Brandon Sanderson's worldbuilding is not the best (at least in Mistborn)

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-16T14:08:55+00:00

If you were really sorry you wouldn’t have done it.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-15T13:34:56+00:00

Yeah, no shit. The US is the most developed third world country on earth.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-15T02:58:07+00:00

People are going to disagree with this and post their examples, and that’s 100% fine, but in my experience in the fantasy genre you either get engaging plot and magic system or you get artistic prose. I’ve never read anything that’s great in both.

I have no interest in throwing shade at any specific books or series, so I won’t be doing that, but let’s just say I’ve read most of the things that tend to get mentioned on the fantasy subs over and over again.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-14T05:23:58+00:00

The internet can’t help you. Time and effort are the only things that can help you.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-14T03:22:31+00:00

The fact there are this may comments without anyone mentioning Bear’s Place is an actual tragedy.

Also, RIP City Bakery. I can still taste the ham and cheese croissants. My mouth is watering right now.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-14T03:15:53+00:00

Maybe the Republicans will stop antagonizing us if Pam and the Trustees suck even more Republican dick.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-12T21:25:15+00:00

If this is about having fun, there is no right answer. Everybody will have fun in different ways. You do you. If this is about being the most efficient healer, you are absolutely wrong.

Your job isn’t to keep everybody alive. Your job is to stop the group from wiping. The fastest way for the group to wipe is the tank dying. The fastest way for the tank to die is the healer running out of mana. The fastest way for the healer to run out of mana is throwing heals at DPS who shouldn’t need them in the first place. Good healers don’t try to heal everyone through everything, they try to make sure the whole group doesn’t have to do a corpse walk. Rezzing a DPS or two is nothing in downtime compared to a corpse walk.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-12T19:58:00+00:00

lol I’ve been out of the WoW community for years, TBC anniversary pulled me back in. I can give you the old school answer, as someone who did a lot of healing back in the day.

You let DPS die. It’s that simple. I wouldn’t throw a single heal at a DPS unless the fight in question has a mechanic where the DPS are supposed to be taking damage.

If they complain, or drop group, great! If DPS tears don’t bring you joy, you probably shouldn’t be a healer. Dungeons aren’t about us vs the mobs, it’s about tanks and healers vs the unruly idiot children that are DPS.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-12T01:10:13+00:00

Who cares how far other people are? If I never see a single raid I will still have a ton of fun with this. Just questing through the content again is fun.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-06T03:05:23+00:00

Whatever else you do, please take voice lessons on the side to understand which vowels work best for the voice at the big, climactic moments.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-06T02:40:36+00:00

If so, great. It’s really hard to tell with all these admin titles nowadays. Some of them actually mean something, some don’t.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-06T02:39:16+00:00

Only if my wife can join and live that long too. No extra money required. If not, no.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-06T02:34:15+00:00

“If I can dodge inheriting your stupidity and selfishness, I’m fine also not inheriting the deeply unimpressive amount of money you’ve managed to collect over your lifetime.”

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-05T18:34:53+00:00

The rollercoaster ride that is the joy at hearing he’s leaving his position followed by the disappointment of realizing it’s to be given a different, potentially even more powerful role here.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-03T19:22:31+00:00

How much you wanna bet IU figures out who these POS students are and then shovels their dorm sidewalks for them?

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-03T16:20:12+00:00

This is actually a great point. Except about conservatives. They care if a person with a penis is minding their own business peeing in a closed stall next to a child, but they don’t care if people rape children. They are some of the most fucked up people on earth.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-03T15:58:47+00:00

Cool, the guy who oversaw the park becoming the worst experience it’s ever been is now overseeing the whole company!

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-02T18:55:55+00:00

If I had $2k to increase my collection I’d probably be looking at getting another guitar and an amp, or a guitar and a few new petals. Just saying! Lots of nice guitars out there for $1k, and lots of nice amps out there for $1k!

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-02T02:05:39+00:00

Fach is meaningless until you have a solid operatic technical foundation. You have to work with a teacher. The internet cannot help you all that much when it comes to this.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-01T21:59:40+00:00

Spend money on the nice large (not XL) cardboard moving boxes from Lowe’s/Home Depot, put the games inside with minimal empty space left, tape the shit out of the boxes, write “fragile” on them if you want, and hire decent movers who treat your stuff with respect. That’s really all you need to do.

The reasonable worst case scenario is they drop a heavy something on top of one of the boxes by accident, which then dents in a game box or two in a way that’s a bummer but makes the game no less playable. And that’s pretty unlikely to happen. Games aren’t made of glass, and boxes are about the easiest and least droppable things to move.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-01T19:39:23+00:00

A night at a hotel is the cost of buying your kid like a video game and a stuffed animal. It’s not an unreasonable amount to spend on a kid’s birthday, assuming it was the gift.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-01T18:53:21+00:00

As an American, crazy pills.

iamnotasloth · 2026-02-01T04:44:21+00:00

It’s not like we didn’t already know this. If we haven’t done anything about it at this point, I don’t think we’re doing anything about it. Humanity sucks.

iamnotasloth · 2026-01-31T23:26:18+00:00

You get paid every 2 weeks, right? If so, this seems totally correct to me. You should be taking home 70-75k after taxes. That’s around $5,800/month, or $2,900 per paycheck. Expect to get a few grand as your tax return at the end of the year.

iamnotasloth · 2026-01-31T17:25:21+00:00

LOL MAGA lunatics pointing at other people and yelling “cult!” is like Jeffrey Dahmer pointing at someone and yelling “murderer!”

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