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In this weeks update, what does 631 mean?
dannnex replied to halo6819's topic in General Brandon Discussion
So do we think 631 was just referring to "the video number in which brandon is going to announce a new secret project" or is it more than that? i kinda think its more than that like the fact that he waits until 6:31 into the video to announce it implies that maybe this isn't over I wonder if its relevant to the book itself -
Anyone have any unique ideas for a cursed weapon
i feel like everything's been done before
in a dnd campaign that im running, i just had a player find a cult hideout, where they picked up a sickle covered in blood that they found lying on an altar.
so like naturally this is gonna be some kind of cursed blade
but i dont actually know what it's effects are gonna be yet
any ideas? all the obvious stuff has been done a million times, "steals its user's life force" and "drives the holder to a murderous rampage" are a bit well worn at this point
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in case anyone was curious, i ended up going with “as soon as you picked up the blade, you were mentally transported to a plane of existence similar to what you would call hell. You were tormented there for millions of years, unable to die, before being transported back into your body at the same moment you left, with all memories of the experience erased.”
(inspired by the heralds being tortured on Braize.)
ofc i didn’t reveal this to the player until much later. It tied into the plot pretty well, was def a cool reveal, i’m happy with it.
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In this weeks update, what does 631 mean?
dannnex replied to halo6819's topic in General Brandon Discussion
he’s at 625 youtube videos atm, i assume all will be revealed in #631 -
631
the numbers mason
what do they mean
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As of the last couple months, the numbers 631 have started popping up in Brandon's weekly updates and a few other places. In the last couple days, people noticed, and we're finding them everywhere now and meming about it but some of them do seem actually relevant and I do think it's intentional. There's a lot more discussion on discord and also on reddit I think, but here's some:
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17th Shard CurseForge Modded Minecraft Server Ideas
dannnex replied to Scars of Hathsin's topic in Forum Games & Random Stuff
not really. I wish you luck, but I probably won’t play. I’m too busy to even play on my own server these days =P You’re welcome to advertise it in my server’s discord if you want. -
So I have been using tumblr a little bit.
as a shard alternative since this place broke.and it kinda sucks for a multitude of reasons
but i came here today to complain about one thing in particular
CosmereTumblr doesn't care about spoilers at ALL
it makes me so PISSED
like the website is literally built around TAGS. "Tagging" things is the core that the whole site is built around.
and people DONT TAG SPOILERS
saw someone post the most climactic moment of TLM, literally the very end of the book and the very end of the TRILOGY
and there were ZERO spoiler tags. but it was worse than that, they tagged it #cosmere and #brandon_sanderson. The most GENERIC TAGS POSSIBLE FOR COSMERE FANS ON TUMBLR. Someone just getting into the series could be looking through that tag, and just get hit with the very end of a book or a major character death. its terrible.
i miss this place so much somebody get them to fix notifications so i can come back
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Dannnnnnnex! Hey! How's it going?
If it's SUs you're talking about, it's really super easy to still look at the stuff without getting notified for everything. I honestly prefer it at this point to being notified endlessly where it blocks being quoted and all that. You can make a place where you can check it and scroll through the SUs. If you don't like that, then that's fine, but it's still really easy.
THo, that thing with Tumblr, that sounds absolutely horrendous. I would hate being a new reader on there.
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Nobody sees these anymore but *things* have been happening with the minecraft server so figured I'd update y'all.
So remember how I said we'd be resetting the server in July
that
did not happen
So long story short, but our server hosting provider, Minehut, absolutely messed up and deleted our server, with our only backup being from over a month ago. Nobody wanted to redo an entire month of work, so we started Sharders Season 1.5.
Brand new world, much more polished serverside, cool discord integrations now, its nice. A world download is available for Season 1 in our discord too, if you're just curious what we've been up to.So if you want to join a brand new SMP, check it out, now's the time. We're gonna be adding plugins and datapacks and stuff and just generally have fun with this. Season 2 is still scheduled for minecraft 1.21, so this isn't gonna be a super longstanding world. Or maybe we keep this world and just update, not sure yet.
Gotta verify your account in the Discord now, join here: https://discord.gg/w5444SzaXd
And ofc the server IP is still: sharders.minehut.gg -
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Notifications are broken, site is unusable, prob not gonna be here much anymore except for actual brandon sanderson conversation. i just can't use it as a "social" platform anymore it just doesn't work.
add me on discord if you wanna stay in touch ig
might go back to using my tumblr (ew cringe) for when i have the "gotta make a status update" thought
so if you've ever liked any of my quote unquote "poetry" posts or mindless rambles maybe go find me over there idk
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i have not gotten a single notification from this website in over a week
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Art is Divine.
I do not care what religion you believe in, or if you are religious at all. Art is Divine. Or let me say, Art itself is Divinity. Outside of any other religious mental framework.
The Act of Creation, in all its forms, is the most noble and glorious thing one can do in this life.
When you create, you are violating one of the most basic laws of this universe. Taking raw materials and ending up with something more complex than its parts. That's decreasing entropy. Now that's not entirely true, 2nd law of thermodynamics and all that, but in at least a local and not quite literal sense, in that limited system, entropy is decreasing. Complexity arising from simplicity is the most unnatural thing in this universe, and the single most natural thing to humanity. It is ingrained in our deepest instincts to dance and sing and love and create.
Life itself follows this pattern. Procreation is the exact same thing. Taking raw matter, bunches of atoms, and giving way to consciousness. Do you realize how insane that is? Matter becoming self-aware. In a universe where entropy is meant to increase. Human Consciousness is the single biggest mystery in the entire universe. How are we? Literally? Conscious beings seem to be contrary to every natural physical law, even more than simple biologics already are.
So we have a group of self-aware monkeys that suddenly popped up on some small planet in some small system in some small corner of the universe, defying entropy by their very existence. And what do they do? They actively defy it even more. We draw and write and compose and paint and sculpt and build and farm and plan and love. Organizing matter into something more complex than its parts is the single most human thing you can do. We create art because we are art. We are complexities creating complexities. Monkey see monkey do. Heh.
It's more than defying physical entropy, we go even further and defy informational entropy too. We give art meaning. The curtains aren't just blue. We try to give our art the same consciousness we have. We create worlds and people. Self-aware beings with no self.
Are you seeing the pattern yet???? The glory???? The divinity?????
Creations creating creations creating creations. Attempts at eternity in a definitively temporary universe. Finding meaning in the meaning that we are.
I'm lost in the sauce. I don't think I'm making sense any more.
but i am making. and that's the whole point. that's the whole. point.Just gonna end with this:
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.Make your words fork lightning friends.
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Art is frustrating
One of my core philosophies that I try to live by is that "Art has intrinsic value". Which sounds obvious until you notice that art is nearly exclusively valued proportionally to the amount of attention it receives. The idea that "Art seen only by the artist is just as valuable as art seen by millions" is really rather idealistic. But that's okay because it's my ideal. Ideals are allowed to be idealistic aren't they?
The hard part is staying true to that ideal. Finding the motivation to create when you know nobody else is going to appreciate it is so difficult. The idea that "value = attention" is so corruptly ingrained into me (and probably you all too) that making art exclusively for myself feels like a waste. But it isn't. At least that's what I try to convince myself every day.
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“i want to become a content creator so i can be rich!”
“i want to become a content creator so i can be famous!”
”i want to become a content creator so i can play videogames for my job!”
weak.
i want to become a content creator so i have an excuse to do a merch drop and make an irl dannex puffball plushie.
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just found out theres a 12 year old 17th Shard steam group
cool
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we should revive this, i need more peeps to play games with
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this new “achievements” thing on our profiles looks fun, how customizable is that system, and are we actually gonna use it? Can staff create achievements for all sorts of things? because if we are capable of tracking specific statistics i have ideas for some fun ones. first thing that came to mind was an achievement for each year you’ve been a member. like a “one year” achievement and then a “two year” one etc etc. also more specific things that might not actually be possible to track but would be fun, like “create a thread in the ___ category that gets more than 100 replies!” and tiered versions for those too, like 100 replies, 200 replies, 500 replies. basically i want to gameify the forums and then 100% it lol
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i mean it’s just 23 characters. only slightly above average length considering all the people with multi-word usernames. mine just looks extra long cause repeated character and no spaces. i still haven’t found any instances of it actually having text box issues myself either, looks perfectly normal everywhere on my end. sounds like a device specific issue not a site one.
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the word truly should be spelled truely and this is a wrong opinion but it is mine and i stand by it
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Y'all know the minecraft server I run
you should, i'm plugging it all the time
well if you'd ever thought about joining it, now would be the time.
we're exactly halfway through the server's lifespan. I started it 233 days ago, and I'll be rebooting it in roughly 233 days on a brand new world for the new update. So if you join now, you can still say you experienced a majority of the entire server lifespan.
You should all join at least once, just to take a look around. we've got some insanely talented builders over here and they need to be appreciated more <3
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able to use normal emojis as well i mean. of course we can’t get rid of these guys, they’re practically integral to my online communication at this point.
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are we gonna finally be able to use normal emojis?!???? that’s so hype if true
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I don't think Brandon is good at writing grief.
dannnex replied to dannnex's topic in Cosmere Discussion
for like the 9th time, it’s not the forgetting itself that was poor writing, it’s the way he writes Nomad’s reaction to it. Remembering that Aux is dead should be an absolute sucker punch. we get two words. Just like “ah right, i forgot. anyway…” if brandon intended for this to be a dissociation-type moment, he needed to write that better too! there’s just nothing. he just didn’t write it. no indication that he’s experiencing any sort of trauma or whatever. you could argue “well it’s hard to show that when it’s from the PoV of the character disassociating”, but that’s still not an excuse, if that’s the case, he needed to add a PoV where he could show this dissociation or something. like you know “show don’t tell”? the age old writing advice? well brandon didn’t do either. you can’t argue “writing by omission”, you just can’t imply all of this without writing a single word on the page. like none of this is actually about grief, it’s about writing. and this writing, is bad. he pulled out a chekhovs gun, waved it around, and then accidentally dropped it and walked away. -
just got a new phone
tell me what i should set my wallpaper to, and i’ll take all the replies and put them in a rotating playlist
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I would like yalls thoughts on this question that our resident channelknight posed to me in DMs earlier
A single star destroyer from the galactic empire at its peak suddenly appears in orbit around earth, with the intent to occupy the planet for the empire. Can the united forces of earth defeat it?
If you think we can defeat one, what about 2? how many of the empire’s forces can we withstand?
the empire’s goal here is occupation, not annihilation, so no need to worry about a death star or anything.
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LOL, easy dubs for Earth.
The USA on its own could win the entire thing.
In ep 5 we see an Ion Cannon is able to disable a Star Destroyer, a nuclear weapon can easily produce more ions while also breaching the hull and destroying the entire thing.
The US has (publicly confirmed anyway) 450 Minuteman 3 missiles which are capable of reaching high atmosphere, and could probably enter orbit if we tried to get them there, so that's 450 Star Destroyers minimum right there.
Then we get to ground troops. The fact of the matter is that Galactic Empires ground vehicles are comically flawed, and easily destroyed. And hopelessly outmatched by US armored vehicles, and anti-tank weapons.
During the height of the Iraq war an IED was going off once every 45 minutes, with the US Heartland under attack I could easily see that number dipping into the low seconds.
So there goes who knows how many forces.
And that's just the military:
US civilians own around 390,000,000 guns and over a Trillion rounds of ammo, and they aren't giving up without a fight.
Bombs are hilariously easy to make, as are Napalm, chemical gases, powerful acids, etc.
Basically I think Earth could take the entire Galactic Empire so long as they focused on subjugation rather than destruction.
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it sounds like a lot of fun
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