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I have the opposite reaction. allomacy plus something else is pretty interesting (though ferruchemy + x still wins) but allomancy itself is kind of boring. plus some of the more esoteric ferruchemy abilities like investiture, identity, connection are pretty interesting in and of themselves. and hemalurgy is a lot more versatile in its own way than either ferruchemy or alllomancy

you're off by an order of magnitude there. 100 stone (using the british unit) would come out to 1400lbs not 140. that is definitely unreasonable for a horse to carry on its back, so I don't think we can assume that those measures are close. I haven't reread any of the books in a little bit, but the scene where Kaladin and Adolin fight the duel might be informative. Kaladin's multiple lashing kick was enough to damage a (already somewhat damaged if I recall) shardplate, so you might be able to get force measures for that if the scene gives the number of lashings that Kaladin used.

I'm surprised at how many people put allomancy at #1. it's fun and all, but the other systems are so much more interesting. for me it was tough to choose between Hemalurgy and Ferruchemy (forgery and awakening were numbers 3 and 4, and allomancy was down at the bottom). in terms of magic I would want to have Ferruchemy jumps to the top of the list, but I think Hemalurgy is ultimately more interesting. for series, I agree with the majority on Stormlight, but then I got into Sanderson through Wheel of time, so I'm somewhat biased towards epic fantasy series. character was a tough choice between Wayne, Lift, and Sazed, but ultimately Lift's chapter in WoR was just so much fun that she wins out. (wayne probaly gets #2 and Sazed gets 3)

the one I created, 14, is a copy of 5, except clicking sends you to first unread post in the topic, instead of top of the page(edit: also only shows topics. forgot I added that filter). It seems like the admins would want to limit how many of these can be created, or else they might get a bit out of control if every user creates their own. though I wonder if different users creating identical streams will actually create separate copies or just point to the same one(eg if someone created the same stream as mine, would their link be 14, the same as mine, or something else)

there is a slight difference, but whether or not I can see it depends on the angle of my laptop's screen. tilt it juts a bit and they look the same

I can confirm that that activity stream thing works for me in terms of replicating the old My Content link after modifying one or two of the settings. You can also set it as your default activity stream so it replaces the unread content button next to the search bar on the homepage (but not, it appears, all the other pages)

also a good choice. just recommended that series to a friend of mine, actually.

there is a couple separate short stories set on that planet in some of LeGuin's short story compilations that take on a bit more of those concepts: "Winter's King" and "Coming of Age in Karhide"

Yea, this pretty much sums up my feelings on it. the overall character arc is understandable, but it seems like it takes forever, and while he is in the downward spiral it is almost painful to read his chapters

the thing abotu mick is he was completely boring when he first showed up on Flash., the one thing that the writers of Legends managed to do right was to make him a much more fun character. he went from being an utterly forgetable villain in Flash to being one of the top 3 characters in Legends.

I'll give you an upvote just for this. Rand is intolerable basically from book 6 til about book 12 or 13 for me, but it starts going downhill back in book 2 or 3. fortunately there are a bunch of other characters, some of whom I love (Mat, Perrin, Thom) and some of whom are at least somewhat interesting (Min and Avhienda are fun, Nynaeve moves between interesting and annoying, same with Elayne, Egwene starts off annoying, but I love her by the end of the series) and for the SA release schedule: if you are just reading SA, then that would get annoying. if, like me, you are in for all of the Cosmere books, then it is a lot more tolerable, with one or two a year it seems, if you are into all of Brandon's stuff then it must be even nicer, you can bide your time between SA books with like half a dozen other works.

err, you misinterpreted my response. the theory is that the person destroying statues is shalash, not that vivenna is shalash. I agree that the timelines don't work for the latter.

I've seen it theorized that she is one of the heralds, the one associated with art (don't remember/feel like looking up her name right now)

off the top of my head, there is at least one other section in Al-Rassan where he does it. it might be that he is more sparing otherwise, but I think I started noticing it more and more the more of his books I read. I read Tigana first, then the Fionavar books, then Last Light of the Sun, then Al-Rassan, then Sarantine, and I definitely noticed more in the last 2 than anywhere else, but that could just be because I was more keyed in to recognizing it.

in my case, I think there are 2 things going on: 1. I don't mind the meandering plot so long as I get to spend time with characters I like. so checkins with Mat and Perrin, and probably Egwene by that point (its been a while, and I was never very good at remembering what happens in which book, just a general timeline), and some of the others to a lesser extent make me happy. 2. crossroads was the first one I had to wait for. the ibrary had 1-9, but 10 hadn't come out yet, so by the time it did, I was just happy to have it

I don't remember crown of swords, specifically, but I do remember being the only person who didn't seem to mind Crossroads of Twilight.

huh, now I have to wonder: how would a shardblade react if you tried to cut through an awakened object? would it phase through it like it does for living tissue or just cut it like it does for unliving things? re: black hole from compounding: a couple things, most of which are random speculation by someone who only took 1 semester of physics. 1. when pulling a massive store of an attribute from a metalmind, there is a loss of power as compared to pulling the same amount out over a longer time (Sazed originally calls this compounding, and says something about how you'd lose some of the stored attribute) not sure how much you lose, or even what sort of equations govern it. at a guess, the amount needed increases faster than linearly. 2. black holes are based on mass and density, not weight. you aren't exerting extra gravity on anything, it is being exerted on you (though equal and opposite reaction and all, I wonder if you would actually be pulling up on the planet, and how that migth effect things) that said, that much weight would definitely crush you pretty flat, so compressing yourself small enough to become a black hole might still be possible but... 3. for a human being of roughly 75 kg (165 pounds, which seems reasonably close to average. we aren't going to be far enough off to make a huge difference either way) you'd need to get down to a radius of 1.1x10-24 meters if I did my calculations correctly (I might not have) which, according to wikipedia is smaller than an electron. 4. not going to post the numbers here, but I fiddled around with some black hole equations, and possibly misapplied relativity, but the numbers I get indicate that to get a black hole you need vast vast amounts of energy. compounding might allow you to get there in theory, but i think the logistics would get troublesome. we are talking 10 to the 40th or 50th power at least. we have no idea how much a single metalmind can hold, but with those exponents, I suspect that you have to have orders of magnitude more iron than exists even on a metal rich planet like scadrial. and that is before you factor in point 1 about the inefficience of pulling in all of that weight.

yea, that is definitely recursion. the Fibonacci sequence is the classic example, but you can do it for pretty much anything. the Natural numbers: s1=1, sn=sn-1 + 1 perfect squares: s1=1, sn=sn-1 + 2n - 1 edit: though I think the proper math term for what the op is talking about is sequence, not series. to be nitpicky: a sequence is just a (potentially infinite) bunch of terms, a series is when you add them up.

heh, I like him well enough, but yea, I don't really get it either. i'd add that he has a couple of quirks that kind of annoy me, like telling a series of events from one perspective, then cutting away at the end with a vague cliffhanger only to retell a part of them from a different perspective. there are at least 3 or 4 examples from the sarantine mosaic that I can think of offhand. it'd be fine if he only did it sparingly, but it happens so frequently it gets old.

I've seen several people refer to it as his curse, but I've always assumed it was his boon, personally

maybe we'll get one of the other orders. we don't know the elsecallers' or truthwatchers' oaths, but we have representatives from those orders now

gah, that Flash finale...I just...I don't understand how they got so many things so wrong. Why on Earth did they decide to make Flash so much darker? that is the opposite of what every single person I have seen said that they wanted. side note: I'm not sure whether Flash or Legends of Tomorrow has more nonsensical time travel rules, but the worst part is they are different nonsensical time travel rules.

I don't see anything obvious missing, though it is a lot of cards to go through, and a lot of book to correlate it with, so I could easily be missing something. I'd potentially quibble about some of the colors you picked (I still don't agree with red for Kaladin) but I understand at least some of the rationale behind them. we see a lot more of the protagonists than the antagonists, so it would be hard to fill out red and black without maybe fudging a little bit.

yea, I've run into that problem with my own (no where near this extensive) attempts at similar projects. I am not nearly good enough to illustrate these sorts of things myself, and the art that is available isn't always sufficient/close enough to what you had in mind.

plus it would be an excuse to bring in people like Constantine or Jonah Hex more often. I've also seen people calling for The Question (full paranoid conspiracy theory version) which could be great. but even just with what they have: Flash, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Atom, Firestorm, Vixen, Martian Manhunter, maybe even the Huntress and Wildcat