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Brandon has a very firm stance on this definitely not being a joke. Source:

Ah, sorry for mentioning it, then. -Apparently Chaos fears the unlimited power the option would put in the hands of the masses.

We also got a smidge more on this from the AU tour: So essentially the question was coming at it from the other direction, and at the least it looks like a sufficient condition for Breath-stealing is if both parties are Identity-less. P.S. Unrelated, but has the "Source" button always been there in the text editor? Because it's a magical thing that I love. -Ah wait that may be a mod-only thing. If so: never mind peasants, I'll just chill along here with my arbitrary HTML.

Nice answers. For Lift, that essentially proves that Edgedancer spoilers:

*Mod hat* Merging over from General forum, per policy. I also managed to mess up what got merged where initially, which had a side-effect of wiping out the Following of the original signing thread. Sorry about that. :/

*Puts on Mod hat* What she said.

Probably just email Karen (@brandonsanderson.com) with a "FAQ: Error found" line or the like.

Yup, it's good. I've only seen the anime. As Spoolofwhool says, it has a slow start, but it's one of those shows where the beginning gets retroactively better as you get farther (further?) in.

Yup. Source:

Was it how he was driving on his way to Pittsburgh and someone cut him off in traffic, then he was all like "if I had super powers I would totally blow up that guy's car" then he was all like *horrified realization*? (first link I could find).

I might not be able to make this one. It's far into the belly of the beast so far as driving goes.

It's good stuff. Fair warning: the first few episodes are a bit rougher than the rest, in terms of both production values and content. As Duncan will oft lament during them, there's a scarcity of actual records during the founding periods, so everything's couched in terms of "legends which almost certainly aren't true say..." Things pick up pretty well after that point, though.

Mike Duncan's The History of Rome is a classic. I will say that things started to drag a bit towards the fall, but that was more the content's fault than Duncan's, I'd say, and all in all it's an excellent listen.

Likely if we went the JS route there'd need to be some tweaking/testing to be sure (for one thing I'm not sure that window or window.location always necessarily exists, since I haven't dealt with it before), but that specific concern shouldn't be a problem. The "hash" by my understanding, is entirely the text that follows after the '#' at the end of the URL. window.location for this thread, for instance, has an empty hash if you just click on the thread link itself rather than navigating to an individual post: Location {hash: "", search: "", pathname: "/forum/topic/56107-request-mapping-from-old-single-post-links-to-new-format/", port: "", hostname: "www.17thshard.com"…}

The nurse is technically a RAFO, though one of the more suggestive ones.

I believe there's a way to do it more intelligently than just with JavaScript (the existence of this massive MSDN page suggests as much, though I haven't read through it), but if you execute this JS code then it works. if (window.location.hash && window.location.hash.slice(1,6) === "entry") { window.location.hash = "comment-" + window.location.hash.slice(6); } EDIT: There's obviously some level of link parsing (though on reflection this is more of query-resolving) already being done by IPB, or else the links in emails wouldn't work. When I clicked on the email alert for your post, I got this link: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/56107-request-mapping-from-old-single-post-links-to-new-format/?do=findComment&comment=491781 That gets parsed into the appropriate: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/56107-request-mapping-from-old-single-post-links-to-new-format/#comment-491781

It looks like in the transition from the old site to the new the way that individual-post links within threads are formatted has changed. Before, if I wanted to link to a post about Peter confirming Hoid drinking metal, I'd get this: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6411-hoids-powers-from-around-the-cosmere/#entry104532 Now the link to that post is this: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6411-hoids-powers-from-around-the-cosmere/#comment-104532 Clicking on that first link will bring you to the thread, while the second will properly bring you to the specific post. Obviously the numbers are the same, so would it be possible to do some parsing here and convert "entryX" URLs into "comment-X" URLs when people navigate to them? As is there are a fair number of old links/bookmarks that aren't very helpful because they go to threads rather than posts.

Yeah it was metal, and it was emotional allomancy, looks like.

It's actually an open question whether you really need any additional enhancement beyond just the Allomantic electrum itself to be able to meaningfully interpret the shadows. Source: Personally I'm of the opinion that the whole all Allomancy has mental components thing applies to Electrum too, allowing some extra processing to be able to anticipate, at the very least, big-picture stuff. Like "oh look I get stabbed if I got that way" kind of things.

Ooo, nice catch.

RAFO.

I really really need to swing back and follow through both here and in the main "everything I say" thread... In the meantime, another WoB: RAFO on nested bubbles:

To build on Oversleep's comment, we very intentionally don't know anything either way, as Brandon's been tight-lipped about it.

An alternative explanation is that Leyten healed by way of squiring, and his not limping is supposed to be a hint in that direction.

Brandon is pretty much opposed to dictating pronounctiations, actually. He'll talk about it anytime someone asks. Here's Peter talking about it a week ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/4yibq4/what_words_do_you_continue_to_mispronounce_even/d6o9c8y?context=3