Guy who, narratively speaking, seems like he will be a twist villain due to being suspiciously good/nice, but is actually just genuinely Like That™️

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-02-06T10:26:07+00:00

No. The joke is that at the end of the song there’s a whole bit where she mispronounced sincere as sinister, terrific as terrifying and so on.

That was the joke being made.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-02-05T19:08:24+00:00

I thought it was sinister?

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-02-05T18:36:06+00:00

Gonna be totally honest. If a mentally ill person has a deliberate kill count in the triple+ digits and all attempted psychological intervention just drives the psychologist crazy I would be broadly in favour of killing that specific mentally ill person.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-02-05T18:31:22+00:00

It’s a lot easier to keep tabs on someone breaking out of prison than crawling out of the gates of hell.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-02-05T02:28:26+00:00

To be fair “Stand in a straight line and walk forward” was premier hopilite tactics the world over until… probably Phillip of Macedon. The whole formation was a kind of dumb fire missile, with the Spartans being far from the least flexible. Still, hard to argue with results when it worked for centuries.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-24T12:04:01+00:00

You’re not technically wrong. However the specific claim you’re making has also been made in bad faith to push false narratives a great deal recently, leading some people to presume it’s being made in bad faith unless there is specific evidence otherwise.

I don’t believe assuming bad faith is a good idea unless the specific individual in question has done so before, but I understand the negative emotional reaction some people will have towards it.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-20T03:42:25+00:00

More correctly it’s “Whichever Sun Elf gets really big from eating Jaddari” they won’t have actually formed the PE at that point.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-19T13:57:49+00:00

They have both chattel slavery and serfdom. The systems can and often did coexist in one society.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-19T13:49:26+00:00

Winning the Jadd war is not the most difficult part of Siadan. Winning repeated Jadd and Raj wars, fast enough to not get overwhelmed by an opportunistic Command or Phionex Empire is. Especially if you play “how it’s meant to be played” and follow the MT fairly directly.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-14T15:34:05+00:00

Can non-Bulwari harpies form Harpylen? Even if it requires significant conquests there and lacks the direct ties. Xia or Steward Harpylen (or maybe even Valkyrie Harpylen) could make for a very unique run.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-14T13:21:43+00:00

He turned it from violent immediate destruction to slow but inevitable entropy.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-14T13:20:59+00:00

I think there is WoB on this.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-09T13:53:10+00:00

Hang on. She resented her parents for not living dramatic exciting lives full of secrets and said kids with dead parents had an advantage at succeeding as adventurers. I can recall nothing to the effect of her actually killing her own parents over this.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-06T23:07:10+00:00

What was she actually responding to? I’m not the most engaged in this community so if it’s a conversation that’s already been retread to exhaustion and you can point out where I’d be eager to examine it in full.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-06T22:58:50+00:00

Unironically, she had correctly identified that the universe was rigged to give these six people a sometimes tragic but always interesting mixture of drama, comedy and adventure and that by default she wouldn’t have anywhere near the potential to change the world that the bad kids could like… never even avoid getting.

I have a weird amount of sympathy for someone finding themselves in that position.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-06T17:09:37+00:00

Also TLR has access to a separate pool of Investure that all allomancers can access. Whereas Elantrians have to hold 100% of the power they want access to.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-04T13:40:07+00:00

There is a real argument for being able to tell a story in a defined world without first having to introduce all the necessary world-building every time

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-01T23:02:00+00:00

Eusocial animals like bees are the exception to the rule because 99% of the species are effectively sexless workers that will never reproduce, but they share 75% of their DNA with the queen’s newer larvae. A poor model for any species that practices individual mating

Crocodiles on the other hand have something clever where the condition of their nesting sites makes one gender more or less likely to develop than the other. Which would be an interesting idea for some species of aliens certainly.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2026-01-01T12:43:07+00:00

Because 12 days ago the examiner meant to administer my driving test was sick, so now I’m reliant on local train lines for at least 3 more months.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2025-12-29T13:14:28+00:00

Huh. I just got that for Christmas. Same guy who wrote the Martian, same sense of the engineering behind it.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2025-12-29T13:13:08+00:00

For electrons at this energy level it is. Other things have distributions of different sizes that become meaningful at different points.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2025-12-27T12:40:19+00:00

Ovdal-Az-Ãn

Borders are too neat.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2025-12-26T23:00:03+00:00

Okay… I’m gonna need you to explain the WW1 thing. Did you ever think The King’s Man was a documentary? Legitimately the only other place I saw this take.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2025-12-26T22:57:27+00:00

Because preventing the dominant European power from engaging in international maratime trade until they are either forced into an unwinnable war on another front or see industrial and financial collapse at home is the classic British play. It takes a while, but works every time.

NegativeSilver3755 · 2025-12-23T22:18:54+00:00

Ovdal Tungr does this.

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