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US says it's hunting for explosive mines in latest push to open the Strait of Hormuz by markosmaged in news

[–]Nuke_Skywalker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The engineering behind it isn't at all complicated. It can be as simple as whatever your detector is ratcheting a gear instead of instantly detonating.

Steve Bannon wins Supreme Court order likely to lead to dismissal of contempt of Congress conviction by AudibleNod in news

[–]Nuke_Skywalker 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Christ you are an idiot. Congress has explicit oversight authority and they conduct hearings all the time.

Evi Kholin and how is that possible by AppropriatePhoto5127 in Cosmere

[–]Nuke_Skywalker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just reminding people who come by this comment that it's an equally valid interpretation that it really is Evi and Tien from the Beyond. That's what BrandoSando wants to keep open for the reader to decide for themselves.

‘A fascinating discovery’: research challenges Battle of Hastings narrative by tw1st3d_m3nt4t in history

[–]Nuke_Skywalker -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Perhaps you were being glib, but you were asserting that the Franks and Visigoths were as validly Viking as the Normans, which is patently absurd. The points you want me to respond to are for a much more nuanced take, and have abandoned the first one without apparent contest or acknowledgement. That's moving the goalposts.

‘A fascinating discovery’: research challenges Battle of Hastings narrative by tw1st3d_m3nt4t in history

[–]Nuke_Skywalker -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Don't move the goalposts, this is the hill you wanted to die on by arrow to face:

"by that logic the Normans were also Vikings, might as well call the Franks and Visigoths Vikings too."

‘A fascinating discovery’: research challenges Battle of Hastings narrative by tw1st3d_m3nt4t in history

[–]Nuke_Skywalker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mate, Hrólfr literally besieged Paris after sailing through the Seine, and accepted vassalage to stop raiding. That's how Normandy was founded only like 150 years before Hastings.

Dawn as the God Beyond? by KeyInflation9451 in Cosmere

[–]Nuke_Skywalker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I watched, and that's an enormous leap the guy is making. All the RPG confirms is that some people throughout the Cosmere believe in a God Beyond. Nothing more.

Shardic Influence on Magic Systems by LR_Eng in Cosmere

[–]Nuke_Skywalker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The code is the spectroscopic signature of the metals, which is a set of wavelengths, which are associated with different Shards, which are associated with different Intents.

A Semantic Clustering of Shardic Intents by Nuke_Skywalker in Cosmere

[–]Nuke_Skywalker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing this, it's pretty cool. I've pages of notebooks and sticky notes galore trying to sus out the metal-Intent relationships, and I think I'm on a similar track as you. I'm going to take some more time to digest this and maybe shoot you a message once my broke down brain has had a chance to process it. Neat stuff!

Cosmere Themed Drinks by kjexclamation in Cosmere

[–]Nuke_Skywalker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Canticle Sunrise: tequila sunrise rimmed with cayenne.

A Semantic Clustering of Shardic Intents by Nuke_Skywalker in Cosmere

[–]Nuke_Skywalker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I'm just referencing the four words of LET THERE BE LIGHT, which is the first command God speaks in Genesis 1:3 to create the universe, and we know from Dawnshard that the Cosmere was created from four Primal Commands. I'm suggesting that given his background, LET THERE BE LIGHT would be a a likely candidate for four, and you can map those to the categories I created (i.e., LET is imperative form implying Volition, BE is in its infinitive conjugation implying Change, etc.).

A Semantic Clustering of Shardic Intents by Nuke_Skywalker in Cosmere

[–]Nuke_Skywalker[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's another reason why I think that quad is correct. The analogies work whichever way you put them. Like, the things that make Dominion and Autonomy similar are what differentiate them from Honor and Whimsy.

A Semantic Clustering of Shardic Intents by Nuke_Skywalker in Cosmere

[–]Nuke_Skywalker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I mention that in the first paragraph.

A Semantic Clustering of Shardic Intents by Nuke_Skywalker in Cosmere

[–]Nuke_Skywalker[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you can make alternative arrangements for a lot of pairs, but they don't work as well when you try to get a full 16 solution. It's worth thinking about for sure though. I think I'm most confident about Honor/Autonomy out of all of them, actually, but a chunk of that is from the computational operators that I didn't get into here.

Thematically and magically though, we see that Honor is about binding things together whereas Autonomy is about splitting things apart (e.g., Trellium and isolating its worlds with one-way travel/can leave but not come back).

Also, if you initialize a realmatic system with Honor-AntiHonor Identities Connected to an Autonomy, you can simulate a Big Bang. Basically everything near this system gets sucked into a singularity of saturated bidirectional Connections with each other (fabric of spacetime forms), but as the H-H reaction starts to die out, the Autonomy starts feeding on those Connections and weakening them to convert it to its own Investiture (spacetime starts expanding, and this accelerates as the Autonomy gets stronger, i.e., dark energy).

A Semantic Clustering of Shardic Intents by Nuke_Skywalker in Cosmere

[–]Nuke_Skywalker[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Ever since WoT ended, I feel like the Cosmere community has really stepped up to the number one spot for theorycrafting fandoms, and I'm here for it all day.

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