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.
99% of the time it’s fine, because 99% of the time the person who wrote the Makefile undertands Makefiles and knows that the first thing you do is define a default target. A default target that’s chosen reasonably is a very nice feature of make because there are no standard names for targets, and no easy way to find out the names of targets other than trying to read the Makefile, which can be a pain in the ass.
Apprentice mages usually begin by aiming at their own feet and yelling the incantation, some immediately turn to aim at the sun “just because”
that’s why the sun is always exploding
Why are you concerned about the Sun exploding? Is there any business impact, or is this just about your personal aesthetics?
I’m in pain.
Sounds like a you thing
There’s a spell for that.
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.
K8 namespaces
And sometimes they use the “turn the sun into cheese” spel.
I’m in this pic and I don’t like it.
Me too but only because I look better in purple
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.
Why can’t that be your “I’ll wear what I want, fuck you very much” outfit?
Good point!
Which end of the wand do I blow through to make it do the magic?
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!
Easy, it was another, greater mage. It’s mages all the way down
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.
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
Annotations?! You know of the myths?
Is casting “Fist” more complicated than casting “Explode The Sun”?
Yes, for it requires intense physical training for a proper casting of “Fist”
Ah, those damn somatic components.
casts summon bigger mage
there have been a lot of suns
there’s always a bigger sun
In the early days, mages were less powerful because there was less power in the Aether. Their most powerful spells could only destroy small houses. Plenty of small houses were destroyed as these mages learned their skills, but it was mostly their own houses, and they learned from their mistakes. Over time, these mages not only became more skilled at their craft, they also improved the power all mages had to draw on, weaving isolated pockets of Aether together into one large Aether-net.
Through this, the mages were able to accomplish much, much more. But it meant that new mages could draw on power far greater than a new mage knows how to control.
Any idiot can cast rm - rf /
It takes real power to limit user permissions and have backups from which to restore.
You see there used to be two suns before the first mage was made.
The Sun was created by some mages that come from a realm where magic is way less powerful…
Do you mean
rm -rf / --no-preserve-root?sudo wudo
delete the root-o
lol good old HoMM3
Good old HOMM3.
But where’s the last one from?Also from HOMM3, it’s the tower hero sprite during combat
Ah, thank you!
Maybe it’s time to refresh some HOMM3 memories. My GOG library should be able to help.
lmao, I only noticed the top caption after the three panels, which made it even funnier
I’m not in the picture, because I already stole Armageddon’s Blade.
FREEZE!
