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psmgx , in Dunes vs Star Wars

Lol the real plagiarism is GW / Warhammer 40k ripping off Dune

Quetzalcutlass ,

Though you could do an identical meme with Games Workshop and Blizzard. There were so many people back in the day that didn’t know Warhammer 40k had been around for over a decade when StarCraft released.

And then the same thing happened again when Dawn of War was released.

StalinIsMaiWaifu ,
@StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Also Warcraft, it’s blatantly ripped from Warhammer

TeenieBopper ,

To be fair, the original warcraft was supposed to be an rts using the Warhammer IP.

Pelicanen ,

Starcraft was also supposed to be a Warhammer 40k game iirc.

scytale ,

Yeah I was one those who grew up playing StarCraft and was in awe of how balanced the game races are and thought the game and lore was the first of its kind. It was only later that I learned of Warhammer 40k.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,
grrgyle ,

God I do love me some crunchy writing

solarvector ,

And literally everything else and cramming it into one universe

grrgyle , (edited )

Also big numbers = epic as a guiding light

rustyfish ,
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

Not only Dune. GW ripped off so many franchises it made my head spin when I finally read the Foundation series by Asimov. Let’s just say the Mechanicum wasn’t an original idea.

Aurenkin ,

And Starcraft ripping off 40k

ShadowCatEXE , in Not cool
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I had always disabled chat in RL. Nothing good really ever came through it.

JargonWagon ,

There’s too much toxicity in RL these days.

4grams , in Dunes vs Star Wars
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I have no opinion on the Star Wars/Dune debate but that is one fantastic comment. Kudos to the author, brought me quite a smile.

Flughoernchen ,

Had me in the first half ngl

Entropywins ,

I got slightly heated myself…

Rinox ,

The most funny thing about this is when Google AI will pick this as the true answer to the creation of Dune

4grams ,
@4grams@awful.systems avatar

Ha! This is a glorious future we’re living in…

TropicalDingdong , in You wanted AI, didn't you

“Do you remuary… –the 21st night of Sepuary?”

Aurenkin ,

Rememuary rememuary, the 5th of Novuary.

lauha ,

Remember, remember!
The fifth of novuary
The gunpowder treason and plot

The_Helmet_Stays_On ,

Wake me up when Sepuary ends

Baphomet_The_Blasphemer , in Mortal combat

Or maybe the character is historically accurate, and yall are just being racist…

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke

TommySoda ,

This meme was created way before Assassin’s Creed added Yasuke to their game. Which sucks because this meme was pretty funny before people got racist.

MrVilliam ,

Wait, you think that racism is new? Where were you during pretty much every history class ever?

ShaggytheRodgers ,

Oh that scene is referencing Yasuke, that’s really sick

StarPupil ,

And also Ubisoft isn’t American, they’re a French company. So instead of Guile we should have Manon.

UnRelatedBurner ,

ew, one more reason to hate them

Aria ,

Making Assassin’s Creed? That’s where you draw the line?

TheDarksteel94 ,

Sick fucking outfit

StarPupil ,

Her Color 2 for that outfit is trans flag colors. Idk if it was confirmed that she’s trans, but if she is, she’s not the first trans character in Street Fighter.

TheDarksteel94 ,

Oh yeah, I did hear about Poison being trans a long time ago. Completely forgot until now!

PotatoKat ,

Poison is only trans in America lmao. She’s def not the greatest representation since the designer of Final Fight made her trans in NA because he thought americans would have a problem with men beating up a woman which is yikes for many reasons

OozingPositron ,
@OozingPositron@feddit.cl avatar

So was he a samurai or not?

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Yasuke was a retainer. And Retainers were loyal and trusted individuals who served a lord, such as a daimyo or the shogun, in various capacities, especially in military matters.

In other words, a warrior. And Samurai are the warrior caste.

SexualPolytope , in Piracy
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My Analysis professor once did basically the same thing in class. She said that we should never go to these websites, since they were illegal. Based lady.

alcoholicorn , in You wanted AI, didn't you

OK, but I like this better.

10_0 , in Not the best formulation

Lmao

Skullgrid , in Mistakes were made
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“FEVER 102,WHEEZING, IRRITABLE” uses them.

It might probably be “unabe to eat diarrhea” on purpouse

Aremel ,

Yeah, someone’s just having a bit of fun.

Unless there are multiple people registering patients, and one of them doesn’t use punctuation.

toynbee ,

It seems very likely that this drop-down menu was not populated by one person, or perhaps was even populated by multiple databases written by very different people with highly disparate levels of grammar knowledge - maybe even different first languages.

Or someone thought it was funny, like you said. I’m not here to judge.

hydrospanner ,

The only cure for “unable to eat diarrhea” is to put the patient into an induced comma.

StaySquared , in Piracy

Respect.

Joejoebinkz1 , in Just like the game

DK mode on.

pastel_de_airfryer , in Piracy

I had a professor who kept all the materials from the books that he wrote on his website. He was cool with students printing the html pages and bringing it to class.

CapnAssHolo , (edited )

Me fighting my instinct to say * Hello. Based department? *

umbrella , in Piracy
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

based professor

davel , in Not the best formulation
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

Nazi brand wants a Lebensraum do-over.

Gigan , in Dunes vs Star Wars
@Gigan@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t know anything about Dune, does it have Magic (the Force)?

Slowy ,
@Slowy@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah

Gigan ,
@Gigan@lemmy.world avatar

Interesting, maybe I’ll read the book. I’m trying to read more

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

You can get it on library genesis. Messiah, too.

RiderExMachina ,

This might be controversial, but the new Denis Villeneuve movies are much better than the book. Maybe watch the movies and read the book or trawl the wiki after for more context.

platypode ,
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They’re definitely better entertainment pound-for-pound. I’d contend that the book gives you a lot more to think about, so it really depends what you’re after. I like them both a lot–I think they complement each other very nicely.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,
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I’d compare it to The Lord of the Rings books vs the movies. The Movies are a great abridged series and they know what pacing is, but the books explain so much more and have several extra movies worth of cut content.

rustyfish ,
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

No. But it has drugs that make you accurately predict the near and far future. And turn you into an immortal worm eventually.

SchmidtGenetics , (edited )

The voice… Prana-bindu, there’s others, but spoilers ahoy.

rustyfish ,
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah.

Tap for spoilerBut non of it is magic. More like crazy mastery of your own body to a degree that it seems like magic.

SchmidtGenetics ,

The majority of force abilities is basically that. Voice control isn’t mastery of muscle or nerve, it isn’t magic in a sense, but controlling someone’s mind to do what you want for all intents and purposes is.

Also, where do you think Star Wars got inspiration for most of their force abilities at the start?

OtherPetard ,

basically The Force then

billgamesh ,

Not immortal, just long-lived and thick skinned

billgamesh ,

Not immortal, just long-lived and thick skinned

rustyfish ,
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

True. My apologies. I fell for imperial propaganda for a moment.

CaptainEffort ,

Sort of yeah

Fermion ,

It definitely has aspects that could be considered magic, but I wouldn’t necessarily compare them to the Force.

LaLuzDelSol ,

Some aspects of it. “The voice” is basically jedi mind tricks. People that are attuned also get visions/senses of foreboding about the future. There’s no telekinetic stuff as far as I know.

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