Chaos

That short story Brandon posted for the dialogue exercise was pretty dang funny. "You're making Mother Nature cry." That dragon was awesome. Of course, it's a little forced, but it's a writing exercise, so that's not surprising. I don't know of a story where a dragon commits suicide...

I got it for my mom.

Merry Christmas to all of you! I got Towers of Midnight and Alcatraz 4, of my Brandon-related gifts. Alcatraz 4 was hilarious.

So, I just got Shattered Lens for Christmas, and I'm very impressed with it. I'm pretty sure it's the most funny of them, and it's definitely more tightly plotted than the slower Book 3. Thoughts?

I would like to announce that my advanced calculus final went awful. Fortunately, it went awful for everyone else, too. That was much harder than the prof's other exams.

TWG is back up, just FYI.

I see what you did there

You practically read my mind there, Andrew. Cut it out

Those were good times. Together, we get to make everything overcomplicated! Coming from those experiences with HoA, where we talked much more about Hemalurgy than Ruin and Preservation (the real stuff), I don't think the shadow of doubt you suggest is enough for me to say with high certainty "The pool is related to Aona". Really, it's a binary sort of thing, and there's no pro-Skai evidence here. ((Okay, I suppose it is possible that the pool is related to Odium, but let's be real: that's ridiculous.)) Obvious answers are perfectly fine sometimes. Hmmm, I wonder if we should do a Theoryland thing where we put in our sigs which theories we espouse. That could be cool.

I would like to announce that my Physics 451 (Elementary Particle Physics) final went awesome. I finished 45 minutes ahead of schedule, finishing first. I couldn't really have done more, even. I mean, come on, there weren't even propagators in the QED problem. Easy, practically.

Yeah, this one seriously has the worst beginning of any of the games. It's only saving grace was the fact that Isaac and Garet were cool. Other than that... The graphics took me a long time getting used to (the out of battle ones, at least. The in battle ones were great), but I was eventually sold on it.

I beat it two minutes ago. It wasn't as good as the other Golden Sun games. The ending is okay, though. I was sold on the game eventually . Oh wow, I just saw the very last scene in the game. Wow, wow. I also felt that the level curve was a bit too easy. You get so powerful so quickly that nothing is a true threat. I like easy games, but this was a bit much. Minor quibble, really. The story just was not as powerful as the others were. How are you liking it? Well, I was loving it. Like seriously, this is a great game. With two fatal flaws. A) Super long unskippable intro, super long unskippable dialogue throughout, and a super long unskippable tutorial. I'VE PLAYED GOLDEN SUN. I KNOW HOW IT WORKS. I KNOW THE STORY BY HEART. LET ME LEARN A NEW STORY! If you miss a djinni or summon and get past a certain point, then you will never get that djinni. Which I just did. Ugh, just because I hate following guides, I miss a djinni. I actually came here to announce that I missed a djinni and was being forced to restart. FML I wouldn't have minded the tutorial as much if the dang thing mattered, and didn't rely on Tyrell being a moron... Haha. Sol Sanctum in the first one was a super long tutorial, but crap happened. That's why it worked. Volcanoes erupting > characters being dumb. I don't know about you, but the most confusing thing for me was the whole "You can climb trees thing". Eventually I got it, but it took me a few hours of playtime simply by virtue of me thinking I know Golden Sun better than the game...

How are you liking it?

And by "working on it", he probably means "not in time for Christmas". Just saying. But we know. And we have stuff.

I've warmed up to it. The beginning is still pretty bad compared to the previous games, though.

Sure, I like normalizing tense, except when we're obviously talking about past events that happened in one of the books. Past tense would be fine there. I don't think it's possible to rename pages. Creating new pages basically involves you typing in the name of the new article you want in your browser's search bar (essentially, type in the link to the article you want) and then create it that way. What did you need to rename?

Post your comments on there before it's too late. If you're thinking of more before you post your list, POST YOUR LIST anyways. You can always reply again if you think of something else that's brilliant.

Preservation apparently "switched" cadmium and bendalloy and replaced them with atium and malatium, for the ultimate purpose so the atium could be burned. So no, the Lord Ruler did not know about those additional temporal metals, I should think. Of course, I'm not sure why holding the power at the Well didn't give him a knowledge of that, though...

Here's my first question batch which I'll post on there. Did Ruin know that Preservation had chosen Vin? Sazed's epigraphs seem to imply that he didn't, and that there were other, special things. Can anyone take a Shard's power, or does it require a special makeup in a person? Here's a quote. "Why, the Astalsi were rather advanced--they mixed religion with science quite profoundly. They thought that different colors were indications of different kinds of fortune, and they were quite detailed in their descriptions of light and color. Why, it's from them that we get some of our best ideas as to what things might have looked like before the Ascension. They had a scale of colors, and use it to describe the sky of the deepest blue and various plants in their shades of green." Do the pre-Ascension religions correspond to religions from other Shardworlds, as this one seems somewhat like Nalthis? About what population did Luthadel have at the beginning of MB1? Are members of the Seventeenth Shard only from Sel, or do they have members from additional worlds as well? How many Shardworlds have we not seen in published works? There's Yolen, and whatever planet The Silence Divine is on... [continue] Was the Reod caused by Odium? I could've sworn that you said eons ago, before Mistborn came out, that the Reod wasn't a magical event, and was a natural earthquake, but my memory may fail me... How long has it been since the events in Elantris and the events of the Way of Kings? Also, how long before Elantris did Odium arrive in Sel? Could you expound at all about the Steel Ministry's governing structure? We're kind of shooting in the dark for RPing there. How are other Dominance's structured? What exactly did the Lord Ruler do with Hemalurgy do pull off his most dramatic effects? Is the Lord Ruler was a brass savant from all his Soothing? There's a theory rolling around that the atium we see in the books is really an atium-electrum alloy. Is the atium in fact pure atium, or instead some sort of atium derivative? Space travel with cadmium and bendalloy. Possible?

I cannot believe we don't have a giant list of questions already accumulated... I'll tweet from 17th Shard about it, and hopefully we'll get some good ones.

I tweeted Peter, and he confirmed it. The title is changed to "The Rithmatist".

Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, so far, is being underwhelming. Its story is not up to par. As a die-hard Golden Sun fan, this is depressing. The first game opened with death, kidnapping, and a volcano erupting. At the end of the first town, you need to stop Saturos and Menardi from lighting the Elemental Lighthouses, because that will unleash Alchemy, and the magical power will create lots of strife. World changing stuff. There was a weight of importance to this. In Dark Dawn, the opening is that you have to rescue your friend Tyrell. Not because he was kidnapped, though, because he is a moron who used a flying device he couldn't possibly control. Way to go, Tyrell.

Now I want to see if there are other religions in Mistborn which could be related to other worlds. Then I'd be more likely to be sold that this isn't merely coincidence.

Now... now that is interesting. "They thought that different colors were indications of different kinds of fortune" is somewhat akin to how the Returned see things in art...

Yours too! I know mine is