Northernlion cracks down on fantasy book supremacists
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Stream date: 10-31-2022
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if NL was a weeb this bit would be about chainsaw and shingeki fans thinking theyre better than naruto fans or something
Isn't NL a low-key weeb?
@@uselesscommon7761 have you seen him guessing anime on sporcle
1:44 my mans really thought "whats a fantasy name" and said chlamydia lol
Dostoyevsky is borderline fantasy real snobs read Kant and Plato
Kant Plato and Hegel are normcore, they're taught in high school philosophy
@@Keepmakingstuff ik it is bait, but still
Highschool Hegel is a horrendous reductionism, personally I was taught that whole Hegelian idea is Thesis-Antithesis into Synthesis, which is not even Hegelian it is Fichtean analysis of Hegel
@@mefistowski5292Makin high schoolers or anyone at all for that matter read the Phenomenology of Spirit is actually torture. That text is basically exactly what people make fun of when they are mocking philosophy. It has got to be one of the most ridiculously indecipherable texts in the whole western tradition.
I've never felt so personally attacked
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"wow that's a lot of +2's"
Only a sith deals in absolutes.
this hits too close to home wtf
This is the only library I need anyway
At least Wuxia novels aren't snobby right? RIGHT?!
based wuxia enjoyer +2
Depends on the novel I suppose, if you mean some og classics like the Crane Iron pentalogy (the one Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is based on) then yeah your prolly still a snob. If its whatever the most recent trash that's been shoveled out of China/Korea then its not snobbish at all.
We are to niche to be snobby
Is that like A Thousand Li? I gotta finish that first book
@@gregathol Its basically a much older Wuxia series, and possibly the progenitor of much of the more derivative material you see today (it was written in 1940). As I said one of the novels (the fourth one oddly) was the source for the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Though to my knowledge there are no formal translations for them, so you have to track down fan translations... or learn how to read Chinese lol. Reading the summary of A Thousand Li it sounds pretty much like every other wuxia light novel you see these days. I would personally recommend "Coiling Dragon" if you are into the genre, as its pretty solid and also completed. Additionally, you can actually buy physical translations of it, if you are so inclined.
No mention of Gene Wolfe because pringles man is just built different
"Can't have shit in London, man" is the funniest joke he's ever made omg
Tangentially: People who don't fully comprehend why book-burning is bad and think it's because the physical form of a book is sacred regardless of what's in it, and any defacement for any reason is unacceptable. Oh No, someone made a collage that involved some pages cut out of a third-hand copy of Infinite Jest. There's now one fewer of the millions of copies printed of that book.
It's like some people see books as a Smartness Totem rather than media.
+2 He's so actually Right, Fantasy book readers espically branderson sanderson Cultists are so annoying.
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I remember some guy saying this bit was just NL shitting on fiction, dudes just can not seem to stop misconstruing what he says 💀
I love when grandpa gets mad at us reading well crafted literature instead of his Stock Market magazines.
Love you Egg
the Stormlight archive...
The Stormlight Archive is unironically amazing though. Game of Thrones would be a better example I think.
@@willfoltz I think you misspelled wheel of time
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@@Ergoperidot Fair but remember that at least the Wheel of Time is actually complete >.>
tell me you don't read fantasy without telling me you don't read fantasy
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Strongest TV show fan vs Weakest book reader (Fantasy genre)
People saying +2 like the example he gave isn't dogshit.. Guy Gavriel Kay, really? If you were to ask some snobs about "Who are some fantasy authors whose works have actual literary value?" his name would be dropped a lot. I was expecting Mark Lawrence or Jim Butcher or somesuch... Also let's not act like this is an anti-snob take somehow, it's very snobbish
Elaborate on how it's snobbish. His point is literally that their media preferences are roughly equal to his in terms of "intellectual merit," seems about as anti-snob as you can realistically get while criticizing opinions.
@@TheSquareOnes because he posits people reading classical literature are at least somewhat justified in their snobishness. this is a take you give if you legitimately believe that fantasy is of little literary merit.
@@tacticisacting3702 It's a bit. Being a snob who owns it is contemptible but it's not really funny. Being a snob who reads potboiler fantasy (or at least NL's impression of potboiler fantasy) is funny because it's hypocritical.
Saying Brandon Sanderson would have been funnier, more accurate and more likely to make someone in chat mad.
This is the first take that made me have to remind myself that he’s just shit talk filibustering and nothing he says is serious hahahaha. I was about to go off
nah he’s right
I thought I was gonna be outraged but he left Tolkien out of it so I don't care too much. Still, reading even some horny fantasy is better for your brain than watching another mindless shitty marvel flick.
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Tolkien had great worldbuilding but the Lord of the Rings books are a fucking snore. I will not be entertaining any opposing opinions as mine is the correct one.
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