Narcoleptic Axolotl

On 8/2/2020 at 1:53 PM, Channelknight Fadran said:

New Mexico, USA (I don't feel comfortable sharing my city).

Hey, I have a cousin going to NM on her mission. Maybe you'll run into one another.

Anyway, @Young Bard (or whoever else can do it) put me down for San Diego.

On 8/2/2020 at 8:48 AM, Matrim’s Dice said:

I just got back from visiting family in Utah, and there I was able to go to church! It was nice. Now I'm back in Washington, where it's still not allowed  Oh well. 

And if we're doing mission stories, my dad went to Russia and met a witch lady who licked his companion's eyeball. So...

My sister got called to Russia. Got home a little over a year ago and is still obsessed with the place. She's just that type of person though. Don't think she had her eye licked, but she did meet a number of . . . odd characters.

Nice. I just picture Kaladin closing his eyes and suddenly hearing slow jazz drifting out from the chasms . . .

On 10/20/2020 at 3:53 PM, revelryintheart said:

aw dang you don't do statistics

that's the math im in right now hehe

Oh, I hate stats. I tend to like and understand most math, but stats . . . it frightens me.

On 10/25/2020 at 8:48 PM, Zelly said:

Welp, I'm fresh out of math problems, but here's some links to a few of my favorite math channels.

Do you like numberphile? Numberphile - Monty Hall

Or vsauce? How to count past infinity

Or vsauce2? The Secret of Snakes and Ladders

Or this series of Ted-Ed animated riddles (some are more mathy than others)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ZEfxAL9SI

 

Don't forget 3blue1brown! One of the best calculus explanations available. Khan Academy is generally pretty good too.

I definitely hated Shallan in the first book. I was bored by her chapters and I didn't see what she had to do with the interesting stuff going on at the shattered plains. I would've thought she was from a different universe except for her association with Jasnah Kholin, who I figured out about halfway through was related to Dalinar. I didn't care about Shallan's problems, and I thought she was just a whiny little child. Well, she is kind of a whiny little child.

I started to like her more in WoR, since I though Veil was kind of interesting. I'm still confused at why Shallan refuses to all-out join the ghostbloods. I mean, it's not like that tattoo would stick, so she really has nothing to worry about in regards to getting discovered

I just don't like her as a character that much. It didn't help to see her identity crisis in OB. The truth seemed so obvious to me, that I just found myself getting annoyed whenever she brought it up. That said, I don't think she's really a poorly written character. I think her jokes are stupid, but as we've seen with Wit, Brandon is fully capable of writing the most hilarious of insults. So her jokes are intentionally kind of dull. She kind of reminds me of Anakin. Everybody thought Hayden Christensen did a horrible job playing Anakin, but in fact, that just the way his character is. (I looked for the quote for about ten minutes, but I couldn't find it. But from George Lucas's own mouth, Hayden Christensen executed his lines perfectly. That's the person Anakin is.) So while I'm sick of Shallan being the way she is, I recognize that that's the way Brandon intentionally wrote her. I hope he'll write her into a more mentally stable person, but I'll accept her for now.

Alright, it was good to get that out. Back to the theory boards!

18 minutes ago, Ookla the Unnamable said:

Well, Dalinar having such vastly increased strength doesn't fit with the other exhibits of strength we have seen, as Kaladin was surprised when Rock was able to draw the Shardbow.

That's a very good point. I still don't think we should rule it out though, since Dalinar's a bondsmith. It may be that bondsmiths - or possibly just anyone who bonds the Stormfather - do get increased strength from stormlight. I don't think that's too much of a stretch. But, you have just answered the original question. If stormlight does grant extra strength, it is negligible. (Unless you're a bondsmith maybe, but we only have one data point there, so best to wait for more information.)

5 hours ago, FollowYourMuse said:

I had actually thought about this. I am thinking that many are varieties of crepes.  
I found 8 plus the 10th Tashi one, though the 7th could be the same as the other 2 sweet varieties. 

1. Sun Day pancakes Tuk-cake
2. salty, with chopped-up vegetables.
3. Another tasted sweet.
4. variety was fluffier, almost without any substance to it, though there was some kind of sauce to dip it in
5.  dense variety, with mashed-up paste in the center that was too sticky and salty.
6. One has sugar in the center.
7. a variety she’d already tried— the ones with sweet stuff in the middle. 
   (This could be the same as 3 or 6) 
8.  a type with a real thick, almost mealy texture.

    10. The tenth is dedicated to Tashi

My guesses. 
2 = standard savory Crepe with vegetable filling
3 = Sweet pancake - Either this is one with sweet filling, or a Sweet pancake like Brown sugar pancakes, or maple syrup in the batter pancakes.
4 = fluffy pancake like buttermilk pancakes, or one of the recipes where you whip the egg whites into a meringue and fold it in. one of the 
- this could be a Beghrir type pancake with honey sauce. 
- or Netherlands Poffertjes, Aebleskiver's
5 = Salted Caramel Crepe, Russian blinis with caviar
6= Swedish pancake with powdered sugar
7= pancake/crepe with fruit/jam filling, or sweetened cheese filling
8. Buckwheat flapjacks, Potato pancakes, 

Other options I considered. 
Finnish Pannu Kakku, German pancakes, Indonesian Serabi, Poffertjes, Aebleskiver's ... 

Oh, thank you! This is a big help. I guess I'll just make up the ninth. My sister knows how to make this lemon sauce, that is absolutely divine. Do you have chapter references for these? Thanks again!

I think they're mostly just supposed to be the typical, flat round pancakes, judging by the fact that Lift uses a shard fork to try to eat them, and ends up just wedging it just the right way under the pancake that she can pick it up and eat it. I'd have to read it again to be sure.

12 minutes ago, Ookla the Unnamable said:

What the WoB states is that Dalinar, with Stormlight, could not lift a stone of equivalent weight under normal conditions.

Also, I know what High Imperial is.

I guess it comes down to interpretation then. I think it's pretty clear that it says Dalinar could not lift that stone without stormlight, but because he had stormlight, he was able to push his body far enough to get that stone back into place. Then, he used his surges (possibly his resonance) to reattach it to its supports. I think Brandon could've answered more clearly, so I admit that you might be right. Just, what I got from that was not the same thing you got from it.

8 hours ago, Ookla the Tortured said:

What’s your favorite cosmere book?

What's your favorite cosmere character?

Cheese?

WoK without a doubt. It may be because that was my introduction to the cosmere, but I love it more than any other book ever. I've been trying to get my sister to read it for years, but she doesn't like Michael Kramer's voice (how is that possible???) and we don't have a paper copy.

Possibly Kaladin for the same reason. The length of the book made me really feel how much effort he had to put in just to get the members of Bridge 4 talking to him. I guess he was kind of relatable in that way? I will say this though: Vin and Elend were the first love story I ever actually cared about. I mean, it's not like I didn't ever want any two other characters to end up together, but it was more like, "wouldn't it be nice if they started dating" or something. But when Elend gave her that handkerchief, I thought: "If you don't marry this man, I will DIE."

Pepperoni. I'll take some sausage on there too, if you have some. And onions. Should I pick it up in ten minutes?

14 minutes ago, Ookla the Unnamable said:

The questioner specifically stated that Dalinar had stormlight.

Yes, but you originally said:

On 12/9/2020 at 0:14 PM, Ookla the Unnamable said:

You are right that it would be overpowered, but Dalinar lifting that stone was not because of stormlight:

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TheDanfromSpace

Could Dalinar lift stones of equivalent weight to the statue [in Thaylen City]? Assuming enough Stormlight. Or was that extra strength part of his Surges?

Brandon Sanderson

You are correct--Dalinar could not lift stones of equivalent weight in other circumstances.

General Reddit 2020 (March 5, 2020)

 

when the WoB clearly states that it was because of stormlight.

As for the High Imperial, see here.

So, on Christmas morning, I want to make pancakes. But not just any pancakes. I want to have several different kinds of pancakes. I want to have ten different varieties of pancakes. Specifically, the ten different kinds of pancakes Lift eats when she goes to Yeddaw in the novella Edgedancer. But here's the problem: I don't know what all the varieties of pancakes were. I read through Edgedancer recently, and I only remember three - one has sweet stuff in the middle, one is less sweet and kind of chewy(?), and one isn't a pancake at all, it's just a thought. So really I only know two kinds of pancakes to make. And I'm kind of lost on how to make the ones I do know about.

Are all ten varieties even described in the book? I don't remember. If it's gonna take going back and listening to the whole thing again, I will. But I thought I really should ask here first; make sure I'm not trying to re-do work that has already been done. So if yall have any information on the Yeddaw pancakes, please post it here. Even knowing the chapter references where the pancakes are talked about would be a big help, since then I would have a much smaller search range. That's all. Thanks!

Seeker. I guess there are upsides, but it's in no way the coolest. So that was fun.

Alright, before I take the quiz, I predict that I'm a Lightweaver (maybe truthwatcher, but I think that's less likely). That's not to say I couldn't see myself as a stoneward (hence my profile pic), an elsecaller, or an edgedancer. Not to say that I wouldn't be proud to call myself a bondsmith, a willshaper, or a windrunner. I would, however, be surprised if I were a skybreaker or dustbringer. But anyway, let's take that quiz.

. . .

While I'm technically not 'new here' I haven't been active on the shard since I made my account, so I don't have any close friends here yet. Still, I would like to compliment @Ookla the Channelknight and @Chasmgoat on their comedic prowess. I will also compliment sharders in general for being so wholesome, intelligent, and interesting. We can be putting our heads together on one thread, theorizing about surgebinding or what the title of the next Stormlight book will be, then jump over to another thread about silly character ships. I am so proud of this community.

Oh, how did I miss that. Thanks, Phil.

I guess I'll . . . do one of these. I'll try to answer all your questions in depth and honestly. (Although silly questions might receive silly answers.) I don't promise complete honesty because this is the internet and some information should just never be shared. As Jasnah says,

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"I do forgive your curiosity, but I cannot reward it. These secrets are mine."  (The Way of Kings, chapter 29)

I have a lot of opinions on a lot of things, so this should get . . . interesting.

That's enough preamble, let's get on to the questions!

23 hours ago, Ookla the Sly said:

Wasing the wishing of having on the all. Wasing the wishing the alling wasing the being of learning of saying the say. Notting the learning, causing the wasing the sadding. 

Wasing of having of brightness! Wasing the thinking of spreading of the say, liking of this:

On 12/9/2020 at 0:14 PM, Ookla the Unnamable said:

You are right that it would be overpowered, but Dalinar lifting that stone was not because of stormlight:

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TheDanfromSpace

Could Dalinar lift stones of equivalent weight to the statue [in Thaylen City]? Assuming enough Stormlight. Or was that extra strength part of his Surges?

Brandon Sanderson

You are correct--Dalinar could not lift stones of equivalent weight in other circumstances.

General Reddit 2020 (March 5, 2020)

 

Thinking the Unnamable notting of the understanding. Saying of the Brandon ising of Dalinar, notting of having the strength of enough.

How do I pick up women like Adolin?

(Clarification: I'm not implying that I want a woman who is like Adolin, or that Adolin is secretly a woman. I want to be able to pick up women the same way Adolin picks up women.)

What do you think of Brandon being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (aka Mormon)? Does it make you skeptical of some of the philosophies in his books?

How do I make myself work when I would rather play?

If anyone is looking for a list of ranks with corresponding reputation levels, I have one here. I don't remember where I found it, and it's more than 2 years old, so take it with a pinch of copper.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iD9v7ZkSwJl5YRhcuHanIVVSjPm0Mya7nNaPR6we3iM/edit

Having the have of the sticks to the fridge. Ever the thinking of the speak, wasing the want of the sharing of the speak. See?

I see. Well then, thank you all very much, and thank you for not spoiling stuff.

I came across this while researching for a Heroes of Might and Magic II scenario I was building. If any of you play that game, or are just interested in anything to do with the Stormlight Archives, I recommend you follow this post: 

The scenario will be relatively easy, and for that reason, maybe it'll be a good one for beginners to play to introduce themselves to the best strategy game, nay, the best game of ALL TIME.

So anyway, I just thought I would advertise the map, as I'm very proud of it and it's something I think you can all enjoy.

I was on my way through Oathbringer again in preparation for Rhythm of War, and I thought to myself: "Dalinar's conquests would make an excellent Heroes map." In fact, whenever I hear an excellent story about war, I often have a similar thought. But anyway, this time I acted on it and started making the map. It's coming along super well, and I would like to share it with my fellow Sanderfans when it is finished. I've only spent a few hours on it so far, but I'm very proud of what's been done. I will upload it here when I complete it, and maybe some of you might want to test it and give me feedback. I will test it once or twice myself before uploading it. Also, if any of you have advice on compressing and uploading map files, I would appreciate that.