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El Fideo posted:I'm going to ask it again, why does Sybil have slaves chained up in a basement? Because she’s a vigilante now. Presumably she’s trying to re-educate them
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Liquid Communism posted:Bit of an insult to Tank Girl there. Tank Girl (the movie) sucks. I got the VHS for free and was like "oh nice!" but when I started watching it, it turned into "aww, nice!'.
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Eighties ZomCom posted:
I'm hearing rumors that The Watch is secretly a government project to produce an endless source of pure, clean energy. They're sending a team to hook up wires to Terry Pratchett's grave and harness the power from the constant spinning.
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Oct 14, 2020 15:52
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Liquid Communism posted:Bit of an insult to Tank Girl there. Tank Girl (the movie) had pretty much the exact same aesthetic and faux punk attitude.
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Oct 14, 2020 17:14
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El Fideo posted:I'm going to ask it again, why does Sybil have slaves chained up in a basement? I think there was something in the releases about her being a vigilante? Alhazred posted:Tank Girl (the movie) had pretty much the exact same aesthetic and faux punk attitude. Except Tank Girl knew drat well it was a loving joke and leaned in on it for the laughs.
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Oct 14, 2020 17:37
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Stroth posted:I think there was something in the releases about her being a vigilante? It wasn't funny.
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Stroth posted:I think there was something in the releases about her being a vigilante? jesus christ there's no need to make this show, just dump a truckload of poo poo on pterry's grave and be done with it
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Oct 14, 2020 18:11
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Why is Sybil now a young and thin vigilante
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Oct 14, 2020 18:12
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Saki posted:Where's Angua, anyway? She's the shortest one.
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Saki posted:Where's Angua, anyway? you know how Angua is always described as having long flowing hair that basically has a mind of its own? just think of the opposite of that
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Saki posted:Why is Sybil now a young and thin vigilante Much worse, where is Colon and Nobby? As with any TV series, it only counts as diversity if your actors are young and hot.
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Cardiac posted:Much worse, where is Colon and Nobby? The lack of Colon and Nobs was the first red flag for me months ago. They're the core of The Watch in so many ways. But I held out hope until I saw the trailer with Washed Up Jared Leto cosplaying Jack Sparrow.
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i could have liked the cherri bit, if she were still a dwarf and not loving taller than carrot (maybe? hard to tell) plus the whole "she. she. me" is atrocious for trying to do a ~woke~ character (im a trans woman im an expert)
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yeah it was incredibly hamfisted like I get that Carrot is (at least in theory) from way out in the sticks and has never seen someone like Cheery/Cherie, but questioning her gender like that just made him seem like an rear end in a top hat
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I saw the cast picture and took me forever to find Carrot because the dude they picked is not ginger or tall enough.
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Julio Cruz posted:yeah it was incredibly hamfisted His original reaction to Cheery is hardly the epitome of sensitivity. quote:"...Are you all right, Corporal Littlebottom?” And this is Carrot we're talking about, the guy who should have been an ancient king and sat under a tree and been noble and wise and is usually an absolute paragon of morality. Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Trin Tragula posted:His original reaction to Cheery is hardly the epitome of sensitivity. biiiiiiiiiig difference between having that knee conversation with her in the room vs not in the room. (admittedly, i'd probably know they were going to have a conversation like that from the whole kilt thing, but at least cherri doesn't hear it in the book)
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there's also a pretty big difference between "I assume this person is male because they are a dwarf and all* dwarfs are male" and "I assume this person is male because they look male to me"
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T-man posted:i could have liked the cherri bit, if she were still a dwarf and not loving taller than carrot (maybe? hard to tell) I always thought cheery's original story and awakening was really well done in the books tbh
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Saki posted:I always thought cheery's original story and awakening was really well done in the books tbh It's also impressive that he managed to do IT so well in an era where transpersons were considered a joke at best.
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Even in death, he keeps finding new ways to be better than JK Rowling.
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Asgerd posted:Even in death, he keeps finding new ways to be better than JK Rowling. Not a high bar to clear.
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T-man posted:biiiiiiiiiig difference between having that knee conversation with her in the room vs not in the room. (admittedly, i'd probably know they were going to have a conversation like that from the whole kilt thing, but at least cherri doesn't hear it in the book) Also important to remember is that once Carrot gets over his initial shock (and gets a talking-to by Angua), he is supportive of Cheery's gender expression and never misgenders her again.
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I finished the Moist von Lipwig books. I loved the relentless house of cards high-wire act Moist was running throughout the first two books. Raising Steam was a different experience. I think it worked well as a long episodic (and ultimately low-tension) epilogue for the city of Ankh-Morpork as a whole, but not nearly enough Moist doing Moist stuff. I would have enjoyed a smaller scale Moist teams up with Of The Twilight The Darkness for goblin-related hijinks, minus the parts where Moist becomes a competent fighter. I liked it better than Snuff but it's pretty low on the list of Discworld books I've read so far. I've finally doubled back to start the Witches books, just finished Witches Abroad. I'm enjoying their sillier nature, I can't help but picture Granny and Nanny Ogg as Bea Arthur and Betty White. Also, much like the Golden Girls, it's hilarious how these are possibly the horniest books in the Discworld series.
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A wizard's MASSIVE COCK has a PENIS on the end.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:A wizard's MASSIVE COCK has a PENIS on the end.
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Tokelau All Star posted:I finished the Moist von Lipwig books. I loved the relentless house of cards high-wire act Moist was running throughout the first two books. Raising Steam was a different experience. I think it worked well as a long episodic (and ultimately low-tension) epilogue for the city of Ankh-Morpork as a whole, but not nearly enough Moist doing Moist stuff. I would have enjoyed a smaller scale Moist teams up with Of The Twilight The Darkness for goblin-related hijinks, minus the parts where Moist becomes a competent fighter. I liked it better than Snuff but it's pretty low on the list of Discworld books I've read so far. That's a pretty good casting for those two, although more real-world Betty White than Golden Girls Betty White. Nanny Ogg is brutal.
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Liquid Communism posted:That's a pretty good casting for those two, although more real-world Betty White than Golden Girls Betty White. I just remembered there's also a Vorbis in the books. Koinkidink? I THINK SO!
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I just remembered there's also a Vorbis in the books. Koinkidink? I THINK SO! Vorbis is named after a Discworld character Exquisitor Vorbis in Small Gods by Sir Terry Pratchett. The Ogg format, however, is not named after Nanny Ogg, another Discworld character; the name is in fact derived from ogging, jargon that arose in the computer game Netrek.[11] 
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BurgerQuest posted:Vorbis is named after a Discworld character Exquisitor Vorbis in Small Gods by Sir Terry Pratchett. The Ogg format, however, is not named after Nanny Ogg, another Discworld character; the name is in fact derived from ogging, jargon that arose in the computer game Netrek.[11] Oh huh, I thought he'd named both characters after the format for some reason. Neat little tidbit. Also Terry was the absolute nerd king, wasn't he?
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Serperoth posted:Also Terry was the absolute nerd king, wasn't he? He had a knack for collecting trivia. My favorite is the Selachiis and Venturis as old feuding families. Once I learned about the Venturi effect in fluid dynamics it led to some frantic googling to get the rest of the joke.
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Bruceski posted:He had a knack for collecting trivia. My favorite is the Selachiis and Venturis as old feuding families. Once I learned about the Venturi effect in fluid dynamics it led to some frantic googling to get the rest of the joke. I just went down this google hole and god drat it Terry.
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Strange Cares posted:I just went down this google hole and god drat it Terry. They were fascinating books to grow up with because as we got older we'd spot a new joke every time we re-read them.
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I'm very excited to see how many more jokes I get in Maskerade now that I've seen Phantom of the Opera.
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^^^ The big one you'll get - or not - is that Walter Plinge is based directly on Frank Spencer from the British sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em. If you were paying attention to that then practically the whole plot gets spoiled for you, as Frank was played by Michael Crawford - who later achieved even greater fame playing the Phantom.Bruceski posted:He had a knack for collecting trivia. My favorite is the Selachiis and Venturis as old feuding families. Once I learned about the Venturi effect in fluid dynamics it led to some frantic googling to get the rest of the joke. He got a lot of them from fans, but he had a truly formidable collection of his own. I used to trade trivia facts for footnotes at signings. One time I asked him if he didn't think the 14th of May was a very dangerous date because it's when all the bad things happen in folk songs; he almost immediately began singing When I Was On Horseback under his breath. The first verse of the song runs thus: When I was on horseback wasn't I pretty? When I was on horseback wasn't I gay? Wasn't I pretty when I entered Cork City And met with my downfall on the 14th of May? It's a version of The Unfortunate Rake, an 18th-century ballad wherein the singer tells of how they came across a young man dying who passes on his regrets and wishes for his funeral - the version best known to Americans is The Streets of Laredo. Note that while all versions imply the young man was wounded in battle, the real implication (except in the US version) is that he's dying of syphilis - probably contracted during the events of The Bonny Black Hare, which is also set on the 14th of May and is a lot less subtle. If you're curious, the footnote I got for that one was about substitions. Where superstitions are things that are patently false but people believe them anyway, substitions are things that nobody believes despite them being blindingly obvious (e.g. "It won't start working just because you hit it.") Jedit fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Oct 25, 2020 |
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