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I wasn't thinking Kandra when reading this, I was thinking Connecter Ferring. Is the reason he trusts Flog so much not entirely natural. Though now I'm wondering if tin foil hats would block such an effect.

Gosh dang it all to heck! I started a post and got called away before finishing then did not refresh the page first. whoops

Granted - By the end of next year you will have finished your current book. I wish for the Final Fantasy VII remake to be scrapped in favour of a Final Fantasy X 16bit de-make, Sprite-Sin for the win.

Doesn't seem to be mentioned yet so I'll go for Kaladin medically assessing Renarin "Yes, yes. Is it idiopathic or symptomatic?" "Uh..." I enjoy the understated humour as opposed to more obvious 'punchline' humour {As a sidenote I was completely blanking on the word 'epilepsy' as I was trying to find the section on my kindle, I knew what it was and how it's used but the shape of the word was escaping me completely (I'm the same with names). Luckily I'm sat next to my PS4 and booting it up brings up the annoying epilepsy warning, so thankyou PS4 for quickly clearing up a random mental fog.} Also most things relating to Lift, including a previous epigraph refering the edgedancers as 'the most articulate and refined of the Radiants"

I'm gonna join the "that's not old" group. I'm 33 and I've played games from Commadore 64 upwards, I can still just about remember playing games that came on cassette tapes and Text adventures, Icicle Works was a favourite, Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein 3D, Pong, Paperboy, Frogger, pac-man, old memories heavily crusted over. All these were on my Uncle's computer along with many others I can't really recall, I got them all when he was done with that but can't remember what happened to them all afterwards. The first console I had of my own was a Sega master system and later Megadrive with such classics as Sonic, Asterix, Alex Kidd in miracle world, Micromachines turbo tournament 96, golden axe warrior, streets of rage/shinobi/golden axe, Dessert Strike, Robocop Vs Terminator, Lemmings, James Pond: Robocod, Duck hunt. I seem to recall that if you held certain buttons down on the controller when you turned on the Master system without a game in it you would get a bonus game where you would guide a snail through a maze. When I got myself a playstation in 97 I sold all my Sega games but I regretted that in later years and I've kept all my games since then, from PS1-PS4 I have around 200 games on my shelves. My PS1 originally had Tomb Raider and Discworld II but some of my (other) favourites were - MediEvil, Discworld Noir, Soul Reaver, Resident Evil 2, Tekken 3, Metal Gear Solid, FFVII-VIII, Silent Hill, Populous the Beginning, Die Hard Trilogy, Xenogears,The Legend of Dragoon and Vagrant Story (VS has long been my favourite game soundtrack too) PS2 - FFX, Soul Reaver 2, Silent Hill 2 (another excellent soundtrack), Onimusha, Jak and Daxter, Project Zero/FatalFrame, GTA Vice City, Valkyrie Profile Silmeria, Okami. I'll leave off with PS3 as the subject is 'Old' games and I'm not one for PC gaming myself but I had to make an exception for Omikron: the Nomad Soul (by early Quantic Dream no less), how many other games allow you to attend underground David Bowie concerts?

I've been reading his books so long that I can't remember when I started, early nineties probably, around the start of my second decade. The paperbacks belonged to my big sister and I would get her the next whenever Christmas or birthdays approached. I started buying myself the hardbacks from Jingo onwards. My favourites were Hogfather then later Thief of Time. Good Omens has been my Cousin Saskia's favourite book for many years, so much so that whenever she sees a copy with a different cover she buys it straight away (though lately I've spotted them first and bought them for her). So long Pterry, as someone commented on Tor.com - 'Death used the sword for this one'

Epic powers are based on dreams, weaknesses are based on nightmares. People's nightmares tend to be based around the one thing that they fear the most but their dreams can be a lot more varied and do not need to be based on something so specific (anything you hear can be caught in the subconscious and fire the imagination in odd ways), hence varied powers but only one weakness. If Epic's powers gave them a semblance of power over their fears then a lot more of them would be learning to face their fears and breaking free of the corruption. I imagine that to become an Epic you would need to have a combination of a deep seated fear that manifests in your nightmares and dreams of having some kind of powers. Many people may have nightmares and many may have empowering dreams but fewer would have both strongly enough. I'm a light sleeper and I don't tend to remember my dreams very well. I don't get nightmares but I occasionally have nightannoyances, things that could be akin to nightmares but rather than generating fear them I get a detached sense of 'this is annoying, I wish it would stop bothering me'. I've sometimes had a dream of flying so I guess that would be my only power but a lack of nightmares would disqualify me from becoming an Epic. (I once had a nightannoyance of being lost in the backstreets of Damascus because I was up late playing Assassins Creed, not terrifying merely exasperating.)

Nightwielder's shadow tentacles are killed by UV but he is still able to block out the sun over the entire city. Logically the sun should neutralise his sun blocking power. Clearly there are odd limits on weaknesses. Maybe his weakness evolved from a nasty tanning-salon prank rather than the sun itself. Blocking out the sun uses his strongest ability and ordinary sunlight is not enough to cancel it but the UV element of the sunlight is strong enough to cancel his lesser power of intangibility (and maybe flight and the tentacles), perhaps a UV searchlight could punch through his sun blocking? Fortuity was interesting in that his attraction to a woman could lessen his precognition so what exactly was his fear? If he had a fear of beautiful women he would not be spending all his time picking them up so it is probable that it is attractive women doing something specific that would completely neutralise him, as Megan was only stunningly gorgeous she merely dampened his powers a bit. My guess is that he was mocked by a girl he had a crush on when he was younger therefor it is being mocked by attractive women that works fully against him. No woman in Newcago would dare to do so to him, as with Steelheart they would be too afraid. David did mention that Fortuity does not like his women talking back to him, maybe the whole Extispicy thing began because he gutted a woman who inadvertently triggered his weakness and he wanted to explain it away?

I'm going for Szeth because he knew exactly what a monster he was being but just carried on doing it for the weakest of reasons. I think this makes him worse than the man who was giving him the orders. T at least believes that he is going to save the world by his actions, he is delusional, its a negligible excuse but it is there. Each step of the way Szeth was breaking himself just a little more, he lies to himself that it is not his choice to do what he does but the more he does it the less he can believe it until he's carrying on simply because he does not want to admit that he never had to start in the first place. He was always on a slippery slope but most other villain's slippery slopes means someone does one small bad thing gradually increasing until they are a full monster, Szeth starts off as one kind of monster (I was just following orders) and evolves into another kind without ever changing what he does. I'm looking forward to book 4 (Eshonai) a lot more than book 3 (Szeth).

Huh, deja vu.

There is one major difference between Calamity and Cosmere Shards. The powers granted by Calamity are repeatedly mentioned by David as having no relation to normal physics whatsoever but all the magic systems in the Cosmere are all defined by clearly understood rules and limitations (even when they've not all been figured out yet). If Calamity were a Shard I think he/she/it would be far more powerful than any other.

I'm pretty sure it's Jim Butcher of the DresdenFiles/Codex Alera. I can't remember if I read that somewhere or because the epic files picture just looks like him.

Once it became clear that Tia and Regalia knew each other personally I began wondering whether Tia was also secretly an Epic (of low power) and that Cola was her weakness, she drinks it to keep herself human. Later on it became clear that this was never a possibility, An epic cannot use their weakness to control themselves as it would require them overcoming their greatest fear.

So Megan is now end-game Elizabeth? "I can see all the doors, and what's behind all the doors" "They're a million million worlds. All different and all similar. Constants and variables."

Speaking of Regalia, does anyone else think she looks a lot like Admiral Emm from Schlock Mercenary? (see today's comic - 4th Jan)

Yeah I was pretty surprised to find Words of Radiance a week early in Waterstones, As I had the hardback on order though I just used it to read the chapter missing from the previews before putting it back.

Mea Culpa, I put cop out as one word when it is two. In my defense I typed up my Pig Latin pretty quickly before rushing off to work. The last part should be 'for taking the easy cop out I left'. I knew when I set the challenge that by using the word 'compulsion' I would make it easy for those wishing to skip it to do so by making the Bane the option to ignore the compulsion. I was tempted to make the challenge/wish that the next few posters would have to post a Pig Latin message on any other thread without explaining why. But I could not phrase it well enough and figured no one would want to do it anyway. Pig Latin as I know it- 1 - Take the first consonant or consonant cluster off the front of the word then put it on the end and finish with 'ay' - so 'Chocolate' can be either Hocolatecay or Ocolatechay (I'd always use the second personally). 2 - If the word starts with a vowel (or is one) leave the word as normal and just add 'way' to the end (or alternatively 'nay') - so eggs becomes eggsway (or eggsnay). I'd always used the 'nay' version myself but it has been quite a while since I'd done it and googling it to be sure threw up the 'way' instructions so I used that without realising (as I said I was in a rush).

Ellway ealray Atinlay isway impressiveway utbay Igpay Atinlay isway oremay unfay (andway easierway otay anslatetray). Entay imaginaryway eganay-ointspay otay Anderfansay orfay akingtay ethay easyway opoutcay Iway eftlay.

Granted but you find yourself immediately transported naked to the north pole with nowhere to draw heat from to fill your metalmind. I wish that the next two people to post here feel compelled to do so entirely in Pig Latin

And with this answer my upside down compuldsion banre is lifted woo!No longer cdo I need to sit on a sofa like Mork from Orrk trying to type witicisms vand cruelty with all my blood rushing to my head. thecanswer is - ' with great difficulty' but its do-able, iits a lot eadsier without the wwaterv actually. you gtfy drinking upside down, solids aare much simpler. ps the someone salting your drivde is you.

Granted. But you don't get to make two part wiiszhes the first paart is your boon, everything after 'but' is ylur bane. PS the Nightwatcher thanks you for making her decisio s easeier. PSPS typing upside ddown is really hard. especially propping the laptop base on yur chin to free bup your hands fr typing. it really hurts too EDIT. Nuts i forgot to request a boon fr myself... lets see i wish for some aspirins for my blood rudshed new headache, being upside down sucks!!!

*THWACK!* Granted. I wish for... the next two posts to be typed backwards.

Granted, and I hope you enjoy it because it's your last ever. Let everyone know in a week or so if it was your last good sleep or your last night... well if they never hear from you again they'll know it was the latter. I wish for Robert Jordan to have lived ten years longer.

I've not paid too much attention to Ialai but she strikes me as a pragmatist and the smarter of the pair, when they learn that Aladar has joined with Dalinar Ialai seems more contemplative than Sadeas. I was under the impression that she was worried that Sadeas' bulling boorishly ahead was going to be a problem, she is seeing the writing on the wall a lot more clearly than her husband and is realising that opposing Dalinar from now on will be 1) a lot harder and 2) a mistake anyway. That was my reaction to that small section. It may be sweet that Sadeas loves/admires his wife for her brains and skills but that does not mean she feels the same way. 1) I could be entirely wrong. 2)She may be using Sadeas mostly for political power or 3) She does love him but still be frustrated by his bull-headedness in the face of a changing situation. I don't see Count of Monte Cristo style revenge in her future when it could backfire on her quite badly.

Just before the event began I was discussing with my cousin Saskia whether we had a question to ask, after mentioning my Polly Oliver question she pointed out that she did not have a question to ask but was interested in talking about the essay he had written about his views on homosexuality and more specifically (in her words) whether he was homophobic. To which my response was "Don't you Dare!" Now we have the same (sometimes dark) sense of humour so I knew she did not mean it quite like she phrased it but I was quite sure that was a conversation more suited to having during the personal signing section than the public Q&A (she still may have phrased it as badly you see). She was jokingly annoyed with me for shutting her down. Anyway when came her time to get her book signed I felt quite vindicated by the very slight look terror on Brandon's face as she brought up the subject.. the look lasted for the few seconds until she mentioned how much she approved of his essay at which point he looked much more relaxed and briefly discussed it.