You’re not throwing them at your enemies hard enough.
The crystals, they do nothing!
Healed for -5 HP
What about the healing powers of enjoying yourself with a hobby like collecting a bunch of minerals and just looking at them?
Surely, having a hobby can improve some people’s mental health.
That depends. Is your hobby overrun by charletans using your ignorant faith in easily disproven claims to sell false promises of a better life? Because not only is that detrimental to your mental and financial health, but it is bad for society as a whole as it erodes trust in science and knowledge itself.
People who like shiny crystals decorating their homes aren’t a problem. People who spend money they don’t have on magic because government doctors are trying to put chips in your brain are a real and existential problem.
There are a bunch of crystals that do shit, like molly and meth.
Also, less fun stuff like salt and sugar.
Fetid fluorite will sometimes give off pure fluorine, which is the exact opposite of healing, but I think it’s cool though as I normally only get to breathe the fumes of the organic solvents at my lab. I would love to have perfluorinated lungs, so I myself can become the forever chemical.
Have you tried eating any of those before posting this?
Checkmate
It’s really hard to argue with superb logic and science like this.
Hey, some of those are polestones, and are perfectly capable of storing Stormlight! Just gotta wait for the next hightstorm
Just started the second book, damn good so far!
It is brilliant but god damn he needs an editor who will stand up to him. I have stagnated on book 2 after about 5 chapters of tangential world building for some future part of the story. By the time I get there, I won’t remember those 5 chapters.
I’m around halfway through part 1 of book 2, I can’t put it down, I can’t say I agree tbh lol.
Wait for it. It’s coming. A jump into another city somewhere with no explanation and a whole bunch of new characters you haven’t been introduced to. Like a story within a story within a story. I thought my toddler must have been playing with my ebook reader and skipped me to the next book.
Speaking of, when does lemmy get cremposting?
Why’s it missing the c? Who knows!
Because the full address would be https://lemm.ee/c/remposting. So the c is already there.
Ah, but you’ll almost always see links like !memes@lemmy.ml - so it doesn’t work as well as it did on Reddit
Kelek’s breath man, when is the last time you ever heard of a highstorm outside of Roshar?
I was in Sedona, AZ, and I witnessed what I can only call a church service about crystals. Interesting place.
Great guide, could you tell me what sort of benefits I might expect from Selenite?
You get the benefit of having a rock with cool optical properties! It’s clear! It’s chatoyant! it’s like a natural fibre optic cable!
I know it doesn’t do something I just can’t remember what that something was……
No worries I got you. The something was nothing.
If it doesn’t do nothing isn’t it doing something?
I have this same problem with Pink Floyd’s view on the necessity of education.
Now now, some powerful minerals, when ground into a powder, have the ability to grant the user silicosis
“Dilute it and shake it, then dilute it again. Then shake it and dilute it again.”
Then stick em in a stew
True, but if you like looking at them and it soothes your stress, that kind of helps. Stress = inflammation after all. Plus, there’s the placebo effect, which is surprisingly effective sometimes.
I was a skeptic but a friend who worked at a crystal shop was ALWAYS around them. Even hauling them by the box then two in a matter of months. He was jacked!
/s just in case
Placebos can still be effective on a person who knows it’s a placebo.
They’re pretty good as door stomps.
Eggcorn?
@ickplant That’s completely wrong. Each rock/mineral has a hidden skill. Once acquired, you have less money.
Some crystals like torbernite and asbestos have a special skill too, called “radiation poisoning” and “lung cancer”
Money loss is a very common spell as you have very well demonstrated
Actually, that’s not true. Fluorite has a slight healing power for your teeth.
Ok, fuck, you got me. Now I have to admit that crystals do have healing power.
Also Quartz is used extensively in electronics, including medical devices that help people with healing or managing their ailments.
Florite the magic Cristal of dental hygien and quartz the magic Cristal of electricity
Crystals that exhibit piezo powers also get my stove lit.
