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05-20-2024, 06:05 PM
Date Wed, 23 Syph 2118 16:21:57 +0900
Subject [ETC] Runescribing
From Katryovno Dryden <kdryden@protoinstitute>
I found this book in the Librarium, and it really fucking upsets me.
> The Binary of Runes
> The most primitive runes are categorized into the equivalent of ones and zeros.
> Simple markers charged with neutralized mana that form lengthy strings of orders, taking up tenfold the space and one hundredfold the effort of that simple, reductivist rune that tells its mark to go through the door.
Anyone who still follows this needs to realize that:
(a) reality trumps fantasy
(b) this is probably a thousand years old
And the *reality* is that there's no point in doing these sorts of complicated runic processes where you break down bigger runes into strings of nullified mana and otherwise not. Ever. Anyone who believes that should probably re-take their kindergarten year, and stop believing in the Easter Bunny and Saint Nikraus.
First, if you're willing to go through that process, you might as well start writing down your runes in punch cards. This affords no flexibility, no creativity, and worse, it limits the usage of runes themselves. Even the "most optimized" version of this would still take about ten times the space because you're using an analog medium to convey a digital meaning. Sure, work with zeros and ones all you want, but the matter of fact is that mana does not work with the interpretation of these symbols by themselves.
There's not some gnome reading through all the things you write and looking at a dictionary to see if they understand the meaning of it. What does confer them that strength is a variety of other things, chief among them the shape of the runes themselves. The binaries there are valid, yes; But for the single reason that they are largely coincidental occurrences in the typography during that time.
The punch card approach is far simpler and far easier to contract than the approach of writing runes to mean certain symbols. It would have the literal same problem of it being static. If you want something dynamic that can change as per what you want, these runes in the book just *don't do enough* for one to be able to program something that you might want to be receptive to change. Let's not even begin talking about how much of a pain it would be to make something adapt using this horrendous rune system.
(And yes, you can have the verbose version that you like and neutralize extended parts of the circuit, but think of all those weapons and armor that are in normal user hands and how much they'd prefer if you actually thought of what you're doing).
And yes, in certain configurations, the gaps in very much more conductive mediums will potentially get overwhelmed by an extreme surge of mana. Again, that's just reality. You could go all the way to neutralize mana in certain bands, but that does *NOT* mean it would not be overwhelmed and fail all the same. It's just the way things are.
Deal with it.
Or, you know, if you can't deal with the rules that runecrafting requires, then just don't do runecrafting.
Yes, this is a "parody"(source link) meant to announce developments and breakthroughs in research.
Yes, this is IC. It is publicly available for anyone with access to the Proto Institute's Librarium.
Subject [ETC] Runescribing
From Katryovno Dryden <kdryden@protoinstitute>
I found this book in the Librarium, and it really fucking upsets me.
> The Binary of Runes
> The most primitive runes are categorized into the equivalent of ones and zeros.
> Simple markers charged with neutralized mana that form lengthy strings of orders, taking up tenfold the space and one hundredfold the effort of that simple, reductivist rune that tells its mark to go through the door.
Anyone who still follows this needs to realize that:
(a) reality trumps fantasy
(b) this is probably a thousand years old
And the *reality* is that there's no point in doing these sorts of complicated runic processes where you break down bigger runes into strings of nullified mana and otherwise not. Ever. Anyone who believes that should probably re-take their kindergarten year, and stop believing in the Easter Bunny and Saint Nikraus.
First, if you're willing to go through that process, you might as well start writing down your runes in punch cards. This affords no flexibility, no creativity, and worse, it limits the usage of runes themselves. Even the "most optimized" version of this would still take about ten times the space because you're using an analog medium to convey a digital meaning. Sure, work with zeros and ones all you want, but the matter of fact is that mana does not work with the interpretation of these symbols by themselves.
There's not some gnome reading through all the things you write and looking at a dictionary to see if they understand the meaning of it. What does confer them that strength is a variety of other things, chief among them the shape of the runes themselves. The binaries there are valid, yes; But for the single reason that they are largely coincidental occurrences in the typography during that time.
The punch card approach is far simpler and far easier to contract than the approach of writing runes to mean certain symbols. It would have the literal same problem of it being static. If you want something dynamic that can change as per what you want, these runes in the book just *don't do enough* for one to be able to program something that you might want to be receptive to change. Let's not even begin talking about how much of a pain it would be to make something adapt using this horrendous rune system.
(And yes, you can have the verbose version that you like and neutralize extended parts of the circuit, but think of all those weapons and armor that are in normal user hands and how much they'd prefer if you actually thought of what you're doing).
And yes, in certain configurations, the gaps in very much more conductive mediums will potentially get overwhelmed by an extreme surge of mana. Again, that's just reality. You could go all the way to neutralize mana in certain bands, but that does *NOT* mean it would not be overwhelmed and fail all the same. It's just the way things are.
Deal with it.
Or, you know, if you can't deal with the rules that runecrafting requires, then just don't do runecrafting.
Yes, this is a "parody"(source link) meant to announce developments and breakthroughs in research.
Yes, this is IC. It is publicly available for anyone with access to the Proto Institute's Librarium.