karaiwulf

On 7/15/2025 at 10:57 AM, TruthwatchingRadiant said:

Do you have any experience painting 3D printed miniatures? I mean the FDM 3D printers. Not the resin ones. Assuming I’d just be using regular PLA plastic filament.

I haven't printed minis myself on my fdm printer (successfully, at least -- I can't find a 0.1mm nozzle for my printer to really do it properly).  But assuming you do get good prints, you'd probably want to eliminate layer lines first.  There are a few ways to do this, but using an infill and then sanding is probably your best bet to preserve small details.

Otherwise, I'd suggest using a vapor chamber with acetone -- and this really isn't that bad to setup.  You just take a plastic tub that won't melt in the presence of acetone, put some paper towels with acetone on them in there, and cover your models with the bucket.  How long you leave them in there is gonna be a trick to figure out.

But that's kinda the fun part of 3d printing: endlessly tweaking processes till you find something that works.  /s

Anyway, further than that I'd assume its just like regular injection molded mini painting.

My assumptions were that the rhythms were all just that, rhythms.  Something you could play with just a drum.  Or simply tapping your foot.

I hadn't considered tonal changes, though I'd bet they'd be among the three pure tones of Roshar, maybe with a few steps between each.

What I appreciate is that the Rhythm of Peace is used to keep time, implying that each rhythm is periodic AND long enough to use effectively, with enough variance to know where in the period you are.

27 minutes ago, Returned said:

Do you have any specific changes or developments for her that you're looking forward to? Are you dreading her losing some of her... not quite innocence, but... youth?

I'm really looking forward to her actually confronting her trauma and her fear of changing.  I think she's got a tonne of potential and I can't wait to see how that unfolds.

I'm not dreading her losing her youth.  I think that's really the only way for her to progress as a character.  She needs to confront that fear before it controls her further.

I do find it a bit funny that she went to Cultivation to stay youthful though.  The idea that what amounts to the deity of growth to keep her from growing is very peak irony.

On 5/9/2025 at 1:04 PM, Returned said:

I liked Lift a lot at first but she's over time she's been too one-note for me. She hasn't gotten a whole lot of character development yet (though she's supposed to get more attention in the next set of books), but she shows up too often for her catch phrase and singular behaviors to support. By the end of Oathbringer I winced every time she entered a scene. Sometimes those scenes ended up being good, but mostly I wish she wasn't there (or was developed better along the way).

I think this is kinda the point of Lift.  She's fundamentally scared of changing, so she will always be one-note until she gets over that.

I just recently got done with her interlude in RoW, and that seriously stuck with me.  I cried a lot because her specific brand of not wanting to change touched on my own fears when I was about her age.  I think Lift is one of the better characters because she wears her trauma right on her sleeve, but not in a disruptive or bad way, either.  She's still a kid, playing at being a thief.  She adds a bit of whimsy and relief to a world on the brink.

5 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

We are all stick.

We are all stick.

On 10/9/2025 at 4:27 PM, Doomslug the Arcane said:

Did you say you're a stick?

Join the Cult of the Stick!!

We're sane-ish

 

I'm not totally sure how comfortable I am joining a cult, joke or not.

19 hours ago, VieB13 said:

*gasp* you like the Slow Regard of Silent Things??? I LOVE The KingKiller Chronicles! Who would you be, Kvothe, Simmon, or Wilem? 
(I am DEF Kvothe lol)

Also: what’s your weirdest trait?

It has been... Years and years since I read The Name of the Wind, but based on what I remember, probably Wilem?

And my weirdest trait... Hmm.  If I'm judging myself, I'd say that my weirdest trait is my laugh?  Its a bit shrill.

My family says that my entirety is weird.

My wife says it is my ability to "suck the soul out of people in the grocery store".

8 hours ago, Sherma Main said:

You are one of the few to notice that.

YOU PASSED THE TEST!

So um... what's the detail I'm to have noticed?  Dessert vs desert?  Or Wit?  Or that the chicken explicitly wasn't food?

3 hours ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

DO NOT READ JAMES DASHNER.

Solid recommendation, ngl, Mazerunner was... fairly meh, maybe mostly derivative and tropey.  But I kinda also believe that an author's writing can become better over time.  And also can be wildly different for different formats, and different genres (take Stephen King, for example -- his long-form works are way too long winded to be scary, but his short stories are absolutely terrifying).

55 minutes ago, -ACE- said:

ok, have you read the eye of minds by james dashner? (i have a lot more books but not a lot of time. Ill get back to you on this)

I haven't.  Reading the wikipedia page alludes that I may not enjoy it, but then again, reading the wikipedia page for WoK alludes that I wouldn't like it either, yet here I am, several books deep, so I'll get it on the reading list.

6 minutes ago, FRENZEE said:

I have tons of recommendations, and before I give them I like to ask what kind of book genre is your favorite. (I assume its sci-fi?)

Also, I havent read most of those, but I'll add them to my list. They should be around... Number 147-153

Glad to have given you some recommendations!

I like both sci-fi and fantasy, yes.  I love the sci-fi subgenre of cyberpunk, but its hard to find good cyberpunk.

1 hour ago, FRENZEE said:

Hello and welcome to the shard! What is your favorite book not by Brandon?

This is a deceptively hard question to answer.  As far as traditionally published fiction books, I have a small list in no particular order:

• The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• The Peripheral (also) by William Gibson
• And Shall Machines Surrender by Benjanun Sriduangkaew

There's also several nonfiction books I like, but my top two have to be Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll and The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder.

I could list a lot more here, but most of my other favourites are either Japanese light novels or web novels.

Some of the novels I've read recently that I didn't like were Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash, both by Neal Stephenson, and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (I even wrote a review of this one because my friends demanded it).

If you've got some recommendations with that context in mind, I'm very happy to take them!

6 hours ago, Sherma Main said:

Is your brother on the Shard?

Not that I know of, though I've suggested he hop on here to talk about why parrots are called chickens on Roshar, so I guess keep an eye out for that?

6 hours ago, Sherma Main said:

You find yourself, wits about you, stranded on a dessert island.

To your right is a live chicken.

To your left are some ration bars.

What do you eat first?

Honestly, if Wit is about, I'd probably ask his opinion first.  Even if he's measurably insane.

After that, I'd probably pocket the ration bars, put the chicken on Wit's head, and find a nice dessert that suits my fancy.  Though in the long term that's not quiiiite sustainable.

7 minutes ago, #1 Taln Fan said:

Welcome to the Shard! Who's your favorite and least favorite character so far?

Thank you!  So far I've got to say that my favourite character thus far is Rysn.  I'm also really partial to Syl and Pattern.

My least favourite character presently is Vyre (unsurprisingly).  I'm about 1/3rd of the way through Rhythm of War though, so I've got the better part of two books to change my mind.

Hi.  I've been reading the stormlight books, and I've finally gotten to the point where I'm overtaking my brother, so figured I'd register here so I can have people to talk to about it all.

EDIT: Realized I should let y'all know what I've read...

I have read Mistborn Era 1 and I'm approximately halfway through RoW in stormlight right now.