>>38649130
>it's not fake

Oh god this is legitimately upsetting to me

FUCK

ITS LEGIT

:(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156

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ah shit

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>>38649130
it's been a long time coming, but damn if i'm not still sad

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>Pratchett is kill
no

>>38649130

RIP.

It's legit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156

>>38649130
Who?

>>38649130
I'm legit crying now
I was reading Thud! half an hour ago
Please no
He was the only writer I really legitametely deep down liked
I hate everything

Did he off himself like he'd thought about?

THIS IS A MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON THIS BOARD

If you ever have kids or make friends that don't know about it - introduce them to Pratchett's works and help keep his memory alive forever.

We have lost a truly great man today.

>>38649130
“What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?”
- Reaper Man.

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RIP Sir Terry.

>>38649130
Rest in peace.

You were and probably always will be my favorite author.

>were

I can't deal with this.

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Fuck this.

It was bound to happen sooner than later, but fuck me if I was ready for it.
I want to cry,/tg/.

I uh...I thought he already passed away some time ago.

God damn it.

;_;7

>>38649130
Goddamnit.

Just, goddamnit. 66 is no fucking age to go.

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A painful loss.

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He suffered a lot because of his illness. I hope he can rest in peace, still I'm sad.

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>>38649130

>>38649277

nah, a few hours ago m8

although he'd been looking into assisted suicide for some long while now and was a major proponent in it's legality in other places

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All the little angels rise up, rise up.
All the little angels rise up high!
How do they rise up, rise up, rise up?
How do they rise up, rise up high?
They rise heads up, heads up, heads up, they rise heads up, heads up high!

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>>38649301

;_;7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfsasAlICo8

I feel like my guts have been pulled out.

>>38649262
>I want to cry,/tg/.

Then do it, like I actually am.

For a moment there I thought I wouldn't but fuck me if I didn't after all.

>>38649290
Christ that picture makes me so sad.

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Why even live

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Well, fuck.
Someone post the caption.

>>38649130
Do his books get better after the Colour of Magic?
I found the book moderate at best.

>>38649130
RIP, may death take you where you wanted to go

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Someone post that screen cap. You know which one.

rest in peace, Terry

>>38649130
You absolute cunts, I was about to go to sleep and awaken to a world sans Terry, but now I have one more night knowing he's gone.
I think I'll go read thump...

>>38649353
Yes. Very much so.

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>>38649369

Please don't.

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We all knew it were coming, but still, it wounds us deeply.

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>>38649353
They improve considerably. Colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic are probably his weakest reads. Go jump in on Guards Guards!, it's significantly more enjoyable and Vimes' stories are probably my favorite. A handy guide here to the reading orders for the various storylines if you need it.

>>38649353
MUCH better, the early books are meh. Check out the Guards books in particular. You don't have to read the entire Discworld series, though it helps.

>>38649130
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156

The dead need not of our tears. We cry for ourselves, for we know at last what we have lost in the passing of a friend.

RIP Sir Terry, and thank you for all the good reads.

>>38649385
oh fuck the tears are falling man

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>>38649369

>>38649353
Yes. They change pretty radically after the second one, and become less collections of jokes and more cohesive narratives.

>>38649130
man, i always knew /lit/ was a bunch of cunts, but holy shit are they a bunch of cunts

>>38649353
Generally the belief is that he turned from being a good writer into a great writer somewhere between Pyramids and Small Gods.

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Please Stand for the Ankh Morpork Anthem as it honors its fallen Knight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAqCbOJc6RU

>>38649377
>>38649388
>>38649389
I always hear about how great of an author he was, so I read the first book but it was moderate.
Thanks for clearing it up.

>>38649414
I don't even want to know. /tg/ is the right board for this.

Why am I crying for a man I never met?

>>38649130
Well piss..
RIP mr. Pratchett, you will be missed by many.

>A Just Giving page donating to the Research Institute to the Care of Older People (RICE) has been set up in his memory: https://www.justgiving.com/Terry-Pratchett
From the Discworld website, if anyone's interested.

GODDAMNIT FUCKING NO

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>>38649385

I'm actually teared up now. Fuck you, tg.

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>>38649422
have some vimes

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>>38649130
HE IS IN A BETTER PLACE NOW.

I THINK - I NEVER GO IN THERE MYSELF. BUT THE LABEL ON THE GLOWING DOOR WAS CLEARLY MARKED "A BETTER PLACE".

"AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.

Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night."

-Rhianna Pratchett (just now on twitter)

>>38649333
I'm trying,anon. I'm trying so hard, but I somehow can't. He's free now, while we are still here, in a sad and dark world which just turned a bit sadder and darker.

>>38649385
I was about to post it. Thank you.

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>>38649414
/lit/ are terrible people, even by 4chan standards. It's best to just ignore everything they say or do.

>>38649385
Fuck I'm crying

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>>38649447
oh my god

>>38649385
WELL THEN

>>38649457
What the fuck are lit doing? I don't even want to look.

>>38649369
>>38649385
Thank you, anon.

>>38649430
I don't know, man, I don't know.

I honestly don't know who this guy is

In a way, I think it's better that he die now rather than later. At least he died still knowing his own name.

>>38649463

I hope one day you will look at what you have done with your life, realise what you are, and change for the better in that epiphany.

>>38649483
drop whatever you are doing. Go to the Library. Right now. I don't care if it's the middle of the night over there. Break in if you have to.

The few times I was lucky enough to meet him, he was a complete dick, and the many interviews I've read with people who knew him well (eg Neil Gaiman) have sort of verified that he was basically a ball of rage and anger. There was a heartbreaking realisation that his early books are about anger at the system (Equal Rites, Small Gods, even Night Watch), and after the alzheimer's diagnosis the books started being about the protagonists raging against their own flaws (Thud, etc).

He's not really been writing his best since the Alzheimers either, much like Abnett and the epilepsy.

But none of this in any way changes that the Fantasy world is now just a little worse off than it was yesterday.

RIP Sir Terry

>>38649472
Cheering his demise.

How do those people feel good about themselves

Fuck.
Fuck fuck fuck.

Fuck...

>>38649483
Terry Pratchett. Author best known for the satirical fantasy series Discworld.

>>38649483
A fairly famous and beloved fantasy author. I'd recommend his work.

>>38649494
But I'm at the library right now reading Lovecraft...

What am I suppose to do?

>>38649333
Me too. I was doing alright until I got to the song from Night Watch. Now all the memories are coming back. Damnit. Rest well Sir Terry.

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>>38649436
>>38649458
Let it out lads. No shame in weeping for the loss of one who brought such wonder and joy into the world.

>>38649483

Grats: you're a faggot. Way to be, Anon!

>>38649514
Bookmarks exist for a reason.

>>38649514
Drop the Lovecraft. Read all the Pratchett books they have.

>>38649483
Buy, borrow, download if you must any discworld books. They're fucking amazing. I've been reading them since I can remember and I think, if I didn't lust so much for new one's I wouldn't even be fluent in English to this day.

>>38649514
Read a lot of Pratchett, then go back to Lovecraft.

>raised on WHFB, Discworld, and Star Trek
>Terry Pratchett is dead
>Spock is dead
>WHFB is dead

Fuck. My. Life.

Literally this:

>>38649534

I'm ashamed not to have read any of his books. They were always on my backlog. I only ever watched the TV version of Going Postal, which I really liked ;_;

Goddam it!
Now Im crying in an angry rage.
....

WHERE IS MY COW?

It was time, I guess.

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>>38649495
>There was a heartbreaking realisation that his early books are about anger at the system (Equal Rites, Small Gods, even Night Watch), and after the alzheimer's diagnosis the books started being about the protagonists raging against their own flaws (Thud, etc).

An embuggerance indeed!
The world just became a bit more crappy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHiy1QplJVw

>>38649514
you have two eyes don't you

read both at the same time

>>38649428
Yeah, the first three or four books are mediocre, and he admits this.
But when it starts to get good("Guards! Guards!" in my opinion) it doesn't stop.

>>38649130
What...what is this feeling /tg/?
https://youtu.be/QB3pxBDZvf4

Pratchett dies and yet that fucker Martin lives on.

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>>38649445

Ian Richardson, my favorite actor of all time, just prior to his own death, in his final roll as Death in Hogfather, written by Terry Pratchett, my favorite author of all time.

Beyond the fact that I've outed myself I'm a total pleb, I'm sure there's more than one layer of irony hidden in there.

*sigh* Both so good... Nimoy, now this? So few giants left in this world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUt6sPXQQus

I COULDN'T POSSIBLY COMMENT.

Day ruined.

Godspeed Terry,.

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So the guy who copied Halo died, why do you guys care so much?

I mean he literally copied the idea of a video game, that's not that amazing.

>>38649497
What the absolute fuck.

>>38649540
Then write a satirical story from the point of view of the coastal fishman-hybrids wondering why the tourist always freak out when they come into their town.

>>38649593
I don't get it.

>>38649593
That's the worst attempt at trolling I've seen in a long time.

>>38649593
... what?

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>>38649593
Can't get me mad, 'cause I'm too sad

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Fuck... just fuck.

>>38649385
You fucker

;_;

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>>38649593

>>38649593
The fuck you on about? I'm pretty sure the concept of artificial ringworlds predate Halo by several decades.

>>38649564
>>38649544
>>38649520

Now I'm crying,/tg/. Now I'm shedding manly tears because Sir Terry is dead. Maybe he could have been a dick sometimes, but we are all dicks. And we aren't even as remotely relevant as he has been.

All the little angels rise up, /tg/. All the little angels rise up high...

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>>38649593
is that supposed to be a joke?

>>38649593
I don't understand this bait. So I'll bite in hope you'll monologue like a good villain who captured an innocent and reveal your plan so I know what the fuck was up with that bait.

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I am surprisingly okay with this. We had a lot of forewarning. And he had lost his writing skills years ago, so I've already done my weeping for all the books he will never write.

>>38649130
I cried. And now I'm crying again.

I wish he was at a better place. I wish heaven existed, just he could go there. He gave me so much joy. Even his worst books. Knowing he'll never ever write a new books fills my heart with sorrow and despair.

Tomorrow, I'll celebrate this mans life, dig up my favorites and read a bit. Maybe get the few I'm missing. But today I mourn the passing of a great storyteller of this age.

True-to-form, /lit/s being a bunch of cunts.

>>38649625

Betting he's going to round out the Nimoy/Pratchett trifecta.

>>38649430
because you did, some 40 times, and every time you did you met a new face on an old friend.

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>>38649593

Thank you, Mr. Pratchett.

>>38649651
; ; true

>>38649612
Except he got pretty much everyone, so mission accomplished.

>>38649130
Who?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4

>>38649641
> Heaven now has Pratchett AND Adams

Goddamn, I hope it's real because they'll have some bitchin' books up there.

>>38649130
That's bad. To me, all his books after first two were kinda meh, but I liked Rinswind series. Now he isn't going to run away from something exciting again.

>>38649130
Sounds like an awesome guy... I guess I should read his books now.

May he rest in peace.

>>38649130
RIP
I only started with Discworld last year, now I just finished Unseen Academials.
Never thought I would enjoy them so much.

>>38649130
well guys im in tears for someone i naver have met. The world has lost something that it will never regain. Spread the love boys and girls, spread the love of Terry

>>38649639
Don't you mean foreshadowing?

I also find the idea that Philip Pullman is a more popular and relevant author than Sir Terry to be offensive, though I like the joke

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A reminder that his man, after receiving his knighthood actually forged a sword out of meteoric iron.

An actual RL legendary weapon.

>>38649641
He led a good life before the end. It's not the most noble of deaths, but at least it ended sooner rather than much later. I just hope he didn't suffer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGdoEa1tPg

>>38649585
He better does until he's finished.

Well /tg/, I'm going to go see if I can find a sprig of lilac to wear for the rest of the day. Who's with me?

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Dear Mods,

if you see this, could you please put Sperm in Alium by Thomas Tallis in the background of all the boards.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156

It's apparently what PTerry wanted played in the background while he died.

Thank you in advance.

>>38649593
You think Pratchett was Niven?

I'm glad I have sunglasses in the bus back home right now.

>>38649728
Spem in Alium

So, i submit Pratchett for /tg/ sainthood.

Damn, the last time I remember crying like this was when my grandmother died when I was 9. Pterry died youger than my own father, damn it.

Rest in peace, Sir Terry, and thanks for everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cn7ZW8ts3Y

>>38649749

He already was

>>38649130
I forgot who this guy is. What is he famous for?

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>>38649728
>Sperm in Alium by Thomas Tallis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cn7ZW8ts3Y

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu....

>>38649430
Because even though you never met him, his works still touched your life.

>>38649708

Kevin J. Anderson is there to finish his work once he explodes from too many hot pies. What's good enough for ol' Frank Herbert is good enough for Gurm.

>>38649749
>Sainthood
>Not Godhood
>Implying he isn't the god of wizards and magic

I recommended one of his books not five hours ago.

>>38649700

I wonder if that thing is still hidden.

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First dementia takes away Gerry Anderson, now this?
RIP Prachett.

>>38649697
maybe it was back when his dark materials was still hot shit?

>>38649771
I think he'd fit better as god of stories.

>>38649763

There are very few people in anyone's lives who could have that said about them. Yours is actually a really poignant sentence, and a fantastic eulogy to a great man. Thanks anon.

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>>38649749

>>38649385
Fuck. Sunglasses don't help

>>38649771
>>38649800
Let's go for the middle ground.
God of Bards.

>>38649544
Oh god I didn't realize the implications of all these coinciding but now you've articulated them.

rip in peace my heart

>>38649819
And footnotes.

It hurts, /tg/. It hurts so fucking much.

I need a sticky, mods.
300 posts and an hour or so long auto sage isn't enough

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>>38649789

>/tg/ sets out on an epic quest to recover the legendary Sword of Story and inter it in a suitable shrine

Guys I thought this was a troll.
He was my favourite author

>>38649800
There are too many people who could take that role.

The God of Humour though... no one did /tg/ related humour like he did.

I died a little inside as I had to go back and change the "does" to "did"

I don't even know what to say, thank you for all Terry

I'm crying right now

>>38649758
I grinned you motherfucker

>>38649860
AND SO THE LEGEND BEGINS

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>>38649651
Welp, there goes what little composure I had left.

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All you guys are sitting here crying and here I am in my underwear, eating pizza bagels, and not knowing who this guy is.

>>38649789
It probably is. It was hidden for a reason in the first place.

Some day, in the far future, someone will discover it. And a new legend will be born.

>>38649888
See >>38649494

>>38649544
>WHFB is dead
What are you talking about

Jesus, is there any way for nerdom to be more depressed

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Oh god between this and Spock....I just...I can't...

I don't have words to express my feelings of sadness right now. Mr. Pratchett took them along with him. I need to find my copy of Reaper Man. I hope that he rests in peace.

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I'm done

God damn it.

I knew it had to be coming soon, because he was co-authoring books with Stephen Baxter, but I was hoping we still had a bit more time.

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>>38649878
It's ok we're in this together. Is it ok to get drunk at 5pm?

>>38649889

>Implying he hasn't used it to store his genius and wit, like a phylactery
>There was no Alzheimer's. It was the transfer of his soul into the sword
>The transfer is finally complete

I want to believe

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>>38649728
I think I'll listen to Steeleye Span's Wintersmith album instead. Musical connotations and all that.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=713v6IiuzQ8

Terry apparently loved the band and has a speaking role in the album where he reads a quote from his book on witches.

....goddamnit, I didn't want to be sad today.

>>38649906
end times is currently busy mangling the lore and spitting out terrible minis, along with gw acting like a sick dying company It's hard to foresee WHFB going strong for too long

>>38649906
See the End Times stuff. WHFB as we know it is dead. Reboot is happening.


RIP Terry. And fuck everyone in this thread for making me- uh. For making it rain indoors.

>>38649934
>implying

So how much longer until this shitty world comes to an end again

I want to get off

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>>38649743
bugger.

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>mfw

>>38649771
>Godhood

Yeah, we should care about some brain dead fantasy peddler who, lets get down to it, told stories that were even more boring and tedious than forgotten realms.

If anything Zun is the one true god of 4chan and /tg/

>>38649906
>What are you talking about
From Saturday the game is fucked as army selection no longer exists, its as much of whatever you want.

And as for the story? Rocks fall and everyone dies. No seriously, rift opens warhammer world is voided, gods stop paying attention, winds of magic are gone, everyone is dead.

>>38649586
>I COULDN'T POSSIBLY COMMENT.
I read it in his voice. Thanks for putting a smile on my face on this dark day.

>>38649937
>Steeleye Span
Mah nigga!

It's my fucking willow, and my fucking hat!

>>38649956
Use all the oil you can. Let's speed it up.

A see a lot of people mourning Sir Terry in remembrance of the joy his works brought him, and lamenting the loss of so many who shaped our childhoods.

I challenge you, /tg/, to be the ones who shape the dreams of the next generation. We might be losing our childhood greats, but we owe it to them to try, however futile our efforts might be, to provide stories and tales even a tenth as great as theirs to the future.

So mourn, as we all must, but take heart. The turtle moves, and so do we. Get out there and start making magic.

>>38649849
I'm sorry, but Susanna Clarke is not so easily displaced.

>>38649971
1/10, made me look

>>38649986
>The turtle moves, and so must we.
Slightly paraphrased, but that's actually a pretty beautiful sentiment.

>>38649934

Man, that'd cut down on liches hard if creating a phylactery caused the wizard to suffer alzeimers for a decade or so while their soul shifted over.

Coming soon, the first Discworld novel by Rihanna Pratchett

Would it be possible to get a sticky/official memorial thread?

>>38649986
Give us a minute man. I'm no Weatherwax, I can't move pain away until I'm ready.

>>38649971
>Zun
> /tg/

Back to /jp/ you filthy crossboarding scum

>>38650017
There are no mods here friend. Only us mortals.

>>38650010

She's actually made some pretty strong public statements about that, saying she wants to protect her fathers legacy, even from herself.

She's pledged to never write a cheap cash in or try to do so just to ride on her fathers coat tails. She's doing a pretty damn solid job as a writer for games, and I hope one day the inspiration strikes her that she decides a followup really would work.

Rhi Pratchett is a great woman though, my thoughts are with her as well after losing her father.

>>38650017

Mods, let's make this a sticky for the next couple of days, at least.

>>38649544
All within 2 weeks...
Fuck this world

>>38649986
>implying we're even going to have a future to try that
>implying books aren't dying
>implying the world isn't going to be fucked in 2 decades tops

>>38649760
I-I know it's not related to Sir Terry... but I really love this... and it's based and poem by Tennyson, which was also a British man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbhvRSGVCUc

>>38649888
That's honestly sadder than us being upset.

>>38649925
Well, the saying is "its 5 o'clock somewhere."

Legit crying right now for the first time in years. fuck.

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>>38649728
>Dear Mods
>if you see this, could you please put Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis in the background of all the boards.
>It's apparently what PTerry wanted played in the background while he died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cn7ZW8ts3Y

This must be done, on /tg/ at least... It'd be the most reverent thing I've ever seen on 4chan.

:...(

>>38649967
This is rage,not sadness.

>>38650033
Terry apparently had several books in the pipeline, I wouldn't mind her finishing those.

But yeah, no new stuff.

>>38649925
It's 11:10am here. I'm standing in the bathroom at work trying to pull my shit together.

>>38650055
Hey fuck you, I'm enjoying my time between classes.

>>38650034

Wait, we have mods?

2015 is awful

RIP

>>38649754
Was waiting to see if someone posted this already.

Thank you, Terry Pratchett.

>>38650033
I suppose she's specifically avoided writing novels to prevent nepotism and not being read on her own merits.

She could always do a "novel of the game" type deal though.

>>38650033
On the other hand, it's a bit irritating that the one child of a bestselling author who can actually write well is also the one child who isn't going to be writing much in their parent's setting.

I think I'm going to make a project of rereading all of his Discworld books from The Colour of Magic all the way through in release order.

I think it's the best thing I can do to show my respect for him.

I might even throw Strata in as a warm up.

>>38650099
see
>>38649810

>>38650010
Maybe we will get Discworld cartoons that are properly made.
Discworld is perfect for animation, but it needs the right style, and the right director.

>>38650079
I'm feeling a fair bit of rage too. Fucking brain diseases. Cursed fortune and a cruel world. I am furious too.

>>38650099

It's /tg/

do we need Mods? I mean, we don't have rampant shitposting

>>38650116
>>38649810

Absolutely glorious

>>38649972
And my childhood is now dead.

Fuck, all we need is for Nintendo to go out of business and for Cartoon Network to shut down and the mornings of my youth will be completely dashed

>>38650085
I'm gonna have a whiskey for you untill you can drink bro. Stay strong.

>The man who made me the GM I am today just died
>The man who made me want to start eriting just died

>>38650141

>Discworld Lore given the care and attention given to Venture Bros or Rick and Morty
>this will never happen

>>38650141
Studio Ghibli would be perfect.

...and then I remembered.

This really has been a shitty year, hasn't it?

>>38650046
Make an effort, anon. Worst case scenario, it keeps you busy till the end and you can say "I tried."

>>38649432
https://www.justgiving.com/Terry-Pratchett
Over 5000 pounds already?

I miss him already.

>>38650153
And then, you shall be a man, my son.

>>38649130
Terry Pratchett was an inspriation to my creative processes, and his books were what I graduated to for audiobooks when I was old enough. I always fell asleep listening to tales of Vime's sardonic heroism, or Rincewind unintentionally saving the world yet again.

It was formative to my childhood in a lot of ways.

I still remember my mother reading me the first three chapters of Soul Music, and that was my introduction to the series.

So yeah, going to miss this man. I hope his Daughter, if she picks up the series, retires his old characters and starts fresh with new ones. The last book they wrote together would be perfect for as a transitional book, a passing on of the torch. Rather than writing about the same old characters and getting them subtly wrong, better that she take the world, and move forward with it. Just mho.

"Where's the Dean ?"

"He died years ago, Archchancellor. You talked at his funeral, remember?"

"Oh. The Bursar ?"

"Him too, I'm afraid."

"The Senior Wrangler ? The Lecturer in Recent Runes ? The Chair of Indefinite Studies ?"

"...Them, too."

"Oh..."

"..."

"Surely that good old Rincewind is still around ? Not a man to let himself get caught by anything, especially not Death."

"He passed away in his sleep two years ago, Archchancellor."

"Oh...

"..."
"... Mustrum? I'm sure he made it. I remember him giving me his hat like if it was yesterday!"

"... It was forty years ago, Archancellor Stibbons. I'm sorry."

"Oh..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Where's the Dean ?"

"... I'm sure he won't be long, Archchancellor. You'll see him soon. Him and the others"

>>38650079
Men are emotionally stunted autists. The only emotion they can express is rage, even if they're actually feeling other emotions.

>Despite campaigning for assisted suicide after his diagnosis, Sir Terry's publishers said he did not take his own life.

Bitch nigga.

>>38650214

D:

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>see report of Pratchett's death on my homepage
>no no no no no
>Don't know what to do - go on 4chan.
>First thread on front page of /tg/ is this one
>/tg/ - always there for me.

I don't even... this wasn't how it was supposed to be. We were supposed to have another fifteen years with him. Even when he got alzheimers, I didn't think it would be this soon.

Hold me, /tg/. I can't even look at my bookcase right now.

>>38650114
Maybe her hesitancy to write in someone elses world is part of what makes her a good writer.

>>38650214
You bastard.

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>>38649385
This made me fucking cry.

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>>38649967
Is that from the movie where the neckbeard is butthurt a hipster is in his group, and he's actually a good guy with good ideas.

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>>38650214
FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU CAME IN ON!

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Because you would not tweet for Death, Death kindly tweets for thee.

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I like how Twitter is now the default for celebrity's final words.

>>38650214
FUCK YOU MAN

FUCK YOU SO FUCKING HARD.

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>>38650258
And I posted the wrong image. I'm just on fire today.

>>38650274
FUCK

>>38650254
This is just adding to the misery, Anon.

>>38650214
I... I wasn't prepared for this... Damn you...

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>>38650214
Why

>>38650214
Clever. Well done.

Fuck you.

>>38650274
I thought the tears had stopped.

>>38650167
>>38650165
>care and attention given to Venture Bros or Rick and Morty
That care and attention would be great, but I think it would not be the right style.
Same for Ghibli.
You remember the old Asterix animated movies? They hit the style and humour of the comics perfectly, and at least the german voice acting was great.
Something in that direction would fit Discworld rather well, I think.

I recently found nearly the entire set of Discworld novels at a used book store. A kid had died, and his parents had finally gotten around to selling off some of his stuff. They were missing the two most recent books, and a couple of the older ones, but that's it. There are a couple of duplicates, as well.

So I bought them, even though they were more expensive than their condition warranted. This kid must have read them all a hundred times. Some have little notes in the front, "Merry Christmas," or "Happy Birthday," stuff like that. Anyway, the lady at the book store was telling me this story as she was ringing them up, and I mentioned that part of the reason I wanted the whole collection was that Pratchett was going to die soon, and I wanted to read all of his books when he did.

So anyway, now I must track down The Colour of Magic. And figure out who has one of my copies of Good Omens.... But I can't think of a much better way to spend my weeks off. Here's to you, kid, and to you, Sir Terry.

>>38649860
We're all going to get arrested over this aren't we.

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>>38650214

Not funny

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>>38650214
>mfw

>>38650167
oh god no, please

...now that I think about it, what system would fit Discworld wizard magic best anyway? I recall it starting off as a pastiche of DnD 3.5e (well, sourceror was OP after all) but as time went on its started to remind me of GURPS what with how freeform it went

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Today has just gotten more shit.

>>38650316
An encounter with the law is part of any good adventure, anon.

>>38650148
We do have rampant shitposting, we just find it funny and usually turn it into something productive.

Even other boards have done graphs saying we're the hardest to shitpost/troll.

It's kinda true, even if you piss off some people, most people will enjoy it.

Like that smaug shitposter for a few days or the "Gee dubbya is evul" threads.

>>38650214
you scum
that was excellent
but fuck

>>38650313
This. Ghibli isn't appropriate. They're a great studio. But play to the strengths and all that.

But you know what guys?

Fuck animated for this.

There's a few discworld movies that are true to form and hilarious. Get those guys on it again.

>>38650214

This hurts, but I can't say it's badly written. Fuck you, good job.

>>38649860
>when they find it, there's a note
>THE END

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>>38650214

>>38650214
oh you bastard, you utter bastard

>>38649130
Well god fucking damnit.
And his Discworld legacy book is Raising fucking Steam.

>>38650214
I only read until "Unseen Academials"...
Does this really happen?

>>38650328
You know what I think?

I think Terry Pratchet would prefer us to find it, then put it back. And make sure that finding it was part of the adventure. Go out of our way to make sure other people take part in the journey rather than just putting up the location for any dick to find.

It's a quest. Anybody can take it up, anybody can find it, but finding it is the point, not the actual sword.

It was inevitable, but it still came as a surprise. I hoped for, maybe, another year or two, but alas.

I wish I could squeeze a tear from myself.

Shedding actual tears here. Pterry's works are likely my favourite books I've ever read and made my GMing what it is today. The old /tg/ screencap (>>38649385) is more poignant than ever today.

>>38650346
Apparently there's one more left, actually. He finished it last summer. Suppose we'll get it later this year.

I just wish we'd gotten "Scouting for Trolls".

>>38650333

I'd love to see Rhianna Pratchett make a new Discworld game.

Perhaps Kickstarted for the initial funding, so they don't have to kowtow to studio executives etc. Find a studio with the right passion and a really strong idea for a true Discworld Story that can be enhanced by making it interactive.

Perhaps going full Telltale Games with it, perhaps doing something more interesting. I'd love to see a game in the style of Dishonoured/Assassins Creed before it got shit set in Ankh Morpork, playing a junior member of the Assassins Guild mixing social and societal intrigue with stealth, exploration and the occasional inhumaning.

>>38650367

Well, he left that up to us, didn't he?

We should well be on our way to the nearest bridge.

>>38650347
No, no. Anon wrote that.

I just wish it didn't feel so plausible.

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>>38650214
No, not again, I just managed to regain my composure!

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Good night sweet knight

>>38650340
I...I'm not sure I could take that...not even hearing about that discovery I think...

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I thought I wouldn't but then I started listening to Spem in Alium.

I guess I'll have to draw some DW fanart later.

>>38650347

No. The "joke" is that the Arch-Chancellor (that is, Pratchett) has Alzheimers.

And I use quotes because I think it's actually pretty well done.

>>38650347
No, anon's just a shit. Ignore him. Ignooooooore.

>>38650333
>Fuck animated for this.
No, it fits way too much.
The guys who did the other movies were good, but I always though that something was missing.
It's the cartoony covers, the artbooks, the picture-novels, that's what Discworld looks like for me. Only good old 2d animation can give us that fuck 3dcg, with a rusty chainsaw.

>>38650356
Aw shit, you're right. And knowing Terry, the journey will have mad hype about how this sword was handled by Om himself, that it reflect only Octarine, that it was forged by the dwarves from a shard of the Fifth Elephant

And then it turns out to be just a really, really well sharpened but wholly ordinary sword albeit one forged from meteoric iron

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;_;

>>38650367
>Apparently there's one more left, actually.
I have little hope it'll be any better.

>>38650397

Yeah, it should be a MMO, so that everyone can enjoy it! With... with microtransactions to be self sufficient!

And you should be able to control your character's farming/idling via SMS on your smartphone!

>> I really need some dried frog pills today :(

This is affecting me a lot more than I expected it to.
We knew it was coming-And we know he wanted to go out before Alzheimers took away the memories of his loved ones from him.
"Now, however, I live in hope - hope that before the disease in my brain finally wipes it clean, I can jump before I am pushed and drag my evil Nemesis to its doom, like Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty locked in combat as they go over the waterfall.
In any case, such thinking bestows a wonderful feeling of power; the enemy might win but it won't triumph."
And yet this is still tearing me up inside. His books seriously influenced a large portion of my world view, I think.
Just remember:
"No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence."-Reaper Man

>>38650397
Perhaps Failbetter? If nothing else, I think they'd respect the material, given that every Fallen London player got the following in their Messages about an hour ago:

"A man's not dead while his name is still spoken." TERRY PRATCHETT, 1948-2015

I am filled with sadness, and yet I am glad that he had a good end.
Dying peacefully while surrounded by one's family is the best way to go.

For this reason we shouldn't mourn, but rejoice that he passed before he lost himself.

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Well thats awkward.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/12/alzheimers-breakthrough-as-ultrasound-successfully-treats-disease-in-mice

>>38650367
>Scouting for Trolls
Not much hope there.

I really REALLY like his daughter's stuff, and she was the primary driving force behind Raising Steam, but the writing style is different enough, and the characterizations different enough that she needs to move the torch along. Not rehash the same characters, but let them age and pass on with their original maker.

That's the best send off for Diskworld I think. Letting it age and evolve with each new author. The characters retiring with the author and the characters' childrens' stories being told by the new author.

>>38650432
Shut your trap, its his last book, even if it will be shit i wont give a fuck, ill buy it

>>38649422
The motto on Pratchett's arms literally translates to "Do Not Fear the Reaper" from Latin. And it was designed well after his Alzheimer's diagnosis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg

>>38650421
Ghibli isn't all that good with cartooning though. I mean Discworld requires strong caricatures.

>>38649544
>>WHFB is dead
Literally who?

Man. This is heavy.

I've been re-reading all my Discworld books and a little voice at the back of my mind had been wondering "what if he passes away while i'm reading this... that'd be so weird"

I finished the last book a week ago.

>>38650397
>New Discworld Game
Missing Presumed...? was one of my all time favourite point and clicks, up there with the Monkey Islands.

>>38650421
Well, Ghibli sure as shit isn't going to do Discworld cover art justice. Their artstyle's just completely different.

Isn't there a Discworld MUD? Is it any good?

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>>38649593

This is so incredibly wrong I laughed. Thank you.

For reference:
1. He thinks Terry Pratchett is Larry Niven (author of Ringworld)
2. He thinks Larry Niven (Pratchett) wrote Ringworld based off the Halo series.
3. He thinks Halo and Ringworld share anything besides titles and a ring-shaped world.

10/10.

>>38650442
>theguardian.com science journalism
>breakthrough
Come on anon, you know better than that

>>38650397
>>38650435
Nah. Make it something like Shards or the original Never Winter Nights, complete with private server support and level building.

>>38650435
There is that fan-made text adventure MMO. Pretty cool.

Either way, a Discworld MMO would actually be amazing. Somebody did a CK2 Discworld mod a few days ago.....

The first book I bought for my son was "Where's My Cow?".

The cycle continues, Great A'Tuin swims on.

It breaks my hart to say this, but I hope they don't release it.
I don't think there's much left to say.

>>38650461
Warhammer Fantasy Battles, aka the original.

The most recent book just threw the entire army organization rules out the door and ended with "AND THEN THE WORLD WAS CONSUMED BY CHAOS, EVERYONE DIED, THE END"

>>38650458
>>38650468
I already said that ghibli wouldn't fit.
Read my comment again >>38650313

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>>38650461
Wilton Henry Francis Burton, don't tell me you've never heard of him?

>>38650442
>successfully treats disease in mice
You realize that a lot of experimental treatments for many diseases have been successful in treating mice but not humans, right?

We're similar to mice, but they're not human.

>>38650470
Terry actually wrote a parody of Ringworld in his youth. It's pretty good.

>>38650461
Warhammer Fantasy Battles, I think?

>>38650442
Not helping, dude

>>38650321
You use the book he wrote: GURPS Discworld. There is no other choice.

>>38650470
I was going to reply, but this guy just nailed it all. I can't even be mad anymore. This is literally the worst attempt at trolling I've seen since I first came here.

I loved the Johnny Maxwell trilogy as a kid. Guess I'll have to hunt them down again.

>The two shitty baits and the retard trying the 'who?' joke in this very thread
>The two guys sperging out in the other thread because 'not traditional games!'
>/lit/ being /lit/

If I wasn't so sad I would be raging like a motherfucker.

Strata?

It's basically the prequel nascent virsion of the idea that became Discworld.

>>38650439
I only played Sunless Sea, but the Iron Republic and Pigmote are both Pratchett as fuck

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I just hope he died before the disease started to eat most of his memories

>>38650523
What's going on with /lit/?

I checked into /b/ and they were mourning Pratchett's death like anyone else

>>38650254

what is the context of this?

God fucking damn.
Just. Fuck.
He's gone. Forever. In that place where there should be a brilliant, albeit ill man there is nothing. Goddamn how is this right?
I feel cheated. He was stolen from us. I'm angry.
I want him back.
Please.

>>38650523
>/lit/
anon I put that with s4s, mu, a and v as shit tier boards not even worth acknowledging, you might want to as well.

>>38650485
>The most recent book just threw the entire army organization rules out the door and ended with "AND THEN THE WORLD WAS CONSUMED BY CHAOS, EVERYONE DIED, THE END"
wait seriously? They ended it with the good guys losing instead of the ambigous 'tiny ray of hope in chaos' morass'?

fuck GW. That's weak.

But seriously. Not the place or the time I guess.

>>38650503
I demand the title, publish date, and isbn, or I will not be held responsible for what I do.
>tfw you love both niven and pratchet's works.

>>38650346
I liked Raising Steam, what is wrong with it?

>>38650501
But it's still a chance, which is pretty damn awesome. I don't have much hope for it working in humans, but just having that chance is amazing.

>>38650544
Hell, THEY have a sticky already.

>>38650522
Oh geez, Johnny maxwell. That was some good shit. I like the idea it's actually set in Roundworld and all the anomalies are Discworld/narrativium-based bleeding through-like Death showing up to ferry the ghosts.

>>38650509
I'm curious how witchcraft is represented in GURPS Discworld

>>38650552

He cried because of how frustrating it is to work with green screen.

>>38650544
/b/ was pretty cool about Nimoy too

/lit/ just has super-autism, see >>38649457

>>38650554
What is their major malfunction?
Are they pretentious assholes?
At least the /a/ssholes know their board is shit.

>>38650411
DOn't forget to post it here, or whichever Terry Pratchett Mourning thread is up.

RIP, Sir Pterry.

Shit. I'm crying