ComradeEchidna [fae/faer]

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Cake day: July 27th, 2020
  • ComradeEchidna [fae/faer]@hexbear.nettoearth@hexbear.net•Dingo - New General Megathread for the 7th-8th of April 2024English
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • ComradeEchidna [fae/faer]@hexbear.nettoearth@hexbear.net•Red fox - New General Megathread for the 5th-6th of April 2024English
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    3 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.

  • ComradeEchidna [fae/faer]@hexbear.nettoearth@hexbear.net•Red fox - New General Megathread for the 5th-6th of April 2024English
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    3 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.

  • ComradeEchidna [fae/faer]@hexbear.nettothe_dunk_tank@hexbear.net•This white boy is going placesEnglish
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    3 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.

  • ComradeEchidna [fae/faer]@hexbear.nettoearth@hexbear.net•Coyotes - New General Megathread for the 3th-4th of April 2024English
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    3 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.

  • ComradeEchidna [fae/faer]@hexbear.nettomovies@hexbear.net•The U.S. map in Alex Garland’s ‘CIVIL WAR’English
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    3 months ago

    Definitely I think in the comic DMZ (about a civil war in the USA where Manhattan was a demilitarised zone) when they did show the USA. There was parts that rump USA government clearly held, and much smaller pockets of rebel strongholds, but wide swathes of crosshatched maps where rebels moved with impunity and the rump government had to move around in armoured military patrols. There’s a bit where a journalist is taken blindfolded down some Appalachian backroads and meets a significant rebel commander just chillin’ in a trailer in the woods.

    I gave up on the Handmaid’s tale around season 2. But I liked when they showed the map of the USA, Gilead claimed all the 48 contiguous states (with the rump Government in Exile holding Alaska and Hawaii), but the map showed the places they actually controlled in the eastcoast, as well as areas that were under contention with rebels and just swathes of the country that they had no presence in, where presumably there was just mutual aid and/or warlords.