Best HFY Reddit Stories: Do You Believe In Magic?

[@marclytle644]

Oh, you're a villain all right. Just not a super one. Whats the difference? PRESENTATION!

[@littlemisscloud8418]

Megamind reference go brrr 😂

[@MeatyZeeg]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C. Clarke

[@nickpossum3607]

"Your Ancestors Called it Magic, but You Call it Science. I Come From a Land Where They Are One and the Same." - Thor Odinson.

[@michaelernst3731]

was just about to type that my self.

[@evernewb2073]

"any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology" -some technically correct person on the internet, coinflip if they were being pedantic or trying to make a good point. *ANY* technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who do not understand it -Florence Ambrose...who is a fictional character but the writer attributes the quote to her rather than himself because it was him trying to think in-character for her (which just so happens to be an example of the point of this story, neat coincidence that). weirdly enough this really does appear to be the earliest instance of this corollary of the rule despite "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" being positively ancient floating around in some form or another.

[@evernewb2073]

whoops! I knew I was missing one but I thought it was just one of the rewordings niggling at the back of my head: this is not quite a corollary of the rule but it _definitely_ still applies here. "any technology which can be distinguished from magic is insufficiently advanced" ...not sure if that one is supposed to be an admonition for authors or the motto of some in-story character or group, I'm not actually sure where it is originally from.

[@MercenaryX21]

And that is the statement that made me disrespect Arthur C. Clark. To me that man lacked any soul because of that statement

[@silvadelshaladin]

"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things," Elric, Technomage.

[@peterwall8191]

*Silnadel Shaladin* Quoting Babylon 5? Unexpected and delightful t,o see people still appreciate one of the greatest shows to grace the small screen ,ever!

[@russellperry9902]

Bab 5 . I remember

[@silvadelshaladin]

@@peterwall8191 It was a real shame that B5: Crusade was prematurely ended. I would have liked to have seen what that would have been.

[@benjaminmcnairii2142]

Babylon 5. I salute your good taste.

[@russellperry9902]

Shared military shows... Equals what we're willing to brag about publicly.

[@AmataTai]

The aliens lost to the magic of Showmanship

[@nobodyimportant2470]

Most impressive doesn't always mean most destructive.

[@jazz_man3371]

@@nobodyimportant2470 So? They used Magic of showmanship in the Show of Force event.

[@Nyghtking]

I mean, why fire a laser gun when you can instead create a apparatus that makes it look like you're shooting lasers out of your fingertips?

[@kozag-realityauditor7075]

There is certainly a certain value in battlefield theatrics, Can't very well develop a countermeasure to something if you haven't got the faintest clue what it is they are trying to counter. No point in striking a munitions stockpile if they don't believe there are any munitions.

[@emilymiller3362]

@@kozag-realityauditor7075 if the people can not see the true source of the damage how can they stop it. And what's better hitting something in front of the crowd or the plain box that blasts something a mile away? Theatrics impress and scare people when it comes to technology that is destructive.

[@derekstein6193]

I can't help being a little offended on behalf of the stalwart and humble lasgun.

[@kozag-realityauditor7075]

​@@derekstein6193 "The Legionnaire that scoffs at a lasgun has not charged across an open field against a hundred of them." - Maor the Scarred, Siege-Champion of the Scargivers thanks for reminding me of this great quote

[@reesewhittington6778]

“UNLIMITEEEEEEED POWEEEEEEEER!”

[@masterb2130]

I imagine that the Terran government didn't want to waste their resources or show their actual military equipment, so they just hired the winners of talent show to do it for participate instead.

[@p5ychojoe138]

That's what I would do if I ran a galactic civ. Cloak all my military hardware once I know we have neighbors and know they know nothing and send people to do silly dances and blow something up from a distance and say a deity did it. For no other reason that to troll.

[@dandruff2865]

That's honestly how I expected this to go X3

[@crow2989]

@@p5ychojoe138 Jester: See that mountain over their? Alien: Yes? Jester: God doesn’t Mountain: Fucking explodes

[@AustralianGrizzly]

Halfway through the story... Paused for this comment. Either, 1: Humans found out about the Xeno's thoughts on the whole Fantasy genre and are using Tech to fuck with the Xenos... 2: This Universe Humans actually have access to Magic... EDIT: It was the first one.... Humans - "Oh your an Advanced Civilization, just not a Super Advanced Civilization..." Xenos - "YEAH! WHATS THE DIFFERENCE!!!???" Humans - "PRESENTATION!!!!!!"

[@UNSCPILOT]

Love that megamind reference by the way, gotta love top-teir showmanship

[@SirAlex0014]

This sounds like the funnest run of d&d ever

[@geoshark12]

Its called spelljammer

[@ewabrzakaa6395]

Larpers still got it

[@geoshark12]

“No military use “seriously? If your enemy thinks you can blast fireballs from your hand that would be a serious hit to moral

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

Yep. Deception and misdirection is as much a part of war as firepower. And if your enemy thinks you're using weapon A when you're really using weapon B... well their defensive reactions and the countermeasures they enact have a greater chance of being "sub optimal".

[@r.connor9280]

@@noppornwongrassamee8941 Depends if they even show up to the right battlefield in the first place

[@orlandobritt1460]

Humans : we advanced so far we got magic everything that lives: well we going to head out . Humans : kidding we just know how to put on a show and blow stuff up.

[@rewmangeorge5957]

Humans: "But you know, Magic isn't out of the table yet. Did you hear of Dyson powered Grey Goo? It could do wonders we heard. If we just tinker our DNA here and there we even might..." Universe: "Ait, we're out!"

[@wyvernharries4788]

I had a half a mind expecting cyborg ninjas or Nanomachines sword just shits and giggles.

[@Ragnar_Oock]

"Gods, Deamons and Spirits aren't real you say? Well, we'll just make them then"

[@jimmietherustle3622]

If you jail break your neural-link to connect to a cyberneticly augmented, genetically modified guard dog you can have your very own beast of darkness. Though you'd probably need at least a decade of trauma and PTSD for it to work as intended.

[@flyingturret208thecannon5]

Daemons & demons are two very opposite creatures.

[@SilentMech1]

The funny thing in my opinion is I occasionally wind up trying to scroll down as you read these stories. Also, we know it doesn't exist, but it still looks cool, so how can we do something similar? We don't need magic, we just need enough tech to fake it.

[@Cyrission]

Literally every person who plays Dungeons and Dragons when they go to war with pocket holograms.

[@shadowstalker130666]

Aaaand we trolled the entire alien society. Lol

[@msm007]

Probably caught wind of their opinions on myths and decided to have some fun.

[@generalharness8266]

@@msm007 given the first instinct was to claim mana, yeap. We trolled them, what you don't beleve but look at our power of beleif.

[@MercenaryX21]

The entire thing was just one giant magician's trick Of miss direction. If you ask me it's the perfect way to fool and scare your potential enemies and get your allies to think about asking for help.

[@phantomh2625]

14:22 Text: ..., and calmly utter the words: "Strike them down" NetNarrator: *proceeds to shout "Strike them down!"* Is this intentional? if it is, then is it a reference to that scene from Harry Potter where Dumbledore franticly shout and shake Harry while in the book it is written "... Dumbeldore calmly asked Harry..."?

[@aretailcashier450]

“The first sip of science will turn you into an atheist. at the bottom of the bottle you will find God” or something like that

[@talinpeacy7222]

Scientists study the unknown to learn that which is, Engineers study the known to make that which never was. -some space engineers loading screen probably

[@leodecipher9223]

“STRIKE THEM DOWN” Netnarrator said, calmly

[@Rawkit_Surgeon]

I cast gun!

[@nk_3332]

Human Mage: Oh that was all stage magic, Hollywood magic of making things appear different. The goal was to be impressive, right? Gullible Xenos: Oh, of course how silly of me. Human Mage: This is not the magic you are looking for. Xenos: This was not the magic we were looking for.

[@stevedixon921]

Humans, they all grow old with time, but some never grow up.

[@TheStartrek99]

What most people call growing up, I call allowing your spark to die.

[@ronoldcross8189]

Magic is just technology you do not yet understand.

[@farhadwardak4707]

Humans: We do just a little bit of trolling.

[@sandrolarocca3113]

This is really a damn good story🤩

[@toob1979]

Toward the end, the opening credits of _Amazing Stories_ began playing in my head. Good story.

[@yunaraginda]

Welp, Hard core Cosplay performance LoL. Cody even crossdress. and sure that sounds just like us.

[@davidvincent5701]

The wonderful world of B5's techno mage's.

[@tstuckel]

"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things."

[@davidvincent5701]

@@tstuckel ; Was that the motto of that group? I saw the spinoff show and your quote sounds similar to what their techno mage occasionally says.

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

Listening to this again, all I can think of is that the actual military would use the same tech minus the showy, time consuming chanting and flourishes.

[@evilmurlock]

12:44 Yelling out attack names, this is so anime!

[@milohobo9186]

I, for one, embrace the future magitech future of engineered fantasy.

[@applelord4746]

"Strike them down." Dumbledore said calmly.

[@seanrobert9661]

[documented contact]

[@zerozeta1090]

Life is so much easier now, since scientists invented magic.

[@michaeldougherty2807]

Half expected them to just use a nuke on it.

[@CryptoTwitterGems]

Net Narrator: Do you believe in Magic? Me: In a young girl's heart? How the music can free her whenever it starts? It's Magic, how the music is groovy and makes her feel happy like an old time movie? I could tell you all about it, it could free your soul, but its like trying to tell a stranger about rock n roll... do you believe in magic?

[@becausereasons8507]

The best part of this is that I can totally see our people doing this.

[@war97]

be really funny if it was actually real they just did not want to tell them about magic.

[@EverydayNormieMadafacka]

Wholesome But for a second there i was thinking that dark energy was mama in that universe which sound cool as hell

[@vanevanhaagen4011]

i find it higly plausible, that humans just over-amped their stuff to to the point of being actual explosives, and hoping their stuff will not explode, just to put up a good show. XD

[@sadewar3117]

Ah so they think we believe in magic? Well then let’s give them a magic show

[@fortkavanagh]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C. Clarke Ain't that the truth! lol 😂 😂

[@CheeseyBreezey]

They sent the larpers with "technology indistinguishable from magic" LMAO

[@engineerskalinera]

"Do you believe in magic, in the young girl's heart?"

[@tomasdubravsky4851]

you know what we need. we need story where the humans posses the technology of imperium of man from warhammer 40k, but do not want to destroy and purge everything

[@direwolf8703]

They basically told a couple of hardcore LARPers they were going to put on a show using experimental to fuck with the universe and they responded with say less.

[@emiljensen9705]

Hey net narrator can you read “The Oil” it’s a bit slow in the beginning but has become really interesting.

[@idontreallyknow3829]

the humans did a little bit of trolling

[@tristan.l.p703]

The greatest battle tactic Shock and Awe

[@junkbin6796]

Do I believe in magic? Depends. Is it in a young girl's heart? And only the music can free her whenever it starts?

[@medical-cyanide1526]

It was easy to see where it was going, still a really fun story!

[@Swirl_of_StarFire]

Lol, the humans trolled them

[@emilymiller3362]

Ahhhh the art of slight of hand of weapons testing proformaces.

[@jamesappling1212]

The further We explore the Quantum Universe, the more Magical the World becomes.😊

[@thelaughinghyenas8465]

A nice story, well done.

[@Frostyviewer]

New anime working title: that time I got reincarnated in fantasy but met Sci fi aliens instead

[@junkercitizen229]

id watch it, just please let it have more than 1 season

[@a177rhythm2]

That is exactpy the kind of trolling I'd expect from Mankind.

[@dukethecrusader7815]

Other races: Let science prevail over any foe. humans: "ITS WIZARD TIME, MOTHERFUCKERS! FIREBALL!"

[@Rokr83]

And than there are Terrans...... muahahaha

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

Bless the Narrator Bless the Author

[@Shythalia]

So, another civilization that can't distinguish the difference between fiction & nonfiction.

[@WallNutBreaker524]

The thing about Humanity when it comes to religion and science, is that they work in tandem 💪😎👌

[@michaelcgrigori7823]

Peace through power fellow believer, tiberium shall save us all!

[@arrogantforce5508]

Nice story! I would've loved if they had actual magic just for the thought of various advanced alien species, prepared to basically everything the galactic technology level can create, seeing actual fucking magic and going OH SHIT OH FUCK

[@Skurai_X]

tinfoil hat on, it's because hololive knows mario kart 9 is a switch launch title, and it's coming out March 7

[@TKSubDude]

Nothing like letting some LARPers loose on ailens.

[@alexandermccabe429]

Awesome

[@additiveartificer9365]

I CAST TUNGSTAN ROUND

[@SirSipness]

Next level larping

[@guardianofthetoasters2323]

If angels and cat waifus aren't real then goddamn it we will make them real!

[@klappstock943]

For the Algorithm the story and the voice 🎉

[@nutpirom8462]

Explosion!

[@thomaskelleyjr.1671]

Dude, it's just a prank Bro.

[@pandoratheclay]

Never underestimate cosplayers

[@kopkaljdsao]

Half way thru the video. If this is a Genshin advertisement I unsubscribe.

[@kristapsmazaiks3379]

awww... I'm actually a lil disappointed, woul've been fun if it was actually magic XD

[@anttimaki8188]

OH NO, they have weebs!

[@jimmycoyote74]

For the algorithm

[@Artemiska58]

Do you even spell bro?

[@theoharrison573]

first

[@disfuncionexe]

In a young girls heart?