+Extesian Posted July 5, 2017 Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 Now I'm past the 6 month mark, I've been here long enough for some people to know me but short enough that not many know me that well. So if anyone is interested, ask away For easy background, I'm 37, male, Australian (raised in Perth but live in Canberra), I recently lived in Prague for two years and I've been reading Brandon for a bit under two years (enough for one reread of the full Cosmere collection so far). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ammanas Posted July 5, 2017 Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 What has been your favorite place to live and why? What has been the biggest difference from the different cultures in which you have lived? Have you ever played jai alai? Favorite regional dish (food) amongst the different places you have gone? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calderis Posted July 5, 2017 Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 Since you live in the part of the world with the craziest and most deadly animals of pretty much every variety, do you specifically/Australians in general have super powers? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toaster Retribution Posted July 5, 2017 Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 Do you like beavers? Who is your favorite Cosmere character? And also, your favorite Cosmere book? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shqueeves Posted July 5, 2017 Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 On the average night, how many pillows do you sleep with? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Extesian Posted July 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 (edited) @Ammanas My favourite place to live has definitely been Prague. It’s the most beautiful city I’ve ever seen (and I’ve travelled a LOT) and I never got tired of walking past 800 year old castles, the sense of tolerance and freedom, the beer that is cheaper than water and arguably the best in the world, the Czechs’ love of nature and the lifestyle that comes from being able to drink and party in parks in summer, and in underground bunker pubs in winter. There are no cultural differences between the main Australian cities. I lived in Colorado (working at a ski resort) for a few months many years ago, and Americans have slightly different cultural aspects but are obviously very similar. The Czechs are fascinating. A very independent, free-thinking people (they’re the Bohemians the hippies took the word from), ultra-libertarian (not Ayn Ran libertarian but more nobody cares what you do if it doesn’t hurt someone else – a legacy also of generations of being under austro-hungarian/nazi/communist rule), they’re quite a closed people (my girlfriend is Czech but it was still hard to get to know Czechs there – it’s the flip side of the coolness of their libertarian nature). I do not know jai alai. Favourite dish is tough. Firstly I’m vegetarian now so my favourite dishes of the past are no longer in play. My favourite cuisines are Japanese/French (equal first), then Thai. @Calderis We all have superpowers. They’re regionalized. But you get tired of the same old tiny, deadly things. I had to go out of my way to go cage diving with great white sharks in South Africa, and open water diving with Bull Sharks in Fiji. Gimme big and deadly. @Toaster Retribution Do I like beavers? DO I LIKE BEAVERS? Yeah I stormin’ dig beavers. Civil Engineers with a bushy tail. If I didn’t have a girlfriend, I’d date one. My favourite Cosmere character in terms of enjoyment is, without contest, Lightsong. If I were to ever be a hero, it would be along his lines. My favourite character in terms of development and moments of utter emotion is Kaladin. I get goosebumps thinking about the climactic moments with him. And in terms of curiosity, Hoid of course. How could it not be. @Shqueeves Depends on the pillows. One hard, or two very soft. It’s a constant problem for me. If I was a ferring, I would definitely choose the ability to store and tap neck-comfort. Edited July 5, 2017 by Extesian 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathrangking Posted August 22, 2017 Report Share Posted August 22, 2017 What is your favorite movie? What is your opinion of Lasagna? Which cosmere character would fit in well with your family? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Extesian Posted August 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2017 10 minutes ago, Nathrangking said: What is your favorite movie? What is your opinion of Lasagna? Which cosmere character would fit in well with your family? Favourite movie is Lord of the Rings, easily. Not only is it the best adaptation ever made of fantasy (yes, I include ASoIaF), it is the thing that got me into fantasy, a condition from which I’ve never recovered. After seeing it, I read the books, then all the Tolkien books, then slowly migrated through Feist, Hobb, Weeks and others until discovering Brandon. All thanks to the first person to truly translate fantasy to the screen. Lasagne I’m fond of. I’m a vegetarian now though, so lasagne is a bit harder, but eggplant or textured soy protein still makes a good one Which Cosmere characater would fit it with my family? That’s a really interesting question. My family is full of honest, giving people with a lot of confidence but very little arrogance, and an outrageous sense of humour combined with a natural moderate religious conservatism. Lightsong would fit in very well, which is probably why he’s the character I enjoy to read the most. Hoid would definitely fit (but Brandon’s warnings that he does some pretty bad things means he would superficially fit in only). Wayne would fit nicely as well. Kaldin’s story and courage would fit in but not so much his personality. I’d say Lightsong the most. He may be a bit anti-religious, but then I feel that if a family member was actually a ‘god’ they would be instinctively against being worshipped 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrikerEZ Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 @Extesian How'd you come up with your username? Have you read the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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