Luin eilen loppuun viidennen osan Stormlight Archive -sarjasta ja luulen, että mun ei tartte lukea fantasiaa ainakaan kahdeksaan vuoteen. Sarja alkoi kivasti, eteni kohtuullisesti ja päättyi ilmoitukseen viidestä lisäkirjasta.

Siirrytäänpä Samantha Harveyn Orbitalin kimppuun. Jos ei muuta, niin on kevyempi ainakin ranteille Sandersoneihin verrattuna.

"Ryshadium"

Painted for Cosmere RPG by Brotherwise Games

ADs: Johnny O'Neil / Katie Payne

I was so excited when I got approached by Johnny to paint an illustration for the Stormlight archive RPG. It's one of my favourite book of all time.

New account, so new #introduction. Let's do it again!

I have a #MastersDegree in #ComputerScience and #ComputerEngineering. I went to #NMU for undergrad and #MSU for my graduate degree. I currently work at #UChicago for the #TMWCenter, which focuses on helping young children acquire language (and therefore other learning skills) faster.

In my spare time, I develop #OpenSourceSoftware such as
- a #SphinxDoc extension that embed #Fediverse comments on your page
- a library to talk to #ManifoldMarkets from native #Python
- a #PredictionMarket manager using the above
- a #transpiler from a subset of Python to #OpenStreetMaps's #OverpassQL
- bug fixes to many other projects, including #mypy, #base58, #attrs, #CPython, & more

I spend a fair bit of my time these days on #MathResearch, specifically into the #ThueMorse Sequence and its extensions.

I'm also a hobbyist editor on OpenStreetMap.

#Demisexual, #transfem, and happily engaged to my #enby sweetheart.

We have two cats: #OpheTheLoaf and #MayalaranTheCat (yes, from #StormlightArchive) See here for more on them!

I speak English fluently, Spanish haltingly, and am trying to learn Chinese

#queer #Chicago

Just finished reading “The Way of Kings” by Brandon Sanderson. At first, I was a bit thrown off by all the odd fantasy names and concepts, but once I got over that, the story absolutely pulled me in and made the book hard to put down.

Very impressive, I’m curios if the other books in the series can do this first instalment justice. Long series unfortunately have a tendency to drag.

9/10, can recommend.

Stormlight Archiven viides osa luettu. Olipahan eepos. Eeppinen, intensiivinen, humaani, koskettava. En tiedä, pystyykö tätä tarinaa vertaamaan mihinkään muuhun sen paremmin mittakaavaltaan kuin sisällöltään.

Täytyy nostaa hattua Sandersonille, että hän pystyi pitämään kaiken tuon hyppysissään, yllättämään kerta toisensa jälkeen ja kertomaan tarinan, joka kaikista käänteistään huolimatta oli koko ajan uskottava, perusteltu ja pohjustettu.

I created a #Discord #DiceRoller script for #YAGPDB for the #CosmereRPG plot die, feel free to use it or add it to your own sever.
https://gist.github.com/fadookie/e4d072edd5ecb85bd6d63478cca5ea17

#WindAndTruth was one of my favorite books in the #StormlightArchive and a fantastic climax to arc 1. It delivered on story promises, but twisted things in unexpected ways. The character arcs were satisfying and felt earned. The lore reveals were copious and helped answer the biggest questions of arc 1, while raising more. Ending arc 1 of such an ambitious series was a tall order and this book didn't disappoint. There were a few things that didn't work for me but overall this book was a triumph.

Oh dang, my #introduction post is waaay out of date now. Let's do it again!

I have a #MastersDegree in #ComputerScience and #ComputerEngineering. I went to #NMU for undergrad and #MSU for my graduate degree. I currently work at #UChicago for the #TMWCenter, which focuses on helping young children acquire language (and therefore other learning skills) faster.

In my spare time, I develop #OpenSourceSoftware such as

• a library to talk to #ManifoldMarkets from native #Python
• a #PredictionMarket manager using the above
• a #transpiler from a subset of Python to #OpenStreetMaps's #OverpassQL
• bug fixes to many other projects, including #mypy, #base58, #attrs, #CPython, & more

I spend a fair bit of my time these days on #MathResearch, specifically into the #ThueMorse Sequence and its extensions.

I'm also a hobbyist editor on OpenStreetMap.

#Demisexual, #transfem, and happily engaged to my #enby sweetheart.

We have two cats: #OpheTheLoaf and #MayalaranTheCat (yes, from #StormlightArchive)

I purchased Sanderson's new Stormlight Archive audiobook ages ago. It's now available and I finally downloaded all six parts last night.

It's 62 hours long.

I'm just... <sigh>

I think maybe I'm not the target demographic for this series anymore. I dearly love Kate Reading and Michael Kramer's narrative performance work, but dayam...

The series is sprawling and massive, linking to almost every series and novella Sanderson has ever written.

And I'm like... My life doesn't really have room for this anymore. His work isn't something I can easily set down and pick up or just listen to in the background... I've literally forgotten huge swaths of the storyline thus far, and given that he's now pulling in characters and plot points from his other series, I'm just...

I love his writing. I do love his books. I really *really* enjoy them. But I fear I've passed the point of my capacity to stay engaged. He's now writing to his walled garden and I just don't have the luxury of time (nor the will?) to enjoy being in it.

It's clear he's a great world-builder. But I fear he's lost me on this one.

Maybe someday, but this rabbit hole goes far far deeper than I have time to fall down into.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/series/the-stormlight-archive-1

En muista kuka tuota Brandon Sandersonin Stormlight Archivea suositteli täällä, mutta kiitos siitä! Parasta fantasiaa mitä olen lukenut aikoihin. Luin ensin Mistbornit ja olin aika pettynyt, mutta tää eka Stormlight oli ainakin ihan 5/5.

Finished Way of the King last night. WOW.

What a great book but damn did it take awhile to get the lore and definitions understood. You have to just power through it and eventually the terminology will start to become second nature.

Man the first book in the Stormlight series drops vocabulary hard, right out the gate. Tons of references to places, powers, titles, etc….It attempts to provide a definition early on but since everything seems to have like prefixes/suffixes it's hard to keep it all straight. I'm definitely reading slower that I normally would just trying to keep definitions straight.

But book 1 does have adventure and drama early on. And thank goodness cause I might have nope'd out by now.

Palasin eilen Sandersonin Stormlight Archiven neljännen osan pariin, se kun oli jäänyt alkuvuodesta kesken kiireellisempien lukuprojektien alta.

Vaikka hyppäsin kyytiin keskelle kirjaa, puoli lukua myöhemmin maailma ja hahmot olivat tempaisseet minut jo täysin mukaansa.

Sandersonin kirjat ja niiden maailmat ovat kyllä Becky Chambersin ohella niin minun turvasatamani nykyään.