I'm in this pic and I don't like it.
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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.
Apprentice mages usually begin by aiming at their own feet and yelling the incantation, some immediately turn to aim at the sun "just because"
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?
Why are you concerned about the Sun exploding? Is there any business impact, or is this just about your personal aesthetics?
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.
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!
Easy, it was another, greater mage. It's mages all the way down
Is casting "Fist" more complicated than casting "Explode The Sun"?
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.
Even those only whisper in hushed cants about the before times, when every inscription was carefully annotated in scrolls that could become as long as entire towers
Any idiot can cast rm - rf /
It takes real power to limit user permissions and have backups from which to restore.
The Sun was created by some mages that come from a realm where magic is way less powerful...
lmao, I only noticed the top caption after the three panels, which made it even funnier
Good old HOMM3.
But where's the last one from?
I'm not in the picture, because I already stole Armageddon's Blade.
Isn't the sun always exploding?
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