no way it's the yomi hustle guy
That's literally Megumin from KonoSuba lol. She's supposed to be one of the strongest wizards around, but refuses to learn anything other than explosion magic. Explosion magic is basically useless in most situations.
Expulooooshon
*I didn't ask how close those buildings are, I said "I cast FIREBALL" *
-Megumin, if they played D&D
If explosion magic doesn't solve your problems than you're clearly not using enough explosion magic.
Megumin's other problem is she only specced into things that would improve her explosion's damage output, neglecting basic mage things like mana capacity and efficiency. So she can only cast one (stupidly overpowered) explosion spell before all but passing out from using more mana than she actually has. It's why no other party would take her, because even in situations where the spell would be useful she becomes a massive liability after casting it.
Don't be too harsh she just played Lineage 2
Is this a game?
Book/Manga/Anime. Also a game, yeah
Ergo, Wizards can't be exploited by calitalism
That one kind of magic would be capitalism. I mean the situation from OP post is the current state of liberal economics.
Yes
Imagine thinking that PhD's and postdocs aren't exploited by capitalism.
To be fair, PhDs and postdocs can't call down lightning from the sky or reanimate the dead to do their bidding.
Nor can they Magick-up all their needs, or transmute gold.
It's called a 3D printer, Amazon, and a particle collider https://glintpay.com/us/blog/modern-day-alchemy-making-gold-atoms-cern
Hmm. Too bad you need a bunch of resources for those instead of... Idk, waving your hand and saying some words.
"A bunch of resources" being a pile of ancient tomes and a cheap craptop running Linux, as opposed to a pile of ancient tomes and a runestone?
How people think wizards would talk:
Behold! I have unfurled powers beyond mortal comprehension!
How wizards would actually talk:
If I hear, “why don’t you just channel the infernal essence through an ephemeral plane?” one more goddamn time from someone who hasn’t actually read the fucking rune diagrams, I’m going to lose my shit.
In other words, wizards do exist, they are just called IT specialists.
They would 100% be trying to peddle ape runes inscribed with XP cost (for extra permanency) as the next big investment opportunity
RTFR - Read the fucking runes!
Discworld wizards represent!
Ponder Stibbons inserts another punch card into Hex. Ants flow through tubes and gears begin turning.
"If"
You realize embedded systems engineers are real, right?
And if anything qualifies as esoteric, arcane knowledge, it's embedded systems programming
I'd say OS and driver programming is also in that category. It is the deep magic.
True, true. I have a vague idea how embedded systems work. I have no idea how you even get started with driver development.
OS development isn't terrible though. There are numerous books to help you make your own kernel and OS
For linux driver development you can start by reading "Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition" pdf.
It is free and give you an idea about how everything works.
The real learning is by reading and using the linux kernel api doc or directly the source code of the api you want to call.
Source : i did this for a school project where i had to implement multiple kernel modules.
Neat! I'll add it to my long list of things ADHD will never let me finish!
I think the real issue with driver development is that almost nobody ever has a reason to do it. It's a much more constrained way of programming compared to normal programs, and isn't necessary unless you need to talk to hardware or something. So, nobody has an excuse to learn it.
“There are lots of books on harvesting your own primal power source, but most people these days make a pact with the demon Linus and simply channel his power”
This makes me feel so much better after spending a morning banging my head against some wild pointer arithmetic, thank you much much! (Ultimately the pointer incantations were successful, praise be!)
There’d be hair restoration & ED specialized wizards within a year.
Grasshopper mind sorcery
Now that's just academica.
Or giant megacorporations each hire 200,000+ of them to create products for the non-magic folk to consume.
After a few decades, the idea of being a wizard is synonymous with working 8+ hours a day on magic that no wizard really wants and there is so little new spells and magic being created in the world that everyone wishes there wasn't any.
Then leaks come out that the products these megacorporations create have been slowly killing the planet and they've known for decades. But since they have so much power and money, nothing can stop them until the world dies.
Chemists are wizards?
I mean chemistry direct predecessor, alchemy, was basically in large part magical practice attempt.
True. They didn't make gold, but they discovered phosphorus...I think? The reducing urine one experiment.
I spend 8 hours a day gluing together spells my company purchased from a proprietary caster’s book to serve increasingly arcane (no pun intended) business needs. In my free time, I like to read about the latest advancements in corporate spellcraft, but most of the new spells are either patches of old spells or new spells that fix problems created by popular spells of the past 5 years. These new spells inevitably introduce new problems that will be “solved” in another 5 years.
Yep, that's exactly it. I'm assuming this is software dev in a nutspell.
Yep. You wouldn't have adventurous magicians going out and casting spells against dragons. The variety of spells known by D&D type wizards wouldn't even be a thing. You'd have a guy who was a specialist in ritual-casting flame spells whose job consisted of continuously heating up cauldrons of metal ore so it could be smelted. If he was jumped on his commute home, he couldn't fight the attackers off with "fireball" or something. Maybe that was covered in school decades ago, but he's spent his entire career doing nothing but that one smelting spell Or, you'd have the "Gate" wizard whose entire job was to keep up a portal for their entire 8 hour shift, so that tourists could pass back and forth.
If magic was real, expert magic users would not trust it at all.
"Haha yeah I mostly do transfiguration magic but I do some evocation too occasionally. No I don't eat any transfigured food or do any of that at home or anything honestly I'm surprised it works at all."
Right, so literally computer security
So they'd be like cobol developers? From what I know that is basically magic to keep it running