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5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Wintersmit... · 0 replies · +14 points

Or, for that matter, to show up to a party at all when you weren’t invited!

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thud!': Pa... · 0 replies · +9 points

That is SO CUTE 😍😭

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thud!': Pa... · 0 replies · +39 points

I’m picturing a dwarf, new-come to Ankh-Morpork, drunk, belligerent, and under arrest. He’s yelling about this and that, “I’m subject to mining law not human law” and so forth. He’s heard that the watch commander is marked by the summoning dark, but he doesn’t really believe it. This sinewy watchman in need of a shave is saying something about how it doesn’t work like that, but the dwarf isn’t really listening.

Then the human gesticulates in a way that makes his sleeve ride up, and oh my glod the story is true. All the defiance goes out of him in a whoosh. Oh, the summoning dark is willing to let him live? It just wants to put him in a cell? It wants, in fact, to leave and let someone else put him in a cell? That sounds just fine and dandy, thank you.

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thud!': Pa... · 4 replies · +14 points

“Didn't the symbol of the Summoning Dark…save [young Sam] by terrifying away the dwarf?”

Oh that’s an interesting interpretation! I always assumed Vimes caught up with him and threw him out of the room, but the text just says, “the dwarf came out of the nursery doorway, backwards and fast.” That could just as easily mean a panicky backpedal 😲

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thud!': Pa... · 0 replies · +27 points

Vimes might be able to create a police state, but he’d become much more stoppable in the process. His indefatigability is rooted in his belief that his job is to protect anyone who has a deficit of power. Even if he convinced himself that a police state would serve the needs of the many by sacrificing the needs of the few, he’d know deep down that he had betrayed his guiding principle. A paladin who ceases to be lawful good loses access to their divine abilities, and Vimes would have the same problem.

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thud!': Pa... · 0 replies · +7 points

This made me tear up a little :''')

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thud!': Pa... · 1 reply · +20 points

“When this baby hits 13 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious shit.” —Ridcully, probably

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thud!': Pa... · 0 replies · +23 points

“‘Besides, I’ll be perfectly safe if—what?’ Vimes gaped at his wife while his mental gears ripped into reverse. ‘No, it’s too dangerous!’” I am laugh

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thud!': Pa... · 15 replies · +11 points

Yep, US Kindle edition says “ten million years.” They might’ve gauged their audience correctly in this case—ten years doesn’t sound that impressive/magical to me. I bet you could fit ten years of audio on two cubic inches of microsd cards.

Edit: yeah, did the math and you totally could. Two stacks of 25 microsd cards would be 15x22x25mm, a little less than a cubic inch. If they’re 256gb each, that gives you almost 13TB, which is enough for 10 years of 320kbps mp3. That doesn’t include playback/recording/charging/battery, but it’s close enough that I don’t think “priceless and wondrous artifact”

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thud!': Pa... · 6 replies · +23 points

I think Willikins is embarrassed, not casual. He worked his way up from scullery boy to butler under Lord Ramkin, and that jerk would definitely have yelled at a servant for being covered in blood. Defending oneself with an ice knife and hanging the survivor from a hook might be a good decision, but it’s hardly Proper Behavior. Willikins has spent a lot of effort assuring everyone that he’s left Shamlegger Street behind, and he’s not going to let that go to waste just because he was attacked by a few dwarves with flamethrowers.

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