What is going on with writing these days? Forspoken, and now Baldurs Gate 3 are riddled with speech like picrel.
What is going on with writing these days? Forspoken, and now Baldurs Gate 3 are riddled with speech like picrel.
What is going on with writing these days? Forspoken, and now Baldurs Gate 3 are riddled with speech like picrel.
Writers that grew up watching Friends and Joss Whedon shows.
There’s a lot to unpack here, let’s talk about the through-line between all these terms.
>using any words
For me it's Biblically Accurate Angels
Pretty much all modern media is infested with this "everyone talks like a 20-something in NYC during the late 90's/early 2000's" writing style from people who are incapable of writing people communicating in any other way. If you've ever played a game or read a book or watched a movie/tv show/cartoon where everyone uses the exact same method of communication(see Marvel movies), then you know it was written by a writer who can't actually write a character, just put words in their mouth.
I believe the term is "millenial writing" It's godawful.
Ive honestly yet to see some of this so-called 'marvelspeak' in bg3. Karlach cusses a lot but thats about it
Maybe they're mixing it up with some of the dialogue from Honor of Thieves.
There are actually very few writers of any real quality in our modern era. You have to read from good writers to understand how to write well. But nobody wants to read anymore, and if they do, they're reading badly written fantasy/sci-fi crap. If good writers do exist today, none of them are working in video games, and it will all just be AI in like a decade anyway, which wouldn't be terrible if people treated it as a tool to add to their own efforts, but everyone just sees it as an easy fix all. We have all the elements necessary to create a modern renaissance if we wanted, but our generation is filled with the most creatively bankrupt "artists" in all human history, so just expect to be disappointed I guess.
What are some good books to read that have good writing?
Please provide something that was actually popular at some point in time and not some niche shit that nobody cares about except book critics.
From a modern writer? Blood Meridian and Passenger are both excellent. You can’t say those are too niche because they made Cormac’s book The Road into a movie. I haven’t read that particular book but I’ve seen the film.
>reddit meridian
why is this always the book people recommend to booklets? Cormac's style is so fricking bizarre you are just showing off your own fart huffing nature to immediately point to this book as great writing for the average person.
It's about an immortal immoral long-nose. Of course it's going to be perpetuated as the greatest thing ever. What's funny is that homosexual said fantasy and sci-fi was bad then immediately props up BM as something worthwhile.
I'm convinced most people just haven't read it, they just talk about it because it has an edgy plot full of edgy shit but then they sit down to read it and immediately get filtered
its just a book people like the idea of, because culture trickles down to morons like this since they are incapable of engaging with the driving forces
blood meridian
ah, blood meridian, monsieur? that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shellalagh. we scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, pelancillo.
>If good writers do exist today, none of them are working in video games
This is definitely true.
modern refers to the 20th century
>But nobody wants to read anymore
Not just that, most people can't even be bothered to watch movies that aren't literal goyslop. I have met several people who flat out refuse to watch movies made before 2000 because they are 'too old' or 'boring'.
I also see people who will not watch anything involving history including historical fiction.
>Shut the front door
these people don’t have souls
companies are filled with activists and degenerates
I've been away from vee for a few days because I've actually been playing the game, what's all this OP is b***hing about? Some culture war homosexualry?
I visibly and audbily disgust at people talking like that,w hich is a lot, since im forced to use reddit for a game nobody here talks about
>forced to use reddit
Just play the game, why do you need a forum to justify your enjoyment of it?
its an mmo with game update notes and discussion of these
i need to stay up to date with various skills and builds to know which class performs and which has fallen out of grace
you wouldnt understand
It's just the narcissism of our times, enabled by so much being on-demand and mainstream preferences being catered to, to make $$$. Why change, why learn when you can stay in your comfort zone and are rewarded for it. Why risk alienating customers with language they don't understand. Big business is safe and boring, it's just the way it is, seek alternatives.
Buffy and its legacy ruined decades of writing.
Zoomers entered the workforce
Why millennials blame zoomers for everything wrong they have done?
I never said millennials writing were any better or did I, mr. zoomer
You did imply that zoomers were the ones behind millennials, Mr. (They/them) "I can't buy a house because I got a degree in african psychology with a minor in latinx arts and now I'm bankrupt".
To be fair, boomers sold millennials those degrees knowing they are the only ones making money with them
>4 houses in my name
Sure, I'm a millennial.
Read OP, he didn't ask about games from 10 years ago when millennials were entering the workforce
Leaded gasoline, asbestos, micro plastics
This.
Leaded gasoline makes everyone moronic, microplastics cause hormonal imbalances and homosexualry and asbestos... I dunno, actually, it's probably lung cancer.
But anyway, lead + microplastics = entire generations of moronic homosexuals! Pollution is literally turning humans into leftists!
Respiratory issues can lead to lower IQ but it’s usually something that causes mouth breathing
Gen-X writing
It's by millennials, cope and seethe.
Appeared first on series like Buffy and Friends, made for and by Gen-Xers.
So shows that were watched by and influenced millennials who are now making stuff with this kind of writing.
If you are a good writer would you rather write for vidya games or just write a book.
The vast majority chooses option 2.
They can't take fiction seriously. Even more so if it's unrealistic, i.e high fantasy or superheroes.
This kind of writing is called "unfunny". Because they are trying to be funny, they think they are funny, and they're attempting to be "Witty". No need to call it soi writing or millennial writing or whatever else. Just call it unfunny.