>cinema is ded
>tv is ded
>anime is ded
>music is ded
>vidya is ded
>internet is ded
So uhh, back to books I guess?
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>cinema is ded. >tv is ded. >anime is ded. >music is ded. >vidya is ded. >internet is ded
I prefer Chris Stuckmann
It's amazing how every part of the entrainment industry is collapsing, because they just stopped caring for some reason in the 2010s
>vidya is ded
Baldur's Gate 3 was cool, Monster Hunter Wilds is coming, emulation is great, gaming is the final pillar of entertainment left
>Baldur's Gate 3 was cool
Yeah that's what I wrote
Go back to your shit board.
The internet isn't dead, the Year of the Spoony One is upon us! Rejoice friends, for this year's harvest looks to be bountiful!
Streaming services killed movie theatres, and by extension Hollywood
Also killing gaming with gamepass. I don't know why the suits thought giving away their whole catalogue for a monthly fee was a good idea. It devalues everything they make and trains people to not pay for movie tickets or home release. I remember when you could go in to a persons house and they would have a big dvd collection. Now you'd be lucky to get anyone to watch something outside of Netflix. Which is bad because Netflix produces some of the cheapest shit imaginable.
>books
Beyond dead I'm afraid. Going to a Barnes in Noble today is torture. The only good books anymore are 15 years old at least.
there's an operational B&N on Earth?
Near where I live but people mostly use it for the Starbucks or the manga
B&N is thriving, any book store I go into is full of high schoolers. They simply stock more manga now, their finger is on the pulse of what sells.
This 1000%. The gatekeepers (agents and publishing editors) are all young millennials and even zoomers now. Check out twitter and search MSWL (manuscript wishlist) and try not to puke when you see the shit these homosexuals want writers to submit. Real literature doesn't have a chance. These cretins won't even read sample pages from something worthwhile. All the good novels have to resort to self-publishing on Kindle and other similar sites. I predict in the future that a lot of previously unpublished works are going to get bought up by movie studios because all the traditionally published shit is straight up crap.
>All the good novels have to resort to self-publishing on Kindle and other similar sites.
It is hard to find the good stuff on there because there is so much stuff. The barrier to entry is so low anyone can publish anything.
Same is true for movies, tv, games and anime. Going though all the classics would take several lifetimes. It's still sad how shit entertainment is right now.
What they're lacking is sincerity towards their own craft...
>It is hard to find the good stuff on there because there is so much stuff. The barrier to entry is so low anyone can publish anything.
Yep. Same as music. Hard to sift through all the garbage, but it's out there.
Books could've been dead for 100 years and there would still be several lifetimes of stuff to read.
I think most are still going strong, but you have to dig deeper to find something that caters to you. It is harder to find good things, but they are out there for all of those mediums of entetainment.
How so? It seems pretty busy during the weekends. Thry have a pretty good selection of books, especially on their online store.
>How so? It seems pretty busy during the weekends. Thry have a pretty good selection of books, especially on their online store.
All they have is overpriced ugly looking reprints of classic books, manga, Collen Hoover, $40 criterions, "How to start your f*cking life", and ghost written books with a b-list celebrity or politician.
Cheap reprints of classic books and manga are what I buy from them. That is good enough for me if I can't find the books/manga cheaper elsewhere.
I just got the complete Lovecraft from there in a leather bound hardcover for $5. There's good deals there sometimes if you look for them. I still think the thrift store is the best place to buy books though. Getting hardcover copies including first editions of really good books for 25 cents is pretty hard to beat.
Where?
Oh, nevermind. You're talking about public domain editions from a chain store.
Yeah, Barnes and Noble for the Lovecraft. My local Salvation Army is a treasure trove of amazing books, VHS tapes (and DVDs now), albums etc. I think I got about 20 books and a nice working VCR there with ten VHS tapes of movies I had wanted to see and a couple records during one of their monthly tag sales (there are different colored tags on the items and they do 40-90 percent off by color), that were already dirt cheap, for about $16. That place fricking rules man. I suggest checking them out if you haven't. Just one of the books I bought I could have sold on ebay for three times what I spent on everything according to recently sold listings.
I tried DVD shopping at local Good Wills in my area, but their selection might as well not exist (had like 20 or less and most were exercise videos). I don't know if it is already picked through or not. I will try the Salvation Army sometime then, thanks!
I agree with that Anon the SA always has good stuff. Goodwill sucks in comparison to SA in my experience. Plus the Goodwill charges way way more for their stuff. I got a brand new Brooks Brothers suit for a wedding that's coming up and six dvds of older movies I hadn't seen yet like Vertigo and 12 Angry Men for eight bucks a week ago. I used to never want to go in there because I figured everything would be dirty and poor people creep me out but I love it there now. If you have a town that has nicer homes and people or a town near you that does that's the one you want to go to. Mine was basically all new stuff that rich people donated or nice things that came from a dead relative.
Pro-tip: Talk to the people that work there (especially if they are qt girls, tons of hot girls work there for their first job or volunteer to have on their applications) and ask when they usually restock or trucks come in to be sorted if it's the Salvation Army. I've had them set aside insanely good things for me after getting to know some of them and most of the time they don't even charge for the shit if you did that.
THIS. It also starts conversations with them about movies or music etc. and you can work that into asking if they want to watch something together aka frick.
less than 1% of published books sell more than 1000 copies. publishing today only exists as an industry because of celebrity book deals, that's it. One has to wonder if the 80%+ white women who make up book publishing had anything to do with the decline. Reading today is looked at as a feminine hobby, think about how insane it is that women managed to be so sexist that they turned an entire gender off READING of all things.
Reading was manly as frick or at least considered something the powerful did, right up until the 90s when women took over publishing.
This anon gets it. And now a lot of the females in the industry are also woke lesbo morons, making it worse. And the fantasy genre is dominated by brainlets who think Brandon Sanderson is a good writer. Literature is so fricking dead.
I read a lot growing up in the 90s and even then the majority of YA books were written by women which turned off almost every other boy from reading. if we had an industry that promoted dudes writing for dudes what would the industry look like today? probably still shit considering how illiterate everyone is but at least sci-fi would still be around. the fact that bad ass sci-fi novels aren't still topping the charts fairly consistently says it all.
>if we had an industry that promoted dudes writing for dudes what would the industry look like today?
The demand is out there. But again, like 90% of agents are women aged 25-40 who have the shittiest taste in writing and only want woke, girlie shit. The industry is largely ignoring a massive segment of the market. More young teen males and young adult men would read more if there were more novels geared toward them. I tried myself. I wrote a YA fantasy horror novel with a young male lead instead of female. Couldn't even get any agent to read it. They all wanted more woke elements or a female lead, or some kind of love triangle bullshit. I gave up.
Literally every single one of those medias I still indulge in. It’s just all from the 2000s-2013 and I pretend nothing else afterwards exists.
nice blog post, cuck moron
books are dead trees
Music isn't dead. It's just that best stuff is not advertised and the artists who make it often don't play it live. Scour YouTube and BandCamp and SoundCloud and the like, and you will find tons of awesome music from the past 15-20 years. The algorithm isn't going to give it to you.
I don’t feel bad for Douge in this. You knowingly made a friend simulator for autists. You should’ve known you were going to run into someone like this at some point.
After all these years I still can never get more than 30 seconds into this video
>So uhh, back to books I guess?
We're going back to reading only comic books.
Books are also dead.
There isn't a single talented writer on the planet right now
Theres hardly any decent manga out these days either. I imagine the same goes for light novels although I don't read them.
There are still plenty of decent option for manga out there though.
Western publishers are afraid of translating some of the magnum opus that light novel has.
Yes, then the cycle slowly builds itself up again to be destroyed again. Nothing can destroy literature. The best shit has already been written, modern writing is without a doubt dead.
The written word will never die. I'm currently reading pic-related. Apparently there's a movie based on it that did really well in Japan and was their entry for the Best Foreign Feature Oscar.
I live in NYC, so I go to see 2-3 broadway or off-broadway plays every week.
How many of those are good
Most are very good, and even those that suck have very good performances. Broadway has the best actors in the world, far better than Hollywood.
israeli, but not gay.
>israeli, but not gay.
Next you're going to tell us you don't have a split tongue and your blood isn't battery acid. 555-COMEON-NOW
Gay, israeli or both
Should Doug have just left Nostalgia Critic in 2012?
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>rewatch akagi
>reread East of Edan
ah, perfect
That’s where I’m at
>reading comic books let alone asiatic comic books made for morons and pedophiles or asiatic cartoons made for morons and pedophiles
I'll just re-read some classics and re-watch stuff like Frasier, Cheers, The Twilight Zone, old westerns, old noire, etc. Instead thanks. I'd really prefer not to be turned into a kidfricking degenerate troony. Fricking weeb troons, it should have been two dozen nukes instead of two.
>Idiot children don't read the new classics by the great Patrick S. Tomlinson
Enjoy your slop and prison, stalker child.
Books are waaaaay dead. More dead than tv.
I bought nearly my entire library secondhand. I found a signed 1st edition of my favorite book as a kid and it sells for like 2 grand and I think I paid a dime or a quarter for it. Mine is like brand new too. Picture related.
thrift shops are the haven of the true kino connoisseur you can get all the great things plebs have discarded for next to nothing
ITT people that went from moronic children to 30 year olds who never developed meaningful hobbies or relationships that don't rely on consuming corporate media suddenly realise there's only like 20 or 30 core stories and everything else is just variations
>I am very interesting
what do you like to do anon?