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Mikael Brockman 🥸
@meekaale
nice thread about magic in fantasy games and literature
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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there's something you kill about the nature of magic by forcing it to fit mechanically into a game, tabletop or video or otherwise. the way it's usually done magic becomes something dead you control, rather than something alive you have a relationship to twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/st
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Mikael Brockman 🥸
@meekaale
“The Utopia of Rules” by
@davidgraeber
has a fascinating chapter on the history and anthropology of fantasy, oriented around the idea that heroic societies did not predate bureaucracy but grew up symbiotically on the borders of bureaucratic empires
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