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When your friend that's a computer scientist is trying to explain monads to you, but every time he says "lift" your mind starts to wander...

 

That's awesome.

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When one day you realize you have inadvertently picked up a few new habits.

 

Like standing, facing East, with hands clasped behind the back.

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When chandeliers with eight-fold symmetry remind you of the Allomantic table of metals, but you're sort of frustrated by the fact that there aren't any with ten-fold symmetry.

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When you take a homemade yarn afghan out of the dryer with socks and towels and all manner of other clothing items stuck to it due to static, and you think it's like a laundry/clothing mistwraith.

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I actually have given a couple of devotionals and talks where I have used things from the Cosmere as "evidence." The last one I gave I used the passage in my signature -and a summary of the rest of the chapter- about Dalinar and Kaladin. That scene was so awesome that I had to find a way to work it into a talk.

Just curious, how did you introduce that to people without knowledge of what a shardblade is? Did you have to explain it beforehand, or did you substitute for some real-world priceless thing like a big diamond?

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Just curious, how did you introduce that to people without knowledge of what a shardblade is? Did you have to explain it beforehand, or did you substitute for some real-world priceless thing like a big diamond?

I explained the backstory of it a bit. I equated it with something like a WMD, I think.

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When you see people magically pushing and pulling magical items around and your subconscious mind reacts strongly, saying, "Hey, that's Invested! What are you, the Lord Ruler?"

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When you see people magically pushing and pulling magical items around and your subconscious mind reacts strongly, saying, "Hey, that's Invested! What are you, the Lord Ruler?"

Umm, care to elaborate that?

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Umm, care to elaborate that?

 

 

Well, a magical item is Invested, right? You can't affect magic with magic unless you've got crazy, Splinter levels of power invested in one man.

 

*Realizes he never specified the context of movies and TV shows in the original post* 

 

Uh... Yeah. Sorry about that.

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When you're wearing a t-shirt that says Chicago and you think about crossing out the 'Chi' and adding 'New' so you have a t-shirt that says Newcago

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Well, a magical item is Invested, right? You can't affect magic with magic unless you've got crazy, Splinter levels of power invested in one man.

 

*Realizes he never specified the context of movies and TV shows in the original post* 

 

Uh... Yeah. Sorry about that.

Okay. I was a bit confused. I wasn't sure if you were talking about real life, a magic show, or who knows what. Thanks for clearing that up.

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When you go Barhopping and just start insulting people and being witty. Although it's a little difficult when you don't have a kings patronage to protect you.

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When every time your English professor starts talking about seeing the world through different lenses, you start to think about Shardic Lens Theory, and then drift to Alcatraz.

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When your english teacher says, "Someone reading with a historical lens might compare this to a greek epic."

 

And I can only think of what kind of epics there would be in Greece.

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When your mistcloak gets tangled with your handbag.

Edit: /purse/pocketbook/whatever you call it.

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When your english teacher says, "Someone reading with a historical lens might compare this to a greek epic."

 

And I can only think of what kind of epics there would be in Greece.

What do you think the greek gods were? Calamity has come before.

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Wouldn't that make the heroes of those stories epics as well? This makes way too much sense. 

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it would definitely explain all of the wanton murder and destruction. And why the gods are all jerks.

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When you start calling people "airsick lowlanders" and use "sparks" as a swear word.

 

When you think naming a dog "Sparky" is downright obscene.

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When you spend three hours scrolling through the convoluted conversations on here, start laughing hysterically, and become really disappointed when you show them to others and they don't get the jokes.

 

...I never liked them anyway.

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When you think naming a dog "Sparky" is downright obscene.

Oh yeah, swear words! I actually use "Rust and Ruin" sometimes.

My favorite is probably "colors."

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