[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

You can always shut up when people complain about known shitty practices by overstuffed companies.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That was one of the 'publicly perceived' points of Brexit and GDPR was either deemed useful enough to keep or, like most things, would take too much effort for the powers that be to get rid of.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

Windows has ease on its side. I've never had to learn CMD to achieve basic tasks in Windows and that's one of, if not the biggest point against Linux.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

The toilet paper machine is to mop up all the shit they keep dropping on us.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Still applicable in the UK. It was adopted prior to brexit.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Yes, close but not quite right. I want that level of writing and mechanical competence, but in the world of Fallout.

I can't say I'm looking forward to the fantasy as much, just not the genre/vibe I'm after. I'm still pretty full up on fantasy from The Witcher 3, which should say something.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Genuinely don't know but it received their seal of approval somewhere along the line, otherwise it wouldn't have been released.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Not sure what version but it had Buffout packaged and didn't work, not even after I replaced the mod files manually.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Sadly, I've not been able to get past the train bit at the start without the game crashing.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

Is that not what "Rockstar's standards" translates to now, after The Defective Edition?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

As hinted at in the title, assuming the technology/means existed that could absorb energy fast enough, would it be possible to stop a star from going supernova, effectively "calming" it?

This is for a novel (not exactly a sci-fi one) but I'd like to keep in the realms of "technically possible".

Edit. Thank you to everyone for providing answers and specific thanks to @Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com @radix@lemmy.world and @Deestan@lemmy.world for the for the further reading/watching materials that have inspired a narrative solution that is kinda hand-wave-y but should be good enough to hold up to scrutiny until the moment someone with a PhD (or good enough knowledge) takes a closer look at a fictional word with a soft magic system and smashes the big ol' BS button which I think is about as much as fantasy novel writer can ask for.

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