Silly psychology question (in fictional novel)
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mmm.... in fact better than imagining it, you could simply read for yourself! :) It's a free web novel on Royal Road, have a go! :) [Awakening The Angel System (LITRPG): S1 The Great Escape | Royal Road](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/60058/awakening-the-angel-system-litrpg-s1-the-great?review=1523049#review-1523049)
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Super Lloyd wrote:
better than imagining it, you could simply read for yourself!
The web is saturated with self-published books of all types, many novels so poorly written they can be called "penny dreadfuls," the kind of sensationalized low-fi novels for the working classes in England available dirt cheap om rag paper, I read literature by authors of major stature, like winners of the Nobel, Pulitzer, Booker, prizes, and books about consciousness, evolution, neurology, archaeology. Impaired vision and my own literary/technical activities limit my time for going off the rails on the web to visit the catacombs where the self-published stuff fills the caves. But, that's just me: whatever you enjoy and find entertain or meaningful is great,
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Super Lloyd wrote:
better than imagining it, you could simply read for yourself!
The web is saturated with self-published books of all types, many novels so poorly written they can be called "penny dreadfuls," the kind of sensationalized low-fi novels for the working classes in England available dirt cheap om rag paper, I read literature by authors of major stature, like winners of the Nobel, Pulitzer, Booker, prizes, and books about consciousness, evolution, neurology, archaeology. Impaired vision and my own literary/technical activities limit my time for going off the rails on the web to visit the catacombs where the self-published stuff fills the caves. But, that's just me: whatever you enjoy and find entertain or meaningful is great,
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
Oh well... perhaps this link will serve someone else looking for a free read then, lots of free novel on Royal Road! And no pressure, good to know literary entertainment is plentiful for you! :)
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That's why we call them "fiction books". Because they are full of fictional characters. Exaggerated emotions. Artificially crafted situations. Made up conflicts. They are not mirroring the reality.
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The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction needs to make sense. Though this has been largely abandoned by Hollywood.
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To preface I have no education even near either film or psychology and am purely playing armchair expert here :laugh: While often used as tool to increase tension and maybe prolong the moment to let the audience digest the gravity of the situation I wouldn't call it a wholly unnatural behaviour. Like deer in headlights I know I've more than once frozen up in moments of sudden danger so it is a thing. Though I'd expect people prone to danger, like fictional seasoned adventurers, would have trained themselves to overcome the "freeze" reaction in favour of actually moving out of harms way.
What gets me in these situations is when it's a "time to run away, fast" situation and the cast just stand around talking about how urgently they should take that action rather than actually running away and talking about it later in the pub. Another is when the hero is going to hold off the bad guys while the target/victim gets away. Said target always stands around saying things for several seconds (at least) instead of running away immediately - as a result the hero's actions are often wasted or made more difficult. :mad:
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I have been reading lots of web novel of late on [Royal Road](https://www.royalroad.com/home).. and 2 things struck me as odd about characters psychology in those books. Okay admittedly they are fictional, but I imagine the psychology is somewhat authentic in the eye of the author perhaps? All of that to say, many characters are: 1. prompt to anger and lash out first then, perhaps, think. Also generally having an angry mood. 2. alternatively sometimes somewhat absent minded going so far as staring blankly at an impending doom aiming right at them The first one, about needless anger leave me particularly confused. Am I unnaturally calm? or are American always angry (I suspect they are, I have something against American to be honest)? Or maybe is it how people view teenagers? But perhaps that's just me, I couldn't even get angry during my one single fight I had when I was a teenager meself... The second is a bit less strange, although why not being angry enough to move hey? instead of just staring stupidly? What kind of author comes up with that for their characters?
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There's an interesting channel on youtube by a man called 'The Critical Drinker' who reviews movies and tv series, and laments the lack of good writing in many projects. In one of them he contrasts Star Trek TNG with more recent offerings ("They're written by children"). He contrasts a conflict in TNG where the characters act like adults who have been trained for positions of high responsibility, vs a knock-down tantrum and brawl on the bridge of the Enterprise in a more recent show. He's quite entertaining, and I've enjoyed a number of movies he recommends that I otherwise would have missed.
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That's why we call them "fiction books". Because they are full of fictional characters. Exaggerated emotions. Artificially crafted situations. Made up conflicts. They are not mirroring the reality.
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There's an interesting channel on youtube by a man called 'The Critical Drinker' who reviews movies and tv series, and laments the lack of good writing in many projects. In one of them he contrasts Star Trek TNG with more recent offerings ("They're written by children"). He contrasts a conflict in TNG where the characters act like adults who have been trained for positions of high responsibility, vs a knock-down tantrum and brawl on the bridge of the Enterprise in a more recent show. He's quite entertaining, and I've enjoyed a number of movies he recommends that I otherwise would have missed.
Hey, I watched a few of his video myself! he might be onto something. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether it's typical human nostalgia or real trend, particularly for something as subjective and vague as "good writing", but I think this might be true...
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Hey, I watched a few of his video myself! he might be onto something. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether it's typical human nostalgia or real trend, particularly for something as subjective and vague as "good writing", but I think this might be true...
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It's interesting to look at the films he likes. It doesn't seem to be curmudgeonly complaining. I think he's a published action novelist, so he's probably approaching things from a writerly angle.
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I don't take posts seriously that show blatant passive-aggressive hostility, while pretending to be calm. And the vast, vast majority of chats I've had with folks on CP has convinced me this is not the place for deep, intellectual, introspective type discussions. Most devs are not mature in the slightest you see, and the hallmark trait of maturity is introspection.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
And the vast, vast majority of chats I've had with folks on CP has convinced me this is not the place for deep, intellectual, introspective type discussions.
Versus which site where they do that?
Unfortunately, none of them. :^)
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