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when you say "facing the sun" what do you mean? do you want it to be tidally locked, so one side always faces the sun (think moon to earth or Taldain in the cosmere) or do you just mean that of the four, it is generally on the sun side the vast majority of the time (I assume the latter)? the second option might be possible if the 4 planet configuration were itself tidally locked with the sun, so that the 4 planets revolve around their common center of gravity in sync with their revolution around the sun. you'd have to have each planet individually rotating on its own axis within this configuration if you wanted day/night cycles, but that part at least doesn't seem unreasonable. I have my doubts that such a configuration would be stable, since the planet closest to the sun would have a higher gravity acting on it than the further ones, but I certainly don't know enough physics to say for sure. it also may not result in the sort of displays you might want, though I admittedly don't have any idea what you have in mind there. it seems likely that, in this case, from the surface of one planet, the other 3 would always appear in the roughly same configuration, modulated a little bit by the system's elliptical orbit. with their sizes determined mostly by distance, which mean looking at things like Roche limits to determine how far apart they would minimally need to be.

I can barely figure out how people can complete all the shrines at all. I still don't know where a good 20% of them are, and I have been pretty much everywhere on the map except death mountain. Somehow I don't think thirty-odd shrines are hiding in that one section. and don't even get me started on the people who got all the korok seeds

good point about it being mostly Shashara's project. I went and looked around a bit more though, and there is at least one explicit reference to Vasher visiting Roshar: www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=1120#77

it is. i really wish I had more time to spend with it, honestly. I feel like it really deserves just taking a week or 2 off work and playing it continuously.

We do actually know that he has visited Roshar before. there is a WoB to the effect that Nightblood was his attempt to create a Shardblade.

That ranking sounds about right to me. for what its worth, this year, I would put Supergirl a bit below Arrow, but well above Flash and in overall rankings, it probably comes in last, but it could overtake Flash if it keeps improving and Flash doesn't. season by season: 1. Arrow 2 2. Flash 1 3. Legends 2 4. Arrow 1 5. Arrow 5 6. Supergirl 2 7. Supergirl 1 8. Flash 2 9. Legends 1 10. Arrow 4 11. Flash 3 12. Arrow 3 numbers 1-5 are all pretty solidly great seasons of TV. I don't think most people would argue that. I almost bumped Arrow 5 up a bit just based on that Finale and how absolutely deranged the villain is. 6 is pretty good, though still with some flaws 7, 8, and 9 have their share of ups and downs, and I could honestly see this order changing depending on my mood at any given time. basically, supergirl 1 is a mess with a few great episodes (depowered episode, red kryptonite episode, flash crossover), a perfectly cast lead (Melissa Benoist carried this show), and a bunch of annoying stuff all crammed in there together. Flash season 2 has a fantastic first half culminating in the Christmas episode with the Trickster, then goes downhill in a very, very bad way. and Legends Season 1 has some great stuff (Snart and Sara, plus occasional bits from Mick and Stein) and some terrible stuff (every scene with hawkgirl, hawkman, or savage) all mixed up. 10, 11, and 12 are all just pretty bad. Arrow 4 at least gives us Damien Darhk who is great, which is why it beats the other 2 here. Flash 3 is better than the back half of Flash 2, but only rarely rises above the level of mediocre. Arrow 3 is just bad.

for me i was about 3/4 of the way through his section in whichever is the first book he shows up in. he was awful to start, but by the end, he was one of my favorites.

agree with you on Arrow, been a great season thus far, though I would still rank 1 and 2 above it. but i cannot agree that legends is the weakest show. season 2 of legends is easily one of the top 3 bets seasons they have done across all 4 shows. arrow 2 is better, and flash 1 might be, but considering each season as a whole, it easily bests everything else available (flash 2 would beat it, and be at the top, if it had ended at christmas. nearly everything that came after that 2nd christmas special has been consistently terrible)

When I read it a while back, I thought it was mediocre. I enjoyed it well enough, but I have 0 desire to go back and read it again.

they went on that month long hiatus, and at the end of it, I no longer felt like giving over my weeknights to them, so I havent been watching. been reading recaps though, and I may have to tune in for the season finales next week. especially Arrow's, given what I understand happened this week

in my case part of it is that there are tropes that I enjoyed when I was younger which I don't like as much now, and Feist hits a few of them

I remember loving that series when I first read it in middle or high school. When I reread it more recently it was OK, but, like a lot of what I read then, I don't think it quite holds up as well as I would have expected.

I'm not at that level yet. i don't get to play all that often, so I still enjoy just sort of wandering around hyrule, and there are still occasional surprises hiding around some corners. also, I haven't even attempted Death Mountain yet, so there should be a bunch in that region that I haven't found...i don't even have the map there yet.

oof. I've got something like 85/120 shrines and I'm not sure where most of the rest could be (haven't been exclusively looking or anything, but I have wandered over most of the map at some point, so not sure how I can be missing that many). I can't even imagine trying to get all the koroks. especially since I am terrible at the throwing a rock puzzles.

got a couple more chapters in and the sci-fi is starting to develop. also, I think when I posted before, I had finished the 1960's part of the plot (or at least the initial part, don't know if there are more) but hadn't started the next chapter yet

just finished the lies of locke lamora thought it was pretty good, but cant get ahold of the second book in the series at the moment, so that will have to wait. currently working on a sci-fi book called the three-body problemby Liu Cixin. it is translated from Chinese. not very far yet, and the first few chapters have been a bit of a crash course/refresher on 20th century Chinese history. not a whole lot in the way of sci-fi elements yet, but we shall see

Deadhouse Gates has the Chain of Dogs, which may be the best part of the whole series. I sort of soured on the series around book 7 or 8, I think. I still like it, especially the first few, but the last few books werent exactly satisfying to me, though they did still have their moments. I'm somewhat inclined to agree. I have gone through and read/reread a lot of the sort of standard high school english books that they make you read. I liked a lot of them, but certainly not all (Great Gatsby is another that I think doesn't hold up to they hype, for instance). It really is somewhat of a shame too. the way our english classes are taught, they are not exactly designed to instill any kind of appreciation for literature into the students. I like To Kill a Mockingbird in spite of having read it in high school, and probably the only reason I enjoyed The Grapes of Wrath or The Jungle is because I did not read them for class; and i was someone who already liked reading, I imagine for students who weren't as fond of it, the experience could turn you off to it altogether.

At the time I didn't even get the appreciation as literature. I might now, if I had any inclination to reread it, but at the time, I just thoroughly hated it.

Had to read catcher in the rye back in High School. it was one of the worst books I have ever had to read for a literature class (though not the worst) and for the life of me I have never been able to understand why anyone likes it.

I've read all of those, plus a few more. I liked Tigana a lot, more than any of his other books, and thought Lions of Al Rassan was pretty good, though by that point there were certain things GGK does in his writing that were starting to annoy me.

I forgot the part where Ruin was whispering to him, which, yes, is his main source. that said there is a WoB (forgot to grab the link before I closed that tab) indicating that Hemalurgy predates allomancy, so evidently there is even more to it than I thought

Well didn't TLR learn about it from holding the power of the Well? and the Kandra/Koloss/Inquisitors would have learned what they knew from him. though the inquisitors may have been willing to do some of their own experimentation too once they knew it was a thing

based on a discussion elsewhere: if someone were to combine all of the pieces of a splintered shard back into one whole, would it necessarily be the same shard that it was before it splintered, or could it change?

I think the biggest unknown in that hemalurgy question would be about stealing multiple powers/attributes at once. like you say, the heart is a universal bind point, so it makes sense that if you did have such a spike (really for hemalurgic purposes, multiple spikes sort of stuck together) then you could probably grant all the attributes by going through the heart. that said, a related question, based on what we know of hemalurgy: what sort of side effects might it have on a person to have multiple spikes like that?

Well we know that there were spren on roshar predating honor and cultivation (source)