king of nowhere

so, there is a guy with metal spikes ppounded through his eyes, and what people find terrifying? the teeth! it shows how you can get used to anything

Imagine Vin, barely literate and yet making complex research because the world needed her. You! the word needs you! what would elend think of you? Go back to your paper. Problem: you can't think of any good problem

I keep imagining an aimian set on fire dissolving into cremlings that all fly away in different directions, mostly surviving... that is until the point where I remember that those cremlings cannot fly. So ok, something napalm-like would work. but using it on a large scale with the level of technology they have is quite impractical. if they did, they must have had a really great reason.

So, it is mentioned that aimians are very rare after the "scouring of aimia", implying that aimia was invaded and the abitants exterminated. We've seen axies the collector, and he had pretty nifty abilities. can heal small wounds, he's ageless, a few more. surely that would make for a fearsome warrior. And then we saw the hordeling-creature. stiking a sword through it would br pretty pointless. even a shardblade could only kill a small number of cremlings. he easily dispatched two knight radiants, commenting that he can't claim self-defence as a justification because they were no threat to him. And aimia was an island. full. of. those. things. SO how the hell someone actually managed to conquer it and kill the inhabitants??

in chapter 6, lift talks with a street urchin that in the ed ask her "are you listening?" and comments "people, they don't listen". Knowing the second ideal of the edgedancers, this seem oddly specific. So I wonder, was that girl a worldhopper (maybe even hoid disguised? he surely could have managed it, had he wanted) or some other important character? could a comment like that really be random?

no he can't. he has to rely on other people charging the metalmind for him. I volunteer for the task, of course.

Remember that there's always another secret! you analyze the cookie in detail and find out that your friends (both sanderfans) put a small metal spike in it to pull a prank. you remove it, then you enjoy the cookie. Problem: it's bloody cold outside.

on the other hand, some movie adaptation are mediocre to horrible, so I have mixed feeling about that. a bad adaptation may alienate potential fans.

the shades are also to me a likely candidate. Especially the fact that you need to continuously waste silver just to keep them out of somewhere, to maintain the status quo.

I don't get it; is it from legion or one of the handful of non-cosmere short stories i haven't read?

turn down the offer saying that those cookies have killed too many of your friends and now you couldn't eat them without seeing their deaths. then give the cookie to your best friend, who will turn out to be a traitor. EDIT: problem: you face an incompetent bureaucrat who instead of doing his job and helping you is telling you to go look for it on the internet.

well, we know that brandon is a potted plant, so we could try to plant some cuttings and see if they grow?

draw a gliph of silencing on their car. Yes, of course the gliph won't work in the real world, but if you scratch their car every time they are being loud, they are likely to stop sooner or later... Problem: you are jobless

just go ahead and pose a new problem. I put that "rule" about acceptable answers to specify that it was meant to be "in-real-world" answers, not "in-fantasy" answers. But there's no judge to say if an answer is good.

In a short period of time, I quoted Lirin when talking about morality, I described perfect state when talking of the potential end results of the increasing digitalization, I summed up Lift's story to try to persuade a child that she has to grow up, and I suggested the way of kings to a guy with depression. All this got me thinking: Sanderson is the answer. No matter the question. So I decided to start a game. I will name a problem. someone else must answer with a way in which that problem can be solved by using something from brandon, then propose a new problem. So an example from above could be "problem: your baby cousin doesn't want to be responsible. Answer: tell her how lift almost got killed for it, and to survive she had to become responsible anyway". The answer doesn't have to be realistic (in fact, the more ludicrous, the more fun), but it does have to be at least theoretically feasible. So for example to "problem: send a rocket into orbit" "answer: steelpush it" is not a good answer, because brandon's books do not make allomancy real. "answer: put all sanderson's books printed so far into a big pile, and you can climb it all the way to orbit" is a good one. so let's start and see where it will go. problem: global warming

And now, after a guy mentioned having depression issues in a forum (about a videogame), I took the chance to ship the way of kings. damnation. It's like sanderson is becoming my solution to every problem

when you are in a philosophical discussion and the other guy says that men cannot be separated from his senses and reduced to pure intellectuality and you tell them of the worldbuilding of perfect state. And shortly later you recount some pieces of fifth (EDIT: i was in a hurry to write when i did that) sixth of the dusk to argue that a primitive man is not in harmony with nature. When your 5-yo cousin tells you that she doesn't want to grow up, and you sum up Lift's story to persuade her that she has to. When you quote Lirin during a discussion about morality to say that you can't do something wrong just because most people go along with it. When you do all three in two weeks

You know what, good job on that. While the data presented like that is by no means perfect because it only tracks when a book gets published, not when it is written, over long times it get evened out. Well, I guess he's been making less big books and more smaller books in the last couple years, and this gave the impression that he was writing less - because one 900 page book feels bigger than three 300 pages books. Also seeing him going to conventions and stuff and the progress bar remaining still during that time contributes to the impression. Now, writing one 900 page also takes longer than the three smaller books, so maybe he is actually slowing down a little, but if so, the effect is small. Either way, I am happy to be disproven.

I would be careful in the literal interpretation of the listener song. it's not like it's never happened that the lore of the ancients turned out to be inaccurate, or that myths perpetuated orally over millennia gradually changed over time... and it is especially unlikely to happen in a population that to survive basically reduced itself to an average IQ of 50.

the stormlight archive is, chronologically, between mistborn eras 1 and 2. So at least the timeline can fit. And it is certainly possible that there are kandra worldhoppers. On the other hand, just the voice of the reader seem way too tenuous.

I can tell you what would not have happened, though: david would not have harmed prof. simply because he had no way to do so. and i doubt he would have bailed out on steelheart. so, with nothing to do but argue, he would have accepted the truth eventually, i think.

knowing, as we see from firefight, that prof can gift much more of his powers than he let others believe, i think it would have been wise to make such a revelation before the big battle. also, prof held part of the secret to stay sane as epic, and it was important to spread the information since all those who had it were going to put themselves in mortal danger.

Eh, I'm not really sure about the realmatics. I'm not even sure if soulcasting affects primarily the cognitive or the spiritual aspect. But either way, killing the person is not part of the soulcasting. That's just a side-effect, because accidentally a body of stone cannot support life. So you can reverse the soulcasting, it's just that the side effet will stay. I think the closer it could come to be reversible would be soulcasting someone's blood to a physiological saline solution; while that's lethal, it takes a few minutes to kill (without emoglobine, it cannot carry enough oxygen to support the tissues, so death by asphyxiation will occur), and if before those few minutes are passed you soulcast the solution back to blood, the person will be fine. After the person is already dead, the person will stay dead. and the soulcasting mechanics doesn't change a thing, because whether the person died from lack of oxygen carried in his blood is not part of the soulcasting. EDIT: i wasn't specifying it, but even if the soul is still in the cognitive realm, where it can be brought back, reversing the soulcasting will not bring back the soul, because the soul was not detached from the body by the soulcasting. though soulcasting the body back can allow healing to bring the soul back.

i think not. soulcasting changes the substance, but it cannot bring a soul back into what is now an inanimate object. at best, you could have a body with no discernible cause of death. Just as reattaching a decapitated head won't revive the person. Also, the human body is not made by a single stuff, but by hundreds of different tissues, so turning a block of stone into one should be too complex to be feasible.

Sanderson is capable of creating a completely different ecosystem, but he can't do that for every book. and especially not on a short book where he doesn't have the space to describe the new ecosystem. in fact, he did it only on roshar because the stormlight archive books are his longest. also, there is the sense of familiarity in the readers; will readers easily familiarize with a book describind something completely alien? So, that's it. yolen was very earth-like for convenience. other planets were populated by shards, who used yolen as model. earth doesn't enter into it. I've never liked the "it's all our same reality" trope, I think it's been done to death, and anyway it rarely holds up to close scrutiny, or it ages poorly - for example, the wheel of time implied that the first age ended with a nuclear war between america and russia, which was all good during the cold war when the first book was written, but is now much less likely; not to mention that with nuclear disarming they still got enough to deal plenty of damage, but nowhere near as many as they had during the peak of the nuclear race; it doesn't seem enough to justify the end of an age.