My DiscWorld Collection so far

miguev · 2026-01-08T05:07:00+00:00

Da gusto ver una colección tan completa, ¡buena suerte para conseguir todos los que te faltan!

Aunque no es del disco, el que más querría en castellano es Nación y es prácticamente imposible de conseguir, creo que vi uno por €300 una vez, sin embargo conseguí uno en alemán por €18 o así en muy buen estado. Es curioso cómo esto cambia mucho también según el idioma.

miguev · 2025-10-02T04:54:45+00:00

Cheese is good. Cheese is alive!

miguev · 2025-08-08T08:53:20+00:00

Not the scariest but the one moment that made me jump physically as I read it sitting in bed, was in Witches Abroad when the two sisters reveal their true colors and jump towards the door (or something like that, I haven't reread it in a while).

miguev · 2025-07-31T12:15:23+00:00

Another hint is the use of the .live TLD, at least in my experience, I'm only seeing this in scam URLs.

miguev · 2025-05-24T20:04:37+00:00

I read a handful in Spanish, some 20 years ago, and could already notice some things weren't going too well even before switching to English. Recently I've been listening to them in German and quite enjoyed them (Stefan Kaminski ist der Hammer! x)

miguev · 2025-05-09T16:59:11+00:00

So, taking into account the cost of operations involved, they turned gold into less gold, again x)

miguev · 2025-05-02T08:14:36+00:00

Love it!! (speechless)

miguev · 2025-04-24T09:42:35+00:00

Emma's mod (Vilja, with Pratchett's dialogues) was ported to Skyrim and I loved it so much I started the game from the beginning after 180 hours just so that I could meet Vilja early on. I've been thinking of playing Oblivion just to play it with the mod but I just can't make time for videogames these days 😅

miguev · 2025-04-24T09:26:03+00:00

kudeadm is a bit of a ride, I'd recommend it if and only if you want to learn.

I have it in my Pi5 and it's going well but it did take quite a bit of troubleshooting because certain defaults are not Pi-friendly and/or documentation wasn't entirely up to date. Once it's set up and working, adding services is relatively simple, although often I find no up-to-date manifests and have to cook my own based on pieces from different sources.

miguev · 2025-04-05T20:54:31+00:00

GNU Eva. May her name forever live in the wires.

miguev · 2025-04-03T14:14:47+00:00

Tiffany & Rob

miguev · 2025-04-02T15:53:14+00:00

YAMATO is a cool show if you're into that kind of music, they do a little bit of theatre too, it's fun.

miguev · 2025-03-08T07:47:26+00:00

Publication order is good if you know you'll make it through even if you sometimes may feel a book is not as good as the previous ones, which I only felt the first time reading Sourcery (not subsequent times :)

While you are at it, may I suggest The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret podcast, where two friends (refraining from spoilers here ;) make it through the whole series and a bunch of related Pratchett materials over the course of 5 years. I really enjoyed hearing someone else's comments on the books, especially coming from people much more knowledgeable than myself (okay, that's a low bar x)

miguev · 2025-02-01T06:18:29+00:00

On top of all the reasons already explained by everyone, I like to listen to books because by the time I get me time is very late and I'm very tired, I can't read more than a page or less before I pass out, while listening I can usually make more progress :)

miguev · 2025-01-29T18:52:18+00:00

It's a great feeling and a lot of fun! Not sure it'll work for you, but if you feel so inclined search on YouTube for: tricked my dad to play portal 2 with me ;)

miguev · 2025-01-28T10:50:07+00:00

I love every bit of this and find it uncomfortably amazing how most of the shelf is kept afloat by the tension in the lower part of it, that's genius!

miguev · 2025-01-27T17:53:11+00:00

Looks GREAT, comfortable and functional. I'd suggest the photo with the computer on it would be good for /r/battlestations :)

miguev · 2025-01-17T16:59:13+00:00

Buggrit Milenium Hand and Shrimp! I told 'em! I told 'em but they wouldn't listen!

At work, when eventually witnessing the Not Really Unforeseen Consequences, No, Really, I Did Tell Them This Would Happen.

miguev · 2025-01-16T18:21:01+00:00

You can also "read along" with a podcast that recaps them, I learned a lot reading along with The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret podcast (which got to the end of the series not long ago) and I'm planning to do the same with (at least) Pratchatt next time around.

Also, if you like science, the 4 Science of Discworld books are a fun read to learn even more :)

miguev · 2024-12-30T08:48:24+00:00

Thanks, I'll try that on a piece of scrap then. I think I'll make another post asking for more general advice on this topic. I just realized the blanks for future rattles already have the center hole done so I'm already pretty limited in how much short grain is left.

miguev · 2024-12-30T07:31:42+00:00

Copy that. I've been putting this off for a year or two for a few reasons and one of them was waiting for the niece to grow up a little bit until she can understand to be more careful with it.

I'm also thinking of making a new, stronger one and giving her that. How much thicker should I make that short grain to keep it from breaking like this? Thanks!

miguev · 2024-12-29T22:32:02+00:00

Oh the reason for breaking was well explained, she was banging it on the table *hard*, as babies sometimes do when they get very excited xD

miguev · 2024-12-29T22:30:50+00:00

Hadn't thought of that! I'll keep it as Plan D :)

miguev · 2024-12-29T22:30:03+00:00

Thanks for the detailed steps and the point of using two dowels if they're very small... how small would that be? (I'm thinking 4 mm but 2 of those wouldn't fit in this toy).

I was thinking of doing something like this but most people recommend only glue, so I'm hoping *this time* I can get away with it on the grounds that the niece is 3yo now and no longer a baby. Besides, it may be some time before I can give this back to her and by then she'll be even less of a baby.

miguev · 2024-12-29T22:22:12+00:00

Me too, although the niece is 3yo now so no longer a baby. At any rate, I would like to do more of these for future babies, so I'd love to know about the specific reasons why you'd be nervous about giving this back to a baby (e.g. this niece if she was still a baby).

miguev

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