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Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

I don't find that too implausible given eventually pretty much every human ever to live on Earth is the ancestor of all of humanity or none of them.

# ? Feb 27, 2020 13:26

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# ? May 30, 2024 14:01

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I don't find that too implausible given eventually pretty much every human ever to live on Earth is the ancestor of all of humanity or none of them.

This is true. I can trace an unbroken line to Charlemagne... But so can a million other people if they have the data. Doesn't make me special in the slightest.

# ? Feb 27, 2020 13:33

Tree Bucket: Apr 1, 2016; R.I.P.idura leucophrys

D. Ebdrup posted:

The thing about Atreides descending from the ancient empires doesn't come from the non-existent writings of the failson; it's from GEoD as that book references Ashurnasirpal as the guardian that Leto II selects to avoid being possessed (by a more malignant personality, at any rate), and that was the name of a couple of kings of Assyria around 1000 B.C.

I'm trying to think of any personalities more malignant than the average Assyrian ruler, and there aren't that many.
(What are your opinions on flaying, for business and/or pleasure?)

# ? Feb 27, 2020 13:44

Heather Papps: Nov 1, 2007; hello friend

Tree Bucket posted:

I'm trying to think of any personalities more malignant than the average Assyrian ruler, and there aren't that many.
(What are your opinions on flaying, for business and/or pleasure?)

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man. There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery. Can you say he did this out of a sense of justice? Whose justice, then? Remember, we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins, the Muad'Dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: "I am the Kwisatz Haderach. That is reason enough."

# ? Feb 27, 2020 13:50

Bubblyblubber: Nov 17, 2014

Rime posted:

I'm annoyed that "7000 year old cyborg-savant in cometary orbit dispensing world-shattering technologies until killed by religious ideologues" was thrown out in favor of...the KJA trashfires. This is a very Herbertian idea.

If we can't have Holtzmann zooming around an elliptical orbit just shouting dopplering mad science truth at the near apsis, what is even the point of all this dune bullshit?

# ? Feb 27, 2020 16:10

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

# ? Feb 27, 2020 16:53

Goldreallas XXX: Oct 22, 2009

That chronology looks exactly like something ancient Chinese historians would cook up to justify that these steppe nomads are the actual successors of the Great Empire that has existed in its exact modern shape without ever changing for thousands of years.

# ? Feb 27, 2020 17:05

Tree Bucket: Apr 1, 2016; R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Heather Papps posted:

we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins

Ahah, I completely forgot about that quote. The Assyrians were really into flaying.

Goldreallas XXX posted:

That chronology looks exactly like something ancient Chinese historians would cook up to justify that these steppe nomads are the actual successors of the Great Empire that has existed in its exact modern shape without ever changing for thousands of years.

~~Five~~ ten thousand years of Galactic culture!!!

# ? Feb 27, 2020 21:35

exmachina: Mar 12, 2006; Look Closer

Question: Are there any male POV in the last 2 books apart from Teg? Does Duncan get any POV in Heretics or Chapterhouse?

# ? Feb 28, 2020 17:45

Bubblyblubber: Nov 17, 2014

There's some brief sections during his training/escape in gammu and then in the no ship.

Everything else in the books is nonstop PIV for Duncan, I'm afraid.

# ? Feb 28, 2020 17:56

Admiralty Flag: Jun 7, 2007; to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

Bubblyblubber posted:

Everything else in the books is nonstop PIV for Duncan, I'm afraid.

Can you blame him, considering the combination of BG & Honored Matres Parana bindu techniques? I'd be nonstop PIV too. Well, if I weren't lying on the floor somewhere on Giedi Prime a few millennia earlier with a missing heart plug, which, let's face it, is a far more likely outcome for me if I were in the Dune-iverse

# ? Feb 29, 2020 00:22

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Bubblyblubber posted:

There's some brief sections during his training/escape in gammu and then in the no ship.

Everything else in the books is nonstop PIV for Duncan, I'm afraid.

I lol'd

# ? Feb 29, 2020 00:35

Tree Bucket: Apr 1, 2016; R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Admiralty Flag posted:

Can you blame him, considering the combination of BG & Honored Matres Parana bindu techniques? I'd be nonstop PIV too. Well, if I weren't lying on the floor somewhere on Giedi Prime a few millennia earlier with a missing heart plug, which, let's face it, is a far more likely outcome for me if I were in the Dune-iverse

I seem to remember there were a great few pages way back in this thread, where everyone worked out what their character would be in Dune. (Most people settled on "corpse" or "peasant" or "fat celibate navigator" I think)

# ? Feb 29, 2020 00:45

BeanpolePeckerwood: May 4, 2004; I MAY LOOK LIKE SHIT BUT IM ALSO DUMB AS FUCK

Bubblyblubber posted:

There's some brief sections during his training/escape in gammu and then in the no ship.

Everything else in the books is nonstop PIV for Duncan, I'm afraid.

a good post

# ? Feb 29, 2020 00:56

Pham Nuwen: Oct 30, 2010

Tree Bucket posted:

I seem to remember there were a great few pages way back in this thread, where everyone worked out what their character would be in Dune. (Most people settled on "corpse" or "peasant" or "fat celibate navigator" I think)

I'm Guild Vacuum Technician #3 in the throne room scene

# ? Feb 29, 2020 03:10

SIGSEGV: Nov 4, 2010

I'm a Caladanian farmhand slave making GBS threads myself to death in a rice paddy with horribly liquid diarrhea from a trivially preventable disease. No fremen witnesses my demise, probably for the best for all of us.

# ? Feb 29, 2020 03:19

Tree Bucket: Apr 1, 2016; R.I.P.idura leucophrys

SIGSEGV posted:

I'm a Caladanian farmhand slave making GBS threads myself to death in a rice paddy with horribly liquid diarrhea from a trivially preventable disease. No fremen witnesses my demise, probably for the best for all of us.

How much will that particular shipment of pundi rice sell for, do you think?

# ? Feb 29, 2020 06:39

Mrs. Dash: Apr 11, 2009

Pham Nuwen posted:

I'm Guild Vacuum Technician #3 in the throne room scene

The one that falls over behind the navigator tank?

# ? Feb 29, 2020 08:56

exmachina: Mar 12, 2006; Look Closer

SIGSEGV posted:

I'm a Caladanian farmhand slave making GBS threads myself to death in a rice paddy with horribly liquid diarrhea from a trivially preventable disease. No fremen witnesses my demise, probably for the best for all of us.

Poor water discipline

# ? Feb 29, 2020 09:04

priznat: Jul 7, 2009; Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Pham Nuwen posted:

I'm Guild Vacuum Technician #3 in the throne room scene

I�m the guy who holds the microphone for the other guy

# ? Feb 29, 2020 17:00

SubponticatePoster: Aug 9, 2004; Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.; Slippery Tilde

Pham Nuwen posted:

I'm Guild Vacuum Technician #3 in the throne room scene

I'm the Fremen lady at the end who's like "what the gently caress is this poo poo" when it starts raining.

# ? Feb 29, 2020 18:13

kiimo: Jul 24, 2003

SubponticatePoster posted:

I'm the Fremen lady at the end who's like "what the gently caress is this poo poo" when it starts raining.

kiimo posted:

And how can this BEEE

For he is the Kitchen Counterach

# ? Feb 29, 2020 18:15

phasmid: Jan 16, 2015; Booty Shaker
SILENT MAJORITY

SIGSEGV posted:

I'm a Caladanian farmhand slave making GBS threads myself to death in a rice paddy with horribly liquid diarrhea from a trivially preventable disease. No fremen witnesses my demise, probably for the best for all of us.

The Atreides don't keep slaves. Although I'm p sure serfdom is still a thing.

# ? Mar 1, 2020 02:20

Mister Speaker: May 8, 2007; WE WILL CONTROL
ALL THAT YOU SEE
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I'm a pug

# ? Mar 1, 2020 04:04

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

Mister Speaker posted:

I'm a pug

Pretty sure nobody's allowed to be the pug. The pug is too powerful.

# ? Mar 1, 2020 10:34

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

I'm a sandworm

# ? Mar 1, 2020 12:30

Heather Papps: Nov 1, 2007; hello friend

i'm an ant, on old terra

# ? Mar 1, 2020 12:36

Anne Frank Funk: Nov 4, 2008

I�m a horned up axolotl tank technician

# ? Mar 1, 2020 12:37

Vlex: Aug 4, 2006; I'd rather be a climbing ape than a big titty angel.

Anne Frank Funk posted:

I’m a horned up axolotl tank technician

my DMs are open

# ? Mar 1, 2020 14:30

Johnny Aztec: Jan 30, 2005; by Hand Knit

"Can you gently caress the Axolotl tank? Buddy, they don't even let ME gently caress the tanks!

# ? Mar 1, 2020 15:10

Prolonged Panorama: Dec 21, 2007; Holy hookrat Sally smoking crack in the alley!

# ? Mar 1, 2020 22:57

Shageletic: Jul 25, 2007

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I think it's implied they know where Earth is but it's not really considered too important, basically like people treat Africa. Also it's probably ecologically turbofucked. (though they could possibly fix that)

It's also implied Leto II enforces accurate history books? Not sure how publicly available those are made, though he does show active displeasure against deliberately inaccurate historians. His whole regime seems implied to be a deliberately smothering yet fragile tyranny that's designed to collapse without him at the centre.

Always thought it was hilarious about how obviously real peevish Frank was about lovely historians, taking aside a few paragraphs to talk about defenestrating historians who suck at their jobs or whatever.

# ? Mar 2, 2020 17:41