The Laws of the Handwave

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Well, the guiding principle I followed was pretty much that function follows form, the closer to a functional form the more likely it is to work, since that means the 'wave is putting its effect into making it work BETTER or at most differently, rather than making it work AT ALL. The wacky comes in to it after that to make things unpredictable, but if you've got a metal box with slots about the size of a finger cut in the top and thin wires strung across the inside connected to a couple of rheostats and a power supply, you're more likely to get a taoster than a holographic projector.
... and yes, that was a typo, but I think I'll leave it. It is the 'wave, after all - making each slice a perfectly balanced shade between light and dark every time needs to have a quirk, and having to chant "om" until the toast is finished seems suitable to me.
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
For the next 72 hours, Itachi intoned, I will slap you with this trout. - Spying no Jutsu, chapter 3
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