Bubblyblubber posted:

Failson wakes up, sweating from the kaleidoscopic fever dreams, and weakly scribbles on his Lord Cybertrex bedside notebook:

"Paaaul, the true kwisatz haderach"

Tree Bucket posted:

Because... hold on a second...kwisatz thingy means the shortening of the way, right? And what way could possibly be shorter than never moving at all? So if we cloned the cloniest possible clone of a clone, then---

Bubblyblubber posted:

Gods below, Tree Bucket. Do you want Bijaz? Because that's how you get Bijaz.

Bubblyblubber posted:

Failson wakes up, sweating from the kaleidoscopic fever dreams, and weakly scribbles on his Lord Cybertrex bedside notebook:

"Paaaul, the true kwisatz haderach"

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

It's not Paul, it's his evil ghola Paaul.

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

So with the making GBS threads of our economy and the studio distribution on indefinite hold, what kind of delays are we thinking about for this?

tanglewood1420 posted:

What this may do is screw up the chance of Dune part 2. Which sucks.

Tree Bucket posted:

Buzzfeed2025 is written on scraps of paper by a blind monk, and thrown to the breeze on a windy day

Pham Nuwen posted:

Top Ten Things I Remember from Before The EVENT

!Klams posted:

There were re shoots planned that got cancelled, and it was on for a December release, so I wouldn't be surprised if that shifted back a couple of months.

Tree Bucket posted:

Number 7 Will Shock You!
For it is electricity, you see

Captain Hygiene posted:

Zopotantor posted:

From the blessed thread.

Vlex posted:

i qanat even

Prolonged Priapism posted:

In lieu of official news I'm still working on my tribute. This is a concept for the final shot, as we zoom out and out and out and the title fades in. The vibe is supposed to be late 1960s.

Improbable Lobster posted:

UH i THINK you will find that in book 3 of the House Lord Terminatrex: Cyber Wars series it is established that one of Arrakis's moons has a ring because it is an ancient satellite built by hyper intelligent sandworms created when Leto II died and triggered his time folding device to fold sand trouts carrying his own conciousness back in time to build the M.A.U.D.I.B. super crysknife needed to slay the Dark God Emperor, which was given to Paauul after the Mecha-Baron Hyper Ghola decided to protect the hyper cube containing the soul of Doctor Yeuh from the reborn Desert Stealth Strike Rabban.

Mister Speaker posted:

beefswelling

Improbable Lobster posted:

UH i THINK you will find that in book 3 of the House Lord Terminatrex: Cyber Wars series it is established that one of Arrakis's moons has a ring because it is an ancient satellite built by hyper intelligent sandworms created when Leto II died and triggered his time folding device to fold sand trouts carrying his own conciousness back in time to build the M.A.U.D.I.B. super crysknife needed to slay the Dark God Emperor, which was given to Paauul after the Mecha-Baron Hyper Ghola decided to protect the hyper cube containing the soul of Doctor Yeuh from the reborn Desert Stealth Strike Rabban.

Mad Hamish posted:

I can't even tell if this is real or fake and that makes me both angry and happy enough that I'm not looking it up to find out.

quote:

Absolutely stunning. After completing it’s thousand-year metamorphosis into the constantly undulating form you now see before you, this putrefying worm creature has announced it’s candidacy for President of the United States. It’s the first candidate to run as a school-bus sized Cronenberg monster in the Democratic Party’s history.

Voters are starting to view it as the strategic choice. While some have described it as disgusting, terrifying, or prone to dismember potential dissidents — it may still be our best chance at beating Trump.

“Well, I didn’t like how it used the Spice Melange to show me the exact moment of my death in perfect clarity. But I suppose having him hold Humanity in eternal bondage is better than four more years of Trump.”— Karen, undecided voter from Arizona.
Despite some early pessimism, it’s campaign is picking up steam. As an immortal Arrakian Sand Worm, it’s currently the second oldest candidate on stage — after Joe Biden. Top anthropologists also speculate that it’s dwindling, necrotic, unrecognizable, once-human core may be a person of color. A win for diversity!

“I used to feel that the best way to get back at the system was to rebel against it. I see now that all rebels are closet aristocrats.” -Dave, former Andrew Yang supporter who refused to comment on the small bag of cinnamon-smelling powder clutched between his feverishly sweating fingers.

While Biden maintains a commanding lead among the 65+ demographic, this hellish dis-amalgamation of warring consciousnesses has gained traction among voters aged 18–25, and those addicted to the mysterious, illicit, mind-expanding spice which seems to come from the monster’s body.
“Sure I like Sanders, but when the God-Emperor showed me the inevitability of humanity’s submission to it’s Golden Path, I knew that I had to start looking at realistic options.” -Janet, College Student

Phil Moscowitz posted:

Is Muad’dib the fash?

Does it matter?

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Ah, okay.

I did get the impression that since the Jihad they fill a lot of technological gaps with biotechnology, probably derived from alien and/or heavily genetically engineered life-forms. It's the Tleilaxu's whole thing and all; they're probably breaking the rules but everything they export has plausible deniability. You can definitely see where Warhammer got the idea, though as usual taking everything to a ridiculous extreme to look more like a heavy metal album cover.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I wasn't sure that Sappo Juice is a different thing from Spice.

Mentats oddly enough are basically the equivalent of computers from an era where it wasn't long ago when 'computer' was a job title, not a machine. I think other sci-fi before then, maybe Lensman, had 'computer hacking' be telepathically taking control of a room full of people calculating numbers. Also goes with the theme that the Jihad probably backfired in that it just let to human beings being made into machines.

Phil Moscowitz posted:

Is Muad’dib the fash?

Does it matter?

Armadillo Tank posted:

Dune question: when they have things like groundcars, shields, planes of various types, autonomous assassin drones, and other science doo-dads that obviously require precision computer systems: Where exactly is the line drawn with that and thinking machines.

My problem may just be we have dumb-machines that are absolutely not AI that are more dynamic than dune machines, but the tech level of dune is so wonky and inconsistent.