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@GovPritzker We know how much you love the pedo Hollywood industry after all those plane rides you took with Big Bill.

The future of film will be shaped right here in Illinois. We're home to the third-best big city for those who work in film & TV, 2 million square feet of studio space and nearly 70 sound stages, and regional film offices across the state. hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

@CarlZha These then incredibly oppressed people become nazis. I'm sure you'd want to follow in their footsteps

I can't get over the fact that Dune is about an oppressed people fighting for their homeland, waging a jihad to bring down a hegemonic empire by threatening to cut off the flow of their most precious commodity after the empire had assassinated their religious leader's father.

@SneakyDuc @LavenderGhast Okay, but leading a conversation with " I haven't consumed the source material" still precludes you from passing any observations on the source material.

@valkuma @LavenderGhast I did read the books and she's right. The Fremen would have killed Paul for his water, and he was constantly challenged to duels by them. Shortening the war to a few months is an incredible disservice to the story making it seem like the Fremen could have won without Paul.

The whole plot about Paul using the Fremen just didn't come across for me. Granted I haven't read the books but it seemed to be they were incredibly enthusiastic about him leading them in a conflict they were already in and he kept saying he didn't want it. He had to be dragged into being a leader every step of the way by everyone else around him but he somehow gets branded the manipulative user. He wanted the Fremen to just stay as they are and live with them and they were like nah bro you're totally the messiah, lead us in a holy war. If anything it seems like literally everyone else around him was using him to advance their own goals. They would have gone extinct without him anyway. Not like he showed up and tricked them into war that wasn't theirs, they were already in one where the end goal had to be total galactic victory or total extinction because they were never going to be left alone. If anything they lucked out by grabbing the psychic chosen one on their side and ran with it at the first opportunity to take revenge on the galaxy for abusing their planet. Instead of their leader putting the idea in their heads of destroying the harkonen and defending their planet from the houses, constantly pushing them into situations they didn't want through manipulation and cold greed, it just seems like they found an emperor that enabled what they already wanted to become a reality. Maybe they sold it better in the books but dragging a guy who wants to be left alone into a room, shoving a gun in his hand whilst he says he doesn't want to shoot anyone and telling him to pull the trigger or his friends and family will suffer doesn't translate to manipulative, power mad tyrant who stole the Fremans innocent lives from them and destroyed their culture. Maybe it'll be made that way in this third film but everything up to it didn't sell this idea or his character as some manipulative dictator moving his chess pieces. All he had to do to win them over in the end is basically just say what the Fremen already wanted to hear.

@CptTopper @LavenderGhast I'm telling you to read the books and your answer is "enjoy the slop" I think I now know exactly how well read you are based on Comprehension. Lmao.

@valkuma @LavenderGhast Again. Nothing is "good" just by merit of being an adaptation of another thing you like. And pretending to be an authority is cringe lol but have at it I guess. Enjoy your slop

@CptTopper @LavenderGhast Go see the "I didn't play the game" discussion and come back more enlightened.

@valkuma @LavenderGhast If it were a book discussion maybe. But I don't think we should excuse all bad adaptation. If a product can't stand on its own why are we watching it

@Sebbywebz Chess rules don't amount to "choose the attack that kills them in 1 hit" from your move list. Lmao

“Turn Based Combat was outdated” No it wasn’t. The people who said that weren’t playing Final Fantasy to begin with By that logic, Chess is outdated By that logic, Chess needs to evolve into a game where you throw the pieces at each other in real time

@SCShipyards This is pretty well explained in the books. Which is a disappointing indicator of the quality of current fans

You want the REALLY fun take on this new Dune discourse? Paul did not engage in any "cultural appropriation". The fremen culture had been deliberately engineered for generations to welcome someone like him as a savior. He was literally doing what their culture demanded of him

@CanariFeetLover Obviously they are there to be cultural propaganda peices only.

People call you a classist for buying video games People call you an elitist for actually playing video games People call you a tryhard/sweat for being good at a video game Like what can we even do with video games at this point?

@plzcallmechrist Dragon weather, the entire xanth series, animorphs, all the star wars books from before 2010, the Polity series by Neal Asher, snowcrash, neuromancer, all the goosebumps books, every redwall novel, most of dragonlance, platos republic, mixed Kafka..

The only books that anyone on X has read is Blood Meridian, Starship Troopers, Dune and Lord of the Rings. And the latter three, people just watched the movies.

@vinibarbosabr Reddit is a propaganda platform

systemd has merged a commit by dylanmtaylor to collect and store users's birth dates in compliance with Brazil and California age verification laws -- which has been a controversial topic in Linux communities the same dev (dylanmtaylor) tried to push a similar change to archinstall (Arch Linux), which has, so far, been denied -- but the discussion was reopened after being closed for a while there are also reports of commentators having their posts removed or even being banned from the r/linux subreddit for posting opposing views to age verification laws and compliance how can the subreddit of the leading OPEN-source project be so CLOSED for different perspectives? makes you wonder... reddit is a terrible place for open debates, i'm more than convinced at this point

A ski-masked gunman emerged from behind a light beacon and murdered an 18-year-old woman who was gathered with friends this morning at Loyola Beach. The victim’s social media indicates she was a student at Loyola University. The attack appears random. cwbchicago.com/2026/03/gunman…

@GovPritzker Busy writing that from the plane to epsteins island?

As the Trump Admin fails to keep airports running and make transit safer, Sec. Duffy launched a sham investigation into our local transit. Maybe when you care less about pajamas at the airport and more about real solutions as we do, we'll take note. Get back to work, Sean.

UPDATE: The man in the CTA video that’s going viral has been arrested 30 times and majority of those arrests are for ASSAULT ON THE CTA. When do we address this problem rather than keep allowing more victims to be hurt? Are we waiting on him to kill someone? RIDICULOUS

@BlackDumpling "newly discovered siblings" Found family was a disaster, a plague on our generation

GAMERGATE: Because yes, we really were portrayed like this. Constantly. Through all of mass media.

@TheCinesthetic 1984 Dune is still better in many ways than the current iterations. If only they'd had a second movie to not have to crunch so much together

Dune (1984) gets written off, even by Lynch, but the film’s worldbuilding is doing its own thing. Baroque sets, strange textures, and a future that feels alien in a way few sci-fi films even attempt. It’s rough, but there’s nothing else like it.

@I__HATE_SOCCER Watch this guy bend over backwards to defend infamous racist @sungwongcho

Genuinely kind of wild how people just flat out lied with what he said about minority voice acting roles and they’re are still running with that to this day.

Governor J.B. Pritzker Implicated in USAID Fraud! Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is CONNECTED to a colossal USAID scheme! The Pritzker Family oversees 64 NGOs siphoning off MILLIONS of taxpayer funds!

@charliesmirkley Meanwhile actual data shows there's entire years where 0 white on black rapes happen, while 20k rapes of the opposite variety happen per year

@JessicaTheGreen Except it's the girls perpetuating it, with a Money boyfriend and a Fun boyfriend

Don't hate me for this but, I don't buy "poly" relationships. I think its just uglies grouping up for survival.