It has been a while, but I'm pretty sure the bladed weapons are needed because the shields specifically block objects with high kinetic energy. I also recall one of the houses on arakis getting bombed, but only after they were able to turn off the protective barrier. I might be mixing up Sci fi books, though.
You’re not - it’s pretty explicitly the point. The technological arms race has gotten so advanced that everyone has devolved into fighting with knives.
You are correct. But the movies did indeed make a poor introduction to the shield technology. I think it was just a short mention when Gurney is training Paul and is easily missed. They even have to train for a specific fencing style that involves slow movements as a fast swung blade can still be stopped by the shield. And I don't remember them talking about the interaction between lasers and shields at all, which creates a huge explosion.
My bigger issue with the movies was the typical hollywood charge. No tactics or strategy involved at all. Just screaming and running.
The shield-based fighting style was also a small note that was missed in the duel between Paul and Jamis in the movie. Paul was missing what they thought were clear cuts and as a result they believed he was cruelly toying with Jamis, but it was because he was slowing his blade at the very last moment due to shield training.
Also a slightly weird moment for me as a book fan was when the thopter Duncan escaped in clearly showed that it had shields with a rock crashing off of it, but then he was being chased by lasguns immediately after.
My biggest gripe with the movie currently is that when a Crysknife is drawn it must draw blood before being sheathed again. If you don't use it on someone you must cut yourself. This is explained to the reader in the book, but in the movie it includes the scene where it would be explained but isn't mentioned. It's not a huge deal. They can just ignore it. However, at the end of the movie the Fremen have their knives drawn and it focuses on them cutting their hands to sheath them. I'm sure people who didn't read the books before seeing the movie would think it's really weird, especially for a culture so obsessed with water (although I don't recall if they've discussed recovering water from blood yet).
Sucks for him - I literally can't stop jerking myself over the movie. It was soo gooood. Oh. Time to clean up again.
Now ask why fighters in Star Wars bank and turn like WW2 fighter planes flying in atmosphere...
Hint: Narrative
convenanceconvenience .narrative what
Narrative convents. The explanation is nun of your business.
Narrative Covenant, when you decide to do a dune/halo crossover.
Narrative conveyance. It's the movie's means of transportation.
I should really pay closer attention to auto correct.
Hint: Narrative
convenanceconvenience .Keep going, you'll get it eventually.
A 360?
A 360 and a moonwalk
Hee Hee!
They probably meant 720.
Doing a 360 has been a meme on 4chan for years
The Xbox 360 was so bad I turned around 360 degrees and walked away.
The movie theater I go to has the exit at the front of the seats, so this makes sense. He twirled around until his Wonder Woman costume appeared and stormed out.
Unexpected Linda Carter
He walked backwards out of the movie theater
OP is the bad guy's stooge from Last Action Hero
Exactly what I was thinking,
"now you turn a 360 on me?"
"180, you stupid, spaghetti slurping cretin!"
Need to look behind before walking backwards, just to make sure you're not going to bump into someone else.
The movie had its problems and I've never read the books but even I know the answer is because the shields don't stop slow moving objects otherwise you wouldn't be able to pick up a cup. It's even explained in the film, admittedly very briefly.
But then again that's also how personal shields work in Stargate
Have they considered that poison gas also moves slowly?
And napalm?
They sure as hell don't mind war crimes.
That's a plot point in the series, yes
They even had a little rhyme/phrase to help them remember to stab their opponents slowly.
ITT someone didn't read the books
I had a coworker who hated warhammer40k because they had lasertanks but then lost the tech for lasertanks and that was enough for it to make the future part of it not work for them.
It is kind of ridiculous that the Imperium turns entire goddamn planets into factories but still plays the "lost technology" card for things they have working examples of. I know they're not a shining example of inquiry and skepticism in general, but you'd fucking figure the blow-shit-up department gets carte blanch. You have genius-level superhumans who are three centuries old and those guys are your soldiers. What the fuck is stopping the laser pewpew R&D effort?
What the fuck is stopping the laser pewpew R&D effort?
Dogma. The R&D is literally heresy that gets you BLAMmed in the head
, but you’d fucking figure the blow-shit-up department gets carte blanch.
iirc the techpriests kinda do get a blank check on doing whatever they want, the inquisition is even sketchy on giving them 'oversight'
Whats stopping Imperium R&D is a mix of multiple things ranging from Byzantine beurocracy so advanced the Romans are calling it inefficient to the fact that if you build the gun wrong it gets possessed by a literal Daemon. Also the space marines are generally getting the best shit, its the guardsmen who are getting the lower grade shit.
Also the Mechanicus is building new tech its just slow as balls and usually objectively worse than golden age tech which is capable of fucking with time and using the anomolies to annihilate an enemy ship. And the ship that does that may not even be a military vessal by design.
Yeah their final arguement is it's too much sci-fantasy at it's core for them and that is pretty accurate, everything serves the lore instead of the science being... anything reality based at all.
Just wait until he hears about Battletech's LosTech..
Rule of the cool bud.
