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freelop posted:It's being described as a "punk rock thriller" jesus
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The_Doctor posted:Production has been paused for obvious reasons. At least some good news.
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Trin Tragula posted:"Defund the police" and "abolish the police" are about a million miles from becoming uncontroversial mainstream accepted ideas. The entire genre of
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Alhazred posted:But the point of the novel is not that that it's a big secret that the regiment is women only. The title of the book alone gives the "secret" away. the cover too
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spoilers are a problem only for anal people
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My Lovely Horse posted:It's also plain more funny if there's at least some ambiguity around everyone. The constant reveals of more and more characters as women are funny. You keep thinking, okay, he might be... or he might be... nope they're both. But he surely isn't... yeah he is. Okay but not him yes him. But surely not *everyone* YES EVERYONE how do you think that it would be marketed?
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Jun 19, 2020 11:24
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Alhazred posted:But that's not the point of the story. The "twist" is completely unimportant and it's why it is revealed so early on. It's a story about gender politics and religion, not about ticking of boxes. for tv tropes folk stories are about ticking boxes
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3D Megadoodoo posted:That's two extra Zs. Because he also pissed off Don Diego de la Vega.
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Is Raising Steam worth reading? I've avoided Snuff because I've heard from this thread and elsewhere that the alzheimers, sadly, must have been hitting him pretty hard in that one because it's not that good in general and, worse, a lot of the characters are pretty out of character. I recall hearing that I Shall Wear Midnight was good, though, so clearly the degradation was not linear so yeah. I can't recall what the thread consensus or fandom one was on Raising Steam. it's unreadable
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Phenotype posted:I never understood the hate for Raising Steam -- it wasn't his best story, and Vetinari in particular seems more of a flanderized Mary Sue than usual, but it felt like a purposeful send-off for the Discworld with a ton of old characters and locations being trotted out for one last goodbye. there's no hate, it's just a bad book
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BurgerQuest posted:This - I remember it feeling really confusing because of this. I still think you should read it though, why wouldn't you read every Discworld book? there's some entertainment in watching bad movies with friends, but there's nothing to gain from reading bad books, which the last ones were
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Aug 3, 2020 23:55
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3D Megadoodoo posted:"What is the best starting point to this incredibly versatile series" is a dumb question to try to answer. (Asking the question isn't dumb because obviously the asker does not know that it's dumb to try to answer it, yet.) it's mort
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SirSamVimes posted:Still lmaoing at young skinny hot vigilante Sybil Ramkin. and cheery that show will be so awful
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I was thinking more "New Zealand-Canada-Germany co-production youth TV series". they are the same thing
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Aug 10, 2020 15:41
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VanSandman posted:The magic in a Discworld book is the inner monologue of the characters and the narration. They don't make good adaptations because of it. agreed, it's not possible to make a good adaptation of his works
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Jedit posted:Not a hot take: you're so full of poo poo that you don't socially distance, you obey zoning regulations. The Cosgrove Hall animations were good, Hogfather and Going Postal were good. you are a prime example of a type of people this forum is unfortunately teeming with. you people have built your personality around consumer products, and think that criticisms of the products are personal attacks
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I... what 
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The_Doctor posted:I’m sorry, but this word gives me hives. same and if you want to see other really idiotic words, here's a nice list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives
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hanales posted:Democracy is pretty much a massive failure globally. ahahaha
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:I mean, restrict yourself to the English-speaking world over the last four years and you can make a pretty solid case. it seems to work great, the voters got what they wanted
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El Fideo posted:Yeah, Doreen Winkings is basically Rachel Dolezal. there was a new similar case recently: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/03/us/jessica-krug-gwu-black-trnd/index.html
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Phenotype posted:Well, the trailer's out. lmao what utter poo poo
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yeah they should've just hired Noel Fielding. He'd bring his own tranquilisers.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:A wizard's MASSIVE COCK has a PENIS on the end.
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Oct 21, 2020 19:15
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Jedit posted:Pterry always used to say that you could tell which of his books were written for children because they were darker and had less jokes in. perhaps some adults enjoy reading books written for adults
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Liquid Communism posted:Any adult who can't still take some pleasure in childish things has lost something fundamental and important to their humanity. manchildren aren't the pinnacle of humanity
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Jedit posted:You're acting like taking pleasure in something means to define yourself by it. I would think poorly of any adult who thought you can live on pizza and ice cream, too, but that doesn't mean that adults cannot enjoy them. quoting myself from earlier: ChubbyChecker posted:you are a prime example of a type of people this forum is unfortunately teeming with. you people have built your personality around consumer products, and think that criticisms of the products are personal attacks (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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The_Doctor posted:Coming January 3rd. good grief
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immoral_ posted:You could skip it and go to Mort, which is where it starts becoming more Discworld and less high-fantasy trope-a-thon. this
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fantasy parodies were a surprisingly popular genre in the 80s and the first discworld books weren't really special in that genre. he found his own thing from mort onwards
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Devorum posted:I gave up halfway through. Every character getting a Certified Tragic Backstory was the final straw for me. sybil is an orphan?
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what did they keep from the book sybil apart from the name?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Get this: the postal service used to be real, too. And money! 
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My Lovely Horse posted:Jesus Christ man I'm picking a book back up after like a decade, can you maybe hold off on sardonically implying I'm too dumb to get Pratchett's genius until I've actually posted my take on it that isn't half remembered from when I was a dumb teen or at most twentysomething there's no helping that guy, he's one of those rick and morty type fans
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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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Pham Nuwen posted:Agreed but whenever those two weren't on the screen we were blessed with child actors and Quirky Witch. I did not finish the series. yeah, the angel and demon were the only good things about the series
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Megazver posted:Gabriel makes me think that material written specifically for the show might actually end up being better in TV format than the adapted material. yeah, pratchett can't really be adapted well, because those things that make some of his books good, work only in written format. using a narrator in the good omens was a valiant effort, but it didn't work spectacularly.
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:benevolent dictatorship is arguably the best and ideal form of government it's not
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:tbh I don't think Discworld does a great job with race, mainly because the early books are lampooning fantasy stories that were often full of orientalist tropes, and the later books are more concerned with fantasy analogies of race. yeah, but it wasn't only the early books, interesting times also has some of that stuff
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Phenotype posted:Yeah, this was an issue with the later Pratchett books -- the constant overstatement like this that would have been fixed in the editing in earlier years. I remember being annoyed by some of the Watch stuff in Monstrous Regiment for the same reason, Angua specifically winking at Vimes and saying "Oh ho, so we're not really intercepting the Times' messages" when their characters would have left most of it implied and unsaid. yeah, monstrous regiment was a decent book, but it didn't quite click like the previous ones
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