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M'Dick

# ? Jun 25, 2019 14:59

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 23:42

Lil Swamp Booger Baby

God Emperor of Dube is about a long penis man lol the penis crushes a guy

# ? Jun 25, 2019 15:15

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God Emperor of Doobie

# ? Jun 25, 2019 20:00

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

alnilam posted:

Muaby'Dik

MY NAME IS A WHALING WORD!

# ? Jun 26, 2019 01:20

beer pal

looking forward to getting these jokes

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# ? Jun 26, 2019 01:27

lost my old email

dune or dune not, there is no try

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# ? Jun 26, 2019 01:35

Farecoal: There he go

nobody tell op there's no such book as """""Dune"""""

# ? Jun 26, 2019 03:04

Stoner Sloth

lost my old email posted:

dune or dune not, there is no try

walk without rhythm you must or attract the worm you will

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# ? Jun 26, 2019 03:19

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

lost my old email posted:

dune or dune not, there is no try

you can try and fail, or try and die

# ? Jun 26, 2019 03:38

beer pal

nobody:
guy whos read the first hundred pages of dune so far: is that a CRYSKNIFE in your pocket or are you just happy to see me

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# ? Jun 26, 2019 21:25

cda: by Hand Knit

Did you know there's a 191-page thread about Dune in GBS? Please don't think I am suggesting you should go there, I'm just surprised that it exists

# ? Jun 26, 2019 21:35

beer pal

if you ask me gbs is a lot like the planet araknes (thats what they call the dune planet if you havent read the book) in that it sounds lovely and ive never been there

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# ? Jun 26, 2019 21:54

beer pal

did you finish a memory called empire cda and what did you think of it? what u gonna read next?

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# ? Jun 26, 2019 21:56

cda: by Hand Knit

beer pal posted:

did you finish a memory called empire cda and what did you think of it? what u gonna read next?

Yes, and I liked it a lot. It's not great great literature but it's thoughtful and well-plotted with strong characterizations and some interesting ideas and two cool and compelling cultures at the heart of it. I didn't realize that it was the first in a series and the other books haven't been published/(written?) yet, which is a bummer, but it stands alone reasonably well for 9/10ths of it.

After that I read Infomocracy which is a cyberpunk political thriller about the not-too-distant future where, basically, Google (called Information in the novel) has become a one-stop shop for information and communication and the world has been broken up into 100,000 person "centenals" which each vote on their own governments in elections run by Information and every 10 years there's a worldwide election to determine the "Supermajority" government that gets extra power for the next ten years. There are a bunch of very cool and interesting ideas about politics and democracy and the relation between knowledge and behavior in the book but the characters are all the same person and the plotting involves some bullshit so I don't know if I'll read the next two in the series. It was aight.

Now I'm reading The Poppy War which is about...I don't really know yet because I'm only on chapter 2 but it is apparently "grimdark" whatever that means. I didn't read sci fi and fantasy for almost 20 years but recently my brain let me know that it would like to read some stuff that's entertaining and not very difficult or emotionally draining so I'm trying to give it what it wants.

# ? Jun 26, 2019 23:34

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

beer pal posted:

if you ask me gbs is a lot like the planet araknes (thats what they call the dune planet if you havent read the book) in that it sounds lovely and ive never been there

is it full of big fat worms as well?

# ? Jun 26, 2019 23:54

Farecoal: There he go

cda I would highly recommend The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie, starting with The Blade Itself. Fantasy trilogy that I wouldn't call grimdark, but instead very cynical. I listened to the audiobooks and really enjoyed them

# ? Jun 27, 2019 00:28

google THIS

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

is it full of big fat worms as well?

A thousand Baron Harkonnens debating themes, forever. A fart within a fart within a fart.

# ? Jun 27, 2019 00:47

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

google THIS posted:

A thousand Baron Harkonnens debating themes, forever. A fart within a fart within a fart.

post without rhythm to avoid the mod

# ? Jun 27, 2019 01:04

beer pal

cda posted:

Yes, and I liked it a lot. It's not great great literature but it's thoughtful and well-plotted with strong characterizations and some interesting ideas and two cool and compelling cultures at the heart of it. I didn't realize that it was the first in a series and the other books haven't been published/(written?) yet, which is a bummer, but it stands alone reasonably well for 9/10ths of it.

cool i think i'll pick it up some time

ive only recently managed to make reading a natural routine thing in my day after a long time being the guy with the new years resolution to read more and it feels real nice to know when i start a book that i'll get through it in a week or two instead of having it sit around for like three months making me feel guilty

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# ? Jun 27, 2019 01:16

Lil Swamp Booger Baby

I once played Dune 2000 and the Fremen say "Muad'dib?" When you click on them sometimes and I literally had it stuck in my head for a week I would walk around going "Muad'dib?" to myself repeatedly.

# ? Jun 28, 2019 23:35

alnilam

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

I once played Dune 2000 and the Fremen say "Muad'dib?" When you click on them sometimes and I literally had it stuck in my head for a week I would walk around going "Muad'dib?" to myself repeatedly.

Fun fact the protoss greeting "En taro a Dune" means "should i read Dune?"

# ? Jun 29, 2019 01:19

google THIS

Body water is your life
And without it you would die
On the desert the planet Dune
Without a still suit you would fry
Locked in there tighter'n a frog's butt in a watermelon seed fight
In a world called Arrakis

# ? Jun 29, 2019 01:47

Bobby Deluxe

if that is a crysknife in your pocket please keep it in its little house :ohdear:

# ? Jun 29, 2019 10:58

Papa Was A Video Toaster

alnilam posted:

Fun fact the protoss greeting "En taro a Dune" means "should i read Dune?"

# ? Jun 29, 2019 15:27

Lil Swamp Booger Baby

alnilam posted:

Fun fact the protoss greeting "En taro a Dune" means "should i read Dune?"

Very depressing if you think about it because their question never gets answered "En Taro Adun Tassadar" and then "The zerg are overwhelming us executor" okay bro sure fine but can you answer my question?

I think none of the Protoss have read Dune and are too ashamed to admit it.

# ? Jun 29, 2019 20:29

alnilam

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

Very depressing if you think about it because their question never gets answered "En Taro Adun Tassadar" and then "The zerg are overwhelming us executor" okay bro sure fine but can you answer my question?

I think none of the Protoss have read Dune and are too ashamed to admit it.

lol

# ? Jun 29, 2019 23:50