Man, I really need to read some of Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman's work.
I just saw the trailer for the Good Omens TV show, thought it had a Pratchett like feel from everything I've heard, checked out the wiki, and immediately realized this is something I'd be interested in.
Yesssssss, Pratchett's a great writer and he gets much better as he goes along
I think Night Watch might still be one of my favourite novels full stop
one of my oldest mates went "bois, I need your addresses"
"here it is and I of course have no idea why you need it and when whatever you are sending me arrives I will be completely surprised"
it kind of seems pointless to send an invite, and it doesn't serve as an actual invitation really, but still it would be unthinkable not to get one
Wait, are wedding invitations meant to be a surprise? I just straight up said to my friends "Give me your current address so I can invite you to my wedding, you fucks"
well no, but I am slightly amused by the extra steps taken
since obviously we could just, in that initial communication, invite people there, like you invite people to birthday parties or a pub quiz. But also, obviously you can't do that, one must observe the proper form as befits the event.
My fiance and I are doing emails! Why make it more difficult and expensive to put on an event that's supposed to be fun?
I guess some people find the fanciness fun, but eh
Man, I really need to read some of Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman's work.
I just saw the trailer for the Good Omens TV show, thought it had a Pratchett like feel from everything I've heard, checked out the wiki, and immediately realized this is something I'd be interested in.
Yesssssss, Pratchett's a great writer and he gets much better as he goes along
I think Night Watch might still be one of my favourite novels full stop
Well... near the end, you can see a decline in the quality of the writing. You know, due to Alzheimer's. But there are sections of The Shepherd's Crown (his last novel set in the Discworld universe, although it's technically a Tiffany Aching novel) that are among the most moving and profound that he has ever written.
I've enjoyed the Neil Gaiman that I've read, but it can be quite an acquired taste. The kind of acquired taste that you get when you are crushing on the girl in torn military fatigues and dyed hair and a patch of an angel and devil on her button-festooned backpack who secretly loves Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters.*
But Terry Pratchett is basically required reading. He's one of the best authors to come out of the British Isles, and I think about his books often.
* Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters sounds like a female-led band that would play at Lilith Fair.
one of my oldest mates went "bois, I need your addresses"
"here it is and I of course have no idea why you need it and when whatever you are sending me arrives I will be completely surprised"
it kind of seems pointless to send an invite, and it doesn't serve as an actual invitation really, but still it would be unthinkable not to get one
Wait, are wedding invitations meant to be a surprise? I just straight up said to my friends "Give me your current address so I can invite you to my wedding, you fucks"
well no, but I am slightly amused by the extra steps taken
since obviously we could just, in that initial communication, invite people there, like you invite people to birthday parties or a pub quiz. But also, obviously you can't do that, one must observe the proper form as befits the event.
My fiance and I are doing emails! Why make it more difficult and expensive to put on an event that's supposed to be fun?
I guess some people find the fanciness fun, but eh
it's a keepsake
then again, it's really not a huge deal not having it, since it's yet another pricey hassle. There are other keepsakes to look at and fondly remember your friends wedding. A new herpes strain you picked up from somebody's aunt, for example.
Lords and Ladies is easily my favorite version of A Midsummer Nights Dream
“Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
Been expecting this for a while, to be honest. Activision seems in a bad place these days, and it was only so long before they hurt their cash cow.
reminder that their CFO got a 15 million dollar bonus
Are Blizzard hurting? I can't imagine they are just from WOW subs alone, let alone Hearthstone
HotS Eports failed and the game has a bad ROI is its staff was cut, the game is slowly dying
Diablo 4 has been through at least 2 iterations now on its 3rd and the bad reception to the mobile game
WoW put out a really bad xpack that pissed ALOT of people off with no reasonable timeframe for it to get unfucked
No idea about Starcraft, Hearthstone or Overwatch tho
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Man, I really need to read some of Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman's work.
I just saw the trailer for the Good Omens TV show, thought it had a Pratchett like feel from everything I've heard, checked out the wiki, and immediately realized this is something I'd be interested in.
Yesssssss, Pratchett's a great writer and he gets much better as he goes along
I think Night Watch might still be one of my favourite novels full stop
Well... near the end, you can see a decline in the quality of the writing. You know, due to Alzheimer's. But there are sections of The Shepherd's Crown (his last novel set in the Discworld universe, although it's technically a Tiffany Aching novel) that are among the most moving and profound that he has ever written.
I've enjoyed the Neil Gaiman that I've read, but it can be quite an acquired taste. The kind of acquired taste that you get when you are crushing on the girl in torn military fatigues and dyed hair and a patch of an angel and devil on her button-festooned backpack who secretly loves Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters.*
But Terry Pratchett is basically required reading. He's one of the best authors to come out of the British Isles, and I think about his books often.
* Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters sounds like a female-led band that would play at Lilith Fair.
Yeah. People complain over his last books and suspect he did not write them.
don't need the RSVP from me either really because it is understood that I'll flake on whatever else I may have going on that weekend to be at this wedding. My attendance is just a given. Been friends with the man for twenty of my twenty seven years on this earth, I've got nothing more important that weekend, even if I don't remember which weekend it is.
But Abdhy, that weekend is YOUR wedding
easily fixed
I'll just say "bros before hoes" and then I expect my wedding will be quickly postponed indefinitely
Lords and Ladies is easily my favorite version of A Midsummer Nights Dream
“Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
Man, I really need to read some of Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman's work.
I just saw the trailer for the Good Omens TV show, thought it had a Pratchett like feel from everything I've heard, checked out the wiki, and immediately realized this is something I'd be interested in.
Yesssssss, Pratchett's a great writer and he gets much better as he goes along
I think Night Watch might still be one of my favourite novels full stop
Well... near the end, you can see a decline in the quality of the writing. You know, due to Alzheimer's. But there are sections of The Shepherd's Crown (his last novel set in the Discworld universe, although it's technically a Tiffany Aching novel) that are among the most moving and profound that he has ever written.
I've enjoyed the Neil Gaiman that I've read, but it can be quite an acquired taste. The kind of acquired taste that you get when you are crushing on the girl in torn military fatigues and dyed hair and a patch of an angel and devil on her button-festooned backpack who secretly loves Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters.*
But Terry Pratchett is basically required reading. He's one of the best authors to come out of the British Isles, and I think about his books often.
* Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters sounds like a female-led band that would play at Lilith Fair.
Yeah. People complain over his last books and suspect he did not write them.
I don't think there's really any debate that he wrote his last few books? There's definitely a change in writing style, but that's because he was experiencing sharp cognitive decline.
Man, I really need to read some of Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman's work.
I just saw the trailer for the Good Omens TV show, thought it had a Pratchett like feel from everything I've heard, checked out the wiki, and immediately realized this is something I'd be interested in.
Yesssssss, Pratchett's a great writer and he gets much better as he goes along
I think Night Watch might still be one of my favourite novels full stop
Well... near the end, you can see a decline in the quality of the writing. You know, due to Alzheimer's. But there are sections of The Shepherd's Crown (his last novel set in the Discworld universe, although it's technically a Tiffany Aching novel) that are among the most moving and profound that he has ever written.
I've enjoyed the Neil Gaiman that I've read, but it can be quite an acquired taste. The kind of acquired taste that you get when you are crushing on the girl in torn military fatigues and dyed hair and a patch of an angel and devil on her button-festooned backpack who secretly loves Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters.*
But Terry Pratchett is basically required reading. He's one of the best authors to come out of the British Isles, and I think about his books often.
* Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters sounds like a female-led band that would play at Lilith Fair.
Yeah. People complain over his last books and suspect he did not write them.
It was also suspected that Agatha Christie suffered from dementia as she neared the end of her life, and people have done statistical analysis of her writing and can track her cognitive decline based on the word count and vocabulary of her novels as she aged.
Raising Steam and The Shepherd's Crown weren't his best works, but at the same time, could you imagine being in his position? Slowly losing your memory and mind and desperately trying to get out the stories that were in your head before you go, even as you are losing words, the very foundation of your identity as a writer? I imagine a similar feeling when Robert Jordan was diagnosed with cancer and his Wheel of Time series.
Been expecting this for a while, to be honest. Activision seems in a bad place these days, and it was only so long before they hurt their cash cow.
reminder that their CFO got a 15 million dollar bonus
Are Blizzard hurting? I can't imagine they are just from WOW subs alone, let alone Hearthstone
HotS Eports failed and the game has a bad ROI is its staff was cut, the game is slowly dying
Diablo 4 has been through at least 2 iterations now on its 3rd and the bad reception to the mobile game
WoW put out a really bad xpack that pissed ALOT of people off with no reasonable timeframe for it to get unfucked
No idea about Starcraft, Hearthstone or Overwatch tho
The hots esports stuff being cut was because the cfo activision previously sent decided to cut it, they weren't really losing money on it and hots wasn't failing so much as they didn't want to deal with the program itself.
The mobile diablo game was most likely in response to poor sales of CoD and the potential untapped market that acitivision thinks they could move blizzard IP to. Activision has told blizzard to basically move all their development to mobile and get jr staff to upkeep older games.
Pretty much all design decisions in the past few years have been "Activision is putting their hands into the money pot because they want more money." It got to the point where Morhaime left because activision thought the employee profit sharing stuff was cutting too deep into share dividends and didn't like it, but Mike was like "no fuck you, we should treat our employees well" and it was a hugeish rift and one of the big reasons why he stepped down.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Man, I really need to read some of Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman's work.
I just saw the trailer for the Good Omens TV show, thought it had a Pratchett like feel from everything I've heard, checked out the wiki, and immediately realized this is something I'd be interested in.
Yesssssss, Pratchett's a great writer and he gets much better as he goes along
I think Night Watch might still be one of my favourite novels full stop
Well... near the end, you can see a decline in the quality of the writing. You know, due to Alzheimer's. But there are sections of The Shepherd's Crown (his last novel set in the Discworld universe, although it's technically a Tiffany Aching novel) that are among the most moving and profound that he has ever written.
I've enjoyed the Neil Gaiman that I've read, but it can be quite an acquired taste. The kind of acquired taste that you get when you are crushing on the girl in torn military fatigues and dyed hair and a patch of an angel and devil on her button-festooned backpack who secretly loves Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters.*
But Terry Pratchett is basically required reading. He's one of the best authors to come out of the British Isles, and I think about his books often.
* Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters sounds like a female-led band that would play at Lilith Fair.
Yeah. People complain over his last books and suspect he did not write them.
It was also suspected that Agatha Christie suffered from dementia as she neared the end of her life, and people have done statistical analysis of her writing and can track her cognitive decline based on the word count and vocabulary of her novels as she aged.
Raising Steam and The Shepherd's Crown weren't his best works, but at the same time, could you imagine being in his position? Slowly losing your memory and mind and desperately trying to get out the stories that were in your head before you go, even as you are losing words, the very foundation of your identity as a writer? I imagine a similar feeling when Robert Jordan was diagnosed with cancer and his Wheel of Time series.
As a roleplayer / GM who dreams in stories and knows he has some to tell, and also has a family history of dementia and alzheimer's, thank you for articulating my greatest fear of death.
(No, seriously, that is such an ungodly terrifying thought for me. I should write more.)
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Yesssssss, Pratchett's a great writer and he gets much better as he goes along
I think Night Watch might still be one of my favourite novels full stop
Wait Fuck can i get ice t to read made up drug fads?
I bet if you wanted sure
he thinks that shit is hilarious based on his tweets
it's a keepsake
I've enjoyed the Neil Gaiman that I've read, but it can be quite an acquired taste. The kind of acquired taste that you get when you are crushing on the girl in torn military fatigues and dyed hair and a patch of an angel and devil on her button-festooned backpack who secretly loves Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters.*
But Terry Pratchett is basically required reading. He's one of the best authors to come out of the British Isles, and I think about his books often.
* Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters sounds like a female-led band that would play at Lilith Fair.
What for?
for being CFO i guess
Are Blizzard hurting? I can't imagine they are just from WOW subs alone, let alone Hearthstone
Gaiman just seems like a genuinely good dude as well, so seeing him sad about missing his friend hurts all the more
then again, it's really not a huge deal not having it, since it's yet another pricey hassle. There are other keepsakes to look at and fondly remember your friends wedding. A new herpes strain you picked up from somebody's aunt, for example.
I heard the sugar free ones give you diarrhea.
“Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
HotS Eports failed and the game has a bad ROI is its staff was cut, the game is slowly dying
Diablo 4 has been through at least 2 iterations now on its 3rd and the bad reception to the mobile game
WoW put out a really bad xpack that pissed ALOT of people off with no reasonable timeframe for it to get unfucked
No idea about Starcraft, Hearthstone or Overwatch tho
Yeah. People complain over his last books and suspect he did not write them.
My Blizzard fangirl days are over
RIP
Parkitect fangirl only now
easily fixed
I'll just say "bros before hoes" and then I expect my wedding will be quickly postponed indefinitely
No, but activision is. And Bobby Kotick needs his 8 houses and 3 yachts.
It's absolutely my favorite quote from him.
Anything sugar-free gives you loose stool. The body doesn't absorb it.
I don't think there's really any debate that he wrote his last few books? There's definitely a change in writing style, but that's because he was experiencing sharp cognitive decline.
its not just that
CoD is the only thing they have aside from the Crash and Spyro remasters.
Bungie left and Destiny 2 Forsaken didnt do well in Activisions eyes
Activision proper literally just makes one game yearly now (CoD), and they are publishing Sekiro.
Raising Steam and The Shepherd's Crown weren't his best works, but at the same time, could you imagine being in his position? Slowly losing your memory and mind and desperately trying to get out the stories that were in your head before you go, even as you are losing words, the very foundation of your identity as a writer? I imagine a similar feeling when Robert Jordan was diagnosed with cancer and his Wheel of Time series.
Maybe I should finally hire an underling to take down my dictation
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I don't get it though
If you're a company why not dissolve your divisions that are underperforming
Instead they're like "oh, Team B turns a profit, better can em"
The hots esports stuff being cut was because the cfo activision previously sent decided to cut it, they weren't really losing money on it and hots wasn't failing so much as they didn't want to deal with the program itself.
The mobile diablo game was most likely in response to poor sales of CoD and the potential untapped market that acitivision thinks they could move blizzard IP to. Activision has told blizzard to basically move all their development to mobile and get jr staff to upkeep older games.
Pretty much all design decisions in the past few years have been "Activision is putting their hands into the money pot because they want more money." It got to the point where Morhaime left because activision thought the employee profit sharing stuff was cutting too deep into share dividends and didn't like it, but Mike was like "no fuck you, we should treat our employees well" and it was a hugeish rift and one of the big reasons why he stepped down.
Sure, if you eat too many... which is kind of the point with gummies.
Put a little Olestra on top of it for flavor.
Yes.
As a roleplayer / GM who dreams in stories and knows he has some to tell, and also has a family history of dementia and alzheimer's, thank you for articulating my greatest fear of death.
(No, seriously, that is such an ungodly terrifying thought for me. I should write more.)