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We deal with most punishments via DM. Most people are chill with their first warning on the server and improve from there. Just needed a line drawn in the sand, I guess. People who utterly rage out melt down and start threatening the mod in the DM are rare. This guy who keeps showing up is the later. He also tends to drop some variation of, "Kill yourself NINGEN." before leaving the server of his own accord. At which point we close the door behind him so he doesn't come back so easily. Weirdly, leaving of their own accord is common among people who have a melt down at their first warning.

Going to be clear here. First warning has no punishment. We tell you what you did and note you have a warning and how the warning system works.

That aside, it's not just about appearance of cleanliness. If I had to put it simply without detailing every point on why we do things, it's about group mood. A server where you feel like discussion is walking into a battle ground where winning requires verbally strangling others isn't what we want. Maybe users are a bit dumb and cringe, but that's preferable to people looking for kill scores as their motive.

Some people would tell an amputee they are just imagining not having arms and would have them if they just tried having arms. Why is it people fail to understand the brain is a physical object as much as any limb?

Honestly, I'm pretty okay with classic vancian casting. At least in a general sense. It just needs improvements. Like not sucking for one. The concept is cool, but actually being a wizard isn't like what people upsell. They are either lying, omitting important things, or playing at a table that ignores half the rules that govern magic.

That said, the idea is sound. You just read the spell. So long as you understand what you are reading, the spell is shoved into your brain. Ready to simply unleash in an instant later. The more you do this (which is the same as studying magic), the more you can shove in your brain at one time. I'd alter the specifics so you the wizard isn't the most trivial to cuck class in actual practice, but the idea is great. Can overlay easily on some other, more esoteric, system. For instance, what's actually going on is far more accessible than wizards teach, but the cover exists for a reason. It focuses the phenomenon into a generally more potent and safe methodology. You won't kill yourself with it in the same way a power lifter can accidentally kill themselves lifting too much stuff. If your 'slots' are spent, that's that. A 'miscast' won't accidentally overwrite your existence to having always been a particular kind of desert dwelling rat either. You just lose the spell for the day. Isn't that nice? You just gain some, entirely manageable, limitations for these protections.

It explains the elitism around it well too. It's pure gatekeeping. Very warranted gate keeping. Granted, you could always do without it. You gain quicker, flexible, on demand power. Just try not to find out why Goku is responsible for sucking up more pure miracle cures than any other person in fiction ever.