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April 21 - Stroniax - LordSteel (V?)
Dysphoric Kitten replied to Glaring at the Survivor's topic in Reading Excuses
As I said before, Mudhead can be replaced by Dirthead or Dirthair. I only speak English and Hebrew. We have a sound that is sometimes designated Kh, and it is similar to those I discussed above. It appears in the words Hannuka (Khannuka) and Hutzpa (Khutzpa), if they are pronounced correctly. Which they usually are not. Actually, if we are talking about the same sound, skip to 10:00 on the following video. The last word Clinton says (you will need to listen really loudly, though, because he says it quietly) contains that sound, although poorly rendered because of both his American-ness, and the low volume. I would give you a video in Hebrew, but we usually talk too fast to catch the nuances of that sound, and this is a close enough and slow enough approximation to see if that is what we talking about is the same. -
Cosmere Monopoly (Now Cosmere Domination)
Dysphoric Kitten replied to Jo and the Bush's topic in Creator's Corner
A. Spoilers. Fun. B. I meant, with all denominations and stuff. That would be mad. C. Sorry, I was unclear. Why not make a version written in either of the languages? D. But recognisability is not the only measure of how fit things are. E. For that reason (D), I believe Seons are not fit for it, but Aon Reo would be great. F. Yes. Yes you are right. -
Cosmere Monopoly (Now Cosmere Domination)
Dysphoric Kitten replied to Jo and the Bush's topic in Creator's Corner
Guys? A. Why a stick...? B. We should write all prices using Stormlight currency. Awesomeness to the max! C. How about doing an Alethi/Scadrian version? That would be so sweet. D. A metalmind seems boring to me... I would get Valette's torn gown. It is quite a cool piece, I think. E. How would we make something as amorphic as a Seon? F. Lifeless, or lifeless squirrel? -
I only do audible because print Sanderson does not exist in Israel, at least not in English (and there is no way I am buying it in hebrew, as TLR was called "the emperor who rules" or somesuch), and my import ability is basically none. This means I take audiobooks, which are digital and therefore available, and since I hated GA (I won't rant on them here), I went here. I love the readers, they are magnificent. I can only bless Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, and the other ones I have heard so far are good as well. This is so fun, and so emotional. I loved their Numuhumumakiaki'aialunamor, and their "I am hope" scene touched me so much I wept when I received my print Mistborn signed with that. I must say on the names thing, that Yasnah, Elland, Kabsel, Reoden, Aioden, Sadious, and Doxin are all spellings I believed were true.
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April 21 - Stroniax - LordSteel (V?)
Dysphoric Kitten replied to Glaring at the Survivor's topic in Reading Excuses
Kh - like Jalepiño or Mexico? Like Loch ness? (where are you from and what languages do you speak?) Harry Potter = Mudblood You = Mudhead Does it not sound similar? Zero training = zero training in being a Dragonbound. He seems that way because in the first three pages, you give us someone who by his standards is impossibly advanced, and someone who is impossibly advanced by the master's standards. We do not even know if he has any skill or training at all, and he already is compared to people so great he thought they could not exist. This makes the reader question his skill very heavily. Which is why I was surprised that he gets meetings with kings, who need people who know what they are doing. No, it is teleportation if you bind and unbind in quick succession. You appear to have teleported onto your dragon. Yeah, three archers missing, then chickening out? And trying to run away from a man superior to them in all ways, according to what you are trying to convey, which means that he can catch up with them and slay them to death. Really, that makes perfect sense. Yeah, it sounds Scandinavian. Aarraa. Just sounds strange. Why not get them names? -
April 21 - Stroniax - LordSteel (V?)
Dysphoric Kitten replied to Glaring at the Survivor's topic in Reading Excuses
I included all of the comments I had, even if in retrospect it was resolved. Resolved ones will be marked by a + Page 1 "DragonBound" - doublecaps are annoying, please do not use them. Renamed city - it makes the sentence awkward, but in retrospect, was a useful piece of information, when we see the name of the king. If you could rephrase it, maybe into two sentences, it would be helpful. Hair infodump, and I still do not understand why he is hiding his eyes. (by the end of the chapter, I am thinking maybe green eyes are exclusive to Dragonbound, or maybe every order or something has a very special colour) "A very important item" is very annoying to see in narration. Either name it or delete the whole list. Especially when it does not appear again. Kh - do you mean the sound in "the loch ness monster"? Kh is quite a jarring sound in English. "said to the dragon" - not said, as he did not speak. "mudhead" - were the Potter flashbacks intentional? (try dirthead or dirthair) +Green eyes are possible with brown hair. To go one more extreme, my grandfather has a bright blue/jet black combination Nobody in the street is surprised seeing a blond in skaa clothes? Why does the general infodump Rig about himself, of all things, in the street? Can only Dragonbound speak via Wave? (It seems like that is why the general is suspicious) "I glanced" WOW. PoV shift. He got caught so easily? Either he sneaks into cities every other week, or this is much, much too forced. Grabbed neck - That was fast. Hothead. Page 2 Can he not differentiate between people talking to him? Plot point, or I'll be disappointed. Thought-spoke - should be "said" or something less burdening. Not spoke though. (how about giving it a name?) Awk does not feel real. Nobody insists on something they cannot confirm was done. If he must, he can ask Rig. But not the general. Is Rig a rookie? So... time travel? He nods while telepathing? Really? The general (call him that, until he is more than that) folds too easily. Still a hothead. Awk likes talking in irrelevant chinese sayings, it seems. Is Awk an Earthling? Rig caught the saying very nicely. "Ah, but you not" => "Ah, but you do not", unless I did not understand what you mean. "fires, burning, they will cause" - this is not the best sentence... I wonder how it could be rephrased. I struggled finishing the poem. If you could edit the page so the poem is cut somewhere closer to the middle or not at all, it would be much more readable. Page 3 Yes, time travel. Yes, Earthling. And quoting Doctor Who, no less. I do not get it. Does Awk not see Rig is annoyed? (it took me a while to notice he might be so, but this should be obvious to Awk, and he acts as if Rig is amused) The dish pun and subsequent banter just did not feel good to me. Sorry. Again, I am not sure about both their attitudes. Are they friendly or passive-aggressing? Or is one one, and the other the other? Why the speeds lecture? It seems like an intentional setup. By you. So Rig has zero training? So Awk has infinite training? (he knows how to prevent something that almost cannot be done) So... teleportation too? Page 4 Meeting a king? He must be good, then... But wait, I thought we just said that he is not... I'm confused. (does he meet in virtue of something else?) Perfectly round continent? Either it is that way because of magic, or it is just too unlikely. Themes? Magically enforced, it seems. (call them by a different name, possibly in-world and made up) "Anything hitting with force would (not?) bounce, but would sink slowly", right? Fence paragraph - edit the first two sentences to be one. Horses: show his surprise at their scalelessness, or something. In-world is always better than detached. Rig is a madman. Four on one, plus archers backing them, and he barely knows how the magic works? Idiot man. He dropped the sword, then attacked a man holding a sword using what? His arms? If so, blocking would not damage the blade... The archers shot a friend (simultaniously? why and how?), then ran away? This post has been reported for attempting to skirt the rules? Page 5 ...waitwhat... Aarraa? Is that not Scandinavian for "potato"? Why the pain difference? Is it reversed for dragons? (i.e. when someone is in their body, they are in more pain, and when they are in another's, there is less?) Wyvern? Is that Scottish for "This post has been reported for attempting to skirt the rules"? -
I agree, it just felt so short and unexplored to me. But I must admit, this is how most films feel to me. Additionally, I really expected to get it straight up, with Elsa being the antagonist. It would have been so cool! When I sat down to watch it though, it was not that plot, it seems, which, frankly, disappointed me. Additionally, small things like the inconsistency with the spotlight (Anna and whatshisname are dancing on thin air in the spotlight shot of "Love is an Open Door") or like the fact that ice is stronger than a sword, perhaps as strong as diamond, which is just a Deus Ex Machina moment to me, these broke my enjoyment of the film. Ask an admin like Comatose, KChan or Chaos, they can do it. Do not forget to send them the link so they do not have to look for it.
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If you are interested in the mechanics, they were explained in the MB1 epilogue. It broke my willing suspension of disbelief, actually, that scene, as Sazed, who had just discovered TLR was a full Metalborn, invents compounding, finds an explanation as to how it works, and figures out that you will get ten times as much juice, without ever encountering compounding, and all of these fantasies of his were discovered to be true, even the "you get ten times the attribute", which was a wild guess. But, to sum up what he said about the mechanics, ig goes like this: Allomancers draw upon Presevation ("the power of the metal") to fuel Allomancy. Keepers draw on their own body to fuel Feruchemy. Now, what if you could burn an attribute instead of a metal? That way you would get your attribute fuelled by Preservation, who has way too much power, and therefore could draw on more of the attribute than you have given because you are taking the power from it and not yourself. That is what burning a charged metal does. Kolo?
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I want to try, but I do not write anything of my own regularly. I can try, and will probably be able to give adequate feedback, but whether or not I fit your group is really up to you guys.
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It would only work if all of your linking words are either "non" or "a". Somehow, I don't believe that is possible. No, I would not classify anything above K0, because that is the perfect example. Which words you use is not part of the form, so this is just a fun thing about it, not a holier or better class.
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No. A palindrome ketek will either not be a real sentence or not be a ketek. Therefore, I do not think it has any place. But maybe others disagree. A ketek has both meaning and the structure of a real sentence, unlike "level nun, mom tot, bob tot, mom nun, level", and is the same words, unlike "go sniff a stiff, I am busy bob ysub, ma I ffits a ffins og". Kolo?
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[game] Buy or Sell?
Dysphoric Kitten replied to firstRainbowRose's topic in Forum Games & Random Stuff
Wait, what? Was everything I wrote completely wrong? Sorry! -
[game] Buy or Sell?
Dysphoric Kitten replied to firstRainbowRose's topic in Forum Games & Random Stuff
I am very tempted to downvote both of you who only answered, not offering anything to advance the game. Sorry, but this is hurtful to the thread. If you want to answer something, you must ask something. Sell. Dalinar is to upright and uptight to do that. Hoid will be a teacher to another character on-screen. -
[game] Buy or Sell?
Dysphoric Kitten replied to firstRainbowRose's topic in Forum Games & Random Stuff
Or the sequel. Hoid will have a whole new power showcased in WoR. -
You should return to MBI, then. I am still stuck on one reputation point, with people passing me by within three posts! This week, someone joined and was upped to 6 before the day was out, and I am still on ash-ridden, mist-forgotten, storms-cursed one! Also, you did not respond to my idea, and I am curious to know what you think about it. The idea was a negative rank humorously named "Scalzi".
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[game] Buy or Sell?
Dysphoric Kitten replied to firstRainbowRose's topic in Forum Games & Random Stuff
Sell. She will be the one to defeat Odium. At least, I hope so. In WoR, the parshendi war will be stopped for a short time by Dalinar. -
[game] Buy or Sell?
Dysphoric Kitten replied to firstRainbowRose's topic in Forum Games & Random Stuff
Buy. That happened already. Shallan will be single the whole WoR. -
[game] Buy or Sell?
Dysphoric Kitten replied to firstRainbowRose's topic in Forum Games & Random Stuff
Buy. And one will later become a KR. Preferably Numuhukumakiaki'aialunamor himself. Wit will have a personal life onscreen in WoR. Maybe a romance? -
I have a negarep name I believe could be nice, but only if taken humorously - "Scalzi". To clarify, I quite liked him, so it is nothing against him, just a joke as for his status.
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No, you were not cheating. Cheating is doing something FOR reputation points. You deserve yours. (besides, the amount you got is not even a fifth of all your rep, and even without them, you have an ample amount)
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As well as you. I feel left out.
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No longer true. Bruj has a higher-than-one ratio now, as well.
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Maybe he can play Vin, then. Or Shan. Maybe even Mare. Also, first post upvote!
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Which power would you choose?
Dysphoric Kitten replied to Straff Venture's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Sorry, Doc. I misunderstood. If we were to replace these metal things by allomantic versions, that would be relly cool. With that, I agree. -
Which power would you choose?
Dysphoric Kitten replied to Straff Venture's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Not if they are non-allomantic alloys. No, I don't mean non-pure alloys (which means same materials, wrong percentage, and would make an allomancer sick), I mean non-allomantic alloys (wrong materials, would kill an allomancer). These are much more common than allomantic metals, pure or otherwise. But, if you insist that I am wrong, I yield. Believe what you will, it doesn't make a difference anyway. Just out of curiosity, King of Nowhere, were my points about the metals not being used widely enough (the ones phrased as a question to you) true, according to your more extensive knowledge in the area?
