Any Questions?
- Thread starter Tonyblack
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I never got any.
But you might try looking at the Picture Cards Forum of the Cunning Artificer's site.
But you might try looking at the Picture Cards Forum of the Cunning Artificer's site.
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Another one about Moving Pictures, something that actually bothered me for a while (couldn't find the answer in a discussion thread, had hoped it had come up already)
SPOILERS AHEAD
The Thing from the dungeon dimension dies in the end, Death even says something along the lines of 'GOT YOU NOW' or something.
But then, after we once more get the line of 'holy wood dreamed'
Do I got this right that there are actually three entities at Holy Wood?
The guardian, the thing and the spirit of Holy Wood, to which the thing was a parasite?
SPOILERS AHEAD
The Thing from the dungeon dimension dies in the end, Death even says something along the lines of 'GOT YOU NOW' or something.
But then, after we once more get the line of 'holy wood dreamed'
Do I got this right that there are actually three entities at Holy Wood?
The guardian, the thing and the spirit of Holy Wood, to which the thing was a parasite?
Re:
I have to admit that I have no idea about that one. I think - and maybe someone here can confirm, that a Jar Wizard is something to do with computers.
I agree that there's probably a joke in there somewhere.
I've got Going Postal here but I haven't read it in years. I'm intrigued now, so I'll definitely re-read it to see if I can find a better explanation, but the first thing that comes to mind when you're thinking about "something to do with computers" is an installation wizard. There's also a Java package called "Wizard" apparently, and when you compile Java programs the result is a ".jar" file. No idea what the "knitting" has to do with it. I'll re-read it, have been wanting to anyway, and who knows I might find something
Tonyblack said:
Jane said:
Question: What is with those knitted wizards in jars?
In Going Postal, they had those Post Humous professors in the Wizards' Pantry. Is there supposed to be a stealth pun hiding in there? Because I don't get it.
In Going Postal, they had those Post Humous professors in the Wizards' Pantry. Is there supposed to be a stealth pun hiding in there? Because I don't get it.
I think - and maybe someone here can confirm, that a Jar Wizard is something to do with computers.I agree that there's probably a joke in there somewhere.
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Some parallels with computer programming on roundworld:
- Out of Cheese Error -> Out of memory error
- Divide by Cucumber Error -> Divide by zero error
- Hi Mum is Testing -> Hello World, I think. (Hello World is a basic program that outputs nothing but the text "Hello World!" and most programming language tutorials start with that.)
- Redo From Start I think comes from the first computers, where your programs were actually cards with holes punched in them and you would spend days writing (punching) a program and then handing it to the operator who would feed it to the machine. More often than not, your program was incorrect and you would have to start over: redo from start. There was no debugging yet, so you would have to repeat this process, each time encountering the next error, until the program was correct.
- MELON MELON MELON -> I can't find synonyms for the word melon, but I think it's a kernel panic. Under Windows known as a Blue Screen of Death. Often abbreviated to BSOD, all-caps.
The Mad Collector said:
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Yes I'm sad that way ....
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Yes I'm sad that way ....
- Out of Cheese Error -> Out of memory error
- Divide by Cucumber Error -> Divide by zero error
- Hi Mum is Testing -> Hello World, I think. (Hello World is a basic program that outputs nothing but the text "Hello World!" and most programming language tutorials start with that.)
- Redo From Start I think comes from the first computers, where your programs were actually cards with holes punched in them and you would spend days writing (punching) a program and then handing it to the operator who would feed it to the machine. More often than not, your program was incorrect and you would have to start over: redo from start. There was no debugging yet, so you would have to repeat this process, each time encountering the next error, until the program was correct.
- MELON MELON MELON -> I can't find synonyms for the word melon, but I think it's a kernel panic. Under Windows known as a Blue Screen of Death. Often abbreviated to BSOD, all-caps.
