Chaos

Sorry for the delay! Breakfast is my least favorite meal of the day and I typically eat a bagel for breakfast, but this has a lot of problems. I need something a bit bigger, but it's way too much effort to actually cook something in the morning This is quite late, but you don't need differential equations in this at all. It's a proven result from the power series for sine, cosine, and e^x (it can be shown that exponents work for complex numbers, but you probably wouldn't do that until complex analysis). It is quite a surprising fact, but perhaps not that surprising, considering sine, cosine, and e^x all have power series with infinite radii of convergence. Also perhaps not surprising considering the powers of i go in a pattern of 4's: i^0 = 1 i^1 = i i^2 = -1 (by definition) i^3 = -i i^4 = -(i^2) = -(-1) = 1 What else does the same thing? Well, take four derivatives of sine or cosine, and you get right back to the same spot! Many things in the complex plane don't quite work the way you might expect. In particular, if you have a function that is differentiable everywhere on the complex plane, there are only two situations: 1. It is a constant, or 2. It blows up to infinity when you get far from the origin. Isn't that strange? There are no differentiable functions that are bounded like sine and cosine are, oscillating between 1 and -1. That cannot happen. Complex valued sine and cosine do blow up to infinity as you go along the imaginary axis. But yes, it's a weird one. In some sense, you just have to look at the proof and if you can't find an issue with it, we roll with it. And we do! We express complex numbers in polar this way and it can be very useful. In fact, you can prove a lot of trig identities by going into the complex plane through it. Not a worry at all. Dense stuff. I'll trust experts on that. It's kind of unintelligible to me unless I spent a lot of time trying to parse it. In general, ontological proofs of God always seem like they are trying to define God into existence. Cool, but that's not exactly persuasive when in my opinion--and many other atheists--the universe is remarkably silent about the existence of God, and how the universe and Earth came to be certainly seems to discredit the idea of an all-good and all-powerful God. Theism has a lot of work cut out for it, and I've been looking at apologists, and the answers look... extremely weak. This is the best world that could be, and it required millions and millions of years of animals to suffer and die to make the process of evolution work? It sure looks like a very directionless process that seems more in line with no one in the driver's seat to me. Of course, there are many, many theistic evolutionists around, but if you have no horse in the race on whether or not God exists, I'd certainly say the universe seems much more in line with the hypothesis that there is not.

Ah, I see. If anyone knows where the other two are--what that other person claimed--we'd certainly love to know. I personally do not know.

I don't understand your question. What do you mean "come out"? What are you trying to buy?

I feel like Azir is a great example of appropriate usage of information. I do agree in some sense that yes, there should be a "Main article: Makabakam" and we should do our best to not repeat information on both pages. But Silver Kingdom information is limited. This is tricky. I'm sure there could be some sentences, theoretically, in some of these articles that should be on the appropriate Silver Kingdom page. Maybe some Makabakam stuff should be here, and we could discuss particulars. However, I do think there's a balance here. I think these modern nation pages should be pretty thorough, and so there should be some reference to what happened before, but keep it brief if there is another article that the information could be more appropriate for. So I'd be opposed unilaterally removing all of this from, say, Azir or Alethkar. It's kind of like the difference between Hallandren and Hanald pages, which look to me to be pretty appropriate. Most people will search Hallandren, and so you want some info on Hanald/Manywar stuff on Hallandren's page, but you want the details to be on Hanald. Taking a quick look at Alethkar, I feel like there is probably a way to compactify/summarize the Alethela stuff on that page and have the majority of that be on the Alethela page. The Alethela page is... much worse than that section on the Alethkar page. There might be others in this category, and so we could talk about specifics, sure.

Huh. That's exceedingly strange... EDIT: If anyone else sees this, go try and PM me and see if you get that message "@Chaos cannot receive messages" there, and post back to see.

It is possible they have disabled PMs. Please message me with who you are trying to contact and I'll look into it.

Please make sure to take Stormlight 5 content in topic titles!

Argenti is not 100% correct; there was an old achievement system (which that old post was mentioning), but this new Badges thing is a system we could use with this new version, that is built into the site and isn't an add-on. There is a robust system to do this, we just haven't yet. Not sure when we would.

Yes, the emails you would have gotten in the interim are lost to the aether.

For category names, I would probably go with Canticlite, and not have it be a subcategory of Threnodite. I am sure there are going to be all sorts of weirdness of groups going to different places that could get messy quickly. That seems like it's better to have the Threnodite connection listed in article text.

This was intentional initially. Maybe there's enough detail to put in, now, but I'm not convinced. It is perhaps because of my desire to not copy real life topics. It would be a pretty tricky article to write if we did choose to want it. I feel like at least some of the differences that are listed in this topic are not special to humans, and so are maybe more appropriate on Investiture / Realmatic Theory pages. So anyway, this wasn't an oversight, it was intentional as we didn't really want to make one. We could reconsider.

Same. We will work to resolve this. EDIT: The mail server is back up, so hoooopefully this is fixed now?

This has been implemented.