Popular Post Chaos he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Popular Post Posted October 25, 2017 All right guys. We can finally tell you about the WoB Archive we have been working on for a long, long time. It has a name, too! It's Arcanum: the Brandon Sanderson Archive. We've been very hard at work with Arcanum. Our team of Arcanists have done great work on it, and we will have things from the Words of Radiance tour to the present day in our system in our launch. In addition we have annotations and a variety of things prior to 2014 (though that stuff isn't finished). It's been much more time consuming than you'd expect, as we've painstakingly gone through the Shadowdays of WoBs to find all sorts of audio files, and then transcribe them in our system. There's a bunch of new stuff we've acquired that's never been seen before, too! As the Ideals of the Edgedancers say: I will remember WoBs that have been forgotten I will listen to audio that has been ignored I think that's how they went, I'm pretty sure... Of course, you all want to know when Arcanum launches. That will be November 8th, 2017. We said it was going to be before Oathbringer release, and it is! You'll be able to upload all your audio from the Oathbringer tour into Arcanum. It works, and it is glorious. Stay tuned, and we'll finally get to show it all to you on November 8th. 77
Popular Post Argent he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Popular Post Posted October 25, 2017 The number of babies screeching into recording devices and fire alarms going off I've listened to for this archive... I swear, you better be all happy with it, or the ghosts of my bleeding ears will haunt you for eternity! 40
Popular Post Pagerunner he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Popular Post Posted October 25, 2017 We'll be making a thread soon to upload hidden camera recordings you've taken of Brandon around town in Utah. You can never be sure when he's gonna drop a surprise WoB, and we've gotta be ready. (Brandon stopped at an auto shop. What sort of new cosmere mechanics is he coming up with?) 18
Blightsong he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 Get hyped guys! The new system is awesome. I also second Argent there. The babies always screech when you least expect them. 3
Kurkistan he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 Also props to @Mestiv for being a boss and doing the lion's share of the hard-work of setting up the back end. The site's pretty slick. 8
Argent he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 7 minutes ago, Blightsong said: I also second Argent there. The babies always screech when you least expect them. Babies, apparently, also screech when you most expect them. And when your expectation levels are somewhere between "least" and "most". They just screech a lot, man. In my ears. I've grown to sympathize with a certain character in the Cosmere who hears screaming all the time... poor soul, I feel your pain now. 1
CaptainRyan he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 Brilliant! Simply brilliant! Once the Arcanum goes live, will us lay folk be able to help with transcribing, updating, etc.?
Govir Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 So since this will be digital only, would you say that it's Arcanum...Unbounded? 5
Kurkistan he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 (edited) 6 minutes ago, CaptainRyan said: Brilliant! Simply brilliant! Once the Arcanum goes live, will us lay folk be able to help with transcribing, updating, etc.? Yeah, that's the plan. Though honestly just having one place to host audio files (and there's a nifty interface for parsing them, too) goes a long way. Also it's just "Arcanum", not "the Arcanum". Currently half a dozen members are on the Discord channel holding back Chaos from reflexively banning you for ruining his naming scheme. 3 minutes ago, Govir said: So since this will be digital only, would you say that it's Arcanum...Unbounded? ... ... Get out. Edited October 25, 2017 by Kurkistan 1
Steeldancer he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 It's just... Arcanum? Ok. Cool. Can't wait, and great job you guys! I can't believe I didn't guess this.
Argent he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 1 minute ago, Kurkistan said: 4 minutes ago, Govir said: So since this will be digital only, would you say that it's Arcanum...Unbounded? ... ... Get out. Get back in. Puns are life. 7
Oversleep Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 (edited) 8 minutes ago, CaptainRyan said: Once the Arcanum goes live, will us lay folk be able to help with transcribing, updating, etc.? That's the plan. That is what it was intended to do 2 minutes ago, Kurkistan said: Currently half a dozen members are on the Discord channel holding back Chaos from reflexively banning you for ruining his naming scheme. I wonder what he'd do if I used the d-word 1 minute ago, Steeldancer said: It's just... Arcanum? I can't believe I didn't guess this. Yeah, it's not like half of us set their member titles to "Arcanist" month ago or anything Edited October 25, 2017 by Overstorm 2
Argent he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 2 minutes ago, Overstorm said: Yeah, it's not like half of us set their member titles to "Arcanist" month ago or anything Hacks, all of you. I've been an Arcanist since Arcanum Unbounded came out.
Oversleep Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 (edited) Anyway, in shocking turn of events, it turns out the name is not, in fact,THE WOBINATOR 4000 I know, that came completely out of the left field. Edited October 25, 2017 by Overstorm 8
CaptainRyan he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 45 minutes ago, Overstorm said: THE WOBINATOR 4000 Ahem, it's "WOBINATOR 4000" not "THE WOBINATOR 4000". 13
Chaos he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Author Posted October 25, 2017 1 hour ago, CaptainRyan said: Ahem, it's "WOBINATOR 4000" not "THE WOBINATOR 4000". Okay, I did laugh at that. 3
Calderis he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 So happy this name is known. No more WoBinator 4000.
Argent he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 RIP my clever name. RIP WoBoratory, and RIP the WoBrary. 1
thegatorgirl00 she/her Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 Will thee be a new Arcanum discord I can join?
lyht Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 This is super exciting. I can not thank everyone enough for all that was done to make this a reality! I am almost as excited for this as I am for Oathbringer.
Argent he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 7 minutes ago, thegatorgirl00 said: Will thee be a new Arcanum discord I can join? I don't think we'll need an entire Discord server for it. There will probably be a channel though. @Chaos?
WeiryWriter he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 25 minutes ago, Argent said: I don't think we'll need an entire Discord server for it. There will probably be a channel though. @Chaos? Since there's already been a channel for it for months, that's a safe assumption ;D. The current plan is for it just to have the one channel hosted in the 17th Shard discord. If it gets to the point where it needs multiple channels for some reason we will look at our options then.
The Invested Beard Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 Super awesome guys! Now I won't have to rely on smart people to look up WoBs for me! I mean I'll be able to look up WoBs for people much faster now, yeah...
Mestiv he/him Posted October 25, 2017 Posted October 25, 2017 1 hour ago, Calderis said: So happy this name is known. No more WoBinator 4000. 1 hour ago, Argent said: RIP my clever name. RIP WoBoratory, and RIP the WoBrary. Actually, I think I might create a WoBinator next year, if I'll want a break from Arcanum. Anyone can guess what that'd be? 1
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