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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.
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?
Bash. Bash is why.
Apprentice mages usually begin by aiming at their own feet and yelling the incantation, some immediately turn to aim at the sun "just because"