I tend to exclusively read books electronically. Am I correct in assuming that because of the idiosyncrasies of this particular story, it's essential to read it in physical book form?
Both I and my brother have tried this. First and foremost, the intended experience is reading it in the disjointed and bizarre way the book is written and that's very hard to do in pdf. My pdf reader has a "reflow" function that pulls all the text into a reasonable book like format, it helps with the reading, but it doesn't do anything to help parse the actual content which is itself all ovee the place. If you're just looking for the story and not necessarily the puzzle of understanding the 5 meta-narrative pile, the implication of unreliable narators, and all the strange that it is, I'd suggest a nice long format YouTube video essay on it. That was personally my favorite because it sort of straightened all the lines.
according to you, everyone using the scientific method is a thief as it is someone else's idea? especially if they found a new branch of science with it?
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hungprocess@piefed.world · 8 pts · 40d
Question for those of you who have read it:
I tend to exclusively read books electronically. Am I correct in assuming that because of the idiosyncrasies of this particular story, it's essential to read it in physical book form?
Hubbubbub@fedia.io · 14 pts · 40d
I would say yes. Holding it in your hands is definitely part of the experience with this book.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 40d
Both I and my brother have tried this. First and foremost, the intended experience is reading it in the disjointed and bizarre way the book is written and that's very hard to do in pdf. My pdf reader has a "reflow" function that pulls all the text into a reasonable book like format, it helps with the reading, but it doesn't do anything to help parse the actual content which is itself all ovee the place. If you're just looking for the story and not necessarily the puzzle of understanding the 5 meta-narrative pile, the implication of unreliable narators, and all the strange that it is, I'd suggest a nice long format YouTube video essay on it. That was personally my favorite because it sort of straightened all the lines.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 40d
I think it should be left alone. Not everything needs a shittier overly condensed film.
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 0 pts · 33d
the backrooms movie was not crappy at all
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 40d
I feel like it would be difficult to translate the footnotes and layers to the story.
This reminds me that I need to finish House of Leaves.
Jubei_K_08@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 40d
Incidentally, there's a cool video reproducing the 5 and a half minute hallway on YouTube if y'all wanna check it out.
ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 40d
kibblebits@quokk.au · -1 pts · 40d
That movie should have stayed on YouTube.
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 33d
?
kibblebits@quokk.au · 1 pts · 33d
Learn about the movie.
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 33d
I did, the movie is not mediocre
kibblebits@quokk.au · 1 pts · 33d
Explain to me the history of the movie and where it came from
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 33d
kane parsons' web series
he has his own lore about the Complex, not the levels wiki stuff
and it was released on may 29th, after so much waiting
(kane actually teased the date in Static Dead End)
kibblebits@quokk.au · 2 pts · 33d
And where did he steal the idea from?
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 0 pts · 33d
how do you steal an idea? thats called inspiration Black August made the 4chan post so people could enjoy it and branch off different canons
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 0 pts · 33d
according to you, everyone using the scientific method is a thief as it is someone else's idea? especially if they found a new branch of science with it?