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Omi-Polari posted:For me it was the Butlerian Jihad kicking off because the robot king dropped a baby from a balcony which then went SPLAT. Funny enough, thats the whole point oh God Emperor.
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Agag posted:I wanted to be a Fremen, except their caves smell like balls and it isn't expressly stated but heavily implied that the stillsuit has an rear end-tube that you stick up your rear end to collect the water out of your turds. I always figured that if you were wearing one of those sting suits, your turds went into a sort of pocket on each rear end cheek where they were slowly squeezed to release their moisture. I have no idea what happens to the turds once they're dry, or why you'd want horrible turd water though.
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Met a guy at a festival recently who said Butlerian Jihad was his favourite Dune book. He had generally positive things to say about all the prequels. I haven't read any of them so I can't judge but that was def a first for me, I've never seen anyone saying nice things about them even on the internet.
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Mariana Horchata posted:
Virginia Madsen - a top shelf dish in the 80's.
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Omi-Polari posted:For me it was the Butlerian Jihad kicking off because the robot king dropped a baby from a balcony which then went SPLAT. I had heard he had objections to Asimov, but I think that he actually said that it was a tenet of certain revivalist sects of Christianity he was objecting to. They thought true communion with God would grant omniscience. He felt - and I certainly agree - that to see the future with all its certainty would result in incurable boredom. The Dune Encyclopedia is loving rad. I don't know how much of it he wrote, but it was so fun seeing all the little points of interest magnified and given a space in a fictional "history". There's a loving hilarious part where a prudish Bene Gesserit laundress takes a trip to the "Pleasure Planet" and loses her faith in the Order after seeing how they train the Sisters to be concubines. And I agree, getting hung up on Dune like a belief system is ridiculous and only makes its flaws more obvious. But that's the difference between philosophy and organized religion, between Confucius and Jesus. But I'm still never reading anything posthumous. Anything past Chapterhouse can gently caress off.
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FuckenPunchOn posted:I always figured that if you were wearing one of those sting suits, your turds went into a sort of pocket on each rear end cheek where they were slowly squeezed to release their moisture. I have no idea what happens to the turds once they're dry, or why you'd want horrible turd water though. If you're in the high desert, I doubt you're eating solid food that much anyway so one problem solves the other.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUvn1kU31cs&t=234s
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Feb 9, 2016 06:16
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"people getting their nipples ripped off"
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Jimlit posted:Dad ghola. So what
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phasmid posted:I had heard he had objections to Asimov, but I think that he actually said that it was a tenet of certain revivalist sects of Christianity he was objecting to.
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FuckenPunchOn posted:I always figured that if you were wearing one of those sting suits, your turds went into a sort of pocket on each rear end cheek where they were slowly squeezed to release their moisture. I have no idea what happens to the turds once they're dry, or why you'd want horrible turd water though. I don't know if the turds go into a pouch or what, but when Paul is going to knife-fight that dude in Sietch Tabr it talks about them "detaching" from their suits. Either way, your turd-water belongs to the tribe.
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Wicker Man posted:Lotta tanned skinned amazon models with ultra low body fat and Smelly unwashed butts. Carne asada.
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Omi-Polari posted:Got it. I was going off one of his essays where he said, basically on how to write sci-fi: Take a concept you're using to seeing in fiction, then flip its assumptions upside down. He was pretty funny for such a cynical bastard. Agag posted:Carne asada. lol dont be loving gross
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Agag posted:Carne asada. Powerful gross right here.
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 lol if you pictured Gurney any other way.
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Agag posted:Either way, your turd-water belongs to the tribe. Piss off. That's my fuckin turd water
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FuckenPunchOn posted:Piss off. That's my fuckin turd water Stilgar spills your piss with a thrust of his crysknife. Your water shall mingle with ours as your empty bladder roasts on the erg.
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Feb 9, 2016 07:17
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Agag posted:I wanted to be a Fremen, except their caves smell like balls and it isn't expressly stated but heavily implied that the stillsuit has an rear end-tube that you stick up your rear end to collect the water out of your turds.
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phasmid posted:Stilgar spills your piss with a thrust of his crysknife. Your water shall mingle with ours as your empty bladder roasts on the erg.
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Thanks. I saw some of this floating around tumblr, but didn't know the artist. a hole-y ghost posted:You'd better not be the guy who always has bloody piss around these parts or you're gonna be mending your pisspouches every time one of the guys accidentally unsheathes a crysknife. gently caress!
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Omi-Polari posted:Goddammit I've had enough! This is my meltdown. I'm melting down in this thread right now. I've been waiting for this for over 4 years edit: read the first book. Watch the lynch movie. Play the westwood games. And then stop, and file it away in your mind like beanie babies or something, a phenomenon tied to a time and place that should never be revisited.
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I loved Dune, and each subsequent book got worse. But nothing, but nothing, compares to the idiocy of of the prequels. They are the most execrable awfulness I have ever subjected myself to, and that was only because I had too much downtime at work and the airport had a horrible bookstore. Nothing says "Dune" like a robot named Erazmus stirring a huge iron pot of human body parts in human blood to make paintings, while also murdering herds of defenseless humans with machine guns just to supposedly learn more about humans, while gigantic gleaming titanium indestructible interchangeable space-faring robot centipede bodies are run by human heads in loving jars. Yeah, that's some great Dune poo poo right there. Avoid the prequels.
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phasmid posted:Stilgar spills your piss with a thrust of his crysknife. Your water shall mingle with ours as your empty bladder roasts on the erg. Fair nuff.
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Was the God Emperors plan to give humanity the best chance of survival really sending Idaho Ghola #1908237 and Magic Worm Daughter to a random spot in undiscovered space? Presumably its not actually random due to prescient meddling after seeing every possibly outcome. Why is a Grandpa Facedancer(?) looking through the veils of space to smile at Idaho? How is this remotely interesting and what is it supposed to tell me about anything? The Facedancers eventually take over from the Honored Matres? The Facedancers also hosed off into a random spot in undiscovered space? Was there a Facedancer god emperor in new-space? Why not? there is apparently an unlimited supply of several different spice substitutes all of the sudden? Why are there cat men now. He wasn't actually planning another novel in old-space about cat men being seduced by ripped old ladies in orange leotards was he. This posting was more fun than Chapter House: Dune
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Improbable Lobster posted:I completely forgot that the laser can also explode when you shoot a shield. Yeah, the point is that the "lasers hitting shields causes a nuclear explosion" is really the worst-case scenario, 1 out of 100, type event but it's the thing that everyone focuses on. It's just that, tactically, laser vs. shields is 100% bad, regardless if it blows up a city or just your lasgun. phasmid posted:I had heard he had objections to Asimov, but I think that he actually said that it was a tenet of certain revivalist sects of Christianity he was objecting to. They thought true communion with God would grant omniscience. He felt - and I certainly agree - that to see the future with all its certainty would result in incurable boredom. The one bit I remember from the Dune Encyclopedia was the bit about Atomics, where they describe their first use as being by House Washington in an intraprovincial conflict. Also, Dr. Holtzmann was like some sort of Mister Fantastic/Dr. Quest supergenius cyborg that eventually goes on an adventure and disappears into the great void.
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Everyone is garbage in dune, the guild just want to control everything with their spice trade, the bene gesserit just want to breed the ultimate human and paul thinks he's hot poo poo cause he can see into the future but gets billions of people killed, good job.
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Ahundredbux posted:Everyone is garbage in dune, the guild just want to control everything with their spice trade, the bene gesserit just want to breed the ultimate human and paul thinks he's hot poo poo cause he can see into the future but gets billions of people killed, good job. Seeing into the future aint nearly as obviously-useful as you'd hope it's cracked up to be, especially once you're "zoomed-out" far enough to see the optimal timeline(s) for mankind's ascension on a grand universal scale. A Good Job: Doing the Most Good for the Least Harm.
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Space doctors are snooty assholes that can't be bothered to give you any attention unless you pay exorbitant amounts for their services. Kind of like a criticism of western doctors!
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sinking belle posted:Met a guy at a festival recently who said Butlerian Jihad was his favourite Dune book. He had generally positive things to say about all the prequels. I haven't read any of them so I can't judge but that was def a first for me, I've never seen anyone saying nice things about them even on the internet. They are great books. Very interesting all on their own.
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Kevin J Anderson is a hack and a garbage person. I tried to read the stupid conclusion to the original series but it was so horribly written I stopped about half the way through. If you enjoy his writing chances are you've never read anything outside genre fiction and should be ashamed of yourself. This stupid wiki thing is actually pretty accurate. http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Kevin_J._Anderson I hear God Emperor is pretty good though.
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Dr. Faustus posted:I loved Dune, and each subsequent book got worse. But nothing, but nothing, compares to the idiocy of of the prequels. They are the most execrable awfulness I have ever subjected myself to, and that was only because I had too much downtime at work and the airport had a horrible bookstore. You forgot the long drawn out "brains in jars" sex scenes
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Dinosaurmageddon posted:Seeing into the future aint nearly as obviously-useful as you'd hope it's cracked up to be, especially once you're "zoomed-out" far enough to see the optimal timeline(s) for mankind's ascension on a grand universal scale. I'm pretty sure he does a lot of choices out of purely selfish reasons which is why it's cool instead of him being the super cool savior of humanity
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pls don't doxx my massive, chitinous penis.
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I was listening to these as audiobooks and ended up somehow listening to God Emperor on random, so the book went Duncan Idaho ghoula gets himself killed->Siona does some stuff->fat slug falls in a river and dies, The End before I realized what was happening.
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