Hello user. I am virgil, a poet that sang of old Anchises' noble son. I am here to guide you in

Hello user. I am virgil, a poet that sang of old Anchises' noble son. I am here to guide you in
the journey towards Sup Forums's inferno. the purpose of this journey is to give you life lessons about Sup Forums and the video game industry itself. let us make haste

Here is the gate leading to the blind world below, where anguish, contrarianism, greed, and
self-righteousness reigns. this is the world where video games are not to be enjoyed, but to
be sullied. Here at the top of the gate are engravings; it reads

I AM THE WAY INTO THE IMAGEBOARD OF WOE

I AM THE WAY TO A FORSAKEN ANONS

I AM THE WAY INTO ETERNAL FURY

NEWFAGGOTRY MOVED MY ARCHITECT

ABANDON ALL FUN YE WHO POST HERE

now let us enter into the blind world below

Here lies the first circle. dim of light, but not fully extinguished. here lies anons who chose neither shitpost nor play video games. in here also resides the centrists who believe every video game should have a neutral path despite
flaws. their punishment? none but absence of vidya, forever realising what they lost in life. let's move on and submerge to the full blight of this blind world

Now we enter the second circle of Lust, where no light shines upon these damned anons. in here lies anons who chose to live the normie life getting girlfriends (males) and hanging out on discord, abandoning the life of vidya. what a mockery it does to the imageboard, where they still reside here despite throwing away their video gaming life. what can they contribute to this board if their interest is nothing but the pleasure of boipucci. They are forever tormented by whirlwind of derailed steam friends threads, with traps clashing each other, yet never meet. a fitting end to those who wanted meet yet in here they never will.

Over here you see moot, the admin of this entire site. he resides here judging the damned, for he himself committed the sin of preferring women over his own people and vidya, thus resigning due to the aftermath. an act that quaked this board, yet in time, forgotten.

Watch over here, for we are in the third circle of Gluttony. In here you will find anons who indulged in vidya and only vidya. because of their obsession, they feed themselves nothing but mountain dew and doritos to energize themselves to play more and more, never caring for others, and themselves. they reside in the putrid rain and mud of third worlders, mocking them and calling them obese or american. if only they drank water and ate celery

Now we enter the fourth circle of Greed. this place is reigned by people who think vidya is a service, not a product, bleeding gamers of their money and cutting away their enjoyment, locked and monetized. in here lies shills, ironic and unironic marketers, and supporters of Denuvo. in here also resides anons who buy everything that is on sale, whether it be real life or digital. the punishment for those who shilled for greed, will forever buy lootboxes, and always get duplicates; and those who squandered their money for only vidya, will forever be disappointed by new releases, riddled with DLC and microtransactions.

Where's Beatrice, you roman cunt?

we are now in the fifth circle lies the Wrathful. these are anons who are filled with pure anger over people who enjoys playing video games. anons who would derail threads, shitpost with unrelenting force, and falseflag just for the sake of wiping out fun. they reside here in the river filled with sludge and to forever play triple AAA games they despise the most, or they will be dipped deeper into the tar. most anons chose to dip instead

In this sixth circle of smoke and fire is Heresy. this is where SJWs reside, along with anons who never played videogames but shitpost about them resides here. the fact that these people go through lengths to degrade something they never try themselves is sickening. their punishment is to be placed inside tombs. the content of the tomb depends on the voracity of their actions, like SJWs who wasted their career and lives to complain about something they never liked, will be forced to watch the donald trump inaguration, forever triggered. anons who never play video games while shitpost about them, reside in a tomb forced to watch jack thompson and Anita, pairing these fools with fools.

I've been down here longer than you buddy

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Deeper into this Sup Forums inferno, you might have seen the worst so far, but in here, in the seventh circle of violence, lies anons who commited physical sin against video games. this place is divided into three rings; violence against gamers, violence against their own, and violence against developers and art. in the first ring, here you see anons who cause nothing but console wars towards everyone around them. nothing but crying wojaks and smug edited pepes with no formal arguments and rhetoric in their tongue. they committed acts that degraded the very bind of discussions because of brand loyalty. in here they are punished by drowning in a river of wojaks mocking their favorite company and games over and over

In the second ring of violence is the wood of the suicides. in here are anons who shitpost about games they themselves love, committing themselves fandom suicide. when their favorite game gets popular, they leave it behind just because other people liked it, and in here they reside. they take the form of trees with no leaves in their branches, and forever pecked by chads that flocked in their favorite game.

In the last ring of violence is the act of violence against developers and art. anons who think themselves highly and critize developers for not catering to their specific needs lie here in the burning sands, where nothing grows. such is the fate of those who think they are the highest form of intellectuals, to the point where they compare video games to art, whether it be supporting, or against it. what drives these anons into being bitter to developers just because a few games didn't cater to them? what drives them to think that games have equal value of that of Art? they lay here forced to worship Hideo Kojima and Roger Ebert.

Gee Virge, I belong to every one of these levels. Where do I go?

Now lets ride this creature, for it will bring us safe passage to the eighth circle of Fraud and its ten evil ditches. hold steady anons, for you will witness people who brought fourth the end of the golden age of video games that made an impact to your childhood.

la muttacion...

The first ditch populates the Panderers and Seducers. these are anons and devs who squinted their eyes as they squinted their audience whether it be to cater to a specific groups of people, or a wider audience; both betray people who play video games. they forever are whipped and tortured by horned demons that take the shape of overweight DnD fans asking for a/s/l while whipping them for pleasure

In the second ditch resides the Flatterers, who perverted their language to others for the sake of exploiting their desires and fears. these anons did nothing but corrupt the very meaning of having fun in video games, and resort to altering the meaning. they reside here deep in excrement surrounded by people who describes their favorite game as "Fun", mentally torturing these cynics with twisted tongues.

what circle of hell are the tripfags in?

These people, in the third ditch, are Simoniacs, AKA Kickstarters. people who would create and copy mechanics and gameplay of famous video games and pass them as "love letters" while robbing the victims of their hard-earned coin. they play the nostalgia tune, luring in fans of these games of the past, like a pied piper, and led them to a snare covered in monetization. they lie upside down buried, for they are denied their senses, but pain and suffering. an ironic punishment, for it mimics the pain of the victims who fell to the kickstarter muse

These anons are the Sorcerers of the fourth ditch. these people are leakers and "insiders" who post and publish fake information for the sake of entertainment and attention. they tried to pry into the future, so for their punishment, their heads are twisted behind, and forced to walk backwards. I will never know their purpose for "leaking" because it brought short-term bliss, in exchange for long-term humiliation.

In the fifth ditch lies the barroters. grafters who inject their ideology into the games they make for the sake of cashing in on current politics. they are similar to the panderers, except they didn't do it for beliefs, but only for coin. in here they hooked, tortured and ripped to shreds by demons, and toyed around for eternity. the punishment relfects upon these grafters, for they toyed with people's mindset for the sake of lining their pockets.

good riddance to these cunts

the sixth ditch populates the Hypocrites. anons who would betray their very own mindset and speech for the sake of their agenda, masking themselves as one face, while hiding another. these pass as natural anons, but deep down have pure deceiving intent. these faceless creatures are nailed to the floor, for they have nothing to identify as but the ground they lie in, for only dirt they are be compared to.

There lies pirates of the seventh ditch. these anons with empty pockets, and nothing to lose, with pages and pages worth of justification, are ones who want everything entitled to them for free. they play the marketing share, yet have no means or skills to do so, for their purpose is to gain everything without loss. they reside here sucked away by leeches, for they never seed their torrents.

Now I gotta listen to that Iced Earth song again.

Amongst the silver tongues, the truest of snakes lie here in the eighth ditch. in here are the Counsellors of Fraud. these are people who did not engage in fraud first-hand, but used their power and position to advise others into committing them. barely any anons reside here, but developers populate this ditch. developers who would use their influence to create a hivemind just so they could get away with scummy actions like Patreon and Discord. you can't see them because they are enveloped in fire, for they craved attention, and in death, are robbed of that desire.

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In the ninth ditch resides the sowers of Discord. these people's only true intent is to cause riles in communities for the sake of their enjoyment. these are anons who would bait post for the sake of causing nothing but relentless arguments in which they have no place in. they are here in pieces for they are hacked away by hooks in which they used to plant their baits, in death, became bait itself.

I remember reading l'infero during italian class

At the last ditch, populates the Falsifiers. these anons are transparent beings who would disguise themselves as others for the sake of misguiding others. these falseflaggers did nothing but pretend to be others throughout their lives, and in here, they are punished by being the very creature they despised in life. if they hated one, but pretended to be it, becomes it in here. this is where all crying wojaks become physically embodied into these sorry souls.

wtf is this shit

Now we have seen the ditches so let's move on to the last and deepest circle. do not be fooled, user, for these aren't towers, but giants. these giants are well-known developers who dedicated their passion for vidya and brought new genres, but in time they betrayed the very thing they loved.you can see Kevin levine, John Romero, and Tim schafer, and there still resides many more giants of the video game industry.

In the ninth circle of treachery lies three rings; Treacherous against gamers, Treacherous against Developers, and Treacherous against video games itself. in here, there are no anons, but only developers. people who had talent and skills, wasted for the sake of their selfishness. This is the first ring, and in here are nothing but failed developers who in time ruined the games people enjoyed for the sake of either casualization or monetization. they reside neck-deep in ice, for it represents their hearts.

In the second ring lies ones that were treacherous against developers. in here resides giant Corporations who destroyed talented developer teams because they were unfit for their schemes. Do you see this entity gnawing at the other sinner? that is EA CEO gnawing at Activision CEO. they both feasted upon others, and in death, feast upon each other, for they had no one left to exploit.

This is the last ring of this dreaded circle. here lies developers who betrayed the video game industry. here resides the ones that almost destroyed them. Atari reigns here, for their greed and lack of quality control became their undoing and almost the undoing of video games. they reside here completely encased in ice, silent, twisted, and motionless, just like their company.

user, arm your soul, for you will enter the deepest of the Sup Forums inferno. in there lies a creature that committed the ultimate sin. Treachery against the concept of video games. this creature is the focal reason why video games are now marked as service instead of product. Lo! Microsoft itself. this corporation brought forth DLCs, Microtransactions, Season Passes, and Paid Online. this corporation has three faces, each gnawing at another corporation. one gnaws Todd Howard, the one that brought forth Paid Mods, and the second face gnaws at Gabe Newell, who brought forth lootboxes, and the third face is Peter Molyneux, that brought forth empty promises. let us make haste and move away from this icon of sin.

At last, we exit the Sup Forums inferno and arrive outside of Purgatorio. you have witnessed the many faces of evil, its forms and shapes, and its purpose here in the blind world.

I hope this journey taught you something that you can carry on in life. Or you could just continue shitposting and be a total faggot because i just wasted 6 hours writing this instead of writing my master's theisis

gay

This is going a lot faster than the Inferno. Also the rest of the Divine Comedy after Hell is boring as shit.

I'd say you did a pretty decent job, senpai. Was a fun read.

>isn't taking us all the way to Heaven

disappointing, but thanks virgil.

Nah im done. even i know its boring shit

Good to see you putting your liberal arts degree to use.

Why aren't you motivated?

there is no heaven for Sup Forums

>somebody actually spent hours making this OC
>will probably be overshadowed by console war threads and bait threads

So you wasted 6 hours writing on Sup Forums instead of playing vidya? Off to hell you go.

Thank you, oh great poet, for your guidance through this arduous journey.
Harmony day really did bring Sup Forums back up on its feets again.

that was pretty fun

that was pretty fun

That was pretty fun

Anyone made a screencap yet?

eager to get those upvotes on /r/Sup Forums, eh son?

Nah, for preserving it

Someone should, it was actually breddy gud

Um...Hiroshima is the admin of this site. Who is moot?

Good thread OP, I enjoyed reading this rework.

Baitu


I did a long ass scroll capture but I'll never be able to repost it

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that game was great, but holy shit there's so many mistakes its baffling

only good thing it did to the source material is the image of each circle and the voice acting

I thought that game was on ps2, jeez, the graphics in that shot blow

Where's diablo?

Your effort didn't come to waste. It was a quality content worth to be preserved.
I wish more threads on Sup Forums were dedicated to OC instead of constant shitposting and waifufaggotry.

Good shit user. Good luck on your thesis.

Nice, user

>Almost bought one of a kind beautiful leather bound copy of The Divine Comedy with gilded pages and great illustrations at the Faulkner bookstore in New Orleans past summer
>Decided to buy the copy next to it that was just the run of the mill translation I could've bought off amazon because I remembered there were so many references to really obscure people and events that you'd need to have a Phd in the medieval history of northern/central Italy to know them all
>Find out later my dad already had the exact same version and I could've just asked him if I could have it
>mfw

Brap

>Have an urge to read Don Quixote
>Go to the bookstore
>Found a big beautiful edition of Don Quixote full of Gustave Dore's illustrations
>Look at the price, it's not that expensive
>Instant buy
>Few months later finally pick that book for reading
>Check translation
>It's the "adapted" one
>Have to buy the cheap two volume edition read the actual book

>Have to buy the cheap two volume edition read the actual book
*in order to read

I appreciate the work gone into this

Yeah for a day. Then it went back to shit

The best I can do. I'm too tired to do a proper screencap.

thanks

you're pretty good

Cropped it a little

Anyone ever play the Dante's Inferno game?

I never did but the promotional website gave me nightmares

Good stuff, OP.

I edited the final part

Can someone delete comments between Virgil's posts?

Good work, OP

Was the Divine Comedy just self-insert fanfiction where the MC meets his idol and saves his crush?

Good stuff

that was a good read

At which point do we kill Death?

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That is the exact opposite you pleb, purgatory was the best part!

good riddance

>you can’t read the original Orlando Innamorato
It fucking sucks

Yes, but Virgil was the Iliad fanfiction

based

That’s Paradise Lost

>Considerate la vostra semenza:
>fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
>ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.

and here we are, shitposting like there's no tomorrow
VERY good thread tho

good man

Thanks. I'm saving that.

You done good, OP.

Imagine if Dante's Meme was never written and the myth of Hell never started

Imagine a world without our Puritanism where not suffering 100% of the time is sin

Imagine

Is this the most overused joke ever told about the Divine Comedy?