Odium's_Shard Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 Oh, crap, Aiken, he knows about the damnation parrot! I told you not to go running your motor about those secret zoo animalia that we are keeping hidden away for exportation (and huge profits) in case the admins find out! I guess I'm going to have to call it! We'll hide them, including the {wink} giraffe inside that Alcatraz Thread that no-one will ever find! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Spoonface Posted March 24, 2012 Report Share Posted March 24, 2012 That poor parrot... I still feel bad about that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivertongue Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 *shoves the thread back on topic* Yes. It does. I give no reasoning for this, other than there being multiple planets involved and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Spoonface Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 After all, Brandon has already said there will be a Mistborn trilogy set with what us non-Scadrians would call future technology, so it's pretty much guaranteed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
master Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 I wonder if they'd have access to allomancy [and the other two arts] if sazed [and the mists] are back back home while the alomancer is on another planet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jacob Santos Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 I think that given that Hoid can do his magic anywhere, that other magic systems should be available everywhere as well. Only limited by genetics and other factors. So yes, I think allomancy should be available, if played straight, everywhere the person born of Preservation is located. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odium's_Shard Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 And the giraffe, Spoonface... Think of the giraffe! I can't believe he's gone... And that no amount of wordhats can save him... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triasmus Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 There's a quote from Brandon that I really don't want to find that says that One can get any magic iin the cosmere to work anywhere in the cosmere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweetness Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 I think that given that Hoid can do his magic anywhere, that other magic systems should be available everywhere as well. Only limited by genetics and other factors. So yes, I think allomancy should be available, if played straight, everywhere the person born of Preservation is located. I think I missed it being stated flat out that Hoid has magic. Of course, very little has been stated in plain terms about Hoid, and obviously he can do something. But I don't recall ever seeing anything about Hoid's magic. (I'm not sure if I'm being facetious or not here, so if I am, just ignore me.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Spoonface Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 And the giraffe, Spoonface... Think of the giraffe! I can't believe he's gone... And that no amount of wordhats can save him... He's not dead... I... I let him go. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odium's_Shard Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 You... You! I swear to you, that giraffe king was my kill! And I won't let it go! I'm teaming up with Shivertongue against you! And don't try to spin me no story that the giraffe was eating your damnation bagels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 I feel as if I stumbled on to a Reddit thread. Well the wit and irreverence isn't on par, but I'll keep my expectations low. Edit: It is kind of odd what people will give negative rep to as opposed to the majority of off topic responses in the thread. I have half a mind to go through and negative rep all off topic posts myself, but that would be childish. Relax, man. There's nothing wrong with a bit of looseness. You (as well as everyone else) always has the ability to add something on-topic to the discussion. I find that politely asking to get back on topic is a lot more effective. I personally don't have a problem with some off-topic fun, but if you want to steer the discussion to something more productive, you gotta admit there are a lot more polite and effective ways to do so, you know? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Spoonface Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 You... You! I swear to you, that giraffe king was my kill! And I won't let it go! I'm teaming up with Shivertongue against you! And don't try to spin me no story that the giraffe was eating your damnation bagels! You have unchained the beast... (Puts on wordhat) Let's rock and roll. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jacob Santos Posted March 25, 2012 Report Share Posted March 25, 2012 Relax, man. There's nothing wrong with a bit of looseness. You (as well as everyone else) always has the ability to add something on-topic to the discussion. I find that politely asking to get back on topic is a lot more effective. I personally don't have a problem with some off-topic fun, but if you want to steer the discussion to something more productive, you gotta admit there are a lot more polite and effective ways to do so, you know? Well, I was thinking of asking that this thread be split into two and the irrelevance moved to an off-topic subforum. It is worth keeping for the humor and LOLz, however it has pretty much stopped being funny after page 2, so if you could remove pages 3 and 4, it would greatly improve the LOLz. I did go with a facetious post instead to keep from breaking the lighted mood, but I think people misunderstood that I was joking. The irony was that I was trying to be nice by being facetious as opposed to saying, "Hey, how about splitting this thread after post 3," which would have made me look like a jerk. Looking back, I understand why the irrelevance. Basically the question asked has already been answered, but in other threads and reading extra material. Furthermore the thread ended at post 3, everything past that has been off-topic, including this post, but whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 Well, I was thinking of asking that this thread be split into two and the irrelevance moved to an off-topic subforum. It is worth keeping for the humor and LOLz, however it has pretty much stopped being funny after page 2, so if you could remove pages 3 and 4, it would greatly improve the LOLz. I did go with a facetious post instead to keep from breaking the lighted mood, but I think people misunderstood that I was joking. The irony was that I was trying to be nice by being facetious as opposed to saying, "Hey, how about splitting this thread after post 3," which would have made me look like a jerk. Looking back, I understand why the irrelevance. Basically the question asked has already been answered, but in other threads and reading extra material. Furthermore the thread ended at post 3, everything past that has been off-topic, including this post, but whatever. You... kind of have an odd sense of humor Hopefully you can understand why being facetious sounded a lot more offensive than hilarious. You can't simply go from one kind of humor to a totally different one (joking and intentionally being inappropriate) and expect humor to be totally transitive. Honestly, looking at the post that was downvoted, it's really hard to find it funny. It feels a lot more attack than keeping things in the spirit of the thread. A simple and polite, "hey guys, can we keep it on topic or maybe split the topic? This really isn't a General Theories topic any longer" doesn't make you seem like a jerk in any capacity. In fact, that makes you seem even better, because you care about the overall organization of the forum. Instead, you chose to be intentionally inappropriate in a weird joke. That's a little less cool. Since this is the second time I've seen you be intentionally offensive for the sake of a laugh, I'd really like you to think very hard if that type of humor will actually have the effect you desire. That humor does have a place, but honestly, I can't think of a single context in terms of this community where that would be preferred over being polite. So... just watch out for that, okay? If someone could find it offensive, that may not be the best idea, you know? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Spoonface Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 @Chaos: Where ought this to be moved to? I agree that this thread now has little/nothing to do with whether or not the Cosmere Universe Opens Up For a Sci-Fi Setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 @Chaos: Where ought this to be moved to? I agree that this thread now has little/nothing to do with whether or not the Cosmere Universe Opens Up For a Sci-Fi Setting. I'm not totally sure at the moment. I think about it and ask KChan if she has some bright ideas. It's hard because the off-topicness, even if it was separate from the topic here, is still really random, so it's hard to encapsulate it in a new thread title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KChan Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 I need to get ready for bed, but I'll read back over the thread tomorrow or the next day, and we'll see where to go to from there. On a side note, I agree with everything Chaos said - and props to everyone who kept this misunderstanding drama-free. I'm really glad we have such a mature user base here on 17S, even though we can all act totally silly and ridiculous at the same time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shivertongue Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 I need to get ready for bed, but I'll read back over the thread tomorrow or the next day, and we'll see where to go to from there. On a side note, I agree with everything Chaos said - and props to everyone who kept this misunderstanding drama-free. I'm really glad we have such a mature user base here on 17S, even though we can all act totally silly and ridiculous at the same time. We have mature users? Where? How'd they get in? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windrunner Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 We have mature users? Where? How'd they get in? Someone must have left the gate open again. We're going to have to install a padlock or a firewall or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zas678 Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 I think I missed it being stated flat out that Hoid has magic. Of course, very little has been stated in plain terms about Hoid, and obviously he can do something. But I don't recall ever seeing anything about Hoid's magic. (I'm not sure if I'm being facetious or not here, so if I am, just ignore me.) Well there is that whole "ship made of smoke" thing with Kaladin. As well as his sense of where to be where he's supposed to be. And Jacob, the quote you're looking for is: Some of the magic systems have been discovered on different planets, and some of them do work. A lot of them don't, but some of them do. It depends on your spiritual DNA, what people are able to do, and things like that. Source This quote is ambiguous at the least. Let's see if I can find a better one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 (edited) I think I missed it being stated flat out that Hoid has magic. Of course, very little has been stated in plain terms about Hoid, and obviously he can do something. But I don't recall ever seeing anything about Hoid's magic. (I'm not sure if I'm being facetious or not here, so if I am, just ignore me.) Brandon has also stated that Hoid has temporal abilities, and hasn't lived every year in real-time. (Kind of like a cadmium bubble) Still, he's much, much older than a normal person would be, and I'd imagine he has some magical capability to prevent him from aging. Also, worldhopping. Brandon has said Hoid "is very good at manipulating Shadesmar for his ends". He's got magic, definitely. EDIT: Zas, I couldn't find this quote about Hoid and Shadesmar in the Interview Database, but I know I read it somewhere. The best that is in there is Stormblessed referencing the quote I am talking about. EDIT2: Thanks for finding it. http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=428#102 Edited March 26, 2012 by Chaos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odium's_Shard Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 We have mature users? Where? How'd they get in? Sorry about that. I thought it'd be okay if I... invited a few friends. I never meant for the giraffe to be killed, honest. Nor the parrot. Light-hearted fun, y'know...? After all, its not as if any of us have been causing some sort of completely off-topic ruckus or anything, right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Spoonface Posted March 26, 2012 Report Share Posted March 26, 2012 (edited) Sorry about that. I thought it'd be okay if I... invited a few friends. I never meant for the giraffe to be killed, honest. Nor the parrot. Light-hearted fun, y'know...? After all, its not as if any of us have been causing some sort of completely off-topic ruckus or anything, right? As Commissioner Gordan would say, it's just escalation. Watch out. Zombie Heath Ledger is coming for you... *EDIT*: Heat Ledger hasn't been an assassin for years. I don't know what I was thinking. Edited March 26, 2012 by Commander Spoonface Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aradel Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 It's Commissioner Gordon actually. Another relative of mine. (Gordons and Goradels are very close.) But the only way to settle ecscalation is to use something so overpowering that your opponent can't stop it! Or quit. That works too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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