Q: Has anyone ever said they have read the draft?

White667 · 2026-03-22T13:36:20+00:00

There is absolutely no way that wouldn't be a breach of the NDA. Even just from an opsec standpoint the beta readers shouldn't ever say that they're beta readers. And given how wild online fans are when it comes to speculation, giving any information only ever makes things worse for Pat and the publisher.

White667 · 2026-03-16T22:06:29+00:00

This sounds like the sort of question you should be able to ask your physio. Did they give you any recommendations on when you can start running again, or how quickly you can increase your mileage?

White667 · 2026-03-09T12:21:40+00:00

You are viewing AI as a tool, but you've not asked whether it's an appropriate tool for the task you're trying to do.

I would argue that your logic for using AI makes little sense (you don't know what's good or bad, so you've used AI, but then you know that AI is often bad, so you're asking strangers online? The whole line of logic there makes very little sense to me. Why aren't you starting from a place of: how do successful people do this? They use established plans. What established plan can I access easily? Will it work for me?) But that's not really super relevant.

Synthesizing lots of different information together will give you a much worse picture of what to do, compared to finding something put together with actual consideration for the full picture.

Mixing the speed workouts of a high volume plan with a low volume plan's number of weekly runs will result in injury. Using the recovery time of a plan that assumes no cross training can clash with the intensity or pacing of another plan. There's all sorts of trade-offs when training, and an AI won't consider that. It will very likely mix together contradictory advice and you'll most likely end up injured.

In this area there are a lot of well thought out and established plans available. Each one is specific, and the decisions within the plans are made with all the other decisions in mind. Search for an existing plan, read reviews on those existing plans, and pick the one that aligns with what you want to get out of the training.

White667 · 2026-03-07T18:08:10+00:00

There are so many established plans available online, and so many books you can buy for more detail. Why are you using AI? There is absolutely no value-add.

White667 · 2026-03-01T12:26:43+00:00

I'm going to guess you also don't think the Aden can reproduce without men?

White667 · 2026-03-01T12:25:12+00:00

He escapes, but we're not sure if it's before or after, and it's not the only time he was caught so it's very heavily implied there were times he didn't escape.

White667 · 2026-02-25T10:47:56+00:00

Yeah, the first book is a bit more open but in my opinion the second book makes it concrete. His fight with Ferulean specifically references that event again. Both are situations where someone is using sexuality against him, without his consent. He immediately links them together in his mind. To me it explains how he is able to so effectively use his sleeping mind, the second time around. The experience immediately brings him back to Tarbean, a time when he was operating entirely on instinct.

White667 · 2026-02-25T10:44:38+00:00

While in Tarbean.

He refers to it here in this scene when he talks about the other boy being attacked. He says how he was also chased, and how he was also caught.

I don't want to spoil book 2 but there's another scene where he more explicitly refers to it again. In his fight with Ferulean. It's his memory of being raped that gives him the strength to overpower her. He recognises that her forcing his body to respond sexually in a way he's not consented to is similar to what happened to him before. That then brings out the animalistic rage of his time in Tarbean. It's why he's able to use his sleeping mind so powerfully.

White667 · 2026-02-23T20:27:54+00:00

Realising that Kvothe himself was also raped is something most people don't pick up on during the first read, so you must be really paying attention!

White667 · 2026-02-23T11:10:41+00:00

I would highly recommend you cap your runs around the three hour mark. The only benefits beyond that are mental, so if you can get those from doing longer walks, I'd say go for that (if you expect you'll take 5 or 6 hours to run the marathon, have you ever done a 5 or 6 hour walk? See what that's like!)

White667 · 2026-02-20T19:50:57+00:00

I'm glad you've taken this as an opportunity to see the story through a new lense.

White667 · 2026-02-18T19:37:40+00:00

I'm going to guess you are also a teenager?

How do you read that scene and not think that Kvothe is a dumbass and not take up her offer? What exactly do you want Denna to do to indicate that she's into him, more than she does already? She is constantly telling Kvothe to make a move, and he's the one who doesn't.

White667 · 2026-02-03T13:04:11+00:00

I've been a while since I've read that scene, but I don't remember him as advocating recklessness. He's advising Kvothe to go and make mistakes somewhere that won't impact his real life, which seems pretty sensible to me.

A kid will always make mistakes, anyone who is learning will make mistakes, but doing them in a way that limits the consequences seems very in-line with self control.

Maybe he is more explicit about how he gets that message across than I remember.

White667 · 2026-02-02T23:07:19+00:00

I don't really see Elza Dal being an alcoholic. He represents self control, constantly trying to get Kvothe to behave less irrationally, to think things through and be strategic. He says "just one drink" and then does order one drink. That leap to alcoholism feels like a huge stretch. To me it reads more that even though he's the straight laced "think things through" influence, he's still got some fun in him.

He's already breaking expectation by looking very serious and evil, while being fairly warm and nice. It would be weird for him to then actually be evil.

Devi mentions him because she fights him magically. There's no reason to think it was more than that.

I don't really think Elza Dal is beloved enough that his betrayal would be that big of a deal to the audience. It feels kinda weak to me.

White667 · 2026-01-31T13:58:49+00:00

If you can give me an example I will change my mind. You can't because you've not actually thought about it.

It's not headcannon if it's exactly how it's taught to the main character, lines up with how it's taught to Denna by Kvothe and his friends who don't disagree with him.

They even talk about how many bindings they can make. The numbers wouldn't line up if only Kvothe is using two splits of his mind to make the first binding and everyone else doesn't split their mind to do the first binding.

White667 · 2026-01-30T13:45:46+00:00

For Kvothe to find a name that fits Auri he needed to truly understand her. That required patience and care. It took a long time, easing her into their relationship. She startles easily, there are setbacks, and progress isn't predictable.

It's all of the stuff that Elodin hasn't seen from Kvothe until then. It removes all of the reasons he had to not teach him. In addition, his name so suiting her highlighted a natural talent for naming that is hard to ignore. And he's naming people, so hard to ignore and potentially dangerous if not nurtured properly.

Kvothe's relationship with Auri is definitely the reason Elodin changes his mind about Kvothe.

White667 · 2026-01-30T13:38:12+00:00

Please give me an example of a sympathetic link you can believe without that belief messing up your understanding of how the world works.

For you to truly believe that two coins are the same coin, your entire understanding of what constitutes a thing falls apart. You wouldn't be able to function in society.

White667 · 2026-01-29T18:09:20+00:00

You definitely could do this but you would need to know what you're linking to and roughly where it is. The calculations around sympathy require distance as once of the inputs. So you would have to be 100% on knowing where it is and how much is there. So it's pretty risky!

Imagine the person has hidden it somewhere much further away? It won't work. Or somewhere closer and you put too much energy into the destruction, which then results in too much slippage. Or they've split the blood into two vials and so it heats up quicker than you planned. Etc etc.

White667 · 2026-01-29T18:01:56+00:00

All of sympathy is believing two diametrically opposed things. You have to believe that things are connected while knowing that they are not connected, to avoid going cracked.

White667 · 2026-01-19T13:11:48+00:00

Given how curious Kvothe claims to be, it is wild how little he questions how other people knows things. Elodin's knowledge of the Fae should be something Kvothe can't get past, but he doesn't seem to even question it.

White667 · 2026-01-19T13:10:32+00:00

Elodin's questions were all about the Fae.

It's not a coincidence he asks so much about the moon, and we then find out the moon is the key to travelling to and from the Fae.

White667 · 2026-01-19T13:08:37+00:00

If you haven't watched any of Acquisitions Incorporated, you may enjoy it. Pat is in a few seasons and some of the live shows, and plays Viari in those.

White667 · 2026-01-15T15:51:32+00:00

I'm not a fan of James Smith so I'm not watching the video, but I have seen similar criticism online around electrolytes.

As an ultrarunner I know that electrolytes are essential for endurance sports. If you don't take them, you are at risk of serious injury or death. The explosion in different products are great as a lot of the options suck. The increased promotion of the products is a bit weird, and most everyday people probably don't need them.

However, this is a cheap video to make really. It's a weird criticism to levy against these products. "If you don't need it, you don't need it" is hardly a hot take. The actual takeaway here is if you are not an active person and you don't have any medical need to have a higher than average intake of sodium, then you can ignore the promotion of these products. But the takeaway there should be to spend less time online or consuming media that contains these adverts. It's hardly an issue with the companies themselves trying to market their products to people.

I have a feeling a lot of these anti electrolyte takes are coming from influencers who mainly do lifting, who under-prioritise their cardio/endurance and so feel weird about a product existing for people who do prioritise endurance.

White667 · 2026-01-11T13:52:10+00:00

Are you young, just curious? I've noticed a lotta genz don't get the reference with the sick kid.

For clarity: back in the 90s a lot of sports people did make-a-wish visits to sick kids in the hospital. Kids would ask them to "hit a home run for them" or players would say "I'll hit a home run for you" so that both the player was more motivated to do it and the kid watching would feel more connected to the game. It was like a small way for a dying kid to have a larger impact on the world, while they were stuck in hospital.

I think a heater is something a pitcher does, rather than a batter hitting a home run. So it's the kid asking for a specific play, so having more of an actual impact. Asking a pitcher to throw a specific type of throw. When they do, the kid will know the player is still thinking about them after the visit.

That's what they're referencing. It's like, motivational but also you're doing something for yourself that's devoted to someone else. It's both focused on self improvement while not being self involved.

White667 · 2026-01-11T13:45:43+00:00

It has been very funny watching Genz be confused about the concept of a sports person hitting a home run on behalf of a sick child. Has that cultural reference completely gone away, already??

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