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CClark posted 11-02-98 05:44 PM ET
So, Junack, what did you do to deserve a death like that? I mean, liquid nitrogen, suffocation as the synthglass wraps around your frozen face and then ripped apart and electrocuted as it retensions and expands.
YUCK!
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey posted 11-02-98 06:21 PM ET
I died?? I havent read the story yet!! I better go look now!!!
FREEDOM, LIBERTY & SMAC!!!!
Your faithful & hell-bent NIMadier general, rebel leader,
YYYH
Philippe Mipz Lepage posted 11-02-98 06:39 PM ET
He's not dead (yet). Kurn is dead...
BKK the Mentat posted 11-02-98 08:07 PM ET
BKK has been resurected and has now become a Mentat.
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey posted 11-02-98 08:52 PM ET
Yeah, & what the hell is a Mentat???
Well, I became a rebel leader, working for the forces of democracy, battling to topple TAWDAL who is trying to conquer the world, fighting to oust communism & bring in capitalism!!
FREEDOM, LIBERTY & SMAC!!!!
Your faithful & hell-bent NIMadier general, rebel leader,
YYYH
BKK the Mentat posted 11-02-98 09:01 PM ET
In DUNE, a Mentat is a human computer, so flame the server,not me.Serverbad,megood.
BKK the Mentat posted 11-02-98 09:03 PM ET
Oh yeah, I forgot to add my new slogan, Long live the fighters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . . . . . .
BKK the Mentat posted 11-02-98 09:04 PM ET
Sorry, just trying to rebuild my compliment of posts.
jsorense posted 11-02-98 09:04 PM ET
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey,
Have you never read "Dune"? A mentat is a human who has been highly trained to function as a computer. They were essential retainers to all the Great Houses.
BTW, your mutinous and self-promoted "Col." Santiago doesn't look so tough now, does she?
BKK the Mentat posted 11-02-98 09:05 PM ET
Or, for that matter,beat yyyh to 2000 posts!
BKK the Mentat posted 11-02-98 09:06 PM ET
My intention is to rule Chiron!
Mortis2 posted 11-02-98 09:38 PM ET
Read Dune? I thought I was just a game! Pretty cool, I might try to get my hands on a copy later. Did they have the three "factions" in the book, and all the units and the spice and the carry-alls and all the other stuff?
Apocalypse posted 11-02-98 09:38 PM ET
Thats nice. A lot of people, like me, YYYH(?), TAS, and others have evolved to the point where we really don't like people who artifially inflate their post count.

Mortis2 posted 11-02-98 09:42 PM ET
I remember I was playing Dune2 in 93' just after I got my sound blaster and CD-ROM (wasn't I good). The intro totaly blew me away (keep in mind that this was 93').
"The planet Dune, land of the spice...
who ever controls the spice controls Dune..."
Those where the days. Right now I'm trying to get my hands on a copy of "Might & Magic IV", the Darkside of Xeen. (Also great with a sound blaster!)
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey posted 11-02-98 09:45 PM ET
Na, you wont beat me to 2000, the demo will be out before 1000, so I dont think anyone will be in quadruple digits again!!
I never read Dune, dont like sci-fi alot, I like real stuff mostly, up with history!!
Damn Santiago, had to get caught so easily, that's what you get for putting a woman in charge of a war-like faction!!!!
Down with communism,
PS, that wasnt a flame BKK, I put swears in almost all my questions!
Example: Roger, where the hell are you going?? See, no flame there!
My intention is to rid the world of communism, dictatorships, & all other forms of government that oppress their god given right to be free!!
FREEDOM, LIBERTY, & SMAC!!!!
Your faithful & hell-bent NIMadier general,
YYYH
BKK the Mentat posted 11-02-98 09:48 PM ET
I have trancended.
I have trancended.
Spoe posted 11-03-98 01:59 AM ET
Dune is one of the best sci-fi books of all time. Unlike some of the other posters, I didn't like the books after it in the series near as much(though I did rather like God Emperor of Dune). Rather old book(for the sci-fi world), published in 1965.
You should give it a try, YYYH. It doesn't read like most sci-fi.
Tom posted 11-03-98 03:09 AM ET
Dune is one of the best SF books I ever read.
I just got Messiah, hope it will be as good as its predecessor.
I LOVE BIG BROTHER
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey posted 11-03-98 09:45 AM ET
Well, since I owe the library about $10 as of right now, because I never returned the 2 Mars books I borrowed, I'll have to wait 'till when I return 'em, & pay off the fine, which rest assured will happen on two different dates. Then there's also the fact my idiot sister lost my library card somehow!!! So that's another $2 to replace it, my public library is cheap!!
FREEDOM, LIBERTY & SMAC!!!
Your faithful & hell-bent NIMadier general,
YYYH
MikeH II posted 11-03-98 09:50 AM ET
Morning Yo, not at school?
Old_Guy posted 11-03-98 02:02 PM ET
From the artist formerly known as New_Guy...
Coincidentally, I just finished Dune last night and concur that it's a good read.
'Muad'Dib! Muad'Dib! Glory to the makers!'
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey posted 11-03-98 02:18 PM ET
How'd I miss MikeH's post. No, no school today, don't ask me why, the teachers are doing something, probably plotting to blow up the school & blame it on a disgruntled student who recently got suspended!
I didn't have school yesterday either!!! But I have school tomorrow
My army to stop BKK's fighters
There, beat that!!!
Philippe Mipz Lepage posted 11-03-98 03:22 PM ET
"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed - The lips acquire stains - The stains become a warning - It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."
(Piter De Vries)
Hmmmmmmm...Piter, THE best Mentat to ever live. And dont start with your little old paranoid, Tuffir!
N.B.: Just replace "Sapho" by "Coffee" and the sentence takes more sense...
DJ RRebel posted 11-03-98 06:16 PM ET
Why don't you guys just rent Dune the movie .. that was fairly awsome too !!! A Sci-Fi classic if you ask me !!
Anyways, how is Dune2000 ??? It looks like another game I've played called Dark Reing which is really good in itself !!!
AUH20 posted 11-03-98 07:33 PM ET
Maud'dib=Kangaroo Mouse.
He who controls the spice, controls the universe!
Tom posted 11-03-98 07:40 PM ET
Don't even bother to watch the DUNE movie. Unless it's the special, uncut, we-bare-all, and totally uncesored 4 hour version. Which is great for a Saturday 1am movie,pizza,smokes & coffee session.
Muad'dip rocks
I LOVE BIG BROTHER
Hasta la Victoria Siempre
PAX!
Apocalypse posted 11-03-98 08:51 PM ET
To aid YYYH's army, here are my Gunmen of the Apocalypse
Well, anyway. I am reading Dune right now. Pretty good book.
Zan Thrax posted 11-04-98 02:54 AM ET
I knew smileys had a downside.
The movie of Dune is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't already read the book. The long version probably makes more sense. (I can't say for sure, I haven't seen it.)
Mortis posted 11-04-98 02:59 AM ET
Why can't we all just get along? and so on.
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey posted 11-04-98 05:38 PM ET
Thanks for the gunmen apoc!! Now all I need is the four horsemen of the apocalypse, or is it three horsemen, I'll just pick 4, that's more.
Octopus posted 11-04-98 11:36 PM ET
I saw the movie long before I read the book and I understood Dune just fine. (There are quite a few HUGE differences between the book and the movie as well). Personally I love Dune the movie because it is full of so may ridiculous lines.
"My name... is a killing word..."
"But how can this be?!?! For he IS the Kwisatz Haderach!!!!!!!"
My personal observation about the movie would be that if you cut out all the scenes where it is just a voiceover of something somebody said earilier in the film it would probably only be about an hour long...
DHE_X2 posted 11-04-98 11:39 PM ET
DUNE kicks! BKK, Harkonnen or Atreides?
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Author	Topic: What a way to go!
CClark	posted 11-02-98 05:44 PM ET So, Junack, what did you do to deserve a death like that? I mean, liquid nitrogen, suffocation as the synthglass wraps around your frozen face and then ripped apart and electrocuted as it retensions and expands. YUCK!
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey	posted 11-02-98 06:21 PM ET I died?? I havent read the story yet!! I better go look now!!! FREEDOM, LIBERTY & SMAC!!!! Your faithful & hell-bent NIMadier general, rebel leader, YYYH
Philippe Mipz Lepage	posted 11-02-98 06:39 PM ET He's not dead (yet). Kurn is dead...
BKK the Mentat	posted 11-02-98 08:07 PM ET BKK has been resurected and has now become a Mentat.
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey	posted 11-02-98 08:52 PM ET Yeah, & what the hell is a Mentat??? Well, I became a rebel leader, working for the forces of democracy, battling to topple TAWDAL who is trying to conquer the world, fighting to oust communism & bring in capitalism!! FREEDOM, LIBERTY & SMAC!!!! Your faithful & hell-bent NIMadier general, rebel leader, YYYH
BKK the Mentat	posted 11-02-98 09:01 PM ET In DUNE, a Mentat is a human computer, so flame the server,not me.Serverbad,megood.
BKK the Mentat	posted 11-02-98 09:03 PM ET Oh yeah, I forgot to add my new slogan, Long live the fighters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . . . . . .
BKK the Mentat	posted 11-02-98 09:04 PM ET Sorry, just trying to rebuild my compliment of posts.
jsorense	posted 11-02-98 09:04 PM ET Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey, Have you never read "Dune"? A mentat is a human who has been highly trained to function as a computer. They were essential retainers to all the Great Houses. BTW, your mutinous and self-promoted "Col." Santiago doesn't look so tough now, does she?
BKK the Mentat	posted 11-02-98 09:05 PM ET Or, for that matter,beat yyyh to 2000 posts!
BKK the Mentat	posted 11-02-98 09:06 PM ET My intention is to rule Chiron!
Mortis2	posted 11-02-98 09:38 PM ET Read Dune? I thought I was just a game! Pretty cool, I might try to get my hands on a copy later. Did they have the three "factions" in the book, and all the units and the spice and the carry-alls and all the other stuff?
Apocalypse	posted 11-02-98 09:38 PM ET Thats nice. A lot of people, like me, YYYH(?), TAS, and others have evolved to the point where we really don't like people who artifially inflate their post count.
Mortis2	posted 11-02-98 09:42 PM ET I remember I was playing Dune2 in 93' just after I got my sound blaster and CD-ROM (wasn't I good). The intro totaly blew me away (keep in mind that this was 93'). "The planet Dune, land of the spice... who ever controls the spice controls Dune..." Those where the days. Right now I'm trying to get my hands on a copy of "Might & Magic IV", the Darkside of Xeen. (Also great with a sound blaster!)
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey	posted 11-02-98 09:45 PM ET Na, you wont beat me to 2000, the demo will be out before 1000, so I dont think anyone will be in quadruple digits again!! I never read Dune, dont like sci-fi alot, I like real stuff mostly, up with history!! Damn Santiago, had to get caught so easily, that's what you get for putting a woman in charge of a war-like faction!!!! Down with communism, PS, that wasnt a flame BKK, I put swears in almost all my questions! Example: Roger, where the hell are you going?? See, no flame there! My intention is to rid the world of communism, dictatorships, & all other forms of government that oppress their god given right to be free!! FREEDOM, LIBERTY, & SMAC!!!! Your faithful & hell-bent NIMadier general, YYYH
BKK the Mentat	posted 11-02-98 09:48 PM ET I have trancended. I have trancended.
Spoe	posted 11-03-98 01:59 AM ET Dune is one of the best sci-fi books of all time. Unlike some of the other posters, I didn't like the books after it in the series near as much(though I did rather like God Emperor of Dune). Rather old book(for the sci-fi world), published in 1965. You should give it a try, YYYH. It doesn't read like most sci-fi.
Tom	posted 11-03-98 03:09 AM ET Dune is one of the best SF books I ever read. I just got Messiah, hope it will be as good as its predecessor. I LOVE BIG BROTHER
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey	posted 11-03-98 09:45 AM ET Well, since I owe the library about $10 as of right now, because I never returned the 2 Mars books I borrowed, I'll have to wait 'till when I return 'em, & pay off the fine, which rest assured will happen on two different dates. Then there's also the fact my idiot sister lost my library card somehow!!! So that's another $2 to replace it, my public library is cheap!! FREEDOM, LIBERTY & SMAC!!! Your faithful & hell-bent NIMadier general, YYYH
MikeH II	posted 11-03-98 09:50 AM ET Morning Yo, not at school?
Old_Guy	posted 11-03-98 02:02 PM ET From the artist formerly known as New_Guy... Coincidentally, I just finished Dune last night and concur that it's a good read. 'Muad'Dib! Muad'Dib! Glory to the makers!'
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey	posted 11-03-98 02:18 PM ET How'd I miss MikeH's post. No, no school today, don't ask me why, the teachers are doing something, probably plotting to blow up the school & blame it on a disgruntled student who recently got suspended! I didn't have school yesterday either!!! But I have school tomorrow My army to stop BKK's fighters There, beat that!!!
Philippe Mipz Lepage	posted 11-03-98 03:22 PM ET "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed - The lips acquire stains - The stains become a warning - It is by will alone I set my mind in motion." (Piter De Vries) Hmmmmmmm...Piter, THE best Mentat to ever live. And dont start with your little old paranoid, Tuffir! N.B.: Just replace "Sapho" by "Coffee" and the sentence takes more sense...
DJ RRebel	posted 11-03-98 06:16 PM ET Why don't you guys just rent Dune the movie .. that was fairly awsome too !!! A Sci-Fi classic if you ask me !! Anyways, how is Dune2000 ??? It looks like another game I've played called Dark Reing which is really good in itself !!!
AUH20	posted 11-03-98 07:33 PM ET Maud'dib=Kangaroo Mouse. He who controls the spice, controls the universe!
Tom	posted 11-03-98 07:40 PM ET Don't even bother to watch the DUNE movie. Unless it's the special, uncut, we-bare-all, and totally uncesored 4 hour version. Which is great for a Saturday 1am movie,pizza,smokes & coffee session. Muad'dip rocks I LOVE BIG BROTHER Hasta la Victoria Siempre PAX!
Apocalypse	posted 11-03-98 08:51 PM ET To aid YYYH's army, here are my Gunmen of the Apocalypse Well, anyway. I am reading Dune right now. Pretty good book.
Zan Thrax	posted 11-04-98 02:54 AM ET I knew smileys had a downside. The movie of Dune is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't already read the book. The long version probably makes more sense. (I can't say for sure, I haven't seen it.)
Mortis	posted 11-04-98 02:59 AM ET Why can't we all just get along? and so on.
Yo_Yo_Yo_Hey	posted 11-04-98 05:38 PM ET Thanks for the gunmen apoc!! Now all I need is the four horsemen of the apocalypse, or is it three horsemen, I'll just pick 4, that's more.
Octopus	posted 11-04-98 11:36 PM ET I saw the movie long before I read the book and I understood Dune just fine. (There are quite a few HUGE differences between the book and the movie as well). Personally I love Dune the movie because it is full of so may ridiculous lines. "My name... is a killing word..." "But how can this be?!?! For he IS the Kwisatz Haderach!!!!!!!" My personal observation about the movie would be that if you cut out all the scenes where it is just a voiceover of something somebody said earilier in the film it would probably only be about an hour long...
DHE_X2	posted 11-04-98 11:39 PM ET DUNE kicks! BKK, Harkonnen or Atreides?