Malfunctional Timekeeping With The Vetinari Clock - Lord Vetinari from the Discworld series is known for many things, but perhaps most... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/malfunctional-timekeeping-with-the-vetinari-clock/ #vetinariclock #clockhacks #discworld #clock

Oh dear, I'm feeling political today. It's just that it's dawned on me that 'zero tolerance' only seems to mean putting extra police in poor, run-down areas, and not in the Stock Exchange.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

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Playing through the 1995 Discworld game, which I missed as a kid.

It's abstruse and hard, but so funny.

ScummVM stable has a bug that will lock you out of the game menu but the daily build had a patch that works. Also now shaders are a thing apparently, so I don't need to plug in the CRT anymore and can play on the go.

What is helping me a lot is the Universal Hint System that provides enough guidance without completely spoiling the fun.

https://mobile.uhs-hints.com/uhsweb/discwrld

I might just switch over to a walkthrough anyway because some of the puzzles are really really hard.

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal sized billiard balls.

Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

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That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

Caught up on my #DresdenFiles. That last one was a bit of a slog, and had /serious/ GameMasterAnthony's birthday party thread vibes, but still fun enough. Def a bit of a “ok well either he gets back on track after this, or it's really just off the rails” pivot point tho.

Next is back to #Discworld with Reaper Man, I enjoy a good Death-focused romp which I assume this will also be.

After that I reckon it'll be back to scifi for a while, this will be the 4th fantasy(ish) book in a row.

It was hard enough to kill a vampire. You could stake them down and turn them into dust and ten years later someone drops a drop of blood in the wrong place and *guess who's back*? They returned more times than raw broccoli.

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

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Most alchemists were nervous, in any case; it came from not knowing what the crucible of bubbling stuff they were experimenting with was going to do next.

Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

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I remembered this little snippet that everyone seems to have at least heard *about* in passing, so I figured I'd record it so people could actually listen to it

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6QuOJ7Pl8Ho

“Om was handily silent, thereby enabling his priests to interpret his wishes how they chose. Amazingly, Om’s wishes rarely translated into instructions like ‘Feed the poor’ or ‘Help the elderly’ but more along the lines of ‘You need a splendid residence’ to ‘Why not have seven courses for dinner?’”
Terry Pratchett; The Shepherds Crown
#Discworld #RobbingThePoorToFeedTheRich #LabourValuesFail
#WealthTaxNeeded

People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.

Terry Pratchett, alt.books.pratchett

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Tal dia com avui de 1995 ens arribava "Discworld" per "DOS" . #Discworld #Dos #PointAndClick #Puzle #Aventura #Videojocs #Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming #ClassicGaming #RetroGames #VideojocsAntics

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu-- was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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“You needed at least three witches for a coven. Two witches was just an argument.”

– Nanny Ogg (Maskerade, Discworld Book 18)

I finished Jingo the other day and it was the first book that left me no urge to write about it immediately. Even the books Idid not like had me wanting to express myself about then.

There is more below, but I am onto Lost Continent now and enjoying it. #Discworld
1/4

There was a familiar building on the junction of Broad Way and Alchemists. The facade was ornate, but covered in grime. Gargoyles had colonized it.
The corroded motto over the portico said “I DISAPPROVE OF WHAT Y SAY, BUT I WILL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RI T TO AY IT” and in more spacious days that may have been the case, but recently someone had found it necessary to nail up an addendum which read:

DON’T ASK US ABOUT:
gender
inclusion
diversity
Mrs. Cake
Israel and/or Palestine
climate change
Freckleface Strawberry
critical race theory
Mrs. Cake

"It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocralypse."

The Four Horsemen of the Apocralypse encounterunexpected difficulties
Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

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Every time I read a Pratchett book I'm overawed by his use of language. For example, from The Truth:

"[The dog] walked with a limp and also in a kind of oblique fashion, as though it was trying to insinuate its way through the world."

That's an incredible sentence.