DUNE

[davidsrsb]

In the book, it was explained that thousands of years before, what we would now call AI had reached a point that there was a revolt against it and the banning of intelligent computers, the Butlerian Jihad https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad

Edited November 6, 2021 by davidsrsb

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Can't wait for the Delenda Est video from @mysticjim. Should eclipse Villeneuve's DUNE in scope and spectacle.  

[andy5995]

I actually never saw the original movie until last  year. But in the mid-eighties (when I was about 12), my brother and sister gave me this book for Christmas:

 

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Pall Agamemnides, heir to a dukedom, struggles to stop a conspiracy that threatens the savage, sugar-swept world of Doon, as evil powers plot to steal the wild beer growing on Doon, to control the native pretzel population, and transform Doon into a lounge-planet

 

Edited November 6, 2021 by andy5995

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

 

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

So, I'm writing my Leonidas for Oscar Isaac. 

 

Gigachad Atreides^

 

On another note, I can't wait for a Dune 2000 RTS remake. I can already imagine the factions. Atreides, Harkonnen, Imperium, Fremen. 

Edited November 6, 2021 by wowgetoffyourcellphone

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

I like how the story intertwines Western Stoicism with Buddhism and Islam. It also turns the "messiah" myth on its head.

 

Thug Notes gives an analysis on that last bit:

 

[mysticjim]

16 hours ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Can't wait for the Delenda Est video from @mysticjim. Should eclipse Villeneuve's DUNE in scope and spectacle.  

I'm having trouble adapting it for Youtube. The scope is way too vast and modern CGI just isn't capable of delivering believable results!

[mysticjim]

14 minutes ago, mysticjim said:

I'm having trouble adapting it for Youtube. The scope is way too vast and modern CGI just isn't capable of delivering believable results!

Honestly though, it's in progress - I'm trying to build a buffer of completed match replays to give me a good week or so playing Delenda Est properly. Last time I tried this, I barely scratched the surface of the differences in gameplay between vanilla 0AD and Delenda Est. I recorded the audio of me talking about it, but it wasn't very convincing as I'd barely had chance to play it properly. I do want to do it justice because it's clearly quite an achievement. 

[sheaisidore]

try teaching kids (or even adults) something, the less they are eager to learn. 

Edited November 17, 2021 by Silier

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Masterpieces musical score by Hans Zimmer.