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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Poll Time!
« on: February 14, 2008, 12:06:58 AM »
Too bad, it'd be kind of interesting if you could "burn out" an enemy.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Bookplates Question
« on: February 13, 2008, 11:36:06 PM »
I love this idea. I was planning on getting my books BS books recovered in leather and this would go really well with it. (I recover all my favorite books in leather, it's just nicer that way  ;))

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Hmmmm....Very interesting Craysh. Although, one problem with that is while atium burns quickly, duralumin burns insanely fast. Another issue that might be a problem is the fact that during a fight Vin might not know that a person is using atium unless she is using it as well or if she has already attacked.


Furthermore, I think it would be impossible to be to fast for atium. Atium gives you the ability to see a couple of instances in the future. So, no matter how fast you are, when you do actually act, it shows you what that action will be before that happens. For example, if someone were to decide to punch an atium burner in the face, the atium burner will have already moved out of the way of the punch before the puncher physically puts that punch into motion . Thus, negating any advantage of how fast said punch will come.
I thought of that, which is why I put up the equation.  A normal humans vision can only see 60 frames a second.  With atium and tin, that might jump to 120 frames a second and a couple of moments into the future (let's say 3 seconds as an approximation), but if duralumin flared pewter makes you close the distance faster than 1/360th of a second, the attack would go faster than atium + tin could account for.  Even if it was 1/120th of a second, you'd only see three quick images of the person going for you, giving the atium burner only a vague idea of what you're going to do.
The only way around that would be if atium is like the speed of light in that no matter how fast the observer is going, the speed of light is the same. 
Additionally, if the Duralumin + pewter burner is also flaring tin, they'd see the motion of the atium burner dodging/grabbing/countering and they could change their course mid attack to hit the person anyway.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Poll Time!
« on: February 13, 2008, 11:01:22 PM »
I just thought of something.
It would REALLY suck if all you could burn is aluminum or  duralumin.
Also, I always thought it was strange that all metals have a internal and external variant, but aluminum are both internal.

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I know that Vin discovered the flaw in atium but she only had to use that (IMNHO) because they both had duralumin.
I think a more elegant way to do it (since Vin is so flexible and small) would be to ingest a large amount of pewter and burn duralumin to flare pewter far beyond a normal pewter burn.  A person burning atium may be able to see it coming, but if Vin is so fast they can't avoid the attack, atiums advantage is nil.  Hell, if she moves fast enough she might be hitting the target faster than the atium can account for it:

atium effect = X
duralumin flare + pewter speed = Y

If Y > X then atium is more of a hindrance (since the person burning the atium is expecting to see where she'll be but won't be able to follow her)
If Y = X then atium is about as useful as the when both Mistborn are burning atium.


Now a question about atium:
Can atium be flared? It's rather rare so I'm not sure if anybody has tried it or not.
And since we've seen that all metals other than atium can be overflared with Duralumin, why not atium?

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Question about Zane at the end of tWoA [spoilers]
« on: February 13, 2008, 10:16:27 PM »
Sadly I will assume for the moment he is dead. The body thing is easly dismissable, as Vin kills people all the time and they never BranSand never tells us where they go. In fact if they did tell us what happened to the body I might be suspicious (Sp?).

Didn't they say that the body was gone and that Vin assumed that the Kandra took care of it?

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Brandon Sanderson / Question about Zane at the end of tWoA [spoilers]
« on: February 13, 2008, 10:02:42 PM »
Is Zane really dead? Here are my thoughts:
1) WAAAAAY too good of a protagonist to get rid of in the second book
2) He has a spike. Spiked people aren't that easy to kill
3) Where did the body go?

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Poll Time!
« on: February 13, 2008, 09:37:51 PM »
So no one wants to be a smoker or rioter, huh?  Poor, misunderstood mistings.

I think being a Seeker would be cool, knowing who was burning or not, what they were burning, etc.  I like that idea!
I'd agree except a smoker could kill your abilities unless you were exceptionally strong, or your target was stupid enough to work without a smoker.
I chose thug because while I'd rather be a coinshot, I probably fit the thug lifestyle more :p

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Holy crap... Just finished MB2
« on: February 13, 2008, 08:44:10 PM »
Amen.  Pretty much every other book I've read has a ton of filler.  Sanderson seems to have every chapter mean something.
I literally had to promise myself I'd read again tomorrow so I could put it down the night before.  Never had so many nights with only 4 hours of sleep >.<

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Brandon Sanderson / Holy crap... Just finished MB2
« on: February 12, 2008, 04:58:49 AM »
Wow... Just wow...
After getting through the first two books of Mistborn I am stunned that TOR isn't pushing BS more.  With an amazing writer like him.
[/gush]

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Brandon Sanderson / Saze and Sazed
« on: February 09, 2008, 11:59:15 AM »
Why are the names interchanged? At first I thought only Kelsier called him Saze as a short nickname but it seems like Brandon couldn't pick which way he wanted to go with it.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Wow, refreshing!
« on: January 30, 2008, 10:01:12 PM »
Dang it. I couldn't finish Warbreaker :'(
Mistborn came in and I couldn't help myself from reading them, followed by Elantis when THAT comes in.
Decisions decisions...

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Wow, refreshing!
« on: January 14, 2008, 11:12:09 PM »
Sorry, still reading Warbreaker >.>

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Wow, refreshing!
« on: January 14, 2008, 10:38:52 PM »
lol How can you keep color and inspiration on a leash? I'll tell you: you cannot.
You may think he's subservient but the truth is, he's only playing with your mind ;)

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Brandon Sanderson / Wow, refreshing!
« on: January 14, 2008, 10:25:23 PM »
Some authors may go so far as a blog, but to actually go out and mingle with the peasants (like me) on a forum?  That shows not only dedication to your fans but also a respect for them.
And I've got to say that the moment I found out that Brandon Sanderson was finishing the final book of Wheel of Time I was apprehensive.  I immediately went to amazon and bought all but his kids works and started on Warbreaker.  Warbreaker alone has assuaged my worries and made me glad that he's the on board for A Memory of Light.

Also, wow at releasing Warbreaker as a free ebook WHILE you're writing it.  It's a great way to see an excellent author in his creative process. ^_^

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