Squallor

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Is this an actual lottery for the ARCs, or is it weighted? I thought goodreads gave out ARCs more to active users who had reviewed books and had a larger presence on the site, but I might have just miss-understood when I last read about their ARC giveaways.

I would say a background helps in terms of knowing if it is right for you, but first cs classes will go over all the basics of programming, so you don't need to know what objects and methods etc etc are before going. If you want a good place to start that isn't super computer sciency, try making a webpage by hand (ie HTML). it is not real programming, but if you get comfy with html, then you can learn stuff like css and simple javascript which is an easy way to learn stuff like inheritance and relationships between objects at a slow pace.

Is it possible that he went to Sel twice? Once to shatter Aona and Skai, and a second time to cause the Reod? Maybe there were some pesky Elantrians like Galladon interfering with his plans, so he just made a quick stop on Sel to stop their meddling on other planets...

That is quite interesting. Do you have a source for that? It would be really interesting they kind of make their own hell. This does pose the question though: why would they envision themselves in hell between desolations? If they did go insanse, i find it hard that they would go to a fire and brimstone kind of plane. The other side might be that they have gone insane since they abandoned the Oathpact, and the hell they go to is real. A few thousand years of hiding your immortality might get to someone after awhile. Honestly, I find this scenario a bit more likely.

Thanks!

I am rocking the double major in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical/Computer Engineering. Graduated 2 years ago and am currently working as a business consultant, however, I just got a job offer last night for robotics engineer where I will be working on robots in the semiconductor industry. As you might guess, i am super pumped to be doing this rather than business consulting.

I am very curious as to why you decided to not capitalize "is" in that sentence...

Not true. I was just re-reading HoA, and in one of the first few chapters, Vin mentions that one of the metal plaques they find says that the LR built the kandra and koloss to be taken over by the pushing of several mistborn/mistings without duraluminum. I dont have the book in front of me right now, but i might be able to find the quote later. On a side note, i tried to find the quote in Amazon's "Look In-side" feature, and low and behold the look in-side feature HAS THE ENTIRE ENDING TO THE BOOK. it skips the first 2 pages of chapter 1 to Not sure if that is something Peter and co might want to inquire about, or if it is just the way the system works. Figured i would bring it up...

Wow, gathering a bunch of soothers and rioters if they are making a large army makes a lot sense. Particularly, if they want to make a koloss army, and need people to mind control them. I agree the hemalurgy aspect is kind of lame, as it only makes a few super-human/mistborn, and is most likely a lost art. HOWEVER, if someone found out about koloss control, they might have realized they could use them to create a much more destructive army. You could just hold all emotional mistings at gun point all the time, and make them command the koloss. Risky, but definitely effective.

I would be hesitant to make that statement. Honestly, the color could have logically many things. If you assume Koloss are blue b/c of some weird melanin in their skin, then offspring with a Caucasian could very easily be Red + Blue = Indego/Purple. If Koloss skin has no pigmentation, and each layer is a translucent blue, then combined with the yellow base color of human skin, they would start out as a green. Depending on how much red pigment is in the skin, it would slowly wash out to grey, depending on the levels. The way I imagine Brandon thought about it is that human blood will just tone down the blue color a lot. When you get very faded blue, it becomes very hard to distinguish it from grey, more so than other colors. EDIT: Also, in terms of color theory, adding a color to its inverse depends on whether the colors are additive or subtractive. For light sources, a color plus its inverse will result in white. For anything reflecting light (paint, skin, etc) the resulting color will be black. This is just a technicality though P.S. In case you couldn't tell, I might have a thing for color theory.

I am still trying to decide if that comment is inadvertently racist...

I guess ill join in. My username is Squallor. As a note, I'd just like to mention an article i read once about scrabble scores. Total score at the end of a game is fairly trivial. Assuming both players are of equal skill levels, most games will end with players scoring between 250-400 points each. If you think about it, all games have the same tiles, worth the same points, with the same bonus spots on the board. Assuming everyone shoots for high point tiles on high bonus areas, the end total should be fairly consistent. A lot of scrabble players like to track points per word, since pro level games often involve a lot of 6-7 letter words, so the game ends faster. Maybe you find this interesting, maybe you don't. I found it fascinating. I usually score in the 300's most games, but average upper 20's lower 30's for points per word. My best single word score ever tho was "SUNBATHES" across two triple words. Was just shy of 200 points.

I got the impression that they also had some fairly expensive guns, so the well funded part isn't entirely hidden. Also as a note, aluminum is very malleable, so a little bit of it could go a long way as far as making foil hats goes. I imagine their last couple of hauls could have gone a long way to buying enough aluminum.

I agree that it was a literal blood connection. You dont find too many people with grey skin, and on top of that, he had large forearms and a thick neck, so he is built like a koloss. I don't see any reason why they couldn't interbreed, afterall, the koloss at one point were all human. Also, even if humans consider them savages, doesn't necessarily rule out the possibility. I find it much more likely that it wasn't all that consensual in first place.

I believe Peter said it was 6, as it was the logical break in the book. Any the only other place to break it was after chapter 2, but that wasn't enough to preview the book. Chapter 6 seems like it will be a good ending point with the leader dude making it off with Marasi and/or Steris, but Wax and Wayne getting a good lead to follow up on Also, the "Bat on the Wall" thing was really cool. I wonder if that was something coinshots have been doing a long time, and we never saw it in Mistborn, or its another one of Wax's personal skills.

I'll just leave this here: http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/08/the-alloy-of-law-chapter-five

I'd actually be pumped for an old zelda style RPG on a GBC. Those games were the best.

Forgot about those. I haven't read the Liar chapters in quite awhile. I just assumed the Aethers were part of lightweaving since that was the only magic we see much of in those chapters. Oh well, I guess I'll hang out in my unknwon third party faction.

First off, I'd like to apologize if I sound accusing of anyone mentioning unpublished books. I know no one has ever tried to dangle little bits of cosmere info just to tease people. I am also aware that there are no big secrets in those books except maybe some in Dragonsteel/Liar, so I am not expecting much. I only meant my earlier comment in a joking manor. (well, half joking... I still want to read Aether) But on a lighter note: Wait a second... subtle hint possibly lurking here. Mad Scientist - mentioned that Aether of night magic is what is now used in Liar (light weaving I believe)? and we know at least one magic system in Liar is Hoid's story telling dust thingy, yes? Add this together that the face has something to do with a spoiler from Aether, then maybe the face is much larger scale of some of Hoid's magical abilities. I pretty sure Brandon has hinted that Hoid is his most BAMF character he has written about, so unless he has other magics we are as of yet unaware of (which I concede is VERY likely), this falls exactly in line with something Hoid is capable of. Not saying its damning evidence by any means, but this might lead some credence to Hoid being the face. I know he could have just spoken with Kaladin (as he did later), but maybe he wanted to give him some divine inspiration? This just put Hoid back up as a possible contender for me.

If I am not mistaken, it's been harder to get unpublished works recently. I believe that it used to be that all you had to do was send an email to Brandon through his website, and him or Peter would send you some of his unfinished stuff if you asked nicely. Now, I think it's not so common since his popularity increase, and I am sure he doesn't want spoiler floating around on the internet. I agree though, I always hear references to what happened in Aether on this forum and TWG, and am DYING to read that book. I guess I'll just be patient until he actually publishes it, and deal with the frustration of all the teasing Peter, Chaos, and co. do on the forums just to make us out-of-the-loop folks feel like we are missing a great big secret of the Cosmere. <grumble>

It was a general nickname he used to have among the old crew. However, I was under the impression it was just because of he just had a generally intense/intimidating stare, the sort that unnerves people when he looks at you.

Seconded.

I will make an addendum to my earlier comment then. "Kidnapped, asked and killed" still feels more likely in my opinion.

I don't remember an exact quote, but didn't Brandon say that the Dor was NOT uniform in the Cosmere? I thought that was why there was the theorizing that the Dor is a power living in the Cognitive realm, and why you would not want to go to Shadesmar while on Sel.