Dunkum
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Have to go brass/zinc. The ability to actively manipulate someone's emotions allomantically seems much more invasive than just being able to see past/alternate versions of the person.
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oh there are ways around it, but each time I have to alter my deck to add them in, it becomes less and less like I want it. Also, the friend I have probably played against the most has about 20 different ways to shut down my green weenie deck, including some ways to shut down my attempts to shut down his defenses. Basically by the time I can amass an army, he has so many redundant layers of defense that I can't touch him.
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I like all the enderverse books, but the first two are definitely pretty far superior to the others. Other than those I have read homecoming and Alvin maker series. Homecoming, I thought had some potential early on, then just kind of devolved into something else.
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the most useless uses for useful powers
Dunkum replied to king of nowhere's topic in Cosmere Discussion
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Isochron Scepter + Holy Day is what always killed me. Doesn't matter how much you throw at them when they can just prevent it all.
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Heartfire (and the Alvin Maker series in general) was pretty meh, I thought. then again, my interest in that series is almost exclusively due to the alternate history timeline, and looking at the differences between real world America and Alvin's America. Modesitt's Recluse books I enjoyed, though.
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gah, how did I forget Dune!? I've read the first 3, and been warned away from any after that. My brief research on their plots on wikipedia inclines me to avoid them too.
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heh, I have a deck that can, in theory, pull off that sort of thing (coat of arms goes a long way toward increasing that damage too). unfortunately between me playing that, and another friend playing his elf deck, the rest of the people we play with have developed counter strategies to green weenie decks.
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Agree that Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead are the superior entries in that series. I've read Ender's Game at least 5 times since I first saw it on a summer reading list in high school. I've read some of Asimov's Foundation series, but I didn't really like it. Nightfall, which he cowrote, is really interesting though. I have also read some Heinlen. Starship Troopers was really interesting, though a bit overtly political, but Time Enough for Love and Stranger in a Strange Land were just weird, especially all of the gratuitous sex (Time Enough for Love features a main character who has sex with his own mother as well as female clones of himself...). Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars trilogy is pretty good, though again a bit overtly political. Recently I have also been reading Ursula K. LeGuin's Hainish Cycle books which range from Pulp adventure like Rocanon's World (which I only bought because it was 50 cents and the cover featured people flying on winged tigers) to explorations in strange physiology like The Left Hand of Darkness, and actually are somewhat similar to the Cosmere books with their behind the scenes history of the shared universe. All that said, my personal library tilts much further towards Fantasy than Sci-Fi
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Series you were disappointed with...
Dunkum replied to ProfessorMLyon's topic in Entertainment Discussion
The one thing I will give Vin/Zane is that Vin being interested in literally the only other mistborn she's seen in years (or like a year, whatever the timeframe between the end of the first and beginning of the second book, I think its a year), and the sparring/fighting nature of their first few meetings both make that relationship feel a bit more natural to me. That said, it really is weird. -
Series you were disappointed with...
Dunkum replied to ProfessorMLyon's topic in Entertainment Discussion
One counterpoint on the Elantris romance: I agree that pretty much everything we get from Raoden make a lot of sense, given what we know about his relationship with Sarene prior to the events of the book, but Sarene's feelings toward Spirit after meeting him for the first time seem a bit rushed to me. I agree with you on both the Vin/Elend and Shallan/Adolin though. I never really bought Vin falling for Elend that quickly, or the bits where she says, very early on, that she feels like she can be herself around him. This is a girl who has been through so much screwed up stuff that she can't even be herself around her friends, yet she is opening up, even slightly, with some guy she just met? -
not to mention the 2 Mistborn books coming out between now and then
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I also wonder if constant gold compounding would weaken your immune system. for example on Nalthis, if you give up your breath, and become a drab, you are more likely to contract diseases because your immune system, used to being boosted by the investiture of your breath, is suddenly running all on its own, and isnt quite up to the task (this is mentioned in the annotations, I think). So if you were usually compounding gold, and then stopped, would it have a similar effect?
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well, the limits aren't definitely established, at least not outside of the extended universe, which I have zero familiarity with. But you can pick up bits and pieces: Yoda could lift an x-wing (about the size of a small fighter plane), and claims that size is unimportant, so force strength should be pretty impressive. Anakin can pod race, and Qui-gonn claims it is because he is actually seeing things before they happen and reacting to them that he is able to avoid obstacles at those speeds. probably if I felt like sitting down and watching them all i could pull out a few more data points on that. also, someone above mentioned that a Sith might have an easier time with this, since they are less upright, and more willing to do things like shoot lightning and force choke people
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how much stormlight would that take? and bear in mind that anakin's jedi reflexes are what allowed him to be a pod racer, so however fast those things were supposed to go is apparently not too fast to dodge if you are good (though I understand if you would prefer to ignore the prequels)
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healing a lost limb takes concentration, time, and a lot of stormlight. hardly somethign you can do on the fly in a fight. Maybe with a highstorm constantly replenishing your stormlight.
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On the other hand, just because Hoid dislikes him, doesn't mean that Bavadin is in any way a bad guy, maybe he slept with Hoid's girlfriend or something (OK, probably not something quite that petty). Also, since we know nothing about Bavadin's shard, it could be that he was a terrible person before, but the influence of his shard is improving him. Imagine if its intent is something like empathy or forgiveness. He could be Brandon's favorite because the story of a bad person becoming good appeals to him. Basically, until we see a bit more of him, I don't hink we have enough evidence to form any kind of reasonable hypothesis on what he is doing.
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Right, I'd forgotten the Radiant part. I still stand by the Force reflexes being close enough to burning Atium to counter almost anything a windrunner can do though
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Thanks, that's what I was thinking of, it didn't come up when I did my searches, for some reason. must hav ejust used the wrong keyword. maybe he just means that there is a thirds set of 16 for an atium-lerasium alloy, but that isn't how I read "way more than sixteen", though admittedly thats a subjective judgement.
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Could just be a spherical cut gemstone. Have we seen any of those in the books? maybe a spherical cut is the optimal one for storing stormlight
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and then force pull it back to your hand. probably takes about as long as it would to resummon a normal shardblade, depending on location, etc.
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to be honest, I thought I saw a WoB saying something to this effect, but when I went to look for it, I couldn't find it.
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Do we actully know this? there is a WoB where Brandon compares Stormlight to the Mists from Scadrial, which were of Preservation, so it is perfectly reasonable to assume it is related to a shard. and given that we know the stormfather is related to Honor, and that the highstorms distribute tormlight across Roshar, it seems reasonable to assume it is related to Honor.
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I've generally assumed 2016 or early 2017, though this isn't so much based on any evidence as just pessimism. that said, i suspect winds of winter will be out around the same time, and if it is 2016, we may also get stones unhallowed. which means 2016 could be a very good year for me, though I will need a new bookshelf by then
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I thought I remembered that happening, but was worried it was just something from a WoB or annotation or something, comparing the magnetic/nonmagnetic alloys to alloys of aluminum.
