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0 pointslupire3y ago0 comments

Tangent: any hack magician that uses that device deserves to lose their career.

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As opposed to chess, magic is about lying and cheating. Everybody knows it and everybody is fine with it in magic, as you can see here in Dary's legendary ambitious card routine:

https://youtu.be/w4iu5FMaR2o?t=71

Edit: At the grand finale at 7:51 he says it again: "I haven't cheated yet, but it's coming up."

morelisp3y ago

Nonetheless there's a rough ranking of "acceptable lies", and a thumper - anything with a secretly complicit audience member, really - ranks near the bottom of that.

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jansan3y ago

As opposed to chess, magic is about lying and cheating. Everybody knows it and everybody is fine with it in magic, as you can see here in Dary's legendary ambitious card routine:

https://youtu.be/w4iu5FMaR2o?t=71

Edit: At the grand finale at 7:51 he says it again: "I haven't cheated yet, but it's coming up."

morelisp3y ago

Nonetheless there's a rough ranking of "acceptable lies", and a thumper - anything with a secretly complicit audience member, really - ranks near the bottom of that.

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