"Why, it would take some kind of insane megalomaniacal fiend to take pleasure in wielding the tapestry of creation to focus pure energy into reality through nothing more than my own will, the rush of electricity through my being, the power -- my god, the power! It's the only time I feel aliiive!"
"I'm sure he wasn't driven insane by being confronted with something so infused with unreality and contrary to Euclidean geometry that his rational mind instantly snapped."
That's hilarioous - this one comic is almost exactly what i was describing was wrong with mages in 3E in my "Where did the Solo-Mage Archetype come from?" thread on the old boards.