The Choice Of Magic

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Noticethat the secret lies in what the magician says. He merely asked the audience to choose a pile of cards. But he did not ask the audience what he wants the audience want to do with the chosen pile of cards nor did he commit himself to saying what he (the magician) is going to do with the chosen pile of cards. The idea here is being vague with what he (the magician) says. The magician never commits himself to what he is going to do.

I believe that you probably know how to do that too and will be feeling very guilty as you have probably done that very often to friends who performed magic tricks to you. Nevertheless, let me mention 2 very common scenarios here.

A tug-of-war will ensue between the magician and the audience destroying the performance. Let me tell you what. The magician will be very pissed if this happens. There is only one conclusion. The audience is trying to be nasty. He will vow to himself that he will never show another magic trick to this person ever again.

If the audience had chosen the first pile and the magician picked up the first pile that the audience had chosen, the audience would insist that the magician discard away the first pile or the audience insist on holding on to the first pile that he had chosen instead of giving it to the magician. In short, the audience will insist on forcing the magician to do the opposite of what the magician wants do.

How do I know this? As a hobbyist (a non-professional magician), I have performed magic tricks to my friends frequently and I have experienced this many times. This is not meant to be a complaint here but to point out that it is useful to test out your performance first before you actually put on the real show to a bigger audience.

Generally, magicians design and perform their magic tricks by operating according to a few principles. They are the principles of force, misdirection and verbal manipulation. Besides these, magicians spend a great amount of time practicing what is known as the sleight of hands.

When watching the Asian Competition, you can ask him to makeout. Then, you can have sex with him (defaulting to him topping you in doggy style). After that, you can make a bet with him, leading to you getting a blow job.

As for the story itself, I found a lot of the magic and interactions quite fun. Although the love interests felt somewhat static, they were each unique and interesting. My only nit is that you foreshadowed the ending too well, and by the point it came around I was all but yelling at my MC for walking into a trap.

- I get the impression Whitworth choosing you as the final sacrifice was entirely opportunistic but considering that you could have been successfully foiling his experiments up till that stage a weeee bit more exposition would have been nice

Yes, you can actually build a character focused solely on hand-to-hand combat. The issue is that this is essentially playing in hardcore mode. To win a battle using only your fists and nothing else, you have to consider these characteristics:

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The concepts of magic will be introduced gradually, without overwhelming the player with a lot of information. But I plan to create a very diverse system so that everyone can use it the way they prefer.

In stage magic, a force is a method of controlling a choice made by a spectator during a trick.[1] Some forces are performed physically using sleight of hand, such as a trick where a spectator appears to select a random card from a deck but is instead handed a known card by the magician. Other forces use equivocation (or "the magician's choice") to create the illusion of a free decision in a situation where all choices lead to the same outcome.

Equivocation (or the magician's choice) is a verbal technique by which a magician gives an audience member an apparently free choice but frames the next stage of the trick in such a way that each choice has the same end result.[2]

An example of equivocation can be as follows: A performer deals two cards on a table and asks a spectator to select one. If the spectator chooses the card on the left, the performer will hand the card to the spectator. If they pick the card on the right, the performer will take that card as his own and have the other card be the spectator's. In either case, the spectator receives the intended card.

The effectiveness of equivocation involves the "information gap" between what the spectator knows and what the spectator thinks he knows. In the magician's force, the spectator does not know anything about what will happen to the two cards he initially selects. However, the spectator thinks that he is making a free choice in an otherwise scripted sequence of moves.

Equivocation tends to lose its effectiveness if repeated in the same context, since the spectator gains more information from one performance to the next, thereby shrinking the information gap. For example, a spectator may wonder why his choice was kept in some cases and discarded in others.

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Heuristic-based analysis is pretty common in certain applications, and Apple has gone so far as to create their own user-language to describe the hard computery stuff: "Genius". I don't know anyone who doesn't understand "Genius" the way Apple presents it, but this raises a tricky UX problem for the rest of us.

This adjective is odd, and I feel like it might be segregating and wrong to invent new language every time the same concept is in use. Is there a better term than "magic" that won't run into copyright issues ala "Genius"?

I'd be inclined to "Recommended Sorting", but since it breaks the "Sort by..." pattern, I'd choose either "Sort Automatically" which breaks the pattern only slightly, or one of my favourite terms for this kind of "magic": Relevance.

That said, whimsical terms like Genius and Magic (and Automagic) don't bother me. I see them as shorthand for complex process that a good UX makes simple; in this case, it's personalized sorting. Since personalization features are often marketed as differentiators, new terms will probably keep popping up even if we try standardizing around one name.

If one is going to use playful labels for things, there must be a way to find out what the "fun" feature does. In my opinion, Google gets it wrong by not providing any sort of documentation on this feature (other than this old blog post). What's more, they've apparently broke the feature with their recent redesign, so that's a problem, too.

My favorite examples of "quirky" interface options on the travel search engine Hipmunk (which, if you haven't tried it, has the best UX of any travel site I've ever used, hands down). On their flight searches, the default sorting mechanism is "Sort by Agony", which is clearly and succinctly defined in their FAQ:

We know that price isn't the only factor that goes into purchasing a flight. While other sites sort by price, Hipmunk automatically sorts results by "Agony," which is primarily a combination of price, flight duration, and number of stopovers.

Similar to our Agony sort with flight search, we recognize that price isn't the only factor that goes into buying hotels. We sort by "Ecstasy," which is a combination of price, amenities, and reviews.

The bottom line: Having quirky/playful/fun interface elements is great, but only so long as it enhances the user experience. In my opinion, Google Reader's example is a distraction, not an enhancement.

To answer the question in the title of this question, I think the use of "magic" is appropriate given the right context. Google apps have a reputation of being slightly whimsical, so in that instance it is appropriate. If you were to use this same word in an application targeted at medical or legal professionals it might not be appropriate.

eBay's default (and recommended) sort for items is called "Best Match". You can sort search results either by price, listing start date, or by best match. It's pretty clear that sorting by "Best Match" will provide you with the best results in eBay's eyes.

I think this approach is much clearer than using the term magic. Magic does not necessarily have a positive connotation. Magic is more like something mysterious that you don't understand. Magic is not necessarily good for you, why would magical sort be something I prefer? It feels a bit unreliable for me, because if I don't understand it, how can I know it's dependable and will always provide me with a consistent experience?

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