Live From FanX! Alternate Dimensions-Ep. 26 of Intentionally Blank
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- čas přidán 30. 11. 2021
- Brandon and Dan discuss alternate dimensions and other branching points in their lives and careers. Filmed in front of a live audience at the 2021 FanX convention in Salt Lake City.
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Produced by Adam Horne
Sound engineering and editing by Daniel Thompson - Zábava
Alternate dimension Brandon: Coding more lines in a day than anyone else does in a year. So, pretty much same as what we have now, but instead of the Stormlight Archive, we have a super computer AI ruling over us.
It would take centuries to code this AI. Millions of lines of code.
Coding Brandon: Gimme a month.
I like how they have swapped name tags, also I was really really thinking the other colon.
I was thinking the same thing lol
I think it's part of the joke.
Just wait until they drop the episodes they recorded at the Dragonsteel minicon...
the pain and delight of Dan as he laughs after "It's really good... I want you to read it some time." just *chef's kiss*
Fun fact: To this day, Brandon's screen saver still reads "Brandon is awesome."
I want to see into the alternate reality where Brandon released the Cosmere as a series of metal albums
Or a saga of quadruple album rock operas
The Hero of Ages does sound like a epic power metal concept album
Seeing you guys attempt an outro but only to keep talking while the screen goes black for several seconds = A+ comedy
The amount of fun they have recording these is what makes it enjoyable to watch. Please do keep on with the jokes that are "only" funny to you.
This is years old and I know no one will read this comment, but Sanderson talking about writing a detective story as his final English essay and Wells talking about his overlong Persuasion paper sparked a very fond memory for me. When I want back to university as an adult, I took a medieval history course. We had four papers, one on a specific topic and three on anything we wanted and in any format we wanted so long as it talked about issues we covered or were in the book about each of the three commonly accepted medieval periods. Some people submitted poems. Some people submitted standard essays. I submitted ~60 page drafts of stage plays. The first time we were in class after submitting the first of them, she said, "I haven't finished grading everyone's papers yet, that should be done by Monday." Not kidding, this look of stress fell on her and she turned to me, "Walt, yours..." And I'm just like, "I'm sorry!" And she says, "It's fine. It'll just take me a while to read it." This poor woman was a graduate student working on her doctorate as she taught the class, and I gave her three of these throughout the year. I am so sorry. On top of that, they were mostly terrible.
Brandon and Dan should share their 2021 Spotify Podcaster Wrapped! Would be cool to see how big of a community they've grown over the past year.
Oh man, Triangle Money is such a good phrase and would also make a great podcast title
Woah, Dan Wells was the one who wrote the unpublished Theros Beyond Death story? I would have really liked to read that story, since the hints of the story seem quite interesting, and Elspeth is pretty cool.
I don’t know if they meant for the double entendre that I found in the phrase “The Egregious Colon” but MAN OH MAN is that good
Brandon Sanderson just unlocked a memory. I was in college, taking a political science course in which we were to write a term paper comparing and contrasting the political philosophies of Locke, Hobbes, Rosseau, and Marx. I chose to write it as a story somewhat inspired by the old Rod Serling Twilight Zone (somehow, these four men and I showed up at this cottage to have a meal and dinner conversation). I barely managed to contain within the required max page length (go beyond, your extra pages will not be read). There may have been some margin manipulation involved.
Well, I get into class on the day it's due, and I see classmates have their papers with all these neatly sectioned off with section headers. I started to panic, but it was too late to go back now. Then the papers are returned with grades, and as the prof is handing them back, he is talking about how horrible most of the papers were, and that most people failed. I grew more and more nervous.
It turned out, I blew the curve. I was the only one in the class (of over 100) who got an A. I don't know if it was the fact that the paper was written so differently and entertained the prof or if it was that the presentation showed the comparisons/contrasts better than simply presenting dueling quotes of text.
I wait for the outro every time and still think it is hilarious
I wait for that outro every time and still think it's mildly offensive.
At first, I was slightly disappointed. And then I realized that it may be the best possible outro.
I wonder if Brandon knows that the nether in minecraft was influenced by the ways.
Whered you get that from?
*I want that Elspeth book so badly*
Roshar as a D&D Setting is such a cool idea.
I think Brandon is kind of wrong here in thinking it wouldn't have been picked up. Sure Roshar is vary different from all the other settings, but at the time so was Eberron. They were looking for new and different when they made the contest. So it's possible that it would have been picked up by Wizards.
@@TheLordofMetroids I don't know, the setting doesn't lend itself to the rules system. Vancian Magic would be really weird on Roshar
Totally thought you meant aggregious colon as in anatomy at first 🤣
As a Biochemist, I would never even have guessed this would have given me a better chance at scholarships.
I thought I had just imagined 'Run, Lola, Run!' Thank you dan for that reference!
I could hang with Dan the Egregious Colon. I was Sue, the Queen of the Run On Sentence in my college days.
Are you still? Or are my struggles due to inheritting your office and title?
Yes! Always & forever! A sentence & a paragraph were the same thing in all of my business letters so I did carry the title into my career.
In an alternate dimension, the Mistborn video game pitch I got to work on would've been picked up by our publisher :/ Either way, it got me into Brandon's work, so c'est la vie. (I also got to read a Mistborn story by Brandon most people haven't :P)
Podcast name: Branching Points
Some of my favourite fiction that I've read over the past few years has come out of that WotC ad budget fiction. The _Brimstone Angels_ series, by Erin M Evans, started as part of the more traditional D&D Forgotten Realms novel line, but book 3 of the 6 book series was part of their _"The Sundering"_ series (other books in _The Sundering_ included ones starring Drizzt and Elminster, the two main headline characters), which came out as a tie-in to advertise the release of 5th edition D&D. And that series has has become among my favourite fantasy series of all time.
Only small correction is that Brandon seems to have the timeline a bit wrong. This all happened way back in like 2013. Three or four years ago WotC actually *cancelled* their entire novel line-up, going _back_ to that "Drizzt and Elminster only" mode, from which they still have not recovered. In fact, with the exception of the last two Brimstone Angels novels, there hasn't been a single Forgotten Realms novel released since 2015 that wasn't by R.A. Salvatore or Ed Greenwood.
*Eureka!*
Dan's rap/nickname is Hell's Wells. Fight me!
WotC doesn't do novel publishing in house anymore, they let Penguin-Random House do everything and pay Hasbro a license sing fee.
“I don’t have any Fortnite regrets” -Brandon Sanderson
I didn't notice this in the previous episode, but someone is sure to be confused by these two videos what with their paper nameplates being in front of each other rather than in front of themselves.
Ghost Station is good. But I think some of the story would benefit from a print format. Hope it gets more attention for you soon Dan!
its the swapped seats for me 😂
B Roll and Dan The Man!! 😂
That’s why there was no Theros Beyond Death story?! Oh man, I wanna read it!!
I read a Magic the Gathering book in the 90s. It convinced me to never read another one. The idea that they could be writing them instead seems like a waste of talent. But a Sanderson D&D setting, now, that's got potential.
“I’m already dead like 15 years ago”
W H O A
The only good thing my 8th grade English teacher did for me was to have us read the short story Ender's Game.
Computers were so new when I was in High School that I thought I was taking a programming course when I took Word Star.
It was such a pain to be forced to read something in school, even if the books were 1/5th the length of what I was reading in my free time. Why does it have to be like that?
Good question! I remember my high school days ... we'd spend six weeks reading and dissecting a novel (some of the ones I remember--Ivanhoe, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Count of Monte Cristo). My freshman year, my English teacher also taught French and I felt like she was picking these books to show off the pronunciation of the French names (which, being in the midwestern US was kind of hard). Analysis was exhaustive and exhausting ... and totally missed the point. Fortunately, I'd taught myself to speed read and knew how things were going to go down when we were handed out The Count of Monte Cristo the Friday before we were supposed to start ... I read the whole thing in the weekend before we started. If I had had to rely on what I learned in class, I would not know that revenge had anything to do with the story.
I really want to read dan's magic story. Us who enjoy the lore were really shocked when theros had NOTHING story wise. We were all wondering what happened cause the storyline had been awesome leading up to tht
The perfect "what if" was Picard's.
I still say my title is the best (or, perhaps the worst) one ever conceived:
"Hijinks Ensue"
B~Roll AKA Sand Dollaz AKA Beezy Sleezy & :D:Wells: AKA :Hell's: :Wells: AKA D~Dubz do a podcast... and Hijinks Ensue!
Second? I literally just finished last episode 10 seconds ago
I feel so validated that Dan and Brandon also hated Ethan Frome.
Hi everyone!
If Brandon had any of my teachers...
Your highschool science classes were fun? We got to watch the teacher do one experiment on day two then do math for the rest of the term. Damn.
Triangle money!
Adoooonalsiiiiium
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Oh God Ethan Frome was the book I hated most in High School.
I sorta want to know why he said rancid underbelly.
It's a couple steps up from "seedy"
lol
But I love Ethan Frome…. 😬
😂
I will say I remember the first of your lectures I saw had you with a dark hat. It didn't really fit you very well, Mr. Sanderson.
That Jordan cosplaying was painful to watch, indeed.
He was trying to find his "visual" cue- and failed, ultimately never fixed on one. (GRR/Gwynne/etc beards, Jordan's hat, and so on)
@@ChristmasLore I actually like his style now. The writing jacket + t-shirt fits him well.
Guys, you need new stories.
Each panel, it's stories we've already heard time and time again...
Dawnshard was trash. The author took the least inspiring of all the Stormlight cast and made whole novella out of a Diversity and Inclusion lesson. Unfortunately, I think it's the last book in the series I will read. Sad since the first 2 books are in my all-time top 10. Get woke, go broke.
lol