It’s F1. The driver with the fastest car always wins, not the driver with the most talent. It’s been proven year after year for the last thirty+ years. Put Verstappen in a Williams and he’s be a moving pylon. His two championships have been due to fortune and fortune alone. Last year he was gifted track positioning in…

OK, that’s one way he’s maybe(?) helping the owners but did AD want to be a Laker LY? Cause he wasn’t, due in large part to his agent. I don’t really know how well he’s done on every deal he’s been involved in but screwing the owners (which I’m fine with) is not necessarily the same as getting a client what they want.…

Do yourself a favour and watch it. It holds up.

I still don’t understand the rationale for a separate imprint.

Yes, and it makes her character even better. She’s awesome because of what she does and the content of her character, not because of ancestry.

This is in California. No way building a bunch of tunnel systems for heavy car traffic is a good idea, because what the fuck happens when there is a major earthquake and people are in a fucking traffic jam in those things?

Why not four, indeed?

He has a point. Constantly telling people they suck for not doing what you want is seldom a good way to get them to do what you want. Mostly it just convinces them that you can't be pleased so they should not bother trying.

The comic Planetary described it succinctly and well: "Magic is the cheat codes of the universe."

Easily one of my top five favourite comics of all time dealt with this subject in a wonderful way. It tackles the explanation through the eyes of chap called the 'drummer' - a geek who thinks in video games and computing terminology. (hence the language)

Alan Moore's Promethea. As didactic as it gets

Two best explanations I can think of are the "source" in the Wheel of Time series, and the multiple dimensions in the Steel Remains.

Anything by Brandon Sanderson. He might not explicitly reveal the rules all at once, but every single magic system in his books runs on consistent and predetermined mechanics that regulate their operation. As you read through his stories you can begin to extrapolate and try to fill in the blanks of the as of yet…

I was very enamored with Sanderson's Warbreaker system of color based magic/alchemy: