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just realised the most important one didn't attach to the last post

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Shrek 2 + favorite pop culture references

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The Beast that Bothers

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

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OKAY series of polls about sock preferences because i'm a curious autistic fuck:

(if you don't wear socks don't answer any of the other questions)

#i am mostly normal about socks #but i do like toe socks #to prevent yoes rubbing together #but it's just a preference #and the good toe socks are expensive #so i don't have many

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“Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.” -- Discworld (Snuff)

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#the funko pop dogs are great

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#i have a love hate relationship with my name #i have a speech impediment and my name starts with an r #so i struggle to pronounce it #but it's also an annoyingly uncommon name #so no one's expecting it #so my name is never spelled correctly #and it annoys me everytime #even when i'm the one responding #to the cashier confirming my name #as something pretty off base #with a defeated 'sure' #i don't have time for you to get it right #even if you did hear me right #you'll still forget the h #i do have the right to use a variation on my middle name #but that's not my name

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Bothering the beast

#this is what having a pet is about

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okay, as resident 'i have a how-to play trpg youtube series' guy and 'i struggle to read non-discworld fantasy' guy, i feel compelled to weigh in:

point 1:

this exists with the gurps system (in fact, this screenshot is for what's at least the third edition of gurps discworld), and my research does seem to indicate pterry was directly involved in it's production. (gurps 4e discworld was published december of 2016, after his passing, by sj game stakeholder report indicates the book was essentially finished in 2014, before his passing, and the previous two versions were published 1998 and 2002)

point 2:

so far, narrativia limited (and, by extension, his daughter rhianna pratchett) hasn't overly exploited the rights of discworld and terry pratchett's other works, choosing to let what exists stand and focusing on adaptions of pre-existing works, and publicly denouncing the one recent work that was went against the spirit of what was licensed.

so i broadly and currently trust narrativia limited, until given reason not to. they certainly haven't been making endless video games and prequels like what the tolkein estate's being doing.

i mean, the second season of good omens goes past the original novel, but that's co-written by neil gaiman, so he can do what he wants by right of being the good omens highlander.

(i have not seen the second season of good omens, for the record, so i cannot comment further)

point 3:

i don't really go for licensed trpgs, because they (personally) give me exam anxiety, so i much prefer to look at a work, say 'these are the elements i want to emulate', then use different names and not have any pre-existing canon to be called out on.

(side note: this is why i think the forgotten realms are actually the biggest millstone on d&d. just give us the mechanics and generic terms, and untether us from waterdeep and the pantheon and such. let the players create canon wholecloth as they go)

point 4:

at least modiphius doesn't endlessly churn out ___ing powered by the apocalypse games, so this game will probably actually be purpose built.

Exclusive: Discworld TTRPG in the works by studio behind Fallout wargames

Modiphius, the studio responsible for tabletop adaptations of Star Trek, Fallout, and more, is working on a Discworld TTRPG.

Having secured the rights to the beloved series with an agreement from the late author Sir Terry Pratchett's estate, Modiphius is already at work on a Discworld roleplaying game "around the city of Ankh-Morpork and the wider Disc." This will hit Kickstarter later in the year.

Read more here.

#discworld #tabletop roleplaying #CanvasRambles #i'm probably not going to buy this #but i won't smugly tut tut anyone who does #trpg

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Mods? Take him to the stump of his favorite childhood tree.

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my life has changed

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Hideaki Anno Greatest Hits:

anno listing “tom and jerry” as one of his top ten anime, unironically

when he admitted to forgetting rei existed not even halfway through the making of evangelion

“i feel like star trek is american imperialism itself”

when anno’s highly anticipated australia visit had to be cancelled because he fell down a tokyo escalator during rush hour and cracked his forehead

“we have to put a little repulsive things in our works, especially for the children. it’s like poison: we need to give it to kids little by little to establish an immunity, so they’ll grow up with the ability and mental strength to resist”

when he called an american fan a “fool” for spending textbook money on anime

“i don’t listen to the beatles”

when he accused disney of casual fascism for “portraying nazis as fashionable”

“disney is simply not capable of handling the wide range of stories we see in japanese anime”

when he compared animation to “masturbation shows”

when he justified his veganism not for political or religious reasons, but because he has “no interest in ordinary life, including eating”

“when i first met anno in college, the first thing he told me was how he knew every line in space battleship yamato, except for the first episode, and the reason he didn’t know every line in the first episode was because he didn’t record it, and the reason he didn’t record it was because he didn’t know if the series would turn out any good”

“i dislike western civilization. i don’t place much trust in western civilization”

“i have an attachment towards deformity. i can’t love something if it’s not broken somewhere”

“maybe i have multiple personality disorder. i don’t even understand myself”

#tom and jerry is good animation #and we americans use anime as a loanword #the same way we use naan and chai

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born to use switches and knobs arranged in a cockpit, each one offering a tactile sensation as you flick it and the mech you're in lurches into action

forced to use touchscreens at your desk