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Fun Dune facts (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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House Harkonnen is named after very common Finnish surname Härkönen. Frank Herbert said he found it in a phone book and found it suitably "scary" or "soviet" to use in the book.

It's funny every time I hear it because it's like you took a very popular surname like Johnson and change it a bit, Game of Thrones -style, to Johnsonn and made that a house.

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lol owned (hexbear.net)
 
harry potter by ayn rand in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Isn't "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" basically this but 2000 pages?

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Playing a “Modern military shooter” is super depressing (hexbear.net)
submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It’s always the same thing. Russia bad, Middle-East bad, China bad. USA saves the world.

I like playing Ace Combat because the nations and geopolitics are made-up so it doesn’t feel like you are sitting down and watching U.S. military propaganda for 10 straight hours.