FeatherWriter

Zas, your ability to know exactly what I'm talking about it astounding. Have some upvotes!

The nerdfighters haven't failed me yet! I love that "under a rest" joke! I've never heard that before!

Okay, I got the .class file, and I have the .txt file in the same window (directory?) as the .java file and the .class file. When I run with ">java AlethiTransliterator_1_5_4" it prompts me with "Enter path to input file:" What do I put here? I've tried typing out the whole "C:\Blah\Blah\Blah\filename.txt" as well as just putting "filename.txt". Both give me the same answer: And then it just gives me the command prompt again. Argh! This is all gibberish to me! I've never felt computer illiterate before now! This is frustrating! EDIT: Also tried %path%;C:\Blah\Blah\Blah\filename.txt Still no go. (Also, I replaced all of my actual folders with Blah Blah Blah, of course. They're not actually called that. EDIT2: Okay, maybe it's working now. I tried just the filename.txt again and now it's just blinking. I hope that means it's working. I probably should have picked a smaller file than 2,162KB. My entire copy of WoK in a txt file is pretty big! EDIT3: Got it to work finally! Haha. Gave up on WoK and made a file with just "Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king." Worked much better! That font is really cool, but I wish it were bigger! I have to blow it up to like 90pt in order to see it! Also, is there a way to change the space character to a line? That way they'd be all connected.

Okay, I'm a complete and total Java newbie and have no idea how to use this. I know I have Java installed but I don't know how to use the txt file for it at all. I can't even seem to be able to open a window for Java.

Skaalls. Haha! Definitely. That's awesome.

Nope, won't help. They'll just tap speed and catch you. Might as well just enjoy the boards before the inevitable happens!

The vlogbrothers have some awesome joke videos that have great jokes in them. Also notable for some groan-worthy nerdy pick-up lines!

Or write a 121 word long ketek!

Okay, Zas would know the quote better than me, but it's somewhere in the Brandonothology. Basically, Brandon said that at the end of HoA, Sazed didn't know how to put souls back in bodies, yet. I think I said this back in my introduction post, so I'll copy it here, but here's my take on the subject:

I've always been stuck between blue and brown. Coincidentally my two favorite colors (and also what I'm wearing right now). It always struck me as funny that there was no purple, no orange, and no silver. Like those Ajahs showed up to Ajah cheer day and realized they had the only words in the English language that didn't have any rhymes. Purple and orange gave up, and silver decided to change to grey.

Isn't it confirmed that Hoid is not part of the Seventeenth Shard? In that case, why would he be able to call them off? I really don't think the letter was written TO Hoid, and I'm much fonder of that Hoid was the one who WROTE the letter.

Back before we actually knew what Shard the Almighty held there was a speculation thread about it. It's been confirmed by Brandon as Honor now, so the thread has died, but Peter mentioned that there was another clue in the chapter titles. You might want to check out the title of chapter 2. Ought to answer your question.

Directly following that pun, what do you call a deer with no eyes? No-eye-deer. I've always liked this stealth pun from xkcd, though you have to have heard the original joke to get it. http://xkcd.com/532/ The orignial joke is:

Wow! Such awesome keteks! Wisdom, I'd say if you wanted to make your ketek more "pure" you could take the and out at the end. I think the palendrome numbers would make an awesome challenge! Quick, everyone count!

The reason I didn't get the parshmen/voidbringers thing is because for some reason, I didn't see it as a mystery. (Not that I really would have guessed it anyway given my track record.) I totally got hooked on the idea that the thunderclasts from the prelude were the voidbringers all along. When Jasnah made her big reveal, I was like "Pffft- Jasnah, you're totally wrong. It's those big rock thingies!" Then I reread the prelude and realized I might have mis-rememberd some things. Oh well.

Welcome! Yeah, there's quite a few theories out there, but it's good stuff! Be careful about dipping your toes into the board though. Strange hemalurgic sharks swim these waters.

I think there should be some kind of differentiation between how strictly it follows the ketek form. (Sliding scale of Ketek hardness, anyone?) 1. All the words are exactly the same. 2. Changes in pluralization and verb tense. 3. Swaps between the same root words (verbs vs. nouns vs. adjectives vs. adverbs; he hunts, the hunt, a hunting party could be used to switch) 4. Small words and articles added for flow (a, an, of, the, and) 5. Basic form is the same, though some larger words may appear unmirrored. 6. A regular sentence. So what truly qualifies as a ketek? I feel like the book would cut off at 2, maybe 3, though we only see two keteks and both qualify as 2. The note on keteks specifically says only verb tenses, not the same root word. I'd include 3 (I'm pretty sure my ketek is a 3) just because it lets the end of the ketek be very different from the beginning in meaning, which is cool. I don't even know if a 1 possible, and if it was, I don't know how creative or artistic you could really get. Quite a few of my favorites on here are 4s or 5s, but I definitely think that the higher keteks are impressive. EDIT: Actually, looking back, I'd say that my ketek was a 2! Look at that! Though I do switch to possessives "stories" to "stories'" but it's the same letters so...

Actually, Shallan's POV mentions quite a few other languages. Look at some of her first chapters again. We also see that Jah Keved has its own language as Shallan enters the Conclave.

Pfffftttt.. Szeth is totally the Badass Grandpa Ezio training up an entire brotherhood of Shalla-assassins! Because the Templar Hierocracy will rise again! Wow. I feel really bad now for calling Szeth a grandpa. The poor guy's like 35. But hey, it's better than being called a child all the time, right Szeth?

Okay, I'm really bad at picking favorite characters (because my favorite Brandon book is whichever I'm reading right now) but I'm going to try. Scratch that. I tried. I backspaced a bunch of times. Can we just all agree that all these characters are awesome? If I had to pick some tops I'd go with Kaladin, Dalinar, Szeth, Vin, Elend, Kelsier, Wax, Denth, and Vasher. And Nightblood. He totally counts too. Sadeas is probably my favorite villian ever. Just because he's such a jerkface and every time I read WoK, he convinces me that he's not going to betray Dalinar this time. (Also, I have a somewhat irrational fear that book endings will change on me when I re-read them. I blame the Great Good Thing.) Taravangian and Ruin come close too. Special mention to Demoux, who was apparently awesome enough to learn to worldhop and possibly join Seventeenth Shard. Bridge 4, especially Rock. And, hey, let's throw Ix in for good measure. People who wouldn't make the list? Shallan, Vivenna, Siri, and Sarene are probably the characters I connected with least. Wow. I'm sexist. Only 1 girl in my favorites and 4 in my least favorites? Hmm. Makes me want to add Jasnah or Navani to the favorites just to balance it all out.

I don't know if I seriously believe that Hoid is evil, though it would be a nice twist. I have a feeling he's being chased by Seventeenth Shard because he's trying to actually change things. They're trying to go to all these worlds and study them but not to change them and they want a monopoly on worldhopping. Therefore, Hoid, a non-Seventeenth Sharder who's definitely not running a non-intervention policy, is someone they'd rather not have around. Wait a second. Rebelious individual trying to change things against the will of a group who wants to just sit back and observe? Hoid is the new Sazed!

I think Shallan needs to give her Shardblade up, possibly to Dalinar. She's certainly not a warrior, and fighting is a masculine art. Also, she doesn't really need it to defend herself if Jasnah teaches her how to Soulcast. Ooooh! Brain crack idea! So, assuming that Shallan can't Soulcast from a distance like Jasnah (because they're probably different orders) she needs to touch people in order to Soulcast them. So while they're on the boat with Szeth, he teaches her that martial art form that he uses to lash people. There are soooooo many problems with that theory, but I don't even care. This thread is cracky enough for it!

I think you misunderstood. This theory is that the Shardbearer that Kaladin killed was Shallan's eldest brother, not her father.

Why hello there, thread. When did you get so full of win? As for Kaladin's depression, hey! That's why he's a balanced character! He needs something to balance out all the unfettered awesome that he is, otherwise everytime you read his chapters, that awesome would burn your eyes out as quickly as if Szeth had just given you a Shardblade hug. Not that I would really call Kaladin "prone to depression." I mean, seriously, have you seen what the guy's lived through? A little sadness is excusable on his part. As for Bella? No. Just no. I'm not even going to answer that. The only thing right in that post was that the whole comparison was "so freaking wrong."

Haha! It's way more fun to tell than to be on the recieving end, I can tell you that!