Mouhaha the french ☁️

@TheBonePile @robkroese It’s more like Arrakis is the worst place in the galaxy and thus births the best warriors in it (the galaxy).

@henriyim @robkroese Whether the fremen are just that good or the sardukar are just that bad, the result is disappointing after all the hype.

Herbert uses all sorts of limitations like this to add drama: shields are powerful but they attract sandworms; atomics are powerful but they mean annihilation; the Sardukar are powerful but the Emperor can't use them without revealing his hand

The Sarsaukars are more about the myth, the terror of them being deployed. Something that is accepted and feared. And some desert guys just kick their asses. So the power of the Emperor Padishah is seen as a sham. A fortress made of plaster. It’s kinda the point. I really rexomment reading the first book, at least two times ? The political angle is really great. In the first read it can be overwhelming to get lost in the number of characters or their names (hell, Paul has like six names ).

@henriyim @robkroese Sure I get all that, but if their moment of badassery is getting their ass kicked but not as bad as other who got their ass kicked, they unfortunately come off as weak.

Well this is going fast….

OK, so: the Sardaukars are like the super Ultramarines of the Imperium. No one knows where they come from or how the Emperor Padishah can produce them and impose such fanatic loyalty. They are a terrifying source of hard and soft power. Sardaukars can drop on a planet and glass a country. So they say. The myth is strong here,and that’s built up in legend and hearsay along a good part of the first book. Then come Liet Kynes, the planetologist. And after the battle of Arrakeen, he notices Fremens making coffee (or khafé) and talk about the battle that was just wrought. They seem ok and they joke about as warriors do. Then they say that Harkonnens were pretty easy but some, a squadron, they were a bit tough. Killed some men, we killed them all, got a flesh wound. So Liet looks at the Fremen bandaging his arm and thinks… did these backward people just took out a squad of sardaukars and think they are pretty good ? And then he realizes. What if the duke could make this kind of people follow him. Like he did with the master duelist Duncan, the master of arms duncan and the master of assasins Thufir. Btw these are not ranks. Them three are masters. They are the best in the galaxy at what they do. And all three chose to follow Leto. His wife chose to birth the Kwisatz Haderach just for him. So the the guy has charisma, faith, vision. Hard to live up to when you’re a 15 y old kid, I gather. The sardaukars are like the stealth bombers b2. The triangle ones, black flat and ominous ? Oh wow oh wow, but then some guys with blue eyes, and pretty pretty high on spice, just shoot them all out of the air. The Sardaukars were there to show how incredible a force the fremen could be. Let’s not go into Salusa Secundus and what Liet understood before dying.

@robkroese I never got past the first one, do the Sardukar ever live up to their reputation? They seemed like such a let down.

@Fionngh @robkroese @crimeancranium The sardaukars in the battle of Arrakeen were actually dressed like regular harkonnen troops. This gave the emperor deniability.

@robkroese @crimeancranium What a great response haha

@InnocentlyEris @Aella_Girl I think they do because they are so jealous when one next ro has ample and well formed breasts. Like evil eye jealous.

@henriyim @Aella_Girl If this were it then girls should also like large boobs

I'm confused why men like big boobs. Boobs get biggest when breastfeeding, which is also when women have significantly reduced fertility.

@cirnosad Yeah the boss guy was saying it was working on the geometry level. N-gons and the like. Snake oil peddler.

Nvidia lied.

@JohnnyRamone91 Intercepté où défaillant, le message à été lancé.

Pour l'instant, l'information sur les deux missiles iraniens lancés sur Diego Garcia mérite d'être confirmée. La seule source est américaine. Et comme par hasard ce tir sur Diego Garcia intercepté en pleine mer , donc sans preuve possible de débris suite à cette interception, arrive au moment où les américains cherchent à forcer la main des européens pour qu'il s'engagent dans l'opération très risquée d'ouverture du détroit d'Ormuz. Évidemment comme à l'accoutumée, les médias relaient cette information sans beaucoup s'interroger sur la source et les preuves de cet allégation... @LCI @BFMTV @CNEWS

@kaczinskpilled @GerardAraud Oui je pense que la restriction à 2000 km se traduisait juste en une limite quantité de fuel solide sur le premier booster de leurs MRBM.

@henriyim @GerardAraud Il est beaucoup plus facile d'apporter une légère modification sur un missile existant ne faisant l'objet d'aucune inspection internationale, que de créer secrètement un programme nucléaire militaire sous les regards de tout le monde.

Il n’est pas question de “croire”!

@cirnosad Cirno, I have a notion that I would like to float by you, you being smart (and scary). I’m thinking the hezb troops in Lebanon right are composed of IRGC getting their legs and drills ready, antsy, and punching in their hours. Until the land war.

Israel's strategy is to pollute Southern Lebanon with dead Merkava Mk IVs.

@RealCandaceO Maybe you have pretty looking feet ? The whole internet is weird when it comes to feet. There’s like a whole wiki dedicated to it and it has more images than wikipedia.

It is so weird that me breaking my foot is trending. Why is that news? Get outside, guys.

@Gidi_Traffic It brings viewers, viewers attract sponsors. Money follows eyeballs.

Question: Why are women’s uniforms different from men’s in the same sport? ✍🏽

@BBW_BFF Je jas incribly incredibly good comic timing. And the absolute confidence in his looks that he can make himself a fool, and you will just melt. So yeah i understand why women quite like him.

in the past ten years, Gosling's channeled Inspector Clouseau (The Nice Guys), played a quietly grieving father (First Man), made a Ken doll charismatic (Barbie), divested himself of charisma entirely to play an unexceptional replicant (Blade Runner 2049). that's not coasting.

Chungking Express. C’est sur des gens qui ne se rendent pas encore compte qu’ils sont heureux là où ils sont. (Hong Kong 1997 et la passation à la chine) Le chien jaune de mongolie (2005). Juste une famille qui vit dans les steppes de mongolie et qui ont un chien, jaune, du coup. Stalker. C’est juste trois gars qui traversent un champ. 🙃 Il y a mektoub mon amour de kechiche, si t’aimes les fesses et le glauque d’etre jeune dans une ville qui veut pas vraiment de toi.

Ça existe les films où il se passe rien? En mode on regarde juste des gens heureux sans péripéties et voilà fin du film??? C’est tout ce que j’ai envie de voir mdr

@westerosies I really like how he leans on the throne like Joffrey

Dexter Sol Ansell via Instagram: “4 years ago, I found this throne in London and my mum took a photo of me on it. Neither of us knew what it was. Little did we know years later I would be connected to it in a way we could never have imagined. 🥚👑”

@MichaelAArouet @GerardAraud C’est le quartier des off ça.

My respect for French good taste just got another boost. They really serve Pomerol wine and foie gras on a French navy submarine.

@Davidfa17615571 @MichaelAArouet It’a geese. We are not monsters.

@MichaelAArouet First, with foie gras, the result of torturing ducks, we drink a sweet white wine like Montbazillac. And I'm delighted to pay taxes to offer feasts. It's outrageous.