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General discussionTerry Pratchett passed away today(142 posts)(142 posts)
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Posted March 12, 2015
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Breja: I am very surprised by this news. I knew about his illness, but I never imagined it would claim his life so soon.
He didn't die of Alzheimers if that's what you think. He succumbed to a chest infection.
Posted March 12, 2015
Awful news. Just awful.
But I love the twitter post, assuming he made it in advance for the occasion.
Posted March 12, 2015
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awalterj: And I haven't even finished the games yet, still fiddling around with the first one.
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kalirion: Necessary for the first one at least: http://www.uhs-hints.com/uhsweb/discwrld.php
I can't, looking up walkthroughs for adventure games makes me miffed and I mean extremely super miffed, it ruins my day entirely and that's exactly the opposite of what I'm trying to do which is enjoying myself. Being stuck also makes me miffed so it's a difficult situation.
Posted March 12, 2015
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kalirion: Necessary for the first one at least: http://www.uhs-hints.com/uhsweb/discwrld.php
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awalterj: I can't, looking up walkthroughs for adventure games makes me miffed and I mean extremely super miffed, it ruins my day entirely and that's exactly the opposite of what I'm trying to do which is enjoying myself. Being stuck also makes me miffed so it's a difficult situation.
Are you aware of how uhs works? They don't give you answers, just hints.
Posted March 12, 2015
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awalterj: I can't, looking up walkthroughs for adventure games makes me miffed and I mean extremely super miffed, it ruins my day entirely and that's exactly the opposite of what I'm trying to do which is enjoying myself. Being stuck also makes me miffed so it's a difficult situation.
UHS is a hint system that gradually reveals what you are supposed to do, starting with vague hints and adds more concrete help with every hint level and outright disclosing the solution only at the very end. For each puzzle individually. It's a great system, not just a plain old walkthrough.
Posted March 12, 2015
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kalirion: Necessary for the first one at least: http://www.uhs-hints.com/uhsweb/discwrld.php
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awalterj: I can't, looking up walkthroughs for adventure games makes me miffed and I mean extremely super miffed, it ruins my day entirely and that's exactly the opposite of what I'm trying to do which is enjoying myself. Being stuck also makes me miffed so it's a difficult situation.
Discworld is a very unfair game. Regardless of how smart you are, or how good you are at adventure games, you are very unlikely to be able to get very far in it without a walkthrough.

UHS-Hints at least starts with a small hints that get progressively more detailed if you need them to be, and only outright tells you the solution if nothing else works.
Posted March 12, 2015
Rincewind expresses my feelings about it: Easter egg of Discworld 2
Post edited March 12, 2015 by TanguyLOZ
Posted March 12, 2015
Oh boy this is sad news, I never met him but with the dozens of books read I always imagined him liike an well known old friend with an amount of humor to get the whole world to laugh about our own stupidness.
A person of immense knowledge, wisdom and a great philosopher.
My recommendation for the next week is Small Gods/Einfach Göttlich
Torturer saying: "You Don't Have To Be Pitilessly Sadistic To Work Here But It Helps!!!"
Wherever you are may you always have friends around you who listen to your fine punch lines

Id like to imaginate that he and Douglas sitting together now laughing about our strange small planet
Posted March 12, 2015
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mcleodone: Id like to imaginate that he and Douglas sitting together now laughing about our strange small planet
:D

That's a nice thought. :)
Posted March 12, 2015
RIP, Sir Pratchett. You were an amazing writer.

On the bright side: we can finally expect a complete collection of his works soon.
Posted March 12, 2015
“YOU FEAR TO DIE?
It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break..."
Posted March 12, 2015
Disappointing news. His work was truly unique.
Posted March 12, 2015
RIP
Posted March 12, 2015
"Somewhere he could hear the songs that the stars sang, and with new senses he was aware in unimaginable ways of himself and everything about him, but above all and as never before knowing the totality of the familiar companion moving with him."

Last published paragraph of Peter O'Donnell in prose form - about William Garvin; felt this would not be too unplaced with Sir Terrence.

More so than his satirical blaisepascalesque "gambler's conversion argument" death scene of the blasphemer finding himself awakening in afterlife with a lot of angry gods with big sticks about him... :-p

He wrote true, funny, inclusive, humanistic - so thank you for that Sir Terry Pratchett!

Having seen his touching and honest documentary about right to die, I am meanwhile very glad that in the end he could die in the intimacy of his own home.


Edit: spelling.
Post edited March 12, 2015 by TStael
Posted March 12, 2015
I wish GOG could find a way to honour his memory, so here is my suggestion:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/discworld
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/discworld_2_mortality_bytes

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Looks like a good time to post this too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9UFrt_ejz0
Post edited March 12, 2015 by vv221
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