king of nowhere

last time brandon gave a reddit update was in june. he outlines his progress, but he didn't, unlike previous times, state when he was gooing to give a new update. anyone knows when we can expect more news? I already look at the progress bar every day, but would like something more substantial

brandon says in the commentaries he has no intention of doing it and he feels the story of alendi is better left vaguely sketched. i'm too lazy to dig out the exact references

I just have to go offtopic to remark how similar this situation is to dalinar. and now i weep for what denth could have been

great job! kaladin should only get buffed and tapped when a creature you control dies, not when any creature dies. also, i think he regenerates too cheap. eshoni should be eshonai. also, i think forcing her to spend a full turn to change form is too punitive. either she could do it faster, or she may cost 1 less coppercloud would be better off as "you or target creature you control gain hexproof until end of turn". the effect is basically the same. I like amaram. his ability is virtually useless, but so fitting! If shardblade gives deathtouch, shardplate should give the ability to ignore deathtouch as well. ashertmarn is way too strong. it kills one artifact or enchantment every turn, and it only costs 2.

I'm playing ogame, a sci-fi based browser game. the details are unimportant, but there is settling of planets involved, and I decided to name my planets after the cosmere. Now, on one of my planets I want to make a bunker - basically a lot of defences. I would call it Yolen, because the planet is impossible to reach, so it's the best fit for something well defended (detritus would fit much better, but it's not cosmere). However, for game reasons, I also would want at least another planet in the same solar system as the bunker. So it would fit better to call it roshar, so that I could settle two more planets in the system and call them braize and ashyn. So I'm really torn. I don't know if I should call the bunker planet yolen, to better fit with the "unreachable" theme, or roshar, to better fit with the "more planets in the same system". I decided to open a poll for it.

I was missing the part about the tower moving. thanks

exactly what the title says. though water is inefficient for dissolving chalklings, a moat would still be a difficult obstacle for them. I think it was said they crossed the isles on logs or stuff, which on a moat you cannot do - as of course there will still be the army around to stop those attempts. Seems more effective than a chalk circle that can be broken with effort. If nothing else, you can still put the chalk circle outside of the moat.

So, a circle has specific bind points, which are determined according to geometric rules. One thing that's not clear, though, is how the circle determines them first. I mean, once you draw a circle, does the circle know if it's supposed to have 2,4,6 or 9 points? Say you decide to draw a 2 point circle. those points could be north and south, or east and west, or any other way. how are they determined? the first point can be drawn at any place, and it determines the new point opposite to it? But then, those two points are councident with 2 of the 6 points in a 6-point circle. Can you turn a 2 point circle into a 6 point one by adding more points? Intent always matters in sanderson magic, so maybe you have to think of the triangle when you draw the circle, and it determines the bind points? i couldn't find anything on the coppermind

predicting the future is not frowned upon in the whole cosmere, only on roshar. in roshar it makes sense, as seeing the future is a power from odium on that planet. atium is also futuresight. the returned and some avians too. none of those is considered bad.

what I'm looking for is hard data, as I highlighted. so far, I think aons and fabrials do pretty much the same things. we have seen aons do more, but fabrials is a younger science. but I seem to understand there is no hard data to come by

thank you, but that stuff i already knew. doesn't really help to figure out how effective is an elantrian in combat

I got into an argument with a friend who found elantrians to be too overpowered. the keystone of his argument is that an elantrian with aon dao can fry virtually any opponent, and not much can be done to defend against it. I am sure elantrians have more limitations than that. I think aon dao needs to be aimed, at least. And I think there are some limitations on how often you can use it. but I could not find anything specific. No hard data on how powerful is the explosion, at least. It can kill a man, but what if the man had a bulletproof vest? what if it had shardplate? how much damage would it do to a modern tank? how realistic would be to dodge it? I'm looking for anything we have on the argument. Thanks.

when amaram is recruiting, he also mentions that new recruits may bring with themselves up to two "stoneweights" of stuff, so that one looks like a unit of weight. In general, I'd expect them to have the units of measurement compatible with a renaissance society: not yet to the point of an international system with standardized rules for making composite units, but every nation has decent standards for at least the major units.

Kelsier was deeply prejudiced against the nobles, which was actually justified considering the whole situation. He was a well intentioned extremist, but he was the person that was needed. whether we would call him racist or not is only a matter of semantics.

Traditional FTL is not realistic at all. there are several physical principles that forbid it. one way of looking at it is that according to relativity, something moving faster has more mass, and any object would have infinite mass at the speed of light. As it takes infinite energy to accelerate something with infinite mass, the energy in the whole universe wouldn't be able to accelerate to light speed a single atom. another way of looking at it is that everything in the universe actually moves at the same speed in the space-time. things that are faster in space are moving slower in time, and viceversa. An object being perfectly still is moving in time at the maximum speed, while an object being perfectly still in time moves at the maximum speed in space, and that is the speed of light. and you can't go faster than that, no more than you could speed up your time by being slower than immobile. those are just layman ways of conveying concepts that would actually require pages of equations and years of studies to comprehend. all those effects of bending space and time only become apparent when moving close to light speed, which is why we don't see it in our lives. those are the reason most sci-fi tries to justify ftl travel by some way of warp, alternate dimension, or other trick. those haven't been completely ruled out by modern physics.

when you hear that to take slums away from crime they sent 12 policemen and 12 librarians, and you think "damnation, that's really a rough treatment, even for criminals" in general, when you are triggered at every mention of librarians.

Once per year, brandon posts a "state of the sanderson" on his site, where he keeps us updated on everything that happened concerning his projects in the last year. The last one is here. if you scroll it down, you'll find the section where he talks about movie adaptation. Long story short: turning a book into a movie is a lenghty process. The various companies buy rights to make adaptation all the time, because it's relatively cheap, but they rarely go forward with the project. brandon has sold rights to make adaptation several times, but so far nothing came out of it. there are a few of his works that look like they may get produced soon, and mistborn may come, but it's all "maybe" and "eventually"

oh, right. there was mention that bim was asian. so, it seems the populations didn't mix all that much. perhaps we weren't in space for long enough

gran-gran comment about spensa being the heir of alll of humankind made me think how spensa, and by extensione everyone else, would actually look. the cover portrays her as mostly caucasian, but we can assume that once we reach the space age, the ethnicities are all going to mix up. it's already happening with todays' easy travel. So, probably all of humankind got a sort of average mixed ethnicity; I'm trying to figure out how that would look. Skin tone should be some degree of tan, averaged between white and black and the various asian shades. Living underground would greatly lighten skin tone, but they would be genetically predisposed and would tan very fast once exposed to sunlight again. Blond hairs would be exceedingly rare, as only some caucasians have them (I think?) About one fifth of humankind has epicantic folds on their eyes; I have no idea how that may translate. ultimately, I'm thinking indian or south asian is the closer equivalent we have for how humans would look in that future, at least as far as skin tone, but modified with some traits typical of black people. I can't really picture how that may look. Or how they could find realistic actors if they were to put it in a movie.

I tried to throw myself off of a cliff while holding a laptop open on the 17th shard and a bunch of sanderbooks. Didn't work like stormlight would. I'm now sueing you for damage

on the other hand, I am sure davriel would not want to participate in such a tournament. he'd rather drop out at the first encounter, and then go take a nap. I already have set forth plans to help him, by the way. So, I think we should let him drop out.

At first, I thought it was a piece of official art commissioned for the 4th book that we got a preview of. it's really good.

pity, I guess that joke doesn't translate well from italian

A fork has four teeth. My grandmother has four teeth. Therefore my grandmother is a fork. I rest my case

I don't smoke or drink because I don't like it, and I have a lot of other hobbies; but i don't have the drive to excel, because I am too lazy. that has nothing to do with religion. I think you too were spoiled by the vocal minority of religious people who are always attracting attention to their religion and are disrespectful to others. it is not something exclusive to religion. I really don't like terry goodkind for the way his political opinions show through the book. however, those are just the cases that are visible. there surely are a lot of religious authors out there, but with most of them you never learn because they keep it for themselves. You cross many religious people along the road, but they don't start preaching at you, so you don't notice them. The ones you notice are the ones that annoy you, which leads to a case of cherry picking bias. Same goes for politics. And I am glad that brandon is mormon, because I was also suffering that bias before finding out about him. Furthermore, this. If he can write a woman, a drug addict, a guy with depression and post traumatic stress disorder, then there's no reason he should not write an atheist. A good author can think with someone else's head to write a character.