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Arven posted:I haven't read Dune 7, but I now imagine it to be just Hunger Games with every character in the entire Dune series.
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Serious talk though, from all the sources I've seen, what Herbert actually envisioned w/r/t the Butlerian Jihad is the surveillance state we're living in now.
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Jun 21, 2018 02:07
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In that case, it would be remarkably prescient in predicting the ideology of the current Democratic Party. By the by, my specific source is short story Herbert wrote for a California newspaper in the form of a news article. It recounts how people in the 21st century violently rebelled against computerization because it enabled a police surveillance state. So his idea of AI is just more genuinely human than the machine learning algorithms Facebook and Google and everyone else are using.
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Jun 21, 2018 03:01
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What's in the box, bitch?
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Jun 26, 2018 17:30
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I once made a simple FUDGE adaptation for playing in Dune. It was fun, even for people who'd never played a roleplaying game before and hadn't read Dune.
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Jun 27, 2018 02:37
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Pham Nuwen posted:don't blueball me you fucker
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Jun 27, 2018 21:49
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Imperium looks like they've put a lot of thought into it; it's been through multiple editions and even has original art. Alas, I don't speak French.
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Jun 28, 2018 15:18
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I assume Suk doctors receive very specific conditioning so that they can deal with any kind of injury and suffering while treating a patient, but abhor it in the abstract. Thinking about the person closest to him in an Infinite Painmaking Machine pushed him over the edge and allowed him to rationalize the betrayal, etc. Still seems like something somebody would've tried before.
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Jun 28, 2018 19:22
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tight aspirations posted:If a human/BG can control any nerve in their body, and effectively just ignore pain then why did she not do that? basic hitler posted:Only later BG have refined their abilities to that point, I think. JacquelineDempsey posted:"His name is a grilling word." Murray Mantoinette posted:e: wait your name isn’t Jamis is it? THE BAR posted:I don't know why the Sardaukar had to wear NBC suits in the movie, but it was kinda neat.
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Jul 5, 2018 15:51
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basic hitler posted:Unless you're about to sell it it doesn't matter FINE Player's Handbook Setting Handbook
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Jul 5, 2018 15:55
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It's just FUDGE, or more accurately, FATE with the Aspects stripped out. I will probably add in the rules for Dueling, Weirding, and Shield-Fighting maneuvers at some point. I wish I had something more concrete for measuring the political advancement of your House as a whole. I'm so used to hacking together poo poo and pirating old OOP games that "Just convert the Company rules from Reign and adapt the maneuver rules from the original Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium seems like a reasonable thing to say, even though that's patently nuts.
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Jul 5, 2018 16:58
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Stephane Picq's soundtrack for the games is still very listenable if you like retro nerd technopop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pz67KeUhTg
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Jul 9, 2018 03:50
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Doon. Beer planet.
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Jul 13, 2018 17:04
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Eh, I'm sure even the Fremen would look at that and go "nah, we're good."
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Jul 17, 2018 16:30
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The glossary at the back of Dune mentions ships designed to Constructicon themselves together and attack strongpoints by falling on them. I think Paul mentions them once, in passing. It never comes up again.
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Jul 17, 2018 17:35
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Are stillsuits electronic? Could that maybe rationalize how they don't kill you?
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Jul 17, 2018 18:37
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Saying that KJA's writing is a pure expression of is soul is more cruel than anything I could think of to say about him.
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Jul 17, 2018 19:44
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Idaho.
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Amethyst posted:It is not interesting. It is a dead simple rant about bureaucrats, likely motivated from frustration. it isn't really philosophy. There is no serious examination of why instinct is better than caution. It's just an assertion. Amethyst posted:I don't think anyone should dive into a 500 page political treatise written by Frank Herbert before they read, say, Capital by Marx Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Apr 29, 2019 |
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Apr 29, 2019 16:01
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Uproot your posts from their thread and the dangling roots will be seen. More posts!
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May 2, 2019 03:39
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I see Vance as the counterpoint to Herbert. Where Herbert is very concerned with showing you how a culture develops in response to its ecological and historical situation, Vance deliberately creates implausible cultures as set-pieces in a strange menagerie to explore wild ideas.
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May 3, 2019 16:04
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Phanatic posted:How so? Paul's the ducal heir and his mother was just a concubine. If bastards are still legitimate heirs, then how does polygamy lead to succession crises? Also, did y'all miss the cult of psychic ninja witches that's insinuated itself into every Great House to control their lines of succession?
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May 24, 2019 00:31
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Because the wives, unlike the concubines, would be noblewomen.
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May 24, 2019 01:45
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skasion posted:The BGs have implicitly married everyone of note for millennia. Besides not really weird if the emperor of the known universe is doing it. Reading between the lines, it seems like they have a monopoly on the education of young women of rank.
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May 24, 2019 14:40
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He was also surprised that the saltwater didn't taste good.
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Jul 19, 2019 16:38
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I dont know posted:Did Frank outright say CHOAM was an OPEC analog?
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Dec 20, 2019 15:29
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I want Darren Criss. I also want him to play Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen.
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Jan 8, 2020 21:18
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:climax with jamis, take his waifu take his water, then climax with chani who likes paul waters
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Jan 9, 2020 17:06
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By and large, the miniseries has better costumes than the Lynch movie. The officer uniforms and the stillsuits were the standouts of the film; the problem is that half the cast is wearing shiny black costumes that also look like stillsuits.
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Jan 10, 2020 00:39
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Philthy posted:You are out of your drat mind.
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Jan 10, 2020 14:58
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Absolutely. Bob Ringwood's stillsuits are unimpeachable, but the fact that 3/4 of the cast is also wearing some kind of black rubber costume detracts from them. Also, here's hoping the Sardaukar don't look like mecha anime. I wish people would stop illustrating them in power armor. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Jan 10, 2020 |
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Jan 10, 2020 15:04
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skasion posted:The nobility and their retainers wear military uniforms because that’s who they are. They’re warlords who head private armies. Sting in a chrome speedo captures the character of the Harkonnens perfectly imo. It's just that a lot of costumes that aren't military uniforms are, hmm, something made of black plastic, and/or maybe we'll shave their heads? quote:The women’s costumes are particularly awesome — Mohiam’s weird headdress and mesh gauntlet, Irulan’s golden dresses and enormous collars and veils, Jessica’s gigantic umbrella/hood on Caladan. To sum up, both versions have their strengths and weaknesses. I'm less impressed by what Lynch's team did with $45 million than I am with what Harrison's team did with the change under SyFy's couch cushions. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jan 10, 2020 |
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Jan 10, 2020 17:28
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Might also come into play that the Weirding Way and voice is a thing, Bene Gesserit can at least briefly halt attackers with a commanding voice, and the kids are expected to be prodigies given their father was, well, Paul. Point is they could be expected to have a lot of tactics that would impede a human attacker, but a couple of tigers who've been given a taste for young fremen flesh aren't going to be susceptible in the same way.
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Jan 22, 2020 16:42
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You gotta love that Star Wars: Episode IX revolves around a distant spooky planet where a cult maintains forbidden technology.
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May 8, 2020 16:31
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No one does anything with the Dune franchise without Brian Herbert on board in some kind of official capacity.
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May 10, 2020 16:46
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Hawat very carefully gave the Baron a mixture of good and bad advice, in the scene where he explains the origins of the Sardaukar to him. He also plays Feyd and the Baron against each other.
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Jul 23, 2021 16:57
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Does Miles Teg pronounce his name like "Miles O'Brien" or "Miles Gloriosus"
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Nov 6, 2021 02:28
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I took it as a tribute to the castration scene from The Holy Mountain.
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Nov 9, 2021 16:10
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skasion posted:Shaddam definitely has a sanctuary of 1000 testicles
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I've made punch with edible glitter and it's a lot of fun.
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