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AlphaDog posted:Matt Frewer looks like my impression of Vimes. Unfortunately, I can't help but think of him in Eureka when I see him, where he played an Australian with such a terrible accent he just sounded borderline mentally damaged and I didn't even realise he was meant to be Aussie until I read it on the internet.
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Looking back on them now, those old Channel 4 animated movies and the first Discworld games aesthetics wise really stick out like a sore thumb compared to the whole thing now. Still, the music was pretty solid.
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I was rereading The Truth and I realized that among the substances that Mr. Tulip snorts in his misguided attempts to develop a drug problem are... "bath salts." Terry Pratchett can write jokes that inadvertently take on a new layer of meaning a decade after they are printed. 
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Jul 29, 2013 04:01
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SeanBeansShako posted:Looking back on them now, those old Channel 4 animated movies and the first Discworld games aesthetics wise really stick out like a sore thumb compared to the whole thing now. If you can find the Soul Music OST it's well worth the effort. It has full versions of all the songs played in the show.
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Jul 29, 2013 13:22
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Blackboard Monitor Vimes is probably my favourite character in any fiction.
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Jul 30, 2013 22:48
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This is a cool bit of Kidby Soul Music art. Can you place all the characters? some of the dwarves and old men in the middle are hard to name. I wonder who the blonde is beside Vimes?
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Aug 6, 2013 12:39
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Mister Roboto posted:I wonder who the blonde is beside Vimes? Could be Angua. Edit: Oh, no. She's on the other side. Erm. Ysabel, maybe?
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Aug 6, 2013 12:51
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Mister Roboto posted:This is a cool bit of Kidby Soul Music art. Can you place all the characters? some of the dwarves and old men in the middle are hard to name. I wonder who the blonde is beside Vimes? If you mean the three old men behind Imp and the Librarian, it's the Senior Wrangler, the Dean and Leonard of Quirm.
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Aug 6, 2013 14:59
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Could our mysterious tanned blonde be Conina?
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Aug 6, 2013 15:13
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I love me some new Kidby art, especially with one of my own personal favourites (Soul Music is awesome despite what so people say). Just noticed The Watch seems to just use any old helmet they can get their hands on. Really hope the TV series uses his art direction, It just clicks.
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Aug 6, 2013 15:17
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Aug 6, 2013 15:27
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Darn, was hoping for Moist to be involved.
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Aug 6, 2013 17:37
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Well it looks promising at least.
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Jedit posted:If you mean the three old men behind Imp and the Librarian, it's the Senior Wrangler, the Dean and Leonard of Quirm. Nah, you can tell who are the wizards since they are in red with the coif-hair described in the book. I meant more the dwarf beside Colon, the dwarf beside Granny, the short guy in front of Vimes, the broken-tooked guy in front of HIM, the guy in the derby beside Cohen, the Valkyrie above them, and the two trolls. Also, Magrat seems MIA.
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Aug 7, 2013 01:29
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bunnyofdoom posted:Darn, was hoping for Moist to be involved. I thought this was a Moist and the Undertaking book?
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The bloke in the centre of the new cover looks Moist-ish to me. That Valkyrie on the Soul Music cover is probably the one who was giving Susan a hand on her first battlefield Duty, don't think she ever got a name.
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Aug 7, 2013 03:05
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withak posted:New cover:  Same raised eyebrow, smile, sideburns, etc etc.
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Aug 7, 2013 03:12
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Oh, not the American cover.
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Kegslayer posted:I thought this was a Moist and the Undertaking book? It was considered that at the start, but I think Pratchett realized Moist wasn't the working-man-hands-get-dirty-personally type.
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That could easily be Moist. Remember, Moist looks incredibly generic when not in some outlandish costume.
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MikeJF posted:That could easily be Moist. Remember, Moist looks incredibly generic when not in some outlandish costume. Yeah, but it's been said that it's not Moist on Terry's website.
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Is that a goblin or an orc holding that axe? Could be interesting to see whether they've been integrated into Ankh-Morpork society since Snuff and Unseen Academicals.
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wallaka posted:Oh, not the American cover. Does anyone have comparisons of the UK vs US covers for Pratchett's books?
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http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/terry-pratchett-raising-steam-cover-art-and-synopsis-reveal "Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork--Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job." So that answers that.
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Aug 8, 2013 09:55
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Hey, it sounds better already.
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Hedrigall posted:http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/terry-pratchett-raising-steam-cover-art-and-synopsis-reveal Ooh I hope it's not bad. 
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Why is it like half a year from the UK to the US release? Have they done that before? The only Discworld book I've bought on release is Snuff and I'm pretty sure I would have remembered having to wait half a year.
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JerryLee posted:Why is it like half a year from the UK to the US release? Have they done that before? The only Discworld book I've bought on release is Snuff and I'm pretty sure I would have remembered having to wait half a year. I guess it just takes a long-rear end time to teach spell check to ignore the missing U's and to not replace all the Z's with S's.
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mirthdefect posted:I guess it just takes a long-rear end time to teach spell check to ignore the missing U's and to not replace all the Z's with S's. Did you get that the wrong way round? Superfluous U's 4 lyfe 
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davestones posted:Did you get that the wrong way round? Superfluous U's 4 lyfe Nope, I meant teaching the spell check to be wrong for the US edition Also Commonwealth buds 4eva.
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mirthdefect posted:Nope, I meant teaching the spell check to be wrong for the US edition We outnumber you five to one, stop complaining about how you spell things wrong 
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Aug 11, 2013 02:33
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Unfortunately, all the other former colonies still spell things funny and outnumber us by a wide margin.
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Pratchett experts! I need your help! I'm writing a short story with wizards and humor, and this morning I woke up and thought, "Holy crap, did I just unintentionally plaguerize Pratchett?" The bit in question: "Ah yes, but what about real magic?" asked Coormar the Whitest. "Haven't you got anything with perhaps a touch more...zip? The lad before you summoned up a living bolt of lightning that asked politely to shake my hand! And was actually offended when I declined!" For some reason I'm thinking there's a part in Night Watch with a sentient lightning bolt. Can anyone help?
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Aug 11, 2013 05:25
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BananaNutkins posted:Pratchett experts! I need your help! Definitely not in Night Watch.
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Aug 11, 2013 05:45
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BananaNutkins posted:Pratchett experts! I need your help! Can't remember a sentient lightning bolt from any Discworld book (unless there's one in Unseen Academicals, which I only read once, and didn't enjoy).
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Aug 11, 2013 06:29
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The lightning doesn't seem to from Pratchett, but the overly-friendly-sentient-object idea itself sounds like something from one of the Wizard books. Possibly an insect, maybe it's a concept from Sourcery.
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Thanks guys. You've eased my mind. If I copied it, it would have appeared in the watch, moist, or tiffany aching books, because that's all I've read.
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BananaNutkins posted:Pratchett experts! I need your help! There is at one point a sentient storm in Discworld, but I can't remember which book. One of the later ones.
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Jedit posted:There is at one point a sentient storm in Discworld, but I can't remember which book. One of the later ones. Completely wrong, it's Wyrd Sistes and it's just going on about how dramatically approrpiate storms can be (it studied under the great hurricanes of its day)
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