the word "Mongoloid"
>>68742920
Only a virgin like yourself would care about being wrong about such a trivial subject
>>68742858
>didn't read it in HS like most people in the US.
I moved around a lot as a kid, and always managed to arrive the year after everyone read the required high school reading. I was an avid reader anyways, and read most of these books on my own terms and really enjoying them.
Consequently I always wound up moving the year everyone was reading The Good Earth. Fuck that book.
>>68742858
Much more understandable. Is English your second language?
>>68743298
Yes, but I do know about Beckett, Faulkner and Joyce, I studied literature.
I was just mocking the other guy.
And yes, it is my second language, I'm self-taught.
>>68740657
HOD was about how colonialism is futile because niggers are bestial.
A lesson Western Civilization needs to learn.
>let's trash shitty generic shooters by making a shitty generic shooter
Spec Ops sucked
>Apocalypse Now is better than HoD
How to spot a pleb
>>68741292
That's not what he wanted you dip
Movies continuing to be BTFO
>>68744087
>only watching trek once
I can't even fathom the number of hours of my life I have spent watching star trek.
>>68742065
>Heart of Darkness
>The Eyes of Darkness
>The Left Hand of Darkness
>The Big Toe of Darkness
>>68744239
This and all the times I just have it on in the background while I'm doing something else.
>>68744660
Its literally on in the background right now. The sexual organs episode was just on.
Spec Ops The Line is so fucking overrated. I guess it's nice that they went for a different story than usual military shooters but people keep treating it like some masterpiece that changed the entire medium.
>gives you one way out of a situation and then criticizes you for the entire game for using that way
>b-but you should have stopped playing
Then give me a refund you fucking hack.
>>68745329
What's more insulting is that it came 10 years after Sons of Liberty yet it received massive praise for tackling the same themes haphazardly.
At least MGS2 allowed you to play it pacifist
go back to /v/
