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Yeah, plenty of people wear black in the desert, but it’s a loose outer layer, not right up to your skin.
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Wouldn't it make sense to have a darker layer underneath a white-or-at-least-lighter one? I don't really know desert stuff. From the way fremen keep ambushing people, we can deduce their outside clothing is mostly desert-colored.
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MC Hawking posted:Again, I wonder why the ever loving hell Stillsuits are black on the outside. It's a frickin desert planet people, black absorbs heat and you want to be dumping or reflecting as much heat as possible. Black stillsuits bug me, but that's partly because I saw the SciFi Channel adaptation first, where they're ... more sand colored, I think. Beigey. Of course, later, I saw an even better Dune-like film, and got a different mental image: 
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Vavrek posted:Black stillsuits bug me, but that's partly because I saw the SciFi Channel adaptation first, where they're ... more sand colored, I think. Beigey. Lawrence of Arabia might actually be an even better Dune film than Lynch’s one.
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Arabs, in the deep desert, wore black. This made them hotter, as the cloth absorbed so much light, but that same absorption also protected their skin from sunburns
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paul_soccer10 posted:In the movie when they first get to dune Paul eats a jumbo rolling paper worth of spice that must have been like 100 billion dollars worth Hell yeah Muad'dib can party
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I saw the "Dune" movie about 2 months ago (had seen it maybe once before all the way through) and it got me thinking about the book recently and the concept of the Mentat. So I'm back to reading it and I feel like I'm getting a lot more things out of it, or perhaps just different things, than when I read the book only about 40% of the way through 15+ years ago. What a crazy rear end universe Herbert was imagining in the 1960s. Either he just gushes creativity like a fire hose or he must have spent a long time creating this storyline. Really glad I picked this book back up again and saw this thread
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From reading some of his other books, he seemed like a pretty creative fella. Whipping Star has a lot going on in it.
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Question for you or anyone really: is it just AI-like tech that has been outlawed in the Dune universe? Does 'Dune' go more into the Butlerian Jihad as the book goes on or does that backstory come in during later books?
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MarksMan posted:Question for you or anyone really: is it just AI-like tech that has been outlawed in the Dune universe? Does 'Dune' go more into the Butlerian Jihad as the book goes on or does that backstory come in during later books? "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind," like all Catholic commandments, is open to a lot of interpretation by different actors with different motivations. Either that or it's about the space Terminator.
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A_Bug_That_Thinks posted:Arabs, in the deep desert, wore black. This made them hotter, as the cloth absorbed so much light, but that same absorption also protected their skin from sunburns I always heard that the loose robes with a high surface temperature encouraged air movement. UV light tends to not give a poo poo about the visible properties of a material, though it may have been a twofer.
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moller posted:"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind," like all Catholic commandments, is open to a lot of interpretation by different actors with different motivations. Herbert left it ambiguous because he wasn't worried about a single specific thing but rather than entire pattern of though. Like Leto says in God-Emperor, it's not machines but "machine thinking" and "machine culture." Prescience is another reflection of how Herbert saw "machine thinking" taking over everything. Because Brian Herbert has the brain of a ten-year-old, we have to deal with the prequel novels.
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MarksMan posted:I saw the "Dune" movie about 2 months ago (had seen it maybe once before all the way through) and it got me thinking about the book recently and the concept of the Mentat. So I'm back to reading it and I feel like I'm getting a lot more things out of it, or perhaps just different things, than when I read the book only about 40% of the way through 15+ years ago. What a crazy rear end universe Herbert was imagining in the 1960s. Either he just gushes creativity like a fire hose or he must have spent a long time creating this storyline. Really glad I picked this book back up again and saw this thread He was, in fact, creative as gently caress but he also did multiple years (4 or 5, I think) of research before the first Dune was finished. You're right; he did a metric gently caress ton of thinking about how the world was, why it was that way, and how it got that way in the first place.
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like imagine how much the contents of this box must be worth  maybe its spice jerky or something and not pure spice but still
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"I cant afford a maintenance dose of melange or a ride to arrakis so this looks like the end fellas."
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Mod response: "My fremen have you tried sappho juice?"
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basic hitler posted:"I cant afford a maintenance dose of melange or a ride to arrakis so this looks like the end fellas." 
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paul_soccer10 posted:like imagine how much the contents of this box must be worth If memory serves it was generally mixed with other stuff. Unless you were a late stage Navigator you didn't take that poo poo raw.
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In the book when the baron captures thufir hawat he poisons him and keeps him dependant on the antidote In the david lynch movie the same thing happens but also thufir has to milk a cat for the antidote lol
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It was one of those hosed up looking hairless cats too iirc
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priznat posted:It was one of those hosed up looking hairless cats too iirc It also had a rat taped to the side of it for some reason lol
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^^^^ lmao it’s even better than I rememberpaul_soccer10 posted:It also had a rat taped to the side of it for some reason lol I love David Lynch, bless him.
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I am seriously majorly upset by the idea of heart plugs and the visuals provided therein by the movie
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basic hitler posted:I am seriously majorly upset by the idea of heart plugs and the visuals provided therein by the movie That part where the baron pulls the plug on the slave dude was the most disturbing part of the movie for me when I saw that as a lad. Then goes under the black shower thing yeeeesh
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priznat posted:That part where the baron pulls the plug on the slave dude was the most disturbing part of the movie for me when I saw that as a lad. The heart plugs weren't even in the books but influenced other Dune media. They're referenced in Dune 2000 at least. They don't even feel out of place if you've read the books; the Harkonnen are just that terrible. But yeah in the book the Baron mostly used peoples' vices against them. When Leto tries to assassinate him and he lives his current captain of the guard bites it. So shortly thereafter he promotes a more or less random dude to captain of the guard because he knows he has a serious addiction. He used poison against Hawat because he was, you know, Thufir Freaking Hawat.
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Sex with a mentat: not too unlike what I most desire irl
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paul_soccer10 posted:It also had a rat taped to the side of it for some reason lol paul_soccer10 posted:movie kicks so much rear end loving lol. Also, agreed.
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paul_soccer10 posted:movie kicks so much rear end I've been watching some Twin Peaks and I have to say I think this David Lynch fellow might be a weirdo priznat posted:I love David Lynch, bless him.  YES I'LL HAVE SOME COFFEE, THANK YOU
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Spinster posted:Sex with a mentat: not too unlike what I most desire irl So you like autists then? *sprays seltzer into mouth and adjusts jacket*
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*scrolling thread while milking pet cat*paul_soccer10 posted:movie kicks so much rear end
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