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Nitrousoxide posted:The C plot with the girls looking for the black Ajah is easily the least interesting part of this book. "How dare they treat us like we're not competent to hunt the women who've already caught us once!" Walks around the bad neighborhoods of Crime City in expensive silks
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Hexel posted:I believe this is our first image of the wonder girls together, lifted from the daughter-heirs instagram today Are they filming walking around the Rahad already?
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I've seen this theory discussed elsewhere but didn't give it much credence but on a rewatch it appears that Ishi is tethered to the seal. theres a definite animation to these dark cords that are binding him to the seal, which pretty much confirms the deception and the broken seal releasing the forsaken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omf4uLnsgCM&t=199s Hexel fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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Why the forsaken got freed was kinda a "eh, stuff happens close to the last battle" So having Rand explicitly free the Forsaken (or moreso linked than in the books at least) would be nice.
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Hexel posted:I've seen this theory discussed elsewhere but didn't give it much credence but on a rewatch it appears that Ishi is tethered to the seal. Well that is a super cool touch.
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More easter eggs in the show, check this out: a snakes & foxes game 
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In the books, isn't Snakes and Foxes a children's game that can only be beaten if someone cheats?
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Nitrousoxide posted:In the books, isn't Snakes and Foxes a children's game that can only be beaten if someone cheats? I just remember the bits about it being an ancient metaphor of how to deal with the Aelfinn and Eelfinn 
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So, if anyone is interested in seeing show watchers go back and read the book, Nerdy Nightly is doing that now.
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Nitrousoxide posted:In the books, isn't Snakes and Foxes a children's game that can only be beaten if someone cheats? I assumed it was possible to win, but with astronomically long odds to the point where it's practically impossible.
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Nitrousoxide posted:In the books, isn't Snakes and Foxes a children's game that can only be beaten if someone cheats? Yes, and you're supposed to start the game with some phrase that also tells you how to beat the snake or fox people. Light to blind, iron to bind or something. Stones was the elegant, chess equivalent.
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Olver definitely won once, just before Mat went into the tower. Pretty sure it was ta’veren luck interfering but still!
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I never understood why Olver was able to sound the horn, was that because Mat died by being hanged?
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Hollismason posted:I never understood why Olver was able to sound the horn, was that because Mat died by being hanged? Killed by Rahvin. Rand then undid it with balefire, but it still broke the link.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Killed by Rahvin. Rand then undid it with balefire, but it still broke the link. Ah okay I just figured it was when he was hanged.
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cailleask posted:Olver definitely won once, just before Mat went into the tower. Pretty sure it was ta’veren luck interfering but still! Yeah, I figured it was something like you get two movement dice, the chasers get four. Possible in theory to win, but only if all of your rolls the entire game are the highest, and all of theirs are the lowest.
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Dingleberry2 posted:Yes, and you're supposed to start the game with some phrase that also tells you how to beat the snake or fox people. Light to blind, iron to bind or something. Stones is a Go equivalent.
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Devorum posted:Stones is a Go equivalent. Which is too bad because that game is lame as hell. I just substitute chess in my head-cannon.
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How are u posted:Which is too bad because that game is lame as hell. 
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How are u posted:Which is too bad because that game is lame as hell. I just substitute chess in my head-cannon. Honestly, maybe don't voice opinions this bad.
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Besides, there's a specific chess analogue, that thing with the fisher king Moridin was playing with himself.
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How are u posted:Which is too bad because that game is lame as hell. I just substitute chess in my head-cannon. I love chess and prefer it to Go but stones is definitely superior as strategy games go. Chess might become a "solved" game, Go is absolutely nowhere near being solved. The only way they got computers to play it was with deep-learning AI watching grandmasters play. When they ran it against those grand masters it started doing crazy poo poo they couldn't explain. Their best explanation was that it calculated it was far enough ahead to just start putting pieces in random places
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MegaZeroX posted:So, if anyone is interested in seeing show watchers go back and read the book, Nerdy Nightly is doing that now. This was better than I expected. Laughing at Nerdy getting locked out of the building in the middle of the podcast. Narg Smart.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Yeah and their unbeatable super strategy was to form up in a line astern and act as a human battering ram. I think something in that general ballpark actually used to be a thing and they ultimately banned it because too many people were dying.
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Nitrousoxide posted:In the books, isn't Snakes and Foxes a children's game that can only be beaten if someone cheats? Real life hunt games like fox and geese work that way too. The balance differs depending on the exact game but it's always lopsided so that the same side always wins with reasonably skilled play.
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Like super queen! Single queen that can also move like a knight vs an entire loadout, I could never trap the dang monarch.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I think they'll cut that scene Doubt it, in the ama last month Rafe explicitly said that dumai wells is the scene he's looking forward to shooting the most.
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Sorry to inform you that the Dumai Wells is now that small natural spring they stop at in the waste for a night where Rand and Mat are attacked by Trollics.
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Hexel posted:More easter eggs in the show, check this out: a snakes & foxes game This is probably where all the money went. Making all this stuff that won't pay of for a long time so it won't pop up out of nowhere.
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Finally into Gathering Storm, and the best compliment I can give Sanderson is I’m having a hard time distinguishing which is his writing and which is Jordan’s.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Sorry to inform you that the Dumai Wells is now that small natural spring they stop at in the waste for a night where Rand and Mat are attacked by Trollics. Also downgraded to one. It’s just Dumai’s Well now.
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I'm loving Gawyn managing a triple kill own goal. And also how much disdain Silviana has for him Natural 20 fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Jan 1, 2022 |
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Natural 20 posted:I'm loving Gawyn managing a triple kill own goal. Everyone should have maximum disdain for Gawyn
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Gawyn is just the worst.
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Hollismason posted:Gawyn is just the worst. The absolute worst. Lifetime worst.
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Working my way through TGS. Man it’s amazing how much better this has gotten since the rescue Faile/Andor succession plots ended. Holy crap did those plots draaaaaag. Sure the white tower plot is still going but that one is also way more compelling, in large part because Egwene kicks so much rear end in it. (Just finished chapter 16. “In The White Tower”). theblackw0lf fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Jan 1, 2022 |
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Happy new year thread that got me my second gang tag. Going to start my reread of New Spring tonight. The only WoT book I've read just once.
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