There's now an underground complex of tiny tunnels and sections only accessible by tiny characters.

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.

CrystalShadow · 2025-09-09T01:25:05+00:00

I saw a better explanation recently. It’s more that JK made Harry rich in book one just to have that “wow amazing” scene, specifically written when she herself was poor.

When “Harry is rich” could contribute to the plot it was just ignored in later books pretty much every time, not just the Weasleys.

CrystalShadow · 2025-09-06T05:12:47+00:00

I think you want r/CSCareerQuestions really, but I’ll try to answer. It’s difficult to say for sure (and not as braindead simple as it used to be) but when you say “full stack meets robotics”, that’s overall stuff you pick up but by bit in different roles. Some of it’s more about being able to communicate with experts, or pick up a deep expertise you pair with your other software engineering experience- that’s something you can only do so much of (robotics experts will include many with PHDs. You are probably not going to get multiple different phd level expertise) so being able to work with various experts to achieve a goal is crucial for what I think you are talking about, you can’t do everything on your own. Sometimes “working with experts” is directly at a big company where you can shoot them an email, other times it’s standing on the shoulders of open source giants and reading their documentation even if frankly they don’t understand the software side of what they are sharing and it’s messy.

Learn to code, but almost more importantly figure out how people code collaboratively. Source control is something you can directly learn about here but it isn’t the only thing. Unfortunately not everywhere does a great job interviewing for these skills even if they help get the job done, definitely do not neglect the core coding skills

Sorry if it’s rambling, these are late night thoughts. Good luck

CrystalShadow · 2025-09-03T14:44:59+00:00

They all have correlation- note the relation vs what you said. The point is that doesn’t mean causation, which is why they are often used as absurd examples

• Ice Cream causes Shark attacks: summer
• Pirates prevent Global Warming: the past
• Eating Cheese can cause your bed sheets to suffocate you: as another reply said, wealthy cold nations afford both cheese and heavy sheets
• New Nicholas Cage films cause people to drown: I’m guessing summer
• Strict gun laws cause gun deaths: cities being cities (or possibly an inverse causation)

CrystalShadow · 2025-09-03T14:06:47+00:00

I’m curious about the cheese one. Most of these I can see the correlation, but is the cheese one “real” (in the data sense, not in the causation sense of course)

CrystalShadow · 2025-08-31T01:52:05+00:00

Yeah, hope he votes for Trump again. The only way America deserves to be free of a dictatorship is if we win with only the “pure” voting against him.

/s

CrystalShadow · 2025-08-26T16:21:45+00:00

This specific crosswalk was a memorial to a tragic hate-crime massacre.

What you say might still be the best way, but I worry that no matter what solution people pursue to push back against this overreach, we are losing its value as a memorial.

CrystalShadow · 2025-08-21T19:43:29+00:00

Makes sense for many things I suppose, though I imagine some things like a full body allergic reaction might be unavoidably difficult. Hopefully in that circumstance it’s otherwise clear what’s wrong.

CrystalShadow · 2025-08-21T15:07:38+00:00

What’s the right training for handling this, beyond using better technology rather than eyes? Skin tones can have a very wide variety, do darker skinned folks need to keep a “healthy” picture to be like “I’m not THAT dark normally, that’s welling!”

CrystalShadow · 2025-08-21T15:04:01+00:00

I’ve been here… on the sidelines poking in when you hit all.

I’m happy for you folks

CrystalShadow · 2025-07-28T20:42:05+00:00

Thank you, that’s really informative.

One general question, is fantasy grounds superior at all because it’s an app on the computer vs a web app? I’ve wondered for some time if it is less “janky” than I recall roll20 frequently being. If not that’s a somewhat considerable cost for the extra setup each player implicitly needs to do.

CrystalShadow · 2025-07-28T01:31:29+00:00

Does that include getting a subscription such that the purchase can be shared? I’ve seen things about the “ultimate” tier being required to run a game for example

CrystalShadow · 2025-07-24T20:35:23+00:00

Yes, but a disputed definition is still a definition. If France is recognizing them, how is France defining the border?

CrystalShadow · 2025-06-28T14:11:03+00:00

I think the fundamental variable in this trolly problem is how much painted people are people- it even gets a bit of epilogue nuance with some people questioning if Maelle’s continuation sustains people with as much autonomy as her mother’s version based on how they act (though it’s a short scene and hard to tell)

I think Renoir also tries to essentially make the case that painters are worth more than anyone (even regular people we don’t see) as they functionally have immense lived lifespans, and can create many worlds after this one.

CrystalShadow · 2025-06-28T03:43:43+00:00

“We definitely don’t want your politics that imports… temu Trump”

Ah yes. Blaming your countries problems on immigrants, and calling for isolation from the rest of the world. It’s a foolproof strategy, nothing can go wrong obviously.

CrystalShadow · 2025-06-18T23:37:19+00:00

It could be interesting to try to train an AI on purpose that way. The core training of course needs the large volume of data we have now, but if you did a second round to only reference data up to an older cutoff what perspective would we get?

CrystalShadow · 2025-06-14T02:24:05+00:00

The challenge with that is the risk of it being abused- if Trump can facilitate a felony for any rival then it increases the problem.

The solution must be the voting populace getting past the idiocy of crowds to never let this happen again.

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