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[–] 47 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I'm in this pic and I don't like it.

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  • [–] 43 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

    To be fair, the apprentice spell is technically formulated as just "Explode". It's just that without an argument specified, it defaults to the largest target within range, which by default incudes the entire solar system.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    oh god early career, coding on a 20 year old program

    using makefiles to compile while on a remote host

    lack of target resulted in trying to programatically delete the remote hosts root

    thank good i did not have the permission

    why is defaulting like this a thing instead of a syntax error?

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  • [–] 13 points 5 hours ago

    Why are you concerned about the Sun exploding? Is there any business impact, or is this just about your personal aesthetics?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

    I learned the skills of an elder mage all on my own. Now I'm starting a career in magehood and they're constantly trying to keep me from blowing up the sun when all I'm doing is checking if the sun is in fact still there. You'd be surprised how often the sun simply isn't there anymore.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 hours ago

    lol good old HoMM3

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  • [–] 7 points 4 hours ago (10 children)

    How did they bootstrap this thing? If the easiest spell is "Explode The Sun", then becoming a Great Mage able to cast "Prevent Sun From Exploding" is very unlikely!

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  • [–] 11 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

    Easy, it was another, greater mage. It's mages all the way down

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  • [–] 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    In a time before modern mages, before pre-written incantations, before even Auto-Incantated Vibration Casting (A-I VibeCast), there was a... different time.

    It was the Sages of the ancient Fortran civilization, followed by the Assembly of Oracles, who truly understood the old magics.

    The old tongues are understood so little these contemporary times.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 hours ago

    lmao, I only noticed the top caption after the three panels, which made it even funnier

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  • [–] 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    Good old HOMM3.
    But where's the last one from?

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  • [–] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    I'm not in the picture, because I already stole Armageddon's Blade.

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    [–] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Isn't the sun always exploding?

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