[Link] SpiceDAO Roasted for Spending $3.8 Million on Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ Book

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

In an embarrassing but predictable turn of events, a group of cryptocurrency investors's bid to purchase one of the few remaining copies of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune adaptation is shaping up to have been a letdown despite actually winning the auction.

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[Link] The ‘Dune’ Porn Game Is Not a Terrible Adaptation

Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com

With the release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune in theaters this month, a look back at the erotic visual novel based on the book, that deserved more fanfare than it ever received. Dune is a horny franchise.

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[Link] The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

In the brutal future of Frank Herbert’s Dune, computers are outlawed and high level computations are done by specially trained and bred humans called mentats. In Herbert’s world, there’s something elegant about old solutions to new problems.

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