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[–] ArsonButCute@programming.dev 7 points 1 hour 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.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 1 points 4 minutes ago

And sometimes the use the "turn the sun into cheese" spel.

[–] NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 1 points 23 minutes ago

K8 namespaces

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 6 points 3 hours ago (4 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!

[–] vathecka@lemmy.radio 3 points 41 minutes ago

there have been a lot of suns

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 32 minutes ago

You see there used to be two suns before the first mage was made.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 36 minutes ago

Any idiot can cast rm - rf /

It takes real power to limit user permissions and have backups from which to restore.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 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.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 1 points 45 minutes ago

Annotations?! You know of the myths?

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Is casting "Fist" more complicated than casting "Explode The Sun"?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, for it requires intense physical training for a proper casting of "Fist"

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] punkhazard@feddit.org 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 points 27 minutes ago

Sounds like a you thing

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 37 points 6 hours ago (2 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.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 2 points 34 minutes ago

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?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Also from HOMM3, it's the tower hero sprite during combat

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Ah, thank you!
Maybe it's time to refresh some HOMM3 memories. My GOG library should be able to help.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Do you mean rm -rf / --no-preserve-root?

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 22 points 6 hours ago

sudo wudo
delete the root-o

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 47 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Me too but only because I look better in purple

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

I do love that outfit 👌 Much drip. Quite better than the "I'll wear what I want, fuck you very much" outfit I get to wear at work.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 10 points 7 hours ago

lol good old HoMM3

[–] zane@infosec.pub 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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