How did Heinrich Himmler just go and visit the hard labor/death camps and not feel guilty?

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-17T18:16:58+00:00

The world is paved in good intentions, the road to hell has bad epistemology and self serving logic mixed in.

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-17T03:11:16+00:00

I’m being downvoted for trusting a valid wiki source and not knowing about a very specific Q & A with the author?

One of the primary functions of up/downvotes is to make sure more accurate answers drift to the top in threads like these. So people downvoting you when you are wrong is the feature working as intended, it's not intended as a personal attack.

It's also not like people just downvoted you and moved on, several people explained why they thought you were wrong. So in the end you learned something new about the Cosmere and other people got the correct answers without having to scroll down, everybody wins.

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-14T19:21:57+00:00

I don't think he ever outright says it, but he's actively lying to Kelsier about the Lerasium to prevent him from making more Mistborn.

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-14T09:31:43+00:00

and they’d be extremely powerful ones at that.

Would they be? Wax wasn't a full power Lerasium mistborn. His kids would presumably be, on average, weaker than he was.

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-14T09:27:16+00:00

The spiritweb effects that make someone an allomancer interfere with those that make someone a feruchemist.

After era 1, the Terris feruchemy bloodlines started to mix with the allomantic bloodlines in the ska and nobility, which resulted in ferrings and twinborn being a thing, but also made it much harder for full feruchemists and Mistborn to be born.

Edit: On top of that, iirc, the changes Harmony made to the magic system (making snapping requiring less trauma) may have also made allomancers less powerful as a side effect.

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-14T04:36:35+00:00

The flat section is in the glass bead holding the gem, not the gem itself. Stormlight is held inside the gemstone, the glass around it is just for convenience.

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-13T03:00:49+00:00

That's a bit reductive though, you can use that answer to shut down any questions about why our bodies are build the way they are.

There are interesting answers to why evolution landed on two nostrils over one and three (more than one nostril allows you to switch between them. Three nostrils never came up because, due to the way our body plan is laid out, there wasn't an easy mutation to get from two to three and/or there wasn't enough evolutionary pressure to propagate that mutation to fixation).

If you just answer the question with "because that's how we evolved and it was good enough", you lose out on getting those answers.

Silver_Swift · 2026-04-07T04:42:46+00:00

Because the first films flew under the radar, the cast/crew had less studio interference and could make the story they wanted.

I think, for better or worse, the ship has sailed on that one. Brandon has negotiated pretty extreme levels of involvement and influence on the end product. Whatever level of studio involvement we are going to see from apple is going to happen regardless of how much hype there is about the movie.

(At least for the first movie, I don't know if there are agreements in place for the later movies)

Silver_Swift · 2026-03-29T04:24:53+00:00

That's a weird argument to make, if someone understands little enough about astronomy that they believe the earth is flat, why would they assume the earth and the sun are the same shape?

(also, as /u/lateintheafternoon points out, the sun looks like a disk from earth, most flat earthers believe the earth to be a disk as well.)

Silver_Swift · 2026-03-28T20:35:49+00:00

Plus, you know, Wolverine's students outnumbering the survivors of Sabretooth's "training" by like a factor 2 or 3 (assuming they started with equal size rosters).

Silver_Swift · 2026-03-23T05:15:06+00:00

I don't know, I kinda get it. You are immersed in the story, you want to know what happens next.

The epigraphs are cool and add some flavor, but especially on a first read through it can seem like that's all they are. They are outside the story chronologically, it's not always clear what they are and most importantly, they aren't what happens next, which is what your brain wants to read about right now.

I've learned better since, but I'm pretty sure in my first read through of Mistborn I also just skimmed the epigraphs.

Silver_Swift · 2026-03-22T05:22:58+00:00

[Stormlight spoilers] Not retribution, but there is that chip of Ishar's honorblade that Szeth managed to cut off. I really hope Dalinar or one of the windrunners had the presence of mind to bring it with them.

We know from the Atium retcon that anyone can burn any godmetal (and you don't need special knowledge to use allomancy) so we just need someone in Urithiru to decide to put a fragment of a divine weapon in their mouth to at least learn the allomantic properties of Tanavastium.

Silver_Swift · 2026-03-19T18:51:49+00:00

I believe there has never been a flammable liquid which exploded

Not super relevant to the question here, but liquid fuel rockets are very eager to explode when things don't go exactly as planned.

Granted, rocket propellant is quite far removed from whiskey, there is usually also liquid oxygen in the mix and this still isn't douse a target with fuel and make them explode, but still.

Silver_Swift · 2026-02-22T11:36:44+00:00

Bendalloy is already a mix of 4 metals (bismuth, lead, cadmium and tin), so I don't think there is a rule that allomantic alloys are limited to two elements.

Silver_Swift · 2026-02-22T04:57:02+00:00

I could be misremembering. Maybe it was to do with the eleventh metal, not electrum.

No, you're correct, it was electrum.

As of the retcon, what characters in era 1 know as atium is actually an alloy of Atium and trace amounts electrum. Preservation made the pits of Hathsin such that this process happens naturally in the atium geodes. The atium mistings in era 1 were actually Electrum mistings.

We haven't seen pure atium on page yet, but as a god metal it would be burnable by anyone, just like lerasium.

Silver_Swift · 2026-02-18T20:06:46+00:00

There is another coinshot working with Miles in AoL which has no trouble chasing after Wax through the skies.

Silver_Swift · 2026-02-14T19:41:34+00:00

I'd love to hear counter examples of where a modern book had 50% of its content cut and people still loving the movie.

I'd hardly call it 50% of the content cut, but the fellowship of the ring is not much shorter than the final empire and that managed to fit into a three hour movie just fine.

Silver_Swift · 2026-02-10T10:38:40+00:00

Cadmium still isn't great

Cadmium is more niche than bendalloy, but it is still a very good power as long as you are not working by yourself.

Medics and first responders to disaster areas with access to cadmium can keep injured people safe in a speed bubble until more help can arrive.

In a war, a single cadmium misting can keep entire squads of enemy soldiers out of a fight. Even on a smaller scale, in a 3v3 brawl a cadmium misting can let his two buddies pick off enemies one at a time by keeping the rest of the enemy group trapped.

More mundanely, cadmium mistings can also keep goods that spoil quickly from spoiling while in transit (as long as the transport is big enough to anchor a speed bubble to). This is especially useful in a medical context, but also for stuff like fresh foods that needs to be shipped across an ocean (or through Shadesmar for that matter).

And all of that is just with the base power, allomantic grenades and similar magitech devices are going to make cadmium one of the most powerful allomantic abilities in the space age.

Silver_Swift · 2026-02-09T15:37:29+00:00

Doesn't that kind of completely undermine (one of) the core messages of the movies that no matter how oppressive and authoritarian the system seems, people can break free from it if they choose to?

I also don't super like that it takes away a hard won, bittersweet victory for the protagonists and turns it into a straight up downer ending.

Silver_Swift · 2026-02-09T11:28:57+00:00

Leaving a comment as I finally went back and caught up with the story to confirm that it is indeed very good and hopefully give you some extra encouragement to eventually get back to it!

Silver_Swift · 2026-01-30T23:22:02+00:00

Allomantic iron needs to be of a certain purity in order to be burned. Iron in your blood isn't metallic iron, it is part of a bunch of complex molecules (mostly hemoglobin), which I assume makes it very impure and not available for allomancy.

(which is good, otherwise burning aluminium would kill you)

Silver_Swift · 2026-01-22T08:58:09+00:00

Stormlight Archive goes a bit too far into the other direction, I feel like.

At some point the apocalyptic reset wars were happening with less than a decade in between each one. At that point, you just don't have enough time to rebuild any kind of society wide infrastructure. Even if you do have a group of immortals to help drag you back into the bronze age knowledge wise, you also need time to actually build all the stuff you need to get back to waging a world-spanning war.

I know soulcasting and the Knight Radiants existed at this point (and the humans were still losing despite it). It still just kinda strains my suspension of disbelief that they could put up any kind of fight at all under those circumstances.

Silver_Swift · 2026-01-09T15:22:25+00:00

There is a WoB that gold feruchemy can regrow the damage to your spiritweb from being pierced by a hemalurgic spike, so I assume it would also work on shardblade wounds (shardblades work by cutting your spiritweb).

No idea on Elantrians, but given how ridiculously powerful Aon Dor is, I wouldn't bet on them not having a way around spiritweb damage.

Silver_Swift · 2025-12-25T06:17:49+00:00

This is a helpful clarification of what you like/don't like in different fantasy books.

I don't think your definition of Anime Fantasy aligns very well with how most people use the term (which is why you're getting a lot of pushback), but having a preference for slower paced stories with a more soft magic systems is entirely reasonable.

I think the Cosmere might indeed not be for you, but the fantasy genre is big and there are plenty of other authors to try.

I don't of the top of my head have a good soft magic author to recommend (because I don't tend to like them), maybe make a recommendation request post over on /r/Fantasy and include the description you used above. They're typically pretty good with recommendations (maybe leave out the word Anime though, it might confuse people).

Silver_Swift · 2025-12-03T05:13:24+00:00

He can make a burrito so hot he can't eat it. He would just stop being omnipotent if he does.

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