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The old magic (lemmy.world)
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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 9 months ago (1 children)

SAAS

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Sorcery as a Service?

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

Ugh, cloud magic.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Do you get to the cloud district very often?

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months 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 9 months ago

Stormlight Archive was a Windows 11 metaphor all along

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 8 months ago

I think it's time to post this

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 8 months 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?