Since OP has already read “Guards! Guards!” by Terry Pratchett, I instead want to recommend
“Men at Arms” by Terry Pratchett, the direct sequel to “Guards! Guards!”.
And again, as it’s so handy to find your way around the Discworld, this chart shows how the books relate to each other.
The Discworld is a weird series in that regard… It doesn’t really make sense for a new person to read it in release order… unless you really want to explore how Terry Pratchett evolved as an author over his career. Even Terry Pratchett himself doesn’t recommend that people start with The Colour of Magic…
The odd thing is that the “Discworld series” is more of a “universe” than a series, and it then consists of several sub-series. In the chart in my previous comment, you can better see the actual series.
“Guards! Guards!” is the first book in the “Watch” series, a series about the city watch of Ankh-Morpork. The actual sequel would be “Men at Arms”, and then “Feet of Clay” and so on. These books continue following the Watch, and Vimes, and still has a bit of the “detective novel” vibe.
I myself started reading from “Colour of Magic” (The first of the “Rincewind” series), and I liked it quite a lot, but I’m fairly certain that the reason I found it funny and interesting was due to me playing a lot of pen-and-paper role playing games as a wizard, and having a lot more experience with all of the tropes and themes of old-school fantasy. If I didn’t have that background, I’m fairly certain I would have bounced-off, hard…
“Guards! Guards!” by Terry Pratchett. It’s a good starting point to the wonderful Discworld series. And after that you have 40 other books in the series to enjoy.
Here’s a nice chart of how all the books relate:
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The revelations come later… The early game is mostly driven by an “oh that looks cool” exploration. You start seeing some puzzle pieces. Then as you explore for the sake of exploring, you find a few patterns but can’t see how they interact. This is where the game starts to get frustrating, you don’t know where to go, and the knowledge you have gained doesn’t make enough sense to be able to start piecing things together, this ms where most people get stuck. But if you persevere, then at some point you will discover a piece that connects some of the patterns you found before, and suddenly you can start exploring in a more focused fashion. Only well into this section you start experiencing the revelations.
If you want a more tailored nudge to proceed, feel free to DM me with what you have discovered, and preferably a screenshot of your computer in “Rumor mode”
One thing to be aware of is that you can’t just go to a location and “complete it”… It’s not like normal video games where you just grind until there’s nothing left to do in a specific spot. Many times you don’t have the necessary knowledge to complete a location, and you must go and explore elsewhere to learn how to proceed in your previous locations.
If you want a more tailored nudge to proceed, feel free to DM me with what you have discovered, and preferably a screenshot of your computer in “Rumor mode”
Once you’re done with the movies, might I recommend you look into a video game where you get to shoot some Nazis yourself?
The “Wolfenstein” video game series might be a good starting point
Only 27 containers? That rookie numbers… You gotta pump those up!
I’m currently sitting at 131 containers across 3 Kubernetes nodes, all bare-metal though, no virtualization.
A bit of searching makes me think it’s a game called “Tales of Maj’Eyal”… Never heard of it though.
@eddiereasoner@lemmus.org might actually be on to something…
Depending on the wall switch you have, you might be able to add a spring that makes it always return to the previous position when released. At least the switches I have in my house have a special little socket for adding a spring.
So in your Zigbee control panel you would configure the “power on behaviour” of the smart light/socket to “toggle”.
Then I you would add the spring inside your physical switch.
Now when you press the switch it would cut the power to the light/socket briefly, and as soon as you release the switch the power would be restored.
If the light/socket is on, you press and release the switch, which cuts the power and the light/socket stays off due to the “toggle” behaviour.
If the light/socket is off, the light/socket is still powered, soo you can still turn it on via Zigbee, and if you pres the switch, it momentarily cuts the power and the toggle behaviour would now make if turn on.
This gives you basically the same behaviour as if you installed a relay, but if you use smart bulbs you gain the benefit of being able to control the brightness, color temperature, and hue, if it has those controls
Sonoff makes a bunch of Zigbee smart relays, that can take input from a normal switch.
It’s basically just a Zigbee relay that can connect and disconnect regular wires, just like a switch does. But it also has terminals for connecting a regular switch, which then just functions as a button that controls the relay.
Something like this: https://sonoff.tech/en-eu/products/sonoff-zbmini-extreme-zigbee-smart-switch-zbminir2
Definitely not afraid of long posts… But oh how I love paragraphs
If I were you, I would really continue with the Watch series, it has some great characters and storylines, and it will make you fall in love with the Discworld universe.
Once you have either read all the watch books, or feel like you need something different, then I would probably try out the Witches series. (or possibly the “Death” series, eventhough the first book “Mort” is a bit rough.
And only then would I circle back and take on the Rincewind series. The Rincewind series starts out rather rough, compared to most of the other books (but they were also the first), and there’s a number of details and characters that are not consistent with the rest of the books as Terry Pratchett was still figuring things out at that point, and while the Rincewind series becomes very very enjoyable as it develops, I will say that the first two books are a bit harder to get into than the rest of the Discworld series.