basic hitler posted:

Our government isnt exactly wise and all knowing about all this bud. It was a dumb kneejerk regulation.

Unlike other nootropics the piracetam family of compounds is useful and mixjng them with some adderall is about as close as one can get to IRL sapho juice

Pham Nuwen posted:

Afriscipio posted:

Dune: spice opera

Dune II: the building of a dunasty

SniperWoreConverse posted:

I watched lynch's on prime and uh
it kinda sucks
weird edits like stilgar coughs when he was obviously talking, or there's voiceover narration from the empress' daughter, or it feels fast forwarded like half way in till the end. Don't remember it like that

Anne Frank Funk posted:

It is by will alone I split the sandwich in twain. It is by the real mayo that thighs acquire girth, the shirts acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I split the sandwich in twain.

kiimo posted:

It's amazing what this thread is capable of discussing when we take a break from poop cakes.

I love how the Dune universe is space terriformed by man with no aliens. It's pretty unique among sci-fi properties for that reason . It's like a sci-fi bottle episode.

The best sci-fi bottle episode movie I thought was Enemy Mine but I didn't consider Dune until now

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

Very real.

D. Ebdrup posted:

Great, so I'll have to unmark this thread, to avoid spoilers?
I like going into watching movies knowing as little as humanly possible, to just take in the movie and get the most out of it.

Ingmar terdman posted:

Feels like this might be a controversial ranking but:

Dunc
Dunc Messiah
God Emperor of Dunc
Children of Dunc

Tree Bucket posted:

Ok, that makes sense. I mean there's a bunch of "testing stations" everywhere, isn't there?
I guess capital is in the process of turning earth into arrakis, minus the giant worms

kiimo posted:

I joined a Dune facebook group and there's a big faction of failson readers who jump on anybody for criticizing the books or them for reading and liking them. I left the group. Life is too short to deal with that poo poo.

Or to be on facebook to be honest

euphronius posted:

Vinge before he went nuts was one of the best

Rip

uber_stoat posted:

love it? share it!

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

you are 28 months too late for this joke

priznat posted:

Yeah that was super unfortunate. Also the guy who did the golden age trilogy who went militant catholic.

uber_stoat posted:

it's basically Objectivist sci fi. the big bad is a stand in for totalitarian communism. lmao

The Bloop posted:

Is that an error or are the satchel and fremkit actually identical models


also lol at that worm

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Fremen god dammit phone autocorrect

kalel posted:

happy 700 pages of posting about beefswelling

Shoehead posted:

Is the guy who invented ftl floating as a cyborg around a planet Frank or the other two idiots?

Mister Speaker posted:

i don't wanna work

i just wanna bang on the drum all day

Gomez Chamberlain posted:

TK-42-1 posted:

I mean, they are. But so is the source material. And the x-wing books are good enough until you get to wraith squadron which is actually really good for ya sci-fi.

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

Tom Bombadil predates all of the races of Middle-Earth, so I can understand why people think he might be a kind of god; I always read it as him being a manifestation of the power of coincidences/randomness.