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wizards have so much teleportation magic that makes that train pointless. like maybe it’s traditional but shouldn’t wizards have their own older tradition that isn’t a magical clone of muggle tech?
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Dec 28, 2020 20:27
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wizards are into steampunk
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Dec 28, 2020 20:33
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rjmccall posted:wizards have so much teleportation magic that makes that train pointless. like maybe it’s traditional but shouldn’t wizards have their own older tradition that isn’t a magical clone of muggle tech? its because jk rowling is a luddite
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Dec 28, 2020 20:34
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if I was a wizard I would just make a Flying Nimbus to take me everywhere
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Dec 28, 2020 20:35
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Shaggar posted:its because jk rowling is a luddite pining for the days of brunel. also empire
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Dec 28, 2020 20:38
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rjmccall posted:wizards have so much teleportation magic that makes that train pointless. like maybe it’s traditional but shouldn’t wizards have their own older tradition that isn’t a magical clone of muggle tech? i think in-universe, children aren't supposed to be using any sort of teleportation magic which must make vacation travel with a child even worse knowing you could have just teleported there
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Dec 28, 2020 20:55
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duz posted:i think in-universe, children aren't supposed to be using any sort of teleportation magic which must make vacation travel with a child even worse knowing you could have just teleported there this is still a silly reason since they could just have a adult wizard waiting at the station to teleport the kids
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Dec 28, 2020 20:56
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Dear scifi thread, nothing about the world of harry potter actually sense if you think about it. It's all just written to be whimsical and based on what JK Terfling needed to happen in the story at any given time. It's meaningless to start analyzing it and that was my point in comparing John Wick to it. I absolutely wasn't trying to start a harry potter derail and you should all be ashamed.
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Dec 28, 2020 21:04
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Jonny 290 posted:im writing a story about literal wizard children that could magic themselves to their nerd spell college, and they're gonna monopolize the only train that still runs on time in britain to get there Also there are gonna be slaves. Every wizard family has a slave
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Dec 28, 2020 21:10
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*hagrid voice* you're part of the 1% harry
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Dec 28, 2020 21:19
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mystes posted:I absolutely wasn't trying to start a harry potter derail and you should all be ashamed. fuckin owned
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Dec 28, 2020 21:21
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mystes posted:Dear scifi thread, nothing about the world of harry potter actually sense if you think about it. It's all just written to be whimsical and based on what JK Terfling needed to happen in the story at any given time. so are you trying to say that in the john wick universe assassins just poo poo wherever they are and shoot at the poo poo to make it disappear?
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Dec 28, 2020 21:21
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AnimeIsTrash posted:*hagrid voice* you're part of the 1% harry Harry potter is a dumb jock who only ever learned one spell and later became a cop
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Dec 28, 2020 21:23
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duz posted:so are you trying to say that in the john wick universe assassins just poo poo wherever they are and shoot at the poo poo to make it disappear? no no they gunkata the poo
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Dec 28, 2020 21:37
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the magicians was really bad. the premise sounded cool but the delivery was joss whedon bullshit at best, torchwood or something at worse. it was so bad it's awesome that most people seem to have turned on joss whedon finally. now i can talk about how terrible he is without folks tripping over themselves to defend his poo poo and i like it a lot
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Dec 28, 2020 21:48
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Achmed Jones posted:the magicians was really bad. the premise sounded cool but the delivery was joss whedon bullshit at best, torchwood or something at worse. it was so bad
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Dec 28, 2020 21:50
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Achmed Jones posted:the magicians was really bad. the premise sounded cool but the delivery was joss whedon bullshit at best, torchwood or something at worse. it was so bad has anyone had anything nice to say about him since, idk, dollhouse?
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Dec 28, 2020 21:52
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infernal machines posted:has anyone had anything nice to say about him since, idk, dollhouse? no
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Dec 28, 2020 22:12
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im also bummed david boreanz is on the call of duty tv show
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Dec 28, 2020 22:12
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infernal machines posted:has anyone had anything nice to say about him since, idk, dollhouse? everybody loved the avengers
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Dec 28, 2020 22:18
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mystes posted:Dear scifi thread, nothing about the world of harry potter actually sense if you think about it. It's all just written to be whimsical and based on what JK Terfling needed to happen in the story at any given time.  mystes posted:I didn't like The Magicians but at least it sort of seems to have some minimal self awareness of the fact that it's dumb, which I think puts it slightly ahead of Joss Whedon shows. don't forget the cum drinking so much cum drinking https://twitter.com/aardvarkwizard/status/1117602304478339072
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Dec 28, 2020 22:19
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haveblue posted:everybody loved the avengers i honestly forgot he directed that
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Dec 28, 2020 22:31
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indigi posted:they can’t explain it, as in there’s no way to explain a full quarter of the Earth’s population being killers for hire or support people for that industry. it’s just a different universe to ours
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Dec 28, 2020 22:33
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indigi posted:they can’t explain it, as in there’s no way to explain a full quarter of the Earth’s population being killers for hire or support people for that industry. it’s just a different universe to ours the gold coins appear to be valued at wildly different rates, depending on the plot like one will buy you a night at the continental, or an assault rifle, or entrance to the hitman club, or a drink from the hitman club's bar
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Dec 28, 2020 22:39
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:the gold coins appear to be valued at wildly different rates, depending on the plot
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Dec 28, 2020 22:40
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the problem with indivisible currency, i guess. rampant deflation has made things kind of insane ever since the one guy that made the coins in his basement got into a trade dispute. the assassins should really establish a central bank to float the currency under a sustainable monetary policy
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Dec 28, 2020 22:52
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:the gold coins appear to be valued at wildly different rates, depending on the plot i'd say that a night at the exclusive hotel, entrance to the exclusive club, or a fancy gun are probably all valued about the same -- several hundred to a few thousand dollars. flipping a coin to the bartender for a drink is probably just showing off.
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Dec 28, 2020 22:55
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Sagebrush posted:i'd say that a night at the exclusive hotel, entrance to the exclusive club, or a fancy gun are probably all valued about the same -- several hundred to a few thousand dollars. it always has been
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Dec 28, 2020 22:56
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Jabor posted:the problem with indivisible currency, i guess. rampant deflation has made things kind of insane ever since the one guy that made the coins in his basement got into a trade dispute. in one of the sequels they establish that the continental is their central bank and mints the coins
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Dec 28, 2020 23:02
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Sagebrush posted:i'd say that a night at the exclusive hotel, entrance to the exclusive club, or a fancy gun are probably all valued about the same -- several hundred to a few thousand dollars. he buys a favor from that old dude for one coin, and his bulletproof business suit was also one coin everything costs one coin because that was the style at the time but when they put the bounty on his head it's in dollars. it's weird
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Dec 28, 2020 23:06
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agreed with the poster that less time exploring the mechanisms of the universe is better like i dont need to know about seigniorage in john wick; i dont want to hear about tariff disputes in star wars, man how much of chinas gdp goes into experimental drugs and illicit medical procedures in the crank extended universe anyway
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Dec 28, 2020 23:12
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Casual Encountess posted:im also bummed david boreanz is on the call of duty tv show why
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Dec 28, 2020 23:24
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i always liked him on buffy and angel, and he was honestly pretty ok in bones.
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Dec 28, 2020 23:26
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he was the one that forced that nickname in the pilot
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Dec 28, 2020 23:28
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David Boringanus
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Dec 28, 2020 23:30
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i kept expecting someone to shoot a crossbow bolt at him and have him catch it
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Dec 28, 2020 23:31
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bump_fn posted:why
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Dec 28, 2020 23:37
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mystes posted:I didn't like The Magicians but at least it sort of seems to have some minimal self awareness of the fact that it's dumb, which I think puts it slightly ahead of Joss Whedon shows. this is why the TV show is actually good -- the books have absolutely no self awareness, they rip off Harry Potter and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe but they're edgy and dark and for adults (which means some teen girls get raped) and the author is busy patting himself on the back for copying these children's stories and making them Real Literature while ignoring the past 50 years of SF writing where much more capable authors who were actually familiar with the genre already did exactly this, but better and without all the rape meanwhile the TV show starts out as a kind of faithful adaptation of the books but starts engaging with the idea that the books are terrible towards the end of the first season and by season two all the characters are now audience proxies towards the idea of how worthless the source material is
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infernal machines posted:harry_potter_and_the_methods_of_rationality.odf I still can't believe that's a real thing
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