king of nowhere

it was waaay over the top, so i got the joke immediately. Anyway, I wouldn't believe it if it was announced officially. mistborn, the wheel of time... many movies were announced and never released. Now I share the same attitude of the authors of good omens when a movie for it was announced EDIT: I'm quoting from memory so exact words may be different, and I'm not 100% sure on who said what

Isn't the cognitive version of chuck norris overpowered enough?

That won't stop people from trying. Never understimate the headstrongness of the nerd community. By the way, I think "close" in this context don't mean "you're on the right way" but "it could get close to the speed of light but not surpass it" - which is what we can already do with regular physics.

I opened a thread for it a while back, but there was no satisfying answer, so it should fit here. Scadrial, AoL era, has a duration of the year close to earth. when the lord ruler moved the planet, he placed it in a closer orbit, with a necessarily shorter orbital period. calculations reveal that to have a significant effect on the heating of the planet, the new orbit must have had a much shorter year, at least 25% shorter. How does that combine with the ages of the characters the general aging of the poopulation?

Not only vin was the champion chosen by preservation, she was also the champion of ruin. she had not one, but two shards pulling strings on her.

when every time you pass in front of your bookstore you enter to see if they have words of radiance, even though you already ordered it. just to feel it in your hand, and revel in the knowledge that you could buy it right now instead of waiting. when, not seeing it, you want to take a picture and post it in this forum complaining about the big words-of-radiance-shaped hole right there where words of radiance was supposed to be. and when, noticing they don't actually have any sanderson's book (except the wot ones) you think about setting up an angry mob and storming it with torches and pitchforks and forking torches and flaming pitchforks (and even flaming pitchforks with forking torches strapped on the other side of the handle to use as double weapon), but you are put back because they have two full shelves of pterry books. Not because having two shelves of pterry books redeem them from not having sanderson, but because they keep the pterries as human libram shields and you need to find a way to free the hostages first.

for the first part: kandra need to eat meat to regrow. so you have a better deal eating whatever you were going to feed to the kandra. for the second part: the employer would still need to pay in atium, which would be terribly expensivee. much more than he can earn by the clients. economically it would still be at a loss.

Nice to see I'm not the only one in this forum with a devious enough mind to consider the possible sexual perversion made possible by brandon's magic systems. Although I'm not going to post some of the most extreme ideas, cause I feel they are much more brain-bleach-requiring than this one and would probably be considered inappropriate topic anyway. About kandra prostitutes/lovers: the main problem here is that kandra are to be paid in atium. quite a lot of it in fact. so it wouldn't be economically advantageous for wholesale prostitution. Plus keep in mind that there weren't many kandras around - maybe thousands in all the empire? the second generation had only twenty members, the ninth and tenth probably a bit over one hundred. there aren't enough for brothels. On the other hand, I can totally see a noble ordering a kandra to take the body of a lover, study his/her personality, and pretend to be him/her. the main limitation I see to it is that one need to be able to feel genuine love to be motivated to do something so drastic and expensive, and few nobles in the final empire were capable of devotion towards people other than themselves. those that were, probably also realized that using a kandra that way would only be a mockery of the real thing. Still, it probably happened at least a few times. But I wonder if a human and a kandra could come to actually love each other. I, for one, wouldn't be put down if a girl I'm dating would tell me "actually, I'm a kandra"; if I like her personality, I'm going to accept whatever body she has, as long as it's not too strange or clearly male. The main obstacle I see would be lack of interest from the kandra, as it appear most of them are asexual; while having a sexual identity, they don't feel physically or romantically attracted to other kandra. But can there be exceptions? A kandra that felt sexual attraction and, not being able to find a partner among his kind, would look for one among humans? Or maybe a kandra that, while on a contract wearing a human body, decided out of curiosity to try sex and found that he actually liked it? damnation, I feel like I'm encouraging cheap dating fanfiction now. About reproduction, I don't think a half-kandra child could be conceived. kandra and humans are different, have different dna. if you crossbreed different animals (by artificial means in a lab) you generally get an embryo that will die soon in the development. that because the genetic instruction that start with a cell and make it grow into a functional living organism are extremly complex, and are different for every living being; taking two different sets of instructions and applying bits of them is a recipe for getting a bunch of dead cells instead of a living organism. kind of like taking the instructions for a car and a plane and trying to follow one page from one and one page from the other. THe exception to this are animals who are similar enough that the instructions will work: brown bear + polar bear, or tiger + lion, doneky+horse. they are the exception, not the norm. So, a kandra/human halfbreed could exist, if kandra and humans had very similar genetic codes. But this is likely not the case. kandra have no bones, have flexible bodies, the ability to change the type of cells at will... they are completely different from a human. from any other animal in fact. just because they look like a human, they don't have to be related to them any mroe than a dolphin is related to a fish.

I wonder how three livable planets fitted into a single star system. since they are all temperate, they must be all three in the same orbit, at lagrangian points to each other. It's certainly no happenstance, so the shards set those planets up there. Who knows why.

It reminds me of making money, where the villain made an eybrow-lifting contraption because he wasn't able to lift an wyebrow like the patrician

they are called archetypes. all possible personalities fit into one of them, enough that they will look similar at first glance. just in the same way that all nerds look the same when seen by non-nerds. or all people doing a job look the same to other people. it's only when you get to know the people that you appreciate their distinct personalities. archetypes work because they are very rough divisions, they divide people in broad categories so that everyone fits one way or the other. that do not mean that those people are similar for real.

your dreams are much more coherent than my own, but i still don't think it's realistic. as far as i understand shards, if you put two shards together, you don't end up with the sum of the two. you end up with something different. otherwise adonalsium would have been just the sum of 16 desires, many of them contradicting. so harmony is neither ruin nor preservation. it neither wants to ruin nor to preserve. it want something else. something that is related to harmony and preservation, but not the same thing

wwhen i was at work today I had a sudden intuition that could actually give a better explanation: positive feedback. In my previous model, I assumed that the temperature of scadrial was only regulated by the laws of irradiation, and thus to have great heating you need much more energy, but that's an oversimplification. a planet dont work that way. It is possible, for example, that the increase in the temperature caused by the new orbit was only minor, a few degrees. that, however, was enough to melt many icecaps, and that increased the amount of light absorbed, causing further heating. that increased heat would kill many forests, that would become ddeserts, and again deserts absorb more heat than forests. the dead forests would burn, or decompose, releasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and further heating the planet, killing forests in more temperate areas, and so on. So even an increase of only 10 or even 5 degrees, with that kind of positive feedback, would have been devastating to scadrial within a few decades. And now I am much more worried about global heating than i was before. the lord ruler, with the power of preservation, had an expanded mind, and could see that the planet was in the wrong place, but couldn't calculate the exact distance that was needed because there were too many variables. that's actually more realistic than just assuming he couldn't figure out how to calculate heat radiation - especially when you consider he could then figure out how to manipulate dna. Only a couple of things don't add up: the first is that with an increase in the "base" temperature so small, even with all the feedback effects magnifying it, the poles would have remained livable, and the damages to the environment and its capability to sustain men, while massive, would have beeen smaller than the ones caused by the ashmounts. the second is that when vin removes the cloud cover it is said that the planet "started to burn", while in truth it should have just warmed up slightly. If I were to speculate on the real-world causes of the calendar problem, i'd say that it is either a genuine mistake from brandon, or it was done because at the time he still wasn't famous, his books had to appeal to the casual reader, and writing in those books that vin was an adolescent at 30 would have been confusing or would have required troublesome astronomical explanations, so it was cut out.

I would think that if you find "obvious" that the series are interconnected then you are not an average reader. then again, maybe i'm wrong.

While we regularly discuss about realmantic theory and think nothing about it, most reader who pick up a sanderson book will never know about that. they never notice that hoid appears in all books, and if they do they likely think it's a cameo of some sort without any deeper meaning, a sort of author signature, like clive cussler putting in all his books a character with his name that helps the protagonists in some small way. Most of them, when reading of odiium and honor, will never realize that they are shards of adonalsium like ruin and preservation. We in this forum are aware of the cosmere, but how many are we? a few hundreds? a thousand at most? I always see the same names arounds, so we can't be that many. THen there are a few of our friends who never made it to the forums but are sanderfans like us and got informed about the cosmere by us. they don't know much about realmantics. my brother knows about the shattering of adonalsium and hoid doing something, but he won't know the distinction between a sliver and a splinter. A few other fans may have learned by the cosmere otherwise, but where? thius forum is the best place to learn it, so those who do are almost inevitably attracted by this forum. So that would imply that while several million people worldwide read sanderson, only a few thousands of them appreciate the intricacies of the fine detail. makes me a bit sad. It's like being in a majestic cathedral, admiring some fine details in the art inside, and knowing that of the moltitudde of people coming to visit, most will never notice those details that the artist put so much effort into. It also gives the feeling of being part of an elite: we're enjoying sanderson's work at a level that most people will miss.

all-you-can-reanimate buffet

Yes, I know. except that being shot a couple times is nothing to him. if one gram of gold was enough to heal a couple of shooting, then miles would need to burn several grams of gold every day. Cause miles is tapping his goldminds all the time. So, he either have a gold mine for himself, or it only take a small amount off gold to burn in order to fill a metalmind. I'd say swimmingly theory is the most likely

depends. if you are part of an army, a tank can go faster, is harder, and more powerful than plate. II mean, plate and blade is awesome, but a cannon, a minigun and 10 cm of high-tech composite materials for armor are better. If you are by yourself, plate is better cause you don't have problems with supplies. you only need to infuse the gems every oncce in a while. the tank instead would run out of fuel and ammo, and then you'd have to choose between starving to death inside or going out and be killed by the zombies.

Here is something that has been bugging me for a while. Allomantic metals run out pretty fast. a bead of pewter (we can say in the order of magnitude of one gram? probably the game is more detailed) runs out in ten minutes. More if you flare. tin is slow burning, but spook needed a sensible amount of it, and sometimes he burned it all when sleeping. When kelsier and vin did the pewter drag, they had their backpacks filled with pewter dust. In allomancy, running out of metals is an issue. On the other hand, someone with access to both allomancy and feruchemy is apparently able to compound with negligible amounts of material. miles is tapping gold all the time, and is burning gold to refill his metalminds. yet he's never concerned with running out of metal, despite gold being not exactly easy to come by in large amounts. he's probably able to use much less than one gram per day, if he could afford it before he became a criminal. Even more extremme the case of atium and aging. Brandon said that a single bead of atium is worth several decades of youth. that despite atium burning really fast in its allomantic use. So, is there a reason for compounded metals burning so slowly (except for the fact that so far only villains used them, and it would be anticlimatic to have the hero win cause the villain run out of metal)? And do we know exactly how slowly they burn? Is there any relation to how fast the regular metal burn (from atium I'd say no, but still)?

I assume everyone can understand what I mean. While I am fully aware that the transgender universe has lots of different shades (as nicely described by the video upped by featherwriter) I don't know the exact terms to refer to each of those shades, as well as which umbrella term applies to which sub-group of tendencies gender identities orientation whatever they are called. Furthermore, there is a lot of controversial about several of those words. I assumed lgbt was a goood umbrella term, but then i read somewhere that some people get offended by it because they belong to some other minority that they feel is left excluded. and I''m not 100% sure about which of the less mainstream words are politically correct to use or not (I generally wouldn't care about political correctness, but in some cases it is needed because other people won't even take you seriously otherwise). So, while I know that those words are different, and I know at least to some extent their different uses, I'm not fully aware of what would work better for some situations. In that case I just use a word that is close enough that people will hopefully understand what it means even if it's not the correct one, and that I'm sure is not considered offensive by anyone. So forgive me my buffyspeak. I feel like finding the right words to discuss those issues is like stepping on a minefield. especially in a foreign language. P.S. i didn't knew about body dismorphia before. In that case, I believe that yes, changing gender would be entirely possible and relatively easy.

Well, I assumed that those resources that are not existant in the real world would be provided (breath, stormlight, atium) but for the existing materials we'd just use what we have. It's not always bad; for example, getting metals would be much cheaper in our world than in scadrial beause we have better mining and refining techniques. As for gemstones cracking, I always assumed that even if used for small stuff they would still crack with time. haven't read wor yet, so i don't know if we had any detail on that

I haven't read wor yet, but maybe hoid is just using shardic terms because they sound ominous. And anyway that furtherproves that he's not a shard, cause if hoid had a shard, then 1) he would be able to resist odium at least for several millennia, and 2) even if he was shattered, he could be reassembled.

I have a shardplate. hammers and swords can crack it over time, but what chances human teeths and hands have? I ddon't even need a blade, I can just walk into the middle of the horde and crush their skulls with my hands, one by one. It's like being a one-man tank. Having a tank would be my option if investiture was not a factor. Alternatively, I can be a gold twinborn and just walk into the middle of the horde, letting the zombies feed on me until their sthomacs explode, while I am unharmed because i keep regenerating. But I doubt that could be achieved with reasonable amounts of gold.

that makes me think... suppose you dug a hole in the ground to get a safe place for the cadmium burn. You say goodbye to your loved ones, pack plenty of metal and some food because even with cadmium+duraluminium it will probably take at least a few days, close the hole (you dug your pit wide enough to make sure you can breath for the duration of the thing) and start burning. THen, 100 years later, someone make some works for the new subway, or to place the basement of some building, and uncover you burning cadmium and duraluminium. Now, the workers not being assassins, they want to ask you to kindly move elsewhere so they can keep working. But hw can they interact with you? If they talk from outside the bubble you cannot hear them. If one of them come into the bubble to speak with you, in the minute it takes to ask you to stop burning several months to a few years will pass on the outside; and that's not mentioning if you instead of complying start arguing. Yes, maybe you'll figure out something is wrong when suddenly your cave is filled with sunlight (actually, it would probably be an intermittent light with a period of a few seconds because of the alternation of day and night), but if instead you just keep burning, is there any practical way they can contact you? Note: I'm thinking they may just drop a note inside the bubble. But chances are in those centuries language changed enough that it's not guaranteed you'll be able to understand it.

Sorry to play devil's advocate here, but seems to me you're forgetting a big problem: soulcasting need gems, and gems on earth are MUCH rares than on roshar. sure, they are maintaining a big army with soulcasting, but they are harvesting every few days a melon-sized gemheart to empower it. All things considered it would be cheaper and easier to just grow the food than to dig a mine looking for an emerald to make said food. Unless, as part of the "availability of the magic fuel in the real world" the chance that a gem would shatter is vastly decreased.