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  1. :D Don't have exact quotes, but Zahel swears using flowers, which is normal on Warbreaker's planet as they worship colors and flowers are important stuff there. He also has a lifesense as he senses Kaladin behind him as well as wakes up sensing someone near. He also mentions something about not hearing stuff in his mind. Nightblood was the talking sword Vasher had in Warbreaker. One he tended to throw at enemies feet so they could slaughter each other That sword had a command to destroy evil, was black and talked which is exact thing this new sword looks like and does. About Biochroma thing we have Word of Brandon that different magic systems can use investiture from different worlds, i.e Nightblood could be fueled with Stormlight instead of Biochroma. This also might be reason why Vasher is on Roshar, tired of feeding on Breath every week and instead using Stormlight to stay alive, which is easier as well as more right thing to do imo...
  2. He's new "Shardblade" is Nightblood from Warbreaker and Zahel is Vasher.
  3. Renarin and Adolin could've had a hard childhood. Dead mother + bloodthirsty warlord as their father... I wouldn't be surprised if something went wrong along the way. I don't think its a requirement though, but the harder the world, the fiercer the honor, right?
  4. For me: Every novel with vampires, werewolves and such is no fantasy. Neither is anything with elves, dwarves and so on fantasy anymore. Look, I'm excluding males as well. But that's besides the point. I still love stuff with vampires, so that's not why I don't like those books(Elves and dwarves though I hate with all my heart). Problem with those kinds of books(most of female author + female character stuff) for me are that they keep lying to me. I get introduced to a female character with average looks, cool personality, she's also smart and is not really into love. Read a bit more and its apparent that she's nothing like that, maybe except average looks. And this same thing can be applied to almost anything in there. Erm I don't understand you, Tamzin Ashevai. You don't believe that novels from females with female characters aimed on females are dominating "fantasy-sci-fi" genre? Even if we agree that their fantasiness is questionable?
  5. One I mentioned above. With lots of males, one female who gets all the spotlight, lots of childrenmaking. I didn't say you're reading them, because I don't know whether you do or not. I said that I believe you know that those kinds of books are dominating today and reason to that seems apparent for me, people like them. I don't.
  6. And again, facts can not be sexist. You yourself know that there are more women writing and reading that kind of female fiction then the kind you're mentioning. I might be saying it because I hate women or I might be just pointing out truth or both. You can take it as any of those three but I won't start lying out of fear.
  7. Yes, some of those books are good. I stated that myself didn't I? Now just compare how many fantasy books are written by females that don't fit in my description and ones that fit perfectly. That's why I'm using word most instead of all. What you guys did there was twisting my words just... to prove that you aren't sexist? Adjust your image on forum? I don't know, whatever reason you had, twisting peoples words against them is impolite, especially when you can't explain yourself by mishearing something. Read my posts again. By the way, what I'm saying isn't sexists as I'm backing them up with plain facts. Facts can't be sexist. btw Quiver, if you couldn't see how Hunger Games was exactly what I described then you weren't paying attention. It's funny how I phrased my posts to imply that I tried to stay away from books with female character + female author because I didn't like most of the stuff I've read like that. I didn't say those books should be burnt or something. I made it clear that those books had their audience and I just wasn't one of them. Looks like I'll just have to read some books I don't like from now on and like them very much so people can't call me stuff I'm not.
  8. Erm.. most women keep writing two dimensional characters and stories driven by sex and I don't like to read those stuff, so I instantly turn into sexist? It's a fact as far as I know, female author + female main character = book aimed ONLY on female audience. You'll have one super independent girl with average looks(Always) who doesn't care about boys. Then we get at least two super hot male characters, one of them has to be a good guy while another one is a "badboy" womanizer with "can take mc anytime I wish because I'm so manly that no panties can stay in their places in my presence" attitude. We also get some world destruction plot thrown in for a good background while main character thinks how many children she wants(always) from badboy(most of the times). There's also super evil boss, who also is a sexy male AND also develops "love" for mc and it turns into competition for all these male characters and of course first place prize is mc. Oh and there will also be a super hot chick, with all the cliches thrown in and she tries to steal all the attention from mc and ends up as a main antagonist and rival of mc even though mc is too cool to acknowledge her. There's also second way of doing it, you get averagely sexy heroine and turn her into fake badass, she's totally out of league for everyone as far as she knows, but guess what? This is all good. I have no problems with it. But I don't want to read it. And I haven't read or heard about a novel written by woman that has female main character and wouldn't turn into something that I described above. Of course there will be some good ones but will I be able to find them in my lifetime? Maybe a dozen, if I read hundreds of books I didn't wanted to read. So yeah I'd rather stick to male authors and if I read books written by women, I'll go with those that have male main characters.
  9. Usopp vs Perona and Zoro vs Kuma, two of the best things that ever happened in animes :D I don't know what you're expecting from it. Its pure japanese shonen anime. If you can't handle people crying out their abilities names in fights I doubt any of shonen animes are for you. It is aimed for children/teen, thats what shonen is about. I see creativity where you see silliness and have fun about stuff you get annoyed. You have a bad perspective on this anime and that's ruining it for you imo. Buggy on other hand is truly annoying as hell But in Marineford arc and onward he takes he's trolling to another level and now he's so annoying that he's good. Legendary even.
  10. From my experience most degrading, boring and stereotypical female character's are written by women. If a novel has female author as well as female main character I simply don't read it. It has 99.99% chance that I will hate it and I really don't have enough time to read 1000 books to find one that I like... I love good female characters and women tend to ruin it for me You might think I don't have an idea what I'm talking about but my two best reading buddies are girls and they've both read like 20-30 novels by female authors for every book written by male author they've read and I've heard more then enough about those. Even read some of them and every good premise that I felt really excited about was ruined by main character in first 20-30 pages, every time It would've been cool if women started writing fantasy novels about their main characters, instead of hot males they're fantasizing about. I know there are good ones but sadly whenever I go looking for new books to read female author is an instant turn off for me... That might be reason why males are dominating fantasy genre, not because there aren't enough women reading/writing fantasy, its just that fantasy written and read by most women rarely are actually about fantasy... And of course books written by men rarely have more female characters then male ones, simply because its so much harder to write a good female character when you're male... And of course books written by women have more male characters as well, because as I've said above, hot male characters are what make 99.99% of those books work.
  11. Never liked WoW. Always preferred Lineage 2 even though I could see why WoW was a better game, L2 seemed more fun anyway. Grew up on Warcraft 3 so of course I love it as well as Diablo 1/2. Haven't played third one. Path of Exile is only mmorpg that reminds me good old times in Diablo. Don't know what you dislike about SC2. Personally I don't care about single player/campaign and it's best online rts game out there so for me it's one of the best games from Blizzard... Didn't like Heartstone... too casual and "just for fun". WoW players would have more fun with it most likely as well so it maybe that too but I prefer Might and Magic: Duel of Champions in every way. I'm always looking forward to stuff from NCSOFT but I doubt I will be getting Wildstar. Too many good MMORPG's coming out this year and I won't be having enough time to play them all, not to mention that I prefer sticking to one rp.I'd rather have new non-mmo TES but TES:O looks decent too. I've got some mixed feelings about it though and what's with b2p + p2p? Gonna stick with Archeage for now, playing on russian server and waiting for EU release. Wanna try out DA and Witcher as well, they look awesome.
  12. I hope magic had nothing to do with it. It's better if Wax simply got unlucky and failed imo.
  13. Bought SC2 two months ago. Had been playing starter edition for a year before that and watching all the SC2 channels on youtube :D Best part about it for me is Arcade. I mean, its best rts out there with most balanced and interesting races with distinctive gameplays and I enjoy playing on ladder but I've spent most of my childhood playing WC3s custom maps and Arcade's basically same except with good graphics No Pudge Wars and Warlock though
  14. That should be around 20, so next 2 arcs (20 eps) are where most people get hooked up so don't give it up just yet
  15. You have two most awesome arcs to watch yet And third one coming soon Wish I was at Thriller Bark arc now, I'm sick of checking mangafox every hour and seeing no updates :(
  16. So what episode are you at now?
  17. Never played first 4, Skyrim was good though. Got beta for TES:O, doubt it's as good as it should be... Downloading it right now but gameplay videos look bad and I got some bad comments about it from friends who already played it :(
  18. MWAHAHAHAHAHA. love reading first impressions, especially one's like mine
  19. Signed for beta when it started, never got in and forgot about it Downloading...
  20. There are lots of urban fantasy cop/detective shows. Supernatural, Grim, Sleeping Hollow(or something like that), Blood Ties(if I remember correctly), Lost Girl might be one of those as well(judging from first 2 or 3 episodes), etc. Have to agree with Tarion, Sherlock style would be better for Mistborn but I think it's better to have 2-3 hours of high quality movie than a show. As far as I know it would be impossible to do Mistborn with average show budget and it would never be more popular than GoT(because GoT is friendlier to normal people), which most likely requires less budget. Not sure about second and third books but first book would make an awesome movie and 2.5-3 hour movie would do a nice job of not missing anything important.
  21. Mistborn is a bit confusing compared to other "normal" fantasy novels but after WoK it's not that special anymore imo. All of Sanderson's books are brilliant as they are but knowing that they're all connected makes them so much more fun and Mistborn is best place to start understanding how it all works. + Mistborn is too good =))
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