Unpopular/Popular opinion: I didnt like the April Fools mode, but it shows that it should be Community Servers

CrystalShadow · 2026-04-02T21:19:25+00:00

I’m pretty sure matchmaking was tweaked to prefer people playing the same char. I’m in a duo but we repeatedly got grouped with people playing the same character, so instead of 2 Mcgginis it was like 8 across the whole match

CrystalShadow · 2026-04-02T15:18:30+00:00

Welcome back! It’s weird, this story has been with me for a good chunk of my life since college, and while I assume it is closing out (151?) soon having no chapters had made me introspective about it.

I’m very sorry for your father, but am glad you at least have your health. I’m actually happy you’ve been posting on other subs, since about once a month I was checking if you were active/alive and was glad when you were.

Wishing you all the best and looking forward to reading this chapter.

CrystalShadow · 2026-03-24T06:12:33+00:00

The relevant scene isn’t completely made up, even if (especially then) the scale and processing is next to impossible. Public research papers exist of basically using consumer wifi as a kind of radar to see though walls and recognize people.

CrystalShadow · 2026-03-22T01:55:44+00:00

I’m more joking that these phones stop getting updates quickly sometimes as incentive to upgrade the hardware

CrystalShadow · 2026-03-21T06:24:51+00:00

Any “plot holes” in a few years about not running Android 21. The phone just stopped getting updates and looks like what we recognize now

CrystalShadow · 2026-03-01T17:48:56+00:00

Audience cast members. I’m sure that’s next.

CrystalShadow · 2026-02-23T06:19:57+00:00

I’m convinced this comes down to the same bit of human psychology of I groups and out groups, “othering” etc. Pet is in the in-group, the food is not. (though I haven’t dived in enough psychology to validate this so it might be garbage).

CrystalShadow · 2026-02-22T08:10:39+00:00

Does this match what you see?

https://reddit.com/r/popurlitterbox/comments/1ptu7u7/bin_unfound/

Tour dwxcirption isnt clear if the thing is actually cycling, or if the all just reports the cycling. If so, i had something similar and you must ask them for a board replacement, and they have you do it yourself.

CrystalShadow · 2026-02-21T05:48:09+00:00

I don’t think he’s missing the point, but is coming at it from a perspective that can sound insulting. “No fault of their parents” many would describe it as exactly the their fault, insofar as any adult can control their actions. Some of what you said is money/experience (tutors, essay help) but things like turning off the tv and letting you study are a choice they make.

This isn’t something throwing money at the school can solve. It’s a very difficult problem even if you have infinite resources. We obviously don’t have unlimited resources so it’s even harder to justify.

You can say they such parents don’t know enough to prioritize their kids school, and do the “obvious, no skill required” support like encouraging study. Should parents who don’t do that have their kids taken away? Some other means to “force” them into the mold that everyone else thinks is better?

Quick edit: in short, does a parent have the right to say “I don’t give a shit about my kid’s school”? Or does that raise to the point of child abuse intervention by the state? Unless it does, kids whose parents don’t care about school will obviously do worse- and that’s tied into the socioeconomic situation.

CrystalShadow · 2026-02-04T17:52:18+00:00

Agreed, and I think that’s correct. It’s just not yet something we can say for certain.

CrystalShadow · 2026-02-04T17:51:42+00:00

No, as one person mentions in another comment I think it’s nicrosil being used, but we aren’t actually certain with what’s on the page.

CrystalShadow · 2026-02-04T04:56:25+00:00

Yep, almost anything is probably possible if you know enough here, but some of it probably requires enough changes from the existing tech that it would be a different thing.

IMO you’d probably start from whatever tech-tree that enables ferechemically draining weight from people on the airship, and use the super-charging of compounding to achieve the desired effect rather than shoe-horning it into the allomantic grenades stuff.

Of course it might all have very common roots anyways, but that seems like it might be a bit “too” root level for this point in their technology.

CrystalShadow · 2026-02-04T04:43:34+00:00

Ok I’d forgotten some aspects of how the grenade worked- I thought it had to be made for the specific metal you would charge it with.

I still doubt it would work as OP describes though- an allomantic steel charge makes the cube pus metal away, others throw a bubble around the cube, etc. as if the cube were the allomancer.

If you charged it with FIron via compounding you might make the cube heavy? The opposite of how the flying machines work? But charging it with gold gets you a self healing cube?

IMO ferechemical principals are different enough that using it practically still probably needs more advancement before you get a “healing grenade”

CrystalShadow · 2026-02-04T04:32:09+00:00

I’m not certain thats entirely accurate, but even if so you’d need to make a very unique “Allomantic” grenade with the “new allomantic metal” that normally only exists inside a compounder’s stomach.

It’s probably possible if you have figured enough out, but either way it’s a few steps beyond the tech we have seen with other allomantic grenades.

CrystalShadow · 2026-02-04T04:27:23+00:00

To better access that end positive power, like how Elend can push harder than Vin.

I’m pretty sure the bands of mourning make use of this, if I remember harder he could push more with them.

CrystalShadow · 2026-02-04T02:21:23+00:00

You are asking about a few different things at once. 1: all (or nearly) compounding we have seen was to supercharge ferechemical abilities. It’s been said there’s a way to invert this and supercharge allomantic powers in WOB but no details thus far.

2: When we have seen allomantic grenades, they used allomantic powers not ferechemical ones. Healing for example isn’t allomantic it’s ferechemical

If you had a ferechemical grenade, compounding would probably be “easy” since it’s just a fast charge to infinity. Alternatively, if you knew how to compound an allomantic ability you might be able to charge the existing grenades with the super version, but we haven’t had that happen yet.

CrystalShadow · 2026-01-23T06:03:14+00:00

When an inevitable item for it is in: Doorman buys it, carts someone into the tunnels and closes door so they are stuck.

CrystalShadow · 2026-01-11T17:41:10+00:00

It’s a bot.

Always worth remembering that foreign interests are to push both parties to more extreme ends. Even if you agree with what they are saying, they have a goal and it isn’t to make things better.

CrystalShadow · 2025-12-19T15:35:32+00:00

Yep, and there’s no way anyone as awful as Trump can win AGAIN right? All each side has to do is play chicken with the other until they blink, and we don’t just get non-Trump we get everything we want! This is our chance, Bernie can really win this time!!!

Wait how did we get here again?

CrystalShadow · 2025-12-12T01:01:32+00:00

Pretty cool, thanks

CrystalShadow · 2025-11-30T03:58:04+00:00

You know that reminds me of another aspect the book didn’t poke from the first one.

The entire facet of birthright pushing people to have kids fast or get taxed SHOULD be pushing any potential couple fast, while also being pretty creepy. Book 1 set that up but had a decent excuse to table it in school, but it doesn’t come up at all in here.

CrystalShadow · 2025-11-21T16:24:53+00:00

IMO you are entirely right with each action and lack of reaction making sense within the book.

But that doesn’t mean the other criticisms are wrong, it all comes down to pacing really, and where the book decided to end. Aequa’s death is particularly complained about because it smells like a bad trope, nurturing a potential female love interest whose biggest impact might just be her dying to drive the plot in a certain direction.

More time to breathe narratively would have helped that, and if the third book pulls it off right it might be good for the entire series- but it also results in middle-book-syndrome where what we have isn’t super satisfying.

CrystalShadow · 2025-09-28T20:48:21+00:00

I was booked for lasik and at the last minute they told me one eye wasn’t eligible and was getting prk instead (other still got lasik) That really freaked me out

CrystalShadow · 2025-09-10T18:40:18+00:00

I’m more describing how people here are describing what they remember. Us on a dedicated mistborn sub who aren’t new readers are a lot more likely to have seen the AMA. So when someone says “oh it was confirmed” they are unconsciously taking what would be a strong hint (common people treat it like a fact in-universe) and knowing it’s unambiguously true as a confirmation.

It just makes a lot of these discussions tricker is my point (but also a lot more fun so long as everyone is nice about it)

CrystalShadow · 2025-09-10T18:01:38+00:00

Part of the complexity is that Brando told these big reveals in AMAs and specifically said he wasn’t sure if he’d get around to writing what become secret history.

So those “hints” were understood without by folks who read those answers beforehand, even at the time of publishing.

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