Amazing, Zorm... although we've come to expect no less from you.

Though what really blows me away here is the background. Those clouds and waves are actually moving! ...or maybe it's just me reaching new levels of caffeine poisoning at work.

Seconded (or thirded)! Nothing has blown my mind like the Gap. :) Oddly enough, I've never reread it. Or maybe it's not that odd, since I read it during a certain time in my life and it has somehow merged with that period in my mind (nothing out of the ordinary, it was just that I'd moved quite far ...

LOL! 100 posts and a month of residency when many have been here for almost a decade and are cruising towards 50,000 posts! :lol: Still, that doesn't seem to matter so much here and the fact so many of you have been around for so long speaks volumes about the spirit of the Watch, as does your welco...

WoT is by no means a classic, but still needs to be finished if you've been dragged into it. Brandon Sanderson is good enough in his own right though, and I actually feel some small amount of anticipation for the last book. But it might be just as much anticipating the relief of finally seeing the e...

I did. TIW and then TPTP, in Swedish translation. Got both books as a birthday (14th, it must have been) present from my aunt who had noticed that I was going through LotR for maybe the tenth time by then. Once I realised there was a book preceding TIW I was too far gone to go back and start over. T...

The title as it now stands is just a pun on the real title, as the GI tells us: "Dark and hung". :o Or maybe something like this: It's a bit embarrassing to admit this, but sometimes titles are more intuitive than literal. Ferinstance, what *exactly* is the "forbidden knowledge" ...

Sorry if I was unclear, as I said it was a really slow day at work until some stuff showed up right before it was time to go home, and so my line of reasoning was cut short. At first I was thinking sear + seer = burnt down and maimed forests + the forestals beeing able to envision the ultimate fate ...

Argh, of course! Seer/sear, there we probably have it. Good call!

Edit: and of course with SRD being who he is, there seems to be even more to it...

www.thefreedictionary.com/sere

I suppose it is a pun on sir, and nothing more than that. But it's still totally ace. :) Possible explanations from the top of my head, all highly unlikely, I'm just bored at work: Several central Asian rivers have names that start wit Syr-, like Syr-Darja. Something to do with Syria? Is president B...

Semi off-topic again: How good a name is Syr Embattled? 11/10?

I think someone else already made this remark somewhere, but it's worth mentioning at least twice.

Great work as always, Zorm! Tbh, I've had some problems distinguishing the giants in the lasts chrons from each other, and this gave me a good push in the right direction.

It may also refer to the customizable maps for the strategy game Civilization (which is up to #5 in the series now). Ever since Civ 2 there has been a tool included for making your own playable maps with resources, starting points for players and so on. I searched a bit on the civfanatics forum, but...

As far as I can tell, the immediate issue is a good old cash flow problem and as such it's technically separate from the budget deficit, even though they are interdependent of course. A friend of mine who teaches economics claims that the comparison to "credit card debt" is indeed accurate...

I've only been lurking this part of the forum and never posted here before - for a reason which will now become obivous. I sincerely don't want to insult anyone, and if it comes out that way I offer my apologies, whatever they may be worth in that instance. But. You can't mix religion and logic. The...

Swedish media are not always neutral when it comes to US politics - hellfire, our right wing party would most likely be seen as crazy-ass hippie liberals over there, and they are still way too far to the right for my liking - but based on how they are reporting things here, the immediate question ca...

Karsa is great from page 1, imo. :) For some reason I get strong Robin Hobb-like vibes from him (at least until about where he hooks up with Torvald, another great character). One part of it is probably about the process of growing up, something of the recurrent theme in all Hobb's books. And someth...

Just to stay OT for while: I'm almost through Toll the Hounds now, and it's been a draining but very rewarding journey so far. Since I was told from the beginning to watch out for details, GotM took about two months to read, and that about set the pace for the rest. :biggrin: And no exception withou...

Your "why?" is a rethorical question, right?

Generally speaking, the number of parties available is directly linked to what type of voting system you have. In a proportial system you will get more parties, like in here in Sweden (8 parties with parliamental seats), Finland (9, counting Åland with their seat guaranteed for geographical reasons)...

AATE = Against All Things ending, the 3rd part of the Last Chronicles, which was released in October last year.