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There's a spam filter that prevents people from posting links with less than 2 posts. Were you posting links? If so, to which site? I can alter these settings to make it less obtrusive by adding sites to the whitelist. Once you get three posts this restriction goes away. You should only be affected by this by posting links. (We have a pretty big spam problem, as most would notice, and this has helped mitigate it immensely.)

Kidpen and Mraize run the Alleyverse board so those accounts had some different traits, which I now fixed so that they can be ignored.

Hi all, post your reactions to the third Legion story, Lies of the Beholder, here.

I think I'll be able to take time off work to make it there by 7 to record things for this event, so I'd like to go, but we'll see.

There are the prologue up through Chapter 3 currently revealed, and have been revealed for quite some time: https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-girl-dreams-of-battling-aliens-in-this-exclusive-exce-1825882267 https://wob.coppermind.net/events/352/#e10353 I'll move this to our Skyward board for further discussion.

Hello, you do not need OB tags anymore outside the spoiler period. I've removed it.

These are my favorite things ever now.

Man, some of you really don't understand how literary discussions work. Haven't we taken English or Literature classes before? The premise of this post is to compare the Radiant Ideals to faith. If I made a topic on anything that basically was "Let's draw parallels between X and Y" and people say, "Actually Y is a waste of time and is garbage," that kind of... wasn't the point at all? The topic here is not trying to evaluate religion, but to compare a specific faith to a thing in Brandon's works. The truth of that faith is totally irrelevant. We could just easily write a topic that is comparing the Radiant Ideals to something in another fictional story, and someone saying that the other story is terrible is totally irrelevant. People who respond with that aren't even interfacing with the premise of the topic in any way, shape, or form. So with that out of the way on the literary analysis, we have to talk about rudeness and respect about others belief (knowing of course that that is entirely not the point of this topic). There was a post early on this topic, which should have been reported so we could remove it much earlier, that was extremely mean-spirited towards religion. There are many people in the world who find solace in belief and they feel they are stronger people for that. That's a fact. You cannot argue with the way that people feel. One could say that religion has been used to control, but to say that Christianity was created to control shows a pretty poor understanding of early Christian history. At the end of the day, a lot of people would say religion makes them a stronger person because of their belief. Thus, that statement is kind of a statement that was actively designed by a nonbeliever to say, "yeah, belief is stupid, why would you believe?" To which I say: if you are on the internet to tell people that their opinions and beliefs are stupid, you can leave this site. If I go out on the street and said to someone "your beliefs are dumb and a waste of time," that's the equivalent of me flipping them off and punching them in the face. What the crap would ever give me the right to say something like that to someone randomly? In what situation is that a thing that's okay for me to do? A person who does that is called a disrespectful jerk. I can only assume the inciting post was to trying to just have the individual feel superior over who they feel are their lessers (namely, those who believe), or maybe to get a rise out of others. Either way, this is a major dick move, and is unacceptable in civilized society. If your goal on the internet is to just feel better about yourself by being a jerk to others, why don't you just not go on the internet anymore, or why don't you just never talk out in public again? It's genuinely appalling. To continue my metaphor from before, this is like punching someone in the face and then having the gall to say, "Your skin is too thin to withstand a punch to the face, what a loser." Appalling and unacceptable. So to review: 1. This was a literary comparison topic, and so bringing up your own feelings about religion is completely irrelevant and superfluous to the premise of the topic, 2. Randomly making a post saying how religion is just there to control is probably not a thing you should ever say to any group of humans who have belief (it just is phenomenally rude), 3. If you want to assume that a set of people who have different beliefs than you are terrible, why don't you just... not do that. How about we aren't aggressive to people of different religions, sexes, age, etc. than you? We should probably do that as a society, no? I am sending PMs to the people who escalated matters, and it will be dealt with. If you are an individual reading this topic later, I have removed the offending posts, and their responses, so you might not realize that some serious contention occurred prior to this. It's for the best. Please feel free to discuss this with me whenever, and I would like to move the topic back onto literary discussion. Sorry for the gigantic moderation thing, but hopefully the topic will progress to calm, collected, analysis in a literary sense. Note: your feelings on religion are totally irrelevant to this topic. Thanks. It does not matter. (And, frankly, if some individuals think I'm saying this because I'm super religious, please, I'm an atheist, thank you very much. I'm just on the side of "not wanting to punch people in the face and being a jerk to other humans.") Honorable mention I would like to discuss this sentence: Actually, if you read the First Amendment it says: So as you can clearly see, this is about what Congress and what the government can do. You are actually totally not free to express your opinion in private places or businesses as you please. This isn't really pertinent to the matter at hand here, but this mistake happens a lot on the internet. Private entities can remove your posts or opinions however they please, and the First Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with that. I could, for example, ban everyone on the site who voices liking bananas. That is entirely a thing I can do. I wouldn't, because that's dumb, but I could. Facebook could. Reddit could. Great, so we're all clear on that legal matter, right? Lastly, of course, if you see any disrespectful posts here, Report them! We can't spot everything, and I sure would've liked to just remove the inciting inflammatory post before things escalated. What's the worst that can happen? We don't agree it steps over a line? It costs you nothing. Thanks for reading all.

Maybe in old versions but I believe in the modern version posts can be very lengthy. Ark is not correct; pinned topics having multiple posts is useful for linking individual sections. That's the primary purpose.

They are a rank in the Rose Empire, from The Emperor's Soul

Because compounds aren't the same as individual elements It's clear that the gemstones don't have the same aluminum properties.

@Invocation You do not need to place the topic tag anymore.

Mistborn Adventure Game content is not canonical and should not be on the Coppermind. Let's edit and remove MAG material.

Hello @Undead Wookiee, posts to report bots are not useful and I would discourage you from doing that. Simply report them (press the flag or Report post on desktop) and moderators get an email and then we deal with it. A post will never be faster than a report, and is superfluous. You only need to report one post per bot.