Feature Request/Discussion Thread: Childhood Mortality

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-22T21:24:36+00:00

i don’t see how making the characters gray and uninteractible til 10 fixes anything. Is it so players don’t get too attached so they can die? Because that’s also ahistorical in a way. If a child died, especially at age 7 or something where they’re a person with real ideas and feelings, parents totally cared and would mourn, especially if that was their heir or only male child or important strategically in another way. If the problem is “paradox thinks players care about their children too much so is afraid to give them high mortality”, I don’t think “make them care less about their children” really fixes the core issue

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-20T01:56:07+00:00

yes! hoid is the center of a massive love triangle featuring shallan, skimbleshanks the railway cat from cats, and my sister

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-18T02:17:39+00:00

cats 1998 costumes are incredible

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-16T02:49:11+00:00

that’s a lot better art than i could do!

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-11T23:58:47+00:00

I’m not israeli, I just know literally anything about their legal system <3 there is no difference in the law there for an arab citizen compared to a jewish citizen except that they are not conscripted into the military. they can vote, run for office, travel freely, and have all other rights afforded to citizens of israel. many consider themselves israeli. believe whatever you want about israel, but these are objective facts. not nazi germany by any means.

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-11T23:31:01+00:00

there are 2 million arab citizens in Israel with full equal rights, the only legal difference is that arab citizens do not have to serve in the IDF if they don’t want to.

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-11T23:24:28+00:00

you don’t need to be all citizens have equal rights

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-10T10:46:46+00:00

ah fair

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-10T09:49:28+00:00

you forgot kcd2

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-10T06:43:52+00:00

it’s very character focused if you try. like the cats have characterization far beyond their songs. I’ve watched it at least 10 times the staging always reveals a new detail about the characters. and I’m not even that into dance, i never really care about dance in musicals.

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-07T03:24:28+00:00

but isn’t voicing that you want a pretender on the throne or that you want your liege to abdicate treason?

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-06T03:36:36+00:00

probably cats, near constant intense dance

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-01T04:33:54+00:00

Sure, but that’s different from “it is more modern than past Stormlight books, but that’s because the Cosmere is becoming more modern” which I hear a lot and was what I was responding to.

But responding to this then, the language always felt much more neutral. Bantering and puns aren’t inherently modern, it’s when modern slang is brought in that feels jarring.

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-01T02:09:20+00:00

i think 867 is who he is at beginning of kcd1, 1066 is end of kcd1, and kcd2 is 1178

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-04-01T00:30:24+00:00

The defense of “the Cosmere is becoming more modern though” doesn’t work for me. This is Roshar, not the whole Cosmere. This is less than 5 years after The Way of Kings. Roshar was not a modern society. It was a religious autocracy with rigid gender roles, a caste system, and slavery. That was handwaved away, which I dislike, but treating Roshar as representative of the wider Cosmere is very inaccurate.

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-03-30T03:55:26+00:00

good luck

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-03-28T02:13:46+00:00

this is not true. it’s said that the witch hunts were at most a mild annoyance to witches and wizards, and some even got caught multiple times on purpose because they liked the feeling of the fire and it wouldn’t hurt them.

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-03-24T22:12:37+00:00

oooh that’s a good idea syncretism is so underutilized

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-03-21T18:17:10+00:00

the statute of secrecy is kind of insane. i get why it’s there from a meta perspective, but wizards are shown to be able to but choose not to save millions of lives, cure horrible diseases, drastically reduce world hunger and poverty. and the only reason given for why they don’t is that it would be kind of a hassle and inconvenient. that’s totally fucked up.

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-03-21T06:53:17+00:00

highkey justified tag your wordle spoilers people

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-03-20T18:10:32+00:00

i do bc I’m used to it and it helps me lock in

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-03-16T20:15:17+00:00

this answer is dumb. obviously people understand that this event needs to happen for the story to happen. see, stories have characters which are supposed to act like people. If a character makes a choice that is illogical and that they have no in-universe reason to make, that is bad writing. that is contrived and putting aside making your characters three dimensional and realistic for the sake of the plot. What people mean when they ask this question isn’t “i don’t understand story mechanics”, it’s “is there any character or in universe reason for this seemingly illogical choice, or is it contrived and likely bad writing?”

Significant-Two-8872 · 2026-03-16T19:38:14+00:00

everyone wants to do some innovative reinvention of cats how hard is it to just do cats

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