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Dude, I already knew this. Check out this picture I got of you: @Arith Matic, what's your new wish?

Granted, unfortunately, the only way the Nightwatcher could accomplish this was by grafting your head onto @Calderis's body, right next to his head (because he freakin' knows all the WOBs, even the ones that have come out yet. I think he secretly has already made a pact with the Nightwatcher, so maybe this really is his retroactively applied boon as well). So now you know all the wobs (by extension) and you and Cal will never be lonely (and conversely you will never be alone either). I wish it would snow in Eugene Oregon.

Well played, well played. Or is it? What's your wish?

Granted! The Nightwatcher declares that you are now a Rock N' Roll God. I wish that were 12 more hours in the day that were set aside just for sleeping, and that these magical twelve hours for sleeping don't add up to shorten human life spans.

Umm, I would totally be ok with this, but they're a little young for this right now. What's your wish?

That is so good! I am a minimalist, the finished piece looks amazing, but this is my favorite stage: Your line work is really nice, and the cream white of the sketch paper looks awesome up against the violet background wash. It's really fun seeing the stages of creation on these, thanks for sharing!

Granted! A wizened Karate Master takes you under his wing, and tells you that he is training you to be the best around. After 20 years of waxing cars, cleaning floors, mowing lawns, and doing other repetitive menial tasks you begin to suspect that he meant "best man servant around", not "best Karate master around". But the nightwatcher gave you a Sony walkman preloaded with a cassette with this song on it to listen to while you work: Could have been worse. I wish that my daughters liked NPR and I could listen to it in the car while I was driving them around.

Granted, unfortunately your bane is that Nightwatcher has switched the functions of your mouth and your anus, but the consolation here really comes down to this wob: For reals, that's the last time the Nightwatcher (as channeled by myself) will use that horrible bane. I wish that I get a puppy for christmas.

Totally agree! I hated volumes 1 and 2, but this one looks like we'll actually get to see visually what sand mastery looks like. This art looks freaking amazing, and the number of ribbons of sand actually matches the book! Drile has a ton of ribbons and Kenton has a super powerful looking single ribbon. I went from dreading this volume to actually being really excited about it! Didn't think I'd ever say this, but I am going to be pre-ordering Volume 3.

Granted, the Nightwatcher hands you an 8 mb thumb-drive which you can use to store your photographs. Unfortunately, she has reversed the functions of your anus and your mouth. On the plus side you're now the poster child for logerrhea, so you have that going for you... I wish that @Rasarr's bane is one of those where he/she wakes up and realizes it was all just a bad dream.

Why did the bartender ask to see the one armed Herdazian?

A bright lady, a thief, and a Knight Radiant walk into a bar. And then Shallan orders a drink.

Granted! As the last words of your wish leave your lips, you find yourself transported to the deck of a small dinghy. Looking around you notice that all you can see are the icy blue waters of the pacific ocean. After realizing that you are stranded in the middle of the ocean on a motor-less dinghy, you notice that a blue whale has materialized in the air, 80 feet above your head. With the 2.23 seconds of life you have left, you realize that your pain and your wait for the next book of Stormlight Archive will be of remarkably short duration. I wish that when our AI based, artificially intelligent robot overlords take over they realize that the best things Human's have done is create artwork (books, video games, paintings, etc), and as such, force all humans to live lives of ease and contemplation, while being well fed and medically taken care of, so that humanity can focus on making great artwork. I wouldn't chafe too much under that yoke.

Thanks for the edifying advice @Ookla the Gray's spell checker, if I want to doom Roshar to eternal desolation I'll set up a shop where I sell items based on their mass. Dear Soft-Haired Thief, Your brother and his family and the thing that makes it easy to follow up with the platter shield on a regular basis should be able to transition to the Beyond. I'm sure that you are using the Internet behind your back to channel your savings into speculative positions in the cosmere after ascending. Best of luck with your own chains, Sincerely Google. Ok, my Google spell checker has been working hard dispensing advice, I'm going to let it ask for some advice this time. Dear Siri, Can you help me with this problem, I think there is no way to get the metal to fix the issue of my variably brilliant mind. Can you send me the most profound and amazing books ever written by a large Colonial power? Sincerely, Google Spellchecker

Great advice @TwiLyghtSansSparkles's Google. Dear Frozen in Wyoming, You love the snow, but hate being cold, can you please let me know what time works best for your Sword's debts? I have a completely different computer and it is in the oven. I'm sure that you can be made to order a few days, but I now realise that I am married to a spool of string. I think this fact alone makes it easier to find humans to bind with the exception of yourself and others. Hopefully we will find a place where high school and I will survive the prick of the Odious knife. Sincerely Google. Dear Google, Christmas is my favorite time of year, but every time I hear Willy Nelson's version of Frosty the Snowman I get really sad, what should I do? Please help, Worried about Willy this yuletide.

Hahaha, brilliant advice! Dear @Ookla the Skeptical, I think there is a WoB that states that the listeners predate the arrival of Humans on Roshar as well as the evil person that is the big picture of the beer that uses ghost chili peppers! Hope that helps, Sincerely Google. Dear Google, I love smoked salmon, but when I eat it I get really bad gas. Is there a way that I can still enjoy eating this without asphyxiating my loved ones? Sincerely Odiferous in Oregon.

How about one of the following devilishly good books: The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov Peter Sclemiel by Aldebert Von Chamisso On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony

This is a game for mobile users only (unless you can get mobile phone like spell checking suggestions on your desktop). The setup is simple, use your spell checker's auto generated suggestions to attempt to give helpful advice to a previous poster's stated problem. Before attempting to give spell checker advice, retype the previous poster's advice request in your reply so Siri/Google/Cortana can process the problem. After your spell checker has dispensed enough wisdom, type out a problem that you would like a spell checker's help with (and if you want a specific spell checker address it "Dear Google", "Dear Siri", etc.) To get the proverbial ball rolling, here's what I would like advice on. Dear Google, I love mayonaise, but I always have a hard time deciding when it's time to throw the tub away. How long should I spend scraping the last bits out of the jar before I finally just throw the tub away? Sincerely, Concerned about Condiments in Eugene.

Great podcast! I did a little searching and it turns out there is a book called The Seduction Vector, here's the cover image that I found:

Rad rad rad! Or otherwise known as rad³, which leads to an interesting question, How come people don't specify the nth level root of the item they are referring to as "radical"? Because this pendant is totally cube root radical. rad³ = pendant^1/3. I believe that balances out, or at least is enough to make my head hurt slightly, which is close enough I figure. Here's the actual formula (looks better using cube root notation): Sign me up!

I think this would go best with the scene in Shadesmar where Kaladin, Shallan and Adolin are attempting to cross the bridge to get to the oathgate platform. It has enough variations in tempo, and enough protagonists and antagonists in flight to make the surging refrain come off really nicely. Ok, next up, how about Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe island:

I like Mraize a lot, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we need a "Being Mraize Malkovitch" type situation. I think that his capabilities are much more easily explained with something that's been hinted at throughout SLA, namely that he is turning himself into a superbeing through collecting different cosmere investitures. The pinning of the Dysian Aimian cremling during the Ghostblood meeting with Shallan in the Unclaimed Hills is weak (but I think still compelling) proof that he might have enough breaths to have achieved the Life Sense heightening. I don't think I have to mention his trophy case, but I'll go ahead and mention it, he's got a trophy case filled with invested cosmere items. I like the simpler explanation that he is a super capable individual, bent on acquiring power, information, and influence in service to opaque and inscrutable ends rather than he has a hidden twin, or triplets or septuplets. It's an interesting idea, but he's such an incredible antagonist(?) as he is, why muddy the waters? But just to engage in fun random speculation, I think it would be awesome if he has been to scadrial and has spiked himself with Feruchemical Steel, that's the perfect allomantic ability for an apex predator. Another fun stolen power for him to have would be F-Nicrosil. The ghostbloods are nothing if not enterprising, I'm sure they have there own stable of Fabrial scientists, and it would be pretty awesome to be a human battery that could ensure that even during the Weeping your painrial never runs out of juice.

From Defending Elysium, the head of the Phone Company, Jason Write could have a real world analogue. Listening to the science news summary by Jim Campanella at the end of Starship Sofa Episode #561 he mentioned a paper published by Dr. Jason Wright, associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State university, where he and his students examined how much of the Cosmic transmissions have actually been combed through in the SETI project. The previous estimate, using the analogy of all of the possible encoded Alien transmissions as the volume of water in the oceans, was that SETI was like randomly dipping a glass of water into the ocean and looking for life in that glass of water. The updated n-Dimensional cosmic haystack estimate (oulined in the new paper) is that it's more like dipping a large hot tub into the ocean at random and looking for life in that size of random sample. Was curious if any of you have heard about this from any Sanderson source, like is this an homage to a colleague/friend of Brandon or Peter who they consult with to get the details right on how the complex physics of a given solar system in the Skyward Universe (our universe really) or the Cosmere would work? One final bit that's pretty interesting, Dr. Wright has wrote on his blog last december about a Rendevous with Rama type situation where an instellar asteroid, Oumuamua, that was passing through our solar system and had dimensions that were 10 times longer than it was wide, could have potentially be a tumbling derelict alien spacecraft, he largely panned this idea, but it's still fun to read about. Is Oumuamua an Alien Spacecraft Oumuamua Updates And more Skyward related, he has written on his blog about Tabby's Star, that has very peculiar stellar dimming observation data that suggests that something mighty peculiar (possibly a Dyson's sphere) is oribiting around the star. Here's possibly the most interesting blog post about this, concerning the possibility that the data might be revealing Alien Megastructures (this is an analysis of similar stellar dimming, and some interesting discussion of different arrangements of extra-planetary energy harvesting structures).

Awesome podcast as usual, fun to put faces to shardcast voices. I was really wary about reading this book, Brandon's other YA books aren't really for me. I went to the Skyward signing in Seattle really just to ask Brandon some questions, but because it was a ticketed event I ended up with a copy of the book (which I wasn't planning on reading). Your review of Skyward @Ooklalord Jebus was the tipping point for me, and the fact that my young daughter was reading it and was really liking it. I ended up getting the audiobook too so I could listen to it while she was reading it. I thought the Chaser reveal was great! One point I think that got missed about the Chaser bit in the podcast was that he was direclty mentally manipulated into seeing what the Krell wanted him to see, essentially a 3-D holo simulation projected straight into his brain. He saw his friends' ships as Krell ships. So when he said that he was going to destroy them all, he was referring to the phantom krell ships that were overlaid psionically over his friends' ships. Also, the fact that Spensa as a living FTL engine has a weakness that she can be mentally manipulated is just how Brandon builds his magic systems. The greater the power the greater the exploitable weakness. I also thought the talk about Detritus being a Dyson sphere was really cool, I think after your clear explanation I have a pretty good handle of how Detritus works in conjunction with the near planetary objects. I drew a little schematic of how I think it all works: The small little circled speck is M-bot flying out of a crack in the Dyson Sphere. And with Gray's description of M-Bot really standing for Mushroom-bot, I got a pretty good visual sense of what M-Bot looks like. Also, thinking about this more, I think I've figured out something pretty important about M-Bot's old pilot based on all of the directives that M-Bot was given. Stay out of fights, look for mushrooms, wait for me until I get back. M-Bot's old pilot was probably a spaced out, mushroom popping, laze-about hippy. He probably forgot where he parked M-Bot and crashed on some Krell's couch for the rest of his life. Poor M-bot.

Didn't see that you had beaten me to the proverbial punch until I was ready to post this, but for your mild amusement, please enjoy the cinematic experience of the often told tale of how the boy band of the present can become the star fighters of the future (spoilered below because they are animated gifs):