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[Max™]

I will use fire. Fire is the bell killer. Flames kiss the sizzling wreck that was called King's Landing.

They will fear my fire. They will cower as it passes over and through them.

And as it burns the rest, they will flee my wrath.

When the flames are done they will have nothing. Only ash will remain.

[Loud Whispers]

valar dohaeris

[Xantalos]

Oh speaking of Game of Thrones stuff, apparently there's a Long Night-focused prequel and they're calling it Bloodmoon for some reason.

[WealthyRadish]

Can we please move this GoT derail out of the Dune thread?

[Max™]

What the hell is dune?

Wait, was it that boring ass movie which was like Tremors with less jump scares and Kevin Bacon because no thanks without both of those, or are you guys talking about the book about that one Fatboy Slim song?

[Il Palazzo]

It's like a mound or ridge of sand, formed by the wind. They're found on beaches and sandy deserts.

[Max™]

Hopefully not talking about the book, because I can't read.

[Il Palazzo]

Wow, you're lucky. I can't even write.

[TD1]

And I can't speak.

Please never put us in a room together. Communication would take some time.

((Also, the medium of Palazzo's response makes me highly suspicious. Still not impossible, what with speech tech, though.))

[Max™]

Thank Thor for computers and their magical electrical signals!

Honestly though my handwriting is little more than an appendix nowadays and it is probable that I will never use it again, but I can freehand a straight line along the edge of a piece of wood, which I use all the time.

[TD1]

My handwriting is atrocious and messy. But it's legible for me, and given that everything which it is important for others to read is typed, that's all that matters.

[FantasticDorf]

What the hell is dune?

Wait, was it that boring ass movie which was like Tremors with less jump scares and Kevin Bacon because no thanks without both of those, or are you guys talking about the book about that one Fatboy Slim song?

In the deleted scenes of the film i am quite sure the navigators explain a significant amount of the backstory surrounding 'spice' as that they are the real holders of power over the Emperor (who rules over the known human universe) into which the planetary house fit in underneath him. Threatening him that if the source of the spice On Arrakis is disturbed by Paul Artrides who they want killed that the Emperor's Empire will become isolated as a motivation for the movie's conflict. Sideplot being that the Emperor want's both house Harkonen and Atrides to destroy each other as well for political reasons.

Navigators (big slug things in tanks, one is seen in the movie) are telepathics and speak through the bald women (which wasn't just a sci-fi fashion choice). By navigators consuming spice they also expand their mental capacity to throw ships through space as a form of space travel which is demonstrated which is what glues humanity's dominance in space and settlements on other planets together.

I would still be greatly interested to read the book and get a look into the source material however.

[Il Palazzo]

Navigators (big slug things in tanks, one is seen in the movie) are telepathics and speak through the bald women (which wasn't just a sci-fi fashion choice). By navigators consuming spice they also expand their mental capacity to throw ships through space as a form of space travel which is demonstrated which is what glues humanity's dominance in space and settlements on other planets together.

The navigators speak through the bald men, not bald women. The bald men are low-ranking members of the navigator guild. As they go up the ranks they turn into the worm-like creatures from the inordinate amounts of spice they snort as part of their job.
The bald women are a separate faction, the Bene Gesserit.

[ChairmanPoo]

They actually speak through speakers. I think the low ranking bald men (and there is little reason to think they are male exclusive) act as representatives to most people because they still look mostly human (though in the book they actually wore contact lenses to conceal that their eyes looked solid blue)

[wierd]

Pretty much all of the factions in Dune are horrible, horrible people.

Bene Tleilaxu: "Yeah, we're shameless misogynists, what of it? We can be either gender at will because of our crazy genetic engineering (and we have almost mastered true reincarnation). Oh, you thought the axolotl tanks were MACHINES!? hahahahaha."

Bene Geserit: "It's only inbreeding if you KNOW about it! Reverend Mother knows best! (Now PUT YOUR HAND IN THE BOX!)"

Space Navigator's Guild: "Look bruh, if you want to get from point A to point B, you have to go through us, because you decided that computing machines capable of doing the computations necessary to do it without abusing epic shittons of spice were to be outlawed because humanity couldnt figure out how to properly coexist with synthetic intelligence. (you know, that whole Butlerian Jihad thing? Yeah, maybe humanity shouldn't have been so fucking horrible, trying to become cymeks and all that. Maybe they shouldn't have treated synthetic intelligence like total ass either. But you know what, you did, so now you have to deal with US.)  We KNOW you have to go through us, and it's not really extortion after all, if we meddle in every single one of your affairs."