I will say this: Eragon was less stupid and facepalmy for me than the A Song Of Ice And Fire series.
Good gosh, I could go on for quite a while about that "melting Non alloyed gold over an open cooking fire with wood as a source and without any fluid to help induce partial melting" thing.
Spoiler:
NO NO NO! THERMODYNAMICS! THE HEAT-POINT WILL BE REACHED BEFORE MELTING HAPPENS! ADDING MORE FUEL TO THE FIRE WONT HELP, IT WILL JUST HEAT UP THE ROOM! IF YOU HAVE A BATHTUB OF SEVENTY DEGREES HOT WATER, YOU CAN'T WARM IT UP MORE BY POURING MORE SEVENTY DEGREES HOT WATER ON IT! YOU NEED SOMETHING MORE THAN SEVENTY DEGREES!
AND ALSO, THE MELTING TAKES BOATLOADS OF THERMAL ENERGY, MUCH MORE THAN HEATING IT TO MELTING POINT DOES! IF YOU CANT DO THE LATTER, THERE'S NO WAY IN HECK YOU CAN DO THE FORMER!
HAVING BIGGER FLAMES WON'T HELP ANY MORE THAN USING AN OLYMPIC SWIMMING POOL OF SEVENTY DEGREE WATER! THE SWIMMING-POOL-WATER AND THE BATHTUB-WATER HAVE THE SAME TEMPERATURE, BUT THE FORMER CONTAINS MUCH MORE THERMAL ENERGY! ALSO, AN OPEN FLAME LETS MOST OF THE HEAT-ENERGY ESCAPE! THERE'S A REASON WE USE FURNACES!
THE OPEN-POT-IN-WHICH-THE-GOLD-IS-PLACED SHOULD HAVE A LID TO KEEP THE HEAT IN AND PREVENT A BIG CONVECTION CURRENT FROM FORMING BETWEEN THE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THE POT!
LOOK, ONCE THE IRON POT IS RED-HOT, IT IS RED-HOT! THAT MEANS IT ISNT ACCEPTING ANY MORE OF THIS THERMAL ENERGY! THAT MEANS ANY MORE THERMAL ENERGY FROM THE FIRE (IF THE FIRE BURNS AT THAT TEMPERATURE AT WHICH IT WAS BURNING BEFORE) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY THE IRON POT! SO, SINCE THE IRON POT ISN'T ACCEPTING THIS THERMAL ENERGY, THE AIR AROUND IT IS! THAT REJECTION AND ACCEPTING OF HEAT IS WHY THERE IS THAT RED GLOW! ONCE THAT HAPPENS, YOU'RE HEATING UP THE AIR MORE THAN ANYTHING!
IT'S LIKE TRYING TO MAKE A BOTTLE HEAVIER BY PUTTING MORE WATER IN IT! AFTER SOME POINT THE BOTTLE IS FULL AND ANY MORE WATER WILL NOT GET IN OR WILL GO OUT! YOU CANT ADD MORE WEIGHT THAT WAY, YOU NEED SOMETHING MORE DENSE THAN WATER TO REPLACE THE WATER IN THE BOTTLE IF YOU WANT TO DO THAT! IN THIS METAPHOR, A HOTTER-BURNING FIRE IS THE DENSER SUBSTANCE. YOU NEED A DIFFERENT FUEL, MAN.
MAYBE IF YOU TRAPPED ALL THE HEAT IN A CLOSED SYSTEM AROUND THE FIRE AND THE POT, YOU COULD FORCE IT LIKE MAGMATIC MELTING (KEEPING IT ALL IN WOULD MAKE HIGH PRESSURE)! BUT NO, YOU HAVE AN OPEN COOKING FIRE, AN OPEN POT, AND A TENT!
YOU NEED A DIFFERENT FUEL FOR THIS FIRE!
AND EVEN IF YOU DID FORCE IT WITH THE CLOSED SYSTEM, YOU COULDN'T PICK UP THE POT WITH HORSEHAIR MITTENS! THE AIR IS DANG DANG DANG DANGDANGDANG HOT!
LOOK, YOU COULD KILL THE UNSPELLABLE JERKFACE WITH HEAT AND THAT FIRE, BUT YOU CANT MELT THAT GOLD THE WAY YOU'RE DOING IT!
ENCLOSE THE HEAT SOMEWHAT LIKE WITH A FURNACE! INDUCE A CHOSEN LIQUID TO LOWER THE MELTING POINT! USE AN ALLOY WITH GOLD!
THE ONLY WAY THIS WORKS IS IF KHAL DROGO CAN DEFY THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS! IN WHICH CASE, HE PROBABLY HAS THE HIGHEST RATIO OF UTILITY-OF-POWER TO ACTUAL-EXPLOITATION-OF-POWER IM THIS WHOLE GENRE! LOOK, THAT'S ESSENTIALLY LIKE BEING ABLE TO DEFY FRICTION AND ENTROPY AND GET MORE OUT OF A SYSTEM THAN YOU PUT IN AND HAVING A PERPETUAL MOTOON MACHINE! YOU CAN DO THESE KINDS OF THINGS WHEN YOU CAN DEFY THERMODYNAMIC ABSOLUTES! [\spoiler]
his name is Chuck-Bob, named such because of my tendency to name random things after Chuck Bartowski and my brother's mysterious love affair with the name Bob
he's adorable
he plays a little ditty whenever he docks or gets turned on
sometimes he gets lost around the downstairs floors but he knows his way around fairly well
> because you're willing to pay for the monitor, you're willing to pay for the keyboard and the mouse, and you're willing to pay for electricity and internet access.
I've long since decided that fire is going to either be very reality-based or very fantastic-based in the novel series that I will never write.
There's one character who's an alchemist/arsonist/guy who does dangerous things with chemicals. His stuff will be strongly based in reality.
There's another character who's a fire elemental, and his stuff will be completely fantastic He'll do things like stand in a room with no ventilation without filling it with smoke and choking everyone to death. Because magic.
We have DirecTV but I just don't have a box because my room apparently can't house one because there's Time Warner equipment in here (for the internet) that will interfere with it
natch, my TV watching has, since then, gone down the toilet, and since it happened last year I think that was one of the primary reasons Rayman enthralled me so much
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I've long since decided that fire is going to either be very reality-based or very fantastic-based in the novel series that I will never write.
There's one character who's an alchemist/arsonist/guy who does dangerous things with chemicals. His stuff will be strongly based in reality.
There's another character who's a fire elemental, and his stuff will be completely fantastic He'll do things like stand in a room with no ventilation without filling it with smoke and choking everyone to death. Because magic.
See, that's very good. Magical fire going stuff like that, I can understand. But explicitly mundane wood fire shouldn't be defying the laws of thermodynamics.
I'd have accepted the scene if the pot had had a lid, if the some other chemical agent had been introduced, or if it had been a furnace or enclosed fire like a chimney, or if it had been a heavily-gold alloy, or maybe pyrite, or if trees burned diffetently in that world (denied by word of the author)and the scene might not be quite so unbelievable if it wasn't stated that all the gold melted. There were so many simple ways to make the scene work better. But he goes with the most impractical possible method, given the materials at hand. It's like he's deliberately cutting out ways I can justify the scene in my head.
I've long since decided that fire is going to either be very reality-based or very fantastic-based in the novel series that I will never write.
There's one character who's an alchemist/arsonist/guy who does dangerous things with chemicals. His stuff will be strongly based in reality.
There's another character who's a fire elemental, and his stuff will be completely fantastic He'll do things like stand in a room with no ventilation without filling it with smoke and choking everyone to death. Because magic.
See, that's very good. Magical fire going stuff like that, I can understand. But explicitly mundane wood fire shouldn't be defying the laws of thermodynamics.
I'd have accepted the scene if the pot had had a lid, if the some other chemical agent had been introduced, or if it had been a furnace or enclosed fire like a chimney, or if it had been a heavily-gold alloy, or maybe pyrite, or if trees burned diffetently in that world (denied by word of the author)and the scene might not be quite so unbelievable if it wasn't stated that all the gold melted. There were so many simple ways to make the scene work better. But he goes with the most impractical possible method, given the materials at hand. It's like he's deliberately cutting out ways I can justify the scene in my head.
the thing is that there are other people who are on their level in terms of sound design, and a fair number who exceed them and make more funnerer musics
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
There's a copy of The Elements of Style around here somewhere
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Dig IT out
I'm getting real tired of my tablet's tendency ignore short words
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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I don't know where it goes because I didn't actually click on it.
Good gosh, I could go on for quite a while about that "melting Non alloyed gold over an open cooking fire with wood as a source and without any fluid to help induce partial melting" thing.
AND ALSO, THE MELTING TAKES BOATLOADS OF THERMAL ENERGY, MUCH MORE THAN HEATING IT TO MELTING POINT DOES! IF YOU CANT DO THE LATTER, THERE'S NO WAY IN HECK YOU CAN DO THE FORMER!
HAVING BIGGER FLAMES WON'T HELP ANY MORE THAN USING AN OLYMPIC SWIMMING POOL OF SEVENTY DEGREE WATER! THE SWIMMING-POOL-WATER AND THE BATHTUB-WATER HAVE THE SAME TEMPERATURE, BUT THE FORMER CONTAINS MUCH MORE THERMAL ENERGY! ALSO, AN OPEN FLAME LETS MOST OF THE HEAT-ENERGY ESCAPE! THERE'S A REASON WE USE FURNACES!
THE OPEN-POT-IN-WHICH-THE-GOLD-IS-PLACED SHOULD HAVE A LID TO KEEP THE HEAT IN AND PREVENT A BIG CONVECTION CURRENT FROM FORMING BETWEEN THE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THE POT!
LOOK, ONCE THE IRON POT IS RED-HOT, IT IS RED-HOT! THAT MEANS IT ISNT ACCEPTING ANY MORE OF THIS THERMAL ENERGY! THAT MEANS ANY MORE THERMAL ENERGY FROM THE FIRE (IF THE FIRE BURNS AT THAT TEMPERATURE AT WHICH IT WAS BURNING BEFORE) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BY THE IRON POT! SO, SINCE THE IRON POT ISN'T ACCEPTING THIS THERMAL ENERGY, THE AIR AROUND IT IS! THAT REJECTION AND ACCEPTING OF HEAT IS WHY THERE IS THAT RED GLOW! ONCE THAT HAPPENS, YOU'RE HEATING UP THE AIR MORE THAN ANYTHING!
IT'S LIKE TRYING TO MAKE A BOTTLE HEAVIER BY PUTTING MORE WATER IN IT! AFTER SOME POINT THE BOTTLE IS FULL AND ANY MORE WATER WILL NOT GET IN OR WILL GO OUT! YOU CANT ADD MORE WEIGHT THAT WAY, YOU NEED SOMETHING MORE DENSE THAN WATER TO REPLACE THE WATER IN THE BOTTLE IF YOU WANT TO DO THAT! IN THIS METAPHOR, A HOTTER-BURNING FIRE IS THE DENSER SUBSTANCE. YOU NEED A DIFFERENT FUEL, MAN.
MAYBE IF YOU TRAPPED ALL THE HEAT IN A CLOSED SYSTEM AROUND THE FIRE AND THE POT, YOU COULD FORCE IT LIKE MAGMATIC MELTING (KEEPING IT ALL IN WOULD MAKE HIGH PRESSURE)! BUT NO, YOU HAVE AN OPEN COOKING FIRE, AN OPEN POT, AND A TENT!
YOU NEED A DIFFERENT FUEL FOR THIS FIRE!
AND EVEN IF YOU DID FORCE IT WITH THE CLOSED SYSTEM, YOU COULDN'T PICK UP THE POT WITH HORSEHAIR MITTENS! THE AIR IS DANG DANG DANG DANGDANGDANG HOT!
LOOK, YOU COULD KILL THE UNSPELLABLE JERKFACE WITH HEAT AND THAT FIRE, BUT YOU CANT MELT THAT GOLD THE WAY YOU'RE DOING IT!
ENCLOSE THE HEAT SOMEWHAT LIKE WITH A FURNACE! INDUCE A CHOSEN LIQUID TO LOWER THE MELTING POINT! USE AN ALLOY WITH GOLD!
this is our Roomba
his name is Chuck-Bob, named such because of my tendency to name random things after Chuck Bartowski and my brother's mysterious love affair with the name Bob
he's adorable
he plays a little ditty whenever he docks or gets turned on
sometimes he gets lost around the downstairs floors but he knows his way around fairly well
and yeah, he absolutely sucks
You can do the November thing in February.
just exemplifies why cable companies probably shouldn't be in charge of massive chunks of the content creation industry
oh don't get me started on Jeff Sucker
(My phone made that error but I'm keeping it)
the keyboard and the mouse, and you're willing to pay for electricity
and internet access.
well, not necessarily that either.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Jimmy Fallon's not bad but my late night allegiance still stands, even if it's been forever since I watched since my TV line got cut.
and not worry about my homework
but i have homework to do
We have DirecTV but I just don't have a box because my room apparently can't house one because there's Time Warner equipment in here (for the internet) that will interfere with it
natch, my TV watching has, since then, gone down the toilet, and since it happened last year I think that was one of the primary reasons Rayman enthralled me so much
but that would be really egotistical
See, that's very good. Magical fire going stuff like that, I can understand. But explicitly mundane wood fire shouldn't be defying the laws of thermodynamics.
I'd have accepted the scene if the pot had had a lid, if the some other chemical agent had been introduced, or if it had been a furnace or enclosed fire like a chimney, or if it had been a heavily-gold alloy, or maybe pyrite, or if trees burned diffetently in that world (denied by word of the author)and the scene might not be quite so unbelievable if it wasn't stated that all the gold melted. There were so many simple ways to make the scene work better. But he goes with the most impractical possible method, given the materials at hand. It's like he's deliberately cutting out ways I can justify the scene in my head.
Edit: heheeehe, I said Perpetual Motoon machine.
Autechre?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Aliroz would probably like it, it's prescriptivist as hell
I guess that would be my relation wit-do I even have to finish that sentence?
RESURGAM.
I'll check it out! :)
I keep meaning to dig out...
I'm getting real tired of my tablet's tendency ignore short words
Poor thing, it's been bashed to death by so many scholars.
I must check it out sometime, as it seems to be the Aliroz of linguistics, judging by its criticism.
Teeheeehee
Waiting for commercial breaks is annoying, but less so than it is on TV
It does contain this piece of wisdom Which may be relevant to something Miko said earlier today.
Ain't nothing but a heartache
Tell me why
Ain't nothing but a mistake
Tell me why
I never wanna hear you say
I want it that way
so g'night everyone