/lit/ - Literature

idk who that is but jesus that screencap makes me sick
discuss literature

>>12411293
happy for him desu

For all I know (or care) it could actually be a well-written, insightful, and mature piece of fiction, but his agent makes it sound superfluous, basic, and fashionable. Buzzwords like "raw" and "honest" mean very little and say nothing concrete of the work. If I had an agent and he sent me something like that, I don't know how I would react, but I would be very skeptical of his judgement.

>>12411324
raw and honestpilled

There will be a reckoning for our arrogance, and we will wonder how we ever managed to delude ourselves into believing this golden age is sustainable.

I hope that when this does occur, people like "Cliff" and his agent suffer enormously. Even if they do, though, no agony could be sufficient punishment for the unthinking capriciousness with which they allowed all that we have achieved so far to be thrown away.

>>12411293
sounds good, too bad it's about videogames, but nobody is perfect i guess

>Bleszinski

This guy is probably a huge stain with disgustingly establishment views (that he thinks are transgressive).

>>12411293
Here's an excerpt from the book. Feels raw and honest to me.

>[quote]
Let's frame some context here, first and foremost.

This is going to be a hard chapter to write, honestly, harder than my father passing, harder than my nephew dying, harder than reminiscing about meeting Lauren, harder than talking about the fall of my first marriage.

For those of you who don't recall, I worked my butt of for Epic Games (Gears of War, Fortnite) for many years, and Tim Sweeney, the CEO/primary owner, took good care of me. He paid me well, I had a chunk of the company, and hell, he's a really nice dude (brilliant, too) who I enjoyed going on long walks with and discussing the future of the company with. Heck, he and Mark Rein were at my wedding, remember. (Both, hah!)

Tencent is an ENORMOUS Chinese tech company, and, years ago, they bought out a really large chunk of Epic, including my shares, and I had a windfall of money, on top of what Tim had so generously given me in the Epic Bonus Plan. (Awwww, my first Lamborghini, in burgundy, who does that?)

Game development can be a VERY stressful business, I mean, we're not curing cancer or running Space X here, but for those who work in this biz it MATTERS TO US. We grew up with Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, all of it, and want to make our own mark on this (very small) business that, to be honest, feels like family. I huge 85% of my industry peers every time I see them, be it in downtown Raleigh (shout out to Squanch Games!) or at the Game Developers Conference. We've all seen each other at our best (shipping great products) and our worst (divorces, affairs, watching out for reach other if sloppy drunk) and if you fuck with one of us you fuck with all of us. We're like the Nerd Mafia, and we stick together.

So, with this windfall (after listening to Big Sean's "Live This Life" on repeat while pounding...
>[endquote]

>>12411293
This man, he is an effeminate disgrace. If this man was my son, I would be ashamed.

>>12411506
>harder than my father passing, harder than my nephew dying
is he a sociopath?

>>12411506
so it's just a narcissistic rant?

>>12411506
We're supposed to be jealous about this? The failure of Lawbreakers has absolutely ravaged this man.

>>12411506
Why do so many adults still write at a middle school level?

>>12411506
>posting that one
too kind.
the other one cliff posted to twitter was much, much worse.

>>12411293
I used to talk to this dweeb on IRC 20+ years ago in #unrealed. He's stupid, but he works hard. /lit/ needs to learn that lesson.

>>12411558
God I hate Americans

>>12411506
This has to be a joke, please tell me this is a joke
Why the fuck does he use parenthesis so much and as a weird 4th wall break
Also
>and hell,
>Heck
kek

>>12411558
seriously what the fuck is with the parenthesis

>>12411558
lol

>>12411558
SAD AS FUCK

>>12411293
>Hi, this is your literary agent.
>You know, the guy you PAY to help sell your books.
>I couldn't get anyone to say something positive,
>but maybe you can copypasta this in social media?

>>12411558
>>12411506
What should be done about this problem? It must be stopped

>>12411558
big yaiks

>>12411585
I get the impression that he doens't read outside of game design docs and so doesn't understand what other people use parentheses for.

>>12411506
>after listening to Big Sean's "Live This Life" on repeat while pounding

Is this like that erotica with the galloping abs? This is hilarious. I’m cracking up lmao

>>12411324
That's why you don't have an agent.

>>12411456
>golden age
Not even gilded

America is held up only by the pure bravado of the boomers screaming "America is the greatest experiment"
When they open their eyes and see the failure for what it is it will all come collapsing down into blood and gore.

>>12411558
>(Epic docked me a vacation day, thanks guys, jews)

What did he mean by this?

>>12411682
>>12411585
>>12411558
what are parenthesis for?

>>12411558
>I flew up to (at the time) Connecticut for the funeral.
what does that mean?

>>12412054
There's probably a book within the book if you read all the parenthesis in reverse order.

>>12412079
but are parenthesis ever used in a literature work? i can't remember ever seeing them, people seem to use meme-dashes instead

>>12412099
borges uses them

>>12412054
I've seen them becoming interesting popular on twitter, I think they're a way to signal skippable but relevant information.

>>12412073
Didn't you hear? Connecticut was annexed by New York State.

>>12411506
>Epic Games (Gears of War, Fortnite)

Come the fuck on, he left before they even released the base game of Fortnite without Battle Royale. He had literally nothing to do with their current success.

>>12412177
did this happen?

>>12412193
what do you expect him to do? list literally-who games from when he was there?

How can someone who has been an avid reader of classics for years write like this? I assumed having good taste in literature would by itself make one write at least at a decent level.

>>12412200
consuming and producing are very different skills, his only writing skill probably comes from writing technical documents and shitposting on forums

>>12412194
officials insist that it was just a joke when asked, but social media is littered with reports of new york police assuming authority post the border

>Well, /lit/?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm8KpltgMFM

>>12411506
>tfw every "normal, well-adjusted" person by the standards of this nigger stink failure society is a delusionally arrogant, self-important retard with the mind of an overstimulated child

I hate this place

>>12411558
This could be some next level post-ironic alt lit. I feel quite inspired reading it to write the most pointless, strangely structured sentences I can think of
>Tyler and Ben loved watching the classic movie The Shawshank Redemption
Lmao

>>12412099
Notes from the underground.

>>12411511
Maybe then you could understand how your father feels.

>>12411506
It's like Elliot Rodgers without the serial killing subplot. Who wants to read a book where Elliot lives?

>>12411506
THIS is being published? I need to start writing ASAP.

Reminder he's 45

>>12411293
I like Cliff. Gears of War was a great video game series back on the 360. Happy for his memoirs or whatever.

>>12411492
care to elaborate?

>>12412195
>Epic Games
>literally who
the arrogance in this board is fucking astounding

>>12412407
It's arrogant to not know about some video game company?

>>12412379
I mean, he was the creative director for one of the best video game developers in the world... They're not publishing this because of his prose.

>>12412400
New sincerity ftw :) Everyone's just living they're lives. Why do you care? He seems happy, are you against happiness? Lol? Are you so bitter that you get upset when people are happy? Why do you care dude? It doesn't affect your life. People are individuals and can do whatever they want. I am just happy that people are happy. Everyones doing their best. We're all basically the same person. No one is smarter or better than anyone else lol who are you to judge? Wow you're soooo smart for judging and criticizing someone. Why judge someone lol? Why not just let him live his life? Why do you care so much? Im happy for others when their happy. I dont judge

>>12412415
wtf I was just saying I was happy for the guy. No need to sperg like a lunatic.

>>12412415
Conceited marijuana smoker

>>12412427
>>12412400

i bet a woman was the one who praised him, i often experience that women are easy to impress

>>12412379
This is an autobiography/“tell-all”. That’s the only reason it’s being published.

>>12411293
>>12411558
Is this some elaborate troll ?

>>12411506
>>12411558
reads like my diary desu

>>12412572
you diary is shit dont bother with it

All rich people and video gamers should be hanged. Unironically.

>>12412642
literally where's the lie

>>12412642
Seconded

>>12412642
kikes too

>>12411506
You have to be a big stupid nigger to believe any publisher read this and thought "we have something special here," except maybe if their thought continued and went like: "we have something special here- something especially shit".

>>12412415
You're a bad person, that's for sure. Someone wishes another human well, and you write this tripe in response? Good, keep going in the direction you are in. Of losing all empathy for other people, entering a chamber of distanced cynicism from which you are unlikely to return. Go, go there. You have forgotten what the fundamental virtues of living are.

>>12412427
You're a good person, anon. Ignore that troll.

>>12412856
>>12412427
cringe and redditpilled

>>12412320
kek best joke I've read in 2019 so far anon good job

>>12411456
lmao shut teh fuck up

>>12411734

are you an agent?

>>12411456

there's always been decadence and silly people, friend. If such a thing was possible, it'd be great to see the video game world recede or be rendered inoperable by some electrical phenomenon.

>>12412299

saved, love you, anon

>>12411456
I agree, why did people like Cliff let women into the video game industry?
It ruined everything, the golden age is gone.

your racism, antisemitism, misogyny and dehumanization towards ordinary citizens is not something i can endure any longer. if there's a God or Judge of some kind, just know that your offences to your fellow humans are being seen by them, and that thry will judge you justly for it. goodbye /lit/, i am not spending time in your toxicity anymore

>>12413103
k lol

>>12411293
An agent is supposed to lie and puff up their hack clients. That’s a good agent. Nothing here to discuss really.

>>12412472
It's more that women lie and pretend to be impressed more often than men do

>>12411293
they're so close and yet so far. if it was kitchen confidential set in the video game world, but in the sense of an actual video game (e.g. hyrule kitchen confidential) this would make an excellent read

>>12413220
>'every woman is my mom' syndrome

>>12412642
agreed
also unironically

>>12411293
Fuck agents. They are gatekeepers and should be shunned. The entire process is fucked.

>>12413103
bye

>>12412415
This is great.

>>12413419
western women are mostly your mom

>>12411293
>>12411506
I thought this was the guy from the Better than Food channel for a second

>>12411293
>I think, if it doesn't sound too grandiose, that what you could aim for here is
I would feel a pure disgust if the person genuinely wrote like this as a response to my work. My life should go horribly wrong long before I penned a work that would elicit such a garbage person to view me so highly.

>>12411573

Very Underrated post ITT senpai

>>12411293
is cliffy b writing a book?

>>12412415
One of the great posts in our time.

>>12411548
They’ve been coddled to think they’re brilliant. Social media just gave them a platform to scream into the void and confirm their brilliance

>>12412642
based

>>12411558
>(at the time) Connecticut
kills me every time this thread is posted.

>>12412195
He could have listed Unreal at least

>>12411506
This (so much THIS) is so (heck) stupid. I grew up (and still are growing) with Twain, Wittgenstein and Joyce (AWWWW shout outs to my guys). And I feel disgusted (eww!) by this basedboy

>>12411558
>(the nice but kinda dumb one, remember)

>>12412200
Have you seen any of the critique threads on this board?

>>12411293
You are a very humble person when you post screenshots of other people saying nice things about you.

>>12412642
Do you realize how anti-Semitic that statement is?

>>12415365
kek

>>12415374
>kek, jews are richer and more successful then me
lel

>>12415024
>implying he cares about it

>>12412054
For many purposes, the way he uses them is perfectly valid but not suitably terse.

>>12411293
And then everybody clapped

>>12412054
To point out Jewish people.

>>12411558
before i read this can one of you writer types confirm that parenthetical phrases have no place in printed literature? If i saw an email like this in basic bitch corporate america, i would assume they were stupid and childish.

>>12415106
badass

>>12411293
I don't know who the fuck that is. What has he written?

>>12411304
He's a big vidya faggot

>>12412299
if 4chan can't criticize normal, well-adjusted people, who will?

>>12417897
this is 4channel, after hours facebook

On another note: is it probably necessary to use Twitter and social media to be a successful author these days? Twitter seems like such a shithole.

That exerpt was absolute shit. If I smeared my own feces on a page it would at least be coherent and of academic merit. This is just disgusting the same way that caked on garbage at the bottom of a dumpster is.

>>12412200
>avid reader of classics
Where does it suggest he is?

>>12411558
SAD AS FUCK

>>12412415

>>12411293
I can't help but think he wrote it himself, just all the phrases and way it's being praised seems off

>>12411293
Why do they think in these kind of platitudes. We have to stop this bullshit

>>12411506
>>12411558
>the parenthesis
>the borderline sociopath
god he unironically deserves a lobotomy

>>12413906
i miss him brehs...

>>12411293
agents just want that percentage. most of them will blow smoke up anyone's ass if they have a built-in audience.

>>12411506
>This is going to be a hard chapter to write, honestly, harder than my father passing, harder than my nephew dying

Anybody else really love their nephew and is triggered by this?

>>12411293
Semi-related question. Is there anything money cant buy at this point? If something doesnt work you can just throw enough money at it until it does. Easy to fool "regular" people with media and "experts" singing praise to utter shit. I think whats really grotesque is that money is effective even at subverting traditional bastions of knowledge such as academia and other circles of experts. If you sink enough money for a long enough of time into it, you will have some very intelligent people constructing very intelligent arguments for something that might be objectively wrong. To the point that it might for all intents and purposes become true for perhaps even a duration of a century or longer. Does not money today single-handidly create reality? What can you even hope to accomplish by going against the flow of money? Only some kind of personal satisfaction from an undertaking that will most likely not only not bear any fruit but actually worsen your material (health, social and financial standing) condition. So when I read stuff like OP i have to ask myself who is the real idiot? The writer, the agent or us?

>>12411558

He writes like the unabomber

>>12411506
>>12411558
>()
>SAD AS FUCK
>Tyler and Ben loved watching the classic move The Shawshank Redemption
>I flew up to (at the time) Connecticut
>this is a failure on TWO levels?
>the towel smelled like ...Butt.
>We're like the Nerd Mafia, and we stick together.
>I mean, we're not curing cancer or running Space X here, but for those who work in this biz it MATTERS TO US

>>12411558

Jesus this is worse than anything I could imagine this pathetic hack writing

Hasn't made something worthwhile since Unreal

>>12413103
>if there's a God or Judge of some kind, just know that your offences to your fellow humans are being seen by them, and that thry will judge you justly for it.
>implying God isn't "racist" "antisemitic" and "misogynistic"

>>12419557
>vidya
>worthwile

>>12411506
>if you fuck with one of us you fuck with all of us. We're like the Nerd Mafia, and we stick together

>>12419595

I'm sure your schedule is absolutely filled with worthwhile pursuits

>>12419605
wtf I am the measure of all things now

>>12412642
[[Two comrade points have just been deposited into your account. Great work!]]

>>12413103
>when people like purge yourself from /lit/
nothing of value was lost

>>12411558
hold on was this shit actually printed? I thought this is some twitlonger post

>>12419437
he will be forever with us

>>12411548
that they can be read by people who can only read middle school tier writing like most guys on here

>>12411558
>VIDEO GAMES ARE THE NEW ART

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>12419662
this is a word document dude