Semi-related: Only small amounts of copper are typically stored in the human body, and the average adult has a total body content of 50–120 mg copper. Most copper is excreted in bile, and a small amount is excreted in urine.
Water: 35 liters, Carbon: 20 kg, Ammonia: 4 liters, Lime:1.5 kg, Phosphrus: 800 g, salt: 250g, saltpeter:100g, Sulfer: 80g, Fluorine: 7.5 g, iron: 5.6 g, Silicon: 3g, and 15 other elements in small quantities… thats the total chemical makeup of the average adult body. Modern science knows all of this, but there has never been a single example of succesful human trasmutation.
<span style="color:#323232;">These are the Things that Make a Man
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Iron enough to make a nail,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lime enough to paint a wall,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Water enough to drown a dog,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sulphur enough to stop the fleas,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Potash enough to wash a shirt,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Gold enough to buy a bean,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Silver enough to coat a pin,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lead enough to ballast a bird,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Phosphor enough to light the town,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poison enough to kill a cow,
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Strength enough to build a home,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Time enough to hold a child,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Love enough to break a heart.
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If you are a classical wizard you have a limited number of spell slots that you have to prepare in the morning. When you use those up you become a highly educated regular nerd.
Warlocks get less spell diversity but much less limitations on how often they can cast spells.
The “cannon” explanation is that it uses so much energy to channel magic that, after a few major spells, you’re entirely exhausted to the point of collapsing if you were to try to push it beyond what you’re capable of. As you learn and practice it becomes easier and you can make greater physical changes to the universe, but there’s still a limit and it’s still incredibly tiring.
Ugh, in the news here a few years ago, they showed a video of a lady jumping out of her car so she wouldn’t be in it when it slid into another car. The news anchor advised people to stay inside of your car. It’s a cage. You’re safer inside that cage than lying in the road.
I feel like people forget that the conditions are like that for everyone and not just themselves, so they think it’s ok to mill around the scene while waiting for emergency services. It’s a terrible idea to do so, and it’s absolutely safer in the car. If for one reason or another you have to exit the vehicle, get far away from the scene; like at least across the ditch or far into someone’s lawn
Just an aside, it’s still impressive to me with all the technical limitations they had, they were still able to make Mario feel so damn floaty swimming through the water levels.
I think modern developers are in some ways stifled by an aimless lack of limitations.
Creative constraints is the term you’re looking for
It’s absolutely a thing - they do it for creative writing and game jams, and it’s very effective.
Programming is inherently creative, even if we don’t think of it that way. You start learning the basic use, then you get into very rudimentary designs - at that stage, you transition from problem solving to creating a design that solves a problem.
Constraints help - if you pick what we call an opinionated framework, it limits and guides you. It tells you how pieces fit together, and ideally it doesn’t limit you, but it does make some things much easier and others harder.
Nintendo had an extremely opinionated engine in that time - they were still drawing the maps out on paper in a grid, then scanning it with custom hardware.
These days, you open up godot, and you get a blank screen. You could make anything, 2d or 3d, a game or a tool, and it just gives you the tools. You could build a tile map for a 2d game, or a terrain for 3d, you can set the camera wherever you want. You can have multiple cameras, multiple maps - you can do anything
Some may be individual red blood cells swollen due to osmotic pressure. Others may be chains of red blood cells stuck together; diffraction patterns can be seen around these. Others may be “coagula of the proteins of the vitreous gel, to embryonic remnants, or the condensation round the walls of Cloquet’s canal” that exist in pockets of liquid within the vitreous.
And often, the people who laugh at “boomers” saying shit like “What global warming?” in weather events like this, don’t acknowledge or comprehend they’re doing the same damn thing, from the opposite perspective.
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