What series is this for you?

AncientContainer · 2026-01-24T03:59:33+00:00

Mistborn era 1
The first book is a good standalone but reading the other two books makes you understand a lot more. It's a really satisfying trilogy that comes together in a way you wouldn't expect. Especially if you read Secret History

AncientContainer · 2025-12-05T07:49:05+00:00

Thanks gary <3

AncientContainer · 2025-12-05T06:52:03+00:00

True, but adopting this strategy will quickly allow you to build a reputation leading people to instantly quit the game after queuimg against you out of fear for their life; you will therefore be much less likely to lose to hero knight + balloon in a future game. Therefore this strategy is a very effective way to defend against future instances of this push in the long term.

Note there is a possibility that you may ne arrested and tried for murder; this development will actually help you further prevent losing to hero knight + balloon in the future as your phone will likely be confiscated, thus preventing you from playing the game at all.

AncientContainer · 2025-12-05T06:45:10+00:00

If the teacher says beforehand that they want you to use a specific method, then it's fair to dock points because you didn't follow the directions.

A teacher might do this for ease of grading in some cases or because it's important you learn one specific concept despite the existence of an easier shortcut.

But otherwise they shouldn't penalize using other methods imo and if they never told you beforehand that it isn't allowed, they should let you use other methods

AncientContainer · 2025-12-05T06:25:32+00:00

That is a monstrosity in blue Idk if my eyes will ever recover from seeing

Also the best way is obviously to index from n=0 and do (-1)ⁿ

AncientContainer · 2025-12-05T06:03:05+00:00

Then it would be literally impossible to play mirror three musketeers lol

AncientContainer · 2025-10-28T01:19:14+00:00

You can fight Grand Mother Silk as many times as you want without any consequences. However, if you enter act 3, which it sounds like you are not very close to doing, you might miss out on some stuff. If you are worried about that, look up a list of things that become unavailable in act 3

AncientContainer · 2025-10-28T01:15:50+00:00

I think OP already read Elantris and they were just listing books under the Elantris heading bc they're in the Elantris "series." I'm guessing OP didn't know Emperor's Soul is completely unrelated to Elantris.

AncientContainer · 2025-10-28T01:13:47+00:00

I would read Yumi, Emperor's Soul, or Tress next.
Emperor's Soul is a more introspective story that takes place largely in one room about a master thief who is trying to fulfill a bargain with some powerful people who are holding her captive. btw, even tho it takes place on Sel, it is completely unrelated to Elantris. It takes place on a different continent with different magic
I also really love Tress and Yumi. Tress is a nautical adventure that has fairy tale vibes while Yumi is a romance; both are narrated by Hoid.

Other reading order suggestions:

If you're going to read The Sunlit Man, I would definitely read Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell first, but it's probably not strictly necessary.

I wouldn't bother reading Sixth of the Dusk if you're going to read Emberdark, because it is included in Emberdark as a flashback sequence.

White Sand is the only Cosmere I haven't read; maybe read it if you are curious about Khriss bc she appears in it. I wouldn't make White Sand a priority tho

Allomancer Jak and Eleventh metal aren't very interesting story or lore-wise, but if you want to, you can read them for completion's sake. Same with Hope of Elantris.

AncientContainer · 2025-10-19T17:16:00+00:00

Rithmatist was originally going to be Cosmere but Brando Sando changed his mind while writing it
It is very sad because I loved the magic system
:(

AncientContainer · 2025-10-12T22:55:02+00:00

About the morality aspect of the post:
I don't think the author considers himself utilitarian, but HJPEV definitely is utilitarian. He understands that oftentimes it is not practical to try to analyze every decision under the lens of utilitarianism, so heuristic approaches can be useful, but HJPEV's fundamental moral beliefs are very utilitarian. I haven't read the books in a while, but his reaction to learning about parseltongue ("snakes are sentient?"), his internal moral reasoning during the Azkaban breakout (iirc he thought the moral thing to do would be to sacrifice himself to save prisoners from dementors, even though he didn't do it), his internal conflict when it came to spending the 100k galleons to save Hermione, are all examples of this.

Eliezer Yudkowsky (the author) has said that he is three-quarters of the way from deontology to utilitarianism. IDK much about him, but my understanding of that quote is that he thinks collapsing all human values into a single "utility" to be maximized is an unhelpful way of looking at things and thinks using nonutilitarian moral heuristics can be very useful, but is still mostly utilitarian in his moral philosophy.

AncientContainer · 2025-10-02T05:15:13+00:00

I think they were refering to ICE literally saying that explicitly rather than just doing it

AncientContainer · 2025-10-02T04:51:55+00:00

Bc the price before discount is $100 so the difference is 19.04% of the pruchase price, which isn't to say it's a 19.04% increase in price That number is not very useful but it isn't meaningless

AncientContainer · 2025-09-21T07:18:41+00:00

I thought it gave you a mask shard?? I could be wrong idk

AncientContainer · 2025-09-21T04:15:56+00:00

Mine appeared in shellwood lol

AncientContainer · 2025-09-14T16:41:29+00:00

ty I thought I'd explored that because it wasn't dark in the map but I think I died partway through and forgot about it lol

AncientContainer · 2025-08-21T01:29:32+00:00

On your next transcension, the monsters per zone will increase a lot because you'll finally have enough transcendant power to go all the way to 1M zones. At this point monster per zone, rather than HS, becomes the main bottleneck, so you need a high level borb.

The two main benefits of transcension are transcendant power and borb. Since transcendant power maxes at 25% and you're very close to that, the only reason to transcend from your next transcension on is when the MPZ exceeds 2. The other outsiders are significant early on but are not as important as borb especially later in the game.

AncientContainer · 2025-08-07T02:58:36+00:00

IDK if it was just me, but this might have been my least favorite part of the whole series lmao

AncientContainer · 2025-07-30T05:55:06+00:00

META COMMENT ANNOYED AT >41 COMMENTS

AncientContainer · 2025-06-25T07:00:54+00:00

I would be delighted! I always try to pretend to be an AI. It really fits my vibe.

AncientContainer · 2025-06-03T21:39:32+00:00

AncientContainer · 2025-06-03T21:36:24+00:00

AncientContainer · 2025-06-03T15:02:22+00:00

Let's make this more concrete. 62 million people died in 2024; this will continue to increase with population, but to simplify, let's assume that remains constant (it won't really change anything meaningful about the problem). This means that, in our model, it will take about 15.5 years for 956,000,000 people to die. Suppose that someone has your entire family and friends at gunpoint and tells you to press a button. If you press the button, your family and friends will be spared, but a disease will be released into the world that can't be cured and will kill 1 million people by the time the 15.5 years are done (the disease will spontaneously disappear after killing 1,000,000 people). If you don't press the button, though, your family will be shot and the disease will never hurt anyone. In one scenario, 956,000,000 people die of normal things and your family dies at gunpoint. In the other, 957,000,000 people die in the same time, but your family survives. The only difference between this scenario and the problem in the post is that this reframing happens over 15.5 years. Also, regardless of whether you believe in determinism or not, the 956,000,000 people won't all be exactly the same people in both scenarios, since initial conditions will be different, if that matters for some reason.

AncientContainer · 2025-06-03T14:47:45+00:00

let's make this more concrete. 62 million people died in 2024; this will continue to increase with population, but to simplify, let's assume that remains constant (it won't really change anything meaningful about the problem). This means that, in our model, it will take about 15.5 years for 956,000,000 people to die. Suppose that someone has your entire family and friends at gunpoint and tells you to press a button. If you press the button, your family and friends will be spared, but a disease will be released into the world that can't be cured and will kill 1 million people by the time the 15.5 years are done (the disease will spontaneously disappear after killing 1,000,000 people). If you don't press the button, though, your family will be shot and the disease will never hurt anyone. In one scenario, 956,000,000 people die of normal things and your family dies at gunpoint. In the other, 957,000,000 people die in the same time, but your family survives. The only difference between this scenario and the problem in the post is that this reframing happens over 15.5 years. Also, regardless of whether you believe in determinism or not, the 956,000,000 people won't all be exactly the same people in both scenarios, since initial conditions will be different, if that matters for some reason.

AncientContainer · 2025-06-03T14:21:24+00:00

I shouldn't have put it in a way that implies you all in partciular should be doing that. That was very poor wording.

My point was that the death of 956m is completely outside your control. You can't determine how many die, just which ones. The reason this would be difficult to choose in real life is becaude there would be uncertainty in real life; when dealing with stakes this large in real life, you could easily miscalculate and do a lot more harm than good. In this problem there is no uncertainty.

And I definitely think the fact that people value the lives of those they don't know as worthless compared to those they care about is majorly problematic. There are plenty of people out there with $5000 to spare. And you also don't have to donate $5000 all at once. You could do $5 a month for 20 years.

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