u/rianwithaneye

Just wondering if I'm lucky enough to find someone willing to part with a Sukenari migaki HAP40 gyuto. If you have one in a box gathering dust I'll give it a loving home!

Located in US btw.

Hello my knerds. There are a couple knives I’m looking at right now (Sukenari and Yoshimitsu Kajiya specifically) that aren’t really tall enough for me in the 240 length but the 270 looks almost perfect.

I would love to hear from anyone who’s tried a 270 and what your experience was like. Does that put the tip too far away from your grip or did you end up finding it surprisingly comfortable? Any insight is appreciated, TIA!

Just finished Stonewielder yesterday, what a conclusion! Very thrilling climax and even more tidbits of lore than I was even expecting, the last 60 pages were just splendid.

I really enjoyed this one and I’m happy to see ICE’s writing improve, this felt far less awkward and clumsy than NoK or RotCG.

However, I still find his writing at this point in the NotME rather obtuse and I frequently am left wondering what the hell just happened. When Erikson withholds information from me I feel drawn in by the mystery of it, he has a way of trickling out the relevant details and delivering plot points in a sideways manner that I mostly find titillating and engaging. 

The way ICE handles that same device, on the other hand, often feels frustratingly opaque, almost like he doesn’t have a firm enough grasp on what information I have or have not been given so far to deftly wield that same weapon of intentional obfuscation. I find myself constantly going back to look for something I missed and being unable to find it. And the sheer magnitude of loose threads that he leaves dangling I find overwhelming, so that when the relevant detail I’ve been waiting for is finally delivered I’ve forgotten that I was waiting for it. Instead of saying “aha!” I find myself saying “huh?”

As a result I was left with a lot of questions that I’m hoping my fellow Malazafans can help me answer:

1. Who are the corpses in Devaleth’s warren? Long limbs and narrow skulls make me think Tiste Andii but I have no idea as to the significance of a flooded plain full of dead Andii. 
2. The Liosan refer to the whorl as the Devourer and say he’s an ascendant. Who is that? Are they referring to Yathengar?
3. How did the stormguard manage to keep someone as powerful as Iron Bars prisoner? The Chosen are definitely badass but to my knowledge they don’t hold a candle to an Avowed. And if it’s an otataral torc then how is he able to heal from frostbite and Stormrider attacks?
4. Greymane is clearly an ascendant of some sort, do we know how/when that happened? Was it when he got the sword from the Stormriders?
5. When we see The Lady in the prologue was she already a fragment of Kaminsod or did that happen later?
6. Who’s the giant at the end of the book that Kiska and Jheval see? Does that have anything to do with the same giant that robbed the Banith treasury, or was that latter “giant” just good ol’ Manask?
7. Why did Shadowthrone care enough about what happened with the whorl and the Liosan to get involved?
8. If the main goal of the Stormriders was to defeat The Lady and return to their ancestral lands then why did they attack Malaz in NoK?

Any insight you can provide is greatly appreciated, TIA!

Pro Tools keeps analyzing the wrong tempo for my loops and not being able to audition loops at my session's tempo is really interfering with my production workflow. How can I manually adjust the tempo of a loop in the workspace?

Example: Drum loop clearly labeled at 100 bpm, session is at 90 bpm, but PT analyzes the tempo of the loop to be 135.684 bpm and auditions/stretches it incorrectly. I have already tried re-analyzing the file and it analyzes it incorrectly every time.

PT Version: 2025.12.1

OS Version: Mac OS Sequoia 15.4.1

Just got this stone in the mail yesterday and I am utterly perplexed. I've heard some people say that these need to be broken in and have the top layer of resin abraded away before they start performing as advertised (a detail that is conspicuously absent from Nano Hone's website and the Sharpening Supplies product page) but I've tried lapping it with a 400-grit ceramic stone, a 400-grit Atoma diamond plate, and a 140-grit Atoma diamond plate and it's still completely smooth and refuses to cut simple carbon steel.

Am I doing something wrong or do these things just suck?