• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I mean it's like 8000 years in the future.

    Idaho is a name made up to sound like an indigenous phrase meaning "gem of the mountains". it doesn't, of course, but people thought it did.

    if we're extremely lucky, human cultures will give names like Duncan Idaho and not like Pepsi Bennigans.

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Holy crap - Idaho is probably from a word meaning enemy.

      Idaho

      1861 as a place name, originally applied by U.S. Congress to a proposed territorial division centered in what is now eastern Colorado; said at the time to mean "Gem of the Mountains" but probably rather from Kiowa-Apache (Athabaskan) idaahe "enemy," a name applied by them to the Comanches. Modern Idaho was organized 1861 as a county in Washington Territory; in 1863 became a territory in its own right and it was admitted as a state in 1890.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Momoa has great range as an actor, just a brilliant ability to act at any level of humidity.

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The coolest part of Dune is how they hate computers.

    • Civility [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Imagine making a machine in the likeness of a human mind, could never be me.

      Reject "thinking" machines advance to Mentats.

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    In my mind Duncan wore jeans and a John Deere shirt

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I first heard about Dune from a friend of mine in the mid early 1980s. He told me the plot and it seemed sort of cool yet sort of goofy. I was sort of curious about it and I thought about going to a bookstore to read a few pages and maybe buy it. But weeks passed and I didn't do that and I soon forgot all about it.

      A few years later I went to a movie theater to see the David Lynch adaptation. I hardly remember a damn thing about it. I only remember a few things strongly. The actor who played Harkonnen did a great job as an evil and creepy freak. He almost managed to distract me from how unintentionally comic Harkonnen's flying around was. Sting's costume reminded me of a diaper. When a character said the words "Duncan Idaho" I almost said out loud the words I was telling myself in my head - "Are you fucking kidding me?"

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yer doxxing yourself, unless it's a fabrication in which case it's cool

        • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          The FBI is furiously googling "Sting’s costume reminded me of a diaper."

          Thank god the net wasn't a thing when I was young. I probably would have posted using my real name and I certainly have posted cringe hourly.

        • Uncle [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          What did they give away? That they were alive in the 80s?

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      My favorite thing was that "UM/GAH/UM/NUM/UM/GAH/NUM..." stuff that started the Army Planet scene. It was halfway to being cool but it was just too goofy. It amused me so much I rewound four times to listen to it over and over.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Amazing that Virgil Texas' naming convention survived for so many generations

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I mean, non-dirt planets are not known for their rich non-vertebrate fauna.