Lego Mistborn

This is really interesting. I think this is really a possibility. Another possibility is voidspren. I think this more likely actually, considering sja anat decided to help the radiants, this the enlightened spren would not be adjusted to black Radiant abilities.

Makes sense, and after some internal deliberation, I've decided I agree with you. While I would love to have adaptations to pull more people into the fandom, I think it's not worth the risk of something like harry potter, where people take the movies, which honestly are garbage, and leave the books, written first, out to dry. I also don't want the community taken over, which has happened to other fandoms I enjoyed. Basically I don't think the adaptations will benefit the books OR the stories Brandon is trying to tell in general. I'm not sure what this political stuff is, but Brandon has gone through enough already in my opinion. With the secret projects' success, he got a lot of hate because he was white and male, and also because of religion, which really frustrated me, and I have to be careful not to rant about it. So yeah, I want to see these adaptations, because mistborn flying around would be so fun to watch, however I don't want these adaptations because while I'm sure Brandon will maintain that the books are the true canon, I'm afraid that the adaptations will become over-focused and the books marginalized. Edit: Um, guys, I was wrong, there definitely are things in the works. I'm hoping that whatever it is, it's well done, does what it's supposed to, and doesn't take away from the books. I think of all the cosmere works though, I think Mistborn would be the one I'd rather have. I don't think too much would conflict between movie and book formats.

The way he said it, I feel like it was an idle comment on projects he's already mentioned, not a hint at anything in particular. More like he's saying "if these things that are sitting around actually get going", rather than" if this new push works out" Also, I assuming you don't want them adapted because you don't want other folks to tamper with the stories you love, correct?

Not quite what happened. The Americans detected the sub and decided to ram it but at the last minute realized it might be loaded with explosives. They pulled up broadside and, because the Japanese are now aware of them, they throw whatever they have on hand, which is the potatoes, at the Japanese. With it being dark and the Japanese just having woke up to find themselves under attack, they panicked and the Americans were able to pull away and use their real weaponry to destroy the sub.

Sazed wanted to heal those rings there, I believe, and I don't recall exactly what happened with Shallan, but it's Shallan, so she may have had reason to do things different.

Would it? I don't think most people would view the shattered gemstone as part of themselves. @Frustration, is there a WoB on this? If it doesn't though, there are probably better methods to this than gemstones, but at least you wouldn't have to enslave a spren. (The sibling thanks you)

Put a shield of metal in front, the an opening in the sides for the gem to reach people. It may also make a shrill whistle which is all the more terrifying, and as Leonardo da Vinci believed, intimidation works better than destruction at subduing opposing militant forces.

Those snaps are so fun to just take the entire bag and throw it, like not even opening the bag. Just make sure yours don't have too much sawdust or it'll be underwhelming.

Would you not want the person you asked the question of to answer, were you in @bookwyrm's place? Why won't it tag him?

I burned your hat. When you burned Wayne's hat.

@Nathrangking, do you realize that the question was directed at someone else?

As far as I've read in the series, Egwene is the only woman who hasn't become completely incapacitated after falling in love.

Will there still be less that 275 posts by then?

Will I not be pleased with you if I do try it? (Does that question make sense?)

I don't think this debate is contributing to the discussion any more, and while I disagree with you, you're reasoning is hardly without merit, so I'll just say my last little bit, and then hopefully be done. So, how then do things power after that? Does the breath channel more investiture into the awakened object? And also, why then do returned need a breath a week? I can't imagine an answer to this that does not result in a draw of power from an external source, thus violating the rules of a perpetual motion machine. I argue that we can't count them because they are too external. Another probably terrible analogy, it's like us, we eat food, taking energy in, then eventually all the matter ends up back outside us, either as energy exerted that was converted from food, or as waste matter removed from our bodies by various processes. Is this a perpetual motion machine? I say no, because even though the energy isn't lost, it's returned from the actual machine (the human) to the environment. Like how the stormlight returns from the apparatus to the SR. It just seems like it is part of the environment rather than the machine.

With the case of the stormlight engines it's still taking in energy which is interaction, if we were to say these designs are it's like saying a light that doesn't burn out is a perpetual motion machine, because you don't touch it. If you were referring to my statement that the universe is a perpetual motion machine, then yes, however, considering the universe is the composite of all mass and energy in existence, and wasn't created (as far as we know) by anyone, it can hardly be counted for the sake of this discussion. Then how can the be consumed?

It's still taking in an outside source of energy. If we allow this, then we're just saying that the entirety of the universe is one perpetual motion machine because it can't lose anything, but it's beyond the scope of the machine you've created. I just interpreted that breaths were a finite amount of investiture and thus it would eventually run out in that specific concentration, just like any other investiture, and if not, then this becomes another investiture engine because it's drawing from the spiritual realm, and taking in extra energy.

I'm reading earth afire, by card & Johnston, part of the first formic war series.

The only issues that annoy me is that everyone is constantly complaining about how stupid the opposite gender is male or female, and all of the women who get into relationships turn into hopeless wrecks because of "love", and also the frequency with which characters get too frisky, even if we never see the actual happenings on screen. I don't really see any more communication issues in the plot, just greedy people being unable to work together, and the 2 million organizations that think they can each save the world better than the prophesied savior of the world himself and all the others. Its actually not that hard to believe, because that's how politics work(kind of), but it can get tiring. In all, even though I don't love the series, it's not bad enough for me to stop, and I plan to finish the series, if just to get to the Brandon books.

They are linked, simply by virtue of being the number that appears frequently on Roshar as a unconscious byproduct of the specific shardic interference, like on Scadrial,

How long were you gone?

With the stormlight cycle, by that logic, s hydroelectric turbine is an infinite energy source. As for feruchemy, that was exactly what I was thinking, with regards to awakening, I would assume that the breath would tire eventually and the contraption stop.

Here's my issue, investiture is just another form of energy just like matter. Thus, if a contraption takes in investiture, it is getting extra input, if that input is not less than the output, it is not an infinite energy machine. As for If you link these I can give my input, but I can only see feruchemy circumnavigating my criteria in one certain way, and I'm not sure that it works that way even.

Okay, answer me this? If the fabrial clock is using stormlight, how do we know that it's not using more investiture than than the mechanism is putting out in equivalent sums of energy. For that matter, wouldn't the mandras fabrial also use investiture, this increasing the wasted energy? I am of the opinion that an infinite energy generator is impossible in reality. At abest we can create a perpetual motion machine which conserves all of it's energy but outputs nothing. I believe that all of the designs presented here by @Frustration, while impressive, will not work as he intended. Instead, I believe he has successfully created at least two stormlight engines. There is no need for the steam engine on Roshar, provided there is a way to replicate these engines quickly and feeding them with investiture is veritably feasible.

I'm grasping at straws here, but he does say usually, which implies that there are exceptions, and I'd expect minor differences between fabrials and surgebinding anyways.