• @[email protected]
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    601 year ago

    Remember, dear underlings [the preferred terminology is teamlings now] associates, we’re all in this together! Your success is our success! Now let’s all work harder, together, to succeed!

    I’m off to my ‘battle of wits’ with my pal Gandalf, won’t be able to answer your messages until next week.

    • Bizzle
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      121 year ago

      Now let me take 16 million in bonuses while I slash your benefits

  • @Gradually_Adjusting
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    491 year ago

    Lorewise, Saruman was supposed to be something of an engineering prodigy

    • @[email protected]
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      441 year ago

      He was a Maiar of Aulë, which was the Vala of Crafting, so prodigy is probably underselling it. As a side note, considering what happened with both Saruman and Sauron, I would say Aulë was probably a very shitty boss.

      • @Gradually_Adjusting
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        181 year ago

        He probably was - which is why they prefer to promote shitty engineers to management, usually.

      • @CitizenKong
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        Aule also created the dwarves against the explicit orders of Iluvatar, so it kinda runs in the family. Wasn’t Morgoth a Maiar of Aule too? Nope, a Valar. Thanks for the correction!

    • @[email protected]
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      201 year ago

      He turned a park and a forest into a huge industrial complex, making an fully equipped army in a few years.

      From an engineering point of view this is impressive.

      • @Gradually_Adjusting
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        171 year ago

        He’d been amassing that army since 2953, and only revealed his true self by going sicko mode on Gandalf in 3018.

          • @Gradually_Adjusting
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            101 year ago

            The Orthanc wiki page. I basically lucked out, search engines suck these days

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    Tbh Saruman’s never going to get all those Uruk-hai hatching pods through planning at the local council if he goes on like this

  • OurTragicUniverse
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    61 year ago

    If you find this entertaining, you’d enjoy Tom Holt books. This is basically his whole style.

    • db0OP
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      91 year ago

      You can’t do that without linking!

      • OurTragicUniverse
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        131 year ago

        That paragraph above reminds me most of The Out-sorcerer’s Apprentice. Where to quote from the wikipedia page
        ‘a fairy tale universe is exploited economically’.

        He’s written like 40 books
        and they’re all pretty good fun (the fantasy stuff at least, his historical fiction wasn’t my jam), not high literature or anything though, just nerdy, silly humour with some fun clever bits.

        • @demonsword
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          31 year ago

          That piqued my interest, gonna check it out. Thanks!

          • OurTragicUniverse
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            The first 2 books, ‘Doughnut’, and ‘When It’s A Jar’, I would normally recommend over ‘The Out-sorcerer’s Apprentice’, they’re more scifi slanted and imo tightly written.

            The fundamental technology tying the books together is re-explained in book 3 though and you can figure stuff out without having read books 1 & 2, but it’s probably not going to be quite as funny without all that pained context and layers of multidimensional headfuckery.

  • @yaaaaayPancakes
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    21 year ago

    They need to hire Earl Sinclair and the rest of the WeSaySo gang!