Veteran Lurker comes into the Stormlight

[JamesMc6]

So I've been visiting 17th Shard for years and years, as well as Coppermind.net, so I figured it was time to come into the stormlight. (And, I wanted to register for the Oathbringer dust jacket.)

Let's see, just a little about me: I often ask myself, "Do I feel special because I read Elantris in 2005?” Yes. Yes, I do. But seriously, I know that there are many here with that distinction. It's just my jokey way of saying I've been a Sanderson fan for many years.

Well, now that I am officially a member of the Forum, I promise to post comments and replies. BUT, now I have to get back to reading Oathbringer. My Kindle tells me I am 58 percent through the book, and my lunch break is only one hour!

Cheers,
James M.

Edited November 28, 2017 by Brightlord Brooding Eyes

[MacThorstenson he/him]

Welcome to the 17th shard!! We are glad to have you, have a cookie and an upvote, courtesy of the dark alley bakery?

[Quickbronze he/him]

Don't take those cookies, they're hemalurgically spiked. Have a real one.

[JamesMc6]

Thanks! What’s an upvote?

[MacThorstenson he/him]

The little heart in the bottom right next to the number, they are also known as reputation. People give them out when they like your content. Also, dont trust @Ookla the Noble, he is a terrible baker, us members of the dark alley have been practicing and perfecting the delicate are of hemalurgy baking for years.

[JamesMc6]

58 minutes ago, Ookla the Noble said:

Don't take those cookies, they're hemalurgically spiked. Have a real one.

Wouldn’t it be cool if rather than metal, Alomancy was powered by cookies! Chocolate chip would grant you one type of ability, peanut butter another, and then maybe a more uncommon cookie like macaroons would grant the same power as Atium. Except there would be a lot fatter Mistborns and Mistings. 

Edited November 29, 2017 by Brightlord Brooding Eyes

[JamesMc6]

8 minutes ago, Ookla the Capricious said:

The little heart in the bottom right next to the number, they are also known as reputation. People give them out when they like your content. Also, dont trust @Ookla the Noble, he is a terrible baker, us members of the dark alley have been practicing and perfecting the delicate are of hemalurgy baking for years.

I’m new here so I’ll just ask the obvious question: Are you and @Ookla the Noble friends? Enemies? Friendamies?

[Quickbronze he/him]

Serious

I'm actually pretty new so I don't really know anyone very well 

Joke

While it is true I have only recently opened an establishment here, I have been baking for several years. Though many bakers are more skilled then I, that does not bar me from opposing the unlawful hemalurgic perversion of the noble art of baking. 

Edited November 29, 2017 by Ookla the Noble

[MacThorstenson he/him]

We are more, business competitors. Most of our interaction occurs on these introduction threads, me trying to bring new members to the dark alley bakery and him and others trying to turn them away. Recently he took a step further and from this link, you can see he is trying to infringe on our  cookie market. Our similar names are explained by this link.

[JamesMc6]

Okay, THANK YOU for that link, Ookla. I might have been confused for weeks. As for the Bakery competition, all I can say is  have you noticed how much plot of every book has some type of dark alley? So it can’t be bad right?

 

[MacThorstenson he/him]

EXACTLY, I don't know why we get all the hate that we do.

[Quickbronze he/him]

Because you are always trying to give em away and it's obnoxious 

Also because the main ingredient in your produce is pieces of people's souls that were ripped off them in an act of murder

 

Edited November 29, 2017 by Ookla the Noble

[MacThorstenson he/him]

3 minutes ago, Ookla the Noble said:

Also because you are always trying to give em away and it's obnoxious 

How else are we supposed to get new members? Ask them nicely?

[Quickbronze he/him]

Run recruitment campaigns, rather then putting soul-altering additives in your products and then pimping them to unsuspecting victims

Edited November 29, 2017 by Ookla the Noble

[MacThorstenson he/him]

That has worked in the past for getting new hemalurgists bakers, but for some reason that didn't attract new test subjects customers.

[Farnsworth]

On 11/28/2017 at 5:19 PM, Ookla the Noble said:

Also because the main ingredient in your produce is pieces of people's souls that were ripped off them in an act of murder

That’s no reason to dislike somebody! Half my friends are half-souled demons from Damnation!