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20th July 2013
21:52 GMT
Kara looks around the arctic panorama. 24 hour sunlight, air temperature a balmy 1oC and filled with intermittent sleet. Fortunately, my armour is sealed and Kara's robes are hydrophobic.
"Am I going to be shooting at targets again?"
Between my ring and her super...
20th July 2013
21:52 GMT
Kara looks around the arctic panorama. 24 hour sunlight, air temperature a balmy 1oC and filled with intermittent sleet. Fortunately, my armour is sealed and Kara's robes are hydrophobic.
"Am I going to be shooting at targets again?"
Between my ring and her super...
I'm involved in AI - adjacent fields.
Trust me, it's nothing like that. It resembles nothing so random.
Which is why I feel nothing but a combination of pity and scorn for AIbros, because LLMs do not have the ability to evolve like that. At all.
Hence, the "tool abused by idiots who think...
I agree. Not everything needs to be a math problem, but using the king of Fantasy himself Tolkien, Gandalf coming back to life didn't feel like an asspull because Tolkien very strongly hinted at him being more mythical than man from the very beginning even before Gandalf's full origins where...
The logical need to have everything down to exacts is something I've started to push away from in stories. Its a modern trend that sometimes gets in the way of writing a fantasy tale
Makes sense. I'm only asking because power scaling is very important, if incredibly tedious. You have to be able to show the readers why person X is stronger than person Y, if there both throwing out magic spells and anime bullshit like candy.
You'll note for Magic the Cost is part of the fuel. Investments are inherent enchantments. That means no cost but by being a aspect of the person instead of a called upon power, the spirits are capped on how much they can give. Blessings aren't mighty sorcery.
Cursed blighted snow from Lyona
Lucan calling down starfire.
The Harrowings by Isvan melting the landscape and creating Unshaped Horrors from the mutated remains
Raising a fort from the very stones of a mountain.
Korbin with his hammer could fuck up a street or monster. He cannot blow up a building. Currently we have and not limited to:
Hamish turning into a giant monster wolf to assault the forces of Isvan. I mean big wolf breaking down a castle gate.
Lyona summoning weaponized blizzards and other...
Investment doesn't have a high or low end. All Investment by its nature is either you got lucky and inherited it from a heroic bloodline or your marked as loved by the spirits for what you did and they want you to be heroic. It is all cheap power. Invested do not blow up city blocks. It makes...