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If the spammer has made a post, I would prefer you report their content. Doing the status update thing and reporting that is fine, it just means that the field in the report we see is marked with your name rather than the spammer's. It's quicker if it's the spammer's account name, really. Thanks for reporting the spam everyone! Seems like we have gotten rid of it pretty quickly so this recent increase in spammers hasn't been too bad.

I would prefer you report a single post. It's more of a pain if you report them all because that means there are more reports to close out. We have a button that nukes the spammers from orbit with a single click, so one is sufficient.

No, you cannot have them unmarked in cosmere spoiler zones. We believe some may not wish to have far future stuff spoiled. You could also put Sotd2 in the title and that would suffice as well.

I have removed some information that is not publicly available, sorry. Keep things to the publicly released stuff.

Done! It was a bit hard to decide which topics went in Stormlight vs. Cosmere, so report any threads you think might have been miscategorized in the move!

With the spoiler period ending, I am locking this thread. You can post Dawnshard memes now in

If it was made in the last two thousand years, I can totally see an artist putting some spren there because they looked cool, and not because that Herald's respective Radiant order had Shardplate that used that spren. I can easily see spren that aren't the respective cousin spren getting in the "wrong" artwork.

Possibly. Good question to ask I suppose. I wouldn't take the Herald portraits as being completely accurate though. They are in-world representations and could be wrong.

If they are shown to be effective, fantastic. If not, don't do it. Data speaks louder than opinion. I don't have to "believe" in the Big Bang. It is a scientific fact that the universe was hot everywhere. We've measured it! It's the cosmic background radiation. It's an astoundingly simple result conceptually. The idea is that hot things give off electromagnetic radiation (light, but it's usually not visible). That's called blackbody radiation. It's how heat vision cameras work as well as stars. So when the Big Bang was theorized, well, that would mean after the Big Bang, things were pretty hot, right? Well they calculated what that should be like (though you can't observe things right after the Big Bang, basically because atoms were too close together, so any light that was given off would be absorbed into other atoms, so I think this was right around 300,000 years after the Big Bang), and we measured it! It fits exactly! When the experimental data matches with the theoretical so well, then... well, that's just a fact. That's rare to happen. So that means the universe did expand and was once very hot, everywhere. So it's not belief. I don't take such matters by faith. Lots of other people far smarter than me have mathed it out and experimented that such things are the most likely explanation for how things turn out. In the case of the cosmic background radiation, the data was extremely compelling. As for most of these other questions, I have no opinion about them. They don't seem well-posed and I don't think we could ever test them. It seems like given the universe's expansion accelerating that a heat death is much more likely than a contraction. I think such questions are much more interesting to ask in a fantasy setting. As to your second to last last question, yes, it is expanding. They've measured the redshifts. The expansion is actually accelerating. But your last question... that sort of shows some misunderstanding of physics. There doesn't need to be an area that it is expanding into. This is not problematic in the slightest. I'm sort of side-eyeing that one because that has quite a faulty premise, though a common faulty premise. Anywho, I never took General Relativity, so all this stuff is kind of hard to talk about without sufficient mathematics. I don't mean to sound like a buzzkill, but it's like quantum mechanics... It's not super useful to talk about the weird quantum effects unless we are using the proper language of things, which is math. And the math for these big astrophysics things is really complicated and I don't know that much. I'm no expert. I will likely stop answering weird philosophy questions, so let's tone those down. My answer to them is usually a shrug. Actual answers comes from data and experiments.

I don't have much to add on this. Maybe it's a bug.

1. Strongly dislike number theory and abstract algebra. 2. This is a tricky subject that has a bit of an art to it since on different identities you'll do different things. 3. I can't say I find any religions logical. I feel like assuming there has to be a higher being or creator is... a very large assumption. 4. I would prefer to keep that private, but it wouldn't be hard for you to find if you really did. 5. Maybe shorten the question list 6. That's not really how things work, to be honest. I mean new math is being made, but you have to understand that if you're taking a calculus course we've had that since the 1600s. It's old math. New math is hard and very, very specific. You typically don't do new math unless you're doing math research. Sometimes there can be some nifty methods to explain things, but I think the premise of your question is flawed in several ways. "Discover new equations"? I mean... yeah, that's not really that hard to do to write down "new" equations? Writing ones that are solvable is harder. But basically, textbook problems are useful because making new complicated word problems takes a while. 7. No. I find that quite silly, personally. I do not wonder about any of those things. Ask questions that can actually have answers! Questions that could have answers are "well posed questions" and questions that are not well posed are mostly just... philosophical fluff. I don't know. I know lots of people like that stuff, but philosophy independent from any context is mostly irrelevant. Well posed questions in science can actually be tested. Questions that are well-posed that are exciting to me would be like, why is the universe's expansion accelerating? Things like that. But realistically those sorts of things require a ton of math and physics before you can pose the questions in a way that you can test them. There's a lot on our list to do. It's fun. Only editing gets boring. The recording is not.

It's been about three months since Dawnshard has been publicly available. Our spoiler policy on novellas is three months, so on February 12th, Dawnshard's spoiler period will be over. This will mean: You can discuss Dawnshard in the Stormlight Archive and Cosmere forums untagged, as well as in the three Rhythm of War spoiler boards. The Dawnshard Discussion forum will be removed and its topics will be moved to either the Stormlight Archive board or Cosmere board. Coppermind spoiler tags on Dawnshard will be removed. Discord will have similar policies and its Dawnshard channel will no longer be active.

It's been about three months since Dawnshard has been publicly available. Our spoiler policy on novellas is three months, so on February 12th, Dawnshard's spoiler period will be over. This will mean: You can discuss Dawnshard in the Stormlight Archive and Cosmere forums untagged, as well as in the three Rhythm of War spoiler boards. The Dawnshard Discussion forum will be removed and its topics will be moved to either the Stormlight Archive board or Cosmere board. Coppermind spoiler tags on Dawnshard will be removed. Discord will have similar policies and its Dawnshard channel will no longer be active.

It's been about three months since Dawnshard has been publicly available. Our spoiler policy on novellas is three months, so on February 12th, Dawnshard's spoiler period will be over. This will mean: You can discuss Dawnshard in the Stormlight Archive and Cosmere forums untagged, as well as in the three Rhythm of War spoiler boards. The Dawnshard Discussion forum will be removed and its topics will be moved to either the Stormlight Archive board or Cosmere board. Coppermind spoiler tags on Dawnshard will be removed. Discord will have similar policies and its Dawnshard channel will no longer be active.

It's been about three months since Dawnshard has been publicly available. Our spoiler policy on novellas is three months, so on February 12th, Dawnshard's spoiler period will be over. This will mean: You can discuss Dawnshard in the Stormlight Archive and Cosmere forums untagged, as well as in the three Rhythm of War spoiler boards. The Dawnshard Discussion forum will be removed and its topics will be moved to either the Stormlight Archive board or Cosmere board. Coppermind spoiler tags on Dawnshard will be removed. Discord will have similar policies and its Dawnshard channel will no longer be active.

It's been about three months since Dawnshard has been publicly available. Our spoiler policy on novellas is three months, so on February 12th, Dawnshard's spoiler period will be over. This will mean: You can discuss Dawnshard in the Stormlight Archive and Cosmere forums untagged, as well as in the three Rhythm of War spoiler boards. The Dawnshard Discussion forum will be removed and its topics will be moved to either the Stormlight Archive board or Cosmere board. Coppermind spoiler tags on Dawnshard will be removed. Discord will have similar policies and its Dawnshard channel will no longer be active.

It's been about three months since Dawnshard has been publicly available. Our spoiler policy on novellas is three months, so on February 12th, Dawnshard's spoiler period will be over. This will mean: You can discuss Dawnshard in the Stormlight Archive and Cosmere forums untagged, as well as in the three Rhythm of War spoiler boards. The Dawnshard Discussion forum will be removed and its topics will be moved to either the Stormlight Archive board or Cosmere board. Coppermind spoiler tags on Dawnshard will be removed. Discord will have similar policies and its Dawnshard channel will no longer be active.

It's been about three months since Dawnshard has been publicly available. Our spoiler policy on novellas is three months, so on February 12th, Dawnshard's spoiler period will be over. This will mean: You can discuss Dawnshard in the Stormlight Archive and Cosmere forums untagged, as well as in the three Rhythm of War spoiler boards. The Dawnshard Discussion forum will be removed and its topics will be moved to either the Stormlight Archive board or Cosmere board. Coppermind spoiler tags on Dawnshard will be removed. Discord will have similar policies and its Dawnshard channel will no longer be active.

He has not been. We did an interview with him in 2010, though.

Yep, definitely

Plan is not scrapped, just delayed. The emojis aren't the problem, but it's all the other stuff around it. We must still update the site. I will no longer be giving ETAs on this though, as that was a mistake to say specifics as to when things would occur.

It is fairly simple to detect multiple account usage.

All good, I fixed it.