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1465128 No.1465128 [Reply] [Original]

You are given two choices:

a. Play video games for the rest of your life (that includes online games and all the functions that come with them).

b. Read books for the rest of your life.

Which do you choose? Keep in mind these are the only two things you will ever do for the rest of your life.

>> No.1465131

Books, unquestionably.

>> No.1465130

A.

>> No.1465136

one trick pony

>> No.1465135

The last video game I played was Football Manager 2006. I could live without the occasional flash game. Easy answer for me.

>> No.1465139

But I like the stimulation that both provide, and don't think I could part with either of them.

>> No.1465144

>MGS4
>Game

That's funny, OP.

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>>1465136
This is merely a thread to test the depths of the human psyche and which I believe will turn out successfully unlike your many threads which attempt this same feat only turning out to be failures instead.

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1465149

if you don't choose video games you're a fucking faggot

>> No.1465154

>>1465149
If you choose video games you're forever a child with no scope for thinking beyond the world some nerdy developer has come up with for you.

>> No.1465157

Am I allowed to listen to audiobooks if I choose b?

>> No.1465159

>>1465154 If you choose books you're forever a child with no scope for thinking beyond the world some nerdy writer has come up with for you.

Funny how that works, huh?

>> No.1465165

>>1465146
>trolling is an psychology

>> No.1465169

>>1465159
Books provoke inference and discussion. Video games run you along a wire and you do the same things over and over again. Video games are made for money, books for art. /thread

>> No.1465173

B. Didn't even have to think about it. Saying that, I would miss the vidya.

>> No.1465175

>>1465169
jesus christ. My threads may fail more often but at least they don't attract flaming fucking halfwits like this.

>> No.1465177

So if I choose video games I can talk to people over the internet?

If not, it's definitely books.

>> No.1465180

Can I play board games?

>> No.1465187

I have read about 3 books so far in 2011

I have played video games for 20 minutes so far in 2011

I'll choose B

>> No.1465191

>>1465169
>>1465169
Name me one author who doesn't want his works to be read by a wide audience.

inb4 Kafka

>> No.1465196

Depends.
Can they be the GAEMZ OF MI DREAMZ and not just these shitstain releases we've been getting here recently?

>> No.1465210

>>1465169

/thread = "I'm taking my ball and going home."

Also, you probably don't play many video games. Video game types are as diverse as novel subjects.

>> No.1465215

>>1465191

Does Emily Dickinson count?
Also, Haruki Murakami.

>> No.1465217

>>1465191

Joyce

>> No.1465218

>>1465215
fuck!

>> No.1465221

>>1465169
people discussing Nietzsche ad nauseaum because they think it makes them look smart, or a girl who reads Twilight over and over are mentally masturbating in the exact same way a kid who ginds WoW for hours on end is

There is idiotic mindless indulgence in both video games and books.

>> No.1465227

>stagolee creates yet another non-lit thread
>its on 0 page and stays
love you, /lit/

>> No.1465229

>>1465215 Haruki Murakami.
HAHA! No.

>> No.1465232

>>1465227
This is lit related are you blind

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>>1465221
>mindless indulgence

>> No.1465238

It doesn't matter. All mediums are comparable.

For every true classic in each medium like the works of Gogol or Super Metroid, there's a pretentious mess like House of Leaves or Braid, or lowest common denominator trash like Twilight or Angry Birds.

>> No.1465236

>>1465229

A spectacular rebuttal! Another gem from one of /lit/'s finest

>> No.1465240

There is no real line between art and commerce, you fucks.

Doing something "for the art" is not inherently more respectable than making a commercial product to be enjoyed by many.

>> No.1465244

>>1465238
agreed wholeheartedly

>> No.1465248

Do ebooks count as games?

Hell, if visual novels are games, why not?

>> No.1465269

>>1465240
Did my eyes fool me, or you just compared Gogol to Metroid?

>> No.1465275

>>1465269
In terms of "the best their respective mediums have to offer", yes.

>> No.1465277

>>1465248
Obviously ebooks do not count as games

>> No.1465349

I would have to choose books, i love video games but i read far more than i play video games.
I always hate answering questions like these because i'm worried in the afterlife or something like that the answers i choose to these things will be thrust upon me.

>> No.1465382

Dumbass keep your video games suck trolling to /v/