[UA] Computer Phreaking

[Michael Daisey]

I think that this may be an unpopular position, but I have never
	really enjoyed computer based magic in any game, esp. anything
	that resembles those damned virtual adepts from Mage.

	While the Compumancy writeup was quite well put together, I
	would contend that the mechanomancer is closer to a new take
	on computer magic...tech based magic that can't get to the 20th
	century.  Maybe a new breed of mechanomancers, young ones, will
	take this magickal art into its next itieration.

	Seems to me that tech magic is inherently artificer magic--that
	a computer obsession doesn't create magickal powers for 
	people, but creates transcendental computer systems, and the
	obsessions with devices leads to ignorance of humanity, which 
	also resembles the mechanomancers slow loss of memory.

	Just my two bits.  I am working on a school of cryptomancy that
	evolved from Kabbalism, and for me that would be a more 
	fertile version of the information-oriented magickal art.

		

-- 
Michael Daisey
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"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the
oath." Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek dramatist. Fragments, no. 385.