king of nowhere

On 6/18/2024 at 8:34 AM, teknopathetic said:

Who has a safe that is large enough for a shardblade? Isnt that odd? I wonder if the sword Shallan took is actually Chana's shardblade. Maybe she had that panic safe built to keep her sword around after her death for some reason. 

safe may be not long enough, but you can stick the blade in the wall.
yes, a normal wall is not thick enough. but if you stick the sword through lenghtwise, instead of along the thickness... ok, it's hard to explain by words, let me try with a picture

https://imgur.com/J9vNAOP

this is how you can use a T junction in the wall to both conceal a long, narrow safe, and an even longer shardblade.

that said, shalebark ridges can be pretty big; if the safe was on the external wall and there was a cultivated shalebark on the other side, chances are it was thick enough to stick a blade through without it showing on the other side

18 hours ago, Use the Falchion said:

In a way, the game is about the gameplay. What you see is what you get. Story, characters, setting, they're all just dressing for the type of game this is.

regardless, i got no idea what the gameplay is. from the trailer it could have been something like LoL, or a roleplaying game like baldur's gate, or even a fantasy version of civilization.

that single line of description in the video you linked tell me instead it is something akin to tabletop warhammer?

so i checked the trailer, and i read this, and i still have't gotten any inkling on what the game is actually about.

now, maybe the marketing guys know what they are doing and in average this strategy is more successful. but me, I want to know facts. especially before committing money and/or time to something

2 hours ago, StormingTexan said:

Yes I fell like it would almost have to all be CGI. Taking the "Avitar" approach may be better or animated as you said. A good case to do Mistborn first since it is an earth like setting. Just need to CG the Mist Wraths, Ten Soon and some good makeup work for the Inquisitors. 

don't forget the red sun, but it should be easy to change color palette

regarding a SA adaptation, I really doubt it's happening anytime soon. at least, nothing we'd actually want to see.

Do you have an idea how much it would cost? There are spren all the time you've got to add. You can't even shoot on the outside, because they have a different ground and different plants. The buildings look different from out own, because of highstorm considerations. There isn't a single scene that wouldn't require extensive and expensive editing.

I've never heard of that kind of money being spent on a project like that.

At most we can get something animated, that would certainly be feasible - drawing spren would not be an issue in that case - but it's not quite the same thing.

on the other hand, there is an interesting question underlying this: if a bloody revolution did happen - despite vax best attempts to usher reforms peacefully - and it was not led by the set or other groups that are unquestionably worse than the current establishment

what would wax do then? there are enough nuances in this that it could be a great novel by itself.

maybe i actually did predict the plot of lost metal

3 hours ago, Oltux72 said:

I cannot resist. All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. (Mao)

We just see demonstrated that groups with combat power cannot be discriminated against in a certain manner.

yes, i think there's a word of brandon somewhere that equality comes from there being as many mistborn women as men, and the noble houses needed all the metalborn they could get, and could not afford to discriminate

I must also point out that the level of democracy on scadrial is the same that we had on our world when we had the same tech level.

Probably it's different from an american perspective, because you've been a democracy since before the industrial age, but in europe, at the beginning of 1900, we still had kings and emperors - and not those we still have in costitutional monarchies, whose practical power ranges from "basically a president" to "basically a figurehead". In 1900 we had already got rid of absolute monarchies, there were voting rights, there were parliaments with actual powers, but kings still were firmly in charge, and nobles still had privileges.

most european states became democracies after losing some of the world wars, basically the old ruling class screwed up too badly and was ousted for it. those countries that remained, and still are, parliamentary monarchies, are the ones where the kings were decent and capable, and they never gave the people enough of a reason to kick them out. In that regard, it is much like on scadrial: the nobles houses that still are in charge are those that were not implicated in the worst atrocities of the final empire. The revolution removed the worst elements. Those countries that had peaceful, gradual transition of power from the nobility to the masses now have the same standards of human development as the others, and they avoided violent revolutions and bloodsheds. Wax wants to follow this path, to gradually reform, and I would say history very much vindicates him: where possible, it is the best outcome.

Anyway, northern scadrial is late 1800 tech level, and when we had that tech level, we also had nobles and monarchies, so it's realistic. United states were the one exception - though, for all that the constitution stated that all men are equal, slavery still exhisted for 70 more years, and racial segregation remained in the law for one more century. While in backward, "feudal" europe slavery has been abolished much earlier, and aside from the nazi and fascist regimes, nobody would have ever considered istituzionalizing racism. Just to further complicate things, to show that "more democratic" does not necessarily equate to "more progressive" or "fair". Also, both in the democratic usa and in the monarchic european states, the conditions and exploitations of the working classes were fairly similar, and in line with what we see on scadrial.

In fact, scadrial having close enough gender equality is incredibly progressive compared to its technological development.

Perhaps the lesson to be taken in this is that progress is not linear, and it doesn't work to try and force it into a line; there are many different issues, scadrial is more advanced in some and less advanced in others.

26 minutes ago, thejopen27 said:

The biggest problem I've always had with era 2 is that I'm not sure Wax is on the right side of history. He's a rich nobleman who kills revolutionaries. He's basically a gunslinger in service to the establishment, an establishment that doesn't seem particularly worth of being propped up.

it's a good question. the thing is, while our western hystory and culture gave us the idea that "revolutionary"="good", the revolutionaries that vax fights are even worse than the establishment. none of the people that wax fought ever wanted "progress" in the first place. in fact, even in the real world a lot of revolutionaries have been on the wrong side, replacing something bad with something worse.

wax may not be on the right side of the story, but his opponents certainly are not. and wax is at least trying to improve things for all.

he does not mention the wheel of time tv adaptation in any way. as he wrote the last 3 books, i was hoping he'd be sharing some info on them

3 hours ago, Bliev said:

 A Killing Wind or A Kind Warrior (those suck but you get my drift)

really? are they any worse than shameful ribbon?

brilliant idea

brandon did say that a 2020 release would only be possible if he finished the first draft by the end of the year. the progress bar on his site is still set at 85% (not that i check daily; i check more than daily ).

so it means that either the progress bar isn't updated (but it moved last time a few days ago? i think? i can lose track of time), or they think they can make faster time on the revisions (possibly because they are already well set in the first revision), or they will probably move the date backwards eventually.

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[Brandon] is currently planning a trilogy of graphic novels focused on Khriss and Darkside

yeah, because he totally doesn't have already more than enough open projects that he should end

the lack of tour is good news. tours keep him from writing, and he already does a lot of those anyway.

On 27/8/2019 at 11:14 PM, Jozomby said:

Is anyone else still seeing the progress bar on his website display 47%?  (I've confirmed it's not browser cache)
It's a tiny little thing, but has been bothering me

me too, even today I see 47%.

Maybe it's because he's already accounting for the fact that he'll run long once more? (I mean, has there ever been a single time when a book of his didn't turn out longer than planned?)

3 hours ago, Child of Hodor said:

Seems like he's not going to make the deadline if he is a month behind on word count and hasn't decided what character he wants to write about in the flashbacks. 

he's got too many tours. that eats heavily on his writing time.

I'm pretty meh.

White sand already showed that sanderson's style is not fit for graphic novels. too much plot and dialogue to be conveyed.

It's far from the first similar announcement I read, and nothing ever came from them. I'm not an expert on the media industry, but this doesn't seem all that different from the others. I attune the rithm of skepticism, and I will keep it until I am at the movie theater watching the end titles.

so, frost said that hoid is not the type who blends? he must be out of touch. or maybe he knows hoid and his quirk enough to spot him, even though anyone else would not recognize him.

Not sure if the place is yolen. White may look like that stranage plant infection mentioned in (was it the liar of partinel?) but white meant death in that case. white meaning nothing... unless the skullmoss was changed to no longer be poisonous?

That hoid has lost someone nad has a personal vendetta is new, relevant information. That he's still seeing frost in person is less relevant, but still new-

the illustrations look great. especially kredik shaw. i may end up buying it just for those.

but vin doesn't look much like a fifteen-years-old. she could be more like the vin from hero of ages.

gaaah! what am i going to do until fall 2017? I must find a cadmium bubble!

Let's be honest, Stormlight is definitely on a 3-4 year cycle, so Stormlight 10 has a chance of being out in 2045, about 30 years from now. If Mistborn in Space and Dragonsteel can't be written until after Stormlight 10...

on the other hand, since brandon writes so many different books at the same time, he may as well write dragonsteel and mistborn in space before he has finished the stormlight archive, and wait to publish them.

I really don't understand all that concern for the lastest consoles. Actual technology has been working perfectly fine so far, and it was state of the art  only a few years ago. I refuse to accept that something can go from the most advanced technology to obsolete junk in just a few years. Not everyone can afford to change a device every time the latest version comes out, and many of those who can just don't care enough for it, especially since the only difference is some marginal improvement on graphics.

Personally, I'd rather prefer they spend less money on graphics and more on bug fixing. many of the newer games had been released with serious issues, and that's the hallmark of a dishonest or at least flighty business. if they sell a game with poor performances and bugs, I take it that they did their best but are not very skilled;  but if they released a game with excellent performances that still have bugs, I assume that they just didn't care enough to put on bug fixing the same amount of effort they put into everything else. which further lead me to believe that they didn't because once a player noticed the bugs, he already bought the game, so they didn't care anymore about him.

Anyway, nice to hear that they havven't give up on releasing the game yet. and if they are still putting money and effort into it, then they are unlikely to pull out.

sanderson has finished his work with the wheel of time.

Now he only has to make 9 stormlight books.

and 6 mistborn books.

and possibly one or two sequels for elantris and warbreaker (quite looking forward to that, since he promised somewhere that nightblood and a lifless would get pows)

and whatever new project will come to his mind.

Maybe he should remember that there are only 24 hours in a day...

And the most ridiculous part is that, if he keeps going at that pace, he's going to finish all those books within a couple of decades...