Orlion Blight

Yes, unequivocally!

I think that kinda happens in Perdido Street Station.

Every one should be played by Jan-Michael Vincent.

If he did know, he would no doubt choose a large and unwieldy scarf

Because some of us don't have eyes in your standard human sense but are still able to process visual stimuli through other spherical organs.

Cats do everything on purpose and for no reason.

Lex Luthor seems to be a much better Joker than the Joker we're going to end up with in Suicide squad.

My apologies. I'll remove that part.

I studied chemistry in college, and I approve of this message.

Good thing, this IS the Grinch thread, after all!My issue is not the shallowness or commercialization... Being a human, I'M well acquainted with those characterizations and can even recognize them myself. My issue is the implicit and explicit pressure to participate, and it's massive! And there is no compromise... You HAVE TO listen to Christmas Carol, you HAVE TO enjoy decorations, you HAVE TO have family get togethers, watch the Christmas canon, listen to Linus' stupid speech, etc. And if you object to any of this? Well, you just want to persecute Christians! :roll: In less of a ranty form: it's like if someone decides you aren't happy enough and buts into your life and says, "smile! Be happy!" And then gets indignant when you tell them you're fine/leave me alone. It's like that on a much larger scale, lasting 24/7 for a month, if you're lucky.

I think you underestimate the power of the Dark Side (of the Internet). I mean, let's face it: not even cat videos have curbed its intensity.

I think Voidus just proposed that we destroy the Shard!

Delightful speaks sooth. Remember to also reward yourself after a particularly difficult exam or project. Me, I treated myself to ice cream and soda but you might want chocolate.

I think it'll be before Christmas 2017... not sure where you got the Christmas part, though, so I could be behind. How I've understood it is that the earliest we'll see it, if the stars are right, is Christmas 2016. Add a couple more months, and I think we have the more likely date of March 2017, though it could be a little later too. And besides, this next one will almost certainly feature more of your favorite character. I have to wait until book 5 for my Szeth backstory!

Something interesting I saw on the interwebs today.

I think I can come up with worse possible news Essentially, the 2017 release date (and why I'm expecting it) is to make sure we get a quality book with minimal mistakes and, it sounds like, great art work. I also don't view this as being "put on hold". It was between The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance for A Memory of Light, but this time around it seems Brandon is able to go at it with his preferred schedule. The Mistborn books are minor affairs that are a result of his writing habits and even with his recent tour for those books, he seems confident that he will have Stormlight 3 ready for the various editorial processes halfway through next year, which is about what I expected to begin with.

I think it's more that people are convinced there's a "War on Christmas" and well point out any "example", however tenuous, to prove that such a conflict exists. Much like football fans, Christmas fans don't seem to understand that not everyone wants Christmasy stuff jammed down their throat 24/7. It's almost like they lack the cognitive ability to understand that there just might exist someone that does not want to hear "Santa Baby" 50 times a day throughout the month of December. Seriously, I would be a lot less Grinchy if they banned that song from being played on the air waves. Or pretty much any and all Christmas music, it's mostly garbage or should be relegated to 50s-60s era musicals. And don't people understand the concept of "too much of a good thing?" A Christmas Story was a good move. Was. It has since over-saturated everything to the point where if I'm going to enjoy it, I have to avoid it for at least three years.

Now there's a specific thread to air our grievances about the holiday season...Particularly all the noise, noise, noise, NOISE!

Cut a lime in half. Add some salt. Suck the juice out of one half as you contemplate the sunset. Be sure to mutter , "¡Ay, los niños bandidos!"from time to time to get the full effect.

Sooo.. I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far!

In my day, that would be a skateboarding club.

That's why he put quotes around "issues". I think the plan is to publish them in graphic novel form only. The "issues"would be chapters of around thirty pages. So each volume would be around 180 pages.

Indeed you will I've finished The Law of Peoples this week, read a collection of Rick and Morty comics, and read The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi yesterday. I'm also a little behind on my 52 books goal, but that's why I got poetry books, comic book collections, and Legion: Skin Deep

I remember Arizona summers. They weren't that bad