Oversleep

I plead insanity. In my defence, I spent the three hours before that tidying up rubble while drawing weird-geometry, 6 dimensional impossible three pointed hendecagrams in my mind.

Only if you also plan to escape from prison, recruit the local blacksmith, steal a ship from the navy and sail to Tortuga to recruit a crew to chase your old pirate ship which is now cursed. In all other cases, it's not obligatory.

Well, there is always the handy handwave of "Scadrians are naturally adapted to eating metals". Physics are harder to handwave, hence the whole thing with redshift.

@Kaymyth, if we go this route, then Christmass is about the god of sun Where. Is. My. White. Sand?! The amazon says it's "arriving today by 8pm"... but for me, 8pm passed 95 minutes ago. No mail. No sms. Why does amazon want my phone number if it isn't used?!

Because: Bands of Mourning for example have references to White Sand and Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell. Secret History has references to multiple stories (or rather worlds) and it should be read in close proximity of Bands of Mourning (I'd say SH cannot be read before BoM, but some people argue it could be). So the segment of Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, Bands of Mourning and Secret History is the last.

Sooo... I've seen Ant-man. I liked that. At the end, is that girl when saying "there is a guy who jumps, guy who swings and a guy who climbs walls" referring to Spider-man? (I know that he's in Civil War, but haven't seen that yet) Because the wording seems like she's talking about three different persons but I can only think of one person matching those descriptions. (I mean that "a guy who jumps" would be Spider-man... but "a guy who swings" would also be Spider-man and "a guy who climbs" is definitely Spider-man??? So headscratching here at the weird wording.)

Where is a proper feels warning? FEELS WARNING.

I imagine that such high nobility probably has their insignia even on their shoelaces XD But there are about... what, 2000 people sworn to the Kholins deeply hating Sadeas? I mean, he did betray and abandon them during battle... Maybe Adolin's knife wasn't different form a standard Kholin army knife. And seeing as he cleaned up everything, I doubt he overlooked the knife - if he had enough sense to cut off his cuffs, he surely must have thought about the murder weapon.

Yeah, I know. But maybe amazon just doesn't care for timezones and if it was to be delivered by 8 p.m. tomorrow, it can also mean "by 4 am the day after tomorrow" and since nobody is delivering at that hour I could be expecting it later the day after tomorrow? Am I overthinking it yet? I wonder what is the time window for "by 8pm". It's up to 8 p.m., but when is the lower bound? Oh, and I wonder whether the courier is proficient at usage of GPS or not. Because quite often we get neighbours' mail... What's more alarming is that I have never received a letter or package when I ordered it to my little "nowhere". I usually have to go a few villages further to the mail's office to get them personally. A few I've never received

I stumbled across a video from Jack Daniel's web series. It was about a luthier making an instrument. And then I thought that such craftsmen would be valued even more if the musicians used their instruments to perform magic. I have to think about it, but I think a battle would look like orchestra concert...

Does anybody know which time amazon operates on? I mean, it says "arriving by 8pm"... But which timezone is it? I mean, my timezone is 8 hours ahead of America. I don't know whether amazon defaults to the timezone of my current location or what...

I do not agree completely. Few things are less enraging that people expecting you to completely forget how angry you are because of something they did an hour later. I'm not a goldfish! The North... I remember!

@Sunbird, that's why I'm asking - I thought it would have been odd of Thanos to lend out one of Infinity Stones just like that. Since he's gathering them.

The only quote I found on this does not mention multiple boons in one spike. Here it is for reference: I don't think we actually know what "we have discovered how to make someone else be weak, while we gain the benefit" means. However, I take that "boon" means "spike" in this context. Also, it's a less far-fetched conclusion than the thought that Set discovered how to charge one spike multiple times.

Now I'm curious.

I've recently watched Age Of Ultron (finally!). My question is: how did Mind Stone end up in Loki's scepter? How did he obtain it? How did he make it so it's linked to the power of Tesseract (IIRC that's what they said in first Avengers)? Did he even know about it? In retrospect, it all makes sense since Loki did mind control by touching people with his sceptre, but at the time I thought it's related to his god powers. Also, Quicksilver's death was a little soul-wretching. I was in denial the whole scene until he died. I thought that maybe he made it in time to move Hawkeye and the kid... then I thought he'd just regenerate (hey, power of speed after all!)... Highlight of the movie: Hawkeye. Made the film for me. Also, I really liked those scenes when Ultron accidentialy wounds people and then is all apologetic. It delivers the point that he's a very young being which does not know its own strength. Last but not least: CONTINUITY! I love the way Marvel builds on established plot points - how the whole thing originates from Loki's scepter, all the characters that showed up on the party and referenced events of other movies (like Falcon), twins backstory with Stark's bomb and so on. P.S: Oh, and the fact that when Thor sees a vision induced by an enhanced human, he dips into mystical magic water pool to see it again. Magic, science, superpowers, all the same.

@Pathfinder, I only use Trell because it's easier to say than "the Shard messing with Harmony on Scadrial". After all, we don't know if Trell isn't Odium actually. I sorry if I put words you didn't say in your mouth, it was not my intent.

Now it made me wonder whether a whole team composed of Connectors heavily tapping would create something similar to hive mind? Not really telepathy, but they would have perfect cooperation.

I didn't mean that Odium did not Invest - I just think he Invested as lightly as he could (BTW, IIRC Odium Invested in Braize, not Roshar) while Harmony is Invested very heavily. Anyway, I suspect that when it comes to Shards, raw power is not everything. There is also skill, knowledge and experience. When compared to original Shardholders, Sazed may have more raw strength, but lacks in other fields. I think that's why Harmony is being blocked from learning more about cosmere by Trell, so that Sazed would be kept in dark.

Dunno. We've got to remember that Odium slayed four Shards and is just fine and that Harmony is heavily Invested in Scadrial (while Odium is very hesitant to Invest in planets). And Sazed is basically a newborn compared to original Shardholders and not only he lacks experience, but also his two Intents are clashing. So I don't know, really.

It can be argued that it would be Devotion. Since Devotion contains love and Odium contains hatred (in fact, those two attributes were the Shard's name before they were canonised). Or it could be argued that it's Honor, since Honor seeks to bind while Odium seeks to separate... Not every Shard has direct counterpart. They are really balanced when all sixteen are together. For example, Cultivation, Preservation and Ruin actually exist as a trio, balancing each other out (there is a WoB that Ruin is the most compatible with Cultivation, IIRC).

I think that the "main part" of Odium is trapped on Braize. If Rayse creates Splinters, they can go wherever they want, probably. Much like Divine Breaths are not really part of Endowment while being part of Endowment.

I believe that Identity has nothing to do with it. Brandon explained metals' structure as the same as correct lines in AonDor - the best way I can put it, is the resonance with Investiture. The closer to the "correct" pattern, the better. You could burn an alloy sligthly off, if your finger twitched while drawing an Aon it would probably work too; but get farer away and Investiture is not filtered properly, causing unwanted effects ("bad alloy" saying didn't come from nowhere). And we know what happens to a misdrawn Aon. So I guess isotopes are not really distinguishable between themselves and effects are unobservable.

I had an idea for white card:

I just realized there IS an example. You see, bendalloy's melting point is at 70 °C (158 °F). In Alloy of Law, Wayne threw in bendalloy into a cup of tea and drank it. And then threw a speed bubble just fine. So it is a thing.