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There are not RSS feeds for those things, though I can perhaps create them... EDIT: You can just generate an activity stream which will have an RSS feed. You can grab whatever content you want on it.

I want there to be science fiction pulpy adventures. I totally agree with that, and I think a narrower scope can work well. I don't think it needs to take itself too seriously either. But seriously, remember that scene where Han is in the infantry and meets Chewie? That entire setting has no stakes. I had no fear for anyone or anything. They didn't do any blocking for that scene. I get that it doesn't essentially matter where they are, but it was just that the filmmakers didn't even seem to care about trying to make that location feel grander. All I remember is mud and fog. Come on, it was just lame. That could have occurred anywhere. It was quite weaksauce. This lack of blocking infects the entire movie. Oh no, the Cloud Riders! Who are they! Marauders! So scary! Actually besides their mask of the leader I never really felt "oh crap here they come this is where crap gets real!" Everything feels so low stakes that it feels boring. You know what sounds like a better movie? A straightforward heist movie. Han is George Clooney like in Ocean's Eleven. They are competing for, sure, coaxium against Crimson Dawn and Qi'ra and Han are adversarial. Two thirds of the way through the movie when things start to go wrong, Imperial troops come in and make things go really badly. It doesn't have to be galaxy-wide to make me care, but I feel like a standard heist movie would be way stronger. Doesn't that sound way better than what we got? It felt so low stakes and casual. This movie had to do much better to make it feel like there were stakes, because it is a prequel and we already know Han and Lando live. I wanted to like this movie. I definitely think a Han story can work but this was pretty mediocre at best. I kept thinking during this, man, Rogue One was way more interesting at nearly every step. I cared about those characters much more and Rogue One's weakest aspect was the character development, but when people died, you felt sad. I didn't feel any emotion in the deaths in this movie. I know a Star Wars story with smugglers can be cool. I don't think you need Force powers or lightsabers to make a compelling story. But this had very little that was cool and awesome. It was... just fine, you know? This last statement might get me some flack, but at least the prequels tried to dazzle and impress constantly. This was purely ordinary to the point of boredom. I compare it to one of the Hobbit movies: purely fine, and never something you need to watch again.

I thought Solo was pretty meh. I didn't see much that inspired awe in me, unlike Rogue One and all the new Star Wars movies, which had plenty of legit awesome stuff. What was the coolest thing, the Maw? I felt like they didn't explain the Kessel Run nearly enough for it to feel impressive as it actually was. There were a few parts where Beckett says, "Impressive!" about something Han does and it really wasn't that special... It was... fine. But I don't think I'd ever need to see it again. Surely there must be a way to have a better han Solo movie. I wish they would have made a more standard heist movie and owned into that. Honestly, a lot of it just felt pretty boring. Like, the Cloud Riders had this super awesome musical score and were really not that impressive. The movie clearly thought it was way cooler than it actually was, or didn't earn it. I think it's easily the worst of the Disney Star Wars movie. No one not seeing it missed much, whereas I would say with Rogue One they would have missed a lot. The coolest part of the movie was the Maw and the knife fight in Voss's chamber at the end. That's not that much awesome.

All spoiler tags should not be in sigs by the letter of this rule. So yes. I would encourage people who want such things to put them on their About Me page on their profile.

Huh. That's very bizarre. I do not know why that would be happening and that is not a thing I have encountered before.

Anyone going to MisCon, add me on Discord or PM me contact info. Seems like quite a few members are going so we should definitely meet up and/or go to a group lunch or dinner.

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Excellent, glad to see you can make it

Hey all, I will be doing some server maintenance tonight, 9:30pm Pacific / 12:30am Eastern. The Coppermind and 17th Shard will be affected, but Arcanum will not be. The site won't load during this time. Last time I did this, the maintenance went much faster than expected so I don't anticipate it taking longer than a half hour. Check Twitter or Discord for details if it goes longer than a half hour.

Spoiler tag rule is in force and I see no good reason why it should be altered. I think I've seen some do this and I should drop the hammer on those...

I'm coming for sure! I've been telling Brandon to come to Montana for a very long time. (Though I typically told him that he should come to Bozeman, where I am, haha.) @Windrunner is hopefully coming too. I'm staying at the Con hotel. It'd be great to meet you, @Jess. Usually I drive from Bozeman to Salt Lake, so it is luxurious to just have a three hour drive to Missoula to see Brandon. I'll arrive early Friday afternoon, I imagine. I'm currently trying to craft some top tier questions for Brandon...

There are quite a few quotes that do say there are only three Shards relevant on Roshar: https://wob.coppermind.net/adv_search/?query=shards%26roshar&date_from=2003-12-05&date_to=2018-05-18&speaker=&ordering=rank I feel like the Sibling is just a mix of Honor and Cultivation Investiture. They can create Honorspren and other sapient spren, after all, so they could surely do it on a bigger scale.

Guess who forgot to post this news post and tweet this yesterday: this guy! 10/10 great job Eric.

There have been multiple instances of individuals having more than one account in the past month or two. Much of this is involved with Social Groups. I cannot surmise why someone would do this, but it often involves upvote manipulation and trying to manipulate people in multiple social groups, hence me posting this reminder in this forum. Perhaps some find having multiple accounts or joke accounts funny, but this is very serious. Multiple accounts are not allowed. Do not do this. They have never been allowed, and apparently the line in the Rules post that has always been there is unclear, and the additional reminder I posted in 2014 is just as valid as ever. Read this now: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6977-notice-on-multiple-accounts/ This deception is not "fun" and is not funny, and will be swiftly dealt with. Ignorance will not be a sufficient excuse. I have instantly banned people before for multiple accounts, and frankly, due to the three instances of this very recently where we've been generous to not ban people instantly, but we will not continue to be generous in this way. I am lenient on multiple accounts due to if you have login issues (due to Microsoft servers refusing our emails for validation), but that's about it. There are no realistic reasons why users require multiple accounts. Let me know if you have questions. If you had made joke accounts, tell me now and we will deal with them, but these multiple accounts issues will not continue.

I linked the Apple link in the original post But I did not know that individually they are on sale.

These things are very region based. I'm sorry it's not in your region!

House of Ashes is not at all canonical. It's basically fan fiction.

That's an interesting idea. What sort of information would you want in that podcast about the current Radiants?

Let's not discuss real world religions here. There is a big LDS population in Brandon fans, as well as a big nonreligious population. Let's just keep it to the books. Thanks!