The reason you use dead languages for magic is that they don’t move. Spells in living languages spoil within years due to semantic drift.

Neat side effect: the semantic resonance between digital magic and your digits makes keyboards unreasonably effective in its control.

Apart from this, digital magic has quantization artifacts from low resolution that leave glitches. And lacks a certain analog warmth.

You’ll need to use specially hardened processors, strong magical fields will often transmute your boards into something semantically close.

There are a few practical challenges. Should you stop simulating space, the GPU will quench violently and release magic smoke, lots of it.

Getting magic into a computer is a challenge though: It took a few breakthroughs in psionics and information theory to add a meta level.

It also turns out magic is not picky about what space is made of: GPUs soak up magic like sponges when running certain computations.

Fractal pyramids for a really sharp focus. Interwoven rings and splines as broadband magic storage. Spinning iron rods as temporal lenses.

I step out of the portal and all the trees are petrified, the dryads dead at my feet, the last bit of magic powering the portal fizzling

Binary trees make for a decent magic conductor in a pinch. Magic has not yet caught on that they’re not really wood. Please don’t tell it.

A core principle of attack magic is: Disorder is easy. Destructive spells are easier than their constructive versions.↵Just consider nukes.

attempted def: meme magic is internet mediated hyperreality’s brand of magic. it becomes real wherever the internet is about itself.

alien magic betrays their own perceptual biases, so it is incompatible to ours and exactly as incomprehensible as their minds

magic as tricking reality into seeing patterns in the noise↵magic as imposing human perception on reality

[At which point world builder brain piped up and was like “hey it works essentially like crypto! magic compatible!”]↵https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/712422004343840769

Objects that have no Adamic names cannot be addressed in Enochian, making them immune to magic. This includes a lot of our modern world.

With those “true language” based magic systems like in Eragon, I wonder: How has nobody ever asked the universe a nonterminating question?

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It is Christmas day
One of the many things to look forward to each year is, of course, the end of year holidays. Christmas, Festivus, or whatever you call it, the end of December is always a special time. My only complain, and that might be yours too, is that it comes and goes so fast! Kent has finished opening his presents, and somehow it feels “it is all over.” But we waited the whole year for this! We stayed up late wrapping gifts, gifts that are now open, and the “magic” gone. It should not be.

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BBC and WoW
From one article on today’s BBC Online news:

Occasionally gryphons and hippogriffs swept majestically overhead taking their riders to elsewhere in Azeroth or, as it is also known, the World of Warcraft (WoW).

At the edge of the computer screen chatter constantly scrolled past as other WoW players sought members forguilds, buyers for magical items, help with quests or engaged in idle banter.

Go and read: [A Walk in the World of Warcraft](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4294122.stm “ … ⌘ Read more