OT: Which Discworld character are you?
 

Carrot Ironfounderson

I did do my best to answer accuratly and correctly. And, I'm rather pleased with the top result.

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It says that I am a meat sandwich... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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One man, one vote. I'm the man, I've got the vote.
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1.../patrician.jpg
You scored as a Lord Havelock Vetinari
You are Lord Vetinari! Supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork! Cool, calculated, and always in control. You graduated from the assassins guild, but failed a course on stealth and camouflage, because the professor never saw you there (even though you attended every class). You always seem to know what everyone is thinking, and after a conversation with you, people feel that they have just escaped certain death.
Lord Havelock Vetinari 81%
Cohen The Barbarian56%
Carrot Ironfounderson 56%
The Librarian50%
Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax50%
Rincewind44%
Death31%
Greebo31%
Gytha (Nanny) Ogg 25%
Commander Samuel Vimes 25%
haha. Actually quite an accurate likeness.
I expected I'd be either the Patrician or Sam Vimes. Turns out they're at opposite ends of the spectrum. So Authoritarian ruler who thinks people deserve what they need not want they want beats jaded cynic who sees the world for what it really is unless he's drunk. Of course I am a teetotaller but I do have my own way of stopping myself seeing everything in a bad light.

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You scored as a Rincewind

You are Rincewind! Greatest survivor of all times! But a rather inept wizzard. You seem to be going from bad to worse, without slowing down. Rather miserable with your luck, the luggage that follows you around offers little comfort.

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Which one would be a meat sandwich?

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Another Carrot Ironfounderson.

I got a tie-breaker question; the other possibility was The Librarian.

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Yet another Carrot Ironfounderson. I guess my hands aren't leathery enough to be the Librarian and I'm not quite old enough to be the Patrician.

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http://quizfarm.com//images/1128292820Rincewind.jpg
You scored as Rincewind, You are Rincewind! Greatest survivor of all times! But a rather inept "wizzard". You seem to be going from bad to worse, without slowing down. Rather miserable with your luck, the luggage that follows you around offers little comfort!

75 percent match for Rincewind.

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Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics)
You scored as a Rincewind
You are Rincewind! Greatest survivor of all times! But a rather inept wizzard. You seem to be going from bad to worse, without slowing down. Rather miserable with your luck, the luggage that follows you around offers little comfort.

Rincewind 94%


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Whats up with question #23? lol

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That'd be to see if you're the Librarian.

Libraries = books = knowledge = power

No man can control that much power, which is ok because the Libarian is an Orangutan.

So far, apart from me, everyone is either Carrot or Rincewind. I'd suspect it was fixed but I got what I expected so as far as I'm concerned it's precisely balanced.

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Just don't call him a monkey.....oh shi....!

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Apparently I am Commander Samuel Vimes, with 69%.





What's Discworld? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Awww....I wanted to be death!

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I wouldn't have minded Death actually. I like the quote he had from Hogfather.

"YOU HAVE TO START OUT WITH THE SMALL LIES, SO YOU CAN HANDLE THE BIG ONES. LIKE JUSTICE AND MERCY"
"Bu they're not the same thing"
"REALLY.TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER, THEN SIEVE IT WITH THE FINEST SIEVE, AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY, AND YET YOU HUMANS GO ABOUT AS IF THESE THINGS EXIST"
"Yes, but you have to believe those things or what's the point"
"EXACTLY"

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Justice and mercy are found in humans, not physics.

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I agree, the quote just appeals to me that they are concepts to be believed in not tangible objects.

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That's quite a difference from 'lies', though.

Heh. Try classifying fiction. It contains truth, but didn't actually happen. It's not a lie, because everyone knows it didn't happen and there is no intent to decieve.

It can't all be stuck under titles like 'Metaphor', because some of it deals with self-contained concepts that aren't ways of teaching real-life lessons.

And then you get into things like 'If I imagine something, just how real is it - And what is it about the imagination that allows it to concieve of things that are impossible?'

Which leads to the idea that the mind is, in fact, at least in potential, infinite.

How else do you classify the ability to concieve of impossibilities and the entirely new?

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That it says "lies" does give it a different dimension.

I think of it as applying to nature. We think that there is a fairness to the universe, do right by others and everything will be alright for you, but Mother nature doesn't answer to the excuse "It's not fair". Think of a saint who goes through life being kind to others and being chartiable. Then they develop cancer. Where's the justice in that?. Me personally, things happen, there's no point being upset at what you can't change.

A similar topic is from the Moral Philosophy class in Starship Troopers. Imagine a man floating in the middle of the ocean. Eventually he will tire and drown. The sea doesn't care. There's no mercy from nature.

Another quote, from a Science of Discworld book,although I can't exactly remember it, is that literature is necessary for mankind to strive. It is where the grasping ape becomes the hand that grasps the stars, or something like that. It proposes we shouldn't be Homo Sapiens "the knowledgable man" but Pan Narrans "the storytelling ape".

Edit: Intellectually, which after all is what I consider this whole discussion to be, I get that last bit, although I do have some trouble with the two learned authors whole atheist angle.

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Now it says that I am a Barby Doll. WTH man?

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I too am a Carrot Ironfounderson. What's up with that?

Edit: Changed a couple responses based on what my sister told me and wound up with a 100% match for Death. Oh yes.

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NO, IT ISN'T FAIR. THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME.