After a few decades, the idea of being a wizard is synonymous with working 8+ hours a day on magic that no wizard really wants and there is so little new spells and magic being created in the world that everyone wishes there wasn't any.

Then leaks come out that the products these megacorporations create have been slowly killing the planet and they've known for decades. But since they have so much power and money, nothing can stop them until the world dies.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Chemists are wizards?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I mean chemistry direct predecessor, alchemy, was basically in large part magical practice attempt.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

True. They didn't make gold, but they discovered phosphorus...I think? The reducing urine one experiment.

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I spend 8 hours a day gluing together spells my company purchased from a proprietary caster’s book to serve increasingly arcane (no pun intended) business needs. In my free time, I like to read about the latest advancements in corporate spellcraft, but most of the new spells are either patches of old spells or new spells that fix problems created by popular spells of the past 5 years. These new spells inevitably introduce new problems that will be “solved” in another 5 years.

[–] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Yep, that's exactly it. I'm assuming this is software dev in a nutspell.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

Yep. You wouldn't have adventurous magicians going out and casting spells against dragons. The variety of spells known by D&D type wizards wouldn't even be a thing. You'd have a guy who was a specialist in ritual-casting flame spells whose job consisted of continuously heating up cauldrons of metal ore so it could be smelted. If he was jumped on his commute home, he couldn't fight the attackers off with "fireball" or something. Maybe that was covered in school decades ago, but he's spent his entire career doing nothing but that one smelting spell Or, you'd have the "Gate" wizard whose entire job was to keep up a portal for their entire 8 hour shift, so that tourists could pass back and forth.

[–] NormalPerson@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Stop, I can only get so depressed!

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Bro made fantasy stuff into a capitalist dystopia

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

This comment made me sad.