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dordreff posted:They did one of Wyrd Sisters too.
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Oct 1, 2015 06:26
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Oh god, I think you just ruined both of them for. The '90s animation definitely reminded me of something.Nihilarian posted:Going to get a new book and I figure it's time to get started on either Death or the Witches books. Thoughts? But maybe it's just because Mort is one of my favourites, whereas I didn't enjoy Equal Rites and can't get into Wyrd Sisters at all.
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Oct 1, 2015 09:11
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Both cartoons suck a lot, but in a charming sort of way.
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Oct 1, 2015 11:44
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Nihilarian posted:Going to get a new book and I figure it's time to get started on either Death or the Witches books. Thoughts? Witches! Wyrd Sisters is amazing.
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Oct 1, 2015 12:13
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FactsAreUseless posted:Both cartoons suck a lot, but in a charming sort of way. The Cosgrove Hall Discworld series are good.
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Oct 1, 2015 12:26
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My Lovely Horse posted:I have those. Bought the DVD years ago, but never watched it. I usually make it 20 seconds in and then I stop concentrating because all I can think is "CDi Zelda, CDi Zelda..." Yeah they're aggressively ugly but not bad if you can get past that.
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Oct 1, 2015 13:26
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dordreff posted:Yeah they're aggressively ugly but not bad if you can get past that. Seriously watch them. You must witness the more bizzare character design and voice casting choices.
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Oct 1, 2015 14:03
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My first exposure to Pratchett was the Wyrd Sisters cartoon, which has caused me to always picture Magrat, Granny, and Nanny Ogg speaking with those voices. Which is OK, I felt the voice work fit up pretty well. e: I think the 'humble old woodgatherer LAWKS' scene does pretty well https://youtu.be/HGKP2vVwcDg?t=1h50m57s angerbot fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Oct 3, 2015 |
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Oct 3, 2015 01:29
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Missing the "I believe I would" line, ruined. The voice work is pretty good, though. It's a shame about the animation.
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Oct 3, 2015 07:43
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angerbeet posted:My first exposure to Pratchett was the Wyrd Sisters cartoon, which has caused me to always picture Magrat, Granny, and Nanny Ogg speaking with those voices. Which is OK, I felt the voice work fit up pretty well. Well, yeah, it's June Whitfield, Annette Crosbie and Jane Horrocks doing the voices. There's a great deal of voice talent in those series.
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Oct 3, 2015 10:51
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I kind of hope they look into the animation side of things for the Discworld if the Watch is a hit now. I still believe you can do a good Discworld adaption from the books.
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Oct 3, 2015 15:36
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I would like them to make it as grounded and "real" as possible, and not give it the "wacky kidz show" treatment Discworld adaptations seem to get. Have the confidence to have a self-serious gritty crime drama that also happens to have whimsical trolls and poo poo.
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Oct 3, 2015 17:03
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SeanBeansShako posted:I still believe you can do a good Discworld adaption from the books. I disagree. Too much of the humor comes from the narration and footnotes, and adaptations just can't recreate that.
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Oct 3, 2015 19:16
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SeanBeansShako posted:I kind of hope they look into the animation side of things for the Discworld if the Watch is a hit now. I still believe you can do a good Discworld adaption from the books. I just hope that someone at GoG.com manages to get the licenses for the Discworld games, because I'd love to play Noir again. It was a nice game.
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Oct 3, 2015 19:35
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Iacen posted:I just hope that someone at GoG.com manages to get the licenses for the Discworld games, because I'd love to play Noir again. I was lucky to get a budget re-release a few years ago of the game, but I am down for this as I've missed playing Discworld 2.
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Oct 3, 2015 19:43
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Iacen posted:I just hope that someone at GoG.com manages to get the licenses for the Discworld games, because I'd love to play Noir again.
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Oct 3, 2015 23:37
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Alhazred posted:His main contribution was to make sure they didn't gently caress it up. That's a pretty big contribution for a licensed game.
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Oct 4, 2015 07:31
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Asgerd posted:I disagree. Too much of the humor comes from the narration and footnotes, and adaptations just can't recreate that. So have a narrator.
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Oct 4, 2015 07:53
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Hedrigall posted:So have a narrator. Stephen Fry is the default for these things nowadays, correct?
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Oct 4, 2015 09:03
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The first Discworld game did the narrator thing and it did it quite well if you ask me.
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Oct 4, 2015 16:12
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SeanBeansShako posted:The first Discworld game did the narrator thing and it did it quite well if you ask me. I guess it was nice that they did something right.
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Oct 4, 2015 16:42
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Alhazred posted:I guess it was nice that they did something right. I'm really not a fan of more or less everything else as the art style is generic and the puzzles obnoxious, but the way Pratchett saw PC Games in the early nineties and helped with the development was brilliant. Plus he made fun of all that in the intro to the manual of the 2nd game.
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Oct 4, 2015 21:17
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Discworld 2 has some really annoying bits where areas are larger than one screen, but the initial view is drawn to make you think it's exactly screen-sized. Talk about your pixel hunting in adventure games, in this one you have to edge hunt. More than a decade since I played it and that's the thing I remember.
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Oct 5, 2015 06:15
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How come none of you assholes ever told me how great Science of Discworld is? Learning cool poo poo about neutron stars and the atmosphere AND reading about the wizards loving around with stuff. This book is GOLD.
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Oct 8, 2015 04:04
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I have begun to read the last two Tiffany Aching books and realized that that will be the last time I will ever read a Discworld book I haven't read before 
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Oct 8, 2015 15:01
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I might never read the last Aching book. I also never saw George Carlin's last stand-up special. I just tend to keep things like that out there in the unknowable void, because then I'll never be finished. 
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Oct 8, 2015 17:46
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I've been putting off reading the last Aching book, mostly because I'm scared it'll be as bad as Raising Steam.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:01
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dordreff posted:I've been putting off reading the last Aching book, mostly because I'm scared it'll be as bad as Raising Steam.
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Oct 9, 2015 10:35
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dordreff posted:I've been putting off reading the last Aching book, mostly because I'm scared it'll be as bad as Raising Steam. It was way better than Raising Steam. Not even in the same ballpark, honestly. That said, it was definitely the weakest in the Aching series. The dialogue felt really wooden and you could really tell that it didn't get that polish the other books got. It was still absolutely a wonderful book by normal standards and definitely worth reading. I shed a little tear in the beginning of the book when Granny Weatherwax died. I like that it's heavily implied but never outright stated that You contains her mind or a part of it, which is the sort of clever play on words I'd missed from Pratchett; we've all got a little Granny in our heads now. 
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Oct 9, 2015 10:49
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Reene posted:I shed a little tear in the beginning of the book when  Jeez, talk about going out with a bang. Kinda want to read it now.
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Oct 9, 2015 12:15
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Reene posted:I shed a little tear in the beginning of the book when oh gently caress no I did not mean to mouse over that spoiler oh no i guess I need to read the book now but even hearing about that kinda put me in a state of shock
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Oct 10, 2015 19:48
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dmboogie posted:oh gently caress no I did not mean to mouse over that spoiler oh no Thankfully it's also the best-written part of the book. It was clearly part of the arc all along.
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Oct 11, 2015 09:36
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Yeah I just finished The Shepherd's Crown and yeah . There was also a short afterward explaining Terry's writing process and admitting Terry would have written a longer and more polished book if he had the time, as well as talking about some of the books and stories he had planned on writing, one of which seems to have been an allegory for his battle with Alzheimers . I still need to read Raising Steam and Unseen Academicals. I had started Unseen Academicals but didn't really get into it as it started with a lot of new characters. I'll have to go give those two a read now.
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Oct 16, 2015 02:42
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I didn't mind Unseen Academicals. It has some of the same plot issues as Making Money - the pacing is a mess and the villain is weak - but I liked it better than that. It's definitely better than Snuff or Raising Steam.
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Oct 16, 2015 11:46
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Unseen Academicals seriously fecked me off because it seems like even without the Alzheimer's, he didn't understand football culture half as well as he thought he did. For once it really seemed like satire written by an outsider looking in.
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Oct 16, 2015 11:55
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Trin Tragula posted:Unseen Academicals seriously fecked me off because it seems like even without the Alzheimer's, he didn't understand football culture half as well as he thought he did. For once it really seemed like satire written by an outsider looking in.
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Oct 16, 2015 19:30
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FactsAreUseless posted:By all reports it is much better, although also clearly unfinished. I finished it last night. The first half is really, really good. The chapter which contains the aforementioned spoiler is one of the most beautiful things he's written. I twigged what was going to happen pretty early, and it lead to this entire sense of bittersweet anticipation. In some ways, I feel he was writing his own death as much as Granny's. The last half isn't nearly so polished. It feels very rushed and leaves more than one plot thread hanging. It's obvious that there was to be a test of wills between Tiffany and Ms. Earwig, but that got set aside. Geoffrey was a great character but, ultimately, he was just set dressing. And there was so much more that the Queen could have done. Overall, The Shepard's Crown was pretty good. It's no Night Watch, Small Gods, or Reaper Man, but it was way better than some, like Raising Steam, which is one of the few Discworld books I actively dislike.
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Oct 16, 2015 21:42
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Reene posted:I shed a little tear in the beginning of the book when Granny Weatherwax died. I actually had to take a pause from reading it when I realized that that was gonna happen. And I really liked the part where various Discworld characters reacted to that. Also, Esk has a son. There's potentially another sourcerer around. As others has said it it's not a perfect book but its still a great way to finish the series. Its the only book where I almost cried at the end, both because it is the last Discworld story and because Pratchett loving nailed the ending.
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Alhazred posted:Also, Esk has a son. There's potentially another sourcerer around. Only if she had eight of 'em. Esk is sensible, I'm sure she wouldn't do that.
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