That would only serve to make better food heisters once they got out of prison. You want to eat? Get better at obtaining food than all these other professionals. It'd be a food heist battle royale.

@@groofay This would actually be a brilliant social deception game. Imagine Deceive Inc., except you're in a prison cafeteria and trying to smuggle food out.

I'd like to think there is no cafeteria. There is a lockbox with food in it, and if you don't have the skill to break in and get the food every day, you starve.

He said the problem is when both armies respawn

Also, while the Fused sort of respawn, they need to wait for the Everstorm to make its way across the continent again, and they need a new Singer body to inhabit, so it's not quite the same.

This is what I was thinking as well.... They're just describing the Fused. :P

He's got a glint in his eye... I think he might not have forgot but doesn't want to spoil Stormlight cause the Fused is pretty deep in there. Could be wrong but just an idea. He is a tricksy hobbit after all

Not the first time. There was a fair number of comments on the Weekend at Vader’s episode that the whole “the boss is dead, we gotta pretend he’s alive” sort of situation is also kinda the starting premise of The Emperor’s Soul. I think the small differences just send his brain down different paths (the Dark Lord instead of the king, a more futuristic/sci fi war vs medieval/fantasy) and he doesn’t realize how similar some of the “bad story ideas” are to something he has in fact done in his stories, where it was really good!

Haha I was thinking the same thing and came here to the comments to say "HEY WAIT A SECOND!"

Also scalzi's dispatcher stuff!

If this is up for a vote... I agree with snoogle20

Agreed

I too missed the split screen

Good to know. I will tell Adam.

​@@BrandSandersonSecretly though, aren't you Adam?

It’s a real shame that he needs to shave to teach his class 😢

​@@nathanharmon8971What! Why?

​@@20storiesunderBYU has a beard rule

@@robertrasmussen5690 This is pretty ironic. Have you ever seen a picture of Brigham Young?

@@robertrasmussen5690 That's mad.

For what it's worth, an idea isn't a significant legal issue - ideas are not copyrightable - what would be a potential issue is if someone sent in a short story or other substantial development of an idea and the author read that and then used similar text - though the matter was never settled in court. The main threat is not that someone could sue and win, but that they could sue and not get immediately thrown out, so use up a lot of time and money on a pretty much frivolous lawsuit.

@@rmsgrey There is a wide gulf between what copyright protects and what people will sue for. Ideas are still a problem if people can sue for them anyway (and they can.) The fact that they will lose doesn't make it any less of a pain to deal with.

he'll be hearing from my lawyer if I ever find out he used my "john wick, but its the owner who gets killed and the dog thats the retired hitman who gets revenge" idea without proper credit

@@DampeS8N As I alluded to, part of the problem is that there doesn't seem to be an established precedent - it's possible there's one out there, but the example everyone brings up is the MZB Darkover fanfiction incident, where it's agreed that agents and publishers were consulted and generally understood that lawyers were involved at some point, but no-one's made public whose lawyers. The generally agreed portion is that MZB was very encouraging of fanfic and encouraged people to share it with her, publishing official collections and even, on occasion, adopting ideas into canon, giving the originator money and an acknowledgement. She attempted to make the same deal with one particular fan for something she wanted to use in her next novel, the fan tried negotiating, things got messy quickly, and the end result was that the novel was abandoned and MZB became significantly less friendly to fanfic. The whole thing set an unfortunate precedent for fandom/creator relationships, but not a legal precedent - meaning that the current guidelines are for creators to stay firmly in areas where it's clear that any attempted lawsuit would be thrown out immediately rather than even risking the slightly grey area where a judge might decide that a case has sufficient merit to be heard, let alone getting close to territory where there's a chance the case would go the fan's way. If precedent had been established, it would make it a lot easier to know where the lines actually are, and also to get cases thrown out with a clear line to point to.

@CuteKiller313 ngl, I would read that fan fic. Please write 🤣

That was actually my friend Rebekah! We gave it to Ben at a launch party for secret project 3 in Lions park provo. I have videos of it on my tiktok. So glad they liked the shirt 😂😂😂😂

​@@ThatCosmereChickAwesome! She totally made the shirt I want 😂

And Brandon proves, once again, he is better at this creative thing (while maintaining logical integrity) than almost anybody.

The main reasons it was discontinued were production costs and distribution. It's also hard to get infrastructure for non-rectangular cards (sleeves and such)

Hecatomb! I remember playing it back in middle school. Very interesting (albeit gruesome).

A science fiction book by Amal El-Mohtar is like this. I forgot.

kind of like munchkin

I would hope not, to be honest. 😅 He's better than that. Wizards of the Coast do not deserve the talents of good people, they're much too steeped in racism, sexism, transphobia, ageism, and honestly everything else a company could do wrong.

@@overanimated626 What?! Are you kidding? Have you looked at any D&D book published in the past 3 years?

@@overanimated626 I said nothing of wotc, 3rd party modules 🎉

@@overanimated626 ...are you kidding? Between the D&D rule changes just to remove stats from races, the campaign books with random gay couples and nonbinary people (Waterdeep: Dragon Heist has both, from memory) and plenty of racial diversity, MtG's new LotR set race-swapping popular characters into people of colour, the large ban-list of insensitive MtG cards, obvious diversity-based casting on promotional materials, and the absolute deluge of rainbow-themed logos and banners every June (especially on partner platforms like D&D Beyond), I think you're confusing WotC with some other, not-so-woke company. And for context, I don't follow WotC in any particular detail - every one of those examples are just things I've noticed while playing D&D or Magic in the last ~5 years or so. There are probably more.

Ooooh yeah that would be hilarious!

Same.

This book sounds awesome. I want to read it to my children. Lol

That makes as good of sense as anything else. Toonami back in the day was super groundbreaking, and even that was something that Cartoon Network seemed to want to bury because the licenses were expensive. When they weren't axing good exclusives like Megas XLR and Sym-Bionic Titan, anyway -_- And that's to say nothing of how Nickelodeon treated Avatar The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. The good news is at least Cartoon Network seems to have come correct with its current Toonami run on Saturdays, since it actually has MOSTLY relevant shows (kind of amusing they're still running Naruto Shippuden, but afaik the dub hasn't finished airing because that show just doesn't know how to stop).

Forgeries of Brandon's signature, Emperor's Soul level.

Frugal wizards handbook has already been released. There’s hope!

It actually holds up pretty decently outside of the monkeybird being annoying. It has no ending however so it just kind of... stops halfway through the story, so be prepared for that.