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A dragon is still just as formidable of an opponent whether its fire is summoned magically or is the result of using a spark generated by striking something on its tongue against its teeth to ignite oil produced in an organ that all undigestable things from the digestive tract end up in

my point is that the dragon just becomes a beast with napalm sacks in this case. dragons are a mythotype (i made that word up) that are inextricably linked to something deep in the psyche of man - something that has been there since before written history across multiple cultures. that's special. that's an insight into who we are. that's more than just 'big lizard with fire breath'. they have an esoteric quality to them that makes them purely magical to me, and to make them anything less than that just cheapens them into something flimsy and 2 dimensional.

and now dragons just became boring. take the magic away, and you, well, take the magic away.

i like mythic fantasy, not sci fi fantasy. if you consider magic to be a form of 'hand waiving', then maybe you don't really like mythology.

this lemmy gold earned my upvote.

reminds me a yard sale plaque i saw once:

"like a good neighbor, stay over there"

this post seems kinda bourgeoisie to me. i literally don't give a fuck because we have way bigger problems. if you're here to bitch about the amenities on an airline flight, well, i guess that must be a nice problem to have.

meh. if magic conforms to physics, it's not magic. magic has no rules because it's magic.

ok then. condone their anti-social behavior while condemning mine. it's a war. pick a side.

ok then. condone their anti-social behavior while condemning mine. it's a war. pick a side.

ok then. condone their anti-social behavior while condemning mine. it's a war. pick a side.

ooo. i like a lot of what you're saying, except that i think the market capitalism part should be less vital. i'm more in favor of a resource based economy which is overseen by AI. markets would become more of a hobbyist endeavor. some people need to have a little bit more than others and can't help but express their type A personalities, so the markets are there for them to feel like they earned a little more than other people, but without the ability to become billionaires.

Also, UBI seems like a transitional phase solution. in a well regulated resource based economy, currency eventually becomes a vestigial appendage. i mean, it's just a middle man of exchange now, and we're only exchanging things because we can't figure out how to distribute necessary commodities and incentivize people. i believe in a resource based economy where almost all needs are met and education in humanities is emphasized, people will be happy to do their 2.5 hours of weekly labor to keep a utopian system running.