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Looter last won the day on January 6 2014

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    I am lucky that I have an awesome daughter. But she is MY daughter so her title is the Miniature Human Whirlwind.

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  1. To be honest what is an unwarranted downvote? If I downvote someone because I do not like a phrase, attitude, grammer (god forbid my grammer sucks), lack of content related to post, or really any reason I want, is there a justice system that values or devalues my thoughts based on anothers thoughts? If so,why? The upvote and downvote system is there just to objectively rate an individual post. Not to debate the merits of every post. I had a couple of posts years ago get downvoted like crazy because I disagreed about someone's opinion on Renarin. I am ok with it. I didn't want some review board to debate the validity of every downvote because I am not a child that needs coddling, and approval of everyone around me. So what I am saying is people don't have to take it personally when someone gives out a downvote. It is not an indictment of the person. It is a simple opinion don't like it? Give an upvote. Silently. Thread jacking to whine about someone else not thinking like you is not the way to behave. Also no I am not directing this at you Maxal. Now on to topic so roughly 4 chapters a week is what we are looking at then? I actually kind of hope it is done like a chapter every other day and not a week or so in between each group. That way it keeps the attention longer for a sustained buildup.
  2. I find it funny we had a page and a half of talk about a single downvote that I am sure even Maxal doesn't care about and maybe half a page to the actual topic at hand. I should down vote all the thread jackers on principal but to be honest it is nice to not be on a forum that bans you for having a disagreement so I will forgo the downvotes. On topic, TOR probably has realized that hiding their product like they have been has been proven to have negative sales results, while sample chapters is a good way to encourage buying. This is why Nook, Amazon, Google Play, Nearly every publisher, even Brandon Sanderson himself, offer samples online with a button at the end to finish with purchase of full book. The fact that TOR was late to the game only means they did not then know the addictive properties of their product. They do now and Sanderson has always been more than willing to hook us poor suckers on his literary crack.
  3. Sure it can count it is a fun game with little soldiers. I have my daughter paint them. She loves it.
  4. I can totally respect not turning into a beggar for your hobby. One of the reasons I play Warlord, and battletech is you can play off one book for each and just use proxies of everything. It is nice to play with things I like, and have available, and not What You See Is What You Get.
  5. So who plays tabletop miniature games here? If you do what do you currently play, and what would you like to play but don't? If you don't why not, and do you do anything else like paint miniatures, or play more common games like magic? To answer my own question I currently play Warlord from Reaper mini. It is a great little game with an easy tactical skirmish rules setup. In the recent past I would play Battletech but many of the people in charge, and site moderators need to focus on the game more. Well? How about you guys?
  6. I can only hope that the meeting of Jasnah and Kaladin (if such a thing occurs) is rather dynamic as in many ways Jasnah is the ultimate brightlady boogie man to Kaladin while I am curious how she would react to such a contradictory man as he is.
  7. I think his weakness is either being apart from Tia or harm to Tia or both. Remember when he was torn apart by not being able to go on the nasa trip? I think he was only able to stop his rampage in the school because of tia. I think this also explains their relationship of being close but seemingly not as close as when they were dating. I think she knows how important she is to him and stays around because she hopes for him to be able to return from the brink and because she is the strongest tether holding back the monster inside.
  8. Yeah it really isn't too much of an issue my wife will also be there so if needed we can keep her occupied with our phones. It is going to be a different experience. The last one I was at was towers of midnight and we camped out with my wife being 8 months pregnant. She is awesome that way.
  9. Going to be there hopefully stay late will be bringing my daughter with me so hopefully she is on her best behavior. I may have to leave early though if she begins to act up so as not to make the other people in line unhappy.
  10. Kaladin nor the bridgemen are slaves at this point. Kaladin was also not a slave until Amaram enslaved him, I would actually say that because the initial enslavement was a lie it is yet another flouting of Alethi laws and Honor Amaram has committed, he will of course have some battlefield laws that totally back up his actions but even that is just more twisting of rules so Amaram can claim he killed a shardbearer by himself.
  11. I have to agree with the OP on this one, while Shallen is ok and I love some elements about her she was pretty meh to me. I mainly read her POV for Jasnah info. Even her secrets seem kind of forced. I just don't relate to her. Most of the time she is living a lie or concealing things about herself, I will probably like her more then crappy elend from mistborn but not much. Why all the dislike for Kaladin flashbacks, his are about the only flashbacks of main fantasy characters with fairly relatable childhood instances. They are one of the best parts about kaladin, everything he does is based upon his early life and the hard work he has put in because of the type of childhood he had. If Shallen is half as developed and have family nearly as great she will be great.
  12. Yeah actually it is because of that book I tried to read many of his others. He is a good technical writer but his characters often are terribly limited in depth and unless they are jedi or heroic princes in gary stu cookie cutouts they are moronic moustache twisting bad guys.
  13. To be honest I totally want him to have a ton of good reasons, and make more choices based on them. Then repeating the cycle over and over again so that there is the awesome bad dude that you can see making tough choices that he feels should be made only because we know the entirety of the situation we watch him fall farther and farther from the good guy he probably once was to a really dark character that we can empathize with but still hate because of his choices. Watching a character from afar fall from grace at the same time as watch another rise is one of those good story telling elements that highlights the decisions themselves. After all it is boring to watch a mary sue always make timely and good choices while the bad guy just makes all the evil and bad ones. Look at Mike Stackpole's writing. His bad guys are so stupid and bad that his mary sue heroes suck. It is always better to beat a bunch of bad asses that did everything seemingly right than to beat a bunch of losers that can't help but shoot themselves in the foot at every given opportunity. So I have faith that Amaram made a fully informed choice and feels terrible about it. I also know it was the wrong choice and he is a bad dude for making it. Thus I totally want him to fall. Just not right away and as simply as the six fingered man did to Enigo Montoya.
  14. You know I have been thinking about this and one thing that kinda makes me think maybe the Kholins will get a lot of surgebinders is the simple fact of it might be related to why the Parshendi had Gavilar killed. If something he did was serious enough to start this desolation it could also be related to the Kholins being so central to the storyline.
  15. Well as far as rumors go I think it would be very easy to make a rumor that Amaram stole the shards. He came away from the fight with broken legs and living men that returned with him died in camp or dissappeared and were called traitors. If even one ghostblood spy was near they could make a rumor that is close to the truth and start it where Amaram could not respond swiftly thus destabilizing a whole region. Because Amaram is such a selfish fool that he didn't even see how a rumor that lighteyes killing darkeyes for their shards could cause the darkeyes that make up a vast majority of the population to decide they would rather risk fighting against the lighteyes than FOR the lighteyes. Revolutions are caused by rumors such as this. Hell the French revolution had the rumor of Marie Antoinette just telling aomeone that the starving poor should eat cake. That doesn't even cover his reprehensible moral actions. Edited for spelling done on my stupid phone.
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