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Posted 25 April 2005 - 02:51 AM

Well, you just wouldn't be yourself if you didn't suggest that.
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Posted 25 April 2005 - 05:49 AM

I realise how ironic this is seeing how I started this thread, but I completely forgot about it. Reading it now I have to conclude that I was a raving madman for even entertaining the notion that no-one else noticed the alt messages. The half full box of benson and hedges therefore goes to nobody. This is fortunate because I never said WHAT it was half full of, now did I? Hur hur. In order to keep this thread going, I suggest everybody get as completely off-topic as possible. Discussing my unfortunate HTML problem is a good start. I'll take it to the next level by returning to MR Terry Pratchett. I really do think the last 8 or so Discworld books were crap, apart from thief of time which was quite good. And the tiffany aching books are brilliant, but I don't really count these as discworld because they were written in a completely different style for children. Oh, and the "god of evolution" subplot in last continent was brilliant, as opposed to the main body of the text which was boring shit. The last atrocity I read, monstrous regiment, was so bad that I couldn't finish it. I had to throw it away after (SPOILER alert) everyone turned out to be a woman. This was the worst plot twist I have ever read. The series got crap after the brilliant jingo. Yes there were clunkers before this(Sourcery, Interesting times) but on the whole the series was fucking great. Now he seems to be more interested in exploring parodies of our own world rather than his own. The only time this ever really worked was in moving pictures and the science of discworld. Pratchett seems to have lost his basic gift, which only serves to prove Sickboys theory in the film trainspotting. It really is a shame because Pratchetts writing even now, has a certain thing most peoples don't have. I've only ever noticed it in his books, douglas adams and Yahtzees, if you count Internet humour as literature. Its this, if you are shown any piece of his work, no matter how small, no matter how bad, no matter how much out of context it is, you will INSTANTLY know who wrote it. I am a huge fan of stephen king but I can't say this about him, unless the random text had a reference to the dark tower, which is pretty likely seeing how he mentions it in every single fucking book nowadays. If anyone is interested in reading Discworld try not to start with the first book, the colour of magic. Its not that its bad, quite the opposite, it just has a completely different style to the rest of the books. The first book is basically a faster paced tolkien with a few jokes thrown in, whereas every other book does to fantasy what red dwarf did to science fiction. If you don't like the first book, you might still like the rest. I would recommend starting from anyone of the following: Mort, wyrrd sisters, guards guards or the light fantastic. Even though the last is supposed to be a continuation of the first novel, it really is a seperate work. The Discworld series rambles from place to place following, different groups of people who have nothing to do with each other all the time, so this method of reading is not as strange as it might first appear.
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Posted 25 April 2005 - 05:53 AM

Dude.

Paragraph breaks.

Seriously.
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Posted 25 April 2005 - 06:39 AM

I'm sorry, I got so carried away I completely forgot about them. Its funny how the simple insertion of a few blank lines makes a long piece of text magically worth reading, isn't it? This doesn't prove very much, except that the majestic scale of the universe is easier understood when seen as a series of small chunks. (Pratchett quote, name the book anyone?) Its like lists. If I see something written in the order of a list a feel a mysterious compulsion to read it no matter how boring the subject matter may be. This is probably why lists are an internet tradition.
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Posted 25 April 2005 - 06:59 AM

This is what you said:

QUOTE (Voodoo dog @ Apr 25 2005, 11:39 AM)
I'm sorry, I got so carried away I completely forgot about them.  Its funny how the simple insertion of a few blank lines makes a long piece of text magically worth reading, isn't it?  This doesn't prove very much, except that the majestic scale of the universe is easier understood when seen as a series of small chunks. (Pratchett quote, name the book anyone?)  Its like lists.  If I see something written in the order of a list a feel a mysterious compulsion to read it no matter how boring the subject matter may be.  This is probably why lists are an internet tradition.


This is what we wanted you to say:

QUOTE (Voodoo dog @ Apr 25 2005, 11:39 AM)
I'm sorry, I got so carried away I completely forgot about them. I shall edit my post directly.


YOU ARE YAPPING LIKE A FUCKING YAPPY PUPPY DOG
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Posted 25 April 2005 - 07:09 AM

Yapping? Moi? I prefer to think of myself as rambling. And since your site is called "fullyramblomatic.com". I think this is a case of the following situation:

Pot meets kettle in the middle of the street.
Pot to kettle: "Hey! You're completely fucking black!"

As regards to editing it, this is the first time I've ever been on one of these here forum thangs in my life. I therefore have no idea how to do this. If someone could lift the unfortunate curse of ignorance from me, I would be very grateful.
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Posted 25 April 2005 - 07:18 AM

Voodoo dog, whenever I look at one of your posts I see this:



I made that image tonight especially for you. This will not be the last time I use it.

There should be an edit button right under each post you make.
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Posted 25 April 2005 - 07:36 AM

Not quite. The edit feature is limited here. Members can only edit posts shortly after they were made, due to people abusing the function. As it's your forum, you can edit your posts whenever you want, Yahtzee. VD, on the other had, had waited 40 mins so his post will remain as is for the ages.

Unless of course you or Rhubarb edit it for him.
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Posted 25 April 2005 - 08:00 AM

Ironic. Ironic that you consider someone who rambles on and on (On your very first article you said that you intended to ramble and you defined the word ramble to mean "to talk endlessly about total bollocks", may I remind you) with such venomous dislike. I think I spot a severe case of self-hatred, master Croshaw. Get yourself to therapy post haste. Christ, now that I think about it, I've been on the internet for two weeks, on these forums for 3 days, and I'm probably the first person to get into a verbal fist-fight with the great Y-man himself. If that isn't proof I suffer from severe delusions of grandeur then I don't know what is. I would like to extend the hand of friendship. Since I was talking about literature I'll do it by stating that Articulate Jim is, hands down, the best fucking thing I have read in my life. I am correct to surmise that Jim's real name is "Eyebrow Foxglove" or am I just being terribly stupid?

And nope, there doesn't seem to be an edit button under that post. There is under some of them, but not that one. Personally I blame my computer. It is, without a shadow of a doubt, a complete and utter bastard.
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Posted 25 April 2005 - 09:19 AM

Hm. If I could disagree with your take on the latest Discworld books, VD, I would. However, I think that 'Jingo' is the oldest Discworld book my family owns, and apart from all our books, all I've seen is a theatrical performance of 'Mort' (which was darn good), and the first Discworld game (see my avatar). Therefore, I can't really compare the newest books to the classics. However...

I actually thought 'Jingo' was quite boring. Sam Vimes is my favourite character but I still found the book rather dull. It contains the usual Pratchett humour and imagination, but the whole story builds up to a bit of an anti-climax at the end. I did find 'Going Postal', 'Nightwatch' and 'The Truth' brilliant reads though - especially 'Nightwatch', for the inclusion of the well known Watch characters. But, like I said, I can't argue with your take on the books. I'll have to get hold of copies of the older ones.
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Posted 25 April 2005 - 02:57 PM

I think the latest Discworlds have been good. Monstrous Regiment was a bit weak, with that twist, but The Truth, Thief of Time, Night Watch and Going Postal have all been excellent, Going Postal being one of my favourites of all of the Pratchetts. Just behind Good Omens (best Pratchett ever)
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Posted 25 April 2005 - 04:41 PM

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Members can only edit posts shortly after they were made, due to people abusing the function.

I've gotta say I have an issue with this. If members editing their posts nefariously is such a common problem that steps needed to be taken, I'd say the problem is more that they are wankers, rather than with the edit function. I can't edit posts unless I log into YZ's account, but I'm strongly against any sort of post edit/deletion on the part of moderators...

edit: I officially refute my last statement.

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Posted 25 April 2005 - 07:06 PM

See the thread in the Seggustion Box.
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Posted 26 April 2005 - 02:20 AM

QUOTE (Brick McRunfast @ Apr 25 2005, 02:10 AM)
In either case, I suggest slow, painful sodomy, preferably involving broken glass in some capacity.


That's your answer to everything, Brick. shifty.gif

Anyhoo, Pratchett be fine and dandy, although there are plenty of other alternatives if you're into his brand of anarchic humour. I picked up Robert Rankin's 'The Book of Ultimate Truths' the other day off the offchance, and I found it absolutly hilarious.

'He is Cornelius Murphy, and he is the stuff of epics.'

Genius. A breath of fresh air, to be truthful. I have now made it my goal to use the phrase 'stout stick' at least once a day in coversation.

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Posted 26 April 2005 - 02:24 AM

QUOTE (Girdag Fireskull @ Apr 25 2005, 02:57 PM)
The Truth, Thief of Time, Night Watch and Going Postal have all been excellent


I forgot to mention Thief of Time. That one's awesome. Monstrous Regiment, I agree, was a bit poor.
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