Just remember to include a 666 timer
I once tried writing a bit with demons being like the “demons” sometimes used in philosophy where they’re more like mysterious, reality altering things that sort of hide between our understanding of the universe and the unknown as opposed to scary monster things. It didn’t really go anywhere. The person I was writing with vanished on me. I still think it’s an interesting concept though and it sort of fits this post
Edit: I realize this is an odd concept, this is what I mean by “philosophical demon” lol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_(thought_experiment)
In thought experiments, philosophers and scientists occasionally imagine entities with special abilities as a way to pose thought experiment or highlight apparent paradoxes.
The word “demon” here does not necessarily connotate a demon, a malevolent being. For instance, when William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) came up with the Maxwell’s demon, to highlight the implications of James Clerk Maxwell statistical interpretation of thermodynamics. He used the term in analogy to daemons in Greek mythology, supernatural beings as unseen forces of nature.
Have you read Childhood’s End by Arthur C Clarke?
No, what is that?
You will probably enjoy it.
As someone with formal education in electrical engineering, electricity is magic and we are wizards
I’m making this comment from a magical device that sends bottled lightning though rocks inscribed with very exact runes in order to display information from people all over the world.
Then software engineers harness that evil in mazes of their own.
At least that’s what the code I’ve read looks like.
BuT tHe CoDE iS seLFeXplaNAtoRy!!
you should really read “the laundry files” by Charles Stross. It’s a whole series of stories on this topic basically
Seconded. This is an excerpt from a comment I made the other day about it:
If you like making fun of quiverfull ministries, programming, Eldritch horrors, British humor (humour?), spy thrillers, agitated engineers, vampires that don’t exist, bloodthirsty elves, and a thinly veiled story about anthropomorphic climate change then this is the series for you.
Entities from other realities are listening and waiting for our computers to summon them.
Heretical machine spirits
Just sooth them, quarterly earnings report is due
The demons tell me they like it
Don’t share this with the Republican conspiracy theorists or they are legitimately gonna start spreading that on their Q boards.
Honestly, does he know how dumb they are? They’ll ban voltage or some shit.
Make America run on vacuum tubes again!
Lmao, do it… would love to see what that entails
SMT?
SMH. What a DIP.
