teacake wrote:
(Thassrite, Pold, I'm looking at mages.
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That's quite alright. As Mage-Jesus once taught us with a parable:
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There was an engineer who had an exceptional gift for fixing all things mechanical. After serving his company loyally for over 40 years, he happily retired.
Several years later the company contacted him regarding a seemingly impossible problem they were having with one of their multimillion dollar machines.
They had tried everything and everyone else to get the machine to work but to no avail. In desperation, they called on the retired engineer who had solved so many of their problems in the past.
The engineer reluctantly took the challenge. He spent a day studying the huge machine. At the end of the day, he marked a small "x" in chalk on a particular component of the machine and stated, "This is where your problem is." The part was replaced and the machine worked perfectly again.
The company received a bill for $50,000 from the engineer for his service.
They demanded an itemized accounting of his charges. The engineer responded briefly:
"One chalk mark $1. Knowing where to put it $49,999".
That which separates the good from the bad lies not in having three buttons to press, but in knowing when to push which button. A fifty button rotation could in fact be much simpler than a three button one if the larger one requires simple memorization of a button order while the shorter one involves judgment calls and reaction to changing situations.