I’m not sure what his argument is or what he is trying to address entirely. I also used the looser term ‘kinda’ because before I had posted it I did read it all. Either way it was to address the quoted material, and even then it was more towards “Practicing the wrong shape = a huge waste of time” part.
For example: in 1. “Everyone openly acknowledges that some runes don’t really look like the actual drawings, probably should be adjusted, and that this would have side effects on existing shortcuts.”
Does this mean the drawings should be adjusted? Because that wont affect shortcuts. It is likely that he meant the algorithm that determines the spells should be adjusted because of inclusion of “this would have side effects on existing shortcuts.”
In two “Practicing the wrong shape = a huge waste of time, stressful, and the main reason that mages complain.” However in “It is true that learning some spells, for example, Frost 3, is mostly guessing. You slowly adjust the various lengths of the line, the angle that it takes, and eventually it just clicks.” is at odds with “Practicing the wrong shape”, for this is doing various different shapes. Further “Someone who practices a shape that is more successful” may or may not include the wrong shape, relative to the book.
In short I’m not entirely sure what Ian_L post is supporting. But what is sure is as Socrates said in his apology: “I seem, then, in just this little thing to be wiser than this man at any rate, that what I do not know I do not think I know either.”
Yeah hold up. I can pm you more different spells that have had at least one successful cast found in discord of people trying out ‘seemingly random’ things (file size constraints you know).
The book is something like a reference as you can see in the second video.