Why bother learning magecraft when science can accelerate lead cylinders to 500m/s? No human can beat a well-placed guy with a gun.
>>284675145If your power system can reliably be completely ignored by a guy with a gun (or whatever weapon is the standard in your setting) then you didn't design it very well.If your power system can reliably make everything except itself obsolete, you also haven't designed it very well. The setting that magic exists alongside should actually matter even when magic is being used, otherwise the story turns into "magic and only magic" the moment a fight starts.
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>>284675145>well-placedNo gunman can beat a well-placed guy with eight fingers pulling his own asshole open
He had a magic gun though
What is a plane but physical manifestation of some levitation spell and as such engineering is mankind's magic power.
>>284675145You are aware that gun itself is magic with magic bullets right? Like it's not just any random gun.
>>284675145You don't need a state-sanctioned loicense for magecraft
>>284680923Nani the fuck?
this still makes me lol every time, it really set the tone
>>284681102Did he just fucking blow up the building
>>284681240Naturally, what kind of idiot would walk into a static trap.
>>284681102For me it's the scene where he takes out lancer and his masters. He just gets the job done in the fastest way possible and exits, all in order to attain his goals even a moment earlier. Really brings out the hypocrisy of the "chivalrous" knights with their theatrics who revel in bloodshed but deem themselves better than the "villains" like kotomine or gilles who are at least honest about who they are and what they want.
>>284681281That's both hilarious and awesome but I'm still not watching Fate
>>284681102How did he set the explosives?
>>284681322your loss, zero is the good one
>>284681365Only one floor near the top is the magical atelier, he rigged a lower floor to collapse the whole building.(Also it was his side bitch/assistant Maya who did the legwork I think)
>>284680251Ancient alchemists had this thing where they randomly involved God and other religious things in their studies. They would include chants to be used in their recipes and had many superstitions about certain materials. But when compared to modern chemistry, alchemists were actually very close, because ultimately all they did was experiment until they found patterns, and give names to these patterns. And when they found something that contradicted their research they just adjusted what they knew until it fit. Nowadays, modern science claims that it can solve anything, but the second you start going too deeply into any subject you realise that we are just making things up along the way until they fit. We have literally no idea how the brain works, and einstein's theory of relativity only works at sizes. There's "dark matter" which we only believe exists because some calculations that should add up simply don't, and atoms are supposed to be the smallest things in the universe but they are made up of smaller things, which themselves are made up of smaller things. You see studies that contradict each other all the time, and nobody ever even mentions the Replication Crisis. When I think of ancient alchemists I realise just how similar to magic science is.
>>284681589*only works at certain sizes
