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Piroko -2 points ago +2 / -4

Ordinarily I'd be all against total rewrites.

But I've always thought that having Channi be Stilgar's daughter would make Stilgar's rebellion against Alia in Children make a lot more sense because he'd be Leto and Ghanima's grandfather and would be fighting Alia to protect Ghanima.

A female Kynes makes that plausible.

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Piroko -7 points ago +3 / -10

I'll rephrase...

Kynes' traits are inconsequential.

It's the things the character DOES that are significant.

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Piroko -10 points ago +1 / -11

Kynes doesn't... really matter too much. I get the sentiment, but if you were going to adapt Dune and pick an inconsequential character to rewrite, that's the one.

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Piroko 5 points ago +5 / -0

Up till now, that left the TV mini-series, which we generally don't talk about

I actually liked the TV series and think that with a larger VFX budget it would have been fine. I liked that they kept Feyd's attempt against the Baron.

As it is, I put it in the same bin as Babylon 5: "good, but clearly dated".

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Piroko 14 points ago +14 / -0

Yes, and that was years ago. It's continued to fall.

The original bolivar is now worth less than isk in EVE Online.

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Piroko 4 points ago +4 / -0

Or hunting with Dick Cheney.

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Piroko 12 points ago +12 / -0

The dog story is far more likely to induce someone to go independent actor. These people are sick like Himmler.

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Piroko 18 points ago +18 / -0

"I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate."

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Piroko 11 points ago +11 / -0

Kinda makes me wish cyberpunk had been right and the world of 2020 was owned by the Japanese.

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Piroko 7 points ago +7 / -0

More like "when the right memes for the left."

They couldn't have been that punchy on their own.

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Piroko 6 points ago +6 / -0

Oh wow, I didn't know Rick Astley had a kid.

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Piroko 9 points ago +9 / -0

But still no Gravity Daze.

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Piroko 15 points ago +15 / -0

The women who are involuntary celibates

You mean spinsters.

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Piroko 4 points ago +4 / -0

Sāikō Brandon!

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Piroko 4 points ago +5 / -1

I think you're grossly underestimating the appeal of what would essentially be a headless version of discord.

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Piroko 6 points ago +8 / -2

There's win admins.

Don't be lazy and use someone else's site.

There's hosters.

Don't be cheap and use someone else's server.

There's domain registrars.

Okay DNS is kinda foundational but strictly speaking it isn't an absolute necessity.

If you put me to the task of building a system that's beyond the reach of SJWs to take down, it would probably be built on a combination of torrent and blockchain technology.

You could build a blockchain based BBS, as long as you could acclimate people to the problem of eventual consistency.

You would essentially be going back to the old days of usenet news, except based on torrent instead of UUCP.

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Piroko 23 points ago +23 / -0

Take it for what it is.

It's a flattering caricature. Those sunglasses...

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Piroko -17 points ago +1 / -18

Popular & well respected mangaka

Kentaro Miura

Is that supposed to be a joke?

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Piroko 7 points ago +7 / -0

If it was straightforward then it would be still with us today.

Y'know what has a straightforward system?

Iron Kingdoms RPG

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