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skasion posted:Herbert is kind of vague and/or changed his mind about how much more life spice gets you. In the first book it doesn’t seem like that much, decades rather than centuries. Later it seems more powerful, like Miles is loving 300 or something. Miles is that old due to selective breeding. He's never touched spice.
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skasion posted:Herbert is kind of vague and/or changed his mind about how much more life spice gets you. In the first book it doesn’t seem like that much, decades rather than centuries. Later it seems more powerful, like Miles is loving 300 or something. The Bene Gesserit are supposed to get them as well after they undergo the spice agony. Also there are a lot of people that are using contact lenses to conceal the extent of their spice addiction in the books.
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So eyes of ibad = methmouth? Thinking about the spice further - the BG Reverend Mother process is one way to obtain prescience, but its sketchy and requires years of BG training at a minimum. How do Guild Navigators do it? Are they literally just marinating in spicy meringue farts until their inner eye is open / they have fish faces? Could the BG have locked a mentat in a fart locker and came out with a KH figure on the spot?
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Vampire Panties posted:How do Guild Navigators do it? Are they literally just marinating in spicy meringue farts until their inner eye is open / they have fish faces? Mohiam says "The Guild, so we think, emphasizes almost pure mathematics." So another form of extreme mental control and conditioning + lots of spice.
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Nov 12, 2021 04:27
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BG dont have prescience, they have ancestral memories instead The Guild looks forward while the Bene Gesserit look back
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AnEdgelord posted:BG dont have prescience, they have ancestral memories instead  
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AnEdgelord posted:BG dont have prescience, they have ancestral memories instead 
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Nov 12, 2021 05:47
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TK-42-1 posted:Daily Fremen Schedule: Muad'Dib kills sixty billion people, you're almost thinking... "well done!"
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Nov 12, 2021 05:55
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Halloween Jack posted:A handful of spice will buy you a home on Tupile, so I don't think the middle class is putting spice in their morning coffee. I assume it's as rare and expensive as whatever Satanic elixir keeps Henry Kissinger and Nancy Pelosi alive. I assume it was pretty diluted but presumably a random Fremen who moved off-world in Paul's Jihad would have been able to afford enough to keep his habit up.
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Nov 12, 2021 06:35
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Nobody offworld outside like Guild Navigators has access to anything like the same quantities. Fremen are snorting space acid worth many times its weight in gold with every breath I think Edric is a fish-man because he's from space, not because he does so much spice. He needs the tank because normal gravity would kill him.
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Nov 12, 2021 07:48
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mossyfisk posted:I think Edric is a fish-man because he's from space, not because he does so much spice. He needs the tank because normal gravity would kill him. Dune doesn't really do "aliens" or non-Earth-like conditions, unless I grossly misremember 5-6's explanations.
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Nov 12, 2021 08:30
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the navigators are mainlining concentrated spice 24/7 the fremen are just basically living in a lovely tenement breathing asbestos
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Nov 12, 2021 08:32
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Guild Navigator: Yeah I like Dune.. ..Dune concentrated spice! No I will never tire of this joke format stop asking
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priznat posted:Guild Navigator: Yeah I like Dune.. Is it possible to still make an original Fremen poop/thigh pad/stillsuit-fart joke? Or, after five hundred and ninety-nine pages, have we reached the limits of the format?
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Nov 12, 2021 10:17
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I bet you can boof the spice. I bet Frank's last book would have had a vague description of spice boofing. It may even have been in his notes, but failson and KJA saw it and were like "eww, no butt stuff."
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Nov 12, 2021 10:28
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If you wonder how he poops and pees, and other science facts You'll be pleased to hear that we do know, it's processed in the thigh pads
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So is all the spice in their diet filtered into the thighpads with their poop? Can you get high on fremen poop?
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Shoehead posted:I kinda wish those movies were more stand alone because he's perfect for the ernest dork trying to do the right thing vibe teenage Peter Parker always seems to have, I just wanted him to deal with like Rhino ruining a school dance or some poo poo without taking to Tony Stark about it first
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mossyfisk posted:I think Edric is a fish-man because he's from space, not because he does so much spice. He needs the tank because normal gravity would kill him. It's definitely because he freebases spice gas 24/7 galagazombie posted:So is all the spice in their diet filtered into the thighpads with their poop? Can you get high on fremen poop? It's worth finding out. You go first let's see Tree Bucket posted:Is it possible to still make an original Fremen poop/thigh pad/stillsuit-fart joke? Or, after five hundred and ninety-nine pages, have we reached the limits of the format? We'll never get fresh poop jokes with that attitude. For instance you go into a public bathroom right after a Fremen and yell out WHEW WHAT DIED IN HERE IT SMELLS LIKE SPOILED CINNAMON LATTEeeeeeeuhhhhh....whoa. WHOA. Tracers, man. Bro get in here you have to hit this dude
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Pretty sure the Fremen have extensive jokes based around stillsuits functioning properly or otherwise
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is that a malfunctioning feces filter that got all jammed up in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
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Nov 12, 2021 15:59
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Do they stop and take a little break to poop or have they trained themselves to just poo poo mid-stride?
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Ror posted:Do they stop and take a little break to poop or have they trained themselves to just poo poo mid-stride? Well the thighpad processing motion works best when you're squatting, so yes.
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Lol, I looked up the 6-book boxed set of Frank's Dune books on Amazon, and found this confusing 1-star review:quote:I have a profound appreciation for the Dune novels. If you want to read Frank Herbert's Dune, then keep looking, this is not it. This is an edited, redacted, and sanitized version that has produced a kinder, gentler Dune. Without the deleted segments, the Harkonnens are not as despicable and evil, the Bene Gesserite are not as plotting and manipulating, the Navigators are not self made freaks (and not even a mention of folding space). The result of the decent into a sea of grey is that the Atreides also do not stand out in contrast. If you want a more family friendly Dune, this is for you.
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Martman posted:Lol, I looked up the 6-book boxed set of Frank's Dune books on Amazon, and found this confusing 1-star review: This is weirdly common. Not this specific delusion but the error of attributing Lynch Dune stuff to the original book, sometimes even from people who don’t like the movie.
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Nov 12, 2021 16:14
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Yeah I mix that poo poo up constantly, and I've read the book a whole bunch.
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I just love the idea of Mandela-effecting yourself into thinking the SJWs ruined your favorite books
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*me, my fat gross body looming over the terrified young woman i have cornered at the party* "when is a gift not a gift?" "sorry, i have to go now!"
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Nov 12, 2021 16:53
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If you poop without rhythm, you probably need more fiber and vegetables in your diet.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:If you poop without rhythm, you probably need more fiber and vegetables in your diet. hey everybody check out scatman over here!
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DandyLion posted:hey everybody check out scatman over here! Everybody's prescient one way or the other So check out my message to you As a matter of vice, I don't let nothin' touch my spice If the Muad'Dib can do it, so can you
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Tree Bucket posted:Is it possible to still make an original Fremen poop/thigh pad/stillsuit-fart joke? Or, after five hundred and ninety-nine pages, have we reached the limits of the format? Nothing is ever new, we're only plagiarizing the classics again and again. “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not shart in her husband’s thighpads, ruining the silence of the desert crossing and endangering the whole tribe.”
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Bubblyblubber posted:Nothing is ever new, we're only plagiarizing the classics again and again. "That's why I poo poo without rhythm." 
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Nov 12, 2021 18:08
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“Polish comes from the cities; jerky from the desert.” -Arrakeen villager saying
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Ror posted:Everybody's prescient one way or the other 'While you're still sleeping, the saints are still weeping because Things you call dead haven't had the chance to be born. I'm the God Emperor." - Leto Atreides II, The Stolen Journals
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Imagine walking without rhythm and smearing your poo encrusted cheeks across each other all day long
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Nov 12, 2021 18:33
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Mrs. Dash posted:Imagine walking without rhythm and smearing your poo encrusted cheeks across each other all day long
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Don't be gross. Stillsuits come with a pooptube.
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