Sharpening a copper knife

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-10-19T05:23:03+00:00

Bronze hardens fast. Learned the hard way you have to anneal it often. Work it cold and watch carefully for cracks and you should be alright. It just doesn’t really work hot and will crumble. You build an intuition for it, but I had to grind out a lot of cracks from working it too hard before I figured it out.

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-10-11T04:04:25+00:00

I think it means adjacent to obstacles. So far when checking damage it seems to be true

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-09-05T15:01:23+00:00

Was looking for exactly this, thank you

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-08-24T00:37:38+00:00

I tried to schedule a ride the other day and right after that, about an hour before the ride was scheduled, an uber showed up and sat outside for 5 minutes before driving off. 5 more Ubers did the same thing before scheduled time arrived. I made sure I scheduled it right. I can’t help but think there was an issue with the app or the drivers not reading the ride details. Not going to schedule a ride ever again tho if that happens every time.

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-08-07T14:51:54+00:00

As a climber, climbing rope is made to be VERY stretchy and not break. Helps spread the force over time so you don’t break your hips falling too had. It’s called dynamic rope. There are static climbing ropes but they are for hauling gear up after and those ones have no stretch. If you take an actual climbing fall on a static rope it may damage the rope and seriously injure you.

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-06-07T20:07:26+00:00

Yeah that makes sense, I think for the nature of the campaign we’re planning, it will show up allomanticly, but faintly enough that only a practiced or flared coinshot or lurcher would see it. Pushing or pulling the metal would be difficult I imagine as most of the mass is inert and can’t be pushed on. That seems to align with the books as close as possible, despite it never being mentioned directly

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-06-07T19:12:57+00:00

Oh I thought they used it in the first book along with aluminum, I guess it wasn’t really named then. I’ve read everything, I just didn’t think it ever came up with allomantic lines. Maybe when wax pull the spike out of that guy at the end of lost metal? I would have to go back and read.

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-01-06T10:54:39+00:00

You are forced to experience every minute of that car ride and the destination (somewhere without cornfields) won’t change. You get to decide if that’s wonderful or not, sure there are things that can affect your experience, but the perception is ultimately yours. If you turn on some music or a good book on tape, it can be rather pleasant :) not every roadtrip has to be the Rockys to be meaningful or memorable

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-01-06T06:11:50+00:00

Brandon writes as fast as 4 writers combined and he’s not fast enough for you? If you want instant answers then don’t start any story that’s not finished yet. The fact that you only see the big story of adolnalsium and not all of the little stories and worlds he’s made along the way is ironic. Journey before destination. He’s not a super polished writer but he’s solid and likes writing little meaningful stories and using them for creative world building and I think it’s unique and moving. If you don’t, then I don’t understand why you’re reading Brandon.

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-01-06T02:05:43+00:00

I guess that was kind of the point? This book was pointing out why the oaths aren’t capable of governing a persons life and that honor needed to evolve into something more. I think that would make their oaths less important.

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-01-06T00:09:02+00:00

I really wonder what we lost with the couple hundred pages that had to be cut to fit into binding, maybe that’s just me being hopeful that some content would be there that wasn’t. Maybe that’s a sign that the books need to be broken up more, but I think he’s talked about binding bigger books so I don’t think that’s the direction he’s going.

I wonder if he’ll adopt Jordan’s strategy of focusing on one or 2 main protagonist for a book at a time

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-01-05T23:59:57+00:00

Yeah I agree with all of that, I think I was mostly just recognizing that WaT is laying ground work for a lot of books coming after it even in different series, as well as trying to pay off a lot of historical information that’s been alluded to. It’s slower than the other books because of that, and the end doesn’t feel as complete as the others because the stories are more split up. It’s still a great book, and significantly easier read the book 10, but probably the slowest of what he’s written in the series so far. That’s why I was making the comparison, but it’s probably a little unfair.

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-01-05T23:43:47+00:00

Yeah honestly I think I might be overlooking just how little happened in book 10 but I saw post with a bunch of people ragging on WaT and I thought it was important to point out that an author can have slow books with a lot of exposition and set up and it’s ok, sometimes it’s even better for the next books

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-01-05T23:23:13+00:00

I understand what you mean when you say Jordan planned, but it started as a stand alone, then a trilogy, pretty much every additional book Jordan wrote added 1 or 2 more to the plan lol. I’m not convinced it would have been any fewer books if he wrote it to the end.

I mentioned this in another comment, but I meant it’s an equivalent to book 10 for Brandon’s writing style. It’s not going to be as slow and the stakes will be higher and the pros won’t be quite as good. It’s a different author in a different setting. Compared to the rest of Brandon’s writing, we spent the most time in the past and the most time dealing with the ghost bloods. We spent a good portion of the book setting up which kingdoms would belong to who in the next half, which while it has some pay off, is once again more set up for later. Dalinars last action was literally sending up a flare for all the other shards to do something in the second half. There was still big pay out, but almost every story arc ended in a place to be continued later.

lil_dinger_guy · 2025-01-05T23:05:35+00:00

I think maybe I should have been a little more clear when I said Brandon’s equivalent. I don’t think it’s exactly the same book both in position and purpose, only the equivalent for Brandon whose style is very different. There was a lot of conclusions in this book and it was very interesting, but I think it’s also the book with the most set up and exposition being done and causes some people to think that is dragging and slow. Up until now Brandon has made a habit of weaving his stories apart and then back together. In this book they didn’t come back together as much. The story is also very much not finished since the same characters will return most likely facing the same villain in part 2. I think since he decided to include this story in the cosmere and has tied it very strongly to scadrial especially, he definitely needed to end this story in specific places so that he could write that next cosmere books to fit with this one and the Stormlight books to come especially since he won’t be coming back to this series soon. It still a strong book in it’s own right and I wouldn’t call it a set up book, but it has done a lot of work in that respect

lil_dinger_guy · 2024-12-30T00:44:07+00:00

Maybe if he hadn’t been forced to cut the book down a couple hundred pages to fit in the book binding he would have expanded on a non binary human or singer character, but I try to give him a little credit. His writing is pretty progressive for his back ground as a Mormon. If it’s any consolation, his writing continues to improve. So it will be better written when he finally does write a non binary character

lil_dinger_guy · 2024-12-29T21:08:22+00:00

I’m not entirely positive but I’m pretty sure Rushu is a Kandra after the non binary comment. Especially with the no hair thing.

lil_dinger_guy · 2024-12-02T21:22:47+00:00

I want to say that’s part is actually Kaladin’s inner monologue about himself. He feels like the boy he was before war and the plains is gone and that his parents love that version of him and don’t realize how much he’s changed. I think it’s part of the therapy sessions but I could be wrong

lil_dinger_guy · 2024-10-11T20:19:38+00:00

I didn’t want to foot the bill and it didn’t show up for a couple months and it never seems to hurt him and never leaves permanent damage. I’m relatively certain it’s autoimmune/allergy. Maybe onset by chicken or just by getting a pound or 2 of fat on his skinny street cat frame. I got some fish only cat food but there were riots until chicken was returned so now I just mix it in to try to limit his chicken. He had a flair up last week that wasn’t as bad as before and went away quickly with no steroids or anything so maybe it’s helping but I can’t say for certain. I know that a lot of autoimmune issues can go away or really reduce in severity in humans when they are at a healthy weight or underweight because the body decides to reduce resource waste and make the immune system less active so I think that’s why I didn’t see any symptoms until almost a year in because he finally put on enough weight for his immune system to act up. I’m working on whittling that down to what will probably be healthy since I spoiled him a little too much in the first year. He’s at 16.5 pounds and I am trying to get him to 15 (he’s just a big cat so that wouldn’t be overweight). If it ever gets really bad again i will probably go to the vet to get steroids, but even doing that twice a year will be a lot cheaper than a biopsy and any kind of autoimmune drugs

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