These Words are Accepted.
To be clear, I think the comment about Gawyn/Galad resembling each other was me misremembering a sentence about their clothes, and maybe also some Elayne/Gawyn prose.
And I enabled video for the first time since placing my bookshelf in view of my webcam, with The Wheel of Time consuming the top shelf.
One of my coworkers, who's read 2-4 books, immediately asks if I've seen that Amazon show and launches into a rant about how he watched the first episode or so and kept thinking "I don't remember any of this!"
Though in fairness another coworker who hasn't read any of the books did chime in and say he kind of liked it. [edit: Forgot to mention he gave up in season 2.] A third coworker who has read all (or nearly all) the books hasn't seen the show, but reacted very negatively to learning that Perrin had a wife he killed and such.
Then the first coworker resumes talking to mention he also tried Rings of Power (admittedly after his son told him it was terrible) and he "pulled the plug" ten minutes in.
So together with coworkers from my last job, IRL friends, and IRL friends of friends, I think the total stands at:
| Has read (some of) the books | Has not read the books | |
|---|---|---|
| Likes the Show | 0 | 2* |
| Hates the show | 5 | 1 |
| Won't watch | 2 | N/A |
| Hasn't given an opinion | 3 | 0 |
*One gave up early in season 2. I don't know if the other one has even watched S2; she mostly just mentions the show to poke at me: "There's this show called WOT that's like LOTR with women."
Excuse me while I seize this sweet, sweet catharsis and channel it into motivation to actually read all of the Big White Book and the Companion. And I guess *Ravens* for completeness.
The following won't mean anything to y'all. It's just notes to myself so I know who the chart's about:
- Hates/read: NA-RS?, C-JR, F-JJ, F-BT, F-SC
- WW/read: C-JG, F-AF
- NO/read: F-C1, F-C2, NOTK-?
- Likes/!read: C-SM, F-JS
- Hates/!read: NA-KP
https://lemmy.world/post/11153567
A massive, loyal-to-the-messiah dessert warrior culture (of which said messiah’s mother became an adopted member), a secretive order of women mystics pulling the strings on human civilization, weapons inspired by the Javanese kris (which is something Origins did mention), a heavy focus on political intrigue and machinations, a strong focus on a near-instantaneous method of traveling, the messiah sojourns in the dessert almost immediately after becoming a ruler and recruits the dessert people. Even if it somehow wasn't a contributing inspiration to WoT, Dune is so influential and iconic, you'd think Livingston would have mentioned it even if only to say "nah, it's just coincidence."
I think a mix of primarily Blue and Grey with some Greens, Whites, and Browns.
At a very high level, yes.
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That Livingston never mentioned Dune when explaining real-world Origins of the Wheel of Time is a flaming travesty.
(lemmy.world)
A massive, loyal-to-the-messiah dessert warrior culture (of which said messiah’s mother became an adopted member), a secretive order of women mystics pulling the strings on human civilization, weapons inspired by the Javanese kris, a heavy focus on political intrigue and machinations, a strong focus on a near-instantaneous method of traveling, and so on and so forth.
I’m astounded that the book Origins of the Wheel of Time completely failed to mention Dune when listing out all the inspirational works and events for Robert Jordan’s magnum opus.
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That Livingston never mentioned Dune when explaining real-world Origins of the Wheel of Time is a flaming travesty.
(lemmy.world)
A massive, loyal-to-the-messiah dessert warrior culture (of which said messiah’s mother became an adopted member), a secretive order of women mystics pulling the strings on human civilization, weapons inspired by the Javanese kris, a heavy focus on political intrigue and machinations, a strong focus on a near-instantaneous method of traveling, and so on and so forth.
I’m astounded that the book Origins of the Wheel of Time completely failed to mention Dune when listing out all the inspirational works and events for Robert Jordan’s magnum opus.
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But only slightly less well known is this: Never dice against me when coin is on the line!
(self.wheeloftime)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11138902
Informal definitions that aren't very useful when discussing effects and implications of the technical details.
Is my post not in that community?
If the meme is correct that people are rebuilt at the molecular level, then cell damage would be preserved across iterations.
That said, if you have sufficient resolution and detail to rebuild someone at the molecular level, I see no theoretical limitation that would prevent actively using modified transporters to heal damage, etc.
That said, I subscribe to the philosophy that your subjective experience / perspective / consciousness ends the moment you're first disassembled by a transporter and never resumes (i.e. transporters are actually duplicators). So it's not the fountain of youth in any meaningful sense if transporting is modified to repair damage.
That said, I see no reason why a heavily modified transporter couldn't be used to Ship of Theseus your whole self cell by cell, thereby completely rejuvenating yourcellf without the pesky cessation of consciousness / death. So, yes, it could be the fountain of youth.
"cell damage" is just part of the details you get when you retain enough pattern detail to include peoples recent memories.
This is (unknowingly) implicit in OP's description of transporters as rebuilding someone at the molecular (as opposed to cellular) level.
It's not cloning though. Cloning creates a person with an identical genetic blueprint.
Rebuilding someone at the molecular level will create a person entirely identical, including cellular damage, scars, etc.
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For reference: https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/Similarities_to_Sword_of_Truth