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  1. Chaos
    It will in fact be a button on the toolbar in the new site
  2. Chaos
    SPOILERS, Zas. The fifth ideal was such an amazing moment in the book. I nearly cried.
  3. Chaos
    His Knights Radiant, the Truthwoods, are pretty great. I think you can guess what their oaths are.
  4. Chaos

    My greatest creation: http://www.17thshard.com/news/brandon-news/brandon-secretly-wrote-another-book-stormlight-8-r207 . The comments on the 17S Facebook are even better, though.

  5. Chaos
    Also Stick is a main character. He becomes a Radiant.
  6. Chaos
    Accidentally writing books? Considering Alloy was one of those unexpected books, yes Seriously, all the time.
  7. Chaos
    This news and the date are purely coincidental.
  8. Chaos
    More information about "Brandon Secretly Wrote Another Book, Stormlight 8"
    We have a scoop for you today. Recently, a few of us at 17th Shard got to talk to Brandon, and he had a serious bombshell: he secretly wrote a book. Okay, none of us are shocked but that after the announcement of Bands of Mourning, but what we didn't expect was that the project was actually a fully formed Stormlight novel. Not Stormlight 3, but Stormlight 8. "I've been working on this for a long time," Brandon had said. "I have all the Stormlight books plotted, and it was always the plan to skip certain books. We will get back to Stormlight 3-7 eventually." We questioned further, and discovered the answer was time travel. "Time travel has always been a strong component in the science fiction and fantasy community, and I wanted to do it justice. Temporal magics have a role in the Cosmere, as you've seen with cadmium and bendalloy. I've actually seeded this into the Stormlight novels, if you looked closely." "The Truthwatchers watch every time period," he added. But if this was truly the eighth Stormlight book, how would readers who have just read the first two avoid massive spoilers to the fifth book, which will still be a decisive climax, splitting the Stormlight Archive into two five book series. "Since we are following specific characters into the future, they don't know what happens in book five either," Brandon said. When asked on how it would avoid spoiling who lived and died in books 3-7, Brandon just said, "Yeah, it's a fun first few chapters, when they find it all out." It all makes sense. We're insanely excited to see if Brandon can pull this off. There's no release date for the 500,000 word tome, as it requires rewrites. Brandon joked that Tor may need to invent time travel to develop a machine able to print the massive, door-stopping book. "I want to keep everyone guessing," Brandon said. "The fans, my characters. And now Tor can be added to the list of people guessing what will happen next." When asked if he was simply going mad with power, Brandon cackled and did his best Emperor Palpatine impression. It was comparable to Eric's terrible impression, at least a 7/10. But we are sure that Stormlight 8 will be a 10/10. Though, technically, depending on how you count, it would be a 3/10 or 8/10.
  9. Chaos
    I could use comments on my revision of the Cosmere article: http://coppermind.net/wiki/User:Chaos2651/Cosmere The main addition, other than general revisions, is a history section. As you could go literally insane if you went too detailed, so I stuck to main history of the Shard. When more extensive history for Roshar and that conflict is revealed, that will get the Mistborn treatment here. When we get Nightblood, I'll probably put the Vasher stuff in there.
  10. Chaos

    Perfect State is so so very good.

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      Satsuoni

      YMMV XD

  11. Chaos
    I really enjoyed it! The twist was quite well executed, in my opinion. The blurb made me expect Kai's date would be Melhi, so I saw that coming. It was pretty clear that they just wanted Kai to think Melhi was a guy, when she was a girl. I thought that was self-explanatory. Even moreso that Melhi calls Kai a "stupid man" near the end. I loved that Sophie was Melhi's creation. The moment the robot spoke, I suspected, since Melhi and Sophie spoke so similarly. It's fascinating if you look into it. I like to think that Sophie's backstory is a lot like Melhi's own. Sophie had gone to a High Science State, and very easily could learn the knowledge of robotics. Melhi/Sophie was trying so hard not to be a puppet. And in the end, Melhi technically did win, because now she got through to Kai. Sophie hacks, and so did Melhi. The twist makes so much sense in retrospect, which makes it one of my favorite of Brandon's so far, actually. I didn't really mind that we knew nothing of Lancing. It isn't relevant to the story. Little hints were fine. But yeah. Great dialogue, wonderful high concept, explored in great detail. I loved it a lot.
  12. Chaos
    Yes. Edit the first post of your topic, and then click "Use Full Editor."
  13. Chaos
    But when we will randomly go to space in the second book now??? (These are good, though. Can't wait to see the final ones if these are the unused ones.)
  14. Chaos
    Has this problem gone away from you yet?
  15. Chaos
    The new version of the site has a far more robust mobile editor. I get to fully customize which toolbar options will appear on the mobile version. In fact, I get to customize them for the three breakpoints of the new site, so phone, tablet, and desktop will have progressively more things on their toolbar. The current mobile version leaves out critical features--it's even worse on the moderation side, trust me. The new site is fully responsive for screen size and gives you all the same abilities. When you use it, I think you'll be blown away. The mobile version will show the same info, just in a way that works for phones or tablets (which have different, but related layouts, so tablets do get to use their increased real estate to their advantage). So there will be signatures on the new mobile layout, to respond to that example of yours. (Note, we may need to alter our rules regarding images in sigs so that it looks good on mobile.) This is at least a month out, but soon™, things will be much better. I don't want to give a hard time frame, as the final version of the software we use isn't quite done, and even when it is, there are some important modifications we need that could delay things more. But you'll really love it; it's just fantastic. EDIT: There will be a preview eventually! There technically is a preview right now, but you wouldn't be able to guess the arcane URL I made for it. It isn't the artwork we will use, so I don't want to link it yet. But eventually, yes! A massive update is coming soon.
  16. Chaos
    The non-cosmere stuff really needs help on the Coppermind. The Coppermind has very robust templates (courtesy of Joe's amazingness). It also has a strong categorization system for everything, as well as quality tags to identify what needs work and what doesn't. And lastly, we at least have stubs for the articles that should be awesome. Don't undervalue the importance of smart wiki structure; it is a lot of work to be consistent with these things. That work is all done for you. The goal with the Coppermind is to be the Brandon Sanderson wiki, for all of his works. We want it to be the sum of all of the knowledge we have on the books, and be well-cited and very accurate in the process. And we really need your help to make the non-cosmere stuff awesome. Because it isn't right now. If you don't know where to start helping, there is a Project: Rithmatist page. Start work on the stubs and "Attention Needed". Don't worry much about wiki formatting. You have the Coppermind people like Joe, Weiry, Windy, and I generally checking every single edit on the wiki, and we are always available to answer questions, help out, and format things. So I would recommend you contribute to the Coppermind instead of Wikia. Our Rithmatics article (except for some images that aren't loading) is quite exhaustive and contains information on all the defenses. This is all work you don't need to do because others already have. The more people work on the Coppermind, the bigger search engine footprint we will get. Sometimes Wikia has higher search hits; we would rather that not be the case. Also, there will be awards on the forum for contributing to the Coppermind
  17. Chaos
    I've thought about making an app. But... here's the thing. If you want to release things on all platforms, it just makes more sense to support the web version that will work with everything. The mobile app is not the best, but in the new version of the software, it is far superior, and something that I think will avoid the need for an app. The new site's mobile version is quite awesome, and has every ability that the desktop version has, while looking better. Full responsive design and everything. It's just a lot of work to keep apps supported (especially across all platforms) with new OS releases. My time is fairly short and for design and production, it makes sense to support only the browser version. I don't think websites necessarily need apps. Apps need to do something very special for it to be superior to a mobile site. I think some websites make apps and it's like "well why even bother, you could've just made your site better." And if there were to be an app, I'm... very picky. I don't have iOS devices, but I'm super critical of Android apps, and it would need to be feature complete. But it also couldn't be a clone of the website, or else what's the point. But then if you have an app-only feature, what do you do for non-app users? I don't know. I don't think this is going to be a thing. Responsive design is the way for websites to go; one thing to support for every platform, rather than 3+ OSes with many target layouts.
  18. Chaos
    This is going to be a thing. Soon™
  19. Chaos
    That sucks. I am glad you made it But didn't you hear? Allergic reactions are the same as autism
  20. Chaos
    Presumably Nicroburst, you're referring to the sample Liar chapters, which you can discuss, as they are publicly available. Generally things that cannot be easily obtained (Dragonsteel) should not be discussed as that can ruin the experience for someone who has not read them. That said, if you have the whole book of Liar... Talk to me
  21. Chaos
    [insert exclamatory remarks/cursing here], that is just amazing. I love the chasmfiend!
  22. Chaos
    Don't worry, in America we've brought back the measles because of anti-science people who cannot listen to logic, data, or evidence. Even worse, from American individualism, there are some anti-vaxxers don't even care that not vaccinating their kids matters. It doesn't matter if other kids die as long as our special snowflake is okay. There are absolutely times where I want to smack a lot of people, and this being one of them.
  23. Chaos
    Brandon generally has a word count in mind from his outline, so I imagine he's just using his current word count and dividing by that. The actual length of said book can be more or less, but at this point, I suspect Brandon can pin it fairly well. Things change during writing, of course.
  24. Chaos
    AS HIGH AS THE NUMBERING SYSTEM GOES! If I wanted to. That said, I respect the rep system too much to do that (and have standing orders for others to not do that). But don't tempt me.
  25. Chaos

    Obviously you need to vote for me for president and world dictator: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/23051-for-president/

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