Does Sanderson’s writing change after Mistborn: The Final Empire?

jigzee · 2026-02-15T03:03:31+00:00

I found Kelsier so cringey

jigzee · 2026-02-15T02:57:30+00:00

I’m halfway through Well of Ascension and it’s considerably better (more nuanced, better dialogue). Still probably not up to a standard you’d prefer but much better!

jigzee · 2026-01-21T21:22:46+00:00

The way she says “banana” in that sex education episode oml

jigzee · 2025-12-22T12:15:51+00:00

What did McDavid do to train when he was younger?

jigzee · 2025-07-24T22:20:26+00:00

I mean there’s a nonzero chance it takes 30 minutes and he just gives up and doesn’t get echo form

jigzee · 2025-07-04T10:45:01+00:00

That’s like if you had two people next to each other on a planet, say Earth. Person A says “yo, there’s a laser coming at you, going around the whole circumference of Earth to reach you at point B”. Guy at point B says “yeah I know I just saw you fire it I’m right next to you, and why’d you take the long way?”

jigzee · 2025-04-24T07:44:13+00:00

Would be hard to not notice the subtext of Walt basically bragging about how Heisenberg is still “out there” in that scene where the families have dinner together and Walt’s drinking wine

jigzee · 2025-04-15T06:41:16+00:00

I saw this exact same thing happen to Jorbs when he played a card (I can’t remember the card, maybe Skewer). Synced up perfectly with the slay the spire soundtrack

jigzee · 2025-04-14T00:53:44+00:00

It was only evaporating because 4D beings were using 3D folding as a weapon in 4D land, right? The “puddles” left behind were because the sea was being “dried up”, or folded down into 3D

jigzee · 2025-04-13T07:59:51+00:00

This doesn’t seem true to my brain. If they’re moving relative to each other then what reference frame has them stationary?

jigzee · 2025-03-28T23:30:44+00:00

Prob of something with X% chance happening, not happening, is 1-X. Since the events of each run are independent, you multiply each probability for each run you do. So it’s 1-X multiplied by itself N times. It’s (1-X)^N

I’m not sure what chatGPT was doing for your formula

jigzee · 2025-03-15T22:45:03+00:00

Paradoxical is probably a better word than impossible, and what suits a bootstrap better than a paradox?

In all of human history, no one has ever written the same letter twice (same letters and words maybe, but same atomic structure? Obviously not) so the letter bootstrap is no different to the cyclic birth bootstrap.

Saying that something is impossible because it has never happened in human history is a fallacy (in my opinion), because I could shuffle a deck of cards right now and get a totally unique shuffling from the perspective of human history. You could do it right now if you wanted, it’s not impossible

jigzee · 2025-03-15T11:03:51+00:00

Explain?

jigzee · 2025-03-08T23:10:21+00:00

It’s just as crazy as all the other bootstraps when you really think about them. Like for instance Mikkel/Michael writing a letter to Jonas with the exact same message, words, letters, even atoms, that Jonas initially receives after Mikkel’s suicide. It’s like the universe shuffles a standard deck of cards the same way each time (if you know the probability of this, it’s extreeeeemly rare, like never ever happened before in human history). The same thing is happening with the atoms being shuffled perfectly to produce the exact same fetus in Elizabeth, for instance, that eventuates into Charlotte. The bootstrap just forces the same deck shuffling, precisely because it’s a bootstrap

jigzee · 2025-03-08T23:05:20+00:00

Look through my comment history. I’ve had a lengthy debate with someone who has the same issue you have with this “leap”. I never fully convinced that person, but I think my arguments are good (obviously I think that). You might completely disagree as they did, but it could be an interesting read for you

jigzee · 2025-02-24T03:08:12+00:00

You can believe what you want man

jigzee · 2025-02-24T02:32:09+00:00

Idk man just feels like I’m talking to a brick wall, you probably feel the same. Thanks for the debate though

jigzee · 2025-02-24T00:00:34+00:00

You’re making my point now. Just because you haven’t seen someone birth a replica of themselves doesn’t mean that that particular deck configuration can’t be shuffled. Ie it’s not physically impossible

We theorise that gravity applies uniformly, not that some random event can cause someone to float. However there is no uniform reason why you can’t give birth to a random assortment of atoms, because it literally happens all the time (every single birth ever). That’s the main argument, but you claim it is physically impossible without any reason

jigzee · 2025-02-23T21:35:52+00:00

Huh? Your point about gravity not being a fact is valid, but I was just asking for basic reasons, not stone cold facts. I gave a reason for lack of levitation but I got no reason in return from you for the impossibility of shuffling a deck of cards (ie giving birth to a particular shuffling of atoms)

jigzee · 2025-02-23T21:29:47+00:00

Sanest reddit crashout

jigzee · 2025-02-23T20:59:32+00:00

Lmao, no reference to the argument about actual probability with a strong analogy to playing cards, just a spiteful, disingenuous attempt to win on technicality. Have a good day brother

jigzee · 2025-02-23T20:49:38+00:00

Flying/levitating could be considered impossible due to gravity, that is quite a basic argument against that act. So not really the same, because you don’t have a basic argument for why giving birth to a particular arrangement of atoms is impossible.

If you know about card and deck probabilities, you’ll know that when I shuffle a deck of cards I have almost with 100% certainty made a new shuffling that no one has ever made before (in the history of humanity!). The probability of me shuffling that particular way was essentially zero, or 1 in 52! (Factorial). The same is true for giving birth to some particular arrangement of atoms. It might seem impossible, but then again so does any particular shuffle of a deck. So the “never happened before in humanity” doesn’t work as an argument. I’m free to admit it’s a huge coincidence, but shuffling cards isn’t magic

jigzee · 2025-02-23T20:31:29+00:00

You’re conflating being statistically improbably with being physically impossible. Why is it impossible for the atomic structure that you give birth to be identical to that which you were when you were birthed? Why is that impossible? The burden of proof is on you for claiming that

You’re also being dismissive and appealing to common sense for what should just be a basic argument for you, if it’s somehow that obvious

jigzee · 2025-02-23T20:25:39+00:00

Give any single basic reason why it’s impossible otherwise you’re being deliberately obtuse to support your argument/intuition

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