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The old magic (lemmy.world)
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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SAAS

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorcery as a Service?

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

Ugh, cloud magic.

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

Do you get to the cloud district very often?

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

Stormlight Archive was a Windows 11 metaphor all along

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 4 points 1 year ago

I think it's time to post this

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 year 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?