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Sja-anat is fantastic and is probably in second place. She is awesome. I'd love for Re-Shephir to return. I'm a big fan of the Unmade stuff. I have no doubt we will get more in book five. The more sapient and powerful the better. I'm hoping Horneater gives us some cool Moelach and Death Rattles stuff. Secret Project 4. You'll see 1. Check out our About page: https://www.17thshard.com/about.php 2. Uhhhhhhhhh... Hmmm. I must admit I use other servers very sparingly compared to the 17S ones.

Hmmm, I am trying to lower the intimidation factor. This is sort of how things just sort of happened... I do admit that I do like unleashing the Eye of Sauron when relevant, but hey Probably these days it is because I am not really on the forums for much "for fun" stuff (I do this mostly on Discord). Hmm. I write books, and need to get time to spend more time on them. Maybe people already know that, though. I play a ton of Guild Wars 2. 1. Uhhhhh it's... popular, and has a lot of extensions. I don't have super high opinions of it, but it's the least bad option, and is the wiki standard. 2. Absolutely terrible documentation, and me not being able to click multiple things to be patrolled at the same time. 3. Sluggos are fine. I didn't expect them to be so big. Definitely not. Apps are absurdly expensive. Mobile apps work on more platforms. Like, to be clear, we have a hard time keeping this up to date. There is no way we can produce a web, iOS, and Android version and keep them all up to date. You can add any site to your home screen already.

If it is based on Lost Metal preview chapters, use [Lost Metal Spoilers] in the topic title. If it is simply based on previous Era 2 books, no problem at all.

Lots of other stuff to read and do. Brandon's old works are... fine, but it's pretty low on the priority list. There's way too much other stuff to do. Plus, I'd rather see a canonical, good story, than one Brandon thinks is bad.

Not owned by Dragonsteel at all, correct.

Yes, we can do that. Which would people like to be listed? I do think if we remove a field it's gone for everyone, so we may not want to remove all of these, but yeah these are pretty old.

I'm pretty sure this is a browser thing, not a website thing, so I don't think that's possible

Oh, you're fine. I always enjoy banning people who are complete jerks and are totally unapologetic about it. Those are the easiest bans. Don't want to be kind and respectful? Okay, you can go somewhere else. Cheers! I don't know if that qualifies as "ridiculous" though. There was an actual Nazi we had to ban a while back. Kind of blew my mind how horrible some people in the world could be, but I guess that's not immensely surprising. 1. Easy! The Shardcast channel. 2. I'm basic: cheddar or Swiss. 3. It eventually comes up that I make content and such so I'd say yeah. I don't tend to advertise it unless relevant. Right gotcha. Depends what level. You will definitely do a lot of algebra. But as it progresses you'll use a lot more math. Calculus is very foundational and makes physics much simpler. You can get away with memorizing way less. Physics is fun! It can be quite hard though. That's why I switched to being a math major.

That seems like a lot of stress, and I'm already stressed out in a pretty low stress job of teaching, compared with like, jobs where you make decisions where people can die and things like that. Scary stuff. Say what you will about politicians, but I don't think many people truly can be politicians and survive the stress and hate of it. 1. Hmmm... Dragonsteel, White Sand. I have not read Aether. 2. I did buy the swag boxes but hard to say what I'm excited for. I bought it for the collection aspect. Plus, then I can do unboxing videos for you. 3. Beef is lovely. I do love me red meat. Steak is amazing. That said probably the meal I could eat endlessly would just be spaghetti with a meaty red sauce. Espeon or Jolteon. Probably Espeon. I'm quite fond of the Eevee evolutions and I make space in my team to include one if possible. Hmmmm so there is a bit of a problem with the premise of your question. I wouldn't say physics is a branch of math, for the same reason chemistry isn't a branch of math. All those science classes talk about things that happen in nature that you wouldn't get in a pure mathematical sense of things. Newton's laws of motion, for example, are purely a physics thing. Of course, we model these things with math, but I wouldn't call that a branch of mathematics. Now in practice, what you do in physics, there is a lot of math. There's algebra, calculus. All sorts of things when useful. Physics really goes like this: you have a set of core principles and are applying them to different problems or situations. It's much less the "oh I saw an example just like this, I'll do the same thing with the numbers different" that many classes tend to devolve into, but rather the homework is more exploratory in using those general principles to do cool stuff.

Thank you for all the kind words! It means a lot.

Yay questions! I've been waiting for more for quite some time. Hmmm I don't know if this question is necessarily phrased correctly. Newton's universal attraction idea isn't wrong per se, but it just begs the question as to how or why that happens. General relativity is very, very well tested. It's not up to me to support or not. It's a fact that it works that way, and every time you are using GPS, they need to do relativistic corrections to make it accurate. I never did a GR class though--that's graduate level physics, and I only did a physics minor. It's extremely complicated. Fusing GR with quantum mechanics is of course a big deal but until something is testable, I'm not worried about it. But GR? That's just how the universe works. My belief or support is irrelevant when people can test and measure the curvature of spacetime and verify it matches what the theory says. It's been shown to be correct for over a century! Oh man... I'm on Discord so much. A lot, I'd say. Mostly just the 17S Discords and its associated Discords. Mathematical concepts: I love teaching sequences/series in Calculus 2, but I do also love me some multivariate integrals and line and surface integrals in Multivariable Calculus. Hard to pick between those. I like subjects that a good teacher can give you a lot of good intuition on the subject, rather than something that like, you can just read the examples in the text and be golden. Coppermind page? Oh man. I have so little time for Coppermind work these days... Looks like my last major article was the Ba-Ado-Mishram one for RoW. I am extremely proud of that page and I imagine that will be top priority for me to work on on any Stormlight release. Someday I'll write a Paalm article and rewrite the Shard article, I guess. I was very proud of my 2014 Cosmere page but Stargazer did an excellent revision on it that was very good and needed. Last food: It was this delicious beef stew, this beef bourguingnon (oof, French spelling!). We made it Sunday and man it is so good. Keep more questions coming. I need distractions from this hellish semester.

The Kickstarter is this month but BackerKit will up the following month where you can still get the stuff.

Hi, we are sequestering conversations on these to a special board. I've moved this topic there for you.

You'd have to make a custom activity stream to exclude the subforums you don't want.

I'm working on forums for secret projects, but as for Aether of Night uncanonical stuff, if it's outside the Unpublished Works forum, you should spoiler tag that content.

Though funny, generally as a rule, I don't think we should have silly pages on the Coppermind.

It'll still have a wider release later at least.

Important note: all of these BBCode things will eventually go away in later IPS versions; we will have no control over that, so do not get too attached to them. We can add additional options in the tablet and mobile layouts but it is a bit of a careful balance there. Especially the phone one where there is very limited horizontal space. Sure we could have three lines of options, but that isn't necessarily friendly. It can feel very overwhelming.