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On 2/5/2018 at 8:59 PM, Tesh said:

When you get a board for your birthday that you can put these letters into, and you put 'Fleet kept running,' and then:

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That was a really bad explanation of what the thing is, but you probably get the basic idea.

Happy birthday!

4 hours ago, The Gecko said:

I too have been converted.

On a side note, did anyone see all the hemalurgic spikes sticking out of their hands and feet? Sloth inquisitors indeed.

And she said they just hang from the branches with their claws. Rusts, lady, get your facts straight! The slothquisitors *all hail the sloth* are obviously using iron and steel to embed their own spikes into the tree. 

Nature sure is amazing.

10 hours ago, Tesh said:

Well, it's more like they army crawl, as their limbs are designed for climbing trees. They only come down out of the canopy about once every week, to relive themselves. Then they wrap their arms around the trunk of the tree to stay upright, then take care of business. But their feet are sort of like an extra pair of arms.

Oh, here's a nice video on sloths. It shows one crossing a road, and gives a lot of facts.

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Also, I just watched that video. Sloths are amazing. I think I’ve officially been converted to the Ministry of Sloth. 

Just now, Tesh said:

Well, it's more like they army crawl, as their limbs are designed for climbing trees. They only come down out of the canopy about once every week, to relive themselves. Then they wrap their arms around the trunk of the tree to stay upright, then take care of business. But their feet are sort of like an extra pair of arms.

Oh, here's a nice video on sloths. It shows one crossing a road, and gives a lot of facts.

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You guys are sure into sloths. 

20 minutes ago, Calderis said:

They kind of twitch crawl. 

I’ve got to see this. 

23 minutes ago, Tesh said:

Sloths can't walk.

Wait, really? 

1 hour ago, Calderis said:

All bow before the will of the Ministry of Sloth. 

This. It’s this one, guys. 

6 hours ago, LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian said:

You know you're a Sandersfan when (just in case) you no longer buy cookies sold in dark alleys.

...and you used to?

You guys all better be careful. I’m running out of upvotes here. 

Just now, Warbreaker_Weiss said:

When you have dreams that the 4th Stormlight book is released during the zombie apocalypse, and in your dream you go outside with a gun, risk your life, and shoot zombies while on your way to Barnes and Noble to buy the new book. 

That, or... 

ebooks, maybe?

When you're in a conversation and the topic changes to eunuchs, and you make sure to bring up Sazed.

Is that when you gave him a creepy smile and pulled out your spare spike?

1 hour ago, Weltall said:

Brandon actually made fun of this, when describing a hypothetical Kelsier/Moiraine deathmatch (if you haven't, read it, it's fun)

That’s rusting amazing. 

39 minutes ago, The Allomantic Metalhead said:

Scadrians don't actually speak English, so far as I'm concerned, I call it "fantasy book translation", where the characters' language is "translated" to English (or French, or German, or maybe even Finnish) by the author. For all we know, the word for "vindication" is pronounced in a way that the pun would make sense.

Exactly. They speak a dialect of Terris, which is written as English for the sake of the reader. 

Just now, Kaneesha16 said:

Oh sadly its not 16 anymore its 20. I know cuz I tried to give this post reputation but failed. 

 The last meme on your other post was a reference to

I see you're new to the Shard, welcome! Try not to post more than once in a row though, just edit your first post.

6 minutes ago, Calderis said:

Scadrial pre-rashek was at steam technology. I don't believe they had developed the radio yet.

 

Ahh. I think when I first read that I saw that they were in railroad, just out of steam. Thanks for clearing that up!

13 minutes ago, user613 said:

I'm not sure I agree that the radio comment means Harmony is seeing into the future.  It could just be a good understanding of physics, and the knowledge that they have all the pieces and haven't put them together yet.  Like maybe they have Maxwell's equations but haven't made the jump to waves.

Yeah, I don't think the radio comment was seeing the future either. From what I understand, Scadrial pre-TLR had radios, and Harmony is doing some math to say, since you got this technology this long ago you should've gotten this technology that long ago.

32 minutes ago, Tesh said:

Partly.

AND IT WAS A STORMING CLIFFHANGER THAT WAS BETTER WRITTEN THAN RIORDAN'S THAT LITERALLY INVOLVED HANGING OFF A CLIFF. AND WE PROBABLY WON'T GET #2 FOR A WHILE AND I AM GOING TO TURN OFF CAPS LOCK.

He he...

Ahh, yes. That too. 

4 minutes ago, Tesh said:

Let's just say, I just finished The Rithmatist, and I am not happy with Mr. Sanderson right now.

When you anticipated some of the plot twists in it. (Not compleatly, but still, that is something! )

When you say not happy, you mean that the book is finished, right?

1 hour ago, DeadFencer said:

So in Bands of Mourning Allik says that universal metalminds don't let the user have more than three powers. My question is, would one of thsoe three always have to be allomantic? It seems like the limit is three because people can't have more than three hemalurgic spikes. Two of those spikes would need to be more feruchemical aluminum and feruchemical nicrosil in order to create a universal metalmind. That leaves one slot for unique powers, and whatever abilities the storer naturally has. Of course the storer could at most have one allomantic and one feruchemical ability if they were a twinborn. So if a metalmind grants three powers, does one of the three have to be allomantic?

There are two main things that you're a bit confused on. First is you're assumption that three is the hemalurgic limit. That is just when Harmony can take control of you. If he approves, you're good. That isn't really relevant though, because you're second misunderstanding is that a single person has to store all the attributes. I don't have the quote, but Allik says that the creators of the medallions pass it to others with different powers. For some reason they can't figure out how to pass it around to get more than three or four powers. Hope that helps answer your question!

Except that the rats would gain intelligence over time and eventually rise up to conquer their human overlords.

1 hour ago, The Gecko said:

From what I understand, you cannot store stormlight and then compound it, instead you store the ability? So that when you tap a stormlight metalmind, you tap the ability to use stormlight. So as a Nicrosil compounded you could worldhop, grab a spike or an honorblade, and fill your nicrosilmind while you have it, then put it back and keep the ability forever

No, nicrosil stores Investiture, and stormlight is just another form of Investiture. You are using your nicrosil metalmind to fuel the surges you already have.

1 hour ago, Tesh said:

There is an OB memes thread in the OB spoiler board.

Yeah, but it’s not the same, you know?