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From the Adventure Games thread, a link to an interviewer with the designer of the Discworld games https://www.timeextension.com/features/interview-john-cleese-told-us-to-fk-off-the-inside-story-of-terry-pratchetts-discworld-games
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Liquid Communism posted:Also surprisingly real-world accurate, if you've ever tried to eat hardtack. I'm a pretty big fan of the Tasting History youtube channel and his little gag of, whenever he says "hardtack", cutting to the clip where he bangs two pieces together with a hilarious "clonk clonk" has yet to overstay its welcome.
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Google Jeb Bush posted:I'm a pretty big fan of the Tasting History youtube channel and his little gag of, whenever he says "hardtack", cutting to the clip where he bangs two pieces together with a hilarious "clonk clonk" has yet to overstay its welcome. Can't not link it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3VmehJ6Vn0
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Listening to We Shall Wear Midnight by Steeleye Span and it’s giving me the same feeling that reading The Shepherd’s Crown did.
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Feb 21, 2024 20:10
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Gnome de plume posted:From the Adventure Games thread, a link to an interviewer with the designer of the Discworld games Anyone who's read the biography will be nodding all the way through this article lol E: that's a great read, I have never played them and it makes me want to have a go (with a walk-through BC I'm sure they are insanely abstruse in that adventure game way)
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Feb 21, 2024 20:14
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DreamingofRoses posted:Listening to We Shall Wear Midnight by Steeleye Span and it’s giving me the same feeling that reading The Shepherd’s Crown did. This song fucks me up every time.
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Feb 21, 2024 20:28
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sebmojo posted:Anyone who's read the biography will be nodding all the way through this article lol Discworld Noir is probably the best one. It has some innovative gameplay (the notebook, you can use smell to solve puzzles) and most of the puzzles makes logical sense. The fact that it is an original story also helps.
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Feb 21, 2024 21:01
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Gnome de plume posted:From the Adventure Games thread, a link to an interviewer with the designer of the Discworld games quote:I did ask her because I said, ‘I would like to do a definitive game on the Guards but she said, ‘Unfortunately, they are making a TV show of it’ Ain't that the truth.
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Feb 21, 2024 22:47
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Alhazred posted:Discworld Noir is probably the best one. It has some innovative gameplay (the notebook, you can use smell to solve puzzles) and most of the puzzles makes logical sense. The fact that it is an original story also helps. *We don't talk about Vimes.
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Feb 22, 2024 01:04
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Four voice actors for a game with that many characters is just insane.
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Feb 22, 2024 07:58
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sebmojo posted:Anyone who's read the biography will be nodding all the way through this article lol The voice acting is distinctive enough that I could recall immediately on seeing one of the article screenshots which old man was voiced by Jon Pertwee. It isn’t always good, mind you, and they probably could have hired more than one woman to do voices, but memorable and generally enjoyable. OTOH, hearing the phrase “That doesn’t work” read by Eric Idle again might send me into a berserk frenzy. IMO they’re all worth playing. Discworld 2 is probably the most forgettable, but you can also probably finish it without a walkthrough.
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Feb 22, 2024 16:39
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Felt like 2 leaned a bit too hard into "hey we've got Eric Idle" (though I honestly can't recall if they had a lot of references or the ones they did have just went VERY hard), but both of the first two games have a special place in my heart from my formative years even if I agree Noir is probably the better game.
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Google Jeb Bush posted:I'm a pretty big fan of the Tasting History youtube channel and his little gag of, whenever he says "hardtack", cutting to the clip where he bangs two pieces together with a hilarious "clonk clonk" has yet to overstay its welcome. I love that he keeps going back to the same ever older hard tack now and then too, just to prove that it's still sitting around his place getting harder.
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there are clips going around of Star Wars airing on Chilean TV with beer commercials integrated into some scenes and all I've been able to think about is the time German translators inserted paragraphs of soup advertisements into their versions of Terry's novels https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-the-maggi-soup-adverts/
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It's been nine years. I still can't quite believe it.
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GNU Terry Pratchett
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GNU Pterry. I still remember reading the news at work and the next thing I knew kneeling on the floor sobbing. AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER
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Monica Bellucci posted:GNU Terry Pratchett e. Okay, I've had my moment. I'd just like to say that nobody has taught me more about becoming a better person than Terry Pratchett. mllaneza fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Mar 12, 2024 |
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Mar 12, 2024 18:58
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LIVE FAST, DIE YO GNU TERRY
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Today’s always a hard one.  
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I was a teacher at the time and I just remember hearing after my last lesson of the day and sitting at my desk in the shared staff office sobbing my heart out. GNU Terry Pratchett.
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Its rather apt I had this Discworld adjacent story sitting in my brain and I finally spent some time to get it out last night. I was inspired by this photo and in The 5th Elephant we just got to the point where Death is talking to Vimes about the uncertainty principal.  Death usually only made personal appearances for Wizards (per the rules) however this one was an opportunity to try something out. "Well gently caress" * AHEM The decedent quickly turned around to see an 8 foot tall skeleton, draped in a cloak of midnight holding a scythe. The icy blue orbs in his sockets would have pierced the man, if he wasn't already a ghost. And although the face of Death gave no movement he could have swore he was smirking I GUESS YOU CAN BE TOO STONED "huh?" A JOKE, I'VE BEEN TOLD IT MAKES IT EASIER "I'm dead?" THAT IS NOT THE JOKE "So what happens now" and Death told him "OHhhh allright, pull the other one" the skeleton shrugged put his arm across the mans shoulder and walked into the light BUT DID YOU GET IT, TOO STONED *this phrase is among the top 5 phrases uttered immediately after passing, in any language
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Monica Bellucci posted:GNU Terry Pratchett
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Monica Bellucci posted:GNU Terry Pratchett
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Dave Syndrome posted:Reading the book it definitely made me wonder just how much of the last ten Discworld novels or so was actually Rob providing the cement for Terry's bricks. I don't have my books here with me right now, but is he ever credited in some way? I don't remember any "Thanks to" notes in the beginning of the books ever, but that also may be my bad memory. He's definitely flown under the radar for most casual readers. Just rewinding a bit for the final heartbreaking little detail about the process of Raising Steam: quote:‘Who do you want to dedicate it to, Terry?’ I asked him, when the novel was finished. Unseen Academicals is also dedicated to Rob, "who typed most of it and had the good sense to laugh occasionally." Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Mar 14, 2024 |
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I'm starting on some Discworld for the first time in a while, with the Death series that I've never read before. Even indifferent Terry Pratchett, which is my impression of Mort so far, still goes down smooth.quote:He was determined to uncover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.
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Just picked up the series for the first time, just about done with Mort. Not as engaging as the ones before it, but it still has some good moments
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brugroffil posted:Just picked up the series for the first time, just about done with Mort. Not as engaging as the ones before it, but it still has some good moments Strap in.
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brugroffil posted:Just picked up the series for the first time, just about done with Mort. Not as engaging as the ones before it, but it still has some good moments Mort is my least favorite in the Death series I think (it's been a while so I can't say that with high confidence but I'm pretty sure)
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If you go back to Mort you might like it less for how it ties in to the later books. If you read Soul Music carefully, you will realise that Mort actually did die when he was 32 as Ysabell had calculated from the flipping of his lifetimer. And Death would also have known that she would die at the same time. So while Death obviously thinks in terms of lifetimes and inevitability rather than years - when Mort asks about it he says "YOU HAVE SUFFICIENT" - he knew he was sending his daughter to die young. It feels cold from a character who is fundamentally sympathetic in his later appearances.
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Do you think that perhaps that story arc, as well as what happens in Reaper Man, might be what causes him to be more sympathetic?
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Mad Hamish posted:Do you think that perhaps that story arc, as well as what happens in Reaper Man, might be what causes him to be more sympathetic? It's more an evolution of how the character was written. Once you get past the first two books where he's pissed off with Rincewind's constant failure to die on schedule Death was always somewhat sympathetic, not a taker of life but a guide to whatever comes after it. And remember that Reaper Man happens before Soul Music, so any reversal of character development actually happens in the later book.
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Jedit posted:It's more an evolution of how the character was written. Once you get past the first two books where he's pissed off with Rincewind's constant failure to die on schedule Death was always somewhat sympathetic, not a taker of life but a guide to whatever comes after it. And remember that Reaper Man happens before Soul Music, so any reversal of character development actually happens in the later book. I was referring to Death's decision in Mort to let Ysabelle leave even though he knew it meant he'd lose her forever. Death started doing a lot of things humans do in an attempt to figure out how they worked and why they did the things that they did, but it ended up humanizing him instead.
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The ending of Reaper Man destroys me every time. The thread title is from there. It's an amazing book.
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It's such a good book. I don't think Sir Terry intended to start a new folk custom when he wrote that book, but I certainly know why my Morris dancing group (amid others!) does the Dark Morris. Admittedly we do it incorrectly, but octiron is hard to come by here on Roundworld. At one point we
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A Moose posted:The ending of Reaper Man destroys me every time. The thread title is from there. It's an amazing book. It is the biggest gap between a plot and b plot too, incredibly moving meditations on mortality sticky noted to 80s pastiche action wizards blowing up shopping trolleys
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Is the Penguin Audiobook version of Night Watch available? I can't find it on Audible. (The book titled Night Watch, not the Watch itself.) EDIT: Is there a version that Americans can listen to? The man called M fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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The man called M posted:Is the Penguin Audiobook version of Night Watch available? I can't find it on Audible. (The book titled Night Watch, not the Watch itself.) Doesn’t look like the Penguin version is available in the US, the ISIS version used to be (since I have that in my Audible library) but from what I can tell it doesn’t look to be any more? Can’t tell what’s up with that but dang, that’s one of the best and apparently unavailable
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Thaddius the Large posted:Doesn’t look like the Penguin version is available in the US, the ISIS version used to be (since I have that in my Audible library) but from what I can tell it doesn’t look to be any more? Can’t tell what’s up with that but dang, that’s one of the best and apparently unavailable What do you mean by ISIS? I don't know if terrorist organizations did Audiobooks on the side.
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The man called M posted:What do you mean by ISIS? I don't know if terrorist organizations did Audiobooks on the side. At the risk of handing it to ISIS. . .
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