Rioting on the Inside

looking it up, apparently this was an artist who made signs like this to parody the actual city council's signage, just told apart by his logo in the corner, "christchurch city confusion", and they had locals rly confused for a bit. my favorite is this one!

"Discworld did it" is the fantasy equivalent of "Simpsons did it"- ie that every time you come up with some sort of meta angle on a fantasy trope, chances are it's already happened in a Discworld book, in a similar way the Simpsons seemed to "predict" things because the writers were smart satirists who always had a feeling on how absurd things could get in American culture.

i always love the way that mtg strategists and high level players discuss red decks in articles. this quote has been going around the local mtg server: