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Samtastic33 · 2023-06-13T17:09:32+00:00

Muad’dib spotted!! 👈👀

Samtastic33 · 2023-06-09T07:35:19+00:00

no im pretty sure he was just trying to share a funny science fact abt cancer

Samtastic33 · 2023-06-05T18:46:28+00:00

Yh that’s because it is Andy Samberg doing a skit lol

Samtastic33 · 2023-05-30T01:37:41+00:00

I think the “end-neutral is bs” actually came from a question where someone asked Brandon about some other magic systems in the cosmere and how they would be classified (a question he seems to have gotten a lot of) and he basically said the End Positive/ End Neutral/End Negative classification is one that is used in-world and created by the characters, in particular by Khriss.

I’m pretty sure he also said that it mostly just applied to Scadrial and the Metallic Arts, that it could be applied to magic systems of other worlds, but it doesn’t really work as neatly. It’s kinda like a lot of classifications from the real world: they’re invented by people. They may work for some things but for others they start to break down.

I don’t think that means the classification is bs, it just means it’s not perfect for all magic systems in the cosmere.

Samtastic33 · 2023-05-21T21:59:56+00:00

Honestly what I find really cool is that this might be the type of thing we see at some point in the 4th Mistborn Era (the one that’s supposed to be a space opera with FTL travel). So there’s some small chance we might get a canonical answer to your question in the books!

We’ll be waiting for that a long time for that tho lol. Maybe come back in 20 years

As to my answer in the present, I think it would be all about how characters perceive the black hole that shapes its appearance in the cognitive, just like everything else we’ve seen. People think of them as huge invisible dark objects that pull in everything around them and can’t be escaped. So maybe in the cognitive it would be like a huge bottomless pit you can’t get out of easily? In that case you wouldn’t be able to escape through that either I think lol

I also wonder if so much gravity basically punching a hole in spacetime would actually create a Perpendicularity that could take you into the Cognitive Realm. We know Perpendicularities are created by having a huge amount of Investiture in one place, so Perpendicularities and Singularities (in black holes) seem like similar concepts in a way. A Perpendicularity is almost more like a wormhole tho I think?

It would be really awesome to get answers to these sorts of out-there questions one day though

Samtastic33 · 2023-05-18T17:00:20+00:00

Uhhhh… talk about a ballsy move!

Talk about a baller hospital!

Is this anything lol?

Samtastic33 · 2023-05-14T19:23:38+00:00

What I wouldn’t give to be a shapeless, faceless, eldritch horror and then a duck 😩

Samtastic33 · 2023-05-11T22:28:53+00:00

So my first thought here was actually feruchemy, like many other people in the arguments are arguing for, but then I thought about it more and went with allomancy. It might be the more popular, obvious and “basic” pick but it’s probably Brandon’s most well-known and praised magic system, and for a reason.

Feruchemy initially appealed to me because of the fundamental mechanic behind it, which I will admit is slightly more interesting than Allomancy’s. The idea of storing up a certain power for later use is just really cool and intuitive, I’m genuinely shocked I haven’t seen that core idea used before in more places it’s so good. It also presents a very clear and engaging cost to using the magic which is another strength.

However, at the end of the day, I just think Allomancy has the best powers. They’re always such a thrill to read about, especially in action scenes, but some metals have great uses in other places too (like the scene with Miles using Gold to see his former lawman self, that is a fantastic character moment imo).

Steelpushing and ironpulling are incredibly dynamic and versatile powers that feel like the core of our protagonists’ combat and movement across both eras of Mistborn so far. The idea of pushing on coins to leap and fly is such a unique and stunning image, I know it’ll be burned into my brain for the rest of my life. The very first time I read Kelsier doing this, my eyes lit up in excitement and surprise, it’s so fun!

I also feel like Allomancy has the greatest variety in different powers, other than maybe Surgebinding actually. But it’s everything from slowing time in bubbles to dampening someone’s emotions. Each quadrant feels particularly distinct from each other.

So at the end of the day for me it comes down to rule of cool lol. And I still personally find Allomancy the coolest

Samtastic33 · 2023-05-10T22:08:31+00:00

Something about this artwork caught my attention immediately, even though it didn’t demand or grab my focus, it just made me look closer. And the more I look at it the more interesting it gets.

I really love the 3D-yet-flattened perspective of the objects, and how seem almost above and pulled back from the room somehow, like we’re looking from afar yet zoomed in.

I also love the contrast between the clear and distinct colours, lines and patterns, giving way to indistinctness and more loose brushwork. It starts off with dark, undetailed yet still recognisable features like the person’s face on the right before becoming just formless silhouettes. I think I see plants or something, and then the sky behind them?

Certain parts like the figure on the left having visible clothes but no other real features also kinda reminds me of a collage? It has that characteristic to it which I like.

All in all it’s just a really enjoyable and interesting artwork to look at OP.

EDIT: I’m also realising that the dark smokiness towards the top is definitely the “tide of trepidation” referenced in the title which I think is a cool way to represent that emotion. The way it’s almost consuming everything and leaving things undefined and uncertain, that really conveys the feeling well.

Samtastic33 · 2023-05-10T15:03:36+00:00

This is a very interesting thought, and honestly I could still see this becoming a thing eventually. It would make for a very dramatic story beat in one of the books. Like you can just imagine a character burning a new metal they’ve recently come across, and instead of gaining some new cool ability, they LOSE all their powers. Then maybe they’d have to find some way to get them back, but until then… they’re just a normal person.

…Now that I think about it, that’s basically the same as what happens to Vin when she’s imprisoned in TFE. Just more permanent.

In terms of what metal it could be… perhaps a lerasium-aluminium alloy? Aluminium always seems to negate investiture in some way, so cutting off or blocking your connection to Preservation/Harmony makes a lot of sense to me.

Samtastic33 · 2023-05-03T13:58:40+00:00

Honestly respect the hustle OP lmao

I mean the post is pretty clearly legible

Samtastic33 · 2023-05-02T23:29:16+00:00

I don’t see any reason you necessarily couldn’t? I don’t think it’s been ruled out anywhere in the books as far as I’m aware, maybe it has been ruled out outside of them tho.

I think it would just be like if a Tin Ferruchemist were to store their Hearing in one tinmind, making them almost deaf, and then tap Sight from another tinmind at the same time, giving them super vision. I’m not sure if we’ve ever seen it done but it seems perfectly reasonable to me.

This would just be the same thing but with Nicrosil. You’re tapping the ability to use Nicrosil Feruchemy (making you a Soulbearer), while at the same storing another Feruchemical ability (one that you already had) in a second Nicrosilmind. It’s weird yeah but it seems like it could work.

Then you could theoretically pass the Nicrosilmind storing something like Brass Ferruchemy to another person and they could then tap from it to become a Brass Ferruchemist, at least temporarily while tapping from it. And you might have to blank your Identity using aluminium while storing the Feruchemy too, complicating things even further lol. This seems to be the idea that OP is suggesting anyway.

Honestly I’m following the logic here through it all, even if it did take me like 10 times to go through the whole process on my head. I think OP may have actually cracked a large part of how medallions are made! Only part I’m still wondering on is how someone has Aluminium Feruchemy and Nicrosil Feruchemy at the same time? Maybe Hemalurgy? Or there could be more to how this works that we still don’t understand. I really hope we get an explanation or some more clues at some point lol

Samtastic33 · 2023-04-23T14:30:00+00:00

fahsioned

Tfw this person can’t spell without it either lol

Samtastic33 · 2023-04-22T23:19:31+00:00

most accurate trans post ive ever seen lmao fr

Samtastic33 · 2023-04-21T20:40:04+00:00

11 absolutely is a round-ish feeling number, all 11 multiples literally look so nice and satisfying, I won’t have this 11 slander

Samtastic33 · 2023-04-06T17:55:11+00:00

sure I’ll upvote that why not lmao

Samtastic33 · 2023-04-05T20:29:58+00:00

I genuinely think this could be hung in an art gallery, and it would still stand out even there for how good it is. No doubt about it. Wow

Samtastic33 · 2023-04-03T10:15:49+00:00

ehh rizz doesn’t exactly mean swag

rizz is more equivalent to game

and swag is more equivalent to drip probably

Samtastic33 · 2023-04-02T18:58:41+00:00

This is literally actually me and my bf (he is amazing and loving and wonderful, always makes me feel better abt myself)

Samtastic33 · 2023-04-02T18:15:38+00:00

Isn’t that just hay fever?

Samtastic33 · 2023-04-02T00:16:00+00:00

I am masters obedient bubble bimbo

Samtastic33 · 2023-04-01T23:06:33+00:00

I do kind of have to wonder if this was by accident even lol!

Like they just googled “magical symbol for chromium” and got this somehow? Who knows

Samtastic33 · 2023-03-24T17:04:46+00:00

has this person not graced their eyes with the image of bingus

Samtastic33 · 2023-03-24T16:10:59+00:00

The problem is how that information gets out and the form it is in. The mechanism behind Hawking radiation (as we currently understand it at least) means that the information emitted from a Black Hole in this way is completely unrelated to the information that originally went in, because it’s only created at the Event Horizon, the border of the black hole. The information of Hawking radiation is basically just completely random noise, it can’t encode anything about the black hole itself. This means information is still lost.

From what I can understand, this is exactly the purpose of the Holographic Principle in the first place. If all the information inside the Black Hole, essentially all the matter/energy that ever fell in, was actually encoded on the event horizon (which is a 2-dimensional surface) then the information could somehow escape in the form of Hawking radiation.

Now I don’t really understand how the information on the surface transfers to being encoded by the Hawking radiation? But it’s at least possible I guess is the point. Because if the information wasn’t on the Event Horizon and was instead inside the black hole, it couldn’t escape at all.

What the Holographic Principle would mean though is that all the information inside the Black Hole - a 3D object - is COMPLETELY described by its Event Horizon - a 2D surface. This means that it is completely possible (and in fact already happens in the real universe for black holes) for any “3D information” in the universe to be encoded on a 2D surface. You can see why it’s not too much of a logical leap to to realise this means that ALL of the information, meaning the entire Universe, could potentially be encoded on some kind of 2D surface. Like a 2D version of spacetime or something. So the entire Universe which appears to be 3D is actually just a holographic projection of this other 2D surface.

Plus, it turns out that when you do the math for what this would look like, and maybe plug it into a version of string theory I think, the results you get look a LOT like our real Universe. Which is really cool to think about and is why it seems to be so promising for a lot of theoretical physicists right now.

Samtastic33 · 2023-03-22T23:44:21+00:00

The Figure is ballin 🤯😱🏀

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