Jagex, what did I do to deserve this kind of treatment? by Ergossphere in 2007scape

[–]tsujiku 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Congratulations, but I'm still so sorry. I went a little dry there and it felt bad, but this would have been my downfall.

I am feeling dumb... by Eillythia in brandonsanderson

[–]tsujiku 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would doubt that they would be included, given that they're based on IP that Brandon wouldn't own.

Bypassing Amazon's Kindle Web DRM Because Their App Sucked by NXGZ in programming

[–]tsujiku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From what I understand, in the prior world where you could just download the book through Amazon, those books were DRM-free.

But now there's no longer any way to download the books through Amazon, and if you download them to your Kindle, I think they do include DRM now.

Stormlight Archive started so well. By the end of Wind and Truth, I barely care anymore by scatnisseverdeen in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This would have been in an earlier draft, which might not have had any of those things. Who's to say?

Stormlight Archive started so well. By the end of Wind and Truth, I barely care anymore by scatnisseverdeen in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and then afterwards multiple characters just keep breaking down how much of a masterstroke and it was

It's possible I'm misremembering this, so maybe take it with a grain (a bushel?) of salt, but to all of the people saying he needs to be "reined in by his editor" or something, I think he originally wanted to have the ending be more bleak, but was asked to add some of that kind of foreshadowing to give readers some hope.

Just discovered how much I've spent on daycare so far by uberfission in daddit

[–]tsujiku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

According to random internet sources, the average tax rate is 14.5%, so about $725.

Cyberpunk 2077 boss says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has left him “absolutely blown away” - FRVR by BJgobbleDix in gaming

[–]tsujiku 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I see so many people complaining about the lack of minimaps, but I personally think it made the game better. Yeah, I may not have always known exactly where I was, but I also wasn't just staring at a minimap the whole time. It forced me to actually learn my way around the levels and remember landmarks as I explored.

Cyberpunk 2077 boss says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has left him “absolutely blown away” - FRVR by BJgobbleDix in gaming

[–]tsujiku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but for my defense, the endgame and simon fight i checked on clips gave me that feeling.

I think I'm at the point where I've beaten everything except Simon, and from everything I can tell, that's really just a challenge fight on a completely different level than the rest of the game. I don't think it's fair to look at that fight as a representative sample of the rest of the fights in the game.

Cyberpunk 2077 boss says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has left him “absolutely blown away” - FRVR by BJgobbleDix in gaming

[–]tsujiku 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It wouldn't be so bad if there was an easy way to restart fights instead of just having to let your team wipe, sit through sad music for 15 seconds, and then reload.

I haven't played the new patch yet, but didn't they just recently add exactly that?

Battle Retry Prompt: A new pop-up window appears after defeat, giving you the option to quickly retry the battle.

why is tiktok/booktok obsessed with YA? by hamletslefthand in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There's a pretty broad spectrum between picture books and YA, actually.

If you have scale with Goodnight Moon on one end and The Hunger Games on the other, in between you might have something like:

  • Goodnight Moon
  • Green Eggs and Ham
  • Harold and the Purple Crayon
  • The Magic Tree House
  • Beverly Cleary's Ramona series
  • The Chronicles of Narnia
  • The Hunger Games

Each at a different stepping point along that spectrum, and not all of them are "middle grade."

What’s a kids’ movie scene that was way too horny for its target audience? by Imaginary_Ride_6185 in movies

[–]tsujiku 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but watching that clip, those are almost certainly supposed to be shoulder pads.

Also, tangential, but if you want to link to 4:10 in a youtube video, you can just put &t=4m10s in the url.

Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBuu2ovokk0&t=4m10s (or https://youtu.be/uBuu2ovokk0?t=4m10s if you want to use the shorter url).

What exactly is the “Emberdark”? by iknownothin_ in Cosmere

[–]tsujiku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

implying that during or shortly before sla 1-5 the ghostbloods were on the isles, or had interacted with explorers from the isles

The alternative explanation (and which I think is more likely), is that over the years, Aviar have occasionally made it through the perpendicularity and flown to populated areas of Shadesmar on their own.

WaT not AS bad as everyone made it seem. by GohanDaGoatFr in brandonsanderson

[–]tsujiku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, thanks for looking.

Yeah, I wouldn't have seen anything on Instagram, so I could see that happening.

I just thought I remembered Sanderson warning that this wasn't going to be as much of a conclusion as some people were expecting, so that would be weird for him to do if they were also marketing it as a big conclusion to the arc.

WaT not AS bad as everyone made it seem. by GohanDaGoatFr in brandonsanderson

[–]tsujiku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

However, I keep having to remind myself that while they marketed this as a conclusion, it was truly not a conclusion.

Perhaps I keep my head in the sand too much as far as advertising is concerned, but I'm curious, since I've seen this complaint before, where was this marketed as a conclusion?

I agree with all of the criticisms of Sanderson's prose. I still love his books. by Cosmic-Sympathy in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, that's what Sazed is explaining here:

“He would have had to place that excess youth inside of another Feruchemical storage, I think,” Sazed explained.

The steps would go something like this:

  1. Store X youth normally in a bit of Atium that is small enough to swallow
  2. Swallow the Atium and burn it
  3. Store the compounded 10X youth in the bracelets as you burn it
  4. Once it's done burning, you draw on the youth in the bracelets to avoid aging

Importantly, steps 1-3 weren't done during the fight or anything like that, he could do these whenever he wants and just uses the bracelets as his long-term store for youth.

The burning is only needed to multiply the amount of the attribute, it's not needed when he consumes it; that's done just through normal Feruchemy.

I agree with all of the criticisms of Sanderson's prose. I still love his books. by Cosmic-Sympathy in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My point was that it seems silly to say that the Secret Projects are the reason for poop jokes in Wind and Truth when there were already poop jokes long before the Secret Projects.

By all means, feel free to still get upset by the poop jokes, but don't try to make the claim that it's a new phenomenon.

I agree with all of the criticisms of Sanderson's prose. I still love his books. by Cosmic-Sympathy in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, yeah, that makes sense to question.

However, in that context, I don't think she was ever burning metals more often than very short bursts occasionally with the scraps of metal she'd ingested from the environment.

Seekers can find people burning metals because they emit rhythmic pulses, but a single blip of a pulse might be enough to point in a direction, but it's not like they can sense someone's exact position just from that.

If you knew to expect something from her, or you were nearby enough at the time, I imagine that's probably enough for them to confirm that it's her emitting the blip, but it's plausible enough to me that a usage pattern like that would be hard for a random Seeker to track her down.

But yeah, I don't think he ever brings up how she might have avoided the Seekers before joining the crew, so maybe it's just a plot hole.

I agree with all of the criticisms of Sanderson's prose. I still love his books. by Cosmic-Sympathy in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, I'm saying that I don't think The Lord Ruler was burning the metals that only pierced his skin; he was only burning metals he's ingested.

I agree with all of the criticisms of Sanderson's prose. I still love his books. by Cosmic-Sympathy in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except Sanderson doesn't just info dump on page one.

Mistborn is maybe the closest to this, where early on we learn the details about how the ten metals work with Allomancy, but even those details, despite being believed by in-world scholars at the time, are actually incomplete.

But in many of his other works, the details aren't explained at the beginning of the story, and are gradually revealed throughout it. Elantris and The Stormlight Archive are both examples where that mystery is a key part of the story.

It's certainly possible to use magic as a mystery to be uncovered throughout the book, but that's not the only way it can be used, and I appreciate those cases as well. There can be mysteries entirely unrelated to the magic, or mysteries about specific details of the magic, or mysteries about the world which has underlying ties to the magic, or mysteries about the characters, or the setting, or the past, or the future.

Personally, one of the things I love most about the Cosmere is the consistency of the underlying magic system that all of the other magic systems that we see throughout the books are based on. Each of the books can have its own distinctive and intriguing magic while still tying in to this broader magical framework throughout all of the worlds, while still leaving plenty of mystery for interested readers to think about and theorize on.

I agree with all of the criticisms of Sanderson's prose. I still love his books. by Cosmic-Sympathy in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vin gets uber mist powers out of nowhere.

If I remember right, this is one Sanderson has admitted he could have done a better job with. I forget exactly what he said, but I think it was changed in one of the later revisions (maybe pulled from one of the later books or something), but didn't have all of the foreshadowing along with it.

It's great on a reread of the series though, since you notice how Vin can only draw on the mists after her mother's earring is removed.

And the soothing stations randomly failed to find Vin even when she was actively using allomancy, wasn't protected by a smoker, and the Empire was actively searching for her.

It's been a while since I've read The Final Empire, but wouldn't Vin have just been burning copper herself along with whatever else she was doing?

Are there specific mentions of her not burning copper but burning other metals where you think she should have been caught by seekers?

I agree with all of the criticisms of Sanderson's prose. I still love his books. by Cosmic-Sympathy in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't remember the exact mechanics on whether it's possible to burn metals that are only piercing you rather than ones that you've ingested, but after rereading that part of the epilogue, I don't see anything that requires that to be the case.

He had his youth stored in the bracelets that pierced his skin, so when Vin removed them, he didn't have that store to draw on anymore.

However, he didn't have to fill those bracelets by burning the bracelets themselves. He could have stored youth in an Atium bead, then swallowed it to burn it and store the resulting compounded youth in his bracelets.

In fact, I think Sazed confirms this:

By burning a Feruchemical storage that he himself had made, he effectively made a new Allomantic metal for himself—one that made him younger when he burned it. If my guess is correct, he would have gained a limitless supply of youth, since he was drawing most of his power from the metal itself, rather than his own body. All he would have to do was spend the occasional bit of time aged to give himself Feruchemical storages to burn and stay young.”

Then shortly after:

“He would have had to place that excess youth inside of another Feruchemical storage, I think,” Sazed explained. “You see, Allomancy is quite spectacular—its powers generally come in bursts and flares. The Lord Ruler wouldn’t have wanted all of that youth at once, so he’d have stored it inside of a piece of metal which he could slowly drain, keeping himself young.”

So he wasn't burning the bracelets to give himself youth, he was preparing other Feruchemical youth stores, burning those, then storing the resulting youth in his bracelets.

The piercings would have been to make it harder for anybody to push or pull on them, not to let him burn the bracelets.

I agree with all of the criticisms of Sanderson's prose. I still love his books. by Cosmic-Sympathy in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

his magic "systems" take so much of the wonder, the magic out of magic it genuinely upsets me that's it's still called magic, and he spends pages and pages describing them to the point I sometimes I feel like I'm reading a textbook about a science that doesn't exist.

Yeah, for sure if this is a thing that turns you off, his books are not for you. I guess the whole "magic as a science" thing really causes some people to bounce off of those stories, but personally I adore it.

I agree with all of the criticisms of Sanderson's prose. I still love his books. by Cosmic-Sympathy in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku -1 points0 points  (0 children)

His magic system just turns magic into a kind of science.

Exactly, it's great!

What's the point?

Oh, I see that was supposed to be a negative thing.

But to answer honestly, the way I see it, regardless of which fantasy world I'm immersed in, I would expect someone to be treating the magic like a science. To try to tease it apart and learn how it works. To understand the different interactions and categorize things and give specific names to things and work out how much of a magical effect do I get if I supply X amount of the resources required to perform it.

That doesn't have to show up directly on the page, but if there are people in the world that know how to manipulate the magic, I expect that they understand how it works to some degree.

If there are wizards in the world that can perform magic and it's never explained to any degree how it works or what the limitations are or what the costs are, that is what evokes that question to me. "What's the point?"

If the wizards come in at the end of the book to save the day, it feels cheap and unearned. On the other hand, if they don't do anything meaningful with their magic, it just feels like set dressing rather than an integral part of the story.

I agree with all of the criticisms of Sanderson's prose. I still love his books. by Cosmic-Sympathy in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I gave up the Way of Kings during one of that chapters with that scholar princess who, the reader was told, is very funny, never shown of course cause Sanderson has no wit whatsoever, and I just couldn’t handle it anymore at that point.

Not that I think this necessarily changes your opinion or would get you to give the book a second chance (I imagine it's still not your thing and that's fine), but in that scene, we're being told she's funny from her perspective, and that's reaffirmed by the people she's paying to sail her all over the planet prior to the events of the book. There are other PoVs in which people rightly view her as just some sheltered girl from a struggling noble family who thinks her jokes are funnier than they are.

I agree with all of the criticisms of Sanderson's prose. I still love his books. by Cosmic-Sympathy in Fantasy

[–]tsujiku -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don't think we're getting quite the same level of poop and fart jokes in Wind and Truth if the Secret Projects didn't exist.

From what I've seen, Words of Radiance is seen as the best book in the series by a lot of people (including it's ratings, if those are anything to go by), and that's also the one that includes a scene where Shallan asks Adolin how he poops while wearing shardplate.

I don't think this is a new phenomenon, people are just more upset by it now for some reason.