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  1. Phantom Monstrosity
    I probably should have posted the entire quote
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    He's halfway to Vegeta hair already. I just needed to finish it.
  3. Phantom Monstrosity
    By saying this, you're agreeing that having more mass *does* mean you exert more force per push.
  4. Phantom Monstrosity
    That seems pretty plausible, yeah.
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    Anyway, here's the exact quote. This is essentially we know on Hoid's feruchemy. Brandon's been pretty closelipped on what exactly Identity is/does. The idea of helping with disguise... dunno. Seems like it might work, but it's something that we're pretty much in the dark on. Identity apparently includes what shards you can handle power from, as of the latest AMA. http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/2383-qa-with-brandon-sanderson/page-6 That said, compounding aluminium is apparently pretty useless http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/2383-qa-with-brandon-sanderson/page-5 So having a *lot* of Identity doesn't seem to be the secret to any super powers, or empowering your magical efficiency or anything.
  6. Phantom Monstrosity
    It doesn't really matter, Hoid set it up to steal Lightsong's best lines.
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    The thing is, Hoid has been using feruchemy whenever he's needed to show up coincidentally. He picks up lerasium in WoA, which is after he's already been doing his 'appear at significant events' thing for a while. And there's a good chance he was involved in the Worldbringers being founded, too, since their similarity to 'Worldsingers' isn't coincidental.
  8. Phantom Monstrosity
    Calling it: Urithiru is on the moon.
  9. Phantom Monstrosity
    I will shortly have corrected the issues people have had with Whelan's painting. I hope my replacement will satisfy everyone. EDIT: Here you guys go. This is a fully satisfactory edit to the painting that maintains the feel and spirit of Stormlight Archive in all respects. Indeed, no human could hope for better cover art.
  10. Phantom Monstrosity
    If her weight was irrelevant: Why would Kelsier bring it up? If I were exerting exactly equal forces on both boxes, and didn't need to stay in physical contact with the boxes, I would stay absolutely stationary.
  11. Phantom Monstrosity
    http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=636
  12. Phantom Monstrosity
    Well, for Forging... hmm. 'Anticipation: The Game' Get together a bunch of Forgers and have them agree to create the next work by an independent artist. Like the next painting that Da Vinci whips out after the Mona Lisa, or the next book in Harry Potter. The winner is the one whose forgery is most accurate after the 'real' work is created. Wait did I just suggest forger fanfic fights?
  13. Phantom Monstrosity
    Dude, back away from the computer and calm down. Don't get worked up because you misused a physics term. It really isn't worth getting upset over. Chill out.
  14. Phantom Monstrosity
    Interesting. Well, I guess they aren't entirely seperate.
  15. Phantom Monstrosity
    ... reaction force is always equal to input force, dude. That's Newton. Kelsier is amazed at her being incredibly strong, allomantically. One of the metrics he judges that by is her ability to steelpush at a level equal to his, while weighing only half as much. Her weight would have been entirely irrelevant if it only mattered as an anchor. Since, as you pointed out, what they had their backs against was the only thing that mattered, anchor-wise. Kelsier would have said: "Today, when we were training, we got into a Steelpush shoving match. The kid can't pick the right anchor yet, but she gave me a decent pummeling anyway." not "Today, when we were training, we got into a Steelpush shoving match. The kid has to weigh less than half what I do, but she gave me a decent pummeling anyway."
  16. Phantom Monstrosity
    Then he moves that object a bit less. The force he's outputting in all directions is going to be the same. The steelpushing match between Vin and Kelsier was one where they were both anchored - Kelsier was against a wall, Vin was against a tree. The mass of a human is insignificant compared to a tree or a wall. The difference in weights between Vin or Kelsier braced against the tree would at maximum be the difference between an effective 1045 and 1090 kg. That's well within rounding error, and no reason for Kelsier to be impressed later on.
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    No, his strength has been MASSIVELY increased. Otherwise he could have stood in the middle of the building and Pushed in all directions, accomplishing exactly the same thing. Similarly It's absolutely pointless to tap weight if you're pushing in a ring. You're not going to be moved anywhere - all the reaction vectors cancel. He only does these super dramatic pushes when he's tapping weight.
  18. Phantom Monstrosity
    You're wrong.
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    You're thinking of mistborn 2, when Vin was using pewter. She has a higher inherent allomantic strength - which is what Ham was noticing. Wax can directly mess with his weight and see the results. His observations about Pushing and mass (assuming he isn't a total idiot) should take precedence over Ham talking about a completely different metal.
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    Since it's proportional, the strength of the pushes on yourself cancels out. However, being lighter means that you can treat just about any object around you as a very good anchor, so you generally fly better. Force scales with mass, so if you have a perfect anchor your acceleration is unchanged by weight. If you have an anchor that moves when you push on it, then the lower your weight the less acceleration you lose to the anchor moving.
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    You can do it without duralumin - it just takes a TON of practice.
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    Well, keep in mind that atium is ludicrously expensive, and the only way to test atium alloys is on a mistborn. I suspect that a bad atium alloy is going to be WAY more dangerous than a bad aluminum alloy, since it's made out of concentrated Ruin. Odds are you lose an almost irreplaceable allomancer. I'm pretty sure Lord Shezler was being ruin-manipulated when he invented malatium - he's not entirely sane. That said, would've been nice to see his research notes
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    Presumably the same reason why copperclouds protect your own emotions, but not those of others. (Technically it's in theory possible for someone to learn a method to protect other people from soothing/rioting while they're in your coppercloud, but nobody's ever managed it in canon, and you'd have to be insanely good at it)
  24. Phantom Monstrosity
    If the mural where Shai faked 'a master painter stayed in this room for three weeks and painted' is any precedent, you actually do need a decent amount of skill in the field to be able to forge that sort of thing. I assume that her soulstamps required extremely extensive research - while you don't need to have *all* the skill, you still need to know enough to plausibly fake the major details.
  25. Phantom Monstrosity
    No, higher weights actually make you legitimately stronger. That's consistent with how Wax describes (and uses) his powers, how Kelsier talks about pulling and pushing to Vin, how Gemmel talks about pulling and pushing to Kelsier, and with how Brandon has responded in interviews about it.
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