Kaymyth

Yeah, nebulous autoimmune stuff like that is notoriously difficult to diagnose. It's quite possible you're all running off the same genetic basis for what's going on, and different doctors are having a tough time pinning it down. Make sure your doctor knows all of your family medical history since so much of that stuff is inherited. My sister went through years of diagnosis hell. MS? Nope. Parkinsons? Nope. CFIDS? Getting warmer... Oh hey, it's Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome paired with a seizure disorder! And possibly fibromyalgia as well. Sigh, at least she knows now.

Yes. We can. (And who are you calling "mortal"? Look at the blurb below my name! I'm a goddess.) ...no. It really isn't.

@Roadwalker - That's some good meme right there. (Though if anyone tries to keep their Ookla name past the designated end date, we staff will just go through and set people back to normal. )

Eh. Point of sale software isn't that difficult to make changes to. Now, getting all of the locations to run the software update on all of their machines - that's a massive pain.

You know, you're kind of embodying a completely different pet peeve right now. Let people enjoy things.

Dude, she had the single most badchull fight scene in the entire movie. I am going to be cosplaying her in 2019 and there is nothing you can do to stop me.

I've got a few options I'm considering this year. I'm usually kind, though, and don't change my profile pic. I don't want to confuse people. (Plus it's a lot harder to hide now that I've got that Moderator tag.)

Bah. She was awesome and deranged and the best mad scientist. She is a goddess of mad science and your blasphemy shall not go unnoticed. I try.

Well, yes, but hammers are wieldable by multiple classes. Actually manifesting full cleric magic, that's another thing entirely.

Well, you know what I think you should wear. It would certainly shut them up. And possibly leave them quivering in fear at your awesomeness. (I have been giving Delightful absolutely terrible advice on Facebook on how to deal with the bus trolls. I'm a menace to society.) And I want to be Holtzmann when I grow up.

Yes. Yes, it did. My endorsement of thread necromancy got shut down by @Chaos's Turn Undead. Who knew that him starting a weird new cult involving Chrome tabs and putting the toilet paper on the wrong way 'round would actually give him D&D cleric powers?

I see you missed the part where I was making a Reckoners joke. Really, Orlion. You're slipping. Not yet! IT IS NOT YET TIME GO BACK TO NORMAL UNTIL THE APPOINTED HOUR.

This is going up a bit early, just because people are already talking about it and new folks are asking questions. @Chaos says the old thread isn't good enough and tasked me with making a new one, probably because I opened my big mouth at just the wrong time. So lo, the explanation comes: in just a bare few weeks, an annual phenomenon of confusion will bear down upon us like a shower of angry Tribbles.* Every year, as the days grow short and the weather grows cold, we creep slowly towards two great holidays that hover near the end of the year, ready to embrace us into their festivities. Families will gather, feasts will be had, and general revelry will echo throughout the land! I refer, of course, to the birthdays of Peter Ahlstrom and Brandon Sanderson.** If you don't know who Peter is, well, he's Brandon's assistant editorial director, and pours a ton of work into supporting the writing endeavors of our favorite author. Back in the days of the Timewasters' Guide, he roamed the forums under the moniker "Ookla the Mok." In order to remember and honor the days when he still had time to frolick among us unhindered, we change our screen names to some variant of "Ookla the <____>" beginning on his birthday, November 26. It's all terribly bewildering if you don't know what's happening. I joined the forum in late October of 2014, so I had barely a month to get settled in before suddenly I was surrounded by Ooklas. They were everywhere. So many Ooklas. And I had no idea why. So now I tell you all, so that hopefully you will be less confused than I was as a poor ickle noob. A lot of folks just play with it for a week or so, but some are hardcore enough to keep the madness going until Koloss Head-Munching Day (aka Brandon's birthday) in December. Enjoy the upcoming festivities! *Don't worry. The Tribbles have tiny parachutes. They'll be fine. **Why, what holidays did you think I meant?

... Of all the times to not be able to edit the title of a thread...

Sigh. Probably run around like mad, making sure all of my friends' pets get fed. There is nothing sadder than hungry furbabies.

Eh, the description is still good. If this is serving information purposes sufficiently, I don't see why we need a new one.

Thank you! It's a piece that I original wrote for a children's lesson at my pagan Unitarian Universalist church years back, which is why it's written in such a childrens-book style. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I'd read it.

Or in a momentary lapse of sanity he completely forgot just how rabidly speculative his fandom is.

Someone pulled it out of last year's State of the Sanderson. Just vague hints that he might have something else kicking around in the back of his brain. (Edited To Add: Okay, I just went back and re-read this person's speculation. My mistake; it wasn't anything hinted at, just someone making a wild intuitive guess that it isn't on the last year's SotS list.) But...he didn't remove Apocalypse Guard. It's right there on the bottom of the screenshot. Heh. I don't think that's the case, as it is showing only 1% complete. He's only just begun.

I don't think we'll see Secret History 2 until after Era 2 is complete, if we ever see it at all. Speculation is rampant, but there are hints that this Mystery Project is something not on his regular calendar from SotS last year. Whatever it is, I suspect it's his NaNo project, and he won't tell us what it is until at least the first draft is done.

Best thing to do, then, is scroll back a page or two on this board. You should be able to find the previous discussion pretty easily.

I promise you, this is not nearly as easy as people think it is. The subject has also been discussed at length and in great detail in similar threads.

Current runnings show a 90/10% split in favor of Over. Face it @Chaos, your little cult of The Way cannot stand in the face of unicorn magic!

Um...yeah, Jedal, I think DA has this one right. I have literally never heard of anyone claiming that Columbus Day was about celebrating Italian culture before. Yes, Italian-Americans seized upon the story and pulled it into the limelight, but it was because they were experiencing serious discrimination during that time period. They needed a "hero" countryman to lend them social legitimacy. By pushing him as a quintessentially pre-American hero, they gained that.