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Arigion@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And I would have not read it if it was not “stolen”.

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  • gofsckyourself@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then credit the author. That way people who enjoy it can know where it came from and may wind up reading his books.

    So, yes. It was “stolen” as in plagiarized, since it does not provide appropriate credit.

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    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Plagiarism is cool and everyone should do it.”

      -King Louis XIV

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      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Intellectual property is the fangs of IRL vampires, you know it’s true!

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    • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then credit the author.

      The author was plagiarized by copying the genes of two parents. Credit the parents.

      That way people who enjoy it can know where the author came from and may wind up reading his parents books.

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      • Karl@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lmaoo

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But is this even plagiarism of Terry Pratchett? Every reply seems to mention different books and that it’s not from them. Unless this is a quote from Terry Pratchett it isn’t plagiarism. Two pieces of media can be similar and not be plagiarism.

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      • gofsckyourself@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not sure, but I was mostly outlining how dumb that person’s argument is.

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• DaleGribble88@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Which one? I’ve been meaning to give his stuff a shot. Something like this sounds like a fun place to start

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  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reading order

    I’d start with either The Watch, or The Witches. Both are great, I’d avoid The Unseen University initially, his writing gets significantly better so the early books are harder to read.

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  • Leavingoldhabits@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Watch subseries mentions vampires quite a lot, and is a really good read. IIRC, the fifth elephant and thud! Have them as more than just ‘extras’ and names mentioned.

    While you can pick up most any discworld book as a first one, and have a good time, a lot of people recommend reading at least the sub series in order, the watch series starts with Guards! Guards! And is really enjoyable all the way through, and a great place to start your discworld journey.

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    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Reading order

      I’d start with either The Watch, or The Witches. Both are great, I’d avoid The Unseen University initially, his writing gets significantly better so the early books are harder to read.

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  • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Carpe Jugulum has vampires who ‘reform’ and integrate into society (but I won’t spoil anything else)

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  • Arigion@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think it might be en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_(novel)

    It was somerhing with the wiki.lspace.org/Ankh-Morpork_League_of_Temperance

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• WillFord27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was also stolen (referencing?) Tomska’s Let Me In sketch

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• tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Come on man. Bury the hatchet, with Terry Pratchet.

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• Grumpyleb@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I see Terry Pratchett, I upvote! GNU

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• thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its not really stolen from Discworld. I mean I could argue it was “stolen” from Myth-adventures as much as it was “stolen” from Discworld.

  Pratchett takes the piss on a lot of ‘norms’.

  Yes there is a vampire temperance league and there is a side character who is a vampire who talks like that, but it’s just background pretty much.

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