/v/ - Video Games

It was pointed out 2 fucking years ago OP.

>>14650817

Lurk more.

>>14650822

I played it a couple years back but I guess I never noticed it.

>>14650826

Tell me Anon. How many people on this board have actually played this game? It looks like shovelware.

>le wicked meme magic xD

And people deny r/TheDonald has infested /pol/.

>>14650831

Memetic occultism is an actual academic topic. Go read a book.

>>14650832

>read a book

I know this "catchphrase".

There was a thread on it when we found it, and that was some two years ago.

>>14650827

It was all over /pol/ and there was a few threads on /v/ at the time

>>14650834

It's not a "catchphrase" it's life advice.

>>14650850

No it isn't. At all.

>>14650864

Reading is good for you because you learn more than you would sitting around playing video games all day. If you cannot detect the life advice in my statement, then perhaps you are truly too far gone and no amount of arcane knowledge will save you.

dubs

>>14650871

>you learn more than you would sitting around playing video games all day

I'd argue that vidya reflexes, resource management and jewry detection have served me better in life than knowledge of philosophy.

>>14650871

You don't tell someone "read a book" to help them, you say it to imply that they lack something in comparison to you. It's a shaming tactic. Actual advice would be to list specific books to read, but even then it would be effectively saying "become more like me". The type of person who uses that catchphrase would better serve themselves by continuing their own studies.

>>14650875

>It's a shaming tactic

Go the fuck back to Tumblr

>>14650879

I don't see the correlation.

>>14650817

>hownew.ru

>>14650875

Actually, it's a tipical leftists anti-argument. Some dumb idiots on the right do it too.

It goes something like this:

>Prima makes a point

>Secunda disagrees

>Prima asks for rebuttal

>Secunda has none

>Secunda points to a book as rebuttal

>Secunda states the book lays it out so clearly, it should be accepted as truth

>Prima hasn't read said book

>Prima can't rebuttal further

>Secunda wins the argument

At least, that's how it goes if you're an idiot.

If you're not, you ask the bloke to quote the book in question, specifically the part that serves as rebuttal. Failure to do so (or a false quote) disproves his argument for lack of support.

The left ususually pull this crap because they can easily pick up 30-40 books while in college that are packed with marxist propaganda and no sane person would ever read them.

One sure fire way to trigger commies who tell you to read a book is to ask them for quotes.

9/10 times, there's no quote or they don't actually know it. And on the 1/10 they come up with a quote, it's laughly easily to disprove it aswell.

>>14650879

You should have said "fallacy", not shaming.

That will associate it with "fat shaming" and "kinkshaming" and other assorted tumblr cancer that anons very much dislike.

>>14650900

Yeah, I'm familiar, I've been told a number of times to read Marcuse by people who didn't even really understand his theories or my rebuttals.

However, I think shaming tactics are the best descriptor, to make another feel self-doubt is the goal, which is why it isn't unique to leftists, but rather to self-important blowhards with shallow knowledge.

>>14650923

Oh, I use the expression "shaming tactics" outside of 8chan too. It fairly sumarizes the idea for most people.

But on chans, (8 in particular) you're speaking to a comunity where "shame" is an almost alien word. It's like writing "girlfriend" on /r9k/ or "African American" on /pol/. It's not wrong from a gramatical or syntaxical point of view, but it will raise some eyebrows and get people to look twice over your posts.

>>14650936

Yeah, shibboleth's are a pain, especially since I'm getting older. It's funny in this case though because the tumbler *shaming shit is a shaming tactic itself. I think it's foolish to let an outside group define the words you find acceptable to use.

>>14650958

>shibboleth's

Uh, learned something new today.

I don't think it's foolish, I think it's downright dangerous. Our way of thinking shapes our language, and the reverse is true. If you ever felt that you act in a very diferent way when you're posting here than when you're IRL with friends, that's mostly because the language we use here is a lot more agressive and straight to the point.

"Losing" words to another group usually has an effect on them and you aswell, from the excess use (on them) and the lack of it (on you).

Kinda funny isn't it? Tumblr and compnay use "shaming" so frequently, it's their go-to rhetoric when they're retorting to anything. Meanwhile, "shame" is so absent from chans that we get people like tile-fucker and backpack-cucker around.

It's an interesting world.

>>14650980

Exactly, cue MGS2 speech about gated communities.

>>14650980

It's part of why learning new languages is hard for some people. Every new language is a system that assumes that certain concepts are associated with certain words, depending on the nation's culture. In russian, for example, "Krasnaya devitsa" (Красная девица) is archaic for "Beautiful girl". However, the word "Krasnaya" (Красная) right now is still used. It means Red (relating to something female). Our ancestors thought that red things were beautiful. Now up that kind of logic to the extreme - speak a ton of time in the language of your choice and you're changed as a result.

>>14651003

Eh, I'm Portuguese and one of the few people around that actually took to learning English as a second language. Most people around here don't because they don't see a point/don't need it.

Besides giving me acess to 80% of the internet (and a wealth of content/information) it also changed the way I think when compared to folks around me. Very subtly so, but it's there. I somehow lost some of the propensition to over-elaborate concepts (a trait of Portuguese language) and end up going straight to the point.

I still love Portuguese and think it's a beautifull language, but English is a lot more practical and better for technical work.

German sounds like a nightmare, but not that diferent from english.

I imagine french people are all giant poofters because their language sounds like their tongues are constantly performing cunningulus. It's quite possibly their mouths adapted to it.

Got any advice to someone who wants to learn Russian? I'll never have a practical use for it, but I'm intrigued by the moonrunes and I like your folk songs.

>>14651003

Yes, but that's something that happens to a people organically over time and strengthens the bonds between those who share similarities, this is more where your enemies define what the acceptable concepts within your group are. In your example, it makes perfect sense to me as a white person, since blushing women are sexually attractive.

>>14651023

There's not much to say. Russian language was gutted by jews, and even before that, a lot of french-isms and american-isms were introduced by the nobility. As a result, there's a lot of words out there with roots taken from words of the foreign languages. Russian is a very hard language to learn, as I'm sure you know, and there's no easy way of up and learning it. It should still be easier than nip though.

>>14651041

If you put it like that, then it's not just words, any concept that they use more than you do will become tainted. It's why memes die so quickly, too.

Now that I think about it, aren't words something like a mental virus? In terms of them rubbing off on you.

>>14651059

Either or, as they are also based on reality and what is known to work for a particular time and place, it's when you define yourself by ideology or your opposition to an ideology that they become a virus or confusion. I think the rise of easier communication, even before the internet but now vastly accelerated, has brought people into a place where people define themselves more by what they hate than what they believe in or know. It's an easier path, since it doesn't require the hard work of intellection.

>>14651059

>aren't words something like a mental virus?

Pretty much.

For instance, a few years ago, the expression "Deep State" wasn't in the common person lexicon.

But now, even Fox is making a series about it.

Ask yourself: why?

Because there's a market for it. There's a lot of people who've heard about the Deep State, who now distrust their government and want to consume media about it. Kinda Ironic, isn't it?

Go back 5 years and anyone expressing his distrust in the government was instantly classfied as a paranoid schyzo and promptly dismissed.

The key was in the expression "Deep State".

Lizard people? Too outlandish. Zog? Too anti-semitic. lmao Illuminati? Too much occultism.

But Deep State is composed of two common words. Familiar words. Yet their association is unsettling. It invokes very disturbing images and ideas in the people. It invokes questions, skepticism and erodes trust in the power structure.

Just a pair of normal words.

Heck, "Fake News" might be the most powerfull memetic virus of the 21st century. It spread like a virus, systems gained immunity to it and as a result the Virus mutated to infect new systems (the original propagators of it).

noice

>>14650834

>catchphrase

It's an idiom you fucking brainless mongoloid

kek them

>>14650900

This is bullshit because leftists don;t read books, they burn them. Go read a book faggot.

>>14651059

>still harder than nip

I hate this meme. Japanese is one of the easiest languages to learn as far as grasping the fundamental concepts. It's phonetic with only 50 odd sounds and a very elegant grammar system that guts all of the garbage you're forced to learn in other languages. It's not hard, it's just that it's extremely time consuming, which i why it's rated as high as it is.

>>14651846

they have three fucking alphabets and one ISNT phonetic

>>14651846

You're right, japanese is easy.

Have fun wasting your life learning written japanese and failing to though, because their writing system is intentionally bad.

Ask random nips to read and write common kana, see how many times they get it right.

Yes, everyone else already got there.

>>14654225

It's a superior but more complicated written language.

>>14651845

>>>/leftypol/

>>14654225

You mean kanji. Most courses teach it completely wrong, they treat it as if it was like any alphabet-based language which doesn't make any sense. Chinese characters are intended to be associated visually, not necessarily by meaning. Many courses will do baffling shit like teaching you a complicated character first and then teach one of the chracters that make it up much later, you're supposed to learn them from the simplest and use them as building blocks. Kanjidamage website gets it right.

>>14663434

>marries off his children to Jews

>prayed at the Western wall

>does Israel's bidding on everything

<hurr durr, yew dunt liek him bcus ur lehftypahl xD

We hate Zognald because he is a philosemite.

>>14650841

>who's the guy on the far right?

>pepe

Wew.

>>14650834

>>14650864

NOT A SPORTS PAGE

NOT A MAGAZINE

BUT A BOOK NIGGA

A FUCKIN BOOK NIGGA

>>14665452

>>>/out/