09 Jul 2012, 7:07 pm
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09 Jul 2012, 7:08 pm
You should see the characters in Team Fortress 2.
They die every few seconds.
Len's one (imaginary) individual. The software that produces his voice is owned by millions of people.
So it's like dying millions of times.
09 Jul 2012, 7:11 pm
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09 Jul 2012, 7:11 pm
I bet the people in TF2 still die more than that.
@Kevinjh: Well, in a big city and especially in college, there's a lesser need to drive.
09 Jul 2012, 7:12 pm
Especially cities connected by trains resembling intercontinental airplanes! 
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09 Jul 2012, 7:16 pm
Wha-?
09 Jul 2012, 7:17 pm
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09 Jul 2012, 7:18 pm
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09 Jul 2012, 7:20 pm
Not really, actually.
But undoubtedly cheaper than paying for gasoline for a car.
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09 Jul 2012, 7:26 pm
I know, I know.
I'll be using the subway at MIT, too.
09 Jul 2012, 7:30 pm
Hmmm...
* Turning up behind you when you need them but don't expect them. (This might be a tribute to Eye-gor from Young Frankenstein, who went from the roof to right behind Dr. Frankenstein in less than a second.)
* Opening the door exactly as you're raising your hand to knock. Relatedly, every door opened by an Igor will creak, whether or not it normally does. It's said to be a "skill".
* Turning up at the moment of death.
* Lisping, although this is done deliberately; "modern" Igors sometimes "forget to lisp." On one occasion, before delivering a somewhat longwinded explanation, the Igor in question asked if he could drop the lisp, to make said explanation easier to understand.
* Knowing exactly which Igor you're talking about.
* Knowing when a lightning storm is coming, and using said lightning to power whatever mad invention they've been asked to create.
* Surgery — in particular, they can re-attach lost limbs and perform transplants using only needle and thread, and also possess the ability to completely suppress the patient's immune system incompatibility with the donor organ through means unexplained. They also have the ability to bring back people who have actually died, if it's recent enough (and if they're allowed to — dwarves in particular will not allow Igors to bring them back. Igors are said to be "naturally disappointed" by this). As of Unseen Academicals, Lord Vetinari has been compelled to make a law about this, because murder trials have a tendency to go wrong when the (formerly) deceased walks through the door: "If it takes an Igor to bring you back, you were dead. Briefly dead, it's true, which is why the murderer will be briefly hanged."
* "Acquiring" materials for their master's latest deranged scheme.
* Quietly exiting just before the angry mob arrives.
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09 Jul 2012, 7:34 pm
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09 Jul 2012, 7:37 pm
Too many words. 
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09 Jul 2012, 7:37 pm
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09 Jul 2012, 7:38 pm
