ComradeEchidna

joined 4 years ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I remember a Ze Frank the show episode discussing it. Which is really dating me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Reposting because the new megathread came out 12 minutes later.

Dune Spoilers about Dr Yueh (kind of redundant given how much the book spoils it but...)There's memes that are basically "Doctor Yueh conditioned to never betray his masters, succumbs to blackmail" etc. But I feel a lot of people don't understand Yueh. His wife was a Bene Gesserit and it was implied she gave him their training. The books show weird things happen when men have Bene Gesserit training, Count Fenyring and of course Paul Atreides. Especially when someone has both the male and female trainings, like Yueh being a Suk Doctor or Paul having Mentat training.

And while he betrays the Duke and Paul, he weaponized the Duke with the poison gas tooth to have a chance to strike at the Baron (which almost succeeds) and he arranges the ornithopter that Jessica and Paul are taken away on to have the Signat ring, have still suits and for Duncan Idaho to retrieve them. I forget but I think he made sure their sedation wore off earlier than anticipated too. It's entirely possible the only way he was able to betray the Duke was by complicated internal justification aided by the Bene Gesserit training to excuse himself by all the other things he put in play. Like "I'm not harming my master because this was the only good possible outcome for him and Paul, otherwise they all would have been killed with no chance for revenge or salvation"

Not that this is support for his actions, just how he might have skirted the conditioning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The pacing was much quicker

Weirdly kind of how Frank Herbet wanted to tell the story.

Herbert: There was another thing there, in the pacing of the story: Very slow at the beginning. It’s a coital rhythm all the way through the story. […] Very slow pace, increasing all the way through, and when you get to the ending of it, I chopped it at a non breaking point, so that the person reading the story skids out of the story, trailing bits of it with him. On this I know I was successful, because people come to me and say they want more

But I certainly would have enjoyed more movie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It sucks that Denis Villeneuve hates directors cuts. Because I'd love to see all the Thufur Hawat and Count Fenyring stuff that was cut.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

He's also apparently very good with ladies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Dune Spoilers about Dr Yueh (kind of redundant given how much the book spoils it but...)There's memes that are basically "Doctor Yueh conditioned to never betray his masters, succumbs to blackmail" etc. But I feel a lot of people don't understand Yueh. His wife was a Bene Gesserit and it was implied she gave him their training. The books show weird things happen when men have Bene Gesserit training, Count Fenyring and of course Paul Atreides. Especially when someone has both the male and female trainings, like Yueh being a Suk Doctor or Paul having mentat training.

And while he betrays the Duke and Paul, he weaponized the Duke with the poison gas tooth to have a chance to strike at the Baron (which almost succeeds) and he arranges the ornithopter that Jessica and Paul are taken away on to have the Signat ring, have still suits and for Duncan Idaho to retrieve them. I forget but I think he made sure their sedation wore off earlier than anticipated too. It's entirely possible the only way he was able to betray the Duke was by complicated internal justification aided by the Bene Gesserit training to excuse himself by all the other things he put in play. Like "I'm not harming my master because this was the only good possible outcome for him and Paul, otherwise they all would have been killed with no chance for revenge or salvation"

Not that this is support for his actions, just how he might have skirted the conditioning.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

The Jackson Hinkle thing was funny, getting into twitter beef before revealing he had already phoned the guys tailor was a real Ozimandas freak moment.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The dad one was straightforward

The next needs some context. Derek Guy is a twitter user who explains Mens fashion. He had a series of threads pointing out why usually right wing politicians suits look so dogshit (De Santa’s, Matt Gaetz etc).

Jackson Hinkle posted himself wearing a “bespoke” suit and holding a gun. Derek Guy pointed out all the ways you could tell it wasn’t bespoke (rather made to measure which is custom but less fancy). Jackson Hinkle accused him of slandering his tailor, Derek revealed he had phoned Jackson’s tailor already and confirmed the suit was not bespoke.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Caleb Maupin is the alleged sex pest. Jackson Hinklle is the one who got owned by his own dad and the menswear guy on separate occasions on twitter.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I thought the Twisted Metal adaption was great. Silly but fun.

Last of Us was good but that game was basically a movie.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

T-51b is the best.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Been playing on a monstrously huge desert biome in Minecraft in very hard survival. It's really fun.

So much different to other biomes. I've got lots of villages a camel's ride away. I've looted a dozen desert temples for their treasure and have currently turned one into my house. I've got 64 block of bonemeal after finding a colossal skeleton so I can grow so much food. But trying to get basic stuff like wood, dirt and stone was initially a way bigger challenge.

Having mobs that survive into the daylight is an extra challenge but the desert is so flat and uncovered I can travel even by night on camelback by doging mobs.

view more: next ›