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Brandon Sanderson / Warbreaker Wikipedia page?
« on: July 04, 2009, 01:45:16 AM »
I just noticed that Warbreaker does not have a Wikipedia page yet. Who is up for creating one and adding content and stuff?

#EDIT#

I started a page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warbreaker

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Favorite Authors...Where does Brandon Rate?
« on: July 04, 2009, 01:09:17 AM »
My list:

5)David Gemmell (He really cemented me into reading fantasy)
4)Robert Jordan (I'm so invested in his work at this stage, he can't not appear on the list)
3)Brandon Sanderson (I've only read two books of his at the moment, he might move up more after I read Mistborn)
2)Dan Abnett (I loved his stuff in the comic 2000AD, then I discovered his 40k stuff)
1)Terry Pratchett (one word - Discworld)

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: **Spilers** What's going to happen in AMoL (our theories)
« on: July 03, 2009, 11:02:48 PM »
To expand on what happyman said, Moiraine could have made it so that her bond passed when she went through the doorway. We don't know if Lan's bond was ever broken. One minute he could feel her through the bond, and the next he could feel someone else.

Moiraine knew a lot of things and, I'm guessing, one of them was how to make the bond pass, not when she died (as assumed) but when she left the world of Randland to another (Finnland in this case, but it could have been to another using a portal stone).

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: **Spilers** What's going to happen in AMoL (our theories)
« on: July 03, 2009, 10:40:02 PM »
We don't know how and when Lanfear died, all we know is that she did die. The Finns could have killed her and not Moiraine. Moiraine had knowledge on what was going to happen and so, we can assume, took precautions. Lanfear didn't know that was going to happen, and as well as being one of the Forsaken (which might have been enough for the Finns to kill her), she could have had something that was offensive to the Finns, like iron.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Sanderon's WOT without reading the series?
« on: July 03, 2009, 10:11:56 PM »
You are sure to be lost... I've read all 11 books a few times before and still I'm rereading them so that when book 12 is released, I'll be caught up with all the major and minor plot details.

I think it would be a true exercise in futility to read these books without having read the prior 11. You might... MIGHT, be able to get away with reading chapter synapsis on the likes of dragonmount.com, but you still might get lost

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Rants and Stuff / Re: Revenge of the Pie
« on: July 03, 2009, 04:59:23 PM »
Quote from: Shaggy on July 03, 2009, 03:17:05 PM
necronos, I see absolutely nothing wrong witha square pie. A circular one may be more fun to eat, yes, but there is nothing wrong with a square pie.

It is that laissez-faire attitude that will bring about the destruction of everything we hold dear. Of course there is something wrong with a square pie. I would say that there is everything wrong with a square pie, but at least it is a pie and so better than cake... however, I digress.

Here is a list of some of the faults of square pies

1) They are square
2) They are not circular
3) Everytime someone makes a square pie, one of the gods kicks a kitten
4) A really bad person of you choice loved/loves square pies
5) A square pie killed Indigo Montoyas father

Do I need to go on? Can't you see how right I am? This sort of dissension in the ranks of OOP only hurts our cause... are you a cake sympathizer?

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Rants and Stuff / Re: Revenge of the Pie
« on: July 03, 2009, 03:32:07 AM »
Quote from: Shaggy on July 03, 2009, 01:33:43 AM
I'll deny the existence of square pies when you prove the inexistence of people with IQs of 20.

I don't need you to deny them, or to acknowledge the wrongness of square pies. They are, and will always be, fundamentally wrong... whether you agree or not  ;)

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Rants and Stuff / Re: Revenge of the Pie
« on: July 03, 2009, 12:49:01 AM »
So we agree then... no more square pies  ;D

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Rants and Stuff / Re: Revenge of the Pie
« on: July 02, 2009, 10:33:14 PM »
Quote from: Shaggy on July 02, 2009, 10:11:38 PM
You can have square-shaped pies. . . .

And you can have a pie made out of jelly beans and ketchup too... it doesn't make it right though

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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: July 02, 2009, 06:47:32 AM »
Quote from: Comfortable Madness on July 01, 2009, 06:29:27 PM
40k fiction? Fiction you say? As far as I'm concerned Ibram Gaunt and his merry band of Guardsmen are as real as the keyboard I'm typing on.....

On a serious note how is the 40k fiction? I enjoy the table top game and the brief stories in the codex's are pretty interesting.

*glances at the Tanith badge on his chest* Of course 'Bram Gaunt is real!

Most of the 40k fiction is good, some of it is awful and some of it is brilliant. Anything written by Dan Abnet is fantastic (Gaunt's Ghosts, the spin off - Double Eagle, The Eisenhorn Trilogy, Ravenor Series, Brothers of the Snake), the Horus Heresy novels (technically 30k - written by different authors) are really good with only one or two crappy titles. The Ciaphas Cain series is quirky and good... that is by Sandy Mitchell.

It depends on what you like in the 40k 'verse too. I'm not a player, just a reader, and I find that I'm not all the excited about Space Marines (with a few expections) but I really love reading about IG or Inquistion.

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Rants and Stuff / Re: Revenge of the Pie
« on: July 02, 2009, 06:17:30 AM »
Those who betray Pie should live a life without circles

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Warbreaker Question ***Spoilers***
« on: July 01, 2009, 06:46:39 AM »
I guess you're right, there really is always another secret. I was just contemplating Denth and how he too must be Returned, since I believe he too was one of the 5 Scholars. He only ever had one Breath (at least from what we learned from Vivenna) so that just creates more questions.

I can't wait for the annotations!

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Warbreaker Merchandise
« on: July 01, 2009, 06:43:03 AM »
Cafepress allows you to just sell the merchandise for cost and so you don't profile from it at all. However, official blessing just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.


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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: July 01, 2009, 06:20:57 AM »
I'm reading Elantris for the first time ever.

All I usually read is 40k fiction, but then I took a break to reread all the Wheel of Time before Novembers release of the 12th book, but then I took a break from that to read all of Brandon Sandersons books. Hopefully I can read all of them and get back to the Wheel of Time before I something else catches my attention and makes my pile of books to read bigger.

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Movies and TV / Re: Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
« on: July 01, 2009, 06:14:43 AM »
I agree with Chaos2651 on how easily The Fallen was defeated by Optimus. Megatron put up a better fight in the first movie and he could be (presumably) be defeated by an old Autobot and not just a Prime. The Fallen should have been able to put up a better fight, especially since the other Primes of old just sacrificed themselves rather than fight him.

While I loved seeing all the Transformers, I believe there were just too much of them. At the end, we has Decepticons appearing all over just so they can get shot. Come on, at least have them wearing red shirts or something. I would have preferred a few selection of Transformers that were highlighted more rather than a whole bunch that were glossed over.

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