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VendaGoat posted:No argument from me. I don't think I want 65% off. 
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Acne Rain posted:no it's wordplay, "curious squid" is a pun on  You poo poo your pants in anger when the OED declared "literally" could be used outside of proper context, didn't you? 
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spudsbuckley posted:Yeah, a bunch of my friends recommended Discworld poo poo to me but i gave up after like 3 books because it was just boring mildly quirky tame humour and it got tiresome pretty quickly. In fairness the first three are pretty bad.
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yeah, the early rincewind/unseen university-centric discworld books aren't very good, they're trite and mostly just poking fun at fantasy cliches that everyone's already poked fun at already thankfully there's very little continuity between them and the rest of them so just start at guards guards and go from there
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i liked the first 3, but the fourth one, mort, was the first really good one
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The first of the three Discworld games (which are all pastiches to begin with) dealt with the wordplay humor by regularly cutting away to a guy explaining things with a blackboard excitedly. I think he may have been a caricature of James Burke of Connections fame.
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Yeah, Mort's great.President Ark posted:thankfully there's very little continuity between them and the rest of them so just start at guards guards and go from there
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I just started with the Sky Pratchett movies and Hogfather was pretty good. Going Postal is good so far and actually more heartwarming than funny. Good Xmas fodder
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I really like the Tiffany Aching novels. They're easily some of my favorites.
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Who What Now posted:I really like the Tiffany Aching novels. They're easily some of my favorites. Nac Mac Feegle would have made the Star Wars prequels good. E: Holy poo poo, wee free lightsabers RFC2324 has a new favorite as of 02:17 on Dec 25, 2015 |
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Choco1980 posted:The first of the three Discworld games (which are all pastiches to begin with) dealt with the wordplay humor by regularly cutting away to a guy explaining things with a blackboard excitedly. I think he may have been a caricature of James Burke of Connections fame. I think there's even a *COUGH*WORLDCHANGE*COUGH* moment in Equal Rites to set up the more continuous world setting of the following books at one point.
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Who What Now posted:I really like the Tiffany Aching novels. They're easily some of my favorites. Pratchett was made an honorary girl scout for those books 
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The author is dead right? Are there any series I shouldn't read, because they are never going to get a satisfying conclusion?
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Turtlicious posted:The author is dead right? Are there any series I shouldn't read, because they are never going to get a satisfying conclusion? There's nothing unfinished in the Discworld books like what you're thinking, all of them are self-contained events.
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Turtlicious posted:The author is dead right? Are there any series I shouldn't read, because they are never going to get a satisfying conclusion? the song of ice and fire but the game of thrones will get a novelization though
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Turtlicious posted:The author is dead right? Are there any series I shouldn't read, because they are never going to get a satisfying conclusion? Each of the books is stand alone. It's just that you can group them into series if you feel like it, I mean the witches books all share characters and while I might be curious how they might be getting along now there's no dangling plot unresolved because of the nature of the way he wrote these insular books. They were great books and each had its own satisfactory conclusion. It's not song of ice and fire where if george died right now then nobody would canonically be said to sit the iron throne "in the end". Like HHGTTG, if adams had died after any book you wouldn't say "well, gently caress, what happens next? I've been robbed! This will never have a conclusion!" Or maybe you would. Maybe that's why his last book killed all earths everywhere forever, so stop asking me for sequels. The point is there was literally no reason to wonder when the krikket aliens were going to make a move from the end of book 2. You wouldn't be saying "man if only he got to write that one about the krikket aliens there was so much foreshadowing!"
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He was sort of setting things up to continue after him, though. Moist was being groomed for administrating Anhk Morpork by Vetinari, Sam's Son was growing up in a cleaner, safer city, Tiffany was set to inherit Esme's place, that sort of thing. Th more optimistic tones of his later books make it a lot easier just to leave it all off as 'They lived relatively happy ever after'.
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syscall girl posted:I just started with the Sky Pratchett movies and Hogfather was pretty good. Monstrous Regiment is really good too, and fairly stand alone as all things go. WarpedNaba posted:He was sort of setting things up to continue after him, though. Moist was being groomed for administrating Anhk Morpork by Vetinari, Sam's Son was growing up in a cleaner, safer city, Tiffany was set to inherit Esme's place, that sort of thing. I kind of liked the way things ended, not that he's gone but that it's easy to imagine the world still continuing given how the stories ended. There is no sense of unfinished story to tell.
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I don't know why I check this thread anymore. Goddamn goons
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Sir Unimaginative posted:I don't think I want 65% off. Relax it's probably the first half where you're just waiting for them to start hitting something good Skipping that part is fine
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Soulex posted:I don't know why I check this thread anymore. Goddamn goons
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Here. https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/discworld-reading-order/ Now continue with the funny pictures. 
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I was going to say "Unplug the computer  " but in this context that's actually really grim.
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Control Shift Escape end Process explorer.exe Don't you tell me what to do computer.
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President Ark posted:I was going to say "Dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed"
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HAHAHAHA. I'm loving sharing this with the in laws
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I thought it said 'Free wifi' for a moment, and it was mocking people with unsecured routers.
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Say Nothing posted:Here. It's like one of those mirrors pointed at another mirror.
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Dickey Butts posted:It's like one of those mirrors pointed at another mirror. 
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PYF Funny Pictures: No pictures, just chat about awful nerdy books
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Elias_Maluco posted:PYF Funny Pictures: No pictures, just chat about awful nerdy books I saw this with a caption that said, "Jesus checking if the Facebook photo has enough likes to save the sick child."
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My favourite from the days of rootkits and no virus protections:   Bonus: 
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Blind Rasputin posted:I saw this with a caption that said, "Jesus checking if the Facebook photo has enough likes to save the sick child." I like how Our Lady is by His side...must be the viral marketing/social media guru.
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