Quote:Dartz wrote:Ohhhh ... you can make that function as a Discworld shout-out, too, in the sense that somebody in Warriors World of the type Dartz is describing has the same name as a Discworld character -- specifically, the wizard who built the computer Hex (Anthill Inside). Call such a person a "Stibbons." Witness the comments on Ponder Stibbons' style of being a wizard:
Whatever the word's going to be is going to be defined by where it comes from. Maybe I'm overdoing this, or overstepping bounds, but her goes..
UTM was derived around the same time as the computer science world was adopting the term 'hacker' with all the connotations? And Hacking is most definitely not confined to computer science - at least not any more. Would it go to far to suggest that there's some cross-pollination between both Computer Scientists and Magical Scientists in testing the hefty mathematics, while the term 'hacker' comes into
To which 'Real' Wizards react with scorn, comparing these 'hacker' wizards to a well known 'hack' stage magician known for formulaic, repetitive Las Vegas shows. It starts as a derisive pun on for UTM magic is defined by formulas and sort of becomes adopted by early adherands to the theory ad a badge of honour. Or am I re-using the adopted slur trop too much?
So, rather than an actual term, it's something derived from a particular person's name. As to who that might be, well that depends on who's considered to be a particularly 'hack' magician.... probably someone fictional. (And I'm overusing that adopted slur trope)
Quote:"Look, I don't mind summoning some demon and asking it," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. "That's normal. But building some mechanical contrivance to do your thinking for you, that's ... against Nature."
Quote:The Dean glared. "That's not magic!" he snapped. "That's just ... engineering!"-----
Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.