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    Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries

    Only Those Who Display Robot Art On Their Walls Will Escape The Wrath Of Destructo!

    Oops, I Destroyed The Human Race Again!

    Take Aim At The Common Enemy Of Humanity

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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    You know Charlie Jane, i've only just gotten my R2-D2 t-shirt and then you go an post this. *sigh* I'm gonna have to freeze my credit card or start sending you the bills.
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    Image of lorq lorq
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    I still own and cherish my copy of "20th Century Foss," the artbook put out by Dragon's Dream Publishers, which also put out beautiful and glossy books by Roger Dean, Syd Mead, and many others, back in the mid-70s and thereafter. (Time for a Dragon's Dream retrospective article / gallery, mayhap...?)
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    Image of lorq lorq
    11/20/09

    @lorq: Ahem, of course I meant "21st Century Foss."
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    Yay, Jodo! Factoid: the new Metabarons GN has a lengthy sequence by AWOL WildC.A.T.S penciller Travis Charest, which is beyond awesome. The two of them on one book hugely rule.
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    Image of Tim Barribeau Tim Barribeau
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    Many of Jodorowsky's ideas for Dune were folded into his comics, like L'Incal and Metabarons. L'Incal is an utter braintrip, in the best sense of the word. Totally worth a read.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    My gods, those are some very colorful ships.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    I don't remember "Pirates of Dune."

    I like the pictures, though.
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    11/20/09

    @cletar: I like that title!

    You've got yourself another Kevin J. Anderson Dune series right there!
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    I used to have two artwork books from this guy. Very distinctive imagination.

    My mom threw them out when I left for college :-(
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    Image of Zenuflecked Zenuflecked
    11/20/09

    @FrankenPC: Oh, that is so unfortunate. I managed to hold on to my copies of 3 of his books. I never got the star liners book unfortunately, but I had the spacecraft, spacewars, and spacewrecks. Someone is doing a revival of the storyline that ran behind these for an RPG.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/20/09

    @Zenuflecked: Mine were Starliners and Spacecraft. I've never seen Spacewars. I'll have to amble on over to Amazon and take a look see.

    #calendar
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/20/09

    @Zenuflecked: the ones you mean by Stewart Cowley?
    I have them - Spacecraft 2000-2100, Spacewrecks, Great Spacebattles and the Spaceliners one.

    Foss wasn't actually involved with this series.. the work by other artists is very similar tho.

    Edit
    Forgot to note there is a Spacewars book, that is Spacecraft 2000-2100 and Spacebattles in one Edition.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/20/09

    @Zenuflecked: Holy mother of gawd :-O Starliners goes from ~100$-~300$ on Amazon!
    (Shakes fist~!) Damn you mom!!!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/20/09

    @FrankenPC: get away from my copy!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/20/09

    @KhaiJB: heres the full set

    [www.amazon.com]
    [www.amazon.com]
    [www.amazon.com]
    [www.amazon.com]

    now get your mits off my copies. MINE!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/20/09

    In reply to Rare Dune Concept Art From One Of Space Opera's Greatest Visionaries
    aah Foss... shaped my view of spacecraft ever since I can remember...
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/20/09

    @KhaiJB: I know what you mean, my father used to read me the Lensmen series as bedtime stories so i went to sleep looking at those covers.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    11/19/09

    In reply to Only Those Who Display Robot Art On Their Walls Will Escape The Wrath Of Destructo!

    Missing my favorite
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/19/09

    In reply to Only Those Who Display Robot Art On Their Walls Will Escape The Wrath Of Destructo!
    Freaking sweet. Buy now? Or hope that my favorites show up in December?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: Should ship fast if you do buy it now... Brian sez my order goes out tomorrow!
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/19/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: Why are you blocked at work Paypal??! Damnit.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: Oof. I'm sure there'll be maybe one or two left by the time you're done at work. Maybe. Unless... I buy them all and sell them at a premium.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/19/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: 6 hours to go, plus a 10 minute drive home. Maybe I'll just do it on my lunch.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/19/09

    In reply to Only Those Who Display Robot Art On Their Walls Will Escape The Wrath Of Destructo!
    You know, posts like this are great this time of year. Seeing more stuff like this would really help me with my Christmas shopping * hint hint*
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    Edited by RandomFrequentFlierDent at 11/19/09 9:38 AM RandomFrequentFlierDent was starred RandomFrequentFlierDent was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Oh! Sure, no problem. I'd like the Destruction print, please. Could you add that to your list?
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/19/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: Of course! It's so helpful when people just let you know what they'd like. Since we're exchanging gifts I'd like an iphone. I understand if that's a little pricey though. I'm willing to settle for an Xbox 306.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Oh sure. Here's an Xbax 306. It almost made it to 360 before it Magenta Ring of Death'd. It's by Mycrosoft!
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/19/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: Damn it! Foiled by typos. I'll get you someday Xbox 360.

    I have to say though, "Magenta Ring of Death" sounds a lot kinder and less depressing than Red Ring of Death.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: That's true, until you find out that it's actually just a wave of lava that pours out of the disc tray.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/19/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: "a wave of lava that pours out of the disc tray"

    Are you sure it's not made by Microsoft?

    So will I be able to play any of my favourite games on my Xbax 306? Or will I be stuck with Sprockets of War and Left too Die?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: "The Grasshoppers are coming!"

    "Zombie attack of most glorious nature!"

    Great. Now that you have reminded me, I can't wait to get off of work and go play Assassin's Creed 2. *twitches*
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/19/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: Finished DA already? 50-100% must be quick...
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: No... but I just got AC2 in the mail and I figured my wrists needed a break from all that mousing.

    I checked my % complete two nights ago and it was at 38%-ish. Holy bejeebus. I mean, seriously, holy shit. I'm fairly sure I wasn't dragging my feet, either. At the moment I'm pissed cuz the Shale DLC got borked and there's no patch in sight yet. Anyway!

    ROBOTO.
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    Edited by crashedpc - Haifisch at 11/19/09 10:33 AM crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of cletar cletar
    11/19/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: It's still better than the Ifone by Ape-L. Getting a phone made by apes was a bad idea, even if it does have a sweet, sweet touch-screen, and a bunch of poo-flinging apps.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @cletar: Lousy poo flinging apes, they ruin everything.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of cletar cletar
    11/19/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch:

    The Crapple Crapbook Pro has some issues as well. Who knew aluminum had such a low melting point?
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    11/19/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: Work? Ha! Work is for the employed.

    As a student who is all done her lab reports for the week I have but one important decision remaining: Fallout 3 or Borderlands?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: I say use two rigs and play both at the same time.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    11/19/09

    In reply to Only Those Who Display Robot Art On Their Walls Will Escape The Wrath Of Destructo!
    YES!! loves me some bots on meh walls.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    In reply to Only Those Who Display Robot Art On Their Walls Will Escape The Wrath Of Destructo!
    Blam! Lift for my living room! Can't believe I clicked on the wrong one.
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    Edited by crashedpc - Haifisch at 11/19/09 9:35 AM crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/19/09

    @crashedpc: So did you want "Roboto" and clicked "Lift" by mistake?

    /Currently vacillating between "Roboto" and "Big Bot"
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: I clicked Roboto by accident. Actually, no... it was buyer's remorse. I figured Lift would work better in my living room than a staring robot.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/19/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: Easy solution. Roboto should be placed in your bedroom or bathroom. o_O
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    Edited by Ruthless, If you let me at 11/19/09 9:50 AM Ruthless, If you let me was starred Ruthless, If you let me was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: Oh, wait, now I know; I'll just put webcams behind the eyes and put that in the guest bedroom.
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    Image of schnooogie schnooogie
    11/19/09

    @Ruthless, aren't they 8 inches by 10 inches? Fairly small for a living room wall.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/19/09

    @schnooogie: I live in a hamster cage.
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    Image of Torley Torley
    11/15/09

    In reply to Oops, I Destroyed The Human Race Again!
    Alessandra (whose name is strangely absent from the rest of this page) made me weep when she had blood all over her in the Caprica pilot, that was beautiful acting.

    They gotta do a musical episode because she can dance! Maybe with Cylons getting their groove on. #caprica
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    11/14/09

    In reply to Oops, I Destroyed The Human Race Again!
    The apple! It sparkles! It's a vampire apple! RUUUUUUUUUUUN! #caprica
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