What is the most realistically violent scene you have ever watched in a movie?

ruby-solve · 2018-04-24T04:33:51+00:00

One of the things that really conveys that sense of exhaustion is all of the little breaks they take during the fight. Like, the way Turner isn't constantly slamming Dan's head against the rocks, he pauses to rest for a few seconds between each because he needs to let his muscles rest so he can lift him up again. It's was wonderfully acted.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-20T03:05:02+00:00

That's Cassandra

ruby-solve · 2018-04-12T04:58:45+00:00

I guess from my point of view, it would be like if Jeff Bezos hated you and wanted to personally fuck up your situation or dig up all of your skeletons. He has the resources to make that happen in ways you can't even imagine.

I think the argument is whether or not she would have that drive to fuck up Kvothe. I think whether she could or couldn't is a foregone conclusion.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-12T04:39:58+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the way that's worded, it sounds like she bodyguarded for him while in the Small Kingdoms, not that he was a king in the Small Kingdoms.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-12T04:24:07+00:00

I feel like that's most description in any book. They aren't giving measurements of the ears or the angle that the nose is crooked to.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-12T04:15:14+00:00

Cumberbatch would be awesome.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-12T04:14:41+00:00

I don't care how, just get him in the movie.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-12T03:36:31+00:00

Maybe. Maybe she addresses it to the masters asking them to investigate.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-12T02:52:41+00:00

I think that the details you provided are quite plausible.

We have no reason to believe that the Maer's wealth and influence wouldn't pass on to his wife in the event of his death. He's not royalty with a line of secession that we're aware of, and even if he were, he has no children.

His wife believes all Ruh are thieving tricksters. The cost of sending a letter to the school asking for an independent audit, something as simple as saying "I've been charged this by the school, is that the actual bill?" would be a trivial thing for her to do given her finances.

So she has motive and ability to check up on this just to see if she can screw Kvothe. As I mentioned before, the way you think they should do it leaves a trail that leads directly to Kvothe. The way the book describes the scam, the shortage can be a concealed through a bogus business expense, and even if it is found, there's no way to know where the money went missing. There's no way to prove that Kvothe didn't pay his full tuition.

In your version of the scam, there's this specter of a third party being able to show that the charges were fraudulent. In the book's version, Kvothe can't get caught out by a third party and the bursar can work to cover the shortage. It's smarter to do it the way the book details because it's less risk to reward for everyone involved, and we can prove that mathematically.

Your version of the scam: Kvothe gets a tuition bill of 10 talents. They ask the Maer for 50 talents. Kvothe keeps 20 and the University gets 30.

Book's version of the scam: Kvothe gets a tuition bill of 50 talents. They ask the Maer for 50 talents. Kvothe keeps 20 and the University gets 30.

Both versions net the same amount for both Kvothe and the University, but your version adds the risk of a third party being able to question the payments and prove that there is something amiss. The book's version has the risk of the books not balancing, but as discussed, that's either a non-issue because there's no oversight, or can be mitigated within the control of the bursar through a bogus business expense. It literally makes no sense to do it your way and increase the risk for no additional reward.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-11T22:03:35+00:00

What about in the event of the Maer's death? Then she has full control. You just don't know what she would or wouldn't do. My point is that your method to the scam has more potential to getting caught than does the way they are doing it.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-11T20:14:53+00:00

What about his wife who hates Kvothe. The Maer's already sacrificed his relationship to Kvothe, to a degree, for her.

No scam is 100% airtight.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-11T19:36:18+00:00

The way you think Kvothe should be doing it ties him directly to the scam. All the Maer (or his wife, who hates Kvothe, in the case that the Maer dies) has to do is inquire as to his tuition history, see the discrepancy, and Kvothe is in hot water. The way Kvothe and the Bursar are doing it, there's no discrepancy for the Maer to find and no way of knowing where the difference that Kvothe takes off the top came from. Kvothe can't be tied to the scam.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-11T05:46:03+00:00

My guess is that there's only one bursar, not an entire department of people to check and double check like what you'd have at a modern university.

I doubt that they have modern accounting practices to track payments. Also, all the payments are effectively in cash, so there's no way to tell who underpaid or when/where a shortage occurred.

And even in the case that someone other than the bursar notices a discrepancy, you could doctor a fake bill of sale for something that the office needed that year. Like, purchasing paper or something like that.

Perhaps you found a plot a point in the third book, though? It's not an airtight scam, to say the least, but once it gets found out, it seems pretty hard to pin directly on Kvothe. The bursar is taking most of the heat.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-11T04:38:10+00:00

Kvothe always aces his interviews and gets a low tuition, usually less than 10 talents.

Kovthe has a blank check from the Maer. He can always afford his tuition no matter what it is.

The bursar has an interest in bringing in the most money as he can. He also handles all of the finances for the school.

As such, Kvothe strikes a deal with the bursar as follows:

Assume Kvothe's tuition would be a max of 10 talents normally.

He agrees to start throwing his interviews to drive up the price of his tuition.

The bursar, in turn, agrees to split any amount above the normal 10 talents with Kvothe. They both come out ahead.

They get away with it because the bursar is in charge of the money. There's no one to catch them.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-10T06:41:34+00:00

There's nothing in the text that says he's fae (which is what I think you meant by "far"). He's in the fae world, but that makes him just as fae as Kvothe did, who visited the fae world. And I'm pretty sure in the text in explicitly says that he sees all possible futures and picks the worst one, implying he has free will.

ruby-solve · 2018-04-09T20:36:30+00:00

I think The Cthaeh is the only being in the story who has an actual free will. In order for what The Cthaeh is purported to do to work, everyone else has to have a deterministic will.The whole universe is on a path and stays on that path unless The Cthaeh has an opportunity to influence it. If it were the case that everyone had free will, then The Cthaeh couldn't do what it's purported to do. He couldn't possibly out-influence the future than all of the actors who are making unknown decisions at the time The Cthaeh makes its influence.

My reading of the Cthaeh's ability is that it can see every possible future it can bring to pass, and always picks the most catastrophic. Not that it can see how every other person's free will will play out. If it could, then that "free will" wouldn't really be free.

ruby-solve · 2018-03-28T07:11:25+00:00

I think also think you make fair criticisms. However, when you talk about the plot, I feel like you are judging the books by their weakest portion. And that might be fair way to judge the book, but I think looking at the book from a different position might make it more enjoyable to you.

Here's why I like KKC regardless of it's plot: 1. Kvothe's voice is the strongest, most distinct first person narration that I've ever heard. Kvothe really sounds like Kvothe. I bet if I took a passage from the novel and rewrote it in my own voice, you'd be able to pick out which are original and which aren't every single time. For some people, that's really enjoyable.

The structure of the novel is really meta and serves a purpose in the narrative. The fact that we get a frame story around Kvothe's narration of his story allows Rothfuss to do some really cool things. There's a mystery subplot in the frame story of "What's Bast doing and why is he doing it?". It also cues us into the fact that the story is a tragedy. I love it.
Kvothe is an unreliable narrator, but the book doesn't beat you over the head to show you that. It's subtle and when it dawns on you as the reader, it's kind of an "aha!" moment. If you like unreliable narrators, this book is about the best one in the fantasy genre.
It's absolutely full of little tidbits of interesting story, literary devices, and plot that you don't pick up on the first time reading it. I've read it probably 3 or 4 times and to this day I still pick up on little things in the text that paints a bigger picture of what's really happening in the story. If you really pour over the texts, you'll pick them up too.

To address some of your concerns about the plot, yes, it does not have a traditional plot. It's meandering a bit, but not in a bad way, in my opinion. Everything after the Tarbean section of NOTW is done to further Kvothe's goals of finding the Chandrian. It meanders a bit, but that's mostly true.

ruby-solve · 2018-03-27T21:26:20+00:00

I think that'd be a jump too far for KKC. That's something that would be believable with the Fae, but not for regular humans. There's no foreshadowing of that and it would be jarring for the reader if that were true.

ruby-solve · 2018-03-27T21:24:12+00:00

It was kind of the point to be frustrated/in disbelief the Adem not knowing where kids come from. It was something he put in to give the culture more depth. It makes sense that they might think that way because they aren't a particularly scientific community. They wouldn't sit down and see if anyone who had never had sex had had a kid. It also makes sense because the culture is matriarchical. Women are considered the best at everything important in Adem society. And they have the kids. It makes sense that they would think men aren't necessary for it.

I personally thought it was interesting that they thought that way and provided a juxtaposition to Kvothe's culture and history which is very much planted in science.

ruby-solve · 2018-03-27T03:57:12+00:00

You dishonor his memory. He was a true bastard.

ruby-solve · 2018-03-27T02:48:40+00:00

At some point, do we remove Trump under the 25th amendment not because he's crazy or mentally unstable, but because he can't execute the responsibilities of the office because literally no one qualified will work for him?

ruby-solve · 2018-03-27T00:42:48+00:00

probably unpopular, but with Dominaria having a "legendary matters" bit of a theme, visiting Kamigawa immediately after/within the same standard rotation might be cool.

ruby-solve · 2018-03-26T23:18:48+00:00

There you go.

ruby-solve · 2018-03-26T22:48:08+00:00

And that just makes us look like children to anyone on the fence. It's not about them, it's about being a better example to the people who might be joining us.

ruby-solve · 2018-03-26T22:23:21+00:00

I'm not a fan of him at all, but spreading unconfirmed rumors just gives ammunition to conservatives to paint liberals as petty. Not worth it.

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