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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Your team made a phenomenal game and I'm so glad to hear that many of them will be able to return. Hopefully that will be all of them soon, and then a new great game down the line!

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Vimes shot him a glare like sunlight"

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was Carrot in that specific moment and if I remember correctly, he just nods and says "I was almost feeling bad for you."

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Possibly my favorite part of Feet of Clay is when charged with the deaths of a child and his grandmother, a man asks "Were they important?" and no one ever actually answers the question, because the entire book is about how the answer is unequivocally, undeniably, and obviously "YES"

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Terry Pratchett on his worst day would never have thought of a joke with the punchline being "oops, you detonated a huge explosive in a room full of babies and they all died, lol", much less written it down and published it.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"The whole book is written in a single sentence and doesn't even have a period at the very end" Did you think about why that might be. Did you try to figure out maybe the point the author was trying to make. You don't need to like or agree with the reasoning but you DO have to actually REASON.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I keep looking on goodreads for considered and earnest negative reviews of books I'm still processing and thinking about but instead finding reviews that were apparently written by people outclassed by anything more complex than Green Eggs and Ham but who blame that on the author

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Very funny of the Lanterns show to have Hal Jordan, the first human Green Lantern who has been succeeded by...6? 7? more characters as "the" Green Lantern but who nevertheless is still slingin that ring, spit out "you'll never replace me" and be so bitter about it

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So which one of you is suppressing your natural Belgian accent

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Star Wars Zero Company is a fantastic game and I hope Bit Reactor goes on to make more fantastic games

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Why is the Mr Rogers youtube channel suddenly gone without a trace

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When I saw that the final upgrade for her darts dropped the cost from 2 points to 1, I knew I was going to make her the whole galaxy's problem

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hooooly SHIT, Zero Company just did something EXTREMELY nasty and clever

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There may be better dads than Sam Vimes, but no one dads harder.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures

He pictured Ginger, back on the beach. I want to be the most famous person in the whole world. Perhaps that was something new, come to think of it. Not ambition for gold, or power, or land or all the things that were familiar parts of the human world. Just ambition to be yourself, as big as possible. Not ambition for, but to be.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh God, Tim Curry too? God. That really stings.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Not all heroes wear capes, I hear. Hope he feels better, though!

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Does Does he want to do that?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/08/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

“You’ll accept the food?”
“We are a proud country.”
“What are you proud of?”
It came swiftly, like a blow, and Polly realized how wars happened. You took that shock that had run through her, and let it boil.
. . . it may be corrupt, benighted, and stupid, but it’s ours . . .

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 02/08/2026

stripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The worst thing about owning every Discworld book is when you run out of books on vacation you can't go and buy a new Discworld book

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A pair of friends invited me to speak at their wedding. They gave me a strict limit of no more than 3 Pratchett quotes.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

There's an argument to be made that it's intentional but "bad on purpose" is still, in fact, bad.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Terry Pratchett coming up with the character of Granny Weatherwax is one of the all time triumphs of writing, a nearly untouchable success. And then he did it AGAIN with Tiffany Aching

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I know the answer is probably yes because history is long, but has any nation ever been led by such a fucking loser

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I tried reading those 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' books people seem keen on and now I'm in favor of AI replacing at least *some* authors.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I just finished it and the answer is a resounding no.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman is the worst book I've read in years.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It's always tragic when someone goes to Hell because it means that a life that could have been worthwhile was instead wasted on being a bad person. That said, it's always nice when the net amount of evil in the world goes down

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Seconding this recommendation strongly, but to respond to your question I have always interpreted the salamander as being a creature rather than a tool or power of Hethor's. But I'm also biased towards weird monsters in general.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You look like you spent a night in a haunted house

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Oh fuck, Genndy Tartakovsky is making a Conan? That fucking ruuuuules

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I'm going to keep reading and give this book a chance - I'm only 10% in so it's got plenty of time to grow into its own identity, but right now the nicest thing I can say is that the author is stealing from the best

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

There's stylistic and structural stuff from the Kingkiller Chronicle but so far just that, so I can stick with calling that an influence only right now

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I'm about 60 pages in and I can already point to shit from Dune, Book of the New Sun, the Hyperion Cantos, and A Song of Ice and Fire that has been lifted directly, in a couple places almost verbatim

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I've hit some shaky books in the last couple weeks and I've decided not to mention their names when I complain about them here but Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio, you gotta hide what you're stealing from better than this

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I've got some bad news about Night Watch, friend

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Roller coasters don't start immediately at the drop! The build is necessary!

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

And too often, the good stuff isn't actually that good.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Sometimes books are hundreds and hundreds of pages because the author didn't know what to cut and sometimes books are 80% too short because the author couldn't wait to get to "the good stuff"

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Coming back to this over a month later to second A Game In Yellow. Just finished it 2 minutes ago and was deeply impressed with how Piper uses the King In Yellow.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I have repeatedly told people that the two figures who most shaped my moral understanding of the world are Terry Pratchett and Jesus.

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