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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Recommend a book
« on: December 24, 2010, 01:48:57 PM »
If you haven't already, you absoutely must read A Song Of Ice And Fire by George R R Martin. One of the best fantasy series' around today, no doubt.

Truth for the win!

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Time-Waster's Withdraw
« on: December 23, 2010, 02:32:08 PM »
Has there been an announcement made as to why the site was down for so long?

And, not to be too Hermione (but I just can't help myself), it's withdrawal, Tassle, not withdraw.   ;)

I dunno... I mean... I'd say "Time Waster's Withdraw" was a factual statement. It's merely a present tense of the verb rather than a past tense. ;)

Also I'm sure the rain doesn't pore all over the streets the way one might pour all over a website.  Really depends on the intended context, so stop beginning sentences with conjunctions. ^^

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Bridge 4 Crew T-Shirts
« on: December 19, 2010, 09:20:17 AM »
The mother one would get non-readers to ask WTF??  Maybe a few new fans this way. :)

The rest seem purely in-jokes.  Doesn't seem like anybody who doesn't know, would want to.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: So There is Going to be a Mistborn Flick....
« on: January 14, 2010, 05:02:48 AM »
Under no circumstances should Keanu Reeves be let near this.

I dunno, he could do pretty well as an Inquistitor. XD

Or voice a Kandra? hehe

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: So There is Going to be a Mistborn Flick....
« on: January 13, 2010, 03:28:54 PM »

Vin - (provided we could age her down)Sandra Bullock.


uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh?  Maybe ten years ago she could have played Vin in the movie adaption of the third book...but she was -never- a very kickass type of actress.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: So There is Going to be a Mistborn Flick....
« on: January 13, 2010, 04:07:51 AM »
Ugh. I said I wouldn't do this. Here goes anyway.

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+ Adam Baldwin as Kelsier (or Christian Bale, if they could get him)

If Christian Bale is part of this movie I won't watch it.  I've never seen him in any fashion other than the "wow he makes me want to puke".  On the other hand, Adam Baldwin would be hella cool but I don't think he fits the role too well.  My initial instinct, quite likely to never occur, was Zachary Quinto.  He can certainly pull off the martyred-god type.  Also you could add Nathon Fillion to this list as a great Kelsier, I think.

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+ Neil Patrick Harris as Dockson
+ John Travolta as Breeze (they'd never get him for that role, but he's perfect for it)
+ Brendan Gleeson (Mad-eye Moody) as Clubs

heh why not?

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+ Summer Glau would indeed make a great Vin...at least for the first book. I've never seen her play a "normal" character, so I'm not sure she could pull off the better-adjusted Vin of book 3.

I honestly wish nobody had mentioned Summer Glau.  I love her to death and I'd love to see her as Vin but now that someone has mentioned it, I can't fathom it being anybody but her.  Problem?  I'm going to be disappointed, now, no matter who it is unless it's her.

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+ I still think Vin Diesel would make a great Lord Ruler. He'd also do for Marsh, though I don't think you could sell him as Adam Baldwin's brother. :P

I think he'd do better as Marsh, personally...  Why couldn't we get someone like Christopher Walken to be TLR?  Actually he seems the type of actor who would relish that kind of role ;)

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+ Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson would do for Ham.
+ I like the idea of Hayden Christensen as Spook (I know, I know...but I thought he actually did as well as anyone could speaking Lucas' craptastic dialog).

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+ I'd cast Topher Grace as Elend Venture.

Dunno who this is so I can't really comment on the match.

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Who am I forgetting? Can you see why I say I stink at these games? ;D

One big name sticks out...  Sazed... who, by description, may be best fit by Dwayne Johnson, TBH.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Way of Kings : pre-release
« on: January 08, 2010, 05:08:44 AM »
Is it at all similar to Czar?

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Way of Kings : pre-release
« on: December 29, 2009, 11:32:44 PM »

It's not too hard.  You just make the hissy s sound with the buzzy z sound at the same time. ha ha.


That's actually impossible to do. :) Z is what is called a "voiced" version of the same sound as S- that is, you're making a buzzing sound in your throat while  pronouncing it. It's an on/off thing, so you can't do both at once unless you are blessed with two heads. ;)

You like change the way you position your teeth.  I promise you can do it. xD  Also a weird thing with your tongue.  It's like instead of using air to make the hiss you use the buzz to make the hiss.


Okay, now I'm convinced you are obsessed Miyabi. If you are taking hours to perfect your pronunciation of Szeth. I'm scared now.  :D

You like.. found a new way to SPEAK just for BS.  ;D

If I understand Miyabi, it's painfully easy. ;)

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: **SPOILERS! The Shards of Adonalsium
« on: December 20, 2009, 03:39:01 AM »
Wikipedia supports Kaz.

But who knows. Maybe Kaz changed wikipedia, just so he could be right. You never know!  ;)

*gasp* Are you suggesting Kaz has the ability to change what is true in our world?  OMG Earth is part of this whole thing and Brandon is Hoid and Kaz is a Shard!!

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: So, Hoid was there when what happened?
« on: December 20, 2009, 03:35:53 AM »
It's been mentioned in a few places that Hoid is, generally speaking, a carrier/passer of knowledge/information.  After watching the most recent episode of Stargate Universe, I am reminded just how far someone seeking knowledge/information will go.

We've seen Hoid pass information but I now wonder where exactly this information may have come from originally.  Did he inherit some?  Was he taught?  Did he study?

That last one can be a real issue.  Why do we test animals?  Not because someone decided it'd be bad to test humans before we did so.  It's because we tested humans and eventually bad things happened.

My point is this.  As far as I know, there's no reason to discount this whole thing as a grand study on the part of Hoid, so in the future he may have yet more information on the interaction of Shards and the people who have come into contact with them.

/tangent.

EDIT:  I guess at the very root of this post is a "maybe he did it, rather than was simply there."

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: **SPOILERS! The Shards of Adonalsium
« on: December 19, 2009, 08:21:57 PM »
Neat.  I wasn't trying to suggest otherwise, I just mustn't have paid enough attention back when the movie came out to have remembered it by the time I moved here. :)

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: **SPOILERS! The Shards of Adonalsium
« on: December 19, 2009, 04:25:20 PM »
There was a Hero of Ages spoilers thread immediately after it came out, and a lot of our background info came from there.  I think that it can be found here.

Much of the rest comes from third-hand reports of questions answered at signings and is spread out wherever relevant in the forums.

Ah!  Another long thread to read :D  I appreciate it and will have to dive in over the winter break. :)   I've thrown a few tiny pieces from this thread into an excel file, hoping that by setting everything so side by side, something will appear. -_-  haha

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Well, Mr. J is relying somewhat on unstated but true properties of the ordinal numbers that emphatically do not apply to poorly defined sets.

Certainly.  Mathematical concepts are far more defined than philosophical concepts but the formula appears in both systems.  I think I've been trained to think in the philosophical sense, having been subjected to quite similar conversations on a weekly basis previously.  ???


My stepbrother is a student at UTEP and my cousin Brandon Wolfram broke the all time scoring record for UTEP's basketball program in the late 90's & was on the cover of ESPN for it.



P.S. for those who don't know. UTEP (university of texas @ El Paso) was Texas Southwestern? anyways some direction then western and Glory Road is based off the story of it's all black starting team (the first one in NCAA).

Huh.  I saw the movie when I was in Houston.  In fact, we had a couple of the players show up at the theater during it's sneak preview.  I never, should I say, remembered anything that would have linked the two for me.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: **SPOILERS! The Shards of Adonalsium
« on: December 19, 2009, 04:51:06 AM »
Wow.  I'd seen this thread over the last few months but didn't read through much of it as I didn't understand what it was about at the time.  Now that I've caught on (and finished Warbreaker), I'm finding myself almost buying the Elantris & Mistborn paperbacks.  Primarily because my originally purchased hardcovers are in California and I'm in Texas (El Paso 'area').

Unfortunately, after reading all 18 pages, I'm not quite sure where some of this data stems from, how this whole tangent started, the whole of the shards coming to light, etc.  If anyone feels so inclined, could you point me to some resources for further study on this topic? :)  I'd muchly appreciate it.

And lastly...

But Roshar has at least 30

Exactly! We're gonna jump to simple algebra for this one... If A=B and B=C then A=C
(At least 30) = (Any number greater than 30)
(31) = (A number greater than 30)
(31) = (At least 30)

IF.

A = "my car"
B = "a mode of transportation"
C = "my bicycle"

THEN:

My car = my bicycle? ;)

You have no idea how infuriating it can be to have lived with a philosophy major (now a professor in ethics, I believe, at a university I haven't asked about recently).

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Why does everyone on this forum know so much about Japanese and Korean and Mandarin?  Do LDS foreign missions only take place in Asia?

Books like Mistborn appeal to a large group of people.  It just so happens there is a cross-section of Japanese otaku in the same interest circle.

Korean?  No way I could fathom why so many...

Mandarin?  Beijing Olympics 2008 might be a clue. :D

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Korean is alphabetic, but the letters are stacked into syllables instead of being next to each other. I think it's an elegant solution, myself.

ha! I must not have been fully awake when I thought Korean as anything other than alphabetic.

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Who calls the Chinese system "character writing"? It's ideographic writing. Each symbol stands for an idea rather than for the sound of the word for that idea. (Though many of the more complex characters also contain a radical that does indicate the sound.)

All of my Asian-language professors (Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese & Korean).  All of my Asian friends (My Chinese friends often compliment me on my "good characters").  All of the books I own concerning Chinese (my Mandarin textbooks, my Cantonese textbooks, as well as two dictionaries for Mandarin.  Oh, and my Vietnamese/Korean texts in the 'history of the language' section) and just about every internet site I've gone to in order to translate.

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