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Doubtful Guest posted:I always thought Discworld would translate very well into a stop motion animation production - like the Laika Studios stuff. It mixes the grotesqueries and grubbiness of Ankh Morpork. The Box Trolls had a great aesthetic, even if the plot wasn't the strongest. Any Discworld book animated by Laika would be a day one watch from me. I dunno why there's been such focus on straight live action adaptations when something much more weird and stylistic would fit so much better.
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Trin Tragula posted:Like, imagine if you could do it live-action, but cast two or three or four actors for each part, start everyone off being played with hugely macho male actors while the Regiment is making its best effort to replicate what they think is expected of them, and then gradually start changing the casting over, getting less macho/male/masculine each time, as the story unfolds. (If I'm in charge, you also then swap the macho male cast back in for the infiltrating-the-castle-dressed-as-washerwomen sequence...) I don't think this would work at all from a filming perspective, but I'll be damned if I wouldn't want to watch it if someone with talent gave it a try.
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Jun 19, 2020 17:03
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My Lovely Horse posted:It's also plain more funny if there's at least some ambiguity around everyone. The constant reveals of more and more characters as women are funny. You keep thinking, okay, he might be... or he might be... nope they're both. But he surely isn't... yeah he is. Okay but not him yes him. But surely not *everyone* YES EVERYONE But that's not the point of the story. The "twist" is completely unimportant and it's why it is revealed so early on. It's a story about gender politics and religion, not about ticking of boxes.
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Alhazred posted:But that's not the point of the story. The "twist" is completely unimportant and it's why it is revealed so early on. It's a story about gender politics and religion, not about ticking of boxes. for tv tropes folk stories are about ticking boxes
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Jun 19, 2020 17:11
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Just have nonbinary / androgynous actors, problem solved. Hell, there's incredible things you can do with makeup and prosthetics these days, look at Tilda Swinton's three roles in the remake of Suspiria.
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Jun 19, 2020 21:10
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Just have the entire cast played by Tilda Swinton.
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Jun 19, 2020 22:08
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YggiDee posted:Just have the entire cast played by Tilda Swinton. A Monstorous Regiment of Tildas
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Jun 19, 2020 23:48
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Make it a one woman show
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Jun 20, 2020 00:28
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Announce it with a male cast, have the actual female cast made up to look like the fake male cast.
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Jun 20, 2020 11:12
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Announce two projects at once, release one cast list, don't say who will be in what
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Jun 20, 2020 11:25
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Jun 20, 2020 12:07
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One word: Eddie Murphy.
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Jun 20, 2020 22:39
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3D Megadoodoo posted:One word: Eddie Murphy. I mean, surely that's two words?
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Jun 21, 2020 09:27
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Alhazred posted:I mean, surely that's two words? Two words: cast Eddie Murphy.
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Jun 21, 2020 09:33
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Newbie here, this might be a stupid question. I just started reading my first Terry Prachett book (Going Postal, which was recommended to me by a friend) and there's a lot of talk about pins. What kind of pins are these? I'm trying to visualize them in my head, someone told me they were on the 20 pound note but I looked at the current 20 pound note design and I'm not sure I get it.
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Jun 21, 2020 21:33
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Small White Dragon posted:Newbie here, this might be a stupid question. Like needles except without eyelets?
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Jun 21, 2020 22:00
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Pins! Like this. Yes, it’s meant to be incredibly mundane.
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Jun 21, 2020 22:01
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Small White Dragon posted:Newbie here, this might be a stupid question. I think they're pre-safety-pin fasteners. Like sewing pins, but the head of the pin can be decorative in various ways. They were completely obsoleted by safety pins, zippers, buttons, etc. and no one uses them anymore.  Here's the relevant 20 pound note image. Can't really see any pins here, it's just the example that Adam Smith used when he wrote about division of labor.
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Jun 21, 2020 22:09
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DontMockMySmock posted:I think they're pre-safety-pin fasteners. Like sewing pins, but the head of the pin can be decorative in various ways. They were completely obsoleted by safety pins, zippers, buttons, etc. and no one uses them anymore. Still used in sewing. Safety pins are more annoying to fiddle with when you just need a few extra hands for a minute. Edit: oh, you SAID "like sewing pins". I missed that somehow. 
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Jun 22, 2020 04:15
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I feel kind of stupid about this but it only just hit me about Rincewind having "Wizzzard" with the extra Z on his hat He can't spell.
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Gnome de plume posted:I feel kind of stupid about this but it only just hit me about Rincewind having "Wizzzard" with the extra Z on his hat That's two extra Zs. Because he also pissed off Don Diego de la Vega.
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Jul 31, 2020 09:36
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3D Megadoodoo posted:That's two extra Zs. Because he also pissed off Don Diego de la Vega.
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Jul 31, 2020 10:30
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Gnome de plume posted:I feel kind of stupid about this but it only just hit me about Rincewind having "Wizzzard" with the extra Z on his hat holy poo poo 
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Jul 31, 2020 18:06
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SatansOnion posted:I’ve unseriously toyed with the idea of asking a Seattle goon if they can get a hard-boiled egg in the cap hill zone, but I can’t think of a way to explain why without sounding even more like an alarmingly weird dumbass than I typically do. so I’m venting about it here instead, where someone reading this has a nonzero chance of recognizing that reference and chuckling inwardly, maybe Saw this a month and a half late, but I got you fam. If there's one place in Seattle where you can throw a brick and hit a Discworld fan, it's... the University* District, appropriately enough, but Cap Hill is a close second. * Extremely Seen. Sadly they closed down the High Energy Magic building in 1992.
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Moola posted:holy poo poo Rincewind is a wizard who can't spell is the Phoenix Down of Discworld 
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Shoehead posted:Rincewind is a wizard who can't spell is the Phoenix Down of Discworld That was another one that I didn't get until long after I'd played the SNES and PS1 Final Fantasy games. It didn't help that the first one I'd played spelled it Fenix Down because they had a low character limit for item names, so I'd pronounced it "fennix down" for a year or two. Then it just never occurred to me that "down" referred to feathers and not just the direction. I thought they just gave it a weird Japanese anime name and I never really thought about it.
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Aug 1, 2020 18:08
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FF13 was the first one to animate it as feathers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS6CXgloFUg
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Phenotype posted:Then it just never occurred to me that "down" referred to feathers and not just the direction. 
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Arbite posted:FF13 was the first one to animate it as feathers. They're animated as feathers in FF6. Here's the video I found to confirm my memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWYQYVTu22A They aren't feathers in FF7, which I played first, and it took me until most of the way through FF6 before I made the connection.
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It took that exact moment in the podcast to get me to realise it was phoenix "down" Thought it was some weird japanese translation for teammate down or something lol
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Is Raising Steam worth reading? I've avoided Snuff because I've heard from this thread and elsewhere that the alzheimers, sadly, must have been hitting him pretty hard in that one because it's not that good in general and, worse, a lot of the characters are pretty out of character. I recall hearing that I Shall Wear Midnight was good, though, so clearly the degradation was not linear so yeah. I can't recall what the thread consensus or fandom one was on Raising Steam. I always felt Thud! speaking of his alzheimers - since I recall that was the first one published after the announcement, I think? - was rather underrated. Then again, I love the Watch and the Dwarves so yeah. EDIT: And for some additional context on my thoughts on 'lesser' Pratchett; I liked Making Money. I didn't think it was bad per se, just kind of a retread of Going Postal and a bit weaker. Still pretty fun.
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Is Raising Steam worth reading? Please, for the love of God, let's not have another "you can tell that the Alzheimers was affecting him" debate. It's loving depressing and if I wanted that poo poo in my life I'd buy misery porn. The difference between Pratchett pre- and post-condition is that the books started to read more like first drafts. They didn't become bad, ever.
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Is Raising Steam worth reading? I've avoided Snuff because I've heard from this thread and elsewhere that the alzheimers, sadly, must have been hitting him pretty hard in that one because it's not that good in general and, worse, a lot of the characters are pretty out of character. I recall hearing that I Shall Wear Midnight was good, though, so clearly the degradation was not linear so yeah. I can't recall what the thread consensus or fandom one was on Raising Steam. Raising Steam and Snuff are both worth reading, imo. They’re different but they’re good send offs to Discworld
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I quite liked Snuff, Raising Steam I can't even remember.
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Jedit posted:They didn't become bad, ever.
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Shepherd's Crown is unreadable but only because you can't see the pages through your tears.
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I've read everything, but I only reread up to I shall Wear Midnight. I think it's as good a send-off as you can get. I do not recommend anything after that, but feel free to make up your own mind.
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YggiDee posted:Shepherd's Crown is unreadable but only because you can't see the pages through your tears.  Jedit posted:Please, for the love of God, let's not have another "you can tell that the Alzheimers was affecting him" debate. It's loving depressing and if I wanted that poo poo in my life I'd buy misery porn. And also this.
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Is Raising Steam worth reading? I've avoided Snuff because I've heard from this thread and elsewhere that the alzheimers, sadly, must have been hitting him pretty hard in that one because it's not that good in general and, worse, a lot of the characters are pretty out of character. I recall hearing that I Shall Wear Midnight was good, though, so clearly the degradation was not linear so yeah. I can't recall what the thread consensus or fandom one was on Raising Steam. it's unreadable
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