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    2024-04-17, 02:07 PM
    "In my experience there's no such thing as luck" -- Obi-Wan Kenobi. I think we have to accept that the Star Wars universe is a universe in which...
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    2024-04-11, 02:48 PM
    pendell replied to a thread Dune II in Media Discussions
    Spice is the equivalent to oil in the modern world , and I believe it was written as a direct parallel; the resource of the 20th century, control of...
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    2024-04-04, 03:55 PM
    As seen at Ars Technica , one Andre Freund was working along in his job as a security engineer at Microsoft with the intent of troubleshooting a 500...
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    2024-04-03, 01:57 PM
    Well, Sauron created the Black Speech. Sauron, remember, was a student of Aule, the forger, before he fell to evil, and he's always been better at...
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    2024-04-02, 06:36 PM
    One of James Clavelle's less popular books, King Rat is an almost-autobiographical barely-fictionalized account of his time in a Japanese POW camp....
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    2024-04-01, 07:41 PM
    pendell replied to a thread Dune II in Media Discussions
    "Ante bellum" is "Before the war". "Gone with the Wind" or "Song of the South" are antebellum movies which romanticize 19th century southern...
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    2024-03-30, 12:00 PM
    pendell replied to a thread Dune II in Media Discussions
    So apparently there are a lot of complaints about Christopher Walken's portrayal of Shaddam IV, Emperor of Humanity, in Dune II. Here's One Rebuttal...
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    2024-03-28, 08:50 AM
    pendell replied to a thread Dune II in Media Discussions
    Everything I've written comes from the first book or its appendices. In the Appendices, we learn that the founding battle of the Empire was the...
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    2024-03-27, 12:30 PM
    pendell replied to a thread Dune II in Media Discussions
    We demonstrated that in-movie when Feyd-Ruatha took over the military campaign against the Fremen and started actually hitting them where they live,...
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    2024-03-26, 09:08 AM
    pendell replied to a thread Dune II in Media Discussions
    It's not a Fremen revenge; water is too precious to waste on Dune and in the books the fate of all dead, friend or enemy, was to be rendered down for...
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    2024-03-25, 09:14 AM
    pendell replied to a thread Dune II in Media Discussions
    Mostly agree but some comments. On the contrary, what we're supposed to take away from this interpretation of Dune is that the Corrino...
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    2024-03-24, 09:58 AM
    Don't forget that in their world demon status comes solely from their mana count. The Demon King, therefore, must have had more mana than any other...
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    2024-03-22, 07:35 AM
    I don't think they finished interviewing them all; I know I didn't see Danton, for one, in that list of mages who were rapidly interviewed and...
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    2024-03-21, 01:57 PM
    She told Frieren not to neglect her training and marked her down in her test because, while Frieren is overwhelmingly powerful compared to the other...
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    2024-03-21, 11:03 AM
    Why does everyone assume the Paladins will accept their surrender? Miko Miyazaki could seemingly get away with killing anyone , provided they pinged...
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