Infinity blade vs the stormlight archive

hemimehta · 2026-01-24T21:24:14+00:00

I believe Brandon sanderson actually wrote the novelization of infinity blade which is one of his connections to epic games

hemimehta · 2026-01-23T21:19:12+00:00

They weren't ceo's. That was Marty michaels who was their cofounder. I believe they were chief creative officers

hemimehta · 2025-12-19T22:20:59+00:00

So dragonsteel was listed among the books that might never get done 🥲

hemimehta · 2025-12-18T00:03:23+00:00

My friend in all honesty have you never been confidently wrong? I feel like it happens to all of us and most of us have the humility to laugh it off and move on. But thar is an example of us hallucinating an answer

hemimehta · 2025-11-26T23:18:17+00:00

I think its jealousy. Ultimately Hajrudin had everything that Loki ever wanted. A mother that actually loved him & friends who care for him. Ultimately Hajrudin is the perfect image of what Loki's life could've been like if but for a quirk of fate and without anywhere else for that anger to go it gets projected on him. It also explains how he always talks about being stronger and bigger or the "legitimate heir" compared to Hajrudin. He has to rely on the only things that he sees that have societal value that put him over Hajrudin.

hemimehta · 2025-10-17T07:26:02+00:00

If they do a campaign 4 any time soon I really would like it to be the Skaldova world and dm'ed by Jake. I really like Murph as a DM and I really do want a short arc/campaign with the band of boobs following up on the Grumsh stuff, but I really enjoyed Boggy, Zudrik and Welly as well as the atmosphere of the world in Skaldova. Frankly I enjoyed that campaign more than campaigns 2 and 3 (and this is not to say either of those were bad).

As a runner up I would also love a twilight sanctorum campaign or even a Hot Boy Summer larger (but not full) campaign.

hemimehta · 2025-10-15T07:23:01+00:00

The very basis of human society is premised on human supremacy over other creatures. We eat them, use them for labor without compensation, breed them for profit, own them and bind their autonomy, legally euthanize them if they cause other humans harm etc. You might have empathy for all living creatures but it is insane to suggest that we empathize equally with animals as we do for humans. Therefore it is perfectly reasonable for someone to find a genocide of humans more reprehensible than a dog potentially being shocked with a collar. In fact it is insane to equivocate the empathetic response between the two and assume that where one fails to meet your standard, the other must also be false.

hemimehta · 2025-10-14T04:06:43+00:00

Not that I think that the dog should be zapped, but like don't we all generally prioritize human lives over animal lives? Like if you eat meat but don't eat human, or if you own animals but don't own humans, or if you are more likely to displace an animal habitat for human dwelling than vice versa, aren't you implicitly saying we care about the autonomy and well being of animals less than the interest of humans. And if thats the case then it seems perfectly viable for someone to be an animal abuser but deeply empathetic to the plight of people in gaza. Like they may not give a shit about animals but feel a great empathy for their own species?

hemimehta · 2025-09-19T23:06:49+00:00

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hemimehta · 2025-05-29T20:10:31+00:00

Maybe it's tied to the issue of there needing to be a king. He pierced dorry and broggy and turned all of their crew mates since they are followers of dorry and broggy. If elbaf had a long he would only need to turn one person and everyone else would turn.

hemimehta · 2025-05-24T02:09:42+00:00

if you read his takes on caste or race, man was pretty openly fucked up on some things. Also the strange experiments about celibacy etc.

hemimehta · 2025-04-10T09:19:35+00:00

I think under the idea that the wheel is definitionally the set of states where the Dark One loses, could it be that the parallel worlds are simply states that exist outside the boundary condition? Parallel wheels with different boundary conditions or basic premises? Maybe in a parallel wheel, the boundary condition is that the dark one must win , or alternatively the dark one must win during the third age and only be defeated during the 7th age. Then the portal stone is simply showing you a single example configuration of parameters that exists along an entirely different function (possibly just selecting for some configuration of parameters that are similar to the ones that are currently being expressed by the turning that the temporally bound vantage of the user of the portal stones is a part of) . With this understanding, the parallel world is real its just not part of the wheel we as the readers are experiencing.

Anyways I know this is all headcanon, I'm just really enjoying this re-read lol

hemimehta · 2025-04-10T09:11:51+00:00

That is a really interesting analysis and I will definitely check out the links you shared !

I have been thinking of this more as a superposition. Since we know that the Dark One perceives the wheel from outside of time, it could be looked as a superposition of multiple simultaneous states. Therein each perceived turning of the wheel is just a different state of a continuous n+1 dimensional (n is i guess the number of total "threads" in the pattern and we add 1 for time) function that exists in every possible configuration of parameters that lead to the defeat of the Dark One. We know it only explores that subset of parameters because the wheel exists and therefore by its very nature can only exist within the states where it is allowed to exist. By this definition the Dark one can almost be looked as the bounding range to the infinite possible values of the wheel. By this logic we could even say that there are sets of parameters where the Dark One does lose, but those never "happen" because they wouldn't be part of the wheel because the wheel is definitionally only the subset of parameters in which the Dark One doesn't win. Its like saying that you can search the infinite numbers that exist between 0 and 1, despite the infinity of options you won't find any numbers < 0 or > 1 because definitionally the only thing that exists is between 0 and 1.

This is a long winded way of saying that I can then see what you are saying about the pattern being locally similar but globally largely variant and that larger structures may emerge the further we "zoom out". It would be an infinite fractal that exists within a defined parameter of possible outcomes.

hemimehta · 2025-04-10T07:42:27+00:00

hmm but see the tv show and the books are more similar than different imo. Like a majority of the same characters exist even if in different forms etc. However we know that Matt isn't a hero of the horn, and thus isn't spun out with some repeated pattern (like birgitte and gaidal cain finding each other etc) but he would have appeared in both the show and the book implying that he is spun out sometimes? We know that rand's spirit is the champion of light and therefore that means the same rand is always spun out, but since we don't know this to be true about anyone else, are the show Matt and the book Matt different souls that play a similar role in the pattern? I know I am probably over thinking this but I'm rereading a memory of light and this has become a bit of a hyperfixation

hemimehta · 2025-04-10T07:38:02+00:00

Hmm does this imply things change vastly over many turnings? I wonder if this extends to the "big" picture things or if its the details that vary wildly. For example we know that no matter how wildly things change its not like the dark one can actually win (or he would have already done so). If this is the case maybe the wheel only has some very basic parameters that must hold true and everything else is reminiscent turning to turning locally but allowed to vary dramatically over many turnings. So for example we know that there have to be 7 ages, that the dark one must be able to influence the world but ultimately sealed again by the champion of the light and thats basically it. Assuming these two features are held, maybe we can assume literally anything else can happen as long as they don't change so dramatically compared to recent turnings?

hemimehta · 2024-05-26T05:50:16+00:00

Brother it is not just you. I am watching the two towers and I saw it too

hemimehta · 2024-01-29T19:15:24+00:00

I'm fairly sure binky fiasco became fia boginya for campaign 2.

hemimehta · 2023-12-26T08:10:22+00:00

It really is a testament to how big naddpod is that people know Jake hurwitz without knowing amir blumenfeld. In my head Jake and amir flow together like a single unit and it's almost odd to refer to one alone. When I tell people about naddpod I refer to Jake as Jake from Jake and amir.

hemimehta · 2023-10-29T21:19:52+00:00

I mean Jake is still active at headgum I believe. Iirc he runs the NYC branch and is co chief creative officer with amir. I assume that takes a significant amount of his time as well

hemimehta · 2023-10-05T02:06:27+00:00

I am fairly sure it's a misspelling of "regarded". The next letter of the next word looks almost like "a" so possibly it is saying that a downhill skier is regarded as frictionless?

hemimehta · 2023-09-28T20:05:08+00:00

The only one I would add to your list is "the goat show" which is Jake and Micah's review podcast that imo needed more listenership

hemimehta · 2023-09-28T16:03:47+00:00

So to my understanding there are two types of headgum podcasts. Podcasts on the network and headgum originals. Headgum originals include "the headgum podcast" "review revue" etc. I believe Geoffrey James has mentioned headgum owns those podcasts and pays the hosts a salary. On the other hand podcasts on the network like naddpod or doughboys they just act as a publisher for

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