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[JEB]

On the topic of physical media and digital media

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Thank goodness for the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

 

[overgeeked]

And with respect to "multiple endings," shame on Tolkien for even making the attempt, amirite?

Eh. If anything he wrote a book that was too much like real life. He forgot to cut all the boring bits that most readers skip over. If anything, shame on Tolkien for writing a boring book about walking and trees. Dude really needed an editor. You could cut LotR by 2/3 and not miss much in the way of actual story.

 

[Cadence]

Eh. If anything he wrote a book that was too much like real life. He forgot to cut all the boring bits that most readers skip over. If anything, shame on Tolkien for writing a boring book about walking and trees. Dude really needed an editor. You could cut LotR by 2/3 and not miss much in the way of actual story.

Luckily there were enough people with attention spans back then to launch it, and enough today to keep it going.

 

[Maxperson]

World of Warcraft needs a rogue-only title, "the Rouge."

Many years ago right after Magic the Gathering took off, there was a huge influx of collectible card games. One of them had a typo on a card rendering the Rouge Spectre. Some magazine was giving out awards to various cards and I remember than one winning Best Card Named for Makeup.

 

[Scribe]

Clown Tier.

 

[Maxperson]

My father would be so busy talking to the other people on the trolley he'd never even notice the bumps as they ran over the people...

My step-father probably would have sold all the people on the tracks life insurance.

 

[overgeeked]

Luckily there were enough people with attention spans back then to launch it, and enough today to keep it going.

Well, yeah. That is part of the ADHD. No attention span for boring stuff.

 

[Cadence]

Well, yeah. That is part of the ADHD. No attention span for boring stuff.

And tastes change to. While I lkve Tolkien, I also miss short novels and novellas being things like they used to be.

 

[Maxperson]

Once you toss in a narrative, like that of a novel, it doesn't matter how one consumes that type of media.

It does to me. I can't absorb information as well in digital form.

 

[overgeeked]

And tastes change to. While I lkve Tolkien, I also miss short novels and novellas being things like they used to be.

They’re still around. Just not mainstream. Japanese light novels typically hit 40-65,000 words. You can find all kinds of stuff on Amazon that’s on the shorter side. Media tie ins. Action-adventure. Hell, even the old short novels and novellas themselves are still around. There’s more than most can read in a lifetime already. Just got to find it.