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Did you know they've made Discworld miniatures? They're pretty rad.
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Skippy McPants posted:Eh, Vimes, de Worde and von Lipwig are already more or less this. Yeah, but I was picturing the existing Assassins as the protagonists and the newcomers being less... moral isn't the word, maybe I'm looking for "restrained".
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Oct 3, 2014 00:12
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AlphaDog posted:Yeah, but I was picturing the existing Assassins as the protagonists and the newcomers being less... moral isn't the word, maybe I'm looking for "restrained". I doubt Vetinari would take kindly to a shadow war of assassinations. Actually, no, wait, he would probably enjoy it up until the point it started interfering with the day to day life of the city, which of course it would inevitably do.
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Oct 3, 2014 01:17
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mirthdefect posted:Did you know they've made Discworld miniatures? They're pretty rad. Reading through the descriptions, I learned something! When did we learn that the Guild of Assassins has a "a considerable price" on the Duck Man's head?
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Oct 3, 2014 03:50
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Those are indeed pretty rad. I think, but could be wrong, that it's mentioned in The Truth. Something about how he's such an easy target that no one wants to sully their reputation by being the one to inhume him perhaps?
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Oct 3, 2014 05:19
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mirthdefect posted:Did you know they've made Discworld miniatures? They're pretty rad. Those are fantastic. Not that I'd have any use for them. I'd just have to explain to people what they are and that ruins the point of it.
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Oct 3, 2014 06:28
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mirthdefect posted:I think, but could be wrong, that it's mentioned in The Truth. That's why nobody takes on the contract. It's unconfirmed but believed he took to the streets because the contract was put on him and he knew no assassin would stoop.
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Oct 3, 2014 07:00
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Wasn't there an explanation in one of the books where the assassins would only take contracts on people who can defend themselves*? *people worth a certain amount of money are assumed to be able to defend themselves, or hire someone to do so for them.
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Oct 3, 2014 17:35
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Nihilarian posted:Wasn't there an explanation in one of the books where the assassins would only take contracts on people who can defend themselves*? No, it's that they'll only actually kill people who are ready to defend themselves. They'll accept a contract on anyone, they'll just won't kill you when you're helpless. It's unsporting. *If you make at least 10,000 AMD per year you are assumed to have hired bodyguards who are always ready to defend you. If not, that's your problem.
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Oct 3, 2014 19:09
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Stroth posted:No, it's that they'll only actually kill people who are ready to defend themselves. They'll accept a contract on anyone, they'll just won't kill you when you're helpless. It's unsporting.
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Oct 3, 2014 19:36
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Stroth posted:No, it's that they'll only actually kill people who are ready to defend themselves. They'll accept a contract on anyone, they'll just won't kill you when you're helpless. It's unsporting. There are also certain people (the Patrician) where the Guild know they are better off with them alive than dead, so the contract is priced to the point where nobody can afford it. Vimes is similar, but in his case the Guild have put up the money themselves in the expectation that nobody will be able to claim it.
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Oct 3, 2014 20:19
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Jedit posted:There are also certain people (the Patrician) where the Guild know they are better off with them alive than dead, so the contract is priced to the point where nobody can afford it. Vimes is similar, but in his case the Guild have put up the money themselves in the expectation that nobody will be able to claim it. Aren't both Vimes and the Patrician eventually struck off the register, and are used at most for training exercises?
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Oct 3, 2014 21:54
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EvilTaytoMan posted:Aren't both Vimes and the Patrician eventually struck off the register, and are used at most for training exercises? Vimes is used as a training exercise to teach students the dangers of complacency and over confidence. Also, to not piss off their teachers. Vetinari is left alone. And both of them are off the register entirely, no contracts accepted. The reasoning being that the inhumation of either would cause so much chaos and upset that it would inevitably cost the Guild far more than they could possibly make on the contract, no matter how large.
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Oct 3, 2014 23:37
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EvilTaytoMan posted:Aren't both Vimes and the Patrician eventually struck off the register, and are used at most for training exercises? The best part is Vimes is mildly upset at being struck from the register. He generally views people taking contracts out on him as proof that he's doing a good job.
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Oct 6, 2014 20:19
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In "Making Money", pterry described the coin minters as "shed people", living and working in little sheds inside a big hall of some sort. Does anyone know what the real-life equivalent for that is, if any?
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Oct 8, 2014 20:01
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Mokotow posted:In "Making Money", pterry described the coin minters as "shed people", living and working in little sheds inside a big hall of some sort. Does anyone know what the real-life equivalent for that is, if any? Cubicles?
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Oct 8, 2014 22:59
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Mokotow posted:In "Making Money", pterry described the coin minters as "shed people", living and working in little sheds inside a big hall of some sort. Does anyone know what the real-life equivalent for that is, if any? It's probably a play on Cottage Industry. Cubicle are another possibility. That said, it doesn't have to be a direct parody of something, for all his love of satire Pratchett will just as often create original ideas that merely have applicability. Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 08:55 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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Oct 9, 2014 08:52
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Mokotow posted:In "Making Money", pterry described the coin minters as "shed people", living and working in little sheds inside a big hall of some sort. Does anyone know what the real-life equivalent for that is, if any? Bitcoin miners in Internet warehouses?
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Oct 9, 2014 22:12
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precision posted:Bitcoin miners in Internet warehouses?
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Oct 10, 2014 01:19
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FactsAreUseless posted:Making Money came out in 2007.
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Oct 10, 2014 19:22
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mallamp posted:But what if Terry Pratchett is Satoshi Nakamoto?
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Oct 11, 2014 14:37
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This is on tonight, right?
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Oct 15, 2014 02:04
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eriktown posted:This is on tonight, right? I think you're in the wrong thread.
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Oct 15, 2014 08:43
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He's not. It was. You missed it.
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Oct 15, 2014 08:58
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I DVRed it, don't worry.
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Oct 15, 2014 09:31
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Oct 15, 2014 09:35
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It was great.
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Oct 15, 2014 14:50
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withak posted:It was great. Uh, spoiler alert 
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Oct 15, 2014 17:19
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At first was a little disappointed in casting but now can't see anyone else in hthe role
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Oct 15, 2014 18:27
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I really hate you all.
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Oct 15, 2014 21:43
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I had to resort to  but I saw it and it was amazing. You should all go and watch it, it was definitely the best.(Yes, I had the wrong thread. Sorry lads!)
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Oct 15, 2014 22:37
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eriktown posted:I had to resort to
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Oct 15, 2014 22:40
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Mokotow posted:In "Making Money", pterry described the coin minters as "shed people", living and working in little sheds inside a big hall of some sort. Does anyone know what the real-life equivalent for that is, if any? It sounds very like what Stephenson described in the (quasi historical) Baroque Trilogy, so I'd guess that's how the minters actually lived.
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Oct 15, 2014 22:49
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sebmojo posted:It sounds very like what Stephenson described in the (quasi historical) Baroque Trilogy, so I'd guess that's how the minters actually lived. *ahem* That's Baroque Cycle, thank you very much. 
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Oct 16, 2014 00:52
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Nihilarian posted:What was it? Nothing actually special or amazing at all, just Agents of SHIELD. Pretty good episode, though.
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Oct 16, 2014 01:36
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precision posted:*ahem* That's Baroque Cycle, thank you very much.
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Oct 16, 2014 11:57
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Going Postal and Making Money are about capitalist greed and banditry. You have Moist versus Gilt as mirror images that move independently. Moist takes the (meager) money he has access to at any given time and reinvests it into the venture "in the interest of the play" as it were. Gilt puts as little money as possible back into his venture, squirreling it away and in practice stealing from his company and providing a subpar monopolistic enterprise. If Gilt spent the same amount of money improving his business that he did making sure other businesses failed then he wouldn't need to cripple his opponents because he'd simply be better than them. See the fallacy of shoving a dollar into another group's jar in a penny war fundraiser. Very few people argue that the act of making money is bad. Many people argue that the unrestricted greed that has come to be expected of the upper tiers is. CEOs being paid 500+ times as much as their employees while slashing staff to make their numbers look good in a bid to make their short term numbers look good in order to get a bonus. Businesses that are deprived of capital reinvestment due to greed and avarice stunting themselves in the long term. Which of course doesn't matter to the person at the helm because by the time that pain is felt they'll have jumped to another ship assisted by a gilded parachute. People who found businesses tended to be more like Moist. They throw everything back into the business often to their personal detriment. The business is in a very real way their child. When the founder moves on (retires or passes) they've likely found a successor who has similar (but not quite the same level) of passion towards the business. However that person will see it as a profit generator more than a child. The next generation of leadership will see it strictly as a profit generator and if they have to strangle the last cent out of it by gourd they'll do it themselves if they can.
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Oct 16, 2014 20:15
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I started rereading interesting times today, its just really nice the way every page has several really memorable quotes / interactions. I also picked up the witches game and guards guards (signed) today in Essen. Hopefully they are as good as the ankh morpork game which I really enjoy, has anyone played them?
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Oct 16, 2014 20:24
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Ika posted:I started rereading interesting times today, its just really nice the way every page has several really memorable quotes / interactions. The Witches is not bad, though Ankh-Morpork is better. G!G! is hugely overcomplicated and not very good, my condolences on having wasted your money.
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Jedit posted:The Witches is not bad, though Ankh-Morpork is better. G!G! is hugely overcomplicated and not very good, my condolences on having wasted your money. I wasn't sure about it, but I'll give it a try, and one of the designers was there and was talking people through the game and running demo rounds and it looked ok. I also later found out witches would have been significantly cheaper in german, but what the hell I prefer my discworld jokes and references in English. Ika fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Oct 16, 2014 |
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