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Dragon Prince was pretty iffy, yea. and the animation was complete garbage. if they want that show to be good they need to do something completely different with the animation, because what they have now just doesnt cut it. I wanted to like it, and i think with better visuals it could end up as a pretty good show (though nowhere near the likes of gravity falls or avatar) but it needs a lot of work.

see I disagree with this entirely. Ive read Harry potter, and am currently in the process of rereading it, to see how my opinion of it will have changed since it originally came out. When I started my reread, I got through the first book and just had 0 interest in continuing. It gets better, but I think there are swaths of the first 2 books that are pretty much the opposite of engaging, and the beginning of the first book, (after the prologue bit anyway) is probably the worst part.

There are series you could have said are better than Sanderson that I'd have agreed with, but there are used rags that are better reading than Harry Potter.

Shard blades cut in all 3 realms, so the only reason the spren's manifestation in the physical realm would matter would be for aiming. you mention the anticipationspren below, and it seems to me that hitting the physical realm manifestation of an anticipationspren probably wouldn't kill it - it isnt a vital organ after all. but for some other type of spren that manifests more vital body parts in the physical, like the various radiant spren, you definitely could.

In the spirit of this, I have to nominate the Alexander vs Bahamut and Odin vs Cleyra cutscenes form FFIX. The XIV graphics are better, and the sequence is longer and probably more coherent, since the FFIX one is really multiple cutscenes interspersed with gameplay, but for my money, watching Bahamut wreck a city only to be rebuffed by Alexander is a cooler scene.

Remember that Sazed basically had a record of all the old flora and fauna on the planet, and the power to recreate them, so by era 2, I would expect that the Chickens to be standard.

Hoid does not hold a Shard, but he is still among the most powerful people in the Cosmere, and has been around since before the Shattering. That said, it is a lot easier than you think to jump between worlds. The most common way to to use a perpendicularity (such as a shardpool) to move between the Physical and Cognitive realms (you've seen the Cognitive realm of Roshar already: Shadesmar).from there it is not too difficult to travel to the cognitive realms of different planets, since space in the Cognitive Realm is somewhat contracted. You see more of an in-world look at this in Mistborn Secret History. so having said all that, you'll have seen several other world hoppers in the books that you have already read: the three people in the purelake interlude from WoK are all worldhoppers (if memory serves one of them is Galladon from Elantris and another is Demoux from Mistborn). There are also 2 prominent examples that I am aware of from WoR, though i don't know offhand whther you'd have gotten to them yet or not by page 400, and even more in Oathbringer.

i wish force awakens had been a bit more original, but i dont hate it for being deriviative...i'd just have enjoyed it a bit more if it wasn't. agree on last jedi though. also agree on teh Rankin Bass specials. i've watched rudolph dozens of times, and Frosty maybe twice.

Started reading the Thursday Next series from Jasper Fforde, but probably not going to finish it. there are pieces of it that I like, but it just isn't doing much for me. once the due date hits for it, i doubt i'll renew it or check it ou again.

now i'm imagining someone watching a horror movie with a lot of jump scares and always being startled just a couple seconds before the rest of the theater by the movie's atium shadow

A technicality. and they certainly aren't involved in the same way that Odium or Ruin or the others are. This is much more Passive. Even Honor has an active role in the form of Dalinar's visions, which is far more than we see on Sel. you could argue Endowment is more involved on Nalthis, but we still don't see much of her.

for a bit more information: the shards on Sel (Elantris) are Devotion and Dominion, and they are both dead well prior to the beginning of the book, much like what happened to Honor. The shard on Nalthis (Warbreaker) is Endowment, who is still around, but doesn't play as direct a role in the book as the shards in Stormlight and Mistborn.

Anthologies, especially anthologies by multiple authors, rather than collected works from a single author, do tend to be hit and miss, but i often find that the good is wroth reading through the bad.

Decided it was time for another reread of Catch 22

When words of Radiance came out, I definitely skipped a couple meals while getting through it

true, but the basic ingredients are mostly there from the start. I'd guess you could pretty much work out how you'll feel abotu the watch books just based on guards guards with liek 85-90% accuracy.

for me too...but by proxy if that makes sense? basically a friend of mine had tons of people recommending it to him, and asked me for my thoughts on it, so I read it and...i won't say I hated it, but it was no better than OK. and the worst part is, I should have liked it. the idea of a treasure hunt through a virtual world is right up my alley, so this thing had an advantage going in.

i honestly prefer to do the discworld books in publication order. in fact i genrally prefer that for most series. but if you aren't sure about discworld after colour of magic and the light fantastic, maybe skip to guards guards and/or small gods. Guards Guards, as has been mentioned, is the start of the Watch arc, consistently one of the best arcs in the series, and Small Gods is a very good standalone story, set a few hundred years before most of the main event in other books of the series, and it is amazing. if you still dont like it after those 2, then it is not for you, and there is no shame in droppign it.

I absolutely love the Civilization series. you migth be able to get the previous version (civ vi is out now, so thprior verison is civ v) in a bundle with its expansions for pretty cheap. especially if you wait for the steam sale. my experience has been that it can be hard to run the newest on an older machine, but runnign the older on a newer machine should work ok. or the newer on a newer machine, though you'd want to chekc the minimum requirements...and see about some kind of external cooling mechanism, sicne Civ games run long.

well, given that we have a WoB that you could spike a Spren, though you'd probably have to do it in Shadesmar, you could probably spike a dragon too.

short version: numbers bigger than infinity.

I don't know that I thought he was old....but probably i'd have guessed thirties or forties.

I honestly find that I pretty much can't play anything from the NES era. the graphics are just too bad. Also, for older games in franchises I have played it is often weird when they lack features that I've grown accustomed to. original Metroid you can't aim at a 45 degree angle, just up, down, left right, which throws off the play style I have learned in later games. Likewise in the original Zelda there is no whirling blade attack, and you can't just hold your sword out, so strategies I use in the GB and GBC games to kill wizrobes (hold the sword where they are pahsing in so that it hurts them when they appear) are not available.

yea, my basic understanding is that Bean heads off into space during Peter's Hegemony and goes off exploring and doing stuff at relativistic speeds, so by the end of his story, we are back to the distant future of the speaker for the dead books. I haven't read all of the books on that side though, so that is about as much as I know. I had thougt the final book was done, I think the last time I looked into this was a few years ago, so I'm surprised it isn't out yet.

I haven't read all of the ones that follow Bean, but as I understand it, late in that his story merges back with Ender's in some way or other, presumably after the events of Children of the Mind.