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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 13180132 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #153615 on: September 12, 2020, 04:36:26 am »

depending upon magic limitations and the exact nature of magic technology might either let wizards cast more spells or allow them for save their effort/energies for less mundane, automatic, 'secondary', or requisite spells.

Something like making intricate shapes on the ground, carving vessels/containers, maintaining air pockets/pressure, automated defense, PDAs.  Wizards could really save some time and effort if they used some technology.  And there's always lazy people, wizard or not.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #153616 on: September 12, 2020, 04:59:26 am »

That poop quote feels to me a lot like s joke though so I assume it is.
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« Reply #153617 on: September 12, 2020, 05:01:25 am »

If they just shat their pants... Why did they have flush-plumbing toilets at Hogwarts?  :P Was it *exclusively* a place for secret chambers and polyjuice potion?

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« Reply #153618 on: September 12, 2020, 05:04:28 am »

I wonder, did Slytherin build that bathroom with modern flushing toilets circa 1000AD? Or was that a later addition that whoever did the remodeling completely missed the giant pipe leading to a basilisk nest?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #153619 on: September 12, 2020, 05:20:05 am »

I wonder, did Slytherin build that bathroom with modern flushing toilets circa 1000AD? Or was that a later addition that whoever did the remodeling completely missed the giant pipe leading to a basilisk nest?
Counterpoint: maybe the bad guy brought the basilisk later.
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« Reply #153620 on: September 12, 2020, 05:28:59 am »

Or the basilisk is an important part of the plumbing as it eats the poop so they don't need more complex sewers.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #153621 on: September 12, 2020, 06:09:28 am »

It takes care of the mice of unusual size... wait, wrong movie.
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« Reply #153622 on: September 12, 2020, 06:29:27 am »

I think the basilisk pipe thing was explained by the heir of Slytherin at the time somehow preventing the plumbers from realising what it was. Perhaps Imperio, then a memory charm.
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« Reply #153623 on: September 12, 2020, 11:06:46 am »

Or the basilisk is an important part of the plumbing as it eats the poop so they don't need more complex sewers.

But wait, if the basilisk has to eat it's only logical that it has to poop as well.

Who eats the poop of the poop eating basilisk??
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« Reply #153624 on: September 12, 2020, 11:40:02 am »

Let me just say, this is a very thread-appropriate discussion.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #153625 on: September 12, 2020, 11:41:43 am »

Where does the Hogwarts sewage run off to? Do they have a modern sewage system complete with pump stations? Of course they don't, wizards don't even understand what cars are, let alone the intricacies of modern public sanitation.

The answer: The ancient Romans ran their sewage off into the nearest body of water and there is a giant lake right next to the school oh my god.
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« Reply #153626 on: September 12, 2020, 11:54:57 am »

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« Reply #153627 on: September 12, 2020, 12:12:02 pm »

For something as simple as moving water through pipes, enchantments could work just as well or even better than their technological counterparts, so a low tech but high magic society could end up with something which very closely resembles a modern sewage system through convergent evolution.
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« Reply #153628 on: September 12, 2020, 12:32:30 pm »

Again, you can just vanish the daily effluent.

A chamber pot is just fine, if you have your wand ready. Aim and POOF, no more poop.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #153629 on: September 12, 2020, 12:42:53 pm »

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