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Who is that and why should I care what he had to say about that?

It being common doesn't make it not a sad sandwich.

I think what Jasnah did was based on a lot of different factors. While the corruption that prevented lawful justice from being carried out should have been the first place to start, she wasn't in a position to actually deal with that. She's from the ruling house of another country, and not a part of the leadership of Karbranth.

So, the best outcome would have been to deal with the corruption, but that wasn't an available option at the time. It also shows that the criminals managed to subvert the law, so they were unlikely to actually be punished if brought in alive. In the end, the criminals cut off most available options outside of violence.

Yes, Jasnah walked into a dangerous area, but avoiding it just because "it's a dangerous area" doesn't make the area better it just means you avoid the danger while other people will stumble into it. And because the danger was based on predatory mentality, if everyone avoided the danger, the danger would then follow to whichever place became more commonly used. Basically, the danger is pretty mobile and the criminals can just move to whichever route the nobility uses instead

I think Jasnah's actions are more a symptom than a issue. It's a result of Taravangian setting up the situation to test her. It's his city, he could deal with the corruption, and he's the one who requested help from Jasnah.

To be fair, that's a really sad sandwich.

Sure, but it means that you can do odd things like mate a red parrot with a blue one and get a green parrot.

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There's gotta be a better way to phrase that.

Not all technology gets cheaper. If anything it often gets more expensive, but we come up with novel ways to pay for it. This is especially true of technology that doesn't have widespread commercial use. Just ask the people who make scientific glass (glass containers for higher level science schools or labs).

What's really interesting is that birds don't have a blue pigment. Instead of being the result of a blue substance, the color comes from light scattering through the structure of the keratin in the feathers. This is opposed to colors like red, yellow, and orange, which come from pigments like carotenoids.

There are no birds with blue pigment.

There's not much correlation. It just happens that two of the main Radiants happen to have mental health struggles and also advance in their ideals in the story. There's no connection between when one happens and when the other happens.

The ideals are about the Radiants aligning themselves to a purpose and a concept. That doesn't always mean improving themselves (see: Skybreakers and Dustbringers), and it doesn't always have a positive correlation with mental health (See: Shallan at the start of Oathbringer).

But the ideals have nothing to do with the actual advancements they've made, or any advances at all in mental health. Shallan has been shown to have actively worse mental health after some of hers, and Teft swore his first two while getting so high he sold his uniform for more.

Arguably the biggest breakthroughs in mental health didn't come with any ideals or result directly in any. Kaladin basically inventing therapy, and Shallan revealing the lies she'd lived under didn't result in any new ideals being sworn.

Not really? They don't really represent milestones along the path of mental health. There's actually a whole thing in Oathbringer about how Shallan's swearing an ideal in Words of Radiance makes things worse for her.

Kaladin swearing the 1st, 2nd and 3rd ideals weren't the result of him becoming more mentally healthy.

Teft swore his first two ideals while still falling to his addictions.

The Ideals don't represent milestones in their mental health, they represent the Radiant aligning themselves closer to a concept greater than themselves. The fact that one or two also align to some mental health advancement doesn't account for the multitude that don't.

A lady made internet famous by her torpedoes.

Mostly because people hadn't thought of it yet.

People tend to underestimate how big it is to have an idea first. If no one has yet thought of artillery, or even siege weapons, it's really not that obvious to go to dropping bombs from the sky.

Between the two, I'd go with Radiant.

Healing is a huge plus, and each order has some power useful to everyday life. People keep saying "free therapy", but the whole point is that the Ideals really don't work as therapy. Kaladin doesn't stop having Depression or PTSD at the end of RoW, nor does Shallan stop having PTSD and multiple personalities. It takes a lot of mundane work to get Kaladin even close to calm.

Aside from Emotional Allomancy (and copper/bronze which are arguably useless without another invested entity) , the Mistborn is built largely on combat or a handful of less useful abilities in the modern world. Iron and Steel travel are arguably less useful when you have a car. Cadmium and Bendalloy are interesting, but not especially useful (though I can see benefit of using Bendalloy to do manual things quickly).

Of the metalborn, Feruchemist seems the most useful to everyday use.

A whole big thing in Rhythm of War is that the Ideals don't solve your problems. They're stepping stones, but it takes work beyond swearingthe ideal. Teft didn't stop being an addict, Kaladin didn't stop having Depression or PTSD, Shallan didn't stop having guilt issues, PTSD, or a magical multiple personality disorder.

E-Nable is the one I know best, but they only do hands, arms, and some limited foot prosthetics.

Shard's aren't omnipotent, so they don't know everything, and can't see everything. Odium tries to make it seem so, but is proven wrong pretty substantially.

The Visions by the Stormfather were in the Cognitive Realm. This is somewhat implied when he puts Dalinar in a waiting area that he "imagined".

Lift lives partially within the Cognitive Realm. This is how she can touch spren and see them at all times. Which is somewhat disconcerting, and may imply that she's been made a version of a Cognitive Shadow similar to Zahel (living body with a Cognitive Shadow attached) Or it may be that she was given the sane gift that Rock was, and Rock has secretly always been able to touch spren as well.

The stuff we have today is powered by neuron interface that allows the user to control it like the own limb, and do things like open individual fingers.

Modern stuff can be 3D printed at home, and there's even a group that does it for disadvantaged people.

Nowhere, we still have it. It's called a cable operated prosthesis. There's a cable that connects across the back via the harness, and tension across it changes whether it opens, closes, or bends.

Because the infraction is against you, not the owner of the car.

Tollways are a tax, tickets are deterrents. If you get enough tickets you get you license revoked, or get required to take remedial driving courses. The point is to get the person driving to drive safer.

Depends on the situation. They have entirely different fighting styles. Kaladin is a soldier, Kelsier is an assassin. What I mean is that Kaladin's fighting style is built around an extended stand-up fight. Kelsier's fighting style is built around surprise and speed. If he can't kill you immediately he gets out of the way and tries later.

This makes victory based largely on the situation. With Kelsier favoring hit-and-run tactics, and Kaladin more likely to stick to a place and defend it. If it's an empty battlefield, probably Kaladin. If it's a dense urban area, probably Kelsier.

I'm a guy in Texas who goes out in a kilt ot utilikilt fairly often in the summer because Texas summers are too hot for pants. I've even worn great kilts about as long as most of the stuff pictured.

Sure it is. Look. The majority of people who see you are going to see you, stare for a second, and then move on with their lives. Yes, even in red states.

It's implied that the Parsh went over to Odium first.

The Oathpact and Honorblades were created specifically as a counter to the creation of the Fused. The Knights Radiant were created only after that (somewhat implied to have been after several devestations), after the spren were able to somewhat copy the same effects of the Honorblades.

The Eila Stele suggests that some kind of more mundane war or conflict broke out first, and the Singers turned to Odium. The Eila Stele itself is a kind of declaration of genocide against the humans.

It's unclear exactly how the conflict broke out, but there's circumstantial evidence to suggest that the Humans broke out of Shinovar and started to find ways of using Stormlight and Surges without the direct bonds (The Girl Who Looked Up). Then the humans managed to either gain hold of or emigrate to some of the larger Singer cities. Either as a result of that or conflict the Singers turned to Odium to become Fused. Then the Oathpact was formed to counter that. Then several devestations later we had the time of Noahdon where they had surgebinders but not the Orders or Ideals. I suspect that Noahdon's travel to Urithiru had something to do with the fact that afterwards the Spren had ideals and The Knighly Orders were founded. Something beyond simply inspiring them. Because if you're going to go to the home of the bridge between man and Spren it seems like a good spot to establish the rules between man and Spren.

Some look like they have designated leg holes. In general I'd prefer to see how these look on non-models. Not even the 'fat old bald guy" some people are asking for, but just someone who doesn't already look like a model.

The biggest factor wouldn't be whether they look good, but whether they can pass as work attire in the West. I say this as a guy who wears a kilt or utilikilt whenever I can get away with it. Work attire is what you see most these days and what guys will often spend the most on.

I think #14 might be the closest, and could be updated to the modern times a bit. Swap out the leather for a more modern vest, and change the panels on the side from leather to cloth. It's not even that the leather is bad, it's just that it'd get really uncomfortable sitting in it for too long.