Oh yeah, there's absolutely survivorship bias, but there were also just less books written in general before, so I'm still the best kind of right. Technically right.
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Bad example seeing as you already listed 2 absolute immortal classics from just one guy, on top of which his other material is pure gold as well. A lot of his best work was just in newspaper articles.
With anime you get about 50 shows a season and almost all of it is forgettable trash nobody remembers even a year later. Of the "cherries" that get picked, most of those will also be forgotten before too long. And a tiny handful in a given year will live on through generations. And now anime, like Hollywood, is dipping back into the well of those classics (ruining their memory in the process).
The written word has existed for so much longer and has been a thing in so many more places that there is no useful comparison to be made. More good English novels have been forgotten than there exists good film media. In another couple thousand years, assuming books continue to die off, we could try to make a valid comparison.
It's not that only some of Orwell's material survived (it's all survived and is revered) it's that you can only shove so much into a school year. It's prioritization.
homage to catalonia is pretty boring
"The Road to Wigan Pier" still has some traction, largely because of Orwell's snarky description of socialist manners and mores (which are surprisingly consistent to this day!), e.g.:
Let's try looking at this at a different angle.
In 1907, there were 9,260 books published in the USA (here). So, for the years 1901-1910, let's say 90k books were published. Our list of classic fiction for that period is heavily curated from that, and you would be lucky to find ten books in that period that are considered "classic" fiction. That's a hit rate of about 1 in 10,000 books.
In 2023, there were somewhere between half and one million books published (4 million if you include self-published). Even if you wanted to argue that overall quality has declined because the barrier to publishing is lower and our ratio of "classic" fiction to everything else is going to be much larger, the sheer amount of books that are on offer means there's going to be some books that one day will enter into the classic fiction oeuvre.
In 1907, there were 9,260 books published in the USA (here). So, for the years 1901-1910, let's say 90k books were published. Our list of classic fiction for that period is heavily curated from that, and you would be lucky to find ten books in that period that are considered "classic" fiction. That's a hit rate of about 1 in 10,000 books.
In 2023, there were somewhere between half and one million books published (4 million if you include self-published). Even if you wanted to argue that overall quality has declined because the barrier to publishing is lower and our ratio of "classic" fiction to everything else is going to be much larger, the sheer amount of books that are on offer means there's going to be some books that one day will enter into the classic fiction oeuvre.
They're playing Cards Against Humanity. So expect the lame and safe kind of edgy jokes
I'd expect the lameness to come from CaH itself, when Kaneko "I wore out my N key on my keyboard" Lumi is the tamest person in the collab
PCG said that Lumi already confirmed its the gutted CAH version
Hopefully this crew will fix that in their own way.
Why would you need "offensive" jokes when you could have cards like "big black cock" and other totally hilarious sex jokes?
I'm sure they'll make it funny/entertaining in their own way, at least. Though, I'll end up missing the first half hour or so.
I think Jewmi is too much of a Stacey to let Pippa and Fillian have their fun joking about dancing Israelis and dead Palestinian children or whatever the fuck CAH has on its dumb cards.
The fun is watching the girls flip out, not that the game is actually entertaining. You know...like with every stream.
This... does not sound like the Lumi I've seen. Whenever I tune in, especially when she collabs with Pippa, she's more dangerous than Pippa.
Lumi hates the stupid fucking degrees more than anyone.
It played in my brain just reading that...
Which one's the virgin?
Huh...
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