spent years reading/drawing schematics. simplified bridge rectifier circuit used everywhere. like your phone charger. <sarcasm> magically keeps face glued to phone</sarcasm>
looks at schematic
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIAH!!
eyebrow dance
it gender transitions the AC to DC
And generates heat!
so, from bi to either gay or straight, unless it passes an inverter, then becomes bi again
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
I heard the “OUTCH!” In this image.
Lightning would be wild magic
Makes sense. Could be harnessed to do something probably but incredibly dangerous to do so.
And some people are wild mages
Just ask Doc Brown.
1.21 jigawatts.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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?
You think a rectified transformer is a magic circle? Get a load of the Smith Chart
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.
The mages of Electrical Engineering reseach the tools and formulars to control the magic. The mages of Hardware Engineering develop under great effort the sigils and rituals of how the rocks must be processed. The Warlocks of the CPU use the near infinit possibilities of algorithms and the power of the evolved rocks to create worlds nobody could ever have imagined (in exchange for the ability to go outside).
(in exchange for the ability to go outside)
Real
