Said it before and I’ll say it again: just because you understand the magic doesn’t make it any less magical. A wizard may know the ins and outs of their spells, but they’re still spells. Our entire universal is fucking magical, we just happen to have a decent understanding of why (some) of it functions the way it does. Jiggle a quark here and another may jiggle the same way somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, that’s fucking wild and magical and incredible, and just because we have some level of understanding behind the mechanics doesn’t make it not magic. It just makes it a hard magic system.
Like the way you think Dharms
I’m not sure if “Dharms” was a typo or a nickname, but that’s the first time I’ve gotten that, and I genuinely like it. Like, what a great nickname. Love it.
Mein specialty 🙇♂️ (or so I’d like to think)
Thank you kindly
Squint at this (from this wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia) and these might be either ancient sigils or electronic symbols*.
EDIT: Fixed a typo
This one’s a bit interestingly shaped…
It’s a house fly!
You win this one. ❤️
Got a lot going on there mister
Hang on. I’ve seen that tattoo!
If that is a dick, it looks like it has some very serious STDs.
Nah, it’s just new and improved: with Wings! (to stay in the right place all night long)
Okay, this is dying for me to learn Godot and make a game
Doooo it!
That diagram is just heat with extra steps.
I mean, yea. The people designing the AC to DC power supplies often don’t care what you use them for, why would they bother putting schematics for a real load on their diagram?
That’s what someone who doesn’t understand magic would say.
Follow the spell incorrectly and that is indeed all you would get.
That’s not a resistor it’s actually a BIG LOAD. The diagram would better show it as a reactive load (usually just a rectangle) since most real loads are reactive. Get it?
That’s what I was thinking. Depending on the supply that’ll start a fire.
It’s a basic AC rectifier, the resistor represents an arbitrary DC load. You use similar circuits all the time, though generally with additional failsafes and some mechanism of smoothing out the rectified current.
We always joked it was black magic but its literally on the name.
An actual textbook cover. I mean… An ancient grimoire of the dark arts
Edit: I almost forgot about the sequel
The bible of my people
Omg I cant believe this is real.
I always thought that would be a good style for a dart board. Score would be -dB(return loss)
Genius concept. just need a catchy name.
Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke: Any technology is indistinguishable from magic, to the sufficiently ignorant.
Clarke’s Maxim: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Corollary / Contrapositive: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
My version seems like another good corollary.
Full bridge rectifier¿
Thick eye brows intensifies!
First thing that went through my mind lol
Yes, with Mehdi’s enthusiastic pronounciation, +1
Yeah but it’s too realistic, I want something convenient! Let me read one book and gain the power to create floating ice! Not read like 5 giant books and stufy for years so that I can create a microwave 😔
No shade to microwaves, one of my favorite magic items
Hello every wizard protagonist in every fantasy YA novel ever.
It’s chemicals that make signals jump between neurons in your head. Electricity acts entirely withing single neurons.
Also, that’s a control spell, not a summoning one.
Listen here witch!!
I was really hoping someone would catch this. I’m glad someone else was also paying attention in biology
that’s crazy to think about. which NT is responsible for sending a signal along my vagus nerve to my brain? what NTs regulate the functions of the sympathetic nervous system? how can transport as quickly as my body reacts? I need to know more!
how quickly do NTs even travel? it feels like electricity because it’s nearly instantaneous! how do they do that so fast???
it feels like electricity because it’s nearly instantaneous!
It takes hundreds of ms for a signal to go from your brain to your foot. Electricity on wires travels several times around the world in that time.
But for most of the distance the signals do travel as electricity. (At least the ones that get to be electricity, our brain has several kinds of signals.) It’s just a particularly slow form of electricity.
RF engineer here, living the life of magic in the air and space!
the diagram is an AC to DC converter.
That summoning circle is gonna need some filtering… Jus sayin…
While it helps the ritual it isn’t strictly required, so it can be easier for an apprentice to achieve.
We don’t know what the fuck consciousness is.
In any case, it’s powered with electricity.
Is it even something that’s powered?
Yes, because if you take the power away it stops existing.
But if you turn it back on the conscious doesn’t return. Electricity is the energy conscious runs on, but it’s not consciousness.
The trouble is that even the consciousness maintenance needs power. If the power is out for too long the infrastructure is too damaged. So it actually does return when you turn it off. It just has to be done quickly enough.
That’s why electroconvulsive therapy uses pulses of about a millisecond. But, then, it’s not actually turning the power off, ECT is more of a warm reset of consciousness.
Apparently stops existing, to outside observers who’ve never been able to see it anyway.
Um akshually, that’s a rectification circle.
Only thing dumber than a mechanical engineer is an electrical engineer trying to design a housing.
You want to understand the deep magic, talk to electricians and technicians.
There’s a lot of machinists who think they are hot shit, so fitting username.
Yup. Thing is, it’s known that ‘machinists’ coming out of trade school aren’t worth a damn for years. The same is true of enginneers, yet they turn them loose on CAD and they create designs that make everyone miserable.
This is one of the big problems with SpaceX/Blue Origin/Firefly. The designs are piss poor because the majority of their engineers are green.
Engineers shouldn’t have design authority until they’ve spent a few years manufacturing.
They are required to have a minimum of three years of design experience and have to pass a PE exam before they are allowed to verify their own designs.
Up until that point, all of their designs are required to be sealed by another PE.
My bad, not design authority as that’s a specific thing. They are allowed to design and the guy rubber-stamping often doesn’t catch much.
Ultimately, this is a religious issue. Engineers are heathens that should be burned at the stake. Occasionally, you meet a good one who’s been housetrained by the people that actually do the things.
Man, this false air of superiority you’re exuding is pretty weird. There are bad engineers, and bad skilled trades people, and bad managers, and bad business people. Every walk of life have people that are bad at their jobs, it’s by no means unique to any one class of worker.
I was amusing myself. Trolling engineers can be pretty fun and this is a target rich environment. I’ve seen a lot of bad engineering over the years and sometimes it’s just plain cathartic to make fun of them.
What an incredibly selfish and self-centered approach to this platform
I can say the opposite. I have had craft, in the field, make design choices without engaging the engineer, and now the client is angry because shit isn’t working right, because someone made a command decision in a silo.
Drawings are never perfect. Most of the time, engineers are working off client provided drawings that aren’t very accurate, so the assumptions are bad when the shovel hits the ground.
That is neither the craft, nor the engineer’s fault.
I am an EE and I can’t magically know that the last guy to hang an antenna put it 10’ higher than he was supposed to and the client doesn’t want to pay for a site visit.
So now my tower climber is pissed because he has to make multiple climbs, take photos and then wait with his thumb up his butt, while I am trying to get the client to agree to a plan, and he is going to blame me.
Now I am a Construction Manager, and I get pissed at the engineer when he provides drawings that don’t give even half the info I need.
I’ll buy the material, no problem, but you need to give me a fucking BoM because I don’t know what your design criteria is and I am not going to guess.
I’m sure as hell not going to let my craft buy whatever coax connection is available, and fits, to connect a feedline.
They don’t know what actually goes into that.
Likewise, an engineer can’t tell if an existing conduit has enough room to snake a new cable because the cable schedule isn’t always accurate. But then my craft doesn’t know how to calculate conduit fill b because they don’t know the types/level of voltages in the existing lines.
I have also NEVER known an electrician who, when first laying eyes on a job, not complain about the terrible work performed by the previous electrician.
Working brownfields is always going to be a pain and everyone loves to bitch when the job ends up being harder than it should have been.
I will say this. I love being a construction manager 100 times more than being an engineer, but having that background is fucking invaluable because I can spot problems from further away and can usually resolve them quickly.
I appreciate the in-depth response. I was really just having some fun trolling engineers. You’ve been around the block so you understand the arrogance inherent in pretty much anything technical. It’s totally immature but it also makes me grin.
You think a rectified transformer is a magic circle? Get a load of the Smith Chart
