<story><title>How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug?</title><url>https://desystemize.substack.com/p/desystemize-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notanzaiiswear</author><text>I often wonder about a fantasy world where magic works like technology in the real world (like there is long arduous research to create new spells, not simply &amp;quot;being born with magical talent&amp;quot;). Would it become a popular fantasy setting?</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Computers are literally (literally) magic. Take a rock, use light to inscribe it with arcane runes, then infuse it with lightning and recite the proper incantation to complete the spell.</text></item><item><author>cridenour</author><text>&amp;gt; Computers are warm rocks we tricked into doing math and it’s a miracle they do anything.&lt;p&gt;This might be my favorite way to describe programming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tygrak</author><text>Pretty much what you are describing about is Ra by qntm [1]. I would definitely recommend it!&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qntm.org&amp;#x2F;ra&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;qntm.org&amp;#x2F;ra&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss such an obvious bug?</title><url>https://desystemize.substack.com/p/desystemize-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notanzaiiswear</author><text>I often wonder about a fantasy world where magic works like technology in the real world (like there is long arduous research to create new spells, not simply &amp;quot;being born with magical talent&amp;quot;). Would it become a popular fantasy setting?</text></item><item><author>kibwen</author><text>Computers are literally (literally) magic. Take a rock, use light to inscribe it with arcane runes, then infuse it with lightning and recite the proper incantation to complete the spell.</text></item><item><author>cridenour</author><text>&amp;gt; Computers are warm rocks we tricked into doing math and it’s a miracle they do anything.&lt;p&gt;This might be my favorite way to describe programming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>The Obsidian Trilogy (Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory) is set in such a world, though it also features &amp;quot;wild magic&amp;quot; (you petition the wild gods for an effect, and you probably get it, but you take on an open-ended obligation to do something for them at a later point) and demonic magic.</text></comment>