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  4. Dumb Cosmere Questions That Don’t Deserve Their Own Thread (Spoilers All)

    in Cosmere Discussion

    Posted · Edited by NattyBo

    Just like the title said, I think we could use a thread for random questions that don’t really fit in another thread. I’ll get us started:

    Did Rashek actually survive burning and beheading and if so, how? Burning is easier to imagine, but how exactly would a feruchemist and allomancer survive beheading? Was Rashek just exaggerating his own powers as the Lord Ruler? 
     

    Just read this part of the end of The Final Empire and it’s driving me nuts.

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  8. Brandon Sanderson makes comment in support of BLM

    in General Brandon Discussion

    Posted · Edited by NattyBo

    Disrupt isn’t the same as destroy. I read that as a community coming together for mutual support to provide what a nuclear family would, not to destroy it and replace it with something else. In any case, I still stand by what I wrote. BLM is a largely decentralized movement with widely disparate people from a variety of walks of life and races/ethnicities participating.
     

    I’d bet my life if you asked 100 protestors at any given BLM protest, less than 10% would respond in a negative fashion about the nuclear family. I’ve been to several BLM protests in Maryland and Washington DC in recent months and no one has ever mentioned anything like that, speakers or random folks I’ve talked to.  It seems interesting that this is becoming talking point instead of the ongoing systemic oppression and literal murder of black folks in this country by the police.
     

    Given that Brandon has unequivocally said he supports BLM, do you think he is for the dissolution of the nuclear family?

     

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  14. What skills have you learned during Quarantine?

    in Entertainment Discussion

    Posted · Edited by NattyBo

    9 hours ago, Hentient said:

    @NattyBo Could you link the recipes your using?  I have a Dutch oven and these look really good! 

    Sure.

    First loaves are some variation on this (ie, adding some salt with an egg wash, etc)

    3 cups all purpose flour (King Arthur is what I like)

    1 1/2 tsp fine salt

    1/4 tsp instant or rapid rise yeast

    1 cup water

    6-8 tablespoons lager beer (the alcohol bakes out, if that's a concern for anyone!)

    1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar.

    Whisk the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Add the water, vineger and beer and combine with a rubber spatula (I use my hands, honestly) until it resembles a shaggy ball. You'll get a feel for if the dough is too dry or wet. Just add flour or tiny bits of warm water accordingly. Cover that and let it sit for 8-18 hours.

    Lay 18 by 12-inch sheet of parchment paper on counter and spray with oil spray. Transfer dough to lightly floured counter and knead 10 to
    15 times. Shape dough into ball by pulling edges into middle. Transfer dough, seam side down, to center of parchment and spray surface of
    dough with oil spray. Pick up dough by lifting parchment overhang and lower into heavy-bottomed Dutch oven (let any excess parchmenthang over pot edge). Cover loosely with plastic and let rise at room temperature until dough has doubled in size and does not readily spring back when poked with finger, about 2 hours.

    Adjust oven rack to middle position. Remove plastic from pot. Lightly four top ofdough and, using razor blade or sharp knife,
    make one 6-inch-long, 1/2-inch-deep slit along top of dough. Cover pot and place in oven. Heat oven to 425 degrees. Bake bread for 30
    minutes (starting timing as soon as you turn on oven- ie, don't preheat the oven)

    Remove lid and continue to bake until loaf is deep brown and registers 210 degrees, 20 to 30 minutes longer. Carefully remove bread from
    pot; transfer to wire rack and let cool completely, about 2 hours.

     

    The cheddar/jalapeño recipe is from here:

    https://tasty.co/recipe/dutch-oven-jalapeno-cheddar-bread (I used some pickled jalapeños I made, too).

    For the charcoal grilled flatbread/pizza crust, I use this recipe:

    https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1013233-grilled-lebanese-flatbread

     

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  15. What skills have you learned during Quarantine?

    in Entertainment Discussion

    Posted · Edited by NattyBo

    4 hours ago, Iarwainiel said:

    @NattyBo - I know one can make bread in a dutch oven, but it looks like you're baking your bread right on a grill - ? I just got a dutch oven too & love it, but haven't used it on a grill yet.

    Meanwhile, I have gotten real good at WFHing (so thankful to be able to keep working full-time during this).

    Over the July 4th weekend, I revived an old skill and painted a room in my (new) house. So much better/brighter now! That project involved patching 3 holes in the walls, which was a new skill for me. It's not perfect, but I did pretty good for a patching-noob. :D

    I didn’t use Dutch oven on the grill - the flatbread is just a grilled lebanese flatbread recipe I adapted as a pizza crust, and it worked really well! My wife and kid loved it. And was nice to not heat up the kitchen.

     

     All of the other stuff was from a Dutch oven in a regular oven :-) 

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  18. What are you playing right now?

    in Entertainment Discussion

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    Rolled credits on The Last of Us Part II last night.

     

    I have no words. I have been playing video games since the age of 3, Christmas, 1988. This is by far the best video game narrative I've ever played through, just in terms of character development, etc. Much like seeing a movie or reading a book that really hits you, I just can't stop thinking about this game.  All I can do is throw out superlatives about it.  Really, if there is any phrase to describe it, I'd say "tour de force."

    If you can stomach the ultra brutality of the fights, you're in for an emotional rollercoaster.

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  19. Disability in Brandon's Books - [Spoilers All]

    in General Brandon Discussion

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    I absolutely agree with the content/theme of your letter to Brandon.  

     

    Full disclosure: I struggle with depression/anxiety, but I find Brandon's presentation of physical disability more irksome in some way I cant quite define. It didn't hit me until my wife mentioned it after the Bridge 4 miraculous healings - because her Dad, who recently passed away, was wheelchair bound and effectively a quadriplegic for the last ~20 years of his life. It was clear to me that in some way that description of the process, the feelings of the physical disability being healed, etc, were kind of hurtful to her.  Again, I'm not doing a great job expressing myself here, but I do think the OP has a valid point, and I'm also in agreement that Rysn is by far the best written disabled character Brandon has yet included.

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  23. The Edgedancer Crew

    in Social Groups, Clans, & Guilds

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    11 minutes ago, Hentient said:

    Ene slides ahead of A.C., and suddenly plants her feet into the ground, pulling A.C. and Dice forward. A.C. does the same motion, and Dice slingshots forward into the water of the purelake. Dice Wins!!!!!

    Lift pulls up behind Dice, splashing in the lake, frustrated. 

    Nattybo still sits in Azir... having succumbed to the Waffles. 

     

    So...many....carbs.... *burp*...and I just cut into more bread and oil....

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