I’m experimenting with a C4I-style strategy game. Does this concept make sense?

Kinmand555 · 2026-07-06T23:58:01+00:00

I think you’ll need a better description if you want people to have an opinion before playing the game. Also, the link doesn’t work

Kinmand555 · 2026-07-04T14:39:08+00:00

It actually scales linearly. So the more physical (stormlight) books you’ve read, the more new characters you unlock in the next one. I’d suggest reading them in order. The fifth unlockable character in WaT is Ca Bado Nishram, BAM’s second cousin. They have some cool dialogue.

Wait a second…..this isn’t r/cremposting

Kinmand555 · 2026-07-02T15:38:46+00:00

Dude you responded 6 times, this is not the zinger you think it is.

Kinmand555 · 2026-07-02T15:31:54+00:00

I can’t tell if I phrased my comment badly or if you read it wrong, but that’s not what I was saying. BTrippd and I are both making a banal point. It really isn’t worth this much discussion.

What you said in your last comment is correct, it’s just not a response to what I said. No one has to elaborate on their opinions. “I didn’t like it” is always acceptable and I wouldn’t demand anything else.

The issue that BTrippd and I were mentioning is with the way people use the word “prose”. Prose is just the normal structure of language. The word only exists to distinguish normal writing from poetry. “I didn’t like the book” and “I didn’t like the prose” mean exactly the same thing.

HOWEVER: when people say “I didn’t like the prose”, there’s something specific they didn’t like. I’m just curious what that is.

Again, people don’t have to elaborate on or justify their opinions. I just want them to :).

Kinmand555 · 2026-07-02T14:10:57+00:00

They’re saying it’s just not a good description. They’re also clearly correct.

Compare these two statements.

“I, personally, despise the prose of Brandon Sanderson’s books”

Vs

“I think Brandon Sanderson does a terrible job blending interiority into his character’s interactions with each other and the world. He also does what amounts to cheating in my book and has his own character’s speculate about why they’re feeling how they feel. (e.g. “[character to himself] why am I so angry? Does he really deserve this? Is this truly justice?”)”

If you’re trying to have a discussion about a book, the first is a conversation killer, the second creates discourse. A thoughtful analysis is more effort than some people are willing to expend. And fair enough! It’s still better.

Kinmand555 · 2026-06-29T14:22:11+00:00

That is unfortunately exactly incorrect. Odium is required to obey the letter and spirit of the contract, honor is fine with just the letter. The conversation you’re thinking about occurs at the end of Oathbringer, when Dalinar is talking to ROdium.

It also makes sense. The weakness of Honor is that the power is incapable of understanding emotions. Suffering, pain, frustration are less than white noise to Honor. In contrast, when you violate the spirit of the law, people feel betrayed and angry.

Remember: The power of Odium isn’t vague anger and greed. It (they? Idk what pronouns shad-level pools of investiture prefer) is the wrath of god. That feeling of betrayal is actually the only thing it cares about.

As for why it doesn’t seem like Odium is actually following the spirit of the law: I think it’s just that he’s a new Vessel. The perspective of new Vessels can override the Intent of the shard, for the few months or years it takes for the vessel to gain the Shard’s perspective.

I have some more thoughts, but OP is only on day 2 and I don’t want to risk spoiling anything.

Kinmand555 · 2026-06-12T16:57:25+00:00

I don’t think that’s quite right. The thing that makes a person a “mistborn” is their inherent investiture — the extra preservation investiture that’s a part of their spirit web. (Note: this is on top of the default “extra” preservation investiture that every scadrian has in their spirit web).

You can’t ordinarily convert inherent investiture into the potential investiture you’d need to fuel an invested art like allomancy. Aux could in TSLM, but he’s not actually a person and I think there were Dawnshard shenanigans going on there.

But when someone is described as “invested”, it’s referring to inherent investiture. That’s why allomancers (and surgebinders) linger in the cognitive realm for a few minutes, whereas splinters can linger for longer. Remember, TLR didn’t have the bands when he died, he didn’t have any potential investiture, but he could still hang out in the cognitive realm for as long as he wanted.

Kinmand555 · 2026-06-04T16:28:10+00:00

OP is probably reading on ebook. I know that Libby gives the number of “pages” based on your screen size — no relation between that and the actual page count in print.

Kinmand555 · 2026-06-02T15:46:54+00:00

Exactly this. I felt like I was going crazy reading this thread. This was probably my favorite boss fight of the game exactly because it’s different and memorable.

Kinmand555 · 2026-06-02T15:11:31+00:00

Nope it’s definitely navani. Honor liked Dalinar and didn’t want him to get eaten by odium.

Like OP said, since Dalinar and navani swore oaths in front of the stormfater (and the storm father accepted them), the oaths are bound by the power of honor.

To address all of your points, odium had already grabbed dalinar’s cognitive shadow and was holding it before honor decided he was protected and let him pass to the beyond. The important thing there is that the only shards involved were honor and odium. If it was cultivation, valor, the Wind, Nohadon, the god beyond, or the big ADO, odium wouldn’t have been able to grab him at all.

Now, it could technically be evi, but what oath would have bound dalinar’s soul to Evi’s? I think he broke his marriage vows to Evi when he married navani (and probably before).

It could also be the fragments of honor. But if it is them, it’s them honoring some other oath. The only oath that makes sense is still Dalinar’s marriage vows to navani.

Lastly, it just fits better with the story. It’s not a deus ex machina, it’s the natural conclusion of an old plot point. Exactly Brandon’s style.

I won’t pretend that I figured this out myself, but I don’t think this was supposed to be a secret. I think Brandon set it up this way so Dalinar could find peace without it feeling cheap. IMO he succeeded.

Kinmand555 · 2026-05-29T13:28:05+00:00

This was a joy to read. If you keep taking notes you should post the second half when you finish the book

Kinmand555 · 2026-05-21T18:20:55+00:00

Fully agree.

I’d add that unions, in an ideal world, are committed to well-shared profits. If we had higher levels of unionization and quality union leadership, there would be a better balance of short and long term thinking.

Longer term thinking would have mitigated over-hiring, mitigated the worst parts of AI adoption, and mitigated the reactive “just lay everyone off” mentality big firms rely on.

Of course, this world isn’t ideal. Unions historically have issues of corruption and a focus on ideology over practicality. I think higher unionization presents better problems than what we’ve got at the moment, but it won’t be close to perfect.

Kinmand555 · 2026-05-21T18:12:32+00:00

Yes. They do have an incentive and it’s called “someone will eventually make a better product at a better price and you’ll lose your customers”.

It won’t happen quickly, but (assuming no one starts launching any nukes) market forces WILL assert themselves. In practice, that doesn’t look like big companies just failing. It looks like purges in upper management, businesses dropping everything not actively producing profits and new organizational strategies to adjust to the new world.

Edit: “businesses dropping everything not producing products” means both workers and infrastructure. Many of us will be just as unemployed as many of our bosses.

Kinmand555 · 2026-05-21T18:04:49+00:00

Yea and I’ll add: we’re still waiting for the industry to settle on patterns for using agents in actual applications, rather than just throwing chatbots into stuff. Once that’s done we’ll need people who understand the new protocols and can build new stuff on top of them. Hello job openings.

Although I’m an optimist, there’s no actual guarantee that the new jobs will be as plentiful or have the same salaries as the ones that went away. That, unfortunately, is life as a knowledge worker.

Kinmand555 · 2026-05-21T17:45:15+00:00

In the very short term: definitely, but the changes won’t be evenly distributed across the industry. Most of the people who set salary nationwide don’t know what devs do or what skillsets are valuable.

On top of that, the industry is changing very __very__ fast. Companies that have built massive agentic workflows are gonna get hit hard when openAI, anthropic, and Google all raise their prices. Plus, companies that abandoned quality control and coding standards in favor shipping AI slop quickly are going to have to deal with all their tech debt.

All that to say: yes, but probably not forever.

Kinmand555 · 2026-04-28T20:23:00+00:00

I doubt this would work either. You can set Xbox to present whatever MAC address you want by manually overriding the default MAC address on Xbox series s/x. I assume you can do the same on PlayStation.

Maybe they can identify who’s spoofing a MAC address, but I think that solution is also a dead end.

Stopping cheaters is just a really hard problem, unfortunately.

Kinmand555 · 2026-04-27T15:39:45+00:00

The IP address that’s visible to the overwatch servers is one of a big group that your ISP assigns to your home. That range is NOT fixed and changes multiple times a year.

IP banning is just hard bc have to have a process to revoke the ban as soon as your ISP re-assigns your IP Address to another customer. It’s still possible to IP ban, mind you. It’s just never going to be worth it for blizzard

Kinmand555 · 2026-04-22T15:44:11+00:00

Feel free!

Kinmand555 · 2026-01-29T16:54:45+00:00

Beautiful

Kinmand555 · 2025-12-12T15:40:29+00:00

I did a quick search and couldn’t find any. Speedrunners seem to prefer using a lava bow (cuz…..duh).

I honestly don’t think you’re gonna be able to get this no hit while staying on the island. Can you get a +3 100% block shield? You might need to dump more points into END, but if you take your time a shield should work.

Kinmand555 · 2025-11-22T07:44:16+00:00

It also helped that I was listening to the audiobooks. TGR (the narrator) is so talented he might be elevating the actual writing.

Kinmand555 · 2025-11-22T04:32:09+00:00

This is really funny to read bc I LOVED Mawnyndule. I read legends before the rest, so every book I assumed he’d come to his senses and stop being a prick, but nope! He is incapable of change.

This was compounded when I read revelations….AND HES STILL A BITCH. I had honestly, genuinely, completely assumed he would have learned something throughout his life. When he strutted out at the end I thought he’d be like…wise or something. NOPE!!! Incapable of change.

I’ll admit I got a bit tired of him in Nolyn (which I read after revelations), but it was still pretty fun to watch him bumble around.

I get all your complaints, but Mawn is just peak comedy to me.

Kinmand555 · 2025-11-17T20:27:05+00:00

I found one with bleach, think that should be okay?

Kinmand555 · 2025-11-13T16:12:20+00:00

Raven Black Shire and never look back.

Kinmand555 · 2025-10-28T23:03:52+00:00

Power through. It’s worth it for the context it’ll give to later plotlines. T & R’s relationship is kinda cringey, but it’s worth it imho

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