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Huh. Thanks for explaining. I have minor criticisms about their methodology, but I guess they're making social media fodder, not science, so who cares. Except the guy with the house.
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Prolonged Priapism posted:That scene always struck me as something he came up with very early on, when he was learning about real world dune dynamics and stable slopes and such. It highlights the alien and dangerous nature of the desert, but the way they MacGyver out of it feels out of place. The specific mechanics of the whole foam thing definitely felt sketchy, but I think it serves a good narrative purpose of taking Paul down a peg right after he basically unlocks a super power. It shows that he's still not infallible, especially when it comes to the hazards of desert life, and he has to solve some problems by cleverness and elbow grease rather than just relying on being a godlike super-Mentat.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:The specific mechanics of the whole foam thing definitely felt sketchy, but I think it serves a good narrative purpose of taking Paul down a peg right after he basically unlocks a super power. It shows that he's still not infallible, especially when it comes to the hazards of desert life, and he has to solve some problems by cleverness and elbow grease rather than just relying on being a godlike super-Mentat. That makes sense! And I guess there's some symbolism in destroying a compass of all things to survive.
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I wonder if that foreshadows stuff like nuking the shield wall; that ultimately Paul still has to be practical and use material methods to actually accomplish anything.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I wonder if that foreshadows stuff like nuking the shield wall; that ultimately Paul still has to be practical and use material methods to actually accomplish anything.
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What was up with the Futars in Chapterhouse. We know they are cat-men created by the scattered Tlilaxu to hunt the Honores Matres...isnt that uhh weird if the Honored Matres were a superpower in their old areas? And why would they then sell some to the Honored Matres when they moved into the Old Empire? Was it basically just a scam, buy a pet that dies 3 days later, or was it a bigger thing?
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The “macgyvering” segment might be to tie into the Pain Box/Gom Jabbar. Instead of giving in to pain and fear in a desperate situation, they maintain their faculties. Such is also how Jessica transforms the water of life, and so on.
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Gaj posted:What was up with the Futars in Chapterhouse. We know they are cat-men created by the scattered Tlilaxu to hunt the Honores Matres...isnt that uhh weird if the Honored Matres were a superpower in their old areas? And why would they then sell some to the Honored Matres when they moved into the Old Empire? Was it basically just a scam, buy a pet that dies 3 days later, or was it a bigger thing? We don't know because the last book ended with a vague metaphor physically attacking a literal spaceship and then Brian killed Frank at his typewriter just like Commodus but don't ask him for poo poo because he'll just dial K and they'll write a goddamned loving book about it and the movie will star some Disney idiot. IMO Futars were just the next level of BT
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Gaj posted:What was up with the Futars in Chapterhouse. We know they are cat-men created by the scattered Tlilaxu to hunt the Honores Matres...isnt that uhh weird if the Honored Matres were a superpower in their old areas? And why would they then sell some to the Honored Matres when they moved into the Old Empire? Was it basically just a scam, buy a pet that dies 3 days later, or was it a bigger thing? I think the point is that the honored matres are a superpower that actually took the reigns with the liberal application of space pussy magic. There's some dialogue about the bene gesserit knowing it eventually presents diminishing returns and leads to a population subjugated with it developing a resistance to it and possibly revolting. It's also a big plot thread in the series that the bg avoid ruling directly because they're aware of the transience of it. The result we end up seeing is killer cat people developed as a counter to space pussy magic, which is just further proof of my theory that dune is incredibly, shamelessly anime as gently caress.
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Odeade: He's above 9,000 lifetimes! Miles: ooooooooooooo
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Bubblyblubber posted:I think the point is that the honored matres are a superpower that actually took the reigns with the liberal application of space pussy magic. There's some dialogue about the bene gesserit knowing it eventually presents diminishing returns and leads to a population subjugated with it developing a resistance to it and possibly revolting. It's also a big plot thread in the series that the bg avoid ruling directly because they're aware of the transience of it. Honor Matres are Space Pussy Magic the Killer Cat people are Space Pussy Warriors
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Im the legendary Super Sandworm Oh hi Brian I didn't know you posted here, in the no Duneauthor Zone
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In the Fremen language, it's over 8000 lives.
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kiimo posted:Man did you guys see the Mandalorian with his Maker Hooks yesterday I like how this big bad sand worm thing is still like babby tier compared to shai hulud in the deep desert. I had to constantly remind my young son that this thing ate a humanoid whole like it was nothing and it’s a big deal
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kiimo posted:Man did you guys see the Mandalorian with his Maker Hooks yesterday It was more like a bigger version of those things from Tremors, and they wound up killing it kinda similarly too 
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Doc Hawkins posted:it was definitely supposed to be a krayt dragon, right? it had pearls and sounded like the noise obi-wan made and everything It was, and they do
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phasmid posted:Let's cut out a bunch of legwork and make a list of what didn't turn Frank on. fixed for you
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phasmid posted:Let's cut out a bunch of legwork and make a list of what didn't turn Frank on. Phwoar! He is the kwizatz haderach!
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Just remembered that the two biggest Dune podcasts both accept the prequels and one even used them to say Frank Herbert got something wrong in his books.
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Jihad on the dissident podcasts.
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Look everyone is free to believe what they want and stuff, but i am absolutely saying you should be in prison and possibly destroyed if you consider Brian/KJA work canon
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Riot Bimbo posted:Look everyone is free to believe what they want and stuff, but i am absolutely saying you should be in prison and possibly destroyed if you consider Brian/KJA work canon Tough, but fair.
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Riot Bimbo posted:Look everyone is free to believe what they want and stuff, but i am absolutely saying you should be on salusa secundus and possibly destroyed if you consider Brian/KJA work canon
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Twenty years in and we bone like we're cheating on each other WITH each other. Two decades-plus and the bh/kja-dune canon still pOwns my dick.
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Twenty years in and we bone like we're cheating on each other WITH each other. Two decades-plus and the bh/kja-dune canon still pOwns my dick. Is that first sentence a direct quote?
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busalover posted:Is that first sentence a direct quote? https://twitter.com/thatkevinsmith/status/2554608773?lang=en
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Ew. that's gross. in that he is saying that in a public forum. good that they still have that magic for each other, but drat there are better ways to say that Do you think anyone in the Dune universe ever ordered a Ghoula of themselves?
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Johnny Aztec posted:Ew. that's gross. but yeah you don't put up with being padisham emperor for the conventional concubines any ol' duke or baron could procure for themselves
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rereading God Emperor and just got to the bit where Leto gets horny for Hwi and he's like wtf dude, what is going on, I don't even have a dick anymore. good stuff.
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Ingmar terdman posted:I like the part where he starts crunching the numbers on turning back into a human and making Hwi gholas until then. Love that dork
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