PeterAhlstrom

Longer than four months.

Jojo's art style has always put me off, but I might give it a look.

This particular spanreed communication took place that morning, ashore, before they left port at whatever port that was. Sailors on Roshar are very cautious and take it slow, because getting caught in open water during a highstorm means you die.

So, we got to the end of episode 12 of Gate, and there was no preview. And we said wait, is that the end?! And yes, yes it is, right after a new arc was apparently starting. Ugh. This show did some interesting things and we would have gladly watched more. (Oh, thank goodness, it's coming back in January.) Still, we've been struggling finding good shows right now. The only thing we're keeping up with is the new season of Haikyuu, which I'm pretty happy with—the coach is actually doing some, y'know, coaching, compared to any coaches in Yowapeda. Growth is happening. Yay. Watched 3 episodes of Sound! Euphonium and I just can't take it anymore because the teacher does not teach them. I guess this is the way they do clubs in Japan, but it's too discouraging to watch. Watched 1 episode of Ushio and Tora. Will give it another episode. This is an interesting character dynamic, but I'm not sure it's enough for me. The demons are tiring. We're 20 episode into My Love Story, so that's near its end. Hope we can find something to replace it with. It's a good one. We've done 39 episodes of World Trigger. This show is sort of like our Bleach replacement, and it comes with the same too-much-recap-in-each-episode-that-we-fast-forward. (Oddly, this show has only one credits sequence, usually in the middle of the episode, rather than an OP and an ED. It took me a long time to figure this out, that there was not ED.) Anyway, World Trigger is something we watch kind of in fits and starts. Sometimes we go weeks without watching one. Watched the first episode of Gatchaman Crowds. Very strange show with odd visuals. Will not continue. Watched the second episode of Akame ga Kill about a month after watching the first one. Too gory for us and won't continue. We have watched 5 episodes of Classroom Crisis. Some good early stuff, now kind of on the fence. Watched 2 episodes of Nobunagun a couple months ago and just can't care about it. Removing it from queue right now... On a sort of related note, after Crunchyroll discontinued their app for our Panasonic TV (which was one of the reasons we had bought that TV in the first place), we borrowed a relative's Roku 3. The Roku Crunchyroll app kept dropping the resolution down to 480p or 360p, which sucked. (Our connection is about 20M.) We just got a new Apple TV and I'm much more happy with it. The interface is a little bit nicer in my book, and it doesn't lose the resolution like that. Fast-forwarding also does not make it sit and buffer for a whole minute.

This is a very good question.

This is the whole excerpt he has been reading, but it does not go up to the end of the chapter. He hasn't read the rest of the chapter publicly.

Send it to me, peter@ Brandon's website domain name.

So, after reading the recommendations here yesterday, we watched SAO Abridged last night. Yeah, it's very funny. The first episode moved much too slowly, but it got quite a bit better after that. I felt there were some missed parody opportunities in the murder investigation episode. Also, it reminded us that the first arc of SAO is just so good. Since Baby Steps ended, none of the current season's shows are really pushing our buttons. We're watching My Love Story about one episode a night right now, but this time last year there were about four shows a week we were really looking forward to. Now, not so much. Anyway, regarding abridged series, the only ones we like are Team Four Star, YGOTAS, and now SAOA. Most of them just have too much profanity or poor production. SAOA does have a bit too much profanity but not enough to make us turn it off.

Hmmmmmmmmm.

It's not an artifact. I think this reflects on Marasi's opinion of MeLaan.

It was never "Hunkey Key." It was always "Hunkey Kay." The new audiobook pronunciations are more in line with Brandon's preferred pronunciations, but we didn't make them change all of the Aonic words, such as pronouncing Elantris correctly as EE-LAYN-triss.

Hmm. Maybe he puts it in and then takes it out...

By the way, Brandon originally wrote the prologue to The Alloy of Law soon after finishing The Alloy of Law and he meant it to be the prologue to Shadows of Self. Then he decided that The Alloy of Law needed a better prologue than its current chapter 1, which was originally the prologue.

Oy, we'll definitely get that fixed for the next book...

The topic might come up again in the next book...

Not actually answering your question, but... Originally "Shadows of Self" was the working title for the second Infinity Blade novella, but before Brandon got very far he realized it made a better Mistborn title.

Cephandrius Maxtori.

But now Brandon's gotten it out of his system and he'll never do it again. Right? Right? Anyway, now you know why I said people would be extremely glad the next book is coming so soon.

Amazon received it on Monday. But I'll keep talking to Tor about it. Amazon is showing the new cover for the ebook on their website, but if you click on "Look Inside" it shows only the old text. So it would seem they have not applied their update yet. It's probably not worth trying to contact customer support until after Look Inside starts showing the new text. (You will be able to tell because of the maps change.)

Also note how he thinks of himself in the Alloy of Law prologue.

A comma often isn't needed after a short introductory phrase.

I won't be at any other signing's beyond last night's. I was going to say "sadly," as I'd love to meet more of you, but it's much to hard to be out of town away from the family.

Does anyone want to grab dinner? I'm trying to figure out scheduling.

Bwahahahahaha!

That, at least, is because they are in the same series, the Cosmere.