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* HedgeMage: Moira is referred to as a hedge witch, and is depicted as a village magician and herbalist who can provide a variety of basic potions, cures and wards that are of use to her rural community, but cannot match the immense power of the Mighty, the truly adept and powerful wizards.

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-->"Yep, it's an 800 number. Direct line to the Wizard's Keep from any phone in the USA. Just don't use it unless you really need to."
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-->"Is this legal?"
-->Wiz hesitated. "Like I said, it was one of Danny's projects."

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-->"Yep, --->"Yep, it's an 800 number. Direct line to the Wizard's Keep from any phone in the USA. Just don't use it unless you really need to."
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Wiz
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* FunctionalMagic: Magical races (elves, trolls, dwarves, dragons) possess inherent magic, while the humans use rule-based magic with insanely complex and fluid rules. Normally humans must study for years the exact words and actions to perform a spell, but Wiz uses a few simplest and most reproducible spells as an assembly language and creates a programming compiler for more complex spells.

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* FunctionalMagic: Magical races (elves, trolls, dwarves, dragons) possess inherent magic, while the humans use rule-based magic with insanely complex and fluid rules. Normally humans must study for years the exact words and actions to perform a spell, but Wiz uses a few simplest simple and most reproducible spells as an assembly language and creates a programming compiler for more complex spells.



-->"What is that guy's name anyway?" Wiz asked as they watched their guest dwindle into a dot in the sky. "Everyone just calls him Dragon Leader."
-->"Ardithjanelle, which means 'shy flower of the forest,' " Moira said. "The story is that his parents were expecting a girl child."
-->Wiz watched the dot for a second. "I think I'll just call him Dragon Leader."

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-->"What is that guy's name anyway?" Wiz asked as they watched their guest dwindle into a dot in the sky. "Everyone just calls him Dragon Leader."
-->"Ardithjanelle,
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"Ardithjanelle,
which means 'shy flower of the forest,' " Moira said. "The story is that his parents were expecting a girl child."
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Wiz
watched the dot for a second. "I think I'll just call him Dragon Leader."



* GodzillaThreshold: Non-humans stop their conflicts and unite after humans get a spell demon_debug that easily kills them. After the Council forces humans to only use its non-lethal version, DDT, and sets the limit of human expansion to the Wild Wood the alliance quickly falls apart and each group negotiates (or tries to fight) on their own.

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* GodzillaThreshold: GodzillaThreshold:
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Non-humans stop their conflicts and unite after humans get a spell demon_debug that easily kills them. After the Council forces humans to only use its non-lethal version, DDT, and sets the limit of human expansion to the Wild Wood the alliance quickly falls apart and each group negotiates (or tries to fight) on their own.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Moira.
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* TheNineties: Despite the series being mostly set in another world the glimpses of Earth accurately portray the evolution of computer industry from late 1980s to 2000. From Platform/{{UNIX}} gurus sneering at UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} and MS-DOS through rise of Usenet and World Wide Web to emerging open source movement and almost to Dot Com bubble burst.

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* TheNineties: Despite the series being mostly set in another world the glimpses of Earth accurately portray the evolution of computer industry from late 1980s to 2000. From Platform/{{UNIX}} gurus sneering at UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} Platform/{{Amiga}} and MS-DOS through rise of Usenet and World Wide Web to emerging open source movement and almost to Dot Com bubble burst.
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* TheNineties: Despite the series being mostly set in another world the glimpses of Earth accurately portray the evolution of computer industry from late 1980s to 2000. From UsefulNotes/{{Unix}} gurus sneering at UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} and MS-DOS through rise of Usenet and World Wide Web to emerging open source movement and almost to Dot Com bubble burst.

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* TheNineties: Despite the series being mostly set in another world the glimpses of Earth accurately portray the evolution of computer industry from late 1980s to 2000. From UsefulNotes/{{Unix}} Platform/{{UNIX}} gurus sneering at UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} and MS-DOS through rise of Usenet and World Wide Web to emerging open source movement and almost to Dot Com bubble burst.

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* ShoutOut: Too many for a full list.

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** Wiz created a demon to find Moria when she was abducted. [[Franchise/StarWars Named "Rapid Reconnaissance Direction Demon" (or R Square D Square
for short), it is a full list.blue dome head on a white cylinder body with stubby legs the communications is whistles and chirps.]]
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** Played straight on a smaller scale. One programmer with NoSocialSkills creates a [[UnusualEuphemism "user friendly"]] interface which consists of an equally nubile and nude demoness that follows all of the user's commands. A StrawFeminist colleague immediately calls him out on it and demands their supervisor to make the programmer change such perverted code. The supervisor, himself busy meeting the employers, initially doesn't even understand how code could be perverted, but then exasperatedly orders the code changed, over the author's protests that he's willing to make a male version, too. The scene ends with another colleague pulling the man aside to ask for the code for himself for later...

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* ZeroApprovalGambit: In ''Capitalized'', realizing the danger of the magic compile, the heroes deliberately provoke the compiler web community to denounce their work, delete their copies and RageQuit.


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* ZeroApprovalGambit: In ''Capitalized'', realizing the danger of the magic compiler, the heroes deliberately provoke the compiler web community to denounce their work, delete their copies and RageQuit.

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