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Yesterday, 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...384 replies | 13821 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 02:48 PMSpice 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...96 replies | 7345 view(s)
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2024-04-04, 03:55 PMAs 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...4 replies | 720 view(s)
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2024-04-03, 01:57 PMWell, 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...18 replies | 1456 view(s)
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2024-04-02, 06:36 PMOne of James Clavelle's less popular books, King Rat is an almost-autobiographical barely-fictionalized account of his time in a Japanese POW camp....25 replies | 2692 view(s)
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2024-04-01, 07:41 PM"Ante bellum" is "Before the war". "Gone with the Wind" or "Song of the South" are antebellum movies which romanticize 19th century southern...96 replies | 7345 view(s)
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2024-03-30, 12:00 PMSo 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...96 replies | 7345 view(s)
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2024-03-28, 08:50 AMEverything 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...96 replies | 7345 view(s)
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2024-03-27, 12:30 PMWe demonstrated that in-movie when Feyd-Ruatha took over the military campaign against the Fremen and started actually hitting them where they live,...96 replies | 7345 view(s)
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2024-03-26, 09:08 AMIt'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...96 replies | 7345 view(s)
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2024-03-25, 09:14 AMMostly agree but some comments. On the contrary, what we're supposed to take away from this interpretation of Dune is that the Corrino...96 replies | 7345 view(s)
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2024-03-24, 09:58 AMDon'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...89 replies | 7050 view(s)
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2024-03-22, 07:35 AMI 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...89 replies | 7050 view(s)
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2024-03-21, 01:57 PMShe told Frieren not to neglect her training and marked her down in her test because, while Frieren is overwhelmingly powerful compared to the other...89 replies | 7050 view(s)
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2024-03-21, 11:03 AMWhy does everyone assume the Paladins will accept their surrender? Miko Miyazaki could seemingly get away with killing anyone , provided they pinged...323 replies | 32384 view(s)
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2024-03-19, 11:17 AMWatching the interchange between Serie and Frieren, I am reminded of what is maybe the best line from the hobbit movies ... I think Frieren...89 replies | 7050 view(s)
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2024-03-19, 10:58 AMpendell replied to a thread Proposal: Uranus et. al. should no longer be called "plane-ettes". in Mad Science and Grumpy TechnologyFWIW, I also refer to our sun as Sol and the orbital body as Luna, because that is common usage in SF, even if the official names are still "The...45 replies | 1812 view(s)
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2024-03-19, 10:44 AMAr Tonelicos' Hymnos is a work of art, a blend of several different modern languages to produce the language which -- in their world -- is used to...18 replies | 1456 view(s)
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"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
-Valery Legasov in Chernobyl
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