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Yeah, that’s the video I’m talking about. I actually agree with Daniel Green in a lot of ways, too. It was certain comments that were bothering me. Even if it was said in a polite way, every time someone said Brandon was a mediocre writer, I wanted to scream how wrong they were (even though it’s just opinions of course).

You see that title up there? That was the title of a YouTube video I just watched. I spent 30 minutes wading through a comment section filled with dozens of people bashing poor Brandon. Please, wipe my eyes clean of their blasphemy with happy thoughts about him.

It’s Mistborn the Final Empire for me. WoR is a really close second, but Mistborn will always have a special place in my heart as the first cosmere book I read.

Duralumin might work for burning harmonium. You coat the harmonium in some duralumin, then you swallow a bunch of extra duralumin so that you can sustain the burn after the coating has been burned through. It depends on how quickly the duralumin burns other metals compared to how quickly harmonium reacts with water. Another possible way to burn harmonium would be surgically implanting it in someone's bone. And yes, I realize there's water everywhere in your body. The estimates I found placed the water content of the average bone at around 30%. However, the bone mineral layer has a much lower water content than that (though I couldn't find an estimate during my quick google search), so it might be possible to implant some harmonium there. You'd still have to coat the harmonium in some dissolvable substance for the duration of the surgery and the time it takes for the patient to recover from anesthesia. But hopefully, whoever has the harmonium inside them could wait for the moment the coating starts dissolving and try to burn the harmonium before the it comes in contact with water diffusing through the mineral bone layer.

You think you one up’d me? I’ve never been never born.

Oh yeah, well I lost mine before I was born

Ha, the jokes on you. I lost my sanity years ago.

And the thread continues. I’ll bet you my sanity that Eric will never respond to this thread.

2020 could be the greatest year of my life. On top of all these great books and tv shows (possibly), I'll finally be able to legally drink. Whoohooo!

I really want to watch the tv series (assuming its eventually greenlit) before the graphic novels since they will both be following the same storyline. I know there will be differences, but I'm under the impression that each will spoil the other, and I'd much rather experience the first tv adaptation of Brandon's works as completely new to me rather than the graphic novel. If I'm misinformed about how similar the tv show and the graphic novel will be, please let me know. Cause I'd really hate to have to wait to read the graphic novel.

"Hate" is a pretty strong word there. Obviously everybody has their own opinions, but I've never understood how some people despise Sixth of the Dusk so strongly. It's probably my least favorite cosmere short story, but I don't dislike it. I'd probably rate it somewhere between "meh" and "decent."

Ah, poor Eric. Of all the short stories Brandon could have chosen.

I always wanted to be a ball.

Oh man. Those books were one of my favorites growing up. Ah, good memories. Here's a few of my recommendations: 1. Brent Weeks - I only started reading his books in the last year, and I can't believe it took me this long to find him. At this point, he's my second favorite author (after Brandon of course). There's some similarities in how they world build and create magic systems, so Weeks' stories feel like the type of grown to love as I've read the cosmere. But his stories also feel different than Brandon's in a lot of ways. Anyways, I definitely recommend his works, especially his Lightbringer series, which is absolutely amazing. 2. The Gentleman Bastard Series by Scott Lynch. The epitome of heist stories in fantasy. Imagine the middle section in Mistborn when the crews making all their different plans and trying to pull them off, except this is the entire series. Definitely worth a shot. 3. N.K Jemisin's The Broken Earth trilogy. I'm mainly putting it on here because I'm finishing this series right now. Its the sort of thing you want to read when you're looking for some amazing prose and stylistic writing. She does some interesting things with narration. But the story is also really good. The books are all pretty short reads too, if you're looking for something quick (but not easy, no no no).

Wow. It's amazing how much you've done so far. I'll have to try the game out. One question I have is if you ever see yourself attempting to make the player a human avatar rather than a ball? It sounds like it would be preposterously difficult to get the animation looking correct while the character flies through the air. There's just so many different movements and directions.

...Because Frozone was cheating on her with the squirrel.

I feel you. The exact same thing happened for me when I watched Us. I predicted the plot twist in the first five minutes based on a single clip that was present in the trailer, but wasn’t present in the first iteration of the relevant scene. It sucked all of the joy out of the reveal. Thankfully, when I watched Detective Pikachu, I remained hopelessly oblivious for not one, not two, but three separate reveals.

You know how to really up the game? Being a post Reod Elantrian that’s spiked with a Blessing of Presence. That way you can’t go insane! No respite for you, no no no. You’re going to be aware and conscious every moment of the day as the pain just keeps getting worse and worse . I know, I’m a sadist.

Ok. I just got so lucky I had to share it. I was playing in a booster draft tournament today, mainly because I wanted to get davriel without sifting through a dozen booster packs, and was crossing my fingers nobody else in my pool would go dimir or mill and take him instead. Fortunately, I was the only one aiming for that deck type, and I got both him and davriel's subterfuge. But then, I got even luckier. I opened my last pack, and low and behold, there sat Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God . I seriously considered going 3 colors and drafting him into my deck, but decided it would be pretty hard to add in enough good red cards to make up for it after already committing to dimir. But still. That's probably the best draw in a tournament I'll ever get.

I actually like this one better. Close to symmetrical book covers always seem a little too perfect to me, so I appreciate the chance to an off center picture.

@Calderis You know, I actually remember seeing that WoB before. But after listening to them debate about the topic vehemently in Shardcast, I'd completely forgotten it existed and assumed both sides were valid. Now look what you've done. I've lost my faith in the reliability of Shardcast. My world is a broken and miserable place. I hope you're happy.

@Jofwu, I hope you’re right about Dalinar using some form of adhesion and not cohesion instead. I absolutely hate the idea that the ars arcanum was so wrong, and would much rather Brandon wrote off the Stormfather as just being wrong.

How dare you sir! You have offend me! Since nobody else is defending Hufflepuff, I will take up the burden. Do not worry, brothers and sisters. I will educate these plebians about the true power of house Hufflepuff. Hufflepuff is the greatest house, because it values traits that actually foster a community, whereas the other houses ideals create division and strife. Loyalty, dedication, hard work, and fair play are the what Hufflepuffs exemplify, and these ideals lend themselves to acceptance and fairness. Hufflepuff are normal, decent people, and let's face it: normal people are boring. But they also don't create conflict like we see in the other houses, especially Gryffindor and Slytherin. They're so antithetical they are almost always fighting. And instead of working together they are always working against each other. Then you see Ravenclaw. The problem with Ravenclaw is that the house traits say nothing about how to interact with other people. Ravenclaws could be spiteful mean people, or they could be kind. It could go either way, and valuing intelligence often leads to arrogance and condescension towards people who may not be book smart. The way I see it, Hufflepuffs are the mediators, the people who just want everyone to get along. They may make for boring characters (though I'd argue Rowling just didn't take the effort to portray them as more interesting), and people from different houses may make for a better story. But if Harry Potter were real life, I know damnation well which house I'd want everybody to be in. Cause conflict and strife may make for interesting reads, but I'd rather have a normal life, where everybody is just decent to one another and there's no storming hate.