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Additionally SPACE TRAVEL! would have changed things too. If the Empire can park a fleet of warships beside your world and reign nukes down on your resistance movement, small arms might not be a priority. You need big dollars to be a real threat.
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The Bloop posted:he's no-son of mine 
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Mar 13, 2019 16:24
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I thought I read in one of the books that blown sand fucks with shields as well
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hawowanlawow posted:I thought I read in one of the books that blown sand fucks with shields as well It is literally what brings down the emperor's shield on his giant ship tent complex, but Paul had to wait for a giant storm and then nuke the shield wall to get any use out of that. It doesn't get mentioned in relation to body shields as far as I know.
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andrew smash posted:It is literally what brings down the emperor's shield on his giant ship tent complex, but Paul had to wait for a giant storm and then nuke the shield wall to get any use out of that. It doesn't get mentioned in relation to body shields as far as I know. It's implied that if you're caught in the open during a Dune sandstorm you're hosed anyway, shield or no, rendering the point kind of moot.
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Why would that be? Like, were the storms highly charged with ions or something? The Lynch version certainly gives that impression. An electrical storm might be bad for the shield-wearer...
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In my understanding sandstorms make a lot of static electricity what with being a dry bunch of sand rubbing against itself.
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A "shire sized" charge whatever that means
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Thinking of making a westwood games thread in gbs but until then, anyone interested in playing dune 2000 online? I dont remember how to play but thats nit the pointt
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basic hitler posted:Thinking of making a westwood games thread 
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Jestery posted:The idea of killing a fremen and using his own stillsuit to extract his water is a cool mental image Wouldn’t work very well; IIRC the deathstills actually ground the body to dust to get all the water out.
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exmachina posted:Large scale movements of men would have been extremely rare before Duke Leto assumed control of Arrakis. It's mentioned somewhere (might be in the appendices of book 1) that almost all traffic in the empire was on foot or using animals, specifically to control and limit the movement of the The Fremen were an exception since they managed to use worms for transport, something that no outsider even imagined was possible.
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I don't remember my physics nearly well enough, but there's something not-quite-static-electricity about glass/scilica (which is what sand is) and silk (and other protein fibers, presumably including sandworms' outer layer) that generate an electromagnetic charge - the name has something to do with rubbing, but I can't for the life of me remember it right now. Problem is, the voltage and capacitance of it is very very small, so I've always assumed that worms use it for a trick to charge itself and then unleesh the so-called shire-sized electric charges somewhat akin to electric eels and other bioelectrogenesist animals.
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D. Ebdrup posted:I don't remember my physics nearly well enough, but there's something not-quite-static-electricity about glass/scilica (which is what sand is) and silk (and other protein fibers, presumably including sandworms' outer layer) that generate an electromagnetic charge - the name has something to do with rubbing, but I can't for the life of me remember it right now. Problem is, the voltage and capacitance of it is very very small, so I've always assumed that worms use it for a trick to charge itself and then unleesh the so-called shire-sized electric charges somewhat akin to electric eels and other bioelectrogenesist animals. Triboelectricity. Also produces lightning in thunderstorms (and the charge that zaps you unexpectedly after walking on synthetic carpet). Even though the individual charges are small, they add up.
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Zopotantor posted:Wouldn’t work very well; IIRC the deathstills actually ground the body to dust to get all the water out. No doubt, I was just navel gazing at the idea of killing a dude on the dunes and stealing as much of his water as possible.
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Zopotantor posted:It's mentioned somewhere (might be in the appendices of book 1) that almost all traffic in the empire was on foot or using animals, specifically to control and limit the movement of the Leto notes that he made it even more so.
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Had some money from an Amazon gift card, so I bought the entire series on Kindle. Ended up costing about $5. Now I don't have to dig the ol' tattered paperbacks out of a box if I want to reread.
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Ornamented Death posted:Amazon UK has all six books in a bundle for 99p. drat why can’t the US one have the same!
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Y'all try the Audio books? They actually pretty decent. https://www.audible.com/pd/Dune-Audiobook/B002V1OF70 the_enduser fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Mar 14, 2019 |
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Tertius Oculum posted:Y'all try the Audio books? They actually pretty decent. Is this the one where it starts with a full cast of voice actors and after running out of money the rest of the book is just the (old male) narrator doing a girly voice for jessica
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Temaukel posted:Is this the one where it starts with a full cast of voice actors and after running out of money the rest of the book is just the (old male) narrator doing a girly voice for jessica rofl I haven't gotten that far but its possible. Some of the reviews mention that sometimes they stop doing the full voice acting and resume at other times. 
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phasmid posted:Why would that be? Like, were the storms highly charged with ions or something? The Lynch version certainly gives that impression. An electrical storm might be bad for the shield-wearer... 
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ill probably watch the movie, but ill have my arms crossed with a serious look upon my face. I will also wear my stillsuit that I made at home to opening night.
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BONGHITZ posted:ill probably watch the movie, but ill have my arms crossed with a serious look upon my face. I will also wear my stillsuit that I made at home to opening night. With a little smirk and a wink when you sip on the attached drinking tube *loud whisper* “IT’S MY RECYCLED PEEEEEEE”
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priznat posted:With a little smirk and a wink when you sip on the attached drinking tube *screaming* "STORED IN MY BALLS"
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Are any of you artists? I have a cool idea for making a dune themed art thread, but i have no pre-made images and will have to work on it when i get home, or even tomorrow, so i dunno if anyone is an artist by trade or hobby, make and post some dune art. It can be good or bad or anything in between!! Im certainly not good, just seems like it'd be fun for us to draw dune stuff as we see it in our minds eye
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I can draw stick figures with improbably large genitals, will that help?
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Paul Deez’nutz with an improbably large Usul.
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The base of the pillar better be absolutely massive.
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Im not recruiting dude lol just soliciting to gauge interest for a related thread idea. Draw stick figure dong dune and post it my friend! I will submit some work of my own if i have time tonight. Tomorrow at the latest.
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I finished heretics. I majorly skimmed it as a teenager. As the plot developed toward the end, and the end itself, I rather enjoyed. Starting chapterhouse now lol. Never read this one. We'll see if it gets better. Most of heretics was kinda rough
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I don't know about posting goon art but spec or concept art as long as credited or something could be interesting.Depending on the artist Dune goes from medieval-renaissance inspired (landsknecht floppy hats on sardaukars) to a hyper technological nightmare ( the Baron harkonnen palace). I always had trouble to image ornythopers so the work of alex jay brady helped a lot https://twitter.com/AlexJayBrady 
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Dune 2000 informed me what ornithopters look like. something like a mosquito mixed with a helicopter with flapping wings.
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 prototype of my still suit, still working on the aesthetic
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Just finished God-Emperor of Dune, I finally see what you mean about Frank having some weird ideas about sex.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Just finished God-Emperor of Dune, I finally see what you mean about Frank having some weird ideas about sex. Because Paul getting  watching naked teenage Alia knife fighting in Dune Messiah wasn't  or anything?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Just finished God-Emperor of Dune, I finally see what you mean about Frank having some weird ideas about sex. He's a sci fi author, that's just par for the course.
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Though it sounds like a great example of rolling a critical on a skill check when you climb a wall so hard you make an onlooker orgasm.
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