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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was in the middle of reading Dune for the first time when I saw The Matrix and my first thought was "Holy shit it's the Butlerian Jihad"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"we broke out of Zion and use swords now. We also use aliens high on DMT to fly around space. Overall, things are better"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

To be fair to the Dune universe, the reason they used swords was because shields made projectile weapons useless and Lasguns and shields just killed everyone (like a mini-nuke on both sides).