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But there's all these people you DO know, too! And people you can get to know and then have new friends! Yep; that was right around the time a hurricane hit Ireland. He did pop back out and let us know he was okay. @Quiver Hey there! We still like you! It's okay to come out! @Kobold King We have had a Discord for several years now. There's literally a sideboard of it on the main forum page.

Of course I'm still around. I've been a lot more active on the Discord over the last couple of years, but I've started to try to boost my presence a bit more on the forums again. Kobold King still drops periodic status posts; Twi, too, though more rarely. Quiver probably forgot to log in for months. Mestiv is around on the Discord and does a lot of code-stuff behind the scenes for the Shard.

I had several at the top that were pretty closely clustered - Edgedancer, Lightweaver, and Windrunner.

Write an essay, spend 3 1/2 months revising it, accidentally end up with a novella.

What Shallan has is definitely not Dissociative Identity Disorder. A lot of folks come to that conclusion, but there are some distinct differences between what Shallan is doing and what happens with DID. Brandon is indeed very conscientious about the mental illness and non-neurotypical representations he puts into his work. He's also admitted to making some mistakes in his earlier books, and works hard to improve as he learns more.

Unlike some of the recent mod voices, I am...mostly keeping my mod hat on. Not because I feel like I need to mod anyone right at this moment, but because my mod hat comes with a heavy filter that is absolutely necessary for me on topics like this. I can't talk here like I can on my personal social media, because when it comes to social justice issues I'm kind of a firebrand. I'm know that ultimately, I'm not capable of keeping a cool head discussing this subject. Which means I'm not capable of moderating this subject. So I'm trying not to read too many of the replies here. The mods who are watching the thread directly are better able to keep an even keel on things. And in return, there are situations in which I can keep a level head when some of the others get riled up. But it's part of the responsibility of moderating to know what we can handle and when we're about to lose our cool - so if it seems like some of the mods are being inhumanly dispassionate about moderating the thread, it's because we self-select for who can keep that level head in any given discussion. Sometimes it'll be a distinct set of people, sometimes one person will handle it until they start getting frustrated and then pass it off to another. I do keep up with the staff chat, and will chime in on those discussions, but this post is really about as deep as I can get into the discussion here without losing my crem. We talk to each other a lot. We know each other really well, and do a lot of teamwork behind the scenes when it comes to moderating. Sometimes this means we're slow to respond to a situation, either because we're hashing out a lot of different opinions or we're having trouble coordinating time zones to get one or more voices in that we absolutely need to hear before we act. I know sometimes people can get a little frustrated when we don't act on something as quickly as expected, but we're never not paying attention. We just all have jobs and families and pets and a wild variety of different sleeping schedules. It may take us some time to juggle things to where we can figure a thing out, but we absolutely will get there.

Surreptitiously eyes the first draft of "Clear and Present Discord" that currently sits in Alpha-reader-torn-to-proper-shreds form on Google Docs. Oh, look. A thing I have not finished.

Ooh, the season cost has dropped a LOT since I last looked at it...like a week ago. That's something I might spring for. But I wasn't gonna pay $55 for it.

It's still not on Netflix.

I don't think anyone closed the poll on purpose. It might be that Chaos getting a vote broke it and tore a hole in the fabric of the universe. I can easily picture Mr. Bill or some other innocent clay-based life form losing their precious life on those tracks. (In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Robot Chicken has done a skit on this idea.) Bzzt! Unauthorized use of non-canon fan art, 5 demerits and you owe 20 hours of community service, preferably in the form of watching MLP:FiM with your closest child relative.

I suppose. Sleep-roll, then. And the Storm King doesn't count!

Are you kidding me? All that machinery is dangerous. Not to mention what might happen if he started sleepwalking. Think of all those innocent people he could accidentally run over!

No votes for me so far? Look at me! What's less intimidating than a My Little Pony?

The fake spellcaster spammers show up now and then, usually in waves. This one has been...dealt with. Edited To Add: @Karger - I hope you don't mind, I edited out the contact info from the quote you included. I'd rather not risk some poor gullible lurker giving it a try and getting fleeced.

Seek the Sandertrack. I'm usually on several panels.

Note to all going: as in past years, I will be giving out 17th Shard ribbons for your badges. You will need to find me to get one. (Spoiler alert: I'm easy to find.)

I think the primary issue with Alloy of Law is its unplanned nature. It started as a writing exercise, turned into a short story, and then he morphed it into a full novel. It wasn't originally plotted as a novel, which throws the pacing off. Given that Brandon generally plots things out pretty tightly, the odd nature of AoL can throw people off a bit when they first read it.

Will I be there? Magic 8 Ball says: "Duh. Is water wet? Good grief, woman, why do you keep asking me such stupidly obvious questions?"

We still exist! I, alas, have not yet seen any of season 9. I have to wait until it hits Netflix.

I believe there will be a significant difference between becoming a Compounding savant and what I personally like to refer to as Compounding drag. This is potentially a thing per: Compounding drag would be somewhat similar in concept to pewter drag (and obviously pewter Compounding would be pewter drag squared). You'd have to run yourself hard on your metal for a fairly significant period of time and different metals will have different results. Compounding steel for a while could possibly lead to feeling like you're made of molasses afterwards; zinc might leave you feeling dazed and like you're having trouble thinking/following things going on around you. My speculation would be that tapping (not continuing to Compound) a metalmind for a while might help you ease off of the effects afterwards. But it'd be exceedingly minor compared to savantism. A Compounding savant will as be wholly dependent on burning their metal as a regular Allomantic savant would be. This is the level that I'd say that Miles had reached; he Compounded gold all the dang time and thus experienced all of the weird side effects thereof. A savant cannot function normally without a burn of their metal going on constantly.

Way late response, but I just spotted this. Hello, fellow JordanConner!

As stated in the Mistborn Ars Arcanum - Allomancy creates more power than you put in - that comes from Preservation. Hemalurgy results in a loss of power - hence Ruin. Feruchemy neither creates nor loses power, and thus it is the balance between the powers.