king of nowhere

well, kaladin didn't really ddo it out of vengeance before either. szeth attacked him, kaladin counterattacked, szeth didn't parry. it was a fairly clear case of suicide by cop, but kaladin had to defend himself. cutting szeth's hand is actually a good alternate solution, that also gives the chance of interrogating him.

I am with the "sparing szeth's life, but then not trying to save him from the fall, sounds quite hypocrit". but then, maybe it is supposed to. Not that there would be anything wrong with killing szeth, he was very dangerous, I think even without the blade he still knew how to fight well and he was mostly mad. Sparing szeth also seems like a doublle standard: how many of the listeners has kaladin killed in fight? I don't remember him going for non-killing blows. So, if the purpose was to make kaladin look better, then it failed. if the purpose was to show kaladin trying to be better, and still struggling at it, then it's on the spot. Either way, I don't see it as an important enough change to justify a retcon like that. However, I trust brandon with it. he knows far more about writing than I do, and so far he's never really let me down.

I found her less annoying after this book instead. She has always been an annoying arrogant twit. In this book she goes from being an immature annoying arrogant twit who doesn't know as much as she thinks to being a mature annoying arrogant twit who has a point. That makes her attitude more acceptable. I still dislike all arrogant people, but if you have to go around teling everyone what to do, at least have the decency of being right. If you have the "I'm surrounded by idiots" attitude, at least have the decency of actually being smarter than them. she's still guilty of being an annoying arrogant twit, but she has a mitigating circumstance now.

Well, I can see why brandon would like that more. Still, I am worried that it could be confusing to people who don't follow the blog. if they have the book saying kaladin killed szeth, and then in book 3 it will be referenced that kaladin did not kill, then what will they think? Also, I can't get out of my head the alternate scene Szeth did not parry. He just closed his eyes to accept the attack. In that instant, for reasons he could not have articulated—pity, perhaps?— Kaladin diverted his blow, driving the Blade through Szeth’s wrist. The skin greyed. Flashing with reflected lightning, the sword tumbled from the assassin’s fingers, then dulled as it plummeted. Then, before he could think, kaladin said "Luke, I am your father". Huh, I wonder what was that about?

also, the plate was draining so much stormlight because it was being hit so much. if kkladin hadn't a pouch of spheres, that helm would have broken much sooner.

just a curiosity that came to me. could a very skilled tin ferring store only the sight of a few specific wavelenghts? the sounds of a few specific frequencies? the capacity to perceive a single specific smell? because if it was possible it would be pretty cool to be a living spectrometer.

I see it green and orange, because I'm not mainstream as you are. And I'll make an illusion in front of it to show that I was right alll along. I only need to find some stormlight first. EDIT: other possible things to do with the dress: awaken it with the command "tell which color you are" soulcast it to be of the desired color. soulcast it to ash, so as to end the discussion. eat the golden part and try to burn it to see if it is gold. plant some gold hemalurgic spikes in it, then say "see? i was right on the golden part" burn/tap tin to discern the color of the dress have the dress altered so that it fits your deformed dakor bones throw up a cadmium bubble near the dress so that people coming to see it will spend all the day there unknowingly stamp the dress to be blue and black. stamp the dress to be a white and gold dress that has been stamped to blue and black. buy the dress with a diamond and a smokestone spheres. discuss if the spheres are blue and black or white and gold. convince nightblood that the dress is evil cut yourself with the wire of the dress, then turn the dress to steel and kill everyone present except for a little kid.

so, that implies that those guys in the roman senate were rosharan lightweavers worldhoppers too? neat! that explains why the roman republic got into an endless series of civil wars before it became an empire. I didn't knew sanderson also wrote the hystory books

You don't need eidetic memory to read one page and remember it. There are memorization techniques that allow you to do that. They were already known in the ancient rome, when some people in the senate could hear a one-hour speech and repeat it verbatim afterwards. I've seen a guy do that on a smaller scale. feruchemist themselves learned those techniques, because it would help them fill their coppermind faster and decay less when tapped. Kwaan was just particularly good at it. nothing supernatural and not even a million-to-one rarity. If kwaan had been a surgebinder, than he would have been a worldhopper, and then he would have known about ruin all along. it is clear from his writing that he is not cosmere aware. His memory is simply the narrative device that lets him realize the prophecies have been changed. P.S. It's quite curious that ruin cannot read or alter scratches on a piece of metal, but he can read the ccontent of a metalmind.

"and here we saw a flash in the sky. it could have been anything; an asteroid, an ufo, a yeti. We went for the most logical explanation: it must have been a yeti who tried to shoot down an ufo by throwing an asteroid at it" Reading this thread made me think of that.

Amaram certainly thinks he's saving the world, and I would not be surprised if he actually ended up helping with it. Sanderson books generally have plenty of moral grey, and we already have the roles of black and white taken.

I don't see why jasnah would have wanted her assassinated. Also, everything we know about her suggests that she would not do it. Yes, she can be ruthless when the situation calls for it, but she has a good heart. she takes shallan in when she asks for help. she gives up precious stormlight while in shadesmar to save a bunch of sailors. she wouldn't killl a person without a good reason, and if dalinar's wife was kind hearted then i don't see what that "goood reason" would be.

there is another thread in this regard here http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/23408-nightblood-vs-immortality/ basicaly, we don't know for sure, but the most likely idea is that he does not age at all. as fordieing of physical harm, probably he can, but it woud take much more physical harm than can be reasonably inflicted. I'm reasonably sure that if we could strap him to the case of an atomic bomb and detonate it, it would kill hoid beyond his regenerative capability. Not sure on the effectiveness of anything smaller than that.

i think a sniper needs Allomantic pewter more than tin. pewter enhances dexterity too, and it doesn't matter how well you see your target if your hand is not still enough to hit.

which maakes me wonder; the book opens the day before the scheduled marriage of wax and steris, which was supposed to be 8 months after the events of AoL. Not enough for wax to look older. So either some significant time skip will happen, or he just looks older because of the light conditions and the beard.

we know that there is some "secret that broke them", and that supposedly would explain why those radiants bbetrayed their spren and forsook their oaths. It is probably linked to Nale trying to kill the new radiants. BUt I doubt we know enough to figure it out.

I'm a bit disappointed that Wayne isn't in it, but I still like it. HE was on the cover of alloy of law anyway

yeah, but generallly bad memories are useful for character development. that's a fine example of what i meant. so by erasing them you'd gain nothing of it. I'd see it less as useful and more as counterproductive.

Thanks for the kind words, although I did not need encouragement. Yes, my parents were loving and supporting and pretty good ones overall, but they couldn't understand certain kinds of diversity. they had no significant gender prejudices, and I am sure that if I had wanted to be a fashion designer they would have been cool with it. If I had been gay, they would have accepted it, although they would have probably considered it a handicap and not just a feature. Because that's something they can understand. But they could not understand being a loner (they still can't, but they at least accepted that I'm happy that way). It didn't help that I myself did not understood it at the time. Also, I suppose they were right in trying to make me have more experiences; not liking them helped me realize what I am. Their mistake was to make me feel bad about it. As for the nerd prejudices, they came mostly from the other kids, as my parents didn't even knew what a nerd was. They tried to convince me that videogames were bad for your brain cause they were stupid, but that's the one thing they could never persuade me no matter how young I was; a strategic game requires far more brain than football or any kind of "socially acceptable" activity, there's no way one can "become stupid" for playing one. In retrospect it should have been so easy. I made no friends at school. I made no friends at the football club. I made no friends in the groups my parents put me in. But I made plenty of friends playing chess. That was a big hint that I didn't have a real problem socializing, I simply needed the right kind of people for it. Too bad no one in our environment had the knowledge to recognize it. P.S. congrats on being an electrical engineer. My best friend was the only girl at mechanical engineering and my second best friend is the only woman above age 12 in the chess club (and has been for at least 20 years), so you are in good company.

Actually, I believe the real thing is that steelpush has a finite velocity. it doesn't apply a force on the metal like a magnet would do. it is instead like pressing an ethereal thumb on the metal to push on it. Proof: vin steelpushes coins with duraluminium, and they don't take fire. they also fail to go past the sound barrier. this shows that there is only a finite amount of speed you can impart to an object with a steelpush. if the object is light, it will reach that speed and then stop accelerating, even if you push stronger. and that's why vin wasn't getting enough push on the coin to lift herself, before the coin was on the ground.

the next time they forecast rain, you should post "the everstorm comes" EDIT: About the pronunciation issue, someone in the know may upload a youtube video in which they pronounce all the names.

I do revert men/women or gay/straight, but the principle is the same. I think your jew works better because it is appliable to more situations. But anyway, I thought about it a bit more and found out that the problem of prejudices is not just about sex or religion or stuff, those are only iceberg tips and more easy to recognize. The core of the issue is the idea that there is a "right" way of living, and everything else is "wrong", even if it doesn't hurt anyone. I have seen very little sexist or racist prejudice in my life, but I've seen plenty of the more general kind. I am a nerd, I have always been, and I spent my adolescence feeling ashamed for it because I was thaught it was wrong. I am a loner, I tend to make very few friends but very close, and I am now happy with that, but at the time my parents decided that it was wrong for me to have so few friends and forced me to go to some meetings of other young people, even if i had no interest in any of them. I remember spending an evening in a pizzeria staring at the wall because the others were talking about things I had no interest whatsoever in, and having the impression that there was something wrong with me. I was told that to be happy I needed to have a girlfriend, and I spent 6 years in self pity because I didn't have one. Then I fell in love with a girl who didn't want me, and after six more months of huge melodrama I slowly came to know her better and realized that, yes, she's beautiful, she's super sweet, she's nice, but she has a personality that is clearly incompatible with mine and I would never be able to get along with her. I still find her extremely attractive, on more than just the physical level, and I am fond of her, but I realize I cannot take her more than a few hours at a time. Now, if I could have a "friendship with benefits" with her, that would be perfect. Yeah, dream on. And then I realized that being fianced is not just the sweet stuff that they tell you about. And then I realized that hey, I was actually pretty happy with my life if I just stopped desiring to be something else because I was supposed to be. And thus huge character development was triggered and I came to realize a lot of things about myself and the world, among them the fact that I was told a big bunch of bullrust. It also improved my relations with other people, because when I was befriending someone it was because I wanted it, and not because I was supposed to. After that I started to notice that prejudice everywhere. My mother, refusing to play videogames because "they are a waste of time, they are not real life" and then spending an afternoon watching replicas of soap operas because "she's got nothing better to do". The movies with the outcast guy who would love to go to the party but they won't let him and he has to become a mainstream guy to be accepted and have fun (I was that guy; then I was allowed into the parties and got horribly bored. I wish I had known it earier). My young cousin, asking for "music that cool people listen". Only now I realize that it is the same prejudice as sexism and racism in just a slightly different form. So, instead of trying to tackle this or that manifestation of the prejudice problem, I think it is better to attack it at the core and just spread the idea that everyone is different and everyone should find his way in life without trying to conform to some standard model(s). What you want to do, not what you are supposed to wanting to do. Know yourself. Know what you want. Know how much you are willing to sacrifice to get it, and how much you are not willing. Know the consequences of your actions. Act accordingly. Worked wonderfully for me

there are many peoople connecting with iphones or mobiles and accidentally downvoting people they meant to upvote because of misclick on the small screen. maybe that's the case. sometimes you read posts saying "i meant to upvote but i misclicked, moderators please fix that". some likely do not notice they downvoted. I'd say that's a possibility. otherwise, i reallly have no idea what could have been the offensive content of the post. but anyway, my experience here tell me that if a post contains content that is frowned upon by some particularly sensitive people, but the majority considers ok, if you'll get downvoted someone will upvote to compensate. so, no worry.

yeah, hoid is funnctionally immortal in the sense that he has so many powers that there is no way a regular person is going to kill him. he's not immortal in the sense that he would not be able to win a darwin award if he tried. holding nightblood unsheated may just be one way of achieving that.

syl said that she cannot have sprens, but maybe she is wrong.