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wonder if there's still a valid "JEDD is a chuunibyou, Mycroft is lying" headcanon for Terra Ignota or if that ship's too far sailed and yeah Bridger is god

despite having a copy of The Mind Illuminated I haven't yet achieved enlightenment, I should probably get on that

woo got all the way to vaults with 2 runes before making a dumb mistake :D

you get interesting effect patterns because orbs can duplicate themselves (to give areas of effect / multiple targets) and be told how to move around

"scry on area near opponent" spell for example would be like
- move around randomly until near enemy wizard
- move to enemy wizard
- duplicate to cover nearby area
- expire with divination effect

at which point your mana is drained (-1 MP per tile or something) and you get the information

abjuration orbs - nullify other orbs

conjuration orbs - create creatures

necromancy orbs - repair creatures, including ones that happen to be at 0 HP

enchantment orbs - apply mental status effects i guess

then just like get a bunch of possible effects until the power gamers come up with a hilarious emergent synergy and let it rip

transmutation orbs - so i guess everything on a tile would have to be made out of materials and you'd be able to turn the material on the tile into a different one? and that includes inside creatures, so you'd change your muscles into speedy muscles and that's your buff spells

evocation orbs - expire to deal damage on the tile. damage type can be picked.

divination orbs - expire to reveal information about the tile they expire on

illusion orbs - expire to make a tile look like another one to the other guy

so maybe this could work by you have codespells-style spell orbs that you define behaviour of and these orbs expire to produce effects i guess

the way to sort spells that carves reality at the joins is dnd spell classes, of course

you know what would be cool? turn based pvp roguelike wizard battle where each player designs spells

met sigmund right off the stairs on floor 2 and decided to shoot my shot

https://powdertoy.co.uk/ power toy is good among falling sand games

wonder if making intrauterine insemination more accessible is possible / would have large benefits or whether anything feasible would be meh and not many people would want it anyway

Wonder why not "everyone" is going for the repository for germinal choice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repository_for_Germinal_Choice) route

Partially it's probably a price thing, like £2k for sperm, £1k for IUI, multiplied by however many tries it takes (5-10?) (see https://www.marketplace.org/2019/10/24/the-cost-of-building-a-family-using-donor-sperm/), and people who can afford that easily already have lots of ppl in their dating pool as successful as sperm donors so the benefits are less clear.