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TheAuthor_13 ,

There’d be hair restoration & ED specialized wizards within a year.

0laura ,

Oh great wizards finasteride and dutasteride, give me back my hair!

HootinNHollerin ,

Grasshopper mind sorcery

SpaceNoodle ,

“If”

You realize embedded systems engineers are real, right?

kboy101222 ,

And if anything qualifies as esoteric, arcane knowledge, it’s embedded systems programming

TheDoctor ,
@TheDoctor@hexbear.net avatar

How people think wizards would talk:

Behold! I have unfurled powers beyond mortal comprehension!

How wizards would actually talk:

If I hear, “why don’t you just channel the infernal essence through an ephemeral plane?” one more goddamn time from someone who hasn’t actually read the fucking rune diagrams, I’m going to lose my shit.

abfarid ,
@abfarid@startrek.website avatar

In other words, wizards do exist, they are just called IT specialists.

shalafi ,

Discworld wizards represent!

Quetzalcutlass ,

Ponder Stibbons inserts another punch card into Hex. Ants flow through tubes and gears begin turning.

chemicalwonka , (edited )
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Ergo, Wizards can’t be exploited by capitalism

PolandIsAStateOfMind ,
@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml avatar

That one kind of magic would be capitalism. I mean the situation from OP post is the current state of liberal economics.

chemicalwonka ,
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Yes

Fermion ,

Imagine thinking that PhD’s and postdocs aren’t exploited by capitalism.

Etterra ,

To be fair, PhDs and postdocs can’t call down lightning from the sky or reanimate the dead to do their bidding.

Zwiebel , (edited )

Of course they can and do call down lightning; the magic spell is called “lighning rocket”.

To revive the recently deceased a spell called CPR combined with Defibrilation is used.

Some wizards dedicate their lives to researching even higher level spells

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

Nor can they Magick-up all their needs, or transmute gold.

SpaceNoodle ,

It’s called a 3D printer, Amazon, and a particle collider glintpay.com/…/modern-day-alchemy-making-gold-ato…

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

Hmm. Too bad you need a bunch of resources for those instead of… Idk, waving your hand and saying some words.

SpaceNoodle ,

“A bunch of resources” being a pile of ancient tomes and a cheap craptop running Linux, as opposed to a pile of ancient tomes and a runestone?

SexualPolytope , (edited )
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

That’s literally Megumin from KonoSuba lol. She’s supposed to be one of the strongest wizards around, but refuses to learn anything other than explosion magic. Explosion magic is basically useless in most situations, as it just flattens a huge area.

OpenHammer6677 ,

Expulooooshon

Etterra ,

If explosion magic doesn’t solve your problems than you’re clearly not using enough explosion magic.

Quetzalcutlass ,

Megumin’s other problem is she only specced into things that would improve her explosion’s damage output, neglecting basic mage things like mana capacity and efficiency. So she can only cast one (stupidly overpowered) explosion spell before all but passing out from using more mana than she actually has. It’s why no other party would take her, because even in situations where the spell would be useful she becomes a massive liability after casting it.

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

*I didn’t ask how close those buildings are, I said “I cast FIREBALL” *

-Megumin, if they played D&D

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