dalekcaan is 100% right. Sir Pterry’s early books are downright Adamsinian, and while his later books trade the silliness for sharp social commentary, the humor and wit never diminish.

Where are you in your Discworld journey? Which is your favorite so far?

This is a quote from a book called The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Congratulations, you are one of today’s lucky ten thousand, and you are in for a treat! (If you like absurdist British humor

Not again!

One of my messages to the group was essentially: “I set aside time today to write dialogue and plot points. Here is a detailed map of the city I made instead”

World building for the game I run.

Instead of, you know, actually preparing enemy NPC stat blocks, or maps, or writing dialogue, or making sure combat will be balanced and not a TPK.

World building is fun

I read this in his voice. Oh yeah!

“There were a large number of ranks in the armies of the Empire and many of them were untranslatable. Three Pink Pig and Five White Fang were, loosely speaking, privates, and not just because they were pale, vulnerable and inclined to curl up and hide when danger threatened.”

Terry Pratchett - Interesting Times

InB4 someone talks about how big her balls are

Cool lady tho, thanks for the post

Gotcha. Around here (also US) it’s just an excuse to pull over certain people. It’s used very selectively. TBH I wish they would enforce it equitably, there is a ton of people in this area that never use their turn signal

NGL it is a problem, because who tf gets pulled over for failure to signal? It’s just an excuse to pull someone over for DWB.

You are aware that you are breathing

You are aware that you haven’t blinked yet

That spot is itchy again

A skunk habitat would improve the air quality of NYC. That place is a fetid mire of week old food garbage, stale piss, and rat droppings. Do you know why I hate NYC?

“If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry”

Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett

I didn’t know .ml made up half of Lemmy 🤔

I heard this in their voices

godDAMNIT

I’m leaving it up

Creed is just the diet Christian Rock version of Pearl Jamb