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Discordianism is extremely bizarre, and there are pieces of the Principia that I love, including the fact that most of the people writing it give themselves weird names resuting in passages like a dialog between malaclypse the younger and greater poo. I'm not sure what you consider to be the "entire" speaker for the dead follow up, but I've read most, but not all of the Ender series, give or take a couple of the puppet books, and it definitely gets weird.

That is promising on both counts. I assume they are smart enough to give ATLA the budget it needs - there is a big fan base that would love to see it if they get it right, and that will hate them forever if they get it wrong.

they might be a better source of calcium than other available foods. We get it from greens and milk, but neither of those is exactly easy to come by on Roshar.

I read all 4 of the books you listed hear some time after graduation. none of them were required reading for me (though other students with different english teachers did read them) but I still wasn't a huge fan of them, though Hemingway had a few decent ones. I suspect I'd have liked them less if I had been required to read them, though. On the other hand, I loved a lot of the books I was required to read in 9th grade (To Kill a Mockingbird, A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Alchemist were all fantastic and I periodically reread them even now)

Can't speak to the others, but I am pretty sure normal Humans can digest shells, we mostly just find them unpleasant to eat. heck, some types of shells are basically calcium carbonate, which is what they make antacids out of.

huh, it didn't go that wide for me. it stopped after 87 levels, and was at most half an inch off the screen, I think

on my screen, at layer 32 it stopped making a pyramid shape and started drifting towards the right side of the screen. at layer 64 it actually exceeded the normal bounds of the page. on a related note, I now really want an emoji of someone being sacrificed that I can put at the top of one of these...

regular salsa is infinitely superior in just about every way. I suppose Guacamole is better if you need to grout tiles or something.

guacamole is disgusting slime and avocados are overrated

that's mostly how i've seen these used in other forums. even ones that explicitly endorsed doing things like dropping a +1 post for no other reason than to up your post count.

I'm honestly a little amazed they let you get away with something as spammy as a last one to post wins thread. first time I saw one of these was on a forum devoted to spam-like nonsense because the mods on another forum they all came from were way too strict. also, I win

heck, we see Malatium during TFE so we know they were able to make an alloy of it at that time. I'm no metalurgist, but I assume most alloys are made by melting the different metals and mixing them together then letting them reharden (freeze seems like the wrong word for molten to solid metal conversion for some reason). this would suggest that molten atium behaves the way a normal metal would, rather than reverting to something like a mini-shardpool. though I suppose it may be possible to create an alloy using chemical reactions or something that avoids the melting process. though that gtes into other questions on the chemical properties of godmetals and how free atoms of a godmetal would behave...

I don't know about light reading, but I've definitely read one or two of my old college math texts for fun.

I had assumed she was older too, but I was trying to figure out how much older so I looked it up and was pretty surprised to see she was younger. I guess it's because all we see of Tien is when he is a kid in the flashbacks, but we get adult Shallan.

According to the coppermind Shallan is actually a year younger than Tien, but I'd agree with after nonetheless. Shallan started bonding Pattern at a very young age.

Checking it out now and it seems pretty good, but the animation really needs some work - as it stands it is nowhere close to living up tot he glory of ATLA. I had this problem with something else netflix produced. the premise seemed OK, but I couldn't get past the animation as far as live action - i'll wait on the reviews. it is promising that they have the original creators on board, but I worry that the required level of CGI will be too much for netflix to handle

interestingly my mental picture of Rock actually comes from a final fantasy game, but a different one. for some reason in my head he looks like a taller version of Reddas from FFXII. complete with those ludicrous muttonchops

Cadsuane is definitely one of about 6 Aes Sedai that I could stand from those books, but for my money Verin is the best. Not from a book, but I always liked Blank from FFIX. no idea why, honestly, but I was really glad you got to save him. Reddas and his glorious mutton chops from FFXII is also great.

Not that i've watched too much recently, but overall I'd have to say Subbed tends to be the better, but like others mentioned it is definitely not a set-in-stone rule. It also sometimes matters a little bit which version I saw first - I practically can't watch DBZ or Kenshin in Japanese because the character voices don't match what I am used to from the English (both Kenshin and Goku have drastically higher pitched voices in Japanese than English to the point that it gets distracting).

On my end, I had already been into Fantasy in general before HP came out. So when everyone around me started reading Harry Potter, I was the one guy who had already read Lord of the Rings. So to me the frustration at the time was that there were better things available but everyone was talking about this series like it was some amazing thing. Also when your default mental picture of a wizard is Gandalf the Grey, it is hard to get excited about middle schoolers waving twigs around.

I have no idea what Ranger's Apprentice is, but this pretty much describes my opinion of Harry Potter. on its own it would be/have been fine, but the gigantic mania around it overshadows the material itself to the point that I dislike it more than I otherwise would have strictly because of how undeservedly (in my opinion) popular it is

I'll second these.

to be fair, that is arguably a special case

just for a smaller scale example - the moon is tidally locked with respect to Earth, so it always has the same side facing Earth, so the effect actually can be observed right here without any kind of fancy equipment.

I'm generally a fan of worldbuilding and spending time with characters (I actually liked Crossroads fo Twilight simply because I liked spending time with the characters), so I'm not necessarily complaining that this is going to stretch for 3 more books, but I am a bit surprised that he was able to stretch it that long. the last few chapters of book 1 felt like they were heading towards finality, but then it just ends. it felt like he could have wrapped up the whole story in just a couple more chapters, and what's more it feels like the main characters are just shy of being found out and stopped - like it could happen at any minute - so I just have a hard time imagining how he sustains a story for what must be weeks or even months or years of in-world time without it feeling like deus ex machina or something. There is also a lot of tension at the end of book 1 that seems unresolved - but trying to stretch that across 4 books should be impossible. I don't know - normally I am all in for series over single books, but this case just feels weird. I'll stick with it (assuming the library heeds my request and gets the rest of the books) and withhold judgment on the series until ive gotten further, but i'm just not sure how he could pull it off. all that said, I did like the first book, though it could have used a better proofreader. my library's ebook version had a number of glaring typos.