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My kingdom for a way to stop this godforsaken industry from stripping Tolkien's fiction for parts.
by NoraCodes 6mo ago
My kingdom for a way to stop this godforsaken industry from stripping Tolkien's fiction for parts.
- eclectician 6mo agoWe can go strip Shakespeare instead.
- el_nahual 6mo ago(For those who don't get it, "My kingdom for ___" is from Richard III: "my horse, my horse, my kingdom for a horse")
- jkestner 6mo agoLet's start naming things after Iain Banks ships.
- patapong 6mo agoI am in support. In general he was really good with names I thought, they always had an otherwordly flair while being clear to pronounce. Skaffen-Amtiskaw, Anaplian, Elethiomel...
- chrisweekly 6mo agoYes! "Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality" is one of my favorites.
- nozzlegear 6mo agoElon Musk has already had a head start on that idea for over 10 years, unfortunately: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/81164 https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/81164
- rienbdj 6mo agoWeird - Iain m Banks would’ve found Musk’s politics abhorrent
- paulnpace 6mo agoBad actors use Tolkien. Good actors use Orwell.
- catlover76 6mo ago[dead]
- pythonaut_16 6mo agoMakes me want to name a project or company Sauron in response.
- ffsm8 6mo agoI've worked at a company that had a team call themselves Sauron before So occasionally I got mails by "some colleague on behalf of Sauron" back then
- terpimost 6mo agoThe Eye of Sauron for some Observability tool
- dymk 6mo agoPalantir
- object-a 6mo agohttps://www.sauron.systems/ https://www.sauron.systems/
- jzelinskie 6mo agoI'm just waiting for them to exhaust LotR and move on to Roverandom
- akshayshah 6mo agoTo be fair, the name was a joking response to https://x.com/patrickc/status/2015562569105465347…and https://x.com/patrickc/status/2015562569105465347…and then the temporary skunkworks name stuck, as it always does.
- akshayshah 6mo agoWhoops, bad link formatting: https://x.com/patrickc/status/2015562569105465347 https://x.com/patrickc/status/2015562569105465347
- sifar 6mo agoNo, not bombadil. I'll donate mine too. :)
- threatofrain 6mo agoAll the companies you’re thinking of are likely paying the Tolkien estate a very fat fee. This repo will likely have to rename.
- NoraCodes 6mo agoYeah. Unfortunately the people running the estate today appear to share ~none of the late Professor's values.
- nosman 6mo agoThe bad guys are using Tolkien references. The good guys are probably using Hitchhiker's Guide references...
- _doctor_love 6mo ago[dead]
- testdelacc1 6mo agoI do appreciate you quoting Shakespeare.
- bevr1337 6mo agoThe AI generated illustration and satire of the poem hurt my soul. Tom doesn’t even have pupils! This output is low quality even for AI generated content.
- magicalhippo 6mo agoIndeed. Why not follow Douglas Adams' example and use obscure place names instead[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff