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[โ€“] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Don't get me wrong, it's decent entertainment. It's just disconnected from any kind of scientific or technical reality and a part of me is rolling my eyes for a lot of it. And maybe a bit frustrated because I like thinking about things and analyzing and problem solving. I prefer hard magic systems over soft magic ones because there's no point in thinking about soft magic systems because they just do whatever the plot calls for when it calls for it while hard magic systems have to build up to it and need to be clever to surprise viewers.

Tony uses a soft technology system that defies thought.

A sufficiently advanced technology even