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  • Yeah, but I’m not sure “debate” in the sense the internet uses it has any relevance anyway. Debates in the formal sense are basically an academic sport, but what people on the internet do is basically just aggressively dribbling at people who have no interest in playing basketball.

    Like, generally people on the internet just start trying to debate bystanders making casual comments or sharing their opinions who aren’t in it to prove anything. It’s kind of weird. Debating shouldn’t be assumed to be the default form of conversation, or even the default form of disagreement.






  • I was fully convinced that nothing happening in the epilogue was real because of the sudden dramatic change of genre. I was suuure we were going to see at the very end that something sinister was still going on.

    I initially was thinking maybe everyone was dying and Eleven was giving them a time-dilated vision of happy lives while Hawkins was being ripped apart. The actual “twist” suggested by Mike was pretty lackluster in comparison.

    It was weird to see the tone change so much for such a substantial portion of the finale. Honestly you could just cut it off before the graduation and probably have a better ending.


  • In D&D sorcerers started in Dragonlance after the Chaos War left Krynn without magic. Palin Majere became the first sorcerer, having already been a wizard, when an aspect of Takhisis taught it to him. It wasn’t innate, but it was spontaneous rather than vancian. There were also mystics, which were similar but divine rather than arcane, but when the sorcerer class was picked up for 3e they weren’t included.

    The main takeaway from sorcerers though isn’t that they’re somehow “special”, it’s that they don’t have to memorize spells. Their magic is innate because they’re related to a creature type that gets spell-like abilities. Same as plenty of other types of characters who have SLAs, like drow or furbolgs or numerous other creatures.

    If anything, the association with wild magic probably works to their detriment socially. Wizards have arcane magic, but at least they know how it works. I’m not really sure where you’re drawing a connection between the social stigma of unpredictable magic and being treated as “better” than anyone. I haven’t seen lore that supports the idea.