Lady_Yasha

That was the defining moment of the entire series for me. "You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it." - Best line in the whole franchise.

^ It's the song towards the end isn't it, outside the Citadel? When I listen to Dark Souls' soundtrack I'm reminded how poetically beautiful and tragic the entire game is. For example, is the final boss theme. That plays while you're fighting him.

Srsly?! I shouldn't be surprised people can be that dumb but this is basic science. The only way you wouldn't know this is if you didn't go to school

^ o.O

If you combine Lerasium with any other metal you would get a Misting of that metal. As if you combined Lerasium with steel and swallowed it, you would get a Coinshot. I don't have a link but this is essentially what happens when you combine Lerasium with another Allomantic metal. As for Atium I've been reading this thread: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/1180-thoughts-on-atium-alloys/ Again I can't provide a link to Sanderson's own testament because I can't find it. And no, a Misting can burn only one metal, even the alloys of their base metal cannot be burnt. As with Lurchers, burning iron, they cannot use the alloy of iron - steel - to Push. It doesn't work that way; either you can burn all the metals, or just one.

Compounding does strange things to the power they use. And people with eidetic memory have different brain functions to normal people; it's like autistic savantism without the social inhibitions. Any normal human storing that much information would drive you insane, because your brain doesn't know how to store it properly like an eidetic/autistic. Even then there's scepticism that eidetics actually exist. Some researchers have found that, while some people are able to recall events with photographic realism, it's more related to flashbulb memory. Ie. when a memory is needed it is often recalled with complete clarity, despite the likelihood of having faded like all memory does with time. So even eidetic minds could be fragile to vast amounts of information.

While I like Ellen Page I think Dakota Fanning would make a better Vin. Particularly now that she's grown up. Also, Fanning is just a damnation good actress. For Kelsier I wouldn't mind seeing Michael Fassbender in that role. Guy's got swagger. Going by the description I can remember of Elend, James McAvoy comes to mind as a likely candidate. Noomi Rapace will be associated with her role as Lizbeth to me. I haven't seen her in much else to make a distinction. As for Sazed, Ben Kingsley could fit the description you just gave. Of course, he'll have to lose the facial hair.

Seconded. I got to the, "oh I'll just move this closer to the sun...", and cracked a rib. P.S. I did shout "what the REDACTED" on a train once at a part in Hero of Ages. Can't recall what it was but everyone was looking at me. If I'm listening to music at the same time I tend to giggle at funny parts... loudly. That can be awkward when I realise the guy sitting next to me has moved.

Em, do you wear suits to go with it too? You can still look like the second image, only real life is in colour.

Isn't that what the poll outlines? -- the choice to either agree of disagree that keteks are "amazing" amongst other opinions. If you don't want a discussion of people's choices don't give them that option to begin with, as the second question clearly does. And we're simply clarifying the perspective of each individual and how one attribute doesn't apply to everyone. Let's go back to the actual question in verbatim: Should we then not be able to discuss what has been asked of us? I understand this is your thread and you want to keep it civil but we're having a healthy debate on the topics you yourself instigated by asking those questions. There's a difference between debating and squabbling, and I see no-one being immature or name-calling.

Serj Tankian's new song, Harakiri. For like the 15th time in the past two days. I love this guy. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/premiere-serj-tankian-harakiri-20120710

Are you including yourself in that broad sweeping statement? "Holy" is a matter of perspective, just like what I choose to attribute importance to might not be considered by others. Some people have subscribed to Jedi -- a fictional order -- but would the majority of us put something nonsensical on a pedestal? I, too, believe everyone has the right to believe what they may if it makes them happy, but one man's opinion on holiness is not everyone's. I don't see Jesus as holy because, to me, he never existed. In that sense, keteks are simply romance poetry -- not romance in the literal definition, but the Romantic movement.

It depends what region you play in because, as I recall, NA can't connect with European players.

"Jesus" doesn't exist in TWoK. But bulldozers so obviously do!

Don't be silly. I've really got to edit this because I completely misunderstood CoT at the time. Now I realise it's the book most of the character development happened in. I didn't like it first read, true, but thinking about it recently it's actually a subtly brilliant book. Original text:[if I'm remembering it right there was a lot of political strife in CoT. So that's maybe why it was dull, but yes I didn't like that book either.]

Radiants aside, with slavery being a predominant aspect in the books I'd like to believe that Szeth's stone is a fake. It would seem a large influence on Sel is intimidation through force and implied power. Kaladin realises that even as a slave he has power over the acts of his Bridge. The command to run straight at the Parshendi is obeyed because slaves are terrified of death as a certainty, where there was always a chance at survival if they ran. Therefore, by the same rule I believe Szeth's stone could be a threat of implied power over his individuality.

Hmm, this is very hard. I like different aspects from all the books although I did once say Fires of Heaven was my favourite. But taking a step back and looking at the entire series as a constituent of its chapters, I'd actually have to place Winter's Heart as the most appealing. But there are scenes in others books that are as great, if not better, than the events of WH. Rand's revelation at the end of The Gathering Storm for example.

Fjordell could win the war by creating a large enough defect in the landscape to offset Elantris' power. Of course it'd have to be large enough but if they figured it out, Elantris would have to win via conventional means.

Nearly through 3 hours and 40 minutes of the most heart-breaking musical performance I've seen; X Japan's Last Live show is incredible and I don't know why I never watched it before now. They are all passionate about their music, you could see their impending disbandment was breaking their hearts on stage - when Yoshiki and Toshi hugged in the middle of a song I wanted to cry with them, but I didn't because I'm a man. Beautiful performance from a great band. Glad they reformed after a decade though and are currently producing more material.

Good one, Bob.

I heard about this awhile back and came to the conclusion that it was a religious motive to want the book banned from a highly-Catholic town. There really are a lot of closed-minded people out there.

I'm not convinced. I can almost guarantee this film won't be a candle light aside the brilliance of the official stage production. Seeing the stage production in person is a vastly different experience to watching it on a TV screen - it just doesn't compare. For one, the singers have voices even professional operatic performers have to admire. You said you live in Texas? The stage version is touring the US and will get to Texas on several dates this year. I highly recommend it. It was the same as when they did Phantom of the Opera; Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler (as much as I love them as actors) just couldn't belt out the notes - even with audio equalization - that Rachel Barell and John-Owen Jones were capable of without audio enhancement. Stage productions hire professional, top-of-the-class singers, while musical-films hire talented actors with a better than average vocal capability. Hathaway is a good singer, better than a lot of actual artists that dare call themselves talented, but she's not LesMis quality.

But... but... dark energy is awesome! In my quest to hope that superheroes could exist, the Darkforce is quickly becoming the last vestige of that hope.

During the course of Mass Effect 2 there was a lot of mention about dark energy by in-game characters, the profound interest of powerful corporations, and Haestrom's sun going totally wacky because of dark energy (Tali's recruit mission). Originally it was planned that dark energy would play a central role in the development of the story. It gave the human-Reaper at the end of ME2 a reason other than the crappy explanation ME3 dished out. You can read it here: http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/17086/mass-effect-writer-drew-karpyshyn-reveals-original-mass-effect-3-endings Karpyshyn left the Mass Effect project to work on KotOR, so it was up to Mac Walters to write the ending and he threw in the deus ex machina (the Crucible) because [bioware] built the Reapers up to be so powerful that conventional war with them would seem futile. Humans needed an edge, and somehow Walters completely forgot about the dark energy crisis. Even if the organic-synthetic conflict was the main focus of the games, it wasn't delivered very well in my opinion. The Reapers always spewing, "you cannot comprehend us", was both terrifying and mystical in the first game that when it was explained in ME3 I was disappointed: "huh? So I could actually understand their motive all along and the Reapers were just being dicks and trolling us." When it was explained so simply, when the Starchild appeared and said he controlled the Reapers, the Reapers as an antagonist were diminished from their original role as malevolent super-race that no-one could defeat, to someone's pet dog he'd forgotten to put on the leash. There was tons of theories floating around before the release of ME3 about the origins of the Reapers, and the best one that caught my eye and I still believe is canon (despite what ME3 tells us, because I refuse to believe the Starbrat actually happened): The Reapers were built by a highly advanced organic race billions of years ago to solve a problem they had with another synthetic life-form. Because they were losing the war, the organics created a more powerful synthetic that they, arrogantly, thought they could control. In analysing all the possibilities this new synthetic race, the Reapers, deemed the only way to allow other organic life to prosper and survive the destructive onslaught of advanced civilizations, was to wipe out the advanced organics. Ergo, primitive life could evolve and have a chance to survive. That theory only made the Reapers appear even more sinister than ME1 made them; ME3 just turned them into the Pussycat Dolls.