First of the Tide

Vyre?() Skip me if I get it

The fisherman that found Nightblood? I think he was dumb... again, if I get it, please skip me

No, his account says 35 posts under his avatar(yours says166), but he has 1643 posts on this forum

Teravangian @AceBassMan how do you have more posts on this topic than total posts? What happened?

Omigosh I forgot I was doing this(all the way back in april) I'm sososo sorry, Quizbowl took over my liiife... please please please forgive me it was rokke btw Sigzil? Btw if I get this, please someone else take over. 99.99862% chance I forget Abt it cuz I'm a horrible person.

Guys its 1AM I am srsly struggling 2 come up with something... Uhhhh... OK 1. This Character has eaten on screen

That narrows it done by like..... 1/8 a name. Ed lists like all of them Uhhhh.....@Argent? (sry, I had to)

IotE:

MeLaan?

it kinda is only one scene, but the scene is like super dragged out by flashbacks so the entire first chapter feels like *confusion* CATHETER *Flashback* *Flashback CATHETER *confusion* CATHETER *More flashback* CATHETER CATHETER *flashback* noooo no more catheter. The audiobook also reads the first chapter slower than the more action-filled ones, so that's probably part of my problem, but idk, it made me like super uncomfortable Still a 9/10 book (I only rank Sanderson/Lynch a 10) but I just thought I'd put that out there

There is ooone thing tho... It spends like a good 15% of the book discussing a catheter. Not like... in detail or anything. It just KEEPS bringing it up, and tbh it made me kinda uncomfortable. more uncomfortable than almost any other book I've read, and I read all of ACOTAR

"tried to walk through a door but I hit the flyscreen" Is it okay if I consolidate?

Ed? I don't know if he's highly invested Wait its probably khriss I thought I guessed that already

DESIGN!

Beautific

OK. I think I came up with a new system that not only addresses the issues raised, but also fits the description a little better. The System Addressing some things: Interested to see your thoughts. will do some math and give an example (hopefully with susebron, but we'll see) tomorrow, unless somebody comes and either tells me all the 180 ways I made a mistake, or does it for me

Iiiiiinteresting. not sure that I agree, but food for thought for sure.

That was my first thought too, for sure, but my big issue with that is that it says that you need the 3rd heightening to fully understand it. even I can tell the difference between the ~30 colors that would represent 30 different sounds. (I kinda glossed over this in the original post) combining sets of four means that 0ffe3a and 0afe3a are very different sounds, even if I can't tell them apart. I agree that I kinda got caught up in the project, and over-combined things, but I think one color per letter isn't elitist enough (not that i'm trying to be, just that that's the nature of the language) Also, at least the coppermind (which is admittedly quite faulty on occasion) only says one color per sound, not per letter, so maybe its still grouped, just not quite as cryptography-like as I had originally done? Interested to see your thoughts, and grateful for the critique. Thanks for being awesome as always

ohhhhhh I get it I'm kinda dumb I thought you were saying he was talking to dalinar I'm just dumb

wait but..... that quote makes more sense if you don't change it to grandfather. i'm so confused. am I missing something?

Nazh?

I wanted to make a version of the artisan's script that converts from nalthian script (or what we know of it) to color. So, lets review what we know abt the artisans script From the coppermind, we have the folowing: however, most phonetics don't have so many distinct sounds that it would require the third heightening to tell them apart. (there are abt 2^24 distinct colors in Hexcode, and even the phonics with the most distinct sounds have less than 2^9 , and even I can tell that many colors apart despite being slightly colorblind) Instead, we'll encode both the nalthian script and the hexcode color into binary, and then convert between them. We'll use the table seen here (by @TheKingofCrimsonesia) to convert the English into nalthian script (and then into binary) and a binary-to-hexadecimal converter like this one to convert it from there into a base 16 number, which already represents a color in hexcode. Table Incase the link is wrong: Since the table is already an 8 by 4 grid, we can use 3 bits to represent the x position on the grid, and 2 bits to represent the y position. That gives 5 bits per letter. Since hexcode has 24 bits (8 in the red, 8 in the green, 8 in the blue), we can fit 4 letters in each number, with 4 extra bits. We may use those four bits later, but for now well leave them blank. Lets convert one letter to start. We'll do the letter V, or In order to convert the x position on the table to a 3-bit number, we'll use a binary split, and repeat three times. If the letter is on the left of the table, we'll start with a 0, and if it's on the right, we'll start with a 1. V is on the left half, so we start with a 0. then we repeat. Within the chosen half, if it's in the leftmost 2 columns(L,H), we'll add another 0, if it's in the rightmost 2(A,B), we'll add a 1. V is in the B column, so we'll add a 1. (01) Within the chosen quarter, if it's in the left column(A), we'll add another 0, if it's in the right(B), we'll add a 1. V is in the B column, so we'll add a 1. (011) In order to convert the y position, we'll do the same, with up being 0, and down being 1 (V's value for this is 10) So, V's value is 01110 With the table and this method, we can turn any letter into a 5-digit code in base 2. we'll use 4 letters per color, and we'll add some extra nuance with the extra 4 bits. I'm using a positive/negative toggle, a me/you toggle, a emotion/apathy, and a null toggle +/- the word(s) prominent here has a positive connotation if this is 1, opposite if 0 m/y the word(s) prominent here refer to me if this is 1 opposite if 0 e/a the word(s) prominent here matter to the speaker if this is 1 opposite if 0 null if this is 1, nuance toggles from this color are null. no matter what they are set to they have no value either way So, to convert from English to artisan's script, you - convert to nalthian letter grouping (write W as uu, and group Th into {eth}(like in bathe) or {theta}(like in bath) group sh and ch into single letters, also I am choosing to remove silent letters) I LIKE TO WIN becomes I LIK TO UUIN set in four letter groups (One group per color) I LIK TO UUIN becomes ILIK TOUU IN fill extra groups with a soundless letter (I'm using sign & to represent space 11110) ILIK TOUU IN becomes ILIK TOUU IN&& add nuance ILIK TOUU IN&& becomes ILIK+me0 TOUU-ya1 IN&&+ma0 convert to binary ILIK+me0 TOUU-ya1 IN&&+ma0 becomes 00011,00000,00011,00111,1110 10010,11100,11111,11111,0001 00011,11001,00010,00010,1100 convert to hexadecimal 00011,00000,00011,00111,1110 10010,11100,11111,11111,0001 00011,11001,00010,00010,1100 becomes 18067E 973FF1 1E442C convert to color: 18067E 973FF1 1E442C becomes

Yeah you guys are right, i'm just an ignaramus Thank you both