Hello
Hey, how's it going?
Pretty good how about you
Pretty good. Do you like to read?
I love reading
Sweet! Me too!
What type of books do you like to read
Mainly Sci-fi and Fantasy. What about you?
Same that is my favorite genre recently I have read a lot of textbooks though
Same, unfortunately. I never have time for free-reading anymore.
I probably shouldn't  but sometimes I just read during lectures Have you read the stromlight archive
OH MY HAVE I YES YES YES
I read the first one just before school and got the second one a couple weeks in to school.  I put off everything for a whole week and weekend and only read my book I decided to wait until break to read the third one
Nice! I love the Stormlight Archive! I preordered Oathbringer and got it the day it came out Have you read any other books from the Cosmere? Or any others by Brandon Sanderson?
I have read both Mistborn series and I am currently reading warbreaker
Yes! Those are so gooood. Have you read Elantris?
I have also read the reckoners and the rithmatist
Have you read Arcanum Unbounded?
I haven't read elantris yet but it sounds sooo good
Do you know about the Cosmere and the Shards? It's pretty dang good. There's also a short story/novella called Emperor's Soul that takes place on the same world as Elantris
I have read the one short story about kelsier but not much else
The Eleventh Metal one? Or the one about him dying?
One of my friend told me about the cosmere and thats what got me into the rest of brandon snadersons books
Nice.
I think the one after he died and talked to fuzz
Where he meets Preservation?
yes
Cool cool cool cool no doubt no doubt
I am just amazed by how much Sanderson writes and how good it is
Yeah Did you know he's an adjunct faculty member here? He has two classes that he teaches winter semester
I have heard that he works here but I didn't know where
Yeah it's pretty dang cool I have yet to meet him in person but I really want to So you know Nightblood from Warbreaker?
yeah
And you know how Szeth gets it at the end of Words of Radiance?
Have you seen Brandon Sanderson has an event at Orem on the 25th Yes
WHAT This 25th?
yeah at the Orem public library
Is it a reading or something? Where did you hear about it?
I think it is a reading and a signing on his new legion book
That's actually awesome. Although Legion isn't in the Cosmere I'm a bit biased towards all Cosmere books
I can understand why So what were you saying about nightblood because I am really curious about it
Oh right He ends up playing like a very large role in Oathbringer Like Roshar is where stuff is HAPPENING Vasher and I think her name is Azure are both on Roshar too and you meet them in Oathbringer The older sister from Warbreaker Plus you also get to meet some of the Heralds and get to see the start of crossing between the magic systems
Oh my goodness I can't wait to read it
It's pretty mind blowing It's all about Dalinar's past Like how Way of Kings focused on Kaladin and Words of Radiance focused on Shallan, Oathbringer focuses on Dalniar or more on the Blackthorn
ahh the worst part is after I read Oathbringer I will have to wait even longer to read the next book
He was originally planning on the third one in the series to be focused on Szeth, but he ended up switching it so now I think Szeth's is going to be the last in the first set of five yeah the wait is pretty excruciating also fun fact there is a character limit apparently
Wait what do you mean a character limit
With these texts in the chat thing. Like, it won't let you keep going on forever. You have to break it up
Haha good to know. I am not very wordy but book I love to talk about
Nice
I thought you meant in book series so authors can only have so many characters
Haha, no sorry. That would be the absolute worst
I was wondering if that is why so many characters die
So what is your favorite book series?
right now it is mistborn
Ayyy noice My friend and I nerd out about the magic systems whenever we have free time Like, do you know about Ettmetal? It's in the second series Also called Harmonium
What is harmonium
It is the metal that the Southern Scadrials use to basically fly The one that is hyper reactive to water
ohhh yeah
Cuz basically what it does is it can replicate other allomantic metals when they are being burned
wait does it say that in the book also did you know that there is a mistborn board game
But, the brilliance behind Brandon making it blow up when it meets water is so you can't use it in Hemalurgy I don't know if it explicitly describes the powers in the book And yeah, are you talking about House War?
now I need to read that whole series again yeah I played it with one of my friends and it is so cool it is based of a book
Yeah its pretty fun. Actually the friend I mentioned earlier and I are in the process of making our own Brandon Sanderson board game. It's on the Stormlight Archive.
I would totally play that game
Aw thanks So how long have you been doing this chat thing? This is my first conversation Is it just a random person who's also on when you're on?
I think I started it saturday I think it tries to find people with the same interests but if there's nobody else it will match you up I have been matched up with the same person 4 times but other than that I haven't chatted with the same person more than once
Oh cool
I think its a really cool idea and I love machine learning but did you see the prompt for this chat
Oh no, I forgot there was a prompt
most people just ignore them
So, what if the world was made of Peanut Butter?
I would be fat
Would people still have nut allergies? Cuz you'd think that they'd all die and everyone left wouldn't spread the genetic trait
yeah  that would probably wipe them out
We would evolve past ever being allergic
or our medicines would improve so much we could treat it or cure it
But the real question is, what are we defining here as the world? Like, just the crust? Haha pun But like, the whole core as well? Or the current world as it is now, and everything transmuted to peanut butter Because either way, the gravity of that much peanut butter would condense like none other
Haha maybe just a layer on top of the crust
Life wouldn't be sustainable We would all die
I wonder who came up with this prompt
It'd probably be instantaneous death Maybe it was the AI
and if they realized all the problems it would cause
So are you a computer science major?
Yes
cool cool cool cool
What is your major
Undeclared right now
What do you want to go into
I have no idea What year of schooling are you?
I'm a freshmen
Ayy same Are you from out of state?
Yeah I'm from Wyoming
Oh sick, there's some crazy good skiing up there
Yep it's the best Where are you from
Lindon, UT It's like 15 min away
My roomate is from lindon
WHAT What's her name?
Yeah do you know Malia
Hahahaha Malia Fisher?
yeah
Heck yeah I do We grew up together I live like down the block from her Or used to
haha that's awesome
Hey, you should get her to read Brandon Sanderson
I will try to do that If I can get my whole apartment to be a book club that would be great
YES Get them all hooked
I wonder if there is a byu book club specifically for brandon sanderson or the cosmere
I'd freaking love it if there was. If you find one hook me up
maybe we should make one
I'm down You're in building 14 right?
yes
Do you face west or north?
west
Ah. Well, if you ever look north/northeast, I got the windrunner symbol on my window
What building are you in
25
awesome how long has it been up
Uh, like 2 weeks?
I have totally missed it. I will look for it the next time I walk by
I mean, I'm not that good of an artist, so it's not perfect But you should still be able to recognize it
What floor are you on
4th. You? Do you ever go tunnel singing?
I went one week but I haven't gone again I'm on the second floor but I will have to remember to look up at 25s windows
Yup
Well it was awesome chatting with you
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