whydirt posted:

I’m pretty sure the thinking machines that triggered the Butlerian Jihad were social media algorithms

Prolonged Priapism posted:

One of my favorite bits of the trailer, along with the suspensor slow falling Sardaukar and burning trees. Very small details that show how much care has gone in to this. Setting up Paul's Imperial/Atreides salute to contrast with the Fremen one he uses against Feyd.

a guy posted:

At one point, Yang helps the civilization in the game invent a computer — which they create entirely with human labor. Using hundreds of thousands of soldiers who act as bits (they hold a flag up or down to indicate 1 or 0), they create logic gates, a CPU, a bus (people racing on horses between different parts of the human motherboard), and more. When the bits “malfunction,” they are killed by their king.

SniperWoreConverse posted:

lol this would surely be insanely impractical and pointless. You'd be better off using a literal mechanical crank machine made out of wood cogs or something.

Eau de MacGowan posted:

having googled it i now know that ULTRASPICE comes from seaworms genetically engineered by a man named Tylwyth Waff

just loving say that aloud

Tylwyth Waff

steinrokkan posted:

Well there goes the one thing I was looking to this year.

Ingmar terdman posted:

Shameless crosspost from stoner/sludge/doom thread (sound on)

https://i.imgur.com/aqt00Oz.mp4

Eason the Fifth posted:

Just finished KSR's Ministry for the Future. No horniness except for being horny for the idea that carbon coin and new social media will save us

Murray Mantoinette posted:

The Atreides soldiers were trained by Duncan and Gurney so any seasoned Atreides vet is going to be very capable. I think the Baron was impressed not by the fighting but by Feyd putting himself in real danger for that ploy of his to use an undrugged gladiator on purpose and make it look accidental.

Also in the book the gladiator gets a barbed lance in his arm from one of the Harkonnen rodeo clowns but he ends up using it as a defense, blocking Feyd's knife with it, which makes Feyd seem a bit more stupid.

In the book, it's actually more touch and go from what I remember but also in the book he has a few more tricks up his sleeve than shown in the movie (hypnotic code word, secretly switching the poisoned and clean blades). So overall I think it about evens out in the book vs movie?

Tree Bucket posted:

"We don't hope, we plan" was an excellent line.

Also, the weird voice that opens each movie- that has to be a tank-bound guild navigator, right?

Shaddak posted: