If JavaScript is enabled and you launch a pageurl#imageid link, the page understands this and opens with the overlay displayed.
The fun comes, of course, when someone with JavaScript enabled clicks on the image and copies the URL; then someone with JavaScript disabled tries to follow it.
If you have JavaScript enabled and want to get the proper URL of the image's page, the best solution I've found is to right-click the image and select "Copy link location".
]]>That sounds somewhat similar to the premise of Crime Traveller.
]]>That would also come in very handy to protect low bridges from lorries driving into them.
]]>It is true, doubtless, that some Civil Servants are incompetent, but certainly not enough for a politician to notice. A better idea might be that Civil Servants could remove politicians on the grounds of incompetence, although that is a sadly improbable notion because it would virtually empty the House of Commons, remove all the Cabinet, be the end of democracy and the beginning of responsible government.]]>
For example, wizardry includes a spell to turn its target into what it ought to be. 'Ought' isn't necessarily what the caster thinks it is, either; it's in the hands of the GM / author. I think anyone trying to come up with a science of magic inside that universe would have a hard time coming up with a reliable explanation of how the spell chooses what an object ought to be.
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