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Oh, yes! As someone who has dabbled in card tricks, this so much. People don't understand how its done and can't imagine or conceive of a way that it possibly could be done, so they attribute it to literal magic or demons or whatever. Like, no, I just distracted you for a split second and used sleight of hand.

Technology is no different: someone has never even considered that this thing could be possible, and now they see it with their own eyes? Incredible! They don't realise that its mundane and has been possible (in much cheaper ways) for a long time. It was like a few years ago when some journalist posted an animation showing how Horizon Zero Dawn does frustum culling and all the non-tech people were all "wow! This game unloads the game world when its not in view! Incredible!", like... yeah? That's how games have worked since the advent of 3D?

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