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Christmas Eve from JB's Twitter (no news, just fun)
morriswalters:
This hide in plain site thing is probably at it's end. When JB came up with it, cameras were fairly rare. Now everybody has one. And the internet was designed to be redundant. Kill 3000 in Chicago in a magical firefight in broad daylight and YouTube will go down on overload. It would also be a form of Black Magic if wizards killed civilians. So maybe a bomb under the Navy Pier, maybe a gas attack at Burnham Harbor. I wouldn't like it if JB dropped a high rise, however it would be possible to burn one or two. All things which can be attributed to something other than magic, except for those in the know.
Dina:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 04, 2019, 09:17:52 PM ---If I told you I saw the Incredible Hulk getting shot in a parking lot, what would you and the authorities say? I agree that at a certain point, most people would believe. I'm just not sure what that point is, and I don't think we've seen it on page yet. I don't know enough specifics for it to be a good analogy, but on October 13, 1917, a bunch of people saw the sun dance in the sky at Fatima, Portugal. There were 30 to 40K people there. I'm not sure how many reported not seeing anything vs how many reported something miraculous. The first point in the wikipedia article section "Criticism" on the event basically says "we know a miracle didn't happen because we know miracles don't happen, it was probably something else."
We don't even have to look at miraculous events for this. A great many people refuse to believe men have landed on the moon. Some believe the earth is flat. Many don't believe in the efficacy of vaccines. I'm not trying to argue for or against any of those positions. My point is that, whichever side you take on any of those issues, you probably believe the people on the other side are either blithering idiots or are willing to deny obvious facts when faced with them.
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I agree, but the same argument says some people will believe it's magic. The masquerade made not completely fall but it will be weakened a lot (perhaps enough for paradox kicking, if you ever played the Mage: The ascension :)).
123Chikadee:
@Bad Alias. LOL, to be fair, it's probably the authorities who are shooting at Hulk, all things considered. I'm yeah those are good points, but I'm pretty sure the flat Earth and moon-landing hoax theorists are just not regarded well in general. The vaccine thing, well that can't be chalked up to too many people not knowing how modern medicine works. That Sun dancing thing sounds interesting, Imma have to check that out. :)
@Dina. Nope, never played, what's the paradox?
Mira:
--- Quote from: peregrine on January 04, 2019, 10:06:59 PM ---Something like that mind fog Harry ran into in, I want to say Summer Knight? The thing that he very explicitly said was black magic?
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Yeah, but some of that is in the eye of the beholder and gets fuzzy... One one hand, yeah technically that is manipulating someone's mind against their will, black magic, breaking Laws, worthy of the chop,etc... On the other hand the White Council cannot go around exposing themselves and the dangers and temptations of the supernatural world to the vanilla human world.. So it is the exception to the rule kind of thing..
Dina:
--- Quote from: 123Chikadee on January 05, 2019, 11:02:27 AM ---@Dina. Nope, never played, what's the paradox?
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Un, it's comp!icated. The main idea is that reality has an inertía, it tries to keep being normal, so mages shouldn't alter it. That way, instead of throwing a lightning bolt to someone, you make the lighting come from a bulb and then you say "how terrible shortcircuit". If a mage fails to do the pretension and it's seen doing unexplained magic, he or she receives paradox points. If parados is toó big, the mage suffers a backlash from reality (with in-game consequences)
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