Ya and if memory serves i think he clawed his own eyes out and committed suicide after finding out.

Hey no worries dude, thanks for considering how I’d feel.

If it matters, i wasn’t trying to be rude on my original comment either. I was genuinely asking the question. Its tough to convey tone online…

I looked it up, a cycle refers to disconnected body of works that cover the same event such as the siege of Troy. A series refers to a linear body of works that cover different events, such as Dune and most other modern books.

So ya everyone downvoting me is straight up wrong. The op was wrong, and also I was wrong. Go figure.

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Dune “cycle”? Is that what people are calling it? Like its an impactful series sure but has Herbert really reached the level of Homer?

Or is there some other reason?

Does anyone know the name of the number with that many zeroes?

One of my all time favs!

Thank you shepherd.com, i hadn’t heard of the single most famous sci-fi writer of the last decade.

I did not expect such a poetic response to something I wrote while drunk at 3 am

So… The lotr orcs are only “pretty orcy”?.. What exactly is this orcyness scale based on? Lotr orcs are the definitive depiction that all modern orcs are inspired by.

I mean by the by it was a funny movie and I liked it. But when you get right down to it, it was a hail-mary attempt by Matel to switch the narrative about their toys being unhealthy for young women’s body image. I’d say thats the only consistent message it had.

Do you think so? Consider the subtext, not just the genders of the actors.

The conflict of the film is, quite literally, an oppressed sex lashing out at the society that oppressed them and taking control. The resolution is the previously dominant sex regaining control and putting the oppressed sex back in their former, subservient positition.

It is kind of funny that the movie’s ultimate message was that a society with strictly enforced gender roles and a dominant sex is good.

Also where was the queer representation? They showed magic earing Ken but no gay characters? Really??

Bro whose decision was it to put Yaddle front and center on that promo art

I’ll check those out! I find the subject super interesting.

Just in case you didn’t know, there was a big cache of gnostic texts found in Nag Hammadi but the discovery got overshadowed by the dead sea scrolls. They were very cool to look into and shed a lot of light on pre-romanized Christianity.

I wish i had something off the top of my head but I’m mostly basing this off what i remember from uni lectures.

That being said if you look up early Christianity you’ll see that women filled the roles of priests and were often responsible for spreading and maintaining the faith before its roman adoption. You can even even see this in the bible where the earliest chronological chapters are extremely sympathetic to women, then become less and less so as time goes on.

I’ll see if i can find a specific reference for you later today.

Exactly. In keeping with my other comments, that’s why some early christian sects actually viewed Eve as a hero in the story, because she freed them from ignorance… You know, back when christianity was driven by women and wasn’t just roman ideology wearing a Jesus skin mask.

I think thats a pretty solid interpretation. The gnostics have other points too though, like the vast difference in personality between the vengeful old testament god (which they claim is a separate entity) and the loving new testament god.

I wrote an essay about that once. Adam and Eve were meant to chill in the garden for literally all of eternity but were still created as curious, fallible beings with no knowledge of evil. Ergo it was logically impossible that they wouldn’t have eaten the fruit eventually, whether that was in 3 days or 3 million years.