@AspirinJuice425 And being immune to toxic is just funny on top of that. That's how I used to deal with Pyukumuku in Showdown randoms
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Anil Joshi
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Mega Victreebel is incredibly funny actually. You have what is essentially a landmine that you have to either diffuse or steadily break down instead of fighting it directly because you will one-shot yourself otherwise. Trade demon
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@MabalaMakengeza @elnathan_john You'd think the excessive emojis would be enough for me to tell lol
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If you are a writer who pays serious attention to craft and style, who loves the sentence and takes care to write them well, god help you. The vigilantes are at the junction with torches and pitchforks and they are impaling and burning the witches and anyone who even looks like one. Stay safe y'all.
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@MabalaMakengeza @elnathan_john As someone who reads a lot and writes a bit, this post definitely does not read like AI. The problem with Ai writing being so prolific is people are starting to see ghosts everywhere now 😭
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this one actually has a really good point it doesn’t even pass the bechdel test
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@junker_jo Noticed this at an amateur stand-up night. Some of it became ranting>comedy.
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@BrotherCapek @Kulambq I always recommend 'Nine Stories', such an enjoyable short story writer who doesn't get enough credit outside of 'Catcher'
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@Kulambq I’ve long said it’s a shame that Salinger gets culturally trapped into the ‘meme’ of Catcher. He is one of the funniest writers of the turn-of-the-century-upwardly-mobile-Northeasterner voice that we’ve got. Immensely talented & enjoyable to read, particularly his short stories.
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Dos Passos was very fond of Salinger and Faulkner.
'I read Salinger with a great deal of pleasure, and I mention him simply because he has given me pleasure. The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey were very entertaining books. I read a certain amount of Faulkner, and I'm very, very fond of some of his writing.'
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@BurialMagazine @Streetcar89 Thanks for the rec! l'll definitely give James another shot, maybe this year. I was deciding between "The American", "Ambassadors", and "Golden Bowl".
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@ACJoshi @Streetcar89 ‘the american’ is one of my favorite novels ever
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@PedroRivie95096 @Streetcar89 HAHAHAH, ok bro.
I hope you have a better day
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@ACJoshi @Streetcar89 Hahah, you absurdly said that wasn't your impression with James and absurdly said James' sentences were mannered and inappropriate for the subject
So, you're obtuse, a terrible James reader, and a troll
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@PedroRivie95096 @Streetcar89 Hahah, that was my impression of James for the 1st time, which is why I asked for recs other than "Turn of the Screw". I've heard it's unlike his other works. I'm not writing a critique on him, just stating what I liked/didn't and asking for recs from those who read him.
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@ACJoshi @Streetcar89 There was no mannered sentences as James doesn't write any and there was no disconnect and you haven't shown any. You do need to back up your arguments to make them more than personal opinion, and nobody's prose is more attuned to psychology than James
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@PedroRivie95096 @Streetcar89 Psychological aspect of it. I felt the tension, but the prose and mannered sentences created a disconnect. The reason I'm interested in trying another novel is my bias against the Gothic horror backdrop of the story.
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@PedroRivie95096 @Streetcar89 Well the genre in general is not one of my favorite. Classic horror/gothic horror. I didn't care for "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and was likewarm on "Aura" by Fuentes. I read it with the angle of the apparitions being manifestations of her sexual repression and enjoyed the...
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@leb_dct_cultist @dimitripilled I've read 'Cosmos' by Sagan and loved it. Genius in his field, and also could inspire awe in laymen without getting overly technical.
Sagan's passage, after reading it aloud, easily swept for me. There's a melodic flow that you don't always find in prosaic non-fiction.
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@dimitripilled I hate Sagan's prose, IMO that one stood out as bland.
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The AI was actually better than the Le Guin passage. Not that the AI was good but that Le Guin excerpt—at least out of context—sucks
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jesus christ. it's so over. AI slop (that consistently replicates all over AI's most annoying prose tendencies) preferred over McCarthy, Le Guin, Sagan, Elizabeth Bishop. The average times-reader is subliterate.
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@dimitripilled Hahaha I thought the exact same. I dont read fantasy, and haven't read LeGuin yet either. When reading that passage, I figured it was human for the use of capitalization and flow but preferred the AI passage with the fever metaphor. All other excerpts went to human.
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@RobertSecundus No need for the alarmism... this is true for almost any medium and has always been. Middling/average content will always be preferred by the masses especially because digestibility is a big metric. Look at Benson Boone/Taylor Swift, a hyper realistic painting>Picasso, etc
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jesus christ. it's so over. AI slop (that consistently replicates all over AI's most annoying prose tendencies) preferred over McCarthy, Le Guin, Sagan, Elizabeth Bishop. The average times-reader is subliterate.
Nordic AI Institute@nordicinst
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@Scholars_Stage I'd have to think of some more, but Somerset Maugham is one that comes to mind quickly
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This is a very good thought experiment. Who are the five authors that most 20th c writers have read but most 21st c writers have not?
What about 19th c writers?
Jem Bloomfield@jembloomfield
Have been reading "Kim" this last couple of weeks, and was reminded of the scholar who told me that Kipling was the author whom most twentieh-century writers had read, but most twenty-first century readers haven't. She put it better than that, but it's a good point.
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@her_eloquence Hopscotch by Cortazár is one of the best books ever written.
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If you read a good book, Please come and make noise about it here, so we can all go and experience it 🙏🏾
Please i said good books.
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