A Conversation for Terry Pratchett's Discworld - the Computer Game
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Mu Beta Started conversation Jul 15, 2003
Thought I'd just pre-empt this fine entry's appearance on the Front Page by posting a little something to it.
Mentioned above is 'how the broken drum got it's name'. Surely the game's interpretation is a little fanciful. The Broken Drum is, more logically, so-called because "you can't beat it".
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Mu Beta Posted Jul 18, 2003
Well, yes, but I always read that as a shocking misinterpretation on the part of the game's designers. On the whole, the humour in the game was never anywhere near as subtle as Pratchett's.
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Geggs Posted Jul 18, 2003
Actually it was a joke pub name that Terry first used in 'Strata'.
In which the punchline is quite clearly given as 'you can't beat it'.
Admittedly, the rest of the book is kinda unfunny, but it does include the first appearance of a discworld in Terry's work. Though it is clearly not the same Discworld that we have come to know and love.
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[...] Posted Jul 18, 2003
Having vikings around was sorta funny...
But he did write Strat when he was 16 or something so we can forgive him!
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EncyBass-: Not going to be around much next week, cos I've got a new job... Posted Jul 18, 2003
"Dark Side of The Sun" mentions Klatch, and there's a few other references in there as well.
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EncyBass-: Not going to be around much next week, cos I've got a new job... Posted Jul 18, 2003
and besides which- isn't it called the Mended Drum now?
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Tin_Bum Posted Jan 23, 2004
Admittedly a slightly late posting but i've only just joined. In the colour of magic the broken drum is called the drum. But after the fire it gets renamed the broken drum and it is not til later on that it is called the mended drum
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jan 24, 2004
Presumably it becomes the Mended Drum when a better boozer opens....
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Elwyn_Centauri, geAt (O+ THS) Posted Jan 3, 2005
the sarcasm sounds like the hitchhiker's game, but hey, the comments spices up my life!!
Terry's funny... the first Discworld one I read reminded me of Piers Anthony's books 
cheers 
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Elwyn_Centauri, geAt (O+ THS) Posted Jan 4, 2005
Aww... Anthony plays around w/ puns a lot, and calls muggles mundanes :P
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