[14:05] <cmaloney> Morning
[14:10] <_stink_> yo
[14:49] <widox> morning
[15:06] <waldo323> good morning
[15:31] <greg-g> yawn
[15:47] <jrwren> Good morning
[15:47] <jrwren> I'm, apparently, still on pacific time.
[15:48] <cmaloney> jrwren: Did you fly out there?
[15:49] <jrwren> cmaloney: yes, vegas a few days last week for CES.
[15:49] <cmaloney> jrwren: Oh I am both thrilled and sorry for you
[15:50] <cmaloney> thrilled because vegas, and sorry because CES
[15:51] <jrwren> oh, just be sorry for both.
[15:51] <cmaloney> Only so many 4K / 8K TVs one can see in one lifetime
[15:51] <jrwren> i definitely liked the CES part better than the vegas part.
[15:51] <cmaloney> Yeah, Vegas can be a bit of a shithole
[15:52]  * cmaloney hasn't been there since 2000 and that's OK
[15:52] <jrwren> that isn't saying much. The CES part was pretty weak too, but it did spark some ideas, which I think is the point.
[15:52] <cmaloney> That's cool
[16:01] <rick_h> morning for a bit longer
[16:02] <rick_h> ski weekend went ok. Love the nintendo switch for non-sking
[16:04] <jrwren> some of the team brought switches to CES and were playing during downtime. I'm not a gamer, so I was just annoyed by their high volume setting.
[16:05] <rick_h> oh I play volume down/off
[16:08] <jrwren> you are courteous.  ;)
[16:09] <rick_h> well tbh the game sound doesn't do much for me I guess. I tend to put a podcast/etc on when I'm playing my zelda
[16:12] <jrwren> I do that when playing sometimes, when I rarely do game.
[16:17] <cmaloney> heh
[16:19] <rick_h> yea, we got the switch for christmas and with zelda on it I'm hooked so gaming a lot more than usual
[16:20] <cmaloney> i've heard a lot of fokjs getting into zelda on the switch
[16:20] <jrwren> Its a Zelda
[16:21] <rick_h> yea, it's really good. I haven't really spent any time on zelda since windraker? and that I only played a bit
[16:25] <cmaloney> wind walker
[16:25] <cmaloney> wind raker is a james bond movie.
[16:25] <jrwren> and windrunners are the radiants from stormlight archive.  :)
[16:27] <cmaloney> Not to be confused with WindJammers, which is an awesome Neo Geo arcade game
[16:29] <rick_h> lol, windrunners are awesome
[16:29] <rick_h> jrwren: did you finish book 3? I liked it better than book 2
[16:31] <jrwren> rick_h: I did not. I'm still re-reading book 2.
[16:31] <jrwren> Reading it slowly, really enjoying it.
[16:31] <rick_h> nice
[16:31] <jrwren> I feel its very good on second read, which is rare for me to say about a book.
[16:33] <rick_h> yea, same
[16:59] <cmaloney> just finished pushing the snow with a shovel
[16:59] <cmaloney> I think it took longer to work up the courage to go out there than actually shovel the snow
[17:00] <jrwren> your back may thank you
[17:00] <cmaloney> Yeah, I don't lift when I don't have to
[18:35] <waldo323> my license plate may say cosmere
[18:35] <cmaloney> hint: it does
[18:36] <jrwren> ha!  waldo323 AWESOME
[18:36] <waldo323> :)
[18:37] <waldo323> thanks, have you read edgedancer?
[18:37] <waldo323> and warbreaker?
[18:43] <jrwren> Edgedancer, yes.  Warbreaker, no.  What is the later?
[18:43] <jrwren> Edgedancer was super fun. I hope he writes with those characters more. I forget her name, but she is super fun and the way her spren tollerates her is too fun.
[18:44] <cmaloney> I haven't finished Warbreaker yet
[18:44]  * cmaloney has the audiobook for that
[18:50]  * cmaloney also has this one: https://www.audiobookstand.com/Authors/Brandon%20Sanderson/Books/Shadows%2bfor%2bSilence%2bin%2bthe%2bForest%2bof%2bHell%2b%2526%2bPerfect%2bState/Format/MP3-CD%20Unabridged/ISBN/978-1-5113-7270-1
[18:50] <cmaloney> sorry re: The URL
[18:52] <waldo323> lift
[18:53] <waldo323> warbreaker is on another planet but has some characters you've read in WoR and will see more of in oathbringer
[18:53] <cmaloney> <3 MP3 audio books
[18:54] <cmaloney> WoR?
[18:55] <waldo323> words of radiance.   I'd recommend reading warbreaker before Oathbringer - it helps you know the voices of the characters which are also in oathbringer
[18:56] <waldo323> also warbreaker was a book Brandon wrote more publicly and is available free via his website
[18:57] <waldo323> it has a creative commons license - so when he was at penguicon I thought it was the most appropriate book for him to sign(I have the hardcover...which you can borrow if you would rather read it that way)
[19:00] <cmaloney> I have the eBook and the audio book
[19:00] <cmaloney> But thank you
[19:01] <cmaloney> It's more that the audiobook player that I have is a little clunky
[19:01] <jrwren> well heck, now I need to find Warbreaker.
[19:01] <waldo323> https://brandonsanderson.com/books/warbreaker/warbreaker/
[19:01] <cmaloney> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ak.alizandro.smartaudiobookplayer&hl=en <- This is the one that I use
[19:02] <jrwren> is it in that recent Arcanum book?
[19:04] <waldo323> no
[19:04] <waldo323> double checking
[19:06] <jrwren> but... pub date 2009. that doesn't make sense.
[19:07] <waldo323> it is one of his earlier works, it happens before word of radiance
[19:08] <jrwren> it was published before the way of kinds.
[19:08] <jrwren> *kings*
[19:08] <jrwren> but maybe he write it while writing the way of kings.
[19:08] <waldo323> i couldn't say read before words of radiance since you're rereading it
[19:08] <jrwren> interesting.
[19:08] <jrwren> ha! i see.
[19:08] <waldo323> i think he had an early draft back then
[19:09] <waldo323> i've heard some characters have changed a lot since the early drafts and some live who didn't then etc
[19:13] <jrwren> interesting.
[19:13] <jrwren> but, the only warbreaker I find is from 2009.
[19:13] <jrwren> i just requested it. I'll read it soon :)
[19:16] <waldo323> yes that is when it was published
[19:17] <waldo323> he typically has a long game in mind and there is always another secret
[19:20] <rick_h> yea, in the front of the third book it talks about how he's actually gotten subtle connections between his different series and such