Ascended Grubberfly

Today is a good day.

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Sanderson memes are always a hoot.

I must have misread your post. Even though the fascist government won, its was still the main characters side, which gives them some plot armor. One could argue Dalinar won by forcing Retribution onto the field, but that may not matter much depending on how Retribution responds in the back half.

I actually like that Brandon is letting the villain win. I'm actually willing and excited to say that it may be possible that Retribution wins in the back half and becomes the villain of the space age. It'd be a wonderful splash of terrifying that I just can't get anywhere else. I will say, I don't agree that this WoB says "Cultivation created Retribution". She tried to make fix the Odium problem, caused a TOdium problem, tried to fix TOdium, and made Retribution. Her failure does not mean her plan was to make Taravangian even more of a problem. She's doing her best, but it's not enough. Yeah, we still don't know much about Koravellium Avast (It took me forever to actually remember the Vessel's name). But Taln tried to kill Kor thousands of years before WaT. There is no precedence of future sight working on that scale (Mistorn Era 1 was 1000 years but this is a lot longer with more direct Shardic influence), and we don't know why Taln acted the way he did.

92 Hahaha, I'm unstoppable!

90 I'm boring, so sue me.

Where does it say 5th ideal radiants have infinite stormlight? I don’t remember that being said in books. Cultivation may want this because of the wars and technological advancements, but does the Vessel? I haven’t read WaT recently, but was trying to avoid war and death. She got rid of Rayse because of his conflict with Tanavast, and tried to encourage Taravangian to avoid war and domination. She would like rather have Odium be locked away for a time with the current deal instead of making huge gambles that could get her killed imo. Retribution is just too risky a play that could kill everyone.

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I'll see your 81, and raise you an 82.

I opened it up just now to check notifications, and it took a while. Also, my brother taught be a funny joke a while ago! Let's see if I can remember it right:

Help! I'm starting to lurk and not post! I kill Star in order to be more involved.

I'm imagining that companies are going to sprout up that sell filled metal minds, or pay people to fill them. This is immediately nullified by common compounding or turning Investiture into metalmind attributes, but would be fun to see. I also imagine that certain people might become prisoners used to constantly fill these metalminds, similar to how the Set was breeding people to spike for allomancy.

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