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Why Everyone Hates Wizards by Mattias Pilhede
This has nothing to do with the actual video, but I feel like wizards suffer from the same issue as super heroes and anime characters do.
Like, yeah, it's cool what they can do. But also, they're practically invincible. No matter what situation they get into, you just know they'll have some spell / super power / forbidden technique to get themselves out of it.
That's only a problem of bad writing. In good writing, even the most powerful beings can be threatened. Good writing has internal logic and conflict. You cannot have either with the shitty kind of, "I snap my fingers and fix it" magic BS you reference.
At the end of the day, ALL of fiction suffers from the problem. Outside of fantasy, Plot Armor still exists. Any poorly written character can become uncompelling.
Tolkien's magic can't do everything, and that's its strenght.
Huh. Won't play on my mobile Firefox.
It's been broken for months atleast. I've never seen it work on mobile firefox
Piped is meant to avoid Google's tracking, yet requires a chromium browser to work.
Kinda sad
Here's the YT link (note it's easy to change between them, and no www on the piped link).
And yeah, even on desktop I find the alternatives hit-or-miss often for stability or different reasons.