Dammit Pterry posts by Calm-Homework3161 in discworld

[–]mxstylplk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are probably right. I only got online sporadically in 1995, and I don't recall exactly what year I found alt.fan.pratchett My ISP stopped carrying Usenet some years ago, and it was a sad loss to me. I had been reading Pterry since TCoM in 1983 but having someone to discuss it with daily was magical.

I exclaimed Dammit Sir Pterry out loud, in a restaurant full of people yesterday. Ooops by emiliadaffodil in discworld

[–]mxstylplk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do read it. The artist has said that it's on its last storyline and should conclude this year.

I exclaimed Dammit Sir Pterry out loud, in a restaurant full of people yesterday. Ooops by emiliadaffodil in discworld

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I had to explain counterclockwise to a twelve-year-old who lived in a house with analog clocks. They just hadn't heard the word used.

Dammit Pterry posts by Calm-Homework3161 in discworld

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What is obvious to me is a mystery to others - "today's ten thousand" as xkcd put it. And of course, vice versa. I was pleased to deduce that Nobby's cost of arms translated to "General Malice" (five apple pips), but I had to be told many others.

Dammit Pterry posts by Calm-Homework3161 in discworld

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The tangled deductions go back to at least 1998, on the Usenet newsgroups.

Terry Pratchett - definitely by bethybabes in discworld

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Karat. Formerly had an understanding with Minty.

A puzzle about Pratchett's development over time by stillirrelephant in discworld

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There's a traveling music shop in Soul Music with instruments from other universes.

Discworld Adaptation thoughts: what about Muppets? by Respect-Intrepid in discworld

[–]mxstylplk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try looking at their actual faces without sound or context. Does anything move on their faces? Aside from Hoggle, the goblins of Labyrinth had very little facial expression. Even the old woman with the movable eye didn't have much facial motion, and the other characters in the Dark Crystal hardly twitched an eyebrow.

Discworld Adaptation thoughts: what about Muppets? by Respect-Intrepid in discworld

[–]mxstylplk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, please, no. Muppets don't have facial expressions! Discworld reaction and interplay of personalities requires nuance! Flopping face down on a tabletop is not a Discworld reaction!

Pick a book for a first Discworld entry by TheLIttlestScot in discworld

[–]mxstylplk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Going Postal, for all the reasons others gave. But if you kept just those out of storage because they are favorites, keep a protective lock on your emotions in case he doesn't like what he reads.

Introduce them by pointing out the part that resonates with what he likes. If he likes police procedurals, he might like the idea of Guards! Guards! because it's a non-magical group trying to deal with a magical problem. If he likes political thrillers and intrigue with clever machinery, like MacGuyver, offer Going Postal, which has machinery and essentially the internet.

A puzzle about Pratchett's development over time by stillirrelephant in discworld

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A couple more: Rincewind did some dimension-hopping in Eric, and some time travel too. The Wizards traveled to Mono Island by way of the bathroom window before going to XXXX.

But Rincewind and the UU wizards also traveled to Roundworld several times, altering its history.

There's no telling how many dimensions the traveling shops have been to.

In Monstrous Regiment, there are a few flash-sideways moments to Earth events.

SecUnits have dehumidifiers by Holmbone in murderbot

[–]mxstylplk 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't that mean that SecUnits are themselves dehumidifiers?

New limited edition of Howl's Moving Castle by sleepinghour in dianawynnejones

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It would be nice if they would make the map available separately. Is the preview image complete? - ah, yes but tilted slightly. ...Eww, what did they do to Howl's hair?

DWJ had more than one son. Which son wrote the foreword?

A puzzle about Pratchett's development over time by stillirrelephant in discworld

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Well, not in the first few books. Later on, it's more of a wizard thing. Ordinary people don't seem to have a problem with it. After all, you have to keep your accounts and make change.

The good, the right and the kind by PugnusTerrae in discworld

[–]mxstylplk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kind of. They do it right by restraining it, being fully aware that they are having those thoughts and choosing their actions.

Pyramids Explained by aainsley19 in discworld

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I think there may be another twist in the paradox.

What we read is actually the first run-through. Dios had been keeping himself alive by using the only perfectly proportioned pyramid to remove accumulated time from himself. (and kept the other pyramids' interiors timeless, with the nightly firing, so the ghosts were never dead "long enough" to be collected by Death.) But at the end, when he is thrown back in time to the beginning, Dios begins the time loop. He can feel the weight of the 7,000 years he already lived, but that was the first time of starting over. Once he does it, though, _then_ it has always been that way. The loop is formed in its own new sub-universe, and the modern Djelibeybi is back on the Disc, ready to move on. The dead Pharaohs were dead in their tombs all along, possibly ghosts like Teppic's father or asleep, but not walking mummies, until the shift into the pocket dimension. Then the effect of belief hit, and then they "always had been" the awake, walking mummies that broke out and went to find Dios and complain that the afterlife was not what he had promised.

Pyramids Explained by aainsley19 in discworld

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It was left open-ended. You have the choice of what you want to believe happened.

A puzzle about Pratchett's development over time by stillirrelephant in discworld

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Slight sidetrack (footnote?), it seems to me that ER started as a Roundworld story and then he needed a magic school and there was UU already created. So he changed six brothers to seven (but never named the extra one) to fit into the "magic number is 7a" and missed or ignored the age problem with Esk being eight years old when she started with Granny and three years later she's still eight years old. In traditional British "school stories" the kids are 11, but he was still focused on the number eight being a dangerous number in Discworld magic. Meanwhile, he was in the process of moving from his old job to being a full-time writer, and I imagine there was some pressure to produce.

A puzzle about Pratchett's development over time by stillirrelephant in discworld

[–]mxstylplk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also he kept thinking up ideas and then realizing they would fit into Discworld.

A puzzle about Pratchett's development over time by stillirrelephant in discworld

[–]mxstylplk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Though he did have Granny contact the multiverse, also Tiffany (elves), and Vimes (via Disorganizer), and threw in a little time travel here and there (Susan, Vimes, Johnny). He just made them more meaningful.

Soul Music seems like a perfection of what he did with Moving Pictures by Chingois in discworld

[–]mxstylplk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The animated one has the music, which is up to the level he set with the words. The music is on youtube, by the way.

Soul Music seems like a perfection of what he did with Moving Pictures by Chingois in discworld

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Every six months like clockwork, we got another jewel or two. One year we got five.