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The Old Hack
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Dan has said that the weirdness and plotholes of 2002 live in their own little world and that he is never going to try to fix them all. He might address some of them individually but there are so many that he just chalks them down to inexperience as a writer and basically lets them stay as warning examples.
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I have no idea why the rest of you are here, but I do know that my purpose in existence is to be an objectionable blowhard of an old hack.
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
The Old Hack replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Hopefully. I wish you the best of luck. -
I should stress, I do not consider Mr. Verres to be beyond redemption. However, it is all too possible for a parent to inflict harm on a child while never meaning to. Nor do I expect any redemption to happen swiftly and easily. First, because that would be an insult, and second, because Dan is too good a storyteller to allow that to happen.
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A state of denial parents are all too good at achieving, I sometimes feel. *sigh*
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
The Old Hack replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
*whiny comment about how nobody ever stays on topic and makes remarks about how everything used to be so much better back in old days before things became worse* -
"Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
The Old Hack replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
*makes snide comment insinuating things about previous poster's manliness* -
Actually, I just found it again. I once more have a firm grip on reality. Now I can strangle it.
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
The Old Hack replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Keep us posted on any new side effects. Hope it will work out all right. -
AWESOME.
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*grumblemuttergrumble* Spoilsport.
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Or maybe he'll just give the whole thing up as a bad job, go draw a couple swords out of stones, boot Theresa May out of Number Ten and rule England as her rightwise born king.
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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.)
