Kurkistan
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Could you expand a bit on what you're looking for? Over-ear vs. earbuds, cans vs over-ear? Is isolation important? Etc. These bad boys have served me fairly well over the years, I must say. Decent sound quality, a pretty good in-line volume adjuster, and fairly comfortable. No isolation to speak of, though. The best headphones I have, though, have to be the MDR-7506's. A tad outside your price range, though.
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I've already called in some reinforcements who'll hopefully be Happier to help.
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Thanks for dropping by, Chaos. Not to diminish your good works, but I'd actually wanted you to speak on a slightly different question than redshift/blueshift... Specifically, how looking at the effects of time bubbles as somehow like gravitational time dilation might speak to the frame of reference question, or the nature of overlap. It'd also be interesting to know if the time/movement disjunction I postulate and how it works out with multiple bubbles is at all reflective of how these gravitational effects would interact. But you yourself said that you didn't really study the gravitational side, so I suppose I'll rope happy into helping.
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UPDATE: Stalking about some old threads, I ran into a WoB I'd honestly never seen before: Gravitational Time Dilation: Now of course just a few posts later in that same thread Peter proceeded to burn handwavium. But Brandon may well have stuck by this general model of gravitational time dilation and just thrown in the handwavium as an aside. Therefore, I may need to do the unthinkable and ask for a physics person to come in and talk us through what the implications of this may be.
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A decent point. Given that all Allomancy enhances the mind in some way, though, it seems that the chart needn't have mentioned it for atium if there wasn't something extra going on...
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It's "various Mental and Temporal effects", actually. Best to get the whole definition in there. Brandon said just "various temporal effects" that one time, but the chart has the more expansive definition.
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An interesting set of ideas, Nutiket. I'm generally quite leery of starting to assign abilities to various god-metal alloys, but your assignments seem, as you note, a tad more elegant than most. Perhaps. Yeah, that quote from Brandon is maddeningly open to interpretation. I was honestly expecting a RAFO, though, so at least we got something out of him.
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I really don't get this tendency of people to assume that, say, convincing people fish have vocal chords would somehow magically give it to them. All these examples of Cognitive shenanigans affecting the world are in terms of how existing magic systems work, not just wishing for it really hard.
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I believe it's outlined quite clearly in the books what happens. My reading is that either you're born with the Locks or not: you keep them no matter what if you are born with them, but then your children only get them if their in the direct line of Royal succession. There is a bit of a question, I suppose, as to whether, say, a child born before Vivienne became queen, or perhaps even before she actually became first in the succession, would get them as soon as she took the throne or something. The "not losing them no matter what" is borne out by Denth.
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I'd go with the first option, though not allowing for off-type soulcasting in any case. This WoB might be worth having on hand for the discussion: Source: Source:
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I can't say that "rationality" is something I'll be crediting Szeth with during that sequence.
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I seriously doubt there's a star-up time. Every time we've seen it the implication, at the very least, has been that it's nigh-instantaneous, and I would be very surprised if there wasn't some "in an instant..." quote in the book. The cooldown period is pretty necessary mechanically so that Bendalloy isn't unduly powerful, but I suppose some thought is needed on the Realmatics of it. On copper, I just meant that even I might think it a bit too much of a tangent to get into a copper/bronze discussion on this thread.
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On the idea of "re-making the bubble in a split second", there's actually a cooldown period: At another point (Ch. 18) it's referenced that Wayne was "counting to two" between bubbles when doing his teleporting-bullet-dodging trick. So two's an upper limit on the cooldown. I'm not so sure. The bubbles seem so tied to their makers that it seems odd for them to come into existence centered somewhere other than the bubbler. Maybe, though, for all I know. How copper works is a discussion all its own...
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Oops. For some reason I read "is Nalthian" as "was on Nalthis". Which is odd. My apologies.
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Yes, the effect will end. It's in the books, even, that the bubbler leaving his/her bubble will collapse it. I also doubt that you can create two at once, since we haven't seen any hints of it so far in the books or WoB. @Pathfinder I am also inclined towards the idea that "tunneled" time bubbles reduce/eliminate the transition problem. Your use of this, though, probably doesn't get the results that you want. First of all, I don't see any reason why we should be getting exponential acceleration from this tunnel of bubbles. If you go into a time bubble going speed X, you should be travelling X*Y within it and then X again when you leave. So any increase in speed within the bubble will just be added onto the base X, and not carried over as a multiple of Y once you leave. Second, I doubt that any degree of "I wanna' go fast" will ever get us to FTL in the cosmere. The laws of physics in the cosmere are ours (barring Spiritual shenanigans), which means that objects can't go faster than light, no matter how much fuel you burn. We're thinking of a different WoB, perhaps? I mean this one, which is quite clear that he's inside the train and the bubble is still rooted to the planet. I would guess that bubbles are spherical, and my current understanding of the State of the Bubble is that the bubble would go through the floor and could envelope someone down there if it was big enough. This.
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This WoB suggests that you need a gen-u-ine Endowment-approved Breath in order to Return, for what it's worth. It's still not 100%, though.
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No, I think I got the names right, but the confusion is likely my fault. I'm talking about Wayne moving a lot faster through space when he's in a bubble. So he's leaning against a wall towards the front of the train: if the train stops, he gets pressed up against the wall. If he suddenly gains a lot of velocity, he splats into the wall. I agree that we could get similar results by flipping walls and types of bubbles, though. EDIT: Oops, I see now you were referring to a different section of the OP. And I got that one right too, incidentally. 0.5 > 0.000000005 for Wayne and 0.5 < 5000 for Marasi, as is appropriate. There's a WoB in the OP that tells us that the bubble is stationary relative to the planet in this case, not the train. Entering the bubble isn't the problem: Being accelerated by the bubble such that you splat face-first into (what's essentially) a wall is. I read the scenario as it being a normal-sized bubble that happened to be really far away from Scadrial. I give some evidence/analysis in the OP that suggests that bubblers can control size. I agree that there are likely upper/lower bounds, though. I don't see any reason why people wouldn't age at different rates in bubbles. Time passes faster/slower so far as their bodies are concerned.
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Is a Drab the same as someone not from Nalthis?
Kurkistan replied to shawnhargreaves's topic in Warbreaker
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You're the bronze-master, but I don't recall any such confirmation. There was a bunch of people arguing that it should be impossible and bringing in some (not-very-persuasive-to-me) quotes from the books to try and support that, but I don't recall any WoB.
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Thanks for that RAFO, I hadn't remembered it. Added to the compilation in the OP. Oh hurrah, more hypotheticals. ( ) First of all you just created FTL communication, if you actually can make bubbles that are that far out and you can use smallish anchors. Just get a manipulable anchor and jiggle it around a bit and the bubble should move too. So, stripping away all the fluff (which is amusing, but hinders clarity to some extent), the scenario as I understand it is thus: What happens when a bubble with a truly novel and absurd frame of reference skims past/into a planet and envelops some unfortunate citizen? Nothing very exciting, I'm afraid. If Wax is technically "off" the train and not a passenger, then he'll essentially get teleported a few feet in the direction opposite the bubble's movement as he's yanked out. If he's on the train, the train won't be enveloped and nothing will happen. ------ Also, general comment: I really wasn't kidding when I wrote "everything" in the title of this thread. Anything I say after the OP is basically guaranteed to be either at-least-mildly-baseless speculation or a straight logical conclusion of some collection of points in the OP. So don't take anything I say as gospel.
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Studio Ghibli Movies, what are you favorites?
Kurkistan replied to ollie99's topic in Entertainment Discussion
I've seen most of the Miyazaki movies--and perhaps it's just because it was the first I saw--but Princess Mononoke has always been my favorite. -
Well since my name is neither Brandon nor Peter I can't say for sure. I can't see any reason why a cadmium bubble wouldn't act in the appropriately opposite way and increase the momentum of exiting objects, though.
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Wait a second... Feather, have you been holding out WoB from me us for months?!?!!?
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How you get the power is related to Intent, but not necessarily anything else about it.
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You're not reading the chapter right, I don't think. That first encounter, Szeth never sees Kaladin use any lashings at all, just be infused and heal that Shardblade wound and the wounds from the fall.
