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I feel like Sanderson knows he doesn't write budding romance well. Adolin and Shallan have the excuse that they're both new to it. Navani and Dalinar just skip over a bunch of the early stuff (it's implied that they did all that in the past) and dive right in, also neatly dodging this issue. And then you have that wonderful interlude where (minor spoilers) that Ardent is reading the Roshar equivalent of a bodice-ripper Harlequin romance. To me this is Sanderson straight up poking fun at himself. "Look guys, I know I can't write romance for poo poo. So I'm gonna write some really lovely romance. Deal with what you got, because here is the alternative."
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I forgot how cringy that entire room scene is. All of her entire being is just...annoying.
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Feb 15, 2018 21:36
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M_Gargantua posted:Yeah I loved that one. But I can understand how you could lay the criticism that they’re too Mormon for teenagers in a war camp. Pre-marital sex has all sorts of issues in these type eras, if she got pregnant before the marriage they'd have issues succession wise so them being raised to be very hands off before marriage makes complete since.
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Feb 16, 2018 01:03
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I'm still waiting for the bundling board/sack analogue to get whipped out to keep the meteoric rise in awkwardness consistent moving forward.
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Feb 16, 2018 01:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mplesv9U4g https://io9.gizmodo.com/we-entered-the-world-of-brandon-sanderson-s-stormlight-1823088971
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Feb 20, 2018 17:15
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NmareBfly posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mplesv9U4g What the gently caress? Did they even read the books? That is not how Parshendi are described at all.
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Feb 20, 2018 23:00
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insider posted:What the gently caress? Did they even read the books? That is not how Parshendi are described at all. I feel like the carapace is pretty close to warform, but the coloring seems way off.
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Feb 20, 2018 23:06
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ConfusedUs posted:I feel like the carapace is pretty close to warform, but the coloring seems way off. yeah isn't it supposed to be orange?
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Feb 20, 2018 23:56
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Wow that looks terrible. The Parshendi in my mind definitely weren't just 'human with rock armor' and having terrible clunky combat with three people on screen is just....what's the point? Model some of the warcamps and let us wander around them and talk to some of the characters from the book. Have some vignettes where we can be a part of some pivotal scenes, even just as an observer or bystander. Getting to watch Adolin and Kaladin's arena fight would be badass, being a nameless guard there as Szeth shows up and fights with Kaladin, stuff like that. Not anemic VR teleporting combat on featureless rock plains, it just seems lazy.
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Feb 21, 2018 00:41
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Tunicate posted:yeah isn't it supposed to be orange? The blood is orange, but the skin always gets described as red, white, and black or some mixture of two or three of those. It definitely doesn't look like the Parshendi as described in the books though.
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Feb 21, 2018 21:17
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seaborgium posted:The blood is orange, but the skin always gets described as red, white, and black or some mixture of two or three of those. I meant the carapace growths, not the skin
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Feb 21, 2018 21:45
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insider posted:What the gently caress? Did they even read the books? That is not how Parshendi are described at all. Kaladin's lashing looks more like telekinesis too, which isn't how lashing works since the gameplay is definitely moving things he doesn't touch. That video is probably (hopefully) early footage and that they'll be fixing some things up. The Parshendi look really off though and their skin doesn't seem as marbled as the books describe it. The animation is extremely rough too. I hope that is an early build because yikes.
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Feb 22, 2018 01:12
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That's pretty lovely poo poo and I hope it's still in deep development
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Feb 22, 2018 01:14
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Evil Fluffy posted:Kaladin's lashing looks more like telekinesis too, which isn't how lashing works since the gameplay is definitely moving things he doesn't touch. That video is probably (hopefully) early footage and that they'll be fixing some things up. The Parshendi look really off though and their skin doesn't seem as marbled as the books describe it. The animation is extremely rough too. Well between changing the direction of gravity on objects and manipulating atmospheric pressure (adhesion) he could theoretically do something that looks like TK even if it's mechanistically more complicated. But, wow, that trailer is something special.
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Feb 22, 2018 02:57
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Could someone refresh my memory of how (oathbringer) Teft's firemoss addiction bites everyone in the rear end after he sells his Bridge Four jacket ? Or even when it happens
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Feb 26, 2018 20:17
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Sab669 posted:Could someone refresh my memory of how (oathbringer) Teft's firemoss addiction bites everyone in the rear end after he sells his Bridge Four jacket ? Or even when it happens Someone uses it to sneak into the Bridge Four barracks while Kaladin is away and starts getting stabby.
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Feb 26, 2018 20:28
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Luminaflare posted:Someone uses it to sneak into the Bridge Four barracks while Kaladin is away and starts getting stabby. It was extremely unbelievable for me. Bridge Four can't be more than a couple hundred people, Right? They would all know each other instantly.
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Feb 27, 2018 02:03
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BananaNutkins posted:It was extremely unbelievable for me. Bridge Four can't be more than a couple hundred people, Right? They would all know each other instantly.
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Feb 27, 2018 02:08
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Feb 27, 2018 02:09
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ConfusedUs posted:I thought they'd been recruiting heavily for quite some time...? Definitely what I was thinking, plus you have to imagine if they wander in with their head covered it'd be easy to just avoid suspicion so long as they don't talk. Of course, it could also be they have someone with light bending on their side and they looked like someone else.
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Feb 27, 2018 02:30
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Yeah they made a big point on how there were only a small number (40ish?) of bridge four left alive, and it had become more an elite fighting force and potential squire recruits and had a whole ton of new people trying to become warriors and glow.
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Feb 27, 2018 02:53
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BananaNutkins posted:It was extremely unbelievable for me. Bridge Four can't be more than a couple hundred people, Right? They would all know each other instantly. also they were swapping around the soulbound weapon, and he managed to literally only kill the one person who it was bound to.
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Feb 27, 2018 03:22
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Evil Fluffy posted:Kaladin's lashing looks more like telekinesis too, which isn't how lashing works since the gameplay is definitely moving things he doesn't touch. That video is probably (hopefully) early footage and that they'll be fixing some things up. The Parshendi look really off though and their skin doesn't seem as marbled as the books describe it. The animation is extremely rough too. Well, wrt to the lashing, we actually know that touch isn't a universal necessity - recall the lashing that lets him turn himself into a gravity well. We don't know for a fact that touch is a requirement of the other lashings. That may just he how Kaladin does things until he figures out better.
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Feb 27, 2018 06:29
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Am I seeing this right that there's pretty much nothing coming out in 2018?
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Feb 28, 2018 08:06
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Tahirovic posted:Am I seeing this right that there's pretty much nothing coming out in 2018? Nothing Cosmre at least. His new YA series Skyward is gonna come out in November and he has another Legion Novella sometimes this year as well. Hes working on some secret Novella which I assume might make it out this year as well. Next year we should get the last Wax and Wayne Book though.
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Feb 28, 2018 15:41
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I hope he takes his time with the next Stormlight book. Oathbringer felt rushed.
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Feb 28, 2018 16:39
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BananaNutkins posted:I hope he takes his time with the next Stormlight book. Oathbringer felt rushed. I'm guessing hes going to try to work more time into his schedule for future Stormlight books. Prior to Oathbringer he was trying to write each one in a year, but Oathbringer went slowly and took a lot longer than that, and I think he still felt like it probably could have used more time.
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Feb 28, 2018 17:46
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If I recall, in the State of the Sanderson he said he hopes to have Stormlight 4 & 5 outlined by 2020, so it sounds like he's taking a bit longer. I assume they won't be as large as OB.
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Sab669 posted:If I recall, in the State of the Sanderson he said he hopes to have Stormlight 4 & 5 outlined by 2020, so it sounds like he's taking a bit longer. He should try to cap himself at 250,000 words or so for quality purposes. I think he does better around that range.
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Oathbringer is also the middle book for this sequence, so it's firmly a "set up" book with a bit of payoff. "Rhythm of the Night" or whatever the Venli/Eshonai one is called will start the penultimate resolution, with Stones Unhallowed finishing up the sequence and introducing some new status quo for the SA time skip. I'd be surprised if the next book matches Oathbringer; probably WoK or WoR level though. Stones Unhallowed will probably bulk up though.
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OAquinas posted:"Rhythm of the Night" Now, no matter what the next one is called I'll be disappointed it's not that.
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Mar 1, 2018 01:43
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Rhythm of the Knight
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BananaNutkins posted:It was extremely unbelievable for me. Bridge Four can't be more than a couple hundred people, Right? They would all know each other instantly. The core group know each other but Kaladin's in charge of hundreds if not thousands of soldiers beyond the former bridge crews. Most people aren't going to look closely at each other either, they'll see someone in uniform going by that's it. It really isn't that hard to believe a spy with a proper disguise could slip in somewhere they shouldn't be and strike unexpectedly like that.
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It does sound like Brandon is taking a bit of a breather from Cosmere stuff for most of this year.quote:The third Legion story is being published as part of a collection of all three novellas about the character, forming a complete narrative. It should be out August/September or somewhere around then. Skyward is being published by Random House this November sometimes. Expect an official announcement with the cover art to come from the publisher in the next few weeks. I bet his secret project is some sort of Wheel of Time short story.
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Subvisual Haze posted:I bet his secret project is some sort of Wheel of Time short story. Nah. WoT is dead and buried now. Zero chance Harriet lets anyone play in the sandbox anymore, outside of maybe a TV series/movie.
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Subvisual Haze posted:I bet his secret project is some sort of Wheel of Time short story. I would be so disappointed  gave up on that series after Book #4
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OAquinas posted:Nah. WoT is dead and buried now. Zero chance Harriet lets anyone play in the sandbox anymore, outside of maybe a TV series/movie. There's already an ongoing fight regarding WoT TV/Movie rights. e: Subvisual Haze posted:It does sound like Brandon is taking a bit of a breather from Cosmere stuff for most of this year. It's The Winds of Winter. We aren't getting that book any other way.
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Mar 3, 2018 15:31
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The Brandon Sanderson version of ASoIaF would be hilarious.
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BananaNutkins posted:I hope he takes his time with the next Stormlight book. Oathbringer felt rushed. It didn't really feel rushed to me... just felt like a middle book in a series and he was struggling with so many plot threads so some plot threads were resolved in very short order (Szeth especially).
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Aggro posted:The Brandon Sanderson version of ASoIaF would be hilarious. I was at a panel once with him and he mentioned he tried this and the result was awful and he will never show anyone
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