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  1. dannnex
    My interpretation of that WoB is that ‘Thaidakar’ literally means ‘a leader’. It’s a title, not a name. Just like ‘Mraize’. It’s a rank or title within the Ghostbloods. Maybe ‘Sovereign’ or ‘Survivor’ phonetically sounds like ‘Thaidakar’ in Scadrian. (Scadrianesse?)
  2. dannnex
    Rlenarin has my vote. or it would. if it was on the poll. ‘Rain’ is also an option I guess.
  3. dannnex
    Ha, first time reading the game thread and it’s already over. XD My guess is that there were more Elims than she wanted. Completely basing this from what the thread was currently about, maybe we had 4 or even 5 Elims and then Xino’s breakdown made her realize that was too many. Just a guess.
  4. dannnex
    But that was all irrelevant
  5. dannnex
    I think that removing racial connotations doesn’t necessarily mean we have to be less blunt or less murder-y. ‘Remove’ sounds way too passive imo. My top suggestions are “Kill” and “Hang”. “Kill” is good because it’s vague, so the GM can write up the method of death however they wish to in the Death RPs. It also works fairly well as “Mis-Kill”. “Hang” obviously just means the exact same thing as “Lynch” but without the racial connotations, so that seams like an obvious choice for a replacement. Another option is that the word could vary by game. The GM could specify how they are going to write up the Death RPs, and the players could use terms that relate to that. Things like: Poison Behead Strangle Any sort of case-specific murder word. Edit: Another pro for using ‘Kill’ is that ‘Kill or Lose” could be abbreviated as “Kylo” as in Kylo Ren
  6. dannnex
    Or so they thought. But luckily for them, the Fall of the Ghanderflaffle Empire was sponsored by Geico.
  7. dannnex

    Happy birthday to you,

     happy birthday to you,

    happy birthday dear  dozens of spaaaaaambots

    happy birthday to you!

    1. Mat

      Mat

      Yeah I saw those xD

  8. dannnex
    I know a lot of people who do things like that, and I think it’s a great idea for a re-read. Keeps things very continuous, might notice things you wouldn’t otherwise. However, some of the people I know did something like this on their FIRST read through. And that’s definitely a bad idea.
  9. dannnex

    I know I literally just did one of these, but I found this while browsing the arcanum and had to share.

    Brandon: 

    Quote

    Brandon Sanderson

    Chapter One

    There are a couple of interesting things about this chapter. First off, it didn't originally start with Raoden waking up. When I first wrote the book, I threw Raoden directly into the city, line one. That original line was: "It wasn't until Raoden heard the gate swing closed behind him, booming with a shocking sound of finality, that he realized he had been damned."

    While this line worked pretty well, I found I had to do an extended flashback showing him waking up and frightening the maid, etc. In the end, I realized that this was a bulky construction that didn't really speed the novel up–but rather slowed it down. So, I rewrote the first scene to have Raoden waking up, seeing Elantris, and then realizing he'd been taken by the Shaod.

    Happily, I eventually managed to preserve the original line with its catchy feel. I don't usually do things like this–I don't believe in the standard "hook" idea. However, when I was thinking about this book, the first lines of the first three chapters were some of the first things that occurred to me. 

    Elantris Annotations (June 7, 2005)

    Also Brandon:

    ’Ash fell from the sky.’
    ’Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king.’
    ‘“I’m going to die, aren’t I?” Cenn asked.’
    ‘Dalinar Kholin appeared in the vision standing beside the memory of a dead god.’
    ’Marsh struggled to kill himself.’
    ’I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.’
    ’It’s funny, Vasher thought, how many things begin with my getting thrown in prison.’
    ‘Jasnah Kholin pretended to enjoy the party, giving no indication that she pretended to have one of the guests killed.’
    ’Lift prepared to be awesome.”
    ’Gaotona ran his fingers across the thick canvas, inspecting one of the greatest works of art he had ever seen. Unfortunately, it was a lie.’
    ’Kelsier burned the Eleventh Metal.’
    ‘Death hunted beneath the waves.’

     

    Yep, Brandon totally doesn’t use ‘hooks’ in his stories. :P

  10. dannnex

    Just did battle with a scorpion for 20 minutes 

    little cremling wouldn’t freaking die

    I hate bugs

    1. Chasmgoat

      Chasmgoat

      what?

  11. dannnex
    Not necessarily something I was wrong about, but my dad just predicted that one or both of Kaladin’s parents is going to die. He is still reading the book, currently at the beginning, right before the Urithiru invasion I think. He also predicted that Teft will die, so I guess he’s 1 for 2.
  12. dannnex

    A Quest!

    dannnex replied to dannnex's topic in Roleplaying

    Gaboranth stood by, enjoying his dragon meat, watching the rather peculiar pair debate. He wished he had any semblance of understanding about what the two were talking about. He had been down in Krynata just a year or two earlier, and he remembered feeling the same sort of ignorance while there. People were calling Krynata the center of technology, he had seen some of it himself. They were apparently experimenting with using steam to power some basic machines. Like a waterwheel, or a windmill, but instead of being powered by water or air, a mixture of the two. Steam. Very peculiar in his opinion.
  13. dannnex

    Daaaang you hit the spambot jackpot today. GG!

    1. Bearer of all agonies

      Bearer of all agonies

      Yeah, there were so many! And I didn’t know how to report them, which would’ve been so much easier! They all had ads I. The profile, but no content, so I didn’t know how to report their posts. Do you know how?

    2. dannnex

      dannnex

      I usually just report my own post where I ask them “are you a spambot”. The mods read every report so they can tell that even though you’re reporting your own post, really it’s a report for the bot.

    3. Bearer of all agonies

      Bearer of all agonies

      Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.

  14. dannnex
    Ugh, you make some really good observations here, that really does seem to be an ongoing theme of the series, and now I’m really scared that we’re actually gonna get a Moash redemption arc. And Brandon’s probably going to do it so skillfully that I end up agreeing with it.
  15. dannnex

    Holy crap there’s only 6 days til Christmas 

    Really does sneak up on ya doesn’t it...

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    2. Mat

      Mat

      Wait.

      Danex vs Dannex?

    3. dannnex

      dannnex

      :ph34r:

    4. Scarletfox

      Scarletfox

      Oh no. I still need gifts for six of my siblings... and my parents.

  16. dannnex
    3 men walk into a bar.
  17. dannnex
    Edit: misread your post, please disregard =P
  18. dannnex
    I think Lirin is a great character. I don’t know how Brandon manages to write the Father-Son relationship so well. The man’s a genius. Anyway, I think Lirin is a good person in-world as well. He’s written in an antagonistic way, but that doesn’t make him a bad person. If we saw the entirety of Stormlight through Lirin’s eyes, and then saw Kaladin for the first time in the same way, a lot of us would probably hate Kal. I saw a lot of people are surprised at Hesina too, because she wouldn’t stand up for Kal. I think she knows Lirin a lot better than any of us do, and she knew that he wouldn’t actually turn his own son in to the Fused. Also, I’m reading the thread more thoroughly, and I think it’s funny how you can kinda infer what people’s relationships with their own fathers are via their opinion of Lirin. Very interesting.
  19. dannnex
    THE POWER FLEX TAPE WAS ALMOST CERTAINLY INVOLVED.
  20. dannnex
    Figured I’d make a topic for this since I didn’t see one already. If there is one and I didn’t see it, please, enlighten me. What did y’all think of the newsletter? I’m really excited for the new audio projects he announced. And I’m glad to know that Apocalypse Guard isn’t completely scrapped.
  21. dannnex
    THE POWER OF CAPS LOCK MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED AS WELL.
  22. dannnex
    ALSO THE POWER OF YEAST.
  23. dannnex
    RISING INTO THE SKY.
  24. dannnex
    But that was all irrelevant, because...
  25. dannnex

    Renarin

    dannnex replied to Karger's topic in Stormlight Archive

    I completely agree. My worry is that Rlain’s ‘outcast theme’ is going to end up being his one and only theme. That isn’t the main critique really, it isn’t the the ‘focusing on being an outcast’ that concerns me, it’s the ‘only focusing on being an outcast’. I’d have the exact same opinion about Rlain if, instead of focusing on his ‘outcastness’ Brandon was focusing on how much Rlain loves to paint. It isn’t the specific thing that is being focused on that I’m worried about, it’s the fact that it seems like that is the only thing that’s being focused on. Which makes me really confused as to how so many people so drastically misunderstood me. This is how the thread has gone from my POV: Me: I’m worried Brandon might be starting to focus too much on this one aspect of this one character. Everyone Else: So you’re a bigot then. This is a good point, hopefully this will be the case.
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