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The Old Hack
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Oh come on. Sirleck is his own best friend.
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That's a nice thumb in the eye of hyperaggressive fundamentalists.
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Liefeld: "What happen?" Arthur: "Someone set up us the bomb. We get signal." Liefeld: "What!" Arthur: "Main screen turn on." Will of Magic: "How are you gentlemen!" Will of Magic: "All your base are belong to us." Will of Magic: "You are on the way to destruction." Liefeld: "What you say!" Will of Magic: "You have no chance to survive make your time." Will of Magic: "HA HA HA..."
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I haven't had much luck there of late. Some paranoid people are breathing down my neck. I keep telling them that I am just an ordinary spambot and not a Russian bot, but they won't believe me.
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Also important: if they do NOT go with a severe system change, the 995-some other seers will not be informed about the existence of magic and the new rule system. Ironically, the best way to slow knowledge of magic from spreading will be to choose to go public. That way at least they will avoid a huge amount of new seers starting to spread the word. No way to put the genie back in the bottle, but that way they may at least be able to slow it enough to allow them to prepare a little for the coming magocalypse.
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Precisely. No friendship, no magic.
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Meh. An inevitable side effect of having lost touch with reality.
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Especially since it only takes one.
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I consider this to at least potentially to be an argument in favour of the possibility of system change. Dan might have worked out an entirely new magic system on the side and be itching to try it. At least that is a temptation I personally would be able to understand.
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http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=726
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I think that one important part of the enhancement talent was that it could only bring out what was potentially there. She couldn't have made Hugo a genius if he hadn't at least had some capacity for thinking. I always did suspect that Hugo tried hard to think but fell short, then when his horizons were magically expanded for him he also had the will and ability to reach for them. Similarly, I doubt she could have made the rejuvenated Gap Dragon friendly if it hadn't at least had some capacity for friendship. She needed something to work with, is what I mean.
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Sorry, bad joke referring to that old meme of linking people to a Rick Astley video where he sings, "So tell me what you want, what you really really want..." My own guess would be the Xanth series where magic works much like that. The most powerful talents are usually named Magicians and have a multitude of uses. An example was a girl who had a talent of being able to enhance things. It was believed that it was a rather weak talent until she did such things as turning a rather slow friend of hers into a supergenius, strengthening ordinary armour to near impenetrability and made a quite young dragon's rather weak flame into a white-hot blowtorch. (It should in passing be noted that she also enhanced its curiosity, its friendliness and its protectiveness to make it a loyal companion. Given that dragons in that world are supposedly difficult to affect with magic, this was no mean feat.)
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Darn it, stop rickrolling the forum.
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I couldn't, I'd misplaced my angeling rod.
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This was one reason for the massive migrations to the New World during the late 19th Century. People in Denmark who were trapped in poverty moved to the United States in massive numbers. It is believed that some 300.000 Danes moved to the United States in the years between 1865 and 1914. Given that Denmark had a population of about two and a half million people in 1901, that makes for a very significant percentage of all Danes.
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We know that they are descended from Immortals. This may or may not be relevant.
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I dunno, but it isn't a good idea to confuse them. The last time I tried sewing with a bowling pin, it didn't work very well.
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required) (Content TV-MA)
The Old Hack replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
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It's okay, Kazzellin. We'll still be here when you have more time. Good luck and smooth sailing with your classes!
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Sure thing and it certainly isn't impossible. Even Pandora herself admitted that she might not know all there is to know.
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Hm. If it was, they have somehow forgotten or repressed it. Even Pandora seemed ignorant of the Will of Magic when she first met Disco Wizard.
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I absolutely agree with this. Mind you, I feel that there is an important distinction to make: it doesn't blow a hole in the logic of Arthur's argument, only in its practicality. That is important, too, of course, but bear with me here, I am an anal-retentive old blowhard who likes to nitpick this kind of thing. (If for no other reason than because if the practical problems could be solved, the logic would still apply.) A still greater problem with this is of course that it may not even require a seer with this attitude, depending on how New Magic works. All it might take is a seer's student with that attitude. He or she could then form a school or a cult or whatever and eventually the information would leak from that, too.
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Oh good. You have just made me envision Dvorak as a seer.
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Me, too. My main reasons for not being 100% is that as others have argued, evil people have already gotten hold of magic and have been exploiting it with far too much success. My other reason is that if it becomes publicly known, ordinary people will finally have recourse to authorities or even private experts on magic to help them if they are in trouble. (I think there may be one of these in Chicago's Yellow Pages.) Also, Tedd was specifically working on inventing magitech that would allow ordinary people some kind of defence against hostile magic. Ironically, I believe that Arthur's conviction in part stems exactly from seeing what evil people who have gotten hold of magic can do. Denying people like that access to magic for what he hopes may be decades could be a powerful motivator for him. If he has spent all his life specifically being a fireman engaged in putting down troublemakers of this kind it would explain much, including that he considers this so much more important than what good things might be possible with magic. This is not even mentioning the synergy between magic and science. Imagine a 'harmless' ability to make people follow your suggestions for half an hour or so. Then imagine someone ruthless enough to use that ability to gain access to people who are responsible for nuclear weapons and tell them to open fire on someplace he doesn't like. Or entering the CDC and asking for some nice samples of Ebola and letting then loose in JFK Airport outside New York City.
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Don't worry. I am keeping close watch on the Off Topic forum. As soon as anyone even tries to stray on topic here, I'll come down on them like a ton of bricks.
