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The old magic (lemmy.world)
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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Warlocking is basically the new magic; you just borrowing access from a much more powerful entity for a fee .

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

SAAS

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sorcery as a Service?

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ugh, cloud magic.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Do you get to the cloud district very often?

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

If the service becomes large and widespread enough, using the sorcery might become less like warlocking and witchcraft, and more like clergy

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

Stormlight Archive was a Windows 11 metaphor all along

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

inb4 Wizards having as much trust in magic as software engineers have in software, which is none at all

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

I think it's time to post this

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

What about the magic where the spells and components are freely published, which have higher orb compatibility than either your old or new magics, and can be easily altered to suit any school you like?