But in all honesty alcohol is class "insert # here" drug. But not... legally stated I think ? Ben long since I read the subject. While there are few health benefits...it can drastically damaged/kill you over the years. Especially the liver let alone your brain. The alcohol thing was started by the mob...then the government took over! And rather than ban it they regulated it....I would like to see someone try to ban alcohol....you will be killed immediately
@@hokses Well, yes, it is a drug, just like nicotine and caffeine, and well, anything that directly affects your mind Putting a ban on it would be hard, since it's as old as our civilisation… and because a lot of people have the need to forget who they are every friday evening so that the don't jump out the window during weekend.... Also, from what I recall, US government tried to ban booze once and it resulted in thousands upon thousands of new moonshiners
@@fuckologic1202 Yup. It would be the same with all banned drugs. Ban it and suddenly a guy in a van next to you Goes: psssst you want to buy some beer? I can't think of any drug that 99% of the people will be happy to buy and adding:it better be chilled! When being secretly sold. Am telling you it will be worse than people randomly attacking shops and flipping cars when their team lost. Going into war...OK. Banning alcohol...The country is burning!!
@@hokses I've been reading a little bit about Prohibition and from what I recall hard liquors were mostly sold, because beer would be too hard to obtain and too expensive per %ethanol But yeah, you're mostly right my good sir
@@DaveDexterMusic It's an undead horse. Nothing special. Have you watched Parts 1 and 2 of JoJo? The zombies, vampires and pillar men sometimes stick foreign objects inside their bodies for later use.
And then the unblinded realist friend joins in and listens to what they both have to say and very calmly takes out his two krambit and puts them to both their throats while they ask why he's doing this. He pauses to look them both in the eyes as though they asked him for the time. He then pulls the small crescent shaped blades around their necks as he slits their throats. "You want to know why?" He gets up and walks out. Their questions were never answered and the only one who walked away was the one who actually did something instead of wasting so much time pondering and arguing about something unimportant while the rest of the world passed them by...
@@granziii12 Bahh...an all materialistic view in which the protagonist is somehow seen as better. Sadly, said protagonist is the only one left to make this judgement thereby eliminating any chance of debating said protagonists point of view. In other words...petty actions in a piss-drop of time to stroke ones own ego do not amount to any sort of success.
The animation loses something in translation. In the books how people react to Death is with a slightly worried air, like they think they may have left the stove on and would really, really like to be elsewhere right now.
“From the outside it’s blue, believe me” that line is both incredibly hilarious, absurd, and kind of terrifying. Really puts into perspective just how powerful death is, and where he stands as a being beyond creation.
@@connorschultz380 sorry didn't know the lore of discworld but read a bit. Only being stronger and abow is the great old ones. Azreal is his dad so to speak aparently
@@DarkAdonisVyers Really? Because from what I can remember on seeing it, THE INFINITE is white. Plain, dull, boring, empty white. ...It's kind of depressing to look at. Honestly, would it kill THE INFINITE to add a little color?
... probably, that's the point. In intro to those series there were words about getting personality is equal to end self. He got personality, therefore eternal existence becomes a greater burden.
Well, you constrain something with human traits enough and eventually it’s going to want to start drowning itself in alcohol! What’s the worst punishment the gods ever had to endure for their betrayals? To be human, with no power. It sucks to be human to them. It’s the worst fear and pain imaginable. No more immortality. Death is final! The bones will rot! The corpse will decay and become worm food! That’s probably why they don’t stick around us. Maybe they don’t want to catch death by association with us. No wonder Thanatos wants twelve whiskey sours.
@@thegrandnil764 fiction takes inspiration from real things, but that doesn't mean that fiction does have to portray thr "real things" exactly how they are, it is called creaticity and creative liberty, but yeah I am the idiot
I’m impressed that the animators put so much detail into the way the guru’s face shifts, and how much Death’s expression changes, even though they couldn’t have had a very good budget Dedication!
"Why does things have to be the way they are?" Because it took a whole lot of time and effort to get things the way it they are. And if you ever want to change it then you will need even more time and effort.
@@camerakitty8167 Actually it happens more then you might think. It is known as "crowdsourced problem solving" where you give the internet a problem and let them solve it. One great example of this was with a HIV Enzyme. Scientists spend over a decade trying to find out how nature managed to fold a protein chain into this enzyme. But when they made it into a game called Foldit as a way to crowdsource the problem it was solved in less then 3 weeks.
People always make the mistake of personifying death when its actually the other way around. Pratchet said often that this death has a fascination with humans of every other planet in the universe. Meaning he wants to know and understand what it is to be human but overall gets angered by them often.
@@davidjackson6150 Oh, no!! He hated Count Dracula!! Oh, dear, oh, dear... this is terrible, jus terrible... it's making me sound like a Chuckle Brother it's so terrible...
@@justinthompson6364 Yeah, it's described as sort of just appearing inside your head without any passage of sound, but it also says something about how it feels like something, sometimes like stone slabs sliding against each other.
Time is the path integral of all nows chained together. And it can be squashed or stretched when under the influence of gravity. Time in a black hole is like time driving under the influence.
That Guru is so pretentious, which was probably the point. For example, if he has not seen the Infinite, because it cannot be seen, as he himself said, how does he know it is black?
Look up into the sky at night on a cloudless night. Look to the space between the stars. That's the infinite. When you look out there, you're seeing to the end of the universe and beyond. The infinite has stuff in it, but it is mostly empty. The infinite is mostly black *because there isn't enough light to illuminate it all.*
@@FirstLast-cg2nk it's actually mostly black because, as I recently learned, most of the light that reaches us has redshifted out of the visible spectrum over the vast distances it travelled to reach us. If light did not redshift the night sky would be extremely bright.
The only thing about adaptations…is that the inside of my imagination is way cooler than any movie or cartoon could be. That said, the voice of bill door was pretty epic here. I’ve always thought of him kind of speaking *into* peoples heads, like Gaspode 🖤
I have been under the impression that Gaspode speaks normally, but people lack the First Sight and Second Thoughts to realize a dog just spoke. It's so bizarre and paranormal that their brain just glossed over it and pretends that it's their own intrusive thoughts.
I cannot help but be a little amused when Death mentions that the Infinite is 'blue', considering his eyes/orbs are blue, themselves...then again, you could argue that Death himself is Infinite...until the End of Time, that is...I think? Might just be an odd little thing/detail, but I still think it's funny. Also, thinking about, no matter how 'wise' a mortal 'sage' like this guru may be (even calling Death 'my son...really?), he may only have lived 1 lifetime, whereas Death has seen, experienced and observed and 'lived' countless ones, so, in a way, him keeping his sanity for as long as now is a walkin', freakin' miracle when you think about it! (Also, sorry for prattling on, I am writing this while quite tipsy).
@@CocoandZee Pretty much explained in many volumes Death is never invisible, nor is he incorporeal. He's just infinite and because human mind cannot comprehend that and at the same time don't want to know death is there they usually picture him differently, usually as a tall man (but they vary person to person). He can go through objects and walls because they, at one point, weren't there or won't be there. But cats can see him, so he likes cats. And wizards... wizards can see him (as they see things as they really are)... but he dislikes them as they always interrupt him when he's doing something interesting or another.
when you're an anthropomorphic personification of an eldrich concept that is autocontradictory, seeing the infinite from the outside should be a relatively simple task.
@@Yal_Rathol Death is Eternal as it is Nightmarish...He's also a smug bastard but that's unrelated to his occupation. (Looks up at the sky...) Great pick Big G...Great pick...
And yet he's up there with Death of the Endless from Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic as one of the most sympathetic Deaths of all time. Then again Gaiman and Pratchett did get along quite well...
@@kemanorel3110 That kinda makes a whole lot of sense because, In a way Death has a lot in common with the reader; Both Death and the reader have an outside perspective on the Discworld.
"I've seen the infinite. It's nothing special." This sounds like my kind of cartoon. I always wanted to believe that the afterlife, God and all the spiritual stuff is likely very anti-climactic. I'm able to make strange peace with things being neither as bad or as good as we often believe them to be
Depending on how you look at it, even the resurrection of the bible is anticlimactic since once we come back the earth is still wreckt but we have to fix it
Maybe things and the universe aren't as special from the outside, but it's the value that us, sentient beings, give to them that actually make them special. That's a big perk of being alive and conscious.
@@clayxros576 If you consider colonizing Mars or men walking on the moon anti-climatic, because there is daily life involved, then I suppose you would have a point. The Simple OP is likely to feel disappointed, however, as there is going to be much in this world that is very climatic, for him and everyone else.
It's funny that the hindi guru claims the infinite is black while Death claims its blue, when commonly the infinite is represented as blue in hindi culture, as the ocean and sky were the most infinite things.
I once asked God to show me everything. Everything. Why everything is the way it is. And he showed me. The veil was pulled back and for a moment, I understood. I understood why things were the way they were. Then the veil was closed and the reasons were too complicated for me to understand or remember... but I know there's a plan. I saw it. I just can't remember it and I don't think I'll see it again in this life.
@@arielulloa4146 I doesn't come from a song; I suspect it comes from a sound library that people used in the 90's. The notable songs I remember it being used IN are the Lego Island credits and the intro to a series of VHS tapes called "Britannica presents".
"Things *don't* have to be the way they are - that's why there's a difference between the past, present, and future; because we can change the way things are, which makes it different from what it was, and who knows what it might be later." "Humans forget things because the brain is an imperfect medium of storage - as the flesh renews itself, things we don't deem to be important are discarded to make room for new things, or to maintain space for old things being rewritten onto the new parts of it."
Death (rather Fate): I am having existential crisis. What should I do? Sindri Myr: Change the ways! Bend the fates! Through distortion that Chaos creates. To rule the world - if you decide The eight arrows shall be your guide!
The voices are impressive and the animation is surprisingly detailed. Off-putting is the complete lack of light and shadows. Everything has the same brightness. I want this film inked and colour-graded, NOW! Avaunt!
I just bloody got it. Death did lose his memory after imbibing a large amount of alcohol, but it wasn't the alcohol that did it. He was drunk, and got thrown into the Ankh river. And the Ankh river is considered a "magical river or other". So Death accidentally drank from it when he was thrown in, and lost his memory.
When he said "You don't know, do you?" 🤣 Poor guy is asking questions he knows that no one can answer for him, but he's trying and looking for insight in places he might have missed. Relatable
The Death of Discworld is probably one of Sir Terry Pratchett's most iconic takes on the [Anthropomorphic Personification]. Also one of my favorite characters. GNU, Sir Pratchett
How does someone not believe death when he speaks? XD Death seems pretty cool, he's still got a threatening feel to him but he's able to have a discussion and argument.
The mind has a filter when it comes to really anomalous shit in the Diskworld books. A non magician or witch rarely notices dogs that talk or death him self.
the simplest answer that I can think of to Deaths question is: We are born imperfect. We age, we get sick, we forget, we die. And but howcould we be anything else? It is our STRIVE for perfection, to be better, to do things greater than we should be able to, that makes us who we are as a species. We forget, because we are human. Because it is something that defines us so that we can learn to be BETTER.
CJ Moore That dosent do death any favors Death is sad about the deaths of his daughter and apprentice, he gets better and saves the world from music with rocks in
I'm uploading you because you are actually this thing and trying to answer if you ask me what death was asking I wouldn't know not that I can't answer. just that I wasn't paying attention.
Am I the only one who thinks that, in this day of Netflix et al throwing huge amounts of money at well produced shows with expansive universes, Discworld is really ripe for some worthy adaptations? I know there have been quite a few in different forms, but I'd like to see it taken to the next level, a truly Game of Thrones level of production and scope.
Alchohol doesn't actually make you forget anything. It only represses things. The only actual way to forget anything is to age. Depending on who you are this could take a whole lifetime. It is in a way the best part of growing old. So that when you die you truly die without regret.
Alcohol disconnects parts of your brain, which means memories can become unretrievable, but because of the non-localised nature of memory it mostly just makes all your memories fuzzier. Alcohol basically has terrible aim. There are several other ways of forgetting, but the healthy ones I am familiar with all revolve around remembering and then doubting the parts of your memories. You see, whenever you remember something what you store afterwards is a new version of your memories, so if you can make it fuzzier, then it will be weaker. Repeat that often enough and the memory will be gone. Then there is the unhealthy option of trauma: While it is true that trauma often strengthens memory, if you break a mind thoroughly enough by repeated application of varied traumas, then you can make them completely forget who they are, and once you've done that, getting them to forget everything else is easy.
I love the Discworld portrayal of Death. Only thing I don't like is that his mouth doesn't move when he speaks though I think that's how it was in the books.
It’s definitely odd. In some cases his mouth is open a bit, but it’s mostly closed with it shaping to match the expression he’s feeling. It’s odd but I do enjoy it.
Its actually quite brilliant on the animators side, because it hammers home the fact that Death is very *Very* much not human. It cements the fact that Death is utterly inhuman... Which is kind of ironic if you've read the books.