Doc Hawkins posted:

He has to make up the language of The Voice which will shatter stones, start fires, and suffocate an enemy where he stands

SniperWoreConverse posted:

fuckin how are you going to fight or have any interaction with shai hulud with a catheter in

Temaukel posted:

Why are some navigators normal looking while others are so mutated? is there a ranking system? is it a gradual change? are they all mutated but they disguise themselves?

Prolonged Priapism posted:

Edric gets even more offputting when you find out what he wears:

"The Guild Navigator wore his usual dark leotard bulging at the belt with various containers. Yet . . . he gave the impression of nakedness when he moved. It was the swimming, reaching movements, Scytale decided, and he was struck once more by the delicate linkages of their conspiracy."

A hovering fish-man rocking 80s athleisure and tactical fanny packs.

Temaukel posted:

Nice beard Javier:

sebmojo posted:

Cyberiad owns

Tree Bucket posted:

Incidentally, do any of the words in the CHOAM acronym actually mean anything? Are they just space gibberish? Combine and Mercantiles make sense at least.


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some rando internet person posted:

To the best of my knowledge, the term is never explicitly explained in Dune/EU canon (including Dune Encyclopedia), nor on Wiki and other Dune resources.

It is a typical mishmash of "European-Indo-Slavic" language roots that characterize Galach language and Imperial institutions overall, in the case mostly seemingly French and German and Latin roots.

Combine - Latin and later French root, meaning to unite. In this case, it means both a union (in the modern sense of "company"), as well as possible reference to the duality of the union (bi part of latin root) hinting at the origins of CHOAM in the tension between Spacing Guild and Imperium

Honnete comes from Middle French (and Late Latin) root for "honest"/"honorable". The latter is a typical honorific for top classes (which CHOAM was - directors were Landsraad house leads); while the former hints at equitable resolution for abovementioned tensions between Spacing Guild and Landsraad.

Ober is of course from Old German for "super"/"very"/"upper".

Advancer (Old French with Late Latin roots again) is most likely "advancement"/"acceleration"/"promotion" based on CHOAM's purpose.

Mercantiles (French via Latin, again) is trade or items of trade.

In total, the best translation I can pick is "Honest/Honorable union for promotion of greater/higher trade".

The Bloop posted:

Anne Frank Funk posted:

I recommend only the canonical version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B6jgkcANRE

quote:

From the earliest designs, stillsuits for women were constructed differently from those of the men: in addition to the thigh pads which processed urine and feces, the women's suits included a third processing unit for reclaiming the water lost in menstrual blood. In the later, even more efficient versions, these units kept female water loss on a par with that of the male, in spite of their physiological handicap.

quote:

Dune: The Sisterhood counts among its executive producers representatives from the Frank Herbert estate, and along with that star-studded 2020 movie (which, if all goes according to plan, will be the first of two Dune films), the series is a signal that Legendary Entertainment is planning to push ahead with what THR calls a “larger plan for Dune, which also includes video games, digital content packages and comic book series.”

Temaukel posted:

https://twitter.com/IDEASOFICE_FIRE/status/1048644726524665857

The Bloop posted:

Dune the t-shirt
Dune the lunchbox
Dune the coloring book
Dune the breakfast cereal

vivisectvnv posted:

umm i want these super bad!

exmachina posted:

I hope they don't combine rabban and feyd. I can see them doing it because it reduces the number of characters easily and brushes some more problematic aspects of the Baron under the carpet.

Also the fact that they have a big-time name for Rabban, who is not actually in many scenes...

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I still want to eat Fallout Mentats.

Defiance Industries posted:

I thought Leto didn't have a choice but to take Arrakis? Wasn't the Emperor ordering him to relocate there?

Infinite Karma posted:

I'm pretty sure the ships fold space and time. But flying faster than the speed of light means it's really hard to navigate, so seeing the future is the only way to see where you're going.

Temaukel posted:

wait, what
then what the gently caress is a muad'dib

skasion posted:

Hellstrom’s Hive is fun

Mister Speaker posted:

Sorry to derail orgychat (though yeah that is mad gross that Leto and Ghanima got right into it, aren't they supposed to be like 12 in CoD?), but there's something I wanted to bring up after my latest re-read of the first book but forgot:

Paul and Chani had a kid before Leto... right? I mean the child is talked about, but apparently is killed by Sardaukar or something? Am I remembering this correctly? Previously I had thought that this kid was Leto and totally forgot that Chani tells Paul he was killed. Did Paul not at all forsee this in his prescience, or am I totally misremembering? What is the point of the kid, other than a plot device to make Paul rage out at the Emperor?

Vlex posted:

Seeing a few things on social media about filming for Dune 1: The First (Part One) having wrapped. I guess this time next year the hype machine will be in full swing.