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how is reddit so fucking bad

>> No.8771802

>>8771797
What is the point of this

>> No.8771804

okay... but why is god the enemy?

>> No.8771806

>>8771802
the image is from a thread where people share the opening line of their writing. Everyone is praising this cringy piece of shit

>> No.8771809
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>>8771804
He made me who I am.

>> No.8771810

>>8771797
The last one is such a fucking dilettante it breaks my heart.

>> No.8771814

>>8771804

>Cause I'm tough, and I'm gruff, and I'm just one all-around grizzled jaded badass

t.leddit

>> No.8771826

>>8771804
Fedora.

>> No.8771833

the adult:child ratio on reddit probably more so than here favors the former.

>> No.8771843

>>8771797
Why are you browsing Reddit in the first place?

As gut-wrenchingly terrible as that opening line is, I've seen worse in our own critique threads here. Cross referencing the r/writing and /lit/ critique threads makes me think there's either a huge overlap or that the boards share more traits than they're willing to admit.

I'm sick of religious writing in general. New atheism makes me cringe. Praise tha lawd modern traditionalism makes me cringe.

>> No.8771846

Just tried to "ctrl-f" his profile to find this thread.

Half of his posts are on the writing subreddit showing off this one line, thinking he is incredibly clever with the attention he gets from the other fedoras on it.

I doubt he actually has the discipline to finish his book, let alone it being any good.

>> No.8771853

>>8771797
>My friends and clients know me as often being over critical

can already imagine a death note watching high school faggot saying this while stroking himself to scoring an intj on his 90th personality test

>> No.8771854

>>8771797
Holy.... I want more

>> No.8771855

>>8771833

don't get me wrong. I much prefer it here.

>> No.8771861

>>8771853
intp is more likely.

>> No.8771863

>>8771843
https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/50zgb0/post_your_opening_sentence/

This thread is quite famous on /lit/, I doubt he lurks reddit, he is just repeating stale memes.

>> No.8771883

>>8771863
Ohhh I must've not been online for the last thread. Lmao the fedora opener actually has "HELLO /LIT/" upvoted beneath it

>> No.8771907

i love these threads

>> No.8771917

>>8771797
went through the "holy i want more" person's profile. here's some of their writing:

https://www.wattpad.com/333242247-sylvarina%27s-forests

>> No.8771921

If nothing else, this makes me feel so good about myself as a writer. I'm just a beginner and still I would never write stupid shit like that.

>> No.8771932

>>8771917
This would unironically sell millions of copies if an editor cleaned it up and marketed it as young adult fiction.

Maybe this is why reddit cranks out published authors at such a high rate, their shit is trendy and easy to digest.

>> No.8771935

>>8771797
Redditers write gripping genre fiction. For that, this line ain't that bad. It grips, and reddit people like it then it succeeds at what it aims at.

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>>8771932
i fear this is correct

>> No.8772043

>>8771797
Fucking Atheists, why haven't they killed themselves already if they know that there isn't a Hell waiting for them.

>> No.8772065

>>8771797

that opening line's not bad...

I mean... compare it to the our crit thread...

>> No.8772067

>>8772043
Hey, we don't all write cringeworthy bullshit about it.

>> No.8772076

>>8772043
Because there also isn't a Heaven waiting you dumb shit

>> No.8772144

>>8772067
>>8772076
Imagine how beautifully you could write if you could see into Heaven.

>> No.8772162

>>8771917
They mostly seem to be this edgy, in enemy territory and fighting for their lives against all odds type shit.

Very militaristic. Is this like a common opening for video games or something btw?

>> No.8772190

another post from the same guy in OP:
>I love anime and manga, but even these media run into issues sometimes.
>even these media run into issues sometimes

>> No.8772195

>>8772190
holy... i want more

>> No.8772227

>>8771917
Top kek reminds me of what I wrote in middle school to be frank.

>> No.8772228
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Because they're all fedora-tipping FAGtheist loosers. I mean, come on, seriously, how could G-d possibly be the enemy? It says in THE BIBLE that He is only good. Pic related: typical FAGtheist.

>> No.8772237

>>8771917
I was in a fake writing club in school, and on the rare occasion that we shared work, everyone except for me churned out stuff like that. I was the guy who wrote 3000 words that went nowhere about an officeworker watching the rain outside his window and thinking about getting drunk after work.

>> No.8772253

>>8771797
>Tales of the Insulan Empire
where they no doubt are locked in an eternal war against their arch enemies, the Diabetas Federation

>> No.8772262

>>8772253
very good.

>> No.8772263

Imagine everyone here was a tripfag.

>> No.8772271

The bitterness and familiarity towards reddit of the posters creating these threads leads me to believe they're created by disaffected redditors looking to vent their fustration with reddit's culture. Can't we just go back to indifference towards reddit and stop these juvenile hate threads?

>> No.8772274

>>8772271
No brah, these are the memes of the present.
We can never return to the memes of the past, not truly.

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>>8772271
Are you new? Go back to rebbit goes back several years.

>> No.8772285

>>8771853
Nice projection

>> No.8772288

>>8772271
Reddit is more than a website, its an ideology, its a disease. We are the burned children who must warn the others of its horror

>> No.8772290

>>8772285
His assessment is more than likely correct though.

>> No.8772295

>>8772278
I'm specifically talking about threads dedicated to reddit hate, which is more of a recent trend.

>> No.8772297

Why do you care?

>> No.8772299

But there is no God

>> No.8772300

>>8771797
How can these "people" be so happy and helpful?
It just seems so insincere.

>> No.8772306

>>8772043
Is that your only reason for staying alive? That you're afraid of a mythical eternal punishment? That's pretty sad desu. You didn't exist before you were born and you won't exist after you die. Doesn't matter what your feelings are on the matter or what you do with your life, the end is the end all the same. So make the most of it and write as many classics as you can put to paper.

I don't get why so many new atheist types are mad though. Faith doesn't bother me until it starts burning books or passing strict laws.

>> No.8772317

>>8772300
Reddit is obsessed with imaginary internet points. Being mean loses points. So they put on their bullshit masks and start sucking each other's dicks over it. Go to the tranny subreddit where they ask if they pass or not, a fucking bearded man in lipstick would get a million resounding "yes" answers.

>> No.8772318

>>8772253
It's on Amazon and Goodread and doesn't even have any ratings
https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Insulan-Empire-Louise-Stanley-ebook/dp/B00W2EBU9C

>> No.8772320

>>8772295
I agree only because it's the same thread being discussed every time. Highlighting bad writing is fun and can be beneficial, but it needs to be new; the first time this was posted I had a good laugh, but now it's repetitive and ironically mirrors what my experience browsing reddit was like.

>> No.8772334

>>8772317
>the tranny subreddit
can you post a link?
ain't nobody got time to trawl through that fucking site

it's for research purposes

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>missing the gnostic underlying
wew

>> No.8772339

>>8772278
you saved that on your computer?
specifically so that years later you could make that post?

well played, in a way, i guess

>> No.8772350

>>8772334
https://www.reddit.com/r/transpassing/

They've also got asktransgender and lgbt and all the other lifestyle subs, but that's the one I was talking about.

>> No.8772356

>>8772288
I don't care though. There are better things to do.

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>>8772318
from the name i had it down as some kind of hard sci fi

meh, it's a bit tedious, but i've read worse. clearly someone who's in thrall to neil gaiman, though.

>> No.8772368

>>8772339
It's more likely he got it from an archive.

>> No.8772396

>>8772350
>We have several competent mods here, and we all contribute to the workload, but every now and then a comment will be horribly inappropriate (you know what I mean) and it will sit there for 10 hours before a mod catches it. Then it will have 3 or 4 downvotes. The thing is, if the people who downvoted that comment had also hit the report button, it would have gotten taken down very quickly, and it may even get someone banned. So listen: we moderators do our best, but your input helps! Use the report button! I'd rather see 10 reported comments that are fine than let one slip through.

>Did you know that this subreddit has rules? It does! They are listed on the sidebar over there :point_right:.

>This sub has been referred to as a hugbox before, but it is certainly not meant to be; there are such places and we encourage you to seek them out if you need to. That said, there is a right way and a wrong way to offer criticism. Compare the following two sentences:

>"That shirt looks horrible on you."

>"You look horrible in that shirt."

>See that? The general meaning of the two statements is the same (you probably don't want to wear that shirt) but the impact is very different.

This is why I hate reddit, fucking cancer.

>> No.8772482

>>8772356
YOU ARE LITERALLY POSTING IN A REDDIT HATE THREAD RIGHT NOW GET THE FUCK OUT WITH THIS 'I HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO' SHIT YOU ARE ON 4CHAN FOR FUCKS SAKE LMAO

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>>8772396
>competent
>mods

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>>8772496
This is too complicated for me to comprehend

>> No.8772521

Oh boy, this thread again. Thanks for shitting up /lit/ in the eternal quest for (you)s, OP.

>> No.8772530

>>8772521
>waaaahhhh someone is shitposting on my safe space waaaahhhh

This is Trump's America now.

>> No.8772532

>>8772285
intj detected

>> No.8772577

>>8772360
Oh jesus does that first sentence hurt to read.

>> No.8772588

>>8772577
Why? It's not bad.

>> No.8772590

>>8772360
man this is terrible
makes me think the writers on /lit/ aren't that bad

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>>8772588
>"Clear off, Pussy-Willow," came his brother's voice from behind him in the front passage between the back parlour and the shop-front.

>> No.8772597

>>8771797
I don't see a problem with this. It's funny. You're just a cunt

>> No.8772599

>>8772597
Holy... I want more...!

>> No.8772600

>>8772596
It's fine. It seems like it has intent. "Behind, front, back, front."

>> No.8772602

>>8772588
There's too much conflicting direction being described at once.
>from behind him in the front between the back
I've re-read it several times trying to parse it and it's still disorienting.

>> No.8772610

>>8772360
Jesus Christ that first sentence is a goddamn trainwreck, did this nigger even bother editing?

>> No.8772621

>>8772602
I think it was intentional.

>>8772610
I don't really like it either, but I also think if it was ascribed to Pynchon or someone no one would be thinking too much about it.

>> No.8772645

>>8771797
That's.... that's his OPENING LINE?
Jesus H.

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>> No.8772664

>>8772621
It may be intentional but it's still poor writing. There's no purpose in making something painful to read in this context.

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>>8772651

>> No.8772668

>>8772144
faggg
also nice dubs ;V

>> No.8772674

>>8772664
you just don't get it

>> No.8772678

>>8772237
Post opening paragraph of that story anon
†††

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Counting god is an afterthought.

>> No.8772741

>>8772530
this is a japanese imageboard dude

>> No.8772751

>>8772674
Kekkkkkkk

>> No.8772752

>>8771797
at least they are not miserable like us, right?

>> No.8772757

>>8772752
Better to be a sad Socrates than to be a happy pig :^)

>> No.8772778

>>8772757
Well said my good sir

*Tips Fedora*

>> No.8772788

>>8772752
LMAO
They'll run in circle for the rest of their lives

>> No.8772802

>>8772757
Socrates was pretty happy, bro, his daimōn made sure he never did anything wrong

>> No.8772831

>>8772757
he wasnt even sad when he was sentenced to death

>> No.8772842

>>8772778
>>8772802
>>8772831
I never said I was actually Socrates, he died like a thousand years ago you IDIOTS

>> No.8772845

This is "new sincerity" in action. You can see how earnest and supportive they all are.

It's fucking dreadful.

>> No.8772858

>>8772842
>I never said I was actually Socrates, he died like a thousand years ago you IDIOTS

Thanks for the spoiler, asshole.

>> No.8772860

>>8771797
the fuck are you goin on about man it's anime as fuck.

>> No.8772862

>>8772596
>how many location prepositions should I shove into this sentence?

>> No.8772868

>>8772076
>>8772306
>>8772067
reminder that not all atheists are smart

>> No.8772898

>>8772868
Maybe not all atheists are supremely intelligent.... but all religious people are certainly incredibly stupid. heh

>> No.8772912

>>8772868
Bring atheist by default makes you smart.

>> No.8772914

Some os those guy's techniques aren't half bad, but the themes and settings are just cringe worthy

>> No.8772916

its not just reddit, people love empty, pseudo meaningful things like that

you could write a python script to attach words together at random and put them on motivational coffee mugs and people would but them

>> No.8772933

>>8771809
>you know, we're not so different you and I . . .

>> No.8772945

*Unsheathes katana*

>> No.8773026

>>8772898
>he thinks he's not religious

>> No.8773030

>>8772898
>>8772945
nothin personnel kid. heh

>> No.8773060

>>8772868
Atheism isn't even an ideology, its an absence of religious doctrine. Not all atheists are smart, not all of them are dumb either. Same as any other group. Besides juggalos. I suspect they're all mentally retarded.

Feels like a lot of people who discuss religion on /lit/ have something to prove.

>> No.8773091

>>8771917
Very conventional aspie-nerd style of writing. Describe every detail of what is happening with excessive visual emphasis, like it's supposed to be the story outline for a comic book.

>> No.8773113

>>8772396
>"That shirt looks horrible on you."

>"You look horrible in that shirt."

I actually can't tell which of these is supposed to be the bad one.

You look horrible, vs. it looks horrible on YOU.

But normies think one is nice and the other is mean?

>> No.8773264

>>8772845
they're not sincere though

>> No.8773276

>>8773113
Well, one is a direct attack on the person
>You look horrible... in that shirt
The other suggests the person might not look horrible if they were wearing a different shirt.

>> No.8773295

>>8773276
>You look horrible in the shirt.
Suggests that you look horrible, on account of that shirt.

>That shirt looks horrible on you.
Suggests that the shirt looks horrible, on account you.

>> No.8773324

>>8771853
kek

>> No.8773435

>>8773295
But in regular conversation, the meanings are actually opposite of that. The nice one is actually "That shirt looks horrible on you." I think that the reason for this is that it isn't ever polite to say a person looks horrible, and in conversation it would be too easy to interpret "You look horrible in that shirt" to just being "you look horrible." It's hard to read the subtext in conversation, so the meanings of the two phrases have reversed so nobody is ever confused.

>> No.8773609
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4chan is ostensibly full of contrarian individualists
>how dare you disobey God! Michael will kill you!
Reddit is allegedly full of people jerking off to upvotes, brownie points, gold etc, the most conformist people you can imagine
>psshh... nothing personnel... YHWH...

Really enables your cognitive resources.

>> No.8773611

Why is this thread still up?

>> No.8773629

I want more and I want it NOW

>> No.8773634

>>8771797
The average human IQ is ~really~ fucking low and yet every one of our citizens is brought up to believe there's no greater insult than condescension. So you end up with an overload of that sort of personality.

>> No.8773644

>>8773634
Low in comparison to what?

>> No.8773661

>>8773644
Low compared to the number of people whining about most people being idiot.

>> No.8773664

>>8773644
In comparison to people with the sufficient consciousness to devise standards. ~130<.

Or, to the AIs that'll start to exist in, evolutionally speaking, no time at all.

+ who cares; it's an informal statement. I'm sure you understand its meaning, so stop interrupting the lecturer and relax, Anon; class-participation is only 10%.

>> No.8773687

>>8773664
>~130<.
That you think this is a reasonable statement leads me to conclude you're an idiot.

>> No.8773700

>>8772368
We all have to believe in something, my anon dude.

>> No.8773870

>The only winning move is not to play

What did he mean by this?

>> No.8773876

>>8771797
That's not a bad opening line.

>> No.8773904

Reddit is as bad as deviantart was back in 2007.

>> No.8773922

>>8771854
CRASH

>> No.8773930

>>8773876
You can't be serious.

>> No.8773931

>>8771861
what's wrong with intp?

>> No.8773954

>>8771833
Yep. Most of these faggots are in their thirties. They're normies, leading normie lives. They don't know the meaning of the word autism.

This is just on the book subs though. O gaming subs the ratio's probably much heavier on the underage side (though this is true on /v/ too).
>>8772271
Your beliefs are correct. There's also good-old elitism.

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it gets better

>> No.8773987

>>8772043
Why havent you killed yourself if you know theres only a miserable future and potential heaven waiting for you.

Skip the bullshit amirite

>> No.8774000

>>8773963
They're clearly fucking OP.

>> No.8774007

People say 4chan is miserable. People say we're just picking on happy people, and it's true that people always complain about how bad 4chan is and always has been.

It's got fucking nothing on Reddit. Have you seen the circlerjerk subs? Have you seen the "bad[x]" subs? They're the most bitter, self-righteous, falsely elitist and venomous cuntnuggets on the planet.

We're hostile, sure, but only distantly. They're just plain vicious.
>>8773091
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that after spending loads of time in forum RPs. They imagine some SO COOL thing and then they try to get you to imagine it, too -- exactly as they imagined it.
>>8773931
You dumbass, it's not that there's anything wrong with it -- it's that it's the bullshit profile autists really really wish applied to them ("the logical analytic dude").

>> No.8774009

>>8773963
>Grammarayz92
Holy shit I just noticed.

This motherfucker is 24 years old.

>> No.8774014

>>8771810
he isn't, really. he just likes something you don't.

>> No.8774017

>>8774014
What a dilettante.

>> No.8774018

>>8774007
hey, i'm a logical analytic dude :)

>> No.8774024

>>8774018
What an autist.

>> No.8774026

>>8774007
>It's got fucking nothing on Reddit. Have you seen the circlerjerk subs? Have you seen the "bad[x]" subs? They're the most bitter, self-righteous, falsely elitist and venomous cuntnuggets on the planet.
This is very true. There is a cruel streak in that whole reddit community, but it's not a fun, self-aware cruel like you might get on 4chan raids and banter and shit, it's like a self-important, resentful, subdued kind of cruelty. They're the kind of people that tend to half-assedly promote a Darwin awards-tier eugenics. The scary thing is the most of the time they act like little fucking saints who are obnoxiously 'with it'.

>> No.8774031

>>8774024
Hmm, where do you see that?

>> No.8774217

>>8773963
Fuck, I always forget this was the origin of 'Holy... I want more...'

>>8771932
Nah, that makes John Green look like John Dryden

>> No.8774264

>>8773931
OP, agree with the other guy.

INTP is more wishwashy procrastinatey in general if you buy that horoscope crap, though. INTJ is more goal-orientated and organized. The people on reddit are those who think they're "smart underachievers" - applies perfectly to the lazy nerds that don't really go out of their way to work hard.

>> No.8774313

>>8773930
It could stand to be rewritten a bit but the idea is solid. It's enough to get me interested in what the situation is.

>> No.8774334 [DELETED] 

>>8771797
Holy shit. Holy fucking shit. Goddamn.

FUCKING.
IDIOTS.
ALL OF THEM.

>> No.8774339

>>8772228
kid looks like a bauss

>> No.8774341

>>8774264
Yeah, kinda fits to me anyway.
Though that shit is only selffullfilling if you let it be so. And that test is devised to let people feel good, not to actualy analyze them.

>> No.8774357

>>8774026
>>8773987
can you quickly just name a couple of those subs? cbf searching for them and wanna see for myself. ty

>> No.8774362

>>8774341
Yeah, absolutely, and there's nothing wrong with having that if you have the ambition to get off your ass when you need to.

Procrastinating reddit losers aren't.

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>>8771797
Reminder to sage all leftist threads from reddit.
/lit/ does not dab in politics

>> No.8774398

>>8774389
/lit/ dabs in politics all the time you stupid faggot.

It shouldn't, but it does.

>> No.8774518

>>8773963
You cut my comment out :(

I love how this meme is still going strong

>> No.8774601

>>8774518
It's really the best meme we've had in a long time

>> No.8774674

>>8774518
Mine is uncut ;)

>> No.8774710

>CRASH!

>> No.8774741

>>8772237
>I was the guy who wrote 3000 words that went nowhere about an officeworker watching the rain outside his window and thinking about getting drunk after work.

t. Stephen King

>> No.8774804

I see nothing wrong with the line (as long as its fiction and the person saying it someone disturbed) but the comments regarding it both from redditors and anons here is the most embarrassing thing about this thread

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>>8771797
Reddit is filled with cunts.

>> No.8775943

>>8775935
they tried this with gamergate and the hillary clinton campaign

>> No.8775970

>>8775943
They have no reason to do anything with /lit/ or /his/ -- we're so elitist we manage to out-pseud anything remotely /pol/ *anyway*. This is misguided. They should dive into the deep end -- hit /pol/ directly, if subtly. Even get /leftypol/ on their side (they've become extremely idpol, when they're not Stirner).

Obviously they'll get shat on. You've got to keep this up. You've got to slowly shape board culture until the memers are memeing spooks *just* to out-contrarian all the other underageb& shitters.

>> No.8776150

>>8772651
The first one is alright.

>> No.8776283

>>8774398
Politics is discussed a lot, both directly and inderectly, in literature so it would be natural the board devoted to literature would discuss its relation to books

>> No.8776318

>>8775935
>>8774389
Do we have mods?