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Skwirl posted:Having read it I don't get the pun, I think it's a song but I don't know the song. That's the spoiler, I didn't get the joke so I'm ruining it for everyone else. Hey! ... ...I didn't get it either.
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Yes doomscrolling is what people do now. It used to be called following the news but I guess people wanted a way to shame the obsessiveness of it. I feel personally attacked by the term because it describes my relationship to social media for years now. That being said I would love to play a game like the one he described. It actually sounds super fun.
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The Little Death posted:Yes doomscrolling is what people do now. It used to be called following the news but I guess people wanted a way to shame the obsessiveness of it. I feel personally attacked by the term because it describes my relationship to social media for years now. Back in high school and college I would just endlessly refresh fark. Twitters what ultimately killed it for me since I could never get into Reddit and their weird comment system
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Man you're gonna go fukken nuts for scooby doo
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https://twitter.com/sci_phile/status/1296199633165787136?s=21 Goddamn bamboo raccoons.
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How do we know it was political, it could’ve just been the knockout game, another totally real phenomenon that happens. https://mobile.twitter.com/jennyjaffe/status/1296659172130344961
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https://twitter.com/janerichsen/status/1296446400587325440 https://twitter.com/drrachelbrenner/status/1296206193782697988 https://twitter.com/rohantalbot/status/1294944705747222529
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Mister Mind posted:https://twitter.com/sci_phile/status/1296199633165787136?s=21 This makes my cats seem helpful, wow
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Flint_Paper posted:Man you're gonna go fukken nuts for scooby doo He's not shaggy at all though.
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zoux posted:How do we know it was political, it could’ve just been the knockout game, another totally real phenomenon that happens. This is a world class pun, I apprecite it
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Thread: https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1296138538027814913 e: https://twitter.com/ewzzy/status/1296285812603211780 ultrafilter has a new favorite as of 21:32 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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bat jiggy goth furfriends
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Pratchett was, behind his comedy and silly writing, extremely acute in his observations and managed to get points like this across better than most serious writers, in just a small side note. He was one of those guys who I'm convinced was extremely aware of how absurd the world is, and just relentlessly made fun of it instead of getting all worked up about it. Man I miss thst guy.
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Splicer posted:bat jiggy goth furfriends 
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Son of Rodney posted:Pratchett was, behind his comedy and silly writing, extremely acute in his observations and managed to get points like this across better than most serious writers, in just a small side note. It comes up a fair bit but I continue to enjoy the contrast between portrayals of slavery in discworld vs harry potter, which is that harry potter treats it as a joke because the slaves are actually happy, while discworld has the golems foming a union to free slaves and gain political power.
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I enjoy Pratchett books a lot but he did have a blind spot for benevolent dictators. And the last Watch book was....not good. I didn’t finish just to preserve my memory of them.
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Son of Rodney posted:Pratchett was, behind his comedy and silly writing, extremely acute in his observations and managed to get points like this across better than most serious writers, in just a small side note. According to Neil Gaiman he was angry about the world's injustices pretty much all the time, and I think that comes through in his writing. He's angry about the bad things in the world, but is able to find a way to laugh at it, because if you can't laugh at the bad things in the world you'll go insane.
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Trevor Hale posted:I enjoy Pratchett books a lot but he did have a blind spot for benevolent dictators. And the last Watch book was....not good. I didn’t finish just to preserve my memory of them. I always kinda felt like that was something you had to buy as a function of the setting, because clearly there are a lot of books about bad dictators in the series, and I think it's commented on a few times how the setting basically wouldn't work if it didn't have some good(ish) guy in charge creating a sort of static, unchanging, yet functional bureaucracy. Like I think the books do paint that as absurd, but for the purposes of the stories it is useful to have that, so it is there, except when he wants to make a story where it isn't, at which point it goes away, only to return at the end, which Vetinari's almost supernatural ability to do is commented on several times.
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https://twitter.com/theonion/status/1296931346393247745?s=21 I’m glad MorallyInept found love.
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The consistent treatment of Carrot in the watch books is that even a perfect righteous true-born destined you know what would be extremely bad for the city. It comes off as partly commentary on fantasy fiction, where a city ruled by a criminal vizier and assorted guilds is usually just a corrupt and tittilating backdrop for adventure, not a place where people might live, and even that they might love. But the Patrician gets less criticism, so yeah, maybe. It felt to me like the last books were building towards some strange revelation of his origins and goals. Maybe that happened in one I haven't read yet. e: not even the last ones, i first had that thought reading whichever one centers on him being poisoned, and he's hallucinating and talking to people from his childhood. then it comes up in uh, the one about the day everyone in the city wears a flower. Doc Hawkins has a new favorite as of 23:32 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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I think the best illustration of the setting is that whenever the patrician is out of power a load of far worse people turn up and start wrecking the place. Be it a literal dragon, the aristos, turbocapitalists, you name it. Essentially the setting is one that doesn't have a strong democratic power bloc, as illustrated in "the one where everyone wears flowers" which is literally about an attempt to overthrow the horrible oligarchy with a revolution. It fails through lack of support, and the old order reasserts itself, but it does teach Vetinari something about how to be a better ruler, both in terms of maintaining his own power, and actually making the city work, possibly as well as it can at the moment. It's also a function of Discworld being set in basically a medieval world with allusions to modern technology thrown in over time. So everywhere is basically somewhere between feudalism to mercantilism and there aren't really any democracies as we would understand them. But you can see as technology progresses there is more of what we might recognize as industrial era politics emerging.
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trapped mouse posted:Reminds me of this one: https://twitter.com/_F_B_G_/status/1161413870482857984
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OwlFancier posted:It comes up a fair bit but I continue to enjoy the contrast between portrayals of slavery in discworld vs harry potter, which is that harry potter treats it as a joke because the slaves are actually happy, while discworld has the golems foming a union to free slaves and gain political power. I'm only about six books in on the discworld series, but this just brought to mind the two assassins in The Umbrella Academy series where Hazel is frequently complaining at the start of the mission about the need for better conditions and compensation. He had mentioned something about danger pay and it just brought up my own frustration with work where we had our own document for which countries we travel to where danger pay is given out and it hadn't been updated since 2017 and did not include the very dangerous, active insurgency sort of country that I was working on and traveling to
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https://twitter.com/mi5uk/status/1161699538970824704 That's at least more relevant.
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vyelkin posted:The future's so bright, he's gotta wear shades grandpaaaa! you said it wrong!
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