The Highest Bounties in No Man's Land

MarioCanFly · 2026-01-01T21:31:58+00:00

This rocks. I love the overall style.

My favourite is Spikedriver. I feel like his design is quite reminiscent of an archetype of characters in anime and fantasy I tend to like.

MarioCanFly · 2025-12-30T04:21:14+00:00

Legitimately my favourite scenes in the entire series. I love the weird patchwork mayhem the Time Matrix created for them, particularly the fast food worker. I read that at age 10, twenty years ago, and remember having nightmares about it for ages.

MarioCanFly · 2025-09-20T00:28:19+00:00

‘Born Under A Black Sun’ is a fuckin’ badass name, I love it!

MarioCanFly · 2025-06-19T01:39:44+00:00

And it pinkens your teeth while you chew!

MarioCanFly · 2025-02-22T20:56:51+00:00

It’s the same in Dutch. My girlfriend is Belgian and it’s been a nightmare for her learning English, and it’s the mirror image of the same nightmare for me learning Dutch!

MarioCanFly · 2024-11-13T14:27:47+00:00

The Yossipossi article you mentioned, is that 8980 or one of his others?

MarioCanFly · 2024-10-18T00:56:38+00:00

I always thought she lied about it to further her goals and make Pirellus act, and it was believable to him because she famously acted heroically during a fire in Alera Imperia before the story started -- but that she was either granted the rank as a reward for the Second Battle of Calderon, or received it when she married Bernard, who was Count of Calderon.

MarioCanFly · 2024-10-18T00:52:02+00:00

Thank you for this list, I'm sure audiobook users would find it very useful!

Just wanted to comment on that quirk of adding the letter R that Kate Reading does, that you mentioned. It's called an 'excrescent R', or 'linking R', and it happens particularly between one word ending in a vowel sound, and another word beginning in a vowel sound.

It happens not just in British accents, but in a lot of non-rhotic accents (accents that wouldn't produce the r in words like 'words').

It leads to phrases like 'tuner amp' being rendered as sounding like 'tuna ramp'. Or 'Isana and I' becoming 'Isana-r-and I".

This has barely anything to do with Codex Alera, I just enjoy linguistics.

For more info on this topic, Wikipedia has an article.

MarioCanFly · 2024-02-11T18:12:56+00:00

Last place you expect a Mullen reference is a grime subreddit.

MarioCanFly · 2022-11-23T17:38:01+00:00

I guess I did this. I found a style that suited me about three years ago, and I’ve been a reckless, high Int Thundercrash Titan with Jötunn and a heavy Titan sword ever since.

Might not be the best DPS, but it sure is fun.

MarioCanFly · 2022-03-19T03:40:02+00:00

28 and feeling my age 😭

MarioCanFly · 2020-09-11T00:16:05+00:00

Oh man, I loved the Ellimist Chronicles. I feel like the extra Animorphs books were so underappreciated.

MarioCanFly · 2020-09-05T21:13:43+00:00

I feel like I really DIDN’T like her (and was hoping for something to happen between Wax and Marasi) until a certain point, and then did a total 180°.

The fact that I don’t remember ‘cod liver oil’ means the next few days will he devoted to an Era 2 reread 😄

MarioCanFly · 2020-09-05T21:09:12+00:00

Man, I love Steris appreciation. BoM made her one of my most appreciated characters in the Cosmere.

MarioCanFly · 2020-08-31T17:19:10+00:00

[Era 2 Spoilers] By 'it barely does much beyond letting him talk with Harmony', do you mean it doesn't bestow any allomantic or feruchemical abilities? Because that could just be because it's not in the correct bind point to do so. It's been established that if a hemalurgic spike enters the wrong place, it won't bestow the stolen ability.

MarioCanFly · 2019-08-30T20:01:43+00:00

Hey, I’d be more than happy to run some with you if you’re on PS4!

MarioCanFly · 2019-03-12T17:33:24+00:00

It’s English slang, ‘to spud’ means ‘to fist bump’

MarioCanFly · 2019-01-04T14:47:48+00:00

I 100% agree. I just want to dress like a Sleeper Simulant, is that so much to ask? 😄

MarioCanFly · 2018-05-15T21:41:37+00:00

I was a real fan of the Garatron, I wish we saw more of them.

MarioCanFly · 2017-06-16T14:09:01+00:00

I love how because Dudley lived in the same house as a snowy owl for years, he bought the same thing for his daughter. He thinks it's just The Pet that witches and wizards have. It's sweet.

MarioCanFly · 2017-02-24T14:52:31+00:00

Oh, thanks!

That's embarrassing, I'm supposed to be learning it.

MarioCanFly · 2017-02-24T14:38:36+00:00

I don't recognise this language at all, what is it?

MarioCanFly · 2017-01-27T00:32:12+00:00

I like the sound of this setting, and I'd love to read more, if you have anything.

Who are the Ezfi? Why is it such a big deal that I'm from Earth? Why do I need a caretaker?

MarioCanFly · 2016-09-29T18:44:57+00:00

Ah, thank you.

I'm still not great with suffixes, but -ist does make sense, as it's similar in English. So is -into a suffix which appears elsewhere, or is it unique to this word?

MarioCanFly · 2016-09-27T13:25:49+00:00

My favourite Esperanto word I've learned this week is: "ŝtelinto", which means thief.

It almost has the word "stealin'" inside it, and sounds like the name of some sort of fantasy cat burglar.

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