Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Third Clarke’s law. Many fantasy worlds where magic is real often have a “technological” backgroud: Mystara, Shannara and also Athas (in its pecualiar ways) have ancient, technological socities…
Also all D&D magic system is built upon the assumption that magic is “just” or “somehow” misunderstood technology See “The Implied Apocalypse of Dungeons & Dragons“.
Regarding Athas, I won’t spoil your surprise…
On Facebook they write I enjoy JavaScript but this is insanity Welcome to a language that has approximate math as the only math you can use. In fact 7110 / 100 * 100 is 7109.99999999 because the first division cannot be exactly represented with with a floating point representation. Sites like https://baseconvert.com/ieee-754-floating-point come handy… Those are…
Bellissimi, ma questi parapetti in vetro proprio non sono il mio genere. Primo, mi sentirei sempre esposto al pubblico ludibrio. Secondo, avete presente quando bisogna pulirli? Terzo, non potrei più usare il balcone come ripostiglio all’aperto 🙂
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If you want to create an RPG world but feel lazy just pick some point in the past of Earth. It worked for Dungeouns & Dragon with the Red/blue box known world, later named Mystara (it’s explained in the italian version), so it may work for you too…
Today Firefox, being a Pocket user, suggested me this This Is the Most Bizarre Grammar Rule You Probably Never Heard Of which cite this tweet I’m not an English native speaker but I’ve come to a level that “green great dragons” sounds wrong to me. But I remember that in languages like Italian can put…
Today I was looking for a PHP library to show differences between two HTML documents. No, the plain Text_Diff/Text_Diff_Renderer_inline or WordPress version won’t do. I was so lucky to immediatly find php-htmldiff. Then I scrolled down and – horror of horrors! – just see what I found. I can’t litter my own blog with such…
Un tuffo nel passato questo “Vassoio di paste anni 90: cannolo, meringa e bignè” (sì, l’ho trovato su FB, me tocca). Però mancano le fiammette di cioccolato e i ventaglietti!