CallMeMrZ Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 In Battleforge there is a building which extends the lifetime of energy wells (game resource), its ability is called "The juice must flow". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneSandRider Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Futurama: - Fry and Leela trying out a still suithttp://i.imgur.com/pp9yQ.jpg - Sandworm being used as public transportationshttp://www.optionated.com/2012/02/6-sci-fi-futurama-references-you-might-not-know-were-based-on-books/sandworm_786x786/ Simpsons: - Liza can see through timehttp://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8r73rPA0S1qdoghio1_500.png I remember a last one in cartoons but cant say which one it was. Main character walk into a party and say "hi" to the Baron Harkonnen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Recently I've played a demo of a turn-based strategy game called Emperor of the Fading Suns by Holistic Design, and immediately noticed a very obvious Dune reference:This is a technology you can research in the game. Further inquiry revealed more references, like Doppleganger special unit that apparently was inspired by Face Dancers:And this here seems to be a reference to the Voice:The whole game, which is actually based on a pen-and-paper RPG Fading Suns, seems to borrow a lot of elements from Frank Herbert's Dune universe. The story is set in a galaxy-spanning empire ruled by noble houses (which are striving for the throne), the trading Guild and the Holy Church (with numerous heresies here and there). Advanced technology (which is mostly salvaged from the remains of an apparently more technologically advanced Second Republic) exists side by side with feudal superstition and psychic practices. Unlike Dune however, there are also sentient aliens in the game world of the Fading Suns. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneSandRider Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 Not exactly a direct references but, in John Dies at the end, there's this slug thing that look a lot like a sandworm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE AQIB Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 wtf? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X3M Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 I think that is supposed to be a snail. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneSandRider Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I think that is supposed to be a snail.Without the shell yeah. But the circular mouth with the crystal teeth reminded me of a Sandworm. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE AQIB Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 well that way you're right....it has the mouth of the sandworm but the guy who made it must have copied it from another guy and so on and the first guy copied it from dune...bingo all round mouth creatures are descendents of our ol sandworm....anyone seen tremors???I guess that was using the same idea of the dune sandworm.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 LoneSandRider, cool OoTS-style Fremen avatar, btw :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Hey guys, I wonder if http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAR_%28Disk_Archiver%29'>this could be considered a conscious Dune reference: DAR (Disk ARchive) is a command-line archiving tool and a replacement for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28file_format%29'>tar. Most likely a coincidence, but who knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneSandRider Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 LoneSandRider, cool OoTS-style Fremen avatar, btw :DTks, use to play Tribal Wars and it was my avatar over there. Always created Fremen tribes and made it my duty to educate my member to the ways of the desert ;)I got a other reference this time, one that is a lot clearer. Unfortunately i forgot to paste the pic last i play the game, i'll be back with it next time i play it.Game's call Crusader Kings 2. In this game you lead a Baron or a Duke and lead his House to fame and glory. Characters can have children and you can chose who's to tutor the said child. When you do this with the leader of your dynasty you get events like every years in the game in which you can influence the traits your tutored children are likely to get. One of those is to make either the child Brave or Craven. Event will sound like "Every time your son (or else) see a spider he look like he might faint". If your leader is not a craven himself, you'll get a reply option called "Fear is the Mind Killer". 100% chances not to get the child craven and a slim chance to make him brave if you select this one instead of the others they offer you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneSandRider Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 well that way you're right....it has the mouth of the sandworm but the guy who made it must have copied it from another guy and so on and the first guy copied it from dune...bingo all round mouth creatures are descendent's of our ol sandworm....anyone seen tremors???I guess that was using the same idea of the dune sandworm....Oh and almost forgot, I sure remember the Tremors movies. One of very few Kevin Bacon movies i actually enjoyed (no offense meant to his fans).They're a bit of differences ofc but they sure are sandworms inspired.This, is the movie posters and somehow the actual worms in the movie dont look like it. Here's a pic from the movie.Although the movie worms dont look like they have any teeth, they sure are a reference to Frank Herbert vision. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Oh and almost forgot, I sure remember the Tremors movies. One of very few Kevin Bacon movies i actually enjoyed (no offense meant to his fans).Haha, I've watched these (the first two IIRC) so long ago I didn't know who Kevin Bacon was back then, so I never thought of Tremores as a Kevin Bacon movie until you've mentioned it :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davidu Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 hehehehehe, take a look at this one: http://inkoutbreak.com/inker.php?comic=c2b6f07819768dbb310ef36ad7abb6e4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X3M Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 In what way is that one as reference to dune? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davidu Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Damn links! Here it is: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X3M Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 The image doesn't even load -.-But maybe it's just my computer. But then again, this forum is slow lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Somehow I find the fact that there's a Harry Potter reference right next to a Dune reference a bit... unsettling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davidu Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Maybe it's because Dune and Harry Potter fans are such fanatics hahahahahahah. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X3M Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 How about you google:Warriors of the Wind Can't find a picture that can be posted here though. That's why, google it ^^You see someone riding a worm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davidu Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Could be. As concept mainly :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Warriors of the WindLooks like all the prominent science fiction tropes and cliches have been thrown together to produce this :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X3M Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Produced in 1984 by a Japanese.Sold the rights to the film in 1985 to an American studio.Apparently the American version is hated by every one.No wonder if you cut about half an hour of film and change every single dialogue. The original was called:Nausicaä of the Valley of the WindAnd was a best seller back then. So if you are interested. Choose the Japanese version. Which I suggest for any Japanese production. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 I've enjoyed quite a few of Miyazaki's works, and now I remember I even started watching Nausicaä, however somehow that particular film didn't impress me at all so I couldn't even bring myself to watch it to the end. I also remember now that there were some giant trilobite like creatures as the one depicted on the US version poster, which BTW did not invoke the association with sandworms at all when I watched it. In all honesty though, the Warriors of the Wind poster looks more like some sort of a parody of sic-fi cliches that anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 I enjoyed Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Although I've enjoyed almost every film from studio ghibli. In the first episode of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_%28TV_series%29'>Peep Show one character shows David Lynch's Dune DVD in the case, and mentions wanting to watch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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