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CommonShore posted:I'm about 90 pages in to Moving Pictures and I just realized that I'm reading the Archchancellor as having a cartoonish Australian accent. Is there something in the text to suggest this and I just picked it up in passing or am I brokebrained Maybe getting him mixed up with his australian counterpart? He's more of a classic big game hunter archetype, so like van pelt or reno jackson IMO
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CommonShore posted:I'm about 90 pages in to Moving Pictures and I just realized that I'm reading the Archchancellor as having a cartoonish Australian accent. Is there something in the text to suggest this and I just picked it up in passing or am I brokebrained He’s from Lancre iirc
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Apr 20, 2021 17:31
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thetoughestbean posted:He’s from Lancre iirc Nah, he just spent time there when younger, and has, shall we say, fond memories of the place and the people. Ridcully's family got country estate somewhere near the mountains though, he had actually stopped wizarding and lived there before they elected him arch-chancellor.
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Apr 20, 2021 19:27
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If the Archchancellor doesn't sound like BRIAN BLESSED in your head, I don't know what to tell you.
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Apr 20, 2021 19:59
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Ridicully's land-owning gentry at worst, if not minor nobility. Brian Blessed's too RP for that. The sort of person Ridicully's a resonance with doesn't really make it to video or radio very often. The closest thing I can think of is probably Michael Cochrane in Sharpe as Sir Henry Simmerson, or Viv Stanshall doing Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; except they're usually also an irredeemable silly rear end (which is what the wizards think they're getting, and as someone like Lord Rust actually is), and Pratchett twists it by giving Ridicully an unusual amount of brainpower in his own way.
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Trin Tragula posted:Ridicully's land-owning gentry at worst, if not minor nobility. Brian Blessed's too RP for that. The sort of person Ridicully's a resonance with doesn't really make it to video or radio very often. The closest thing I can think of is probably Michael Cochrane in Sharpe as Sir Henry Simmerson, or Viv Stanshall doing Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; except they're usually also an irredeemable silly rear end (which is what the wizards think they're getting, and as someone like Lord Rust actually is), and Pratchett twists it by giving Ridicully an unusual amount of brainpower in his own way. or the gentry guy from the treasure island
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Apr 20, 2021 20:39
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ok so I'm brokebrained, but I'm going to continue reading him as Australian because it rules.
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Apr 21, 2021 04:49
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Nothing Australian rules, especially not football.
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Apr 21, 2021 10:12
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CommonShore posted:ok so I'm brokebrained, but I'm going to continue reading him as Australian because it rules. I agree, but it will make reading... a certain later book... a bit tricky.
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Apr 22, 2021 01:05
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Jedit posted:Nothing Australian rules, especially not football. Hey!.. shutup. 
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Apr 22, 2021 23:21
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Truth, justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg. GNU, Sir Terry Pratchett.
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May 25, 2021 11:22
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A man's not dead while his name is still spoken.
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May 25, 2021 18:40
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How do they rise up, rise up, rise up?
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May 25, 2021 19:14
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"Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
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My quarantine project was reading Discworld books at bed time to the kiddo. Shes only 6, I dont know how much of the story itself is gonna stick, just hope the telling stays with her. I try to read with enthusiasm and do voices for everyone. I started with Men at Arms because it was what I had available. After that i just started at the beginning. She really liked the adventures of Rincewind and Twoflower. After Light Fantastic we switched and read the Tiffany Aching books Wee Free Men and Hat Full of sky Mort was especially of fun to read BECAUSE YOU GET TO TALK JUST LIKE DEATH FOR LARGE PORTIONS OF THE BOOK. Last night we finished The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents and started on Sourcery. She has mentioned before to watch out for the Luggage and was wondering aloud about the Great A'Tuin starbabies a few nights ago. We live in oregon so I occasionally have to mention not everyone with a staff is a wizard and it would be embarrassing if you asked and they were not. I know everyone should probably have british accents but Rincewind sounds like The Monarch from Venture brothers but toned down, Twoflower is a polite canadian, Maurice is Jack Nicholson, Vimes is a tired Snake Pliskin. Dwarves skew scottish and Trolls are mostly Vin Diesel Beer_Suitcase fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Jun 21, 2021 |
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Jun 21, 2021 20:48
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Beer_Suitcase posted:Rincewind sounds like The Monarch from Venture brothers but toned down Well poo poo now i'll never be able to unhear that in my head. Wonder if my 5yo is old enough to enjoy some of Pterry's children books like the Bromeliad trilogy.
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Beer_Suitcase posted:She has mentioned before to watch out for the Luggage and was wondering aloud about the Great A'Tuin starbabies a few nights ago. We live in oregon so I occasionally have to mention not everyone with a staff is a wizard and it would be embarrassing if you asked and they were not. Embarrassing for them, maybe. Ask away, and shame the fraudsters.
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Jun 22, 2021 03:47
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IMO if you are a grown adult carrying around a staff, you don't get to get pissy if six year old kids mistake you for a wizard.
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Picked this up randomly at a used book store yesterday for my 3 year old, hope she likes it as much as I did! https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/wheres-my-cow/
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Okay, I'll bite: why is Oregon notable for having people who aren't wizards walk around with staffs?
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Jun 22, 2021 16:08
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Weirdos, OP.
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Jun 22, 2021 16:13
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There are weirdos like that in lots of places. I once asked my roommate if he noticed "the stick dudes" and he was like what? And three days later he said "ok I've noticed the stick dudes."
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Jun 22, 2021 16:23
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CommonShore posted:There are weirdos like that in lots of places. I once asked my roommate if he noticed "the stick dudes" and he was like what? And three days later he said "ok I've noticed the stick dudes." Does Oregon have a lot of hiking trails? Maybe that's why there's lots of people with walking sticks? Or it could just be old people with long canes? As a kid I was obsessed with staffs and would definitely be the sort of weirdo to carry around a staff if doing so conveyed any sort of ability. Sadly magic not real.
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El Fideo posted:Embarrassing for them, maybe. Yeah, it's this.
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There is actually a Hellmouth in Oregon, and a cabal of hiker-wizards work tirelessly to keep the threat contained. You will know them by their sticks, socks-and-sandals and fanny packs.
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Ccs posted:Does Oregon have a lot of hiking trails? Maybe that's why there's lots of people with walking sticks? Or it could just be old people with long canes? Oregon probably does, but we lived downtown in a major Canadian city
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CommonShore posted:There are weirdos like that in lots of places. I once asked my roommate if he noticed "the stick dudes" and he was like what? And three days later he said "ok I've noticed the stick dudes." Scp-38267: the oregon stick dudes
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Khizan posted:IMO if you are a grown adult carrying around a staff, you don't get to get pissy if six year old kids mistake you for a wizard. You have to be a pretty miserable adult if you get grumpy if a six year old asks you if you're a wizard.
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withak posted:Weirdos, OP. This, and hiking. But mostly weirdos
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withak posted:Weirdos, OP. I think that's a typo, it should be Weirdos, OR.
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Jun 22, 2021 19:26
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Oregon has a lot of hiking, yes. Also a lot of weirdos. I used to have a nice walking stick I won in a silent auction, had an owl whittled into it. Wish I could remember where it wound up. If someone asked me that I'd just say "nope, no knob on the end."
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I walk with a staff I don't need, normally just carrying it. It's saved my life on at least two occasions. One time a little girl asked if it does magic and I said yes and did the magic of having a chupa chups in my pocket. I'm definitely a wizard.
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So what's the other time it saved your life op? Also it's not a staff unless it's at least as tall as a person. Otherwise that's just a stick and insufficient for proper magic.
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I Love Loosies posted:So what's the other time it saved your life op? He had to collapse a bridge in front of a balrog.
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I Love Loosies posted:Also it's not a staff unless it's at least as tall as a person. Otherwise that's just a stick and insufficient for proper magic. I believe the knob on the end is fairly important. For magic.
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quote:“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around. Stories exist independently of their players. If you know that, the knowledge is power. Stories, great flapping ribbons of shaped space-time, have been blowing and uncoiling around the universe since the beginning of time. And they have evolved. The weakest have died and the strongest have survived and they have grown fat on the retelling . . . stories, twisting and blowing through the darkness. And their very existence overlays a faint but insistent pattern on the chaos that is history. Stories etch grooves deep enough for people to follow in the same way that water follows certain paths down a mountainside. And every time fresh actors tread the path of the story, the groove runs deeper. This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up all the vibrations of all the other workings of that story that have ever been. This is why history keeps on repeating all the time.”. 
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Gaiman just announced Good Omens season 2. I am not stoked.
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Jedit posted:Gaiman just announced Good Omens season 2. I am not stoked. What? How? Why?  I feel like Neil jumped the shark sometime around when he ran off with Amanda Palmer.
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Jedit posted:Gaiman just announced Good Omens season 2. I am not stoked. Yeah, there's a story about how he allegedly plotted a sequel with PTerry and they never got around to doing it, but... eeeh... Look, I certainly don't want to call the man a liar. I love most of the stuff Neil has done, I'm a huge Sandman fan, but right now some part of me can't help thinking about Neil's quote that an author is someone who tells lies for a living. Also, I wasn't a huge fan of the Good Omens TV adaption. EDIT: Here's the story: https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2021/06/really-bloody-excellent-omens.html
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