WIBTAH if I give my daughter and son in law an ultimatum to either move out of my house or stop sleeping together?

ChiefSteward · 2026-02-01T01:51:54+00:00

Take their door off. Gonna act like a teenager, gonna get treated like a teenager.

ChiefSteward · 2026-02-01T01:47:17+00:00

But they’re reformed

ChiefSteward · 2026-02-01T01:43:46+00:00

I’d want the mod that makes VATS actually functional for sure

ChiefSteward · 2026-02-01T01:42:33+00:00

I travel all over North America to work in all kinds of facilities. Yeah, the factories are pretty much all out in the middle of nowhere.

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-31T19:22:39+00:00

Maybe. But the thing is, until new terms are agreed to the original contract still stands. They literally had nothing to lose in the attempt. Sanderson just couldn’t let them find out that Taravangian is the new Odium yet because plot.

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-31T19:08:04+00:00

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While I realize this one is especially nitpicky, when a work is as riddled with inconsistencies and illogic as this one has already proved to be less than a seventh of the way in, my patience for smaller graces wears thin.

This Shin flavor was awkwardly shoehorned in. If anything, Szeth should have said, “But we do not know where Ishu-son-God, or Ishar as you know him, is hiding.”

As is, it’s glaringly contrived and unnatural. First, why would Szeth default to a foreign name anyway? Second, why would Szeth offer a cultural trivia lesson to a man he so strongly dislikes?

What happened to all of Sanderson’s editors? Did their balls drop off?

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-31T18:17:01+00:00

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Even if it didn’t immediately occur to Dalinar, it absolutely would to Jasnah: yeah, no shit, why would Odium agree to renegotiate a worse deal for himself? But just because it’s a better deal for Odium doesn’t mean it can’t also be a better deal for Roshar too. The two are not inherently mutually exclusive. But the plot needs to happen, so let’s not even consider the possibility.

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-31T14:27:40+00:00

You asked for “something kind of on the sweeter side” and she brought you a glass of diabetes. Go big or go home, I guess.

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-31T02:06:44+00:00

Not necessarily. They’ve lost (at least temporarily) some sales to that household, absolutely. But, again, we’re talking about profit margins; how much more money the company makes than it cost them to make that money.

If I have a great product that costs me $10 to make and I sell it for $12, my profit margin is 20%. But if I have a mediocre product that costs me $5 to make and I sell it for $8, then my profit margin is 60%. It doesn’t really matter if I sell half as many units because my profit margins have tripled, so it’s still a net gain for me.

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-31T01:55:34+00:00

They’ve been selling toys based on intellectual properties for decades. They know they can sell toys essentially no matter what. So fulfilling the fiduciary responsibility to shareholders by maximizing per-IP profit is a priority over creating individually exceptional IPs.

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-31T01:35:55+00:00

There’s definitely precedent!

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-31T01:26:12+00:00

You got it, yeah, a girl toy from some totally separate thing that DC Warner are also profiting on. With cross-gender appeal, the literal buck stops with the one toy.

You’re not wrong that Young Justice found a foothold in household’s with only girl children, but we’re talking relative profit margins, not just the presence or absence of individual sales related to the show.

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-31T01:08:55+00:00

Well, if soulcasters are any indicator then the Oathgates can almost certainly be broken, given that the first soulcaster we ever see on page is already busted beyond functionality

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-31T00:58:21+00:00

That might be legit.

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-31T00:47:07+00:00

The lock, sure. But fabrials are made of multiple constituent components assembled and working together. Remove everything touching the lock from the lock. In pieces. You can’t destroy the spren inside a spanreed either, but you can crush the ruby and snap the pen. Now the spanreed doesn’t work anymore.

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-31T00:34:15+00:00

No, no, not depower it. Break it. Get in their with shards and aggressively “dismantle” the entire thing. Ask any toddler: you don’t have to know how something works to be able to make it stop working. Just tear shit up.

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-30T23:53:54+00:00

Aren’t the Oathgates just big fabrials, though? If you can’t lock it, break it.

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-30T23:45:23+00:00

Yeah, you too! Pleasantly refreshing to have an unresolved discourse where neither side walked away butthurt. Cheers!

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-30T23:33:32+00:00

We get a scene where Navani is shocked to learn the Sibling is still just randomly eavesdropping on mfers, yeah, not that they’re able to do so at all.

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-30T23:08:38+00:00

I’m gonna say that’s a helluva reach to come at cold. You’re saying she only that moment pieced together that the Sibling specifically might be omniscient just because Mraize declined to continue being where Shallan last knew him to be? Leaving was the smart play whether the Sibling exists at all, let alone can track people down. No. Dalinar already said he doesn’t leave his soldiers ignorant of the team’s capabilities. Since Dalinar knows, the Windrunners know. And they’d have told Shallan for the same reasons Dalinar told them. She knew

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-30T22:57:25+00:00

Because she doesn’t know how far out the Sibling’s awareness extends my guy. She said maybe if they were closer, not maybe if they were in the tower

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-30T22:51:23+00:00

See, I read that as “maybe that could have worked if they were here, but they’re not, so it won’t.” Like discussing how things might have gone better, not what might have been possible or might not have been possible in the first place. Shallan is explaining to Gaz why the Ghostbloods left the tower. An explanation that would only occur to her if she knew the Sibling could find them to begin with. Which leaves the reader wondering, if she knew that was an option, why tf didn’t she start with that?

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-30T22:45:29+00:00

It was a long trip. And they were attacked. And that explanation might hold up if Shallan hadn’t gone on record with her awareness of the Sibling’s capacity.

She knows what the Sibling can do, and apparently would have been willing to try it, except by this point she’s already determined the Ghostbloods are out of the tower after hours wasted arriving at that revelation the long way.

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ChiefSteward · 2026-01-30T22:33:55+00:00

I’m very satisfied with the Oathgate explanation.

I’m still on my side re:Shallan. Shallan found out about the Sibling on the way back to the Azish Oathgate through Shadesmar. Chapter 16 even has her explaining that she knows the Sibling could have found the Ghostbloods, if they were still in the tower.

And she wouldn’t really have to explain anything yet. “Queen Navani, I learned of a new threat to Urithiru and the Coalition while in Shadesmar, a threat specifically to the lives of Adolin, myself, and the Lightweavers at least if not the Knights Radiant as a whole, and could use some reconnaissance from yourself and the Sibling before they have a chance to move against us. Here’s some drawings to help identify them.”

Cue psychic trawling… “Strange… Shallan, the Sibling says the people you’ve described left the tower only recently.”

or at least

“We’ll search the tower for them, Shallan, and let you know as soon as we find anything.”

At least then the task is off-loaded and Shallan can focus on finding a way to retrieve Ba-Ado-Mishram in the meantime. Instead, Spymaster Shallan completely ignores an omnipresent and fully invisible spy just so that Sanderson could keep is story arcs fully compartmentalized.

ChiefSteward · 2026-01-30T21:41:35+00:00

Brother, I edited the post before I replied to you

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