No, I told you that you sound like a larper because you avoided answering direct questions and decided to be theatrical instead.
Probability manipulation sounds like a type of magic, not all magic period. Seems like you are putting magic in a box to fit whatever abilities you believe you have.
He's too extroverted, I'd never want to live like that.
Anything that you are attempting to do with magic that requires "extra help" through your own efforts, is something you should have just done through your own efforts to begin with.
You don't shoot a bear with a gun and then run up to it while it's on the ground and start trying to punch it to death lol. If you had that kind of strength to begin with where you could kill a bear with punches, you wouldn't need a gun from the start, which makes you learning how to shoot, getting ammunition, etc, absolutely pointless.
There is nothing I want to do with magic that could be achieved through personal effort, else I'd just put in extra effort and get it done myself.
He uses Chaos magic, and there's a reason I avoided even going down that path, because all descriptions of that kind of magic seemed to be devoid of any kind of "direct control" (hence why it's called "chaos" magic).
It just sounded like a "set it and forget it" kind of magic where you just "hope for the best". To me, that doesn't sound any more different to praying to God and hoping that he grants your wish, and grants it to the degree you wanted that prayer to work.
Magic like that is too vague and open to interpretation. Of that 35% there are probably results that he interpreted as a success simply because his intent was something that could have been granted in various ways and in different degrees.
For example. He could do magic to have a specific persons apartment set on fire, and the entire apartment building goes up in flames along with their apartment. Or that specific persons apartment is set on fire and is immediately extinguished by the person. Either outcome could be interpreted as a "successful attempt" in chaos magic.
I don't consider either of those outcomes a successful attempt. To me, that kind of "magic" is nothing more than throwing knives at a target while blindfolded, and hoping something sticks. A successful attempt to me would be someone creating an elementary that specifically goes to that persons apartment, and specifically burns away the interior and furnishings of that apartment (or a specific item of choice), and even if they extinguish the fire it starts back up again, and the apartment building doesn't burn down.
Magic itself is an impossibility, that's the irony of drawing these arbitrary lines in the sand of what you can't do with magic. Why not take that logic to it's conclusion, and assume that the limitation of the physical realm means that no magic is possible?
The irony of you telling me I am a "sad case" when your example of the best feat of magic, is a guy burning himself to death without screaming in pain. Talk about setting the bar low, what's sad is that your mental concept of magic is that it's
ABSOLUTELY USELESS
The BEST feat you can think of is a guy killing himself?
REALLY!?
Imagine if he had instead........ IDK, stayed alive and helped some people instead. That would ironically be a greater feat of magic even though it requires no magic to pull off.
But nah, killing yourself in protest is definitely a great feat of magic, oh yeah.
Not to mention that he could have drugged himself beforehand, one drug to numb the pain and another to kill him shortly after he ignited the fire so he only had to resist the urge to scream for a few minutes. You said he burned into charcoal so I doubt there was anything left to do an accurate blood test to check for drug use (very convenient).
I said I'd add you to my ignore list if you didn't answer the question, which you did.
Once again, I said you sound like one, not that you are one. But notice you are giving direct answers now instead of wasting time on BS theatrics. If you could respond like this off the bat I wouldn't have said what I said.
You are now contradicting yourself from when you said your definition of magic doesn't fit what I said here:
1. Your response doesn't make any sense because magic itself is seen as impossible, and that's any form of magic regardless of the limitations. So your response is like saying "magic can't make itself possible".
Magic by default is already considered an impossibility.
Astral projection should be impossible, can you astral project?
If you say yes, you are contradicting yourself. In fact any feat of magic you claim you can do is a contradiction, because it should all be impossible.
Let me guess your next response - "It's impossible to the up to an arbitrary line that I get to decide for everyone else"
Lol, how convenient.
2. You're doing what 99% of people on occult forums do. They know they've never done anything "impossible" themselves so they project that perceived limitation onto magic itself.
Since they can only achieve the mundane, they redefine magic as the mundane so that their "feats" and their believed limitations of magic all line up.