lit - literature

>>1737
>>1738
What were the threads about?

>>1739
They were started by some poster with knowledge of occult claiming reality was just a holding tank until certain ethereal matters were sorted out. Multiverses and that weird soykaf. What he had to say was incredibly creative and very interesting, but of course /b/tards took him too seriously and made a cult. I have the logs from the second thread or so. I could dump them if anyone's interested. Here's an excerpt as a teaser
"Naw, like in the other thread. Its a gestalt of everyone's memories that holds the cat cradle together. Only way it can happen is if you get 5%+ percent of the population in the cat's cradle to collectively believe something.

Then 'as will be done in 'heaven', will be done on earth'. Right now everyone's carrying all the baggage of poorly run governments, white people fuarrrking around with the inputs and watching the 4th sequel of Mall Cop.

Should be easier to shim something nicer into place once the retarded mystics dumb predictions blows up in their faces and the 72 are released to eat them all then head home to do whatever after being imprisoned for so long by douchbags no one likes."

Went ahead with it anyways. Figured I'd put it out there. Shame I didn't save thread 1. That was the real doozy. They were all really fun, until /b/tards took all the fun out of it by taking it seriously.

Thread 2
http://pastebin.com/Y8LYSM56

Thread 3
http://pastebin.com/FVsTC1L7

>>1780
Holy soykaf, it there a filter for Je-ws?
white people
Jew
Jewish

>>1782
Top kek

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5.

Thats it.

>>1753
Thanks!

>>1764
I think explicitly mentioning a cognitive dissonance would be too obvious. The goal would be to make readers uncomfortable at first, not to alert them right away that something's wrong.

>>1762
thats a very good idea.

>>1766
Yep thats what I think but the exact opposite would work well, when he feels like he has already heard certain conversations and certain patterns repeat themselves.

Use the wake up creepy pasta. Have him repeatedly come by it. In news papers and internet forums in the VR.

You could have the world itself try to make him do/not do things. Like the city's edge in that "13th floor" movie.
You could have weird weather or day/night cicles like in the GTA games.

>(in the VR it seems only like a few months)
So, is he dreaming? Drugged?
In any way, you could read about the medical aspects of being on any of the two for months.

>>1762
I think he shouldn't accept them, that would make me think that he's in a dream.

>>1770
I think I'm gonna put in something similiar but the creepypasta itself not. but nice idea.

>1771
>weird weather or day/night cicles
great idea. I'm gonna make him used to that and describe it as if its normal.

Yes he is dreaming that he is in a distant country studying economics etc to be succesful businessman when he inherits the corp of his family.

>>1601
Can you make a mega/zippy link? I can't torrent in my college dorm.

>>1756
Sorry. I forgot to say please.
Can anyone please make a filehoster link?

>>1757
You should invest in a vpn or seedbox (I recommend seedboxco.net) they are definitely worth it.

>>1756
I wonder how uni IT will handle Windows 10's torrent-like updates?

More correctly: I wonder how easy it will be to masquerade BT traffic as windows 10 updates.

>>1773
If the university systems administrators are worth their salt, the updates will probably be delivered through WSUS and/or similar mechanisms. Any other traffic will be shot down by the edge/border (whatever its name is) firewall.

If you have nothing better to do, yeah. It's way better than the movie.

You can waste them in Cataclysm:DDA too.

>>1402
I honestly never knew this was based on a book. I watched the movie with my grandpa ages ago. Good stuff.

>>1386
What podcasts do you reccomend? Also thanks for bumping this thread

>>1390
none if you don't speak german :(

>>1391
post'em m8,maybe someone that speaks german could make use of it.

Rather than buying books you could just read the RFCs that introduced the protocols. Most are very readable, they explain the why, the how, the history and so on.

The only thing you don't get from the RFCs themselves is a filter of what's considered important or not, but you can probably just start reading about the protocols and systems that you use (http, dns, stp, smtp), finding out which ones are widely used is usually easy enough since they're being mentioned all over the place.

You'll be studying from the authoritative source, I'd say you can't go wrong there.

>>1732
While I think this approach in general is a good idea, using it to learn HTTP is a bad idea. The HTTP RFC is 176 pages of incredibly dense information. Other protocols like gopher (16 pages) have an order of magnitude shorter RFCs. IMO, HTTP is too complex a protocol to learn from RFCs

>>1487
I actually like this quite a bit, but I think that going line-by-line might be a better idea. It makes both texts easier to look at the same time, saving time on looking back for comparison.

>>1487
Looking forward to it.

>>1487
RIP

>>1491
>>1513
>>1729
SOYKAF! I totally forgot about this... Well, I can't promise you a new chapter every day, but I will start doing it again.

>>1730
we are still waiting.

>>1672
Awesome, thanks!

>>1672
ayy lmao
i wasnt expecting that to work

thank you :)

>>1662
If you like fantasy, I'm reading the Witcher books, and I'm not finding them too bad.

> What should read?
Crikey. Whatever you want to read. Surely there's something on your mind regarding that?

>>1662
> alot
How about these ones?
http://www.education.gov.gy/web/index.php/downloads/cat_view/8-downloads/28-primary-school-resources/40-primary-text-books/41-english

Thank you, saved it for later.
Here's a book of short stories by the same author.

I read a lot but I rarely finish books, that's my real problem honestly. Usually I get to about 150 pages before moving onto a new book.

Somehow I need to keep my attention at certain subjects long enough to finish books not just read some of them.

>>626
why not spend a year repeatedly reading a specific text along with other background material where necessary? have a good chew before you swallow rather than gorging yourself.

>>1552

Nigga, just stop thinking of everything as a damn chore that you feel like you have to do and gradually train yourself to want to do stuff.

Just work at your own pace, be a nice person, and seriously, in this day and age nobody worth a damn gives a soykaf about the way you live your life. I have a pal that introduces himself as a meme and a helicopter (not kidding) and people smile and nod and don't give a soykaf because he's a nice person and has no intention of murdering them.

If you want a "good excuse" to do nothing, look into Zen practices. Does anybody look down upon monks because they don't "do something productive?" No, they look up to monks because they already get it. This is life dude, and you don't have to do a damn thing you don't want to.

I'm way happier since I accepted life as being just life and since I don't step on any toes I don't get bitched at. In fact, I'm currently weighing options between florist and war reporter as career choices, and certainly not for the money. Satisfaction is success, but success is a loaded word with a meaning defined by the individual. So just be satisfied and pay little heed to what somebody else says is success.

I bet you feel like a blank canvas because you've expected others to paint you. Well I for one am tired of being told what to do, and am fully prepared to paint myself into my ideal.

fuarrrk money, love company.

>>1552
I don't want to derail the thread by focusing on this tangent, but I had pretty much the exact same problem as you and your pic related is describing until I started on a course of venlafaxine. Not everything was fantastic immediately after, things like this aren't magical panaceas and I'm still, as you said yourself, forcing myself to develop productive routines and habits (with writing, reading etc). I'm not saying you should start drugging yourself, but you might look into there being something deeper going on in your life.

Back on topic, if there was a 'book a week' challenge to be organized I'd be in. I can't guarantee I'll be able to keep up once I'm back juggling work and school in September but for the rest of the summer definitely. As to suggestions, mine would be Ubik, The Book Of Evidence (not SciFi but damn good) and A Clockwork Orange (all very good imo, all easily doable in a couple of days or one very committed, sleepless night).

I used to read a soykaf-ton prior to taking college courses. Lately I have been trying to get back into it by going to a cafe/whatever once a week to read and reading every night or every other night before bed.
So far, I've been reading about 2 or so books a month, along with a bunch of short stories and soykaf from r/nosleep/. But my primary goal for this year is to make it through all of Neil Gaiman's main works, which is working out fairly well so far.