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Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
Sting played Feyd Rautha in the Lynch movie. Brad Dourif played Piter de Vries. I liked what DV did with the Harkonnens. He even gave them an in-world reason why they're so creepy. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
That's just the thing, though- it's his Voice, not his voice. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
I'm not so sure about that. His jihad is a force on its own, that even he can't really control, which is why he has to take ever more spice to stay ahead of events. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
I think the thing with Paul is that he's not supposed to be alpha male, leading man material. He's a boy who comes to power through manipulation, his own through his training as well as centuries of Bene Gesserit lever pulling. I had to make this point to Colonel also when we first watched the movie and the Syfy series. It's all the more apparent in Villeneuve's version, since he makes the Bene Gesserit hand in events more clear than the books did. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
Well, all in all, nothing in the movie made me go "oh fuck no." It was more like ???? I want to see it again, but probably won't be able to for a while. Kevin Costner has a series of four movies coming out, classic westerns. One comes out in June and the other in August, the second half of the quatrology isn't filmed yet. Costner is not my favorite actor, but I'm always up for a classic western, so at least those are something to look forward to. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
We also watched The Queen's Gambit on Netflix which was quite good. A fictional series about a 1960s female chess champion. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
There's nothing as goofy as the mechanical voice modules. Arguably the character changes are bigger, so, like I said, I'm still not sure about those. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
At least it feels pretty organic to the story, not as shoehorned-in as with other movies. And they didn't do the marketing thing where they insult original fans. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
I saw Dune 2 last night. It was pretty damn awesome as a spectacle. Some surprising changes from the books. Overall, I think they were okay, though there wasn't anything where I thought "oh I love that," like the change to Jamis in the first movie. It feels like they're making a lot of concessions to the zeitgeist, having to lean quite heavily into Fremen independence particularly with Chani. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
I found an old notebook with what I'm sure is something that @ColonelKillaBeeput me up to doing- an attempt to write a rap. Presented without further comment. This is Radio Celan with the right sounds Fillin up the mic, I make you bow down And acknowledge I'm the baddest bitch They don't teach that shit in college I'm killin and billin, your account is payable Try to beat my rhyme but you ain't able -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
HBO greenlit another season of True Detective with the same awful showrunner. My BF is having heart surgery on Dune 2 premier day, so not sure when I will get to see it, probably sometime the following week. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
This is long, but the first half hour is the best part and enough to get the gist. It makes me admire Herbert more that he wrote such a complex story that explores the topics of colonialism in an actually interesting way instead of the heavy-handed preaching that a modern writer would use. If a modern writer even dared to appropriate Islamic history at all. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
Speaking of bad TV... It seems that everyone's favorite writers, D & D, have been given the task of adapting the Chinese sci fi series The Three Body Problem for Netflix. Anyone read the novels? They seem to be pretty controversial- supposedly they are innovative sci fi but people complain about paper thin characterization being used to throw out a bunch of techno-philosophy. And supposedly the narrative structure falls apart even further in the sequels. Sounds like a great challenge for our boys. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
It just amazes me that the writer picked the wokest of woke endings and then expects us to be surprised by it. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
Oh shit, Jodie Foster spoiled the ending of TD s4 in an interview. It is peak modern storytelling and exactly what you would think if you watched this dogshit series. Putting in spoiler tags just in case anyone has a masochistic wish to watch the worst TV series of the year. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
I only watched ep1. By then it stopped being fun even as a hate watch. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
That bad? At least they aren't doubling down, like most of the other terrible shows- Witcher, RoP etc. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
Should I try to watch the Halo series? Keep in mind that I don't know anything about Halo, not the first thing. I've been watching Mare of Easttown again, since people were favorably comparing it to TD s4. I had watched it at my BF's house and must have slept through some of it because I don't remember it being this good. It's really good. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
I should go back to Louis L'Amour for a while as a palate cleanser. I think we talked about Lonesome Dove? Those are good, too. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
I read one of Sanderson's. It was kind of silly, I didn't enjoy it. I think I'm going back to crime and suspense novels. There they at least have to wrap the story up or audiences won't put up with it. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
I have tried several times to read The Blade Itself and couldn't get into it. Maybe I'll try it on audio book. I'm not sure I'll be able to finish Asimov's Foundation series. I've really tried. I do love his short story anthology, Robot Dreams. They are really thought-provoking stories. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
I finally fished R. Scott Bakker's Second Apocalypse series. I can remember telling Colonel years ago that he had to pick it up because it had great depictions of battles. It did have those in the first trilogy, but the second trilogy was absolute misery and torture. I think I'm done with fantasy novels, personally. Other than Mark Lawrence, I haven't enjoyed really anything I've read in fantasy since GRRM's first books and those have soured. So now I'm down to Tolkien. No one has improved on him in 70 years. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
Two things in that clip gave me unreasonable satisfaction: 1. The thumper makes a mechanical sound when it lifts. 2. Stilgar calls Paul "Usul" and not "Muad'dib." -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
Wow, that gave me chills and movies do that so rarely anymore. Awesome!!! My birthday is February 23rd but David and I are celebrating it the weekend this comes out and I can't wait. -
Roleplayer's Off Topic Thread #41
Celan replied to The Good Doctor's topic in The Humping Horker: Tavern Talk
He usually reviews games. I don't always agree with him but he seems to be an honest reviewer at least, because a lot of critics heaped praise on this turd.