Kaymyth

Okay, so technically this was all yesterday, but due to the astounding number of things that went to Braize yesterday, I just did not have the mental energy to translate it into a Redacted, Inc* post. So, here at Redacted, Inc, those of us in management have a weekly staff meeting. Not all of us follow the same command chain, though, because we do different things. We have a cryptid team, a magic team, a faerie team, etc. My team generally handles UFOs. None of this is at all real-life accurate (or is it?) but it amuses me to put it this way so there ya go. Last week's meeting, my boss and I got shooed out near the end because they had some stuff coming down that "didn't affect us" so we allegedly didn't need to know about it. We all but got run out of the conference room and they had their discussion and that should have been the end of it. It wasn't. Yesterday, I come to work to find a piece of my team's daily schedule has been yanked. Supposedly this happened for everyone, and come on, Kaymyth, you knew about this. Everyone did. Why don't you get with the program, judgey judgey blah blah. I got bounced around like a ping-pong ball between several people. No, that wasn't supposed to affect my team. Yeah, but Command got orders and we can't circumvent them on your word. Wait, no, the Big Boss said it's everyone, so it's everyone. And when I called out the same member of management who, as previously mentioned, ran me and my boss out of the gorram meeting, she got all fluttery and defensive and pulled a gaslight tactic accusing me of not being able to "go with the flow" to cover for the fact that it was her rusting fault I didn't know what was going on in the first place. So I threw the entire incident into my weekly report as a problem, it went up the management flagpole, and now she's angry at me for "tattling" on her. Whatever. If your actions are deliberately holding back key information for me to be able to do my storming job, yeah, I'm going to complain. You don't get to put me in that kind of position without having to pay the piper in the end. Don't test me, slontzes. It won't go well. That's not even the only problem I had yesterday. UFOs call us when they get lost and need directions. I've been working here for over 7 years now. Never have I seen one of our phones break. Yesterday, TWO of my team had their phones break in completely different ways, throwing them out of our phone coverage. So that was fun. (One is now fixed today, the other not yet.) Oh, and some unknown yahoo in a technical department in another office deleted a bunch of widgets we need for our system. See, these widgets are usually used for one particular thing, but my team uses them for a completely different thing that these tech guys can't see. They've done this before, and every time we kick up a fuss. I got them undeleted today, and I've been assured that ownership of the widgets is now "properly documented" but I have my doubts. Mostly because I wasn't allowed to actually speak to the widget deleter. I mean, it's probably for the best, as the mood I was in would have left the poor man quaking in his boots when the conversation ended, but without striking the Fear of Kaymyth into the Hearts of Mortal Men, I cannot be guaranteed that things are fixed entirely to my satisfaction. Next time, I suppose. *For those of you who don't know - I am cagey about where I work because sometimes I need a release valve and complain on this thread. I steep things in weird allegorical terms so that it's not obvious to anyone who I'm complaining about. This has led to certain Sharders randomly deciding that I work for a super-secret government agency that keeps us safe from supernatural threats. I go with it.

Yes. Yes, I did. Because screwing that up was just perfectly in theme with what was otherwise an utterly craptastic day.

Sel: "Wait, what's a moon?" xD

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This belongs in Entertainment, so I moved it.

I honestly disagree with the assertion - he didn't, really. He was focused on parroting what his PR guy was telling him to do, trying to sell himself and go through the established motions, but he never really took ownership of how he screwed up. He was pandering, not apologizing, and it showed.

Sorry, dude. It was a very...daring assertion, which unfortunately doesn't hold up in the light. People are just too complex to put into stereotype boxes, and Sanderson is well-established as a writer who enjoys breaking and subverting tropes.

The Rob Lowe episode was utter trash. I feel like this was the writers getting together and saying, "Hey, we can't actually have a complex character who makes a big, hurtful mistake like that; audiences aren't sophisticated enough to find her likeable." So they came up with an excuse and wrapped it up in a gross date rape joke and applauded themselves for solving their "problem." The car rental jokes grated on me; that was one of the episodes that was spotty for me. It had good moments, if a bit ham-fisted, and then just a descent into utter sitcom awfulness. (Probably doesn't help that I hate sitcoms.) Another one that annoyed me - the planet with the Facebook government. I had this expectation that the navigator guy would have this moment of clarity and finally just say, "Look, I'm an idiot sometimes. My friend was having a rough time after a crappy breakup, and I got caught up in trying to cheer her up by acting like a goofy moron. I wasn't paying attention to what I was really doing, and I wound up making a fool out of myself." That would have been sufficiently contrite with some actual redemption value there. But no, instead they took it down this over-the-top "let's hack the system!" nonsense and ruined any positive value that episode had managed to scrape together. I mostly like the show, but it constantly disappoints me when I see something good it could reach for and then have to sit and watch it wave at the good thing and then take a left turn down a dark, windy alley. Meh. I would argue that anyone going through Not!Starfleet Academy should represent the best and brightest that humanity has to offer. You don't put dithering morons in charge of a fancy starship unless the admiralty is run by dithering morons themselves.

I actually keep wavering on this; some episodes have me going, "Haha, yeah, that's what we'd really be like." Others have me cringing and wanting to hide from the television. Or possibly throw things at it, because how in the name of all that is clever and good could cream-of-the-crop professionals be that stupid. They attempt to tackle social issues in the same way that Classic and TNG Trek did, but it's often ham-handed and blind to a lot of the actual realities surrounding the issues it's trying to address. (I'm reluctant to go into too much detail, as these issues can get politicized, and I'm not looking to start a forum nuclear war.) I am often left wondering if MacFarlane actually researched anything past the Wikipedia level on a lot of this. At its best, the show is brilliantly hilarious. At its worst, it's really, really bad. Like, "I'm pretty sure that people should think less of me for watching this show" bad.

If you take as a given that geekery = introversion, then I see why you feel the way you do. However, those two traits are not necessarily married to each other. It is very possible to be extremely geeky and extremely extroverted - these traits are not mutually exclusive by any means. I have friends who take pedantic nerdery to levels previously unseen by mortal beings who are also exhaustingly extroverted people. They do exist. Navani is not at all unusual, and definitely not impossible.

By, um, joining us? @Quiver!

Wow, that is some shady crem right there. Also - how convenient for them that this is timed to make sure that nobody has any significant PTO saved up for the holidays. I'd be sorely tempted to read up on the actual legality of what they're doing, because that may be more than just subversion. Edit: Okay, I'm on a roll now. "HEY, you know what's a great idea? Let's force a payout of PTO right at the BEGINNING of cold and flu season! Yeah! That's fantastic! We should do that!" Somebody at some point said that. There's a rusty spoon made for gouging somewhere that has their name on it. Edit 2: Guys, I think I have a new calling. I should be an HR inspector. This needs to be a thing. I could go around to companies and check out their HR policies and cast stern glares at people. I'd be awesome.

Indeed, I remember the initial ad campaign. It was an attempt to go, "Hey, look how much classier we are than Pop Tarts!" And then they proceeded to double down on pretending like they weren't every bit as full of sugar and devoid of nutrients. Such delicious lies.

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ohgodsohgodsohgods Do you know what the most nerve-wracking part of finishing off Swift as Steel is? Daydreaming about all the awesome artists milling about the Shard and wondering whether any of them will grace me with the extreme joy of complimenting my work by drawing any of my characters. And then being terrified that I'm not deserving of such glory. Ahem. So. Eva Valdorn Hair color, length, and style - Auburn (dyed; her natural color is a light brown that hovers near dark blonde and she got bored with how drab it was), generally long, but braided and pinned up out of her way. Eye color and shape - Grey, standard Scadrian eye shape Skin color (this includes any moles, freckles, or birthmarks they may have) - light-skinned Body type - Athletic - she's a runner, and she's combat-trained. Definitely not a waif. Outfit - Trousers, blouse, corset waist cincher. Take a Roughs duster, knock down the length, and add ruffles. Think something relatively similar in style to this, but with longer sleeves and without the skirt: Other assorted oddities (horns, wings, robotic arms, extra eyes, etc.) - She wears steel metalmind bracelets, and will have metal vials on her belt. Instead of the standard long dueling cane, she has two shorter wooden fighting sticks (less likely to break when hitting someone at increased speed). Personality - Depending on who you ask, she's either the most fun ever or annoyingly mouthy. Enjoys pranking people in positions of power, preferably when there is ample plausible deniability to be had. Will absolutely kick all of the chull in defense of friends/family. Delightfully irreverent for long stretches of time which are then interrupted by occasional bouts of broodiness. Not a woman who takes the middle road very often, tends to not do anything by half, including screwing up. Dislikes - Looking/feeling like an idiot (this unfortunately happens a lot). Villains. Getting thrown off of (moving) trains. Screwing up spectacularly. Interests - Running. Cats. Plays the violin (a lot). Throwing herself into learning the skills necessary to not screw up in precisely such a spectacular way again. Short rundown of their backstory - The eldest child of the only branch of the Valdorn family in Elendel (the rest is in True Madil). Her father's company specializes in gemstone mining and Metallic Arts-quality metals. Her father is an Allomancer; her mother of Terris heritage. Both Eva and her brother Jacek were identified as Feruchemists in childhood (her as a Steelrunner, him as an Archivist). It wasn't until {SPOILER} that Eva Snapped as an Allomancer herself. Shenanigans ensued.

Ahem. I'm going to just drop this right here... BEHOLD, THE POWER OF STORMCUTE.

But also keep in mind - Rosharan days are shorter than ours (slightly under 20 hours), making their year come out to only 1.1 times the length of ours. To get an accurate timeframe for anything, you'll need to calculate it down to hours, and then run it into Rosharan time.

Moving this thread; it fits better on the Entertainment board.

Moved to the Entertainment board.

Generally they shouldn't be. If we have original Ooklas floating around, Peter might have a case for Forum Identity Theft.

Alas, all good things must come to an end, but the time of the Ookla must now fall behind us. The State of the Sanderson has risen, and festivities give way to hope for a new year of literary goodness. It is time to set aside your Ookla masks and once again greet the Internet with your proper faces. Reclaim your true names, good people of the Shard! Reclaim them and rejoice at the promise of the new year that awaits!

Clearly your library doesn't understand priorities. Only one copy of Oathbringer? Those fools. Pssst Ookla season is over

Everyone keeps going on about how Kylo might have been lying. But he didn't tell Rey who her parents were - he encouraged her to say it herself. When she did, he simply confirmed it.

I kind of love how "planned" is just a necessary descriptor for future Mistborn novels these days.

Unless her target coordinates were Snoke's ship itself. It'd be a short jump, but coming out of hyperspace into something solid would be very bad for everything involved.