Chaos

Good! We should question everything, and discard anything that doesn't have a good reason to believe.

Tau is so much better. It'd make learning the unit circle far easier. Half the circle would be tau/2. Way better! In basically every physics formula, it's always 2pi. That really should indicate that 2pi is the correct one. I mean, when the hell do we even is C = pi * d? Use the radius! The radius is the important one. You might say, "But Eric what about A = pi*r^2?" To which I'd say, A = 1/2 tau*r^2 is very symmetric with the kinetic energy formula. That 1/2 should be there anyway, due to integration. In fact, I thought that one argument against tau was that the standard normal distribution had a single sqrt(pi) rather than sqrt(2pi), but nope! It does have a 2pi. I guess the integral from -infinity to infinity of e^(-x^2) has the sqrt(pi)... So anyway, I'm a math professor who loves tau. I'm not at all a fan of pi day, and I won't stand for this pi propaganda merely because "well then we can have pie on pi day". Lame. I spend pi day in my math tutoring center explaining why tau is superior.

Ya'll need to chill. EDIT: That is certainly odd, so I understand the reaction.

I don't know what to tell you. I have no idea when you changed it. If it happened to be very close to when you changed it, that is certainly strange. It is a coincidence. Indeed, I absolutely don't come on every day. Spooky? Sure, I can see that, but I would appreciate if you believe the words I say? I have literally no reason to lie... there was no report or anything... That would be completely insufferable if I got pinged for every name change.

Is that common? Maybe this is why we get so many people who literally never read the forum descriptions. But yeah, I loaded the forums and saw it pretty much first thing. This is not a mystery

...I saw it on the forum home, just like any most recent poster would appear?

Hi

Yes: That's five lines. You have space for that first paragraph, everything after is too long. I'd leave it for your About Me page or compactify.

Hi, the 17S Discussion board is for site related discussion, not book discussion. You're looking for the Cosmere Discussion board, which I've moved this to.

Hi and welcome. AI generated content is not permitted in the site, including profile pics: Apologies and thank you.

This does vary depending on viewport, but feel free to report people and I'll investigate. I would say this is too long; choose between image or the text. Both makes it too long.

You want Entertainment Discussion for non-Brandon books, and says books in its description: https://www.17thshard.com/forums/forum/29-entertainment-discussion/ Lots of people had issues with Wind and Truth and so that wouldn't be unusual. Our Code of Conduct discusses the conduct we expect from people, and yeah, people are allowed to like or dislike what they wish. Of course, you can imagine discussion on Brandon books to involve lots of fans here, which can bias who is talking. I guess what I'd say is you're absolutely allowed and encouraged to post unpopular opinions, and everyone does need to be respectful. But, others are also allowed to not agree with your opinion either. That doesn't mean anyone is talking in bad faith for disagreeing. For example if someone came onto the forums and said Way of Kings (a book very well received in general) sucked, that person should expect people to not necessarily agree, and that's okay. I have seen this where people with the unpopular opinion feel they are being dogpiled, when in reality it's just... Yeah, sometimes a lot of people like a thing that you don't.

No worries. In general I do recommend thinking, as a general policy.

This is not a joke. Do NOT ping me for stupid BS. If you are not pinging me for urgent matters then don't. (Though realistically you should just use the Report feature.) Yes, har har, you're very funny. Cool, let us not do it again. If people insist on not following my very reasonable instructions, then I will ensure you not be able to be a problem in this regard, and you will not be laughing. This is incredibly immature.

Don't ping me for dumb forum games. Thanks.