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one laser for the stationary ones, 3 for the mobile ones and if i'm remembering the timing right, you hit the button pretty much right as the blue energy appears. as long as you are at the distance away where they stop approaching.

someone told you wrong.

Hah, i never had Link's Crossbow Training, but a friend of mine did. I briefly held the record on one of the levels in his game because I was the first one to realize that there was a multiplier for not missing, so hitting 10 targets in a row was worth more than spamming arrows at 50. of course once he understood that, my record got blown away, because it turns out I was not very good at it.

pretty sure it wasn't Galad who killed Rand's father, not sure where you are getting that from

Yea, I doubt any windrunner is going to be able to kill a defenseless man. probably not edgedancers either. but there doesn't seem to be anything constraining a lightweaver. and for Kel specifically, he has broken so many laws that I doubt any skybreaker even slightly familiar with his history will have trouble justifying it.

yea the Nynaeve/Elayne dynamic is....very frustrating

suppose it depends on how much duralumin vs how much stormlight. I've always assumed that it was possible to have leftover metals after a duralumin burn, but I don't think we've ever actually seen a case where someone burning duralumin had any reserves remaining of the metals they had been burning. but I' also reasonably sure that the Radiants tend to have way more investiture on hand than mistborn do, most of the time.

presumably it would dump the surgebinder's entire store of stormlight into the lashing for a single, extremely powerful, lashing. the basic lashing doesn't dissipate immediately once you aren't feeding stormlight to it, it as some duration before it wears off so the affected object would basically launch itself in the direction of the lashing, and would continue accelerating in that direction fr a little while before normal gravity reasserts itself, at which point it will continue coasting on momentum for a time. for the amounts of stormlight that we see windrunners commonly using, this honestly might be enough to get somethin into orbit, assuming that it doesn't get destroyed on the way up by other objects or the force of the air itself.

Rand didn't go through the rings. he saw them but they weren't what he was there for. the Ter'angreal he walked through is described as "a small forest of tall glass columns"

In terms of raw power available to him, I'm pretty sure Sazed is objectively the strongest of the shards. but he has trouble using it due to the nature of the shards he holds. there are WoBs on this though, like this one: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/249-waygate-foundation-write-a-thon/#e7318

yea, i'll third that. The chemistry just really isn't there for the most part.

I'm not sure this actually holds. It is true for the skybreakers, but it isn't clear that it is the case for anyone else. for instance the first surge we really see Kaladin using is the reverse lashing, which combines the two surges. for that matter, he is clearly far more adept at the basic lashing, which uses only gravitation, than he is at anything adhesion based. And we've seen Venli do more with Cohesion than Transportation at this point

Mraize's master (his Babsk) is Iyatil. her master is Thaidakar. also some of that is RoW spoilers, and shouldn't be shared outside the RoW section.

I've payed Chrono Trigger and it is definitely great, though I don't know that it would actually benefit much from a remake. You might be able to clean up the graphics a bit, but I worry it would end up like the Link's Awakening remake, whose graphics I hate. as far as game mechanics, I don't think there is much that needs fixing, though it has been a good while since I played it, so i might be forgetting somehing. Chrono Cross I Haven't tried

makes it even weirder to consider for hemalurgy....like if you put the spike in backwards would it just eject your investiture like a fountain?

I'm not sure this i quite right - it seemed to have polarity. Raboniel removed and reversed the core of Raysium in the dagger before using it, suggesting that the investiture only flowed in one direction along it.

I'm inclined to agree with others that BAM is likely pure Odium, but I agree there could be godspren for all of these combinations. though whether a spren of Odium would be able to create a Bondsmith, given the Honor/adhesion connection is a separate question. though if the Nightwatcher can then it seems possible.

One ting to add here that I didn't see mentioned: When Raboniel and Navani discuss how they people of Urithiru have been using Stormlight to make the crops grow, Raboniel mentions that Lifelight actually works better. it seems reasonable then that lifelight would probably be a better fuel for progression as well, so that might be part of what allows Lift to push past the supression, in addition to some or all of the other things mentioned.

It can be done, though it would take effort, and it does seem like a Bondsmith's powers are probably uniquely suited to actually accomplishing it. Think about the scene in Oathbringer where Dalinar helps put the statue back together, but doing basically that with the shards of Honor. the more I think about it, the more plausible I think it actually is. We already have seen that his powers can affect spiritual aspects, not just physical.

Swearing new ideals does make the use of powers more efficient. Kaladin uses less power for the same lashings after the 3rd ideal than he did after just the first and second. among other things that would make training easier. likewise Shallan's ability to make an illusory army is less about being better at her powers and more about the being able to do more with the same amount of light (also as I recall she had access to a ridiculous amount of light in that scene, and illusions are one of th lowest power uses of stormlight that we have seen)

Pretty sure I had to read "To Build a Fire" on at least 3 separate occasions throughout grade school. never did read White Fang or Call of the Wild. I had a book with both stories in it, but my dog actually ate it, or at last chewed it up enough to make it unreadable

pretty sure I'm already past them - I definitely saw a few mentions of things that I recognized as being dawnsard references. but its also a library thing. I think they automatically lent me dawnshard when they got it, so i have a time limit on it. i'm already half way through, so it isn't a huge diversion.

making steady progress through RoW now that I have been able to actually concentrate on it, but today I got an email that my request to my library to get a digital copy of Dawnshard went through, so now RoW is on pause so I can do a quick read of Dawnshard

I definitely get at least some of that; though I tend to think part 5 was sufficiently awesome that it sort of absolves the rest of the book

doubt he can talk about it here since anything specific enough to understand would probably be considered spoilers, and those have to stay on the RoW board for now.