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Thank you. I didn't get the reference, and I did not at all appreciate being told to "suck it." Hopefully you'll be more aware in the future of how your words can be taken; not everyone understands all the cultural references that you do. Considering how stalwartly I stood against so many people telling me, erroneously, that I was wrong to be adamant about your nature, I was rather offended at your casual claim that you "fooled everyone." I appreciate your apology.

I disagree. I think it'd be far easier for Preservation, I think it would take less effort for Preservation, but we know any power source can power any system, we know Ruin could power allomancy had he chosen to, and I think the Shards are, functionally, Gods. I can't prove it, but I'd be very surprised if she couldn't. I believe that "direct Shardic intervention" is a mind-numbingly powerful thing in the cosmere.

Yes. Just think of yourself as the first to corroborate! You're still novel!

Well yes... "barring direct Shardic intervention" is the caveat to literally everything on these fora. Cultivation could presumably make Kaladin a Mistborn if she felt like it.

This game itself, when properly run, is a very fun game. I just didn't enjoy it with this group. You have twice now allowed others to spit vitriol at me, to call me a dominating dictator, to brag about how they fooled me, to lie about me and disparage me. And twice, when I've tried to stand up for myself, you've decided to tell me what I am and am not allowed to be offended by, and to publicly chastise me in front of the entire thread. Thankfully, you don't actually have the authority that you claim, and aren't allowed to tell me what I can and cannot read, nor are you allowed to apply your double-standard that people are allowed to say whatever they want to disparage me, however rudely they wish, but I'm never allowed to stand up for myself. I was right from the start. My logic was sound. Have any of the people who, in the game, complained because I was trying to convince people to vote a certain way, have any of them come up to apologize? Has anyone acknowledged that if more people used their brains instead of their "gut", the villagers would have won easily? Nope. Everyone just patting each other on the back, telling themselves, "yeah, well he's still mean, so it doesn't matter, even though he was correct, we're still right because that's how we feel, and our opinions are better than facts." Sorry, Meta. If you don't like what I have to say, then feel free to take your own suggestion, and leave the thread.

@Alaxel: Marry me.

All? Really? You fooled a bunch of morons. Get over yourself.

This was awful. The game is only fun when played with intelligent people. In response to my logical debate, I was ridiculed and belittled, and when I tried to stand up for myself, I got shot down by the same moderator that allowed these bullies free rein. It makes me sad to know I can never hurt any of you the way this game has hurt me. edit: P.S., Spiked, don't go gloating. The villagers handed you this game and you know it.

It's impossible to be sure, since it's very hard to tell the difference between a Spiked and someone playing a villager very, very badly, but in my opinion the Spiked are Beetle, Clancy and Wilson. If there were 4 Spiked to begin with, we lose the game in the next hour or so. We prolong the inevitable if there were only 3 or even 2 Spiked to begin with. If I'm right, we're dead, end of story. If I'm wrong, our only hope is that I give you my vote. Maill.

It's worth pointing out that my friend suspects this might be trolling, unless and until we hear independent confirmation from someone else. I personally suspect it's true, but that's not a universal opinion, thought it might be a popular one.

I disagree that there is only one interpretation. Humans have spiritwebs, and they have cognitive aspects. There's certainly the idea that this is what "balance" is, and that Lift is imbalanced, because her physical aspect extends partly into the cognitive. I don't think your one interpretation is "clear" at all.

Valid, and ... well, if you're in the Steelhunt you prolly know what my second point is. Also, in that fight scene an awful lot of metal was stuck into Wax.

There are few people who are bringing up one very good point... the assumption that the sparker will accurately deduce the fighter's move. I even made this assumption in my own post. But atium is feint-proof; it doesn't react to what it thinks you will do, it reacts to what you actually will do. Almost every argument made in favor of the Sparker has assumed that every conclusion come to will be the right one. Like the DHS says about terrorists, we have to be lucky 100% of the time. They only have to be lucky once. The seer might attack, the sparker would see it and react, splitting his shadow, maybe there's still time for the seer to react again, the sparker splits the shadow again... but before it gets so bad that it's a cloud, the sparker comes to a mistaken conclusion. Just "having more time to think about it" doesn't mean you make the right choice, or that you're getting perfect information. "It looks like he's shifting his weight to the left, but I can't be sure... there's a very good chance this is a feint, so I'm going to assume it is... if it is a feint, the real attack will most likely come from lower..." but the sparker can't know for sure with his imperfect information. The seer can, because his information is more perfect. I still think it's close. Remember, in Vin's scenario, she's fought atium burners before. In fact, she's fought Zane-when-he-had-atium, twice already I believe. If we assume it's a seer as ready to fight a sparker as the sparker is ready to fight a seer, I'm starting to think the slight advantage would go to the seer. Final thought... if their skill is even, low-skilled fighters will go to the seer, while high-skilled fighters will go to the sparker. If someone with as little practical combat experience as me were to fight someone like me, and he came at me with a feint, I would have no experience to draw on to know if it was a real, committed strike or not until it was too late. What I'm saying is, more combat experience would help the seer some, but it would help the sparker a lot, since it would make him/her far more likely to accurately interpret the seer's moves.

Also, short of lerasium, there's no way for someone who has one allomantic ability to gain the rest.

It apparently just ticked over to 300... frankly, his website doesn't warrant enough traffic for him to spend a lot of money on a team to provide upkeep like it was buzzfeed or something. I'm not gonna start worrying until a day has passed; perhaps even longer.

What Kurk said. As I've noted, we have exactly one reference to theft during highstorms, and that's the fact that Gaz, not a terribly intelligent or stable man, is paranoid of theft when he leaves his own spheres stuck to a wall. There is no problem that needs solving.

Again... why? Why expose a machine with moving parts to the fury of a highstorm? What problem are you solving?

...or because you, me, and everyone else with the same idea keeps spamming the website and taking up their bandwidth, giving their server a headache, yeah? ^^;;; I live in Washington, DC. To the best of my knowledge, he has not been any closer than Balto since the Steelhunt began. Would it be worth it to head out to some bookstores and check his books for cards? Does anyone know any particular bookstore chain he favors?

Why solve a problem they don't have? Is there an epidemic of gemstone loss? Why construct a complicated machine, leave the moving parts out for the highstorms to damage, and create a system that opens a door to a highstorm in the strongest part of a highstorm... just so you don't have to leave spheres outside to get wet? No one mentions spheres being damaged, and the only time we hear that they might get stolen is when Gaz has simply tied them to a wall in the middle of a bunch of slaves and thieves. Maybe in the future when "retractable machines" are a real thing, people will do that more frequently. These people have medieval technology. It takes someone with the resources of a highprince to try to make a bridge that goes up and down, and that fails. Yet you use the lack of futuristic technology to solve a problem that doesn't exist to prove your point?

I'm not sure that's necessary; you're assuming that there is just one point in a storm that charges a sphere. One single charged sphere likely wouldn't have healed all the damage of a full storm; it seems more likely that as the storm passed, the sphere did act as a filter, constantly filling with stormlight that Kaladin breathed in.

I'm pretty sure not... remember that Kaladin had that sphere with him that time he was out in the Highstorm. It's just a gut feeling, but I don't think humans can draw in raw investiture. With the obvious exception aside (please recall that this isn't the WoR spoiler forum and tread carefully when you respond to this) I doubt that a Radiant could inhale stormlight directly from a storm, not without filtering it through a polestone. Perhaps it's an advanced technique further along in the ideals.

Meh, if he could craft multiple illusions with the minimal power provided before he fixed Rao, it's possible that it will require little enough Dor that he might be able to accomplish it. Yeeeees. I'm personally certain that of the four Shardworlds we've seen, the metallic arts (and especially allomancy) have by far the most fascinating crossmere applications.

I'd suspect it'd be hard, if not impossible, to disguise the glowyness as you draw the aons, however. Meantime there's not necessarily any apparent signature to Soothing someone, or for that matter, there's a lot of time even a coinshot can get away with some subtle uses of his power. And unless I'm forgetting something, bronze is the only way to find Investiture, period. For several reasons, I'd suspect it could even find an Elantrian beneath a disguise.

A sword, a pair of glasses, a belt-buckle, utensils, a pocketwatch... you can carry a TON of metal on your person without raising eyebrows. Not all of it is "I can swallow it in a heartbeat" variety, but the fact is that if you're trying to stay under the radar (which is the best advantage any worldhopper has), It's a lot easier to sneak around as "a person who own a metal object" than "someone with all these glowy marbles," or "that dude with an aura of bright colors, seriously what is that?" You could have an entire statue of Scadrian copper, carry it to your home on Sel without anyone having reason to suspect it's anything other than a statue, then grind it up into a literal lifetime's supply of smoking.

Why? We'll get all of Words of Radiance before very much longer. I'm hoping for something that we won't otherwise get for a while.