Kobold King

On 10/14/2017 at 2:12 PM, The Allomantic Metalhead said:

"Misthammer 40k" is a horrible idea.

This is what happens if Odium takes over the Cosmere.

On 1/11/2018 at 8:12 PM, Solant said:

Adolins choice to murder Sadeas was completely justified, if only based on the events at the Tower. I mean the man plotted the murder of his army, his friends, his father and himself, and basically promised to continue causing even more trouble. I can't fault his lack of remorse.

Arbitrary vigilantism is a problem, but the thing you have to remember about Roshar is that there is no form of justice for people like Sadeas. Torul Sadeas would never stand on trial. Torul Sadeas would never be held accountable for his crimes. Torul Sadeas would never even be prohibited from killing and otherwise causing more deaths with his power hungry shenanigans.

Roshar is not our world. Roshar is a cold, merciless, kill-or-be-killed sort of place. Vigilantism is to be avoided because it's better to let everyone have a fair trial, but in a world where a fair trial is never going to happen and the man in front of you is 100% dedicated to making the apocalypse even worse, killing him is your only decent option. It'd be one thing if he were an innocent, but Sadeas reveled in the backstabbing, kill-or-be-killed world he found himself in. He only had his own game thrown back in his face.

...or... eye, to be precise.

On 1/12/2018 at 3:30 PM, Greywatch said:

I despise Amaram, and I find his excuse of "the greater good" weak. He insists that all the evil things he did were okay because they were for a good overall purpose, and refuses to admit that the bad things he did were even bad. I'm glad he's gone.

Amaram (killing a squad of his own soldiers): It's for the Greater Good, you hypocrite.

Amaram (trying to summon the Voidbringers): It's for the Greater Good, you hypocrite.

Amaram (metamorphosizing into a twisted red-eyed abomination, neither man nor Voidbringer): It's for the Greater Good, you hypocrite.

Amaram (randomly punching a kitten): iT'S for DE gREATER gOOD, u hypocrite!

41 minutes ago, mozzery said:

\Our Earth- 10.5 Despite the fact that at least the planets are exactly the same, our planet is known to have extreme dimensional walls that prevent access from superpowered beings from other universes.  Though our world is the closest of these besides Marvel 616 at times to the Reckoner Universe, it nonetheless gets the hardest to penetrate score from the sheer power our universe boundaries exert  

She tried to, but the most she was able to accomplish was bringing Brandon Sanderson over for five minutes. This later went on to inspire his popular dystopian young adults series.

They're such different types of villains it's barely worth comparing them, I would think.

Vader is meant to be menacing and intimidating, scary beyond all reason. His character succeeds at that with flying colors.

Kylo Ren is meant to be a tragic figure who wants to be feared but is constantly struggling with himself, unsure of what he really wants. His character succeeds at that with flying colors.

It's like comparing apples and oranges.

...that said, I'm gonna vote Kylo Ren because I have a feeling he'll need the extra love.

Hijacking this thread to say that my six year-old sister just walked up to me out of the blue and said "If you kill everyone in the world, there's no one left to forgive you." Then she just walked away.

25 minutes ago, Cognizantastic said:

I'll miss you all. I already do. I'm a better writer not only because of What Happened in Oregon, but because of what happened here, with you all. 

Thanks for a great run, guys. It sounds sappy, but I'll never forget WHiO.

Nor will I.  Happy New Year to all of you!

1 hour ago, Truthweaver said:

I got a call from my cousin this morning. She was going through airport security but was pulled aside, because she was carrying Oathbringer and the size of it made them suspicious.

Me as a TSA agent:

"Are you a terrorist? ...because that book is the BOMB!"

Doesn't Disney now own the rights after the Fox purchase?

47 minutes ago, The Honor Spren said:

So I'm working on the first one right now. I just want everyone to know that I'll probably only be able to get these out at a rate of one or two a week. I hope that's okay.  

I'll open this back up for requests when I get through most of these. Stay tuned!

That is absolutely fine. I'm looking forward to seeing all these pictures! Your last thread is one of my favorites.

Thanks for opening this thread! Hope you don't mind me submitting a character here. You drew Lightwards for me last time, and that pic turned out spectacularly. I still show it to people when telling them about him.

I'll submit for your review a newer OC of mine, a superhero named Serenity.

Hair color, length, and style: Pixie blonde hair, cut short. Almost but not quite a buzz cut.

Eye color and shape: Cerulean blue eyes with visible stress wrinkles around them. (Her appearance is otherwise that of a young woman with sharp features.)

Skin color: Light tan skin. Not pale, but not particularly tan either.

Body type: Tall and lithe frame with lots of lean muscle.

Outfit: Something like Superman's costume, but all white. No logo and definitely no underwear on the outside. She has a long flowing cape, but it's detachable. The body of the costume is all one piece except for the gloves and boots.

Oddities: A gauged scar in her left cheek that sweeps across the face and almost to her lips. (She has other miscellaneous battle scars across her body, but her costume conceals those.)

Personality: Severe and not particularly welcoming, though capable of being softer when required.

Interests: Saving the world. Being on the lookout for the next foe to save the world from. This is an old warrior with a body that doesn't age, stressed from decades worth of constant epic battles against supervillains and alien invaders. She's very seldom relaxed.

Backstory: Perhaps it was a stroke of good luck for humanity that the woman who became Serenity gained the powers of flight and superhuman strength, speed, and invulnerability from a blast that should have killed her. Or perhaps it was destiny. Whether by chance or fate, it created the world's most powerful superhero, a woman who has fought nigh-constantly for over fifty years against dark forces that threaten planet Earth. Her powers keep her body young, but the stress is showing, and she has the soul of an old and grizzled warrior.

...there's a lot of whites and light colors in here, it's just occurring to me. I'm a writer, not a designer.  Anyway, hope that description is functional and not too vague / frustrating. Remember, I'm not a picky type. Again, thanks for making this thread.

7 minutes ago, MonsterMetroid said:

I dont think that is very inexplicable that actually makes sense to me seeing her picture!

Now if you want to talk about inexplicable... The way I view terrisman from mistborn is with faces simliar to this.

I don't know why but all terris people have goat faces to me. Maybe its because they describe them as having long faces? Maybe its because Rashek wears a fur coat. But yeah

"Feruchemy is a WONDERFUL thing!"

"Not as wonderful as FRIENDSHIP!"

3 hours ago, Toaster Retribution said:

I picture Kaladin as Pikachu. 

So, as Ryan Reynolds?

15 hours ago, Draginon said:

Was hoping they had The Dark Talent but the only BS they had were Towers of Midnight and The Rithmatist.

I was about to give you a piece of my mind for calling The Rithmatist "BS" till I remembered whose initials those were.

On 9/6/2017 at 4:52 PM, Ookla the Toasted said:

So true. That one is bad.

Some scholars today think Romeo and Juliet was never actually meant to be taken as seriously as the literary critics of today take it. Some think it's actually a satire, with it having much flatter characters than Shakespeare was known for writing and exaggeratedly dire consequences for the two teenagers' hormonal life choices. Romances of that sort were quite common in Shakespeare's day and an exaggerated, satirical take on them would have been immediately recognized by the theatergoers of his day, while after the genre fizzled out the work would have remained to be taken seriously by later readers of the Folios.

3 hours ago, Shqueeves said:

Wish one: I wish to know what to wish for that grants me unlimited wishes, without breaking the wishing for more wishes rule. 

Wish two: wish the wish I wished for

Wish three: by this point, I should have unlimited wishes. 

Unless the first wish requires knowledge of the inner workings of wish magic, which, being a force of magic far beyond your mere humanity, causes your mind to be instantly frayed and destroyed beyond all recognition.

Just now, Anarkitty said:

Seldom are people who lick odd things considered geniuses. Just sayin'.

I don't have to take this from you. You're not my mo-

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Dang it.

6 hours ago, Darkness_ said:

@Kobold King I..

you just lost a whole lotta respect  

Everyone knows that racing stripes make things go faster.

Seldom are geniuses recognized in their time. 

10 minutes ago, Shqueeves said:

Seriously, calling them "littles"?

Also, @Kobold King, why were you licking a fidget spinner? That's weird. And gross. 

It makes them go faster.

1 minute ago, The Invested Beard said:

You know, you have to be really smart to be into Dr. Who, etc. etc.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Doctor Who. The sci-fi is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of temporal mechanics most of the plot will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also the Doctor's humanistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterization - his personal philosophy draws heavily from classic trickster spirit folklore, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these plot lines, to realize that they're not just entertaining- they say something deep about TIME. As a consequence people who dislike Doctor Who truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in the Tenth Doctor's existential catchphrase "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey," which itself is a cryptic reference to non-linear models of temporal flow. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those of addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Sydney Newman's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them.  And yes by the way, I DO have a Doctor Who tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they accept Tom Baker as the objectively best Doctor (preferably with Matt Smith as second best) beforehand.

Meme being referenced so nobody thinks I'm serious and wants to strangle me.

3 minutes ago, Shqueeves said:

He isn't a British alien, the TARDIS translation matrix uses the source English, which happens to have a British accent 

Of course I know that. That was for humorous effect.

Do not presume to correct my Doctor Who knowledge, peasant. I know what the Looms of Gallifrey are. I understand the Cartmel Master Plan. I know every member of the Deca. I know the Master's true name. I can rattle off the names of every member of the Cult of Skaro. I know which race cracked open Arkeon. I can spit out the names 'Raxacoricofallapatorius' and 'The Mighty Jagrafesse of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfroe' without stuttering, as @Anarkitty can attest. I know both acronyms for U.N.I.T. and can clarify the timeline discrepancies. I know which eldritch abomination belched out the Nestene Consciousness. I've tracked the Doctor across parallel universes most don't even know he's been to, from Looker to Time Turner. Unlike the Brigadier, I know that bombs won't stop those maggots. I can keep track of the most wibbly of Moffat's plots. I was writing Time War fanfictions years before George Mann published that Moldox nonsense.

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...I'm probably an irredeemable nerd, but writing all that gave me the strangest adrenaline rush. I think I finally know why the elitist YouTube commenters do it.

6 hours ago, Darkness_ said:

Now that's just mean of him  

Well I'm sorry a smartly dressed British alien hasn't shown up and shown me my mother's entire backstory through time travel yet.

15 minutes ago, Cognizantastic said:

I think that the best plan for the Dalles is Arsenal destroying everything. @Kobold King, we could probably do this without any writing. Maybe you could just remove posts up until the point where Arsenal is raining missiles down on the city, using your mod abilities to retcon that into being the end of the Dalles? It'd probably take like three posts hidden to make a plausible ending out of what's already there. 

Arsenal needs to have a talk with Vondra. I could write up a scene where that goes very far south in a hurry, culminating in Arsenal becoming more... explosive.

I'm waiting for Twi to weigh in on this.

3 minutes ago, Anarkitty said:

[laughing like a loon]

...it's actually kind of tempting to make this my member title.

11 hours ago, Anarkitty said:

(Do I need to explain what a "used book store" is, @Kobold King, to the whipper snappers? I'm having an "I feel old" moment.)

They may be whipper snappers, but they are also intensely book-obsessed whipper snappers. They probably know.