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  1. Frustration

    January 2024

    Happy new year. So there's usually a spoiler stream in January, hopefully by that time they have a new location to source questions from since I don't think they are using Reddit anymore. I guess I might as well put up some questions I would like to see answered, a lot of these can be found on my about me section but I added a few Anyway, anything interesting this month?
  2. Frustration

    December

    It's December time, State of Sanderson and whatnot Also I did a thing I'm a dork I know. Anyway did anything interesting happen this month?
  3. Frustration

    November

    Hi, so as you should all know by now I won't be on the shard for a while, so I put this blog together because it turns out you can have delayed publication on these things. So yeah, I'll try to have at least one for each month I'm gone to remind you all that I exist and what not So yeah, look forward to that.
  4. Well goodbye.

     

    I've been anticipating this moment for a long time. As many of you know I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    As such I am leaving to serve a mission to preach the gospel. And I will be gone for two years doing so. I tried preparing blogs to be posted every month, but I took too long and only made it to January, but feel free to keep those updated on anything interesting that happens.

     

    Goodbye my friends.

    God be with you till we meet again.

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    2. Experience

      Experience

      Prepare to have your life changed St. It's gonna be the hardest two years of your life. But it will also easily be the best two years as well. I wish you the best of luck my friend. May God be with you till we meet again.

    3. ΨιτιsτηεΒέsτ

      ΨιτιsτηεΒέsτ

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      God be with you till we meet again.

      Got to be one of my favorite phrases ever.

    4. danex
  5. .......................... Sir you just broke my brain. I don't think that's correct, but I find that a very possible theory.
  6. I'm not understanding how pushing a wall suddenly generates extra force, could you please explain that?
  7. If the gem has no bearing on the rate of decay why are cut gems brighter than uncut gems?
  8. I've been thinking about this for a while and it does not work with what we have seen. If decay was the reason the light was created more flawed gemstones would be the brightest, and when a gemstone was shattered it would release a massive burst of light as all of the stormlight inside decayed at once. Neither of which happens.
  9. Wait I'm the top poster in this thread! What!
  10. A number of times I wondered if we were going to get any, perhaps SA 5 will serve that role.
  11. Not necessarily. If you stand up and push out with your arms as hard as you can against the air nothing will happen to you. If you do the same thing but push against a wall you will fall if you don't brace yourself.
  12. Updated for SP 4 It took me almost an hour to get all the threads updated, I hadn't realized just how long it had been since they had been updated. Oh and I also added an allies section, and I am considering messing with the weighting system to give more weight to certain sections but that is far from implementation.
  13. Well it took me almost an hour, but it is done.

    Frustration's Firepower Index is now updated for SP 4.

  14. Welcome to Frustration's Firepower Index, a collection of threads giving a comprehensive analysis of each Cosmere world's combat capabilities. This thread will focus on the world of Canticle as it appears in The Sunlit Man. Oh boy this one's a doozy. Doing these threads gets kind of hard when Brandon drops three new worlds on you, but I'm all for it. Shards: Canticle has no known shards 0/4.5 Dawnshards: unfortunately Dawnslivers don't count, and even if they did Nomad left the world 0/1 Defenses: Canticle has no stable perpendiculaities, and the world rotates faster than people can run, exposing people to a sun hot enough to burn through powerful shields, melt rock, and overcome powerful healing. Followed by a powerful storm of wind and fire still every bit as capable of melting steel. And the planet has low atmospheric pressure making breathing difficult for those without means to adapt. 4.5/5.5 Offenses: Canticle has no stable perpendiculaities. -1/1 Natural Advantages: Canticle's low atmospheric pressure would allow for higher athletic performance off world. This must be balanced however by their staggeringly low population, that likely doesn't even reach 100,000. -1/2 Armed forces: Canticle has a mostly unified population, with rifles and laser cannons and energy bombs being developed. And there are several Charred who are highly invested fighters. 5/12 Economics and Technology: The Chorus can construct basically any machinery so long as they are provided materials, and energy is abundant with the advent of recharging Sunhearts. Hovercraft and low atmospheric travel have been developed. As has radio and jammers. 5/7.5 Logistics: On World: Anything can be brought to basically anyplace on Canticle within four hours. And everyone has a hovercraft of some kind. 10/10 Off World: Off World travel is currently impossible for Canticle -3/3 Intelligence: Canticle has security cameras, and Investiture detectors. 2/10.5 Counterintelligence: Canticle has Radio Jammers. 1/9 Allies: Canticle has no allies. 0/1. Notable uses of Investiture: Sunhearts can be used to remove unwanted pieces of people's souls. Investiture can be freely shared among Canticlians, Canticleites? Whatever. Cinderhearts can be used to make highly invested fighters that obey mental commands. +3 Recommend strategies: Grow the population. That has to be number one on the priority bracket. Next comes with building up military doctrine and weapons, then expelling the off worlders and beginning to develop space travel. If they can do that I can see Canticle becoming an important but small player on the Cosmere stage. Overall Score: 25.5/67 Well, it is finished. Every Cosmere world we are likely to see for the next several years, is finally documented. So what do you all think?
  15. Alright, before we begin, quick disclaimer, I really enjoyed this story, I thought the world was excellent, and it is my favorite Cosmere novel outside of Stormlight and Mistborn. And it's the kind of book I've been needing for years now. That said, I hate it. The problem comes from our dear main character: Nomad/Sigzils/Zellions/this man has too many names. Every single problem can be traced back to him. 1. His power levels and abilities are wildly inconsistent. In one scene he can form Shardblades, heal really quickly, get shot in the face and keep going, etc. And then in the next he can't do anything. And there's really no consistency in it. How am I supposed to feel any sort of stakes when I know Sig can always just get a powerup when he needs it? The time that really made it stand out to me was when he's going over the mountains and can't get the water carrier off. So what does Brando "limitations are more important than powers" Sando have him do? Does he grab one of the bombs that they used easier, perhaps hinted at that they might use them to dig up the Sanctuary? Does he try turning the ship and smashing the container against the mountain? Nope, he can just make sharp things with Aux again. Because. 2. I feel nothing from him. Nomad is apparently on the run from people who will kill him. There should be a sense of urgency, a massive panic throughout the entire book. I felt nothing. People are dropping like flies left right and center. Aux gets burned away to fuel his abilities. There should be something there, anything. I felt more sorrow over the fact that he wasn't taking Elegy with him than I did at Aux's death. Usually I get done with a good book and feel that incredible high afterwards that leaves me rushing for days, but I felt, you guessed it, nothing. This book could have easily used 4-5 more revisions, with one focused entirely on the magic and another on the emotional beats.
  16. While I like the idea as a way to limit nightblood, I have to disagree, for a few reasons. 1. Terrible things would happen if Azure's sword was used against Nightblood, and the two have been actively compared by him, even after we knew about Dawnshards And 2. Nightblood is not nearly strong enough to be a Dawnshard. Let's look at the one instance we have of a Dawnshard being used: Ashyn. Before the exodus of mankind from Ashyn they accidentally set the entire planet on fire, and as of the Sunlight Man, some 8,000 years later they are still in flying cities, meaning the gound is still burning. Nightblood doesn't even come close to that level of power.
  17. Planets have souls. You don't need to destroy the planet, you just have to kill it. Atmospheric ignition would require far more power. https://youtu.be/2QI88aLyaOs?si=7SCULrMbaZVFKOX1
  18. @dannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnex I will back you on this. That line could have been much better, and when Sigzils is sitting on the Atol during the epilogue, we should have gotten a whole lot more feeling out of it. So while I don't think Nomad's reaction up to after his fight with the Cinder King was out of place, we definitely needed more before the book ended. I think it would have been much better to move the line where he speaks to Aux again to when he's on the new planet hailing the ship, and given a much better look at how Nomad is handling it.
  19. I'd note that he was awakened with 1,000 breath(and maybe a Dawnshard if that theory is true). It takes Ninth heightening, or 20,000 breaths(hey that's skip capacity) in order to awaken steel.
  20. I am only more confused now. Apparently complaints were the only way to kill Elims. I never would have figured that out in a million years.
  21. Well considering how it's likely to never actually happen I'd consider it more of a joke than a serious invitation, but if you really want one I won't say no. *Hands bigmikey an overly decorated invitation*
  22. You're allowed to have that opinion. Even if it is a wrong opinion. Based.
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