Lots of amateur worldbuilders complain about crystals being used to make the technomagic or sci-fi tech work.

My brothers in creativity, what do you think makes all our modern real-life technology work?

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Yeah, but real world crystal magic look more like individual microscopic pieces of glitter, as opposed to giant glowing quartz crystals.

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@nyrath Yeah. But that’s only because we can’t make and etch super-pure semiconductor crystals well enough to make a bazillion-core massively-parallel processor block.

But in THE FUTURE, with SCIENCE! and ENGINEERING!

(Still not quartz, though.)

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