DebatableRaccoon

joined 1 year ago
[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca -2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe look up atheism then try correcting your own comment instead of mine.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

I'd say YoFrodo's answer of apatheism is possibly the closest you're going to get, but speaking in general terms of not believing or caring one way or the other, you'd be agnostic, not an atheist. Atheism is the belief that there are no gods and out right rejection in the belief of any gods. Those saying you're atheist don't know what one is.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I've been playing it post malware removal and it plays well. Fairly certain it was still buggy until then though.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Let's see if they can somehow manage to make it even more of a performance train wreck than the last one.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Bad expectations and probably a lack of understanding of how launching expensive games as platform exclusives can hurt sales numbers. They were likely expecting the kind of numbers a game can only get from launching on the big 3.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Correct, and likely because some people refuse to download the apps. I know I was one of them. I say was because I now do my best to not use their services at all, and where I do need to, I use a third-party app so I can use one app for multiple messaging services.

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

I will admit it's not only the price that is a deterrent, even if that's now competing with a perfectly capable gaming PC that can do significantly more, doesn’t have an additional charge to play online, doesn’t have to deal with increasingly standardised subpar controller longevity, commonly have cheaper games, better sales, and will have a longer shelf life. I already thought the PS5 was a bit pricy at launch, at a time when I was still considering buying one. That time has been and gone, I've spent the money on upgrading my already decent computer into an absolute beast because I figured "why not?" and I still have yet to see a reason to buy the PS5. It's no secret that consoles are commonly loss leaders for the manufacturers while the exclusives are the money-makers. It's a way of doing business, that's fine, but to this day, I can only claim to have seen them release maybe 4 exclusives that I'd deem worth playing. That's already a bad deal. No-one in their right mind can justify paying full price for a console to play 4 games. On top of that, 1 already got ported to PC, one's got a release date, one's already had public response from the developer to be working on the port, and the last has really strong odds of getting ported too. 4 is my number, and I don't doubt other players would swap my own picks for something more their taste, or maybe even bolster the numbers, but I don't think anyone could make it as high as 10 without naming a game that was also released for the PS4 and/or got ported. So unless Sony gets their shit together, the PS5 tells us that the PS6 will be a bad deal.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My regards to Sony, the pricing makes it easier to not even consider buying one.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 days ago

Hardware theft is on the menu today, boys.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 33 points 6 days ago

And if devs are smart, they won't return anyway. They've tried it once and I'm fairly certain they'd be more than happy to try it again. The gaming market is all about death by a thousand cuts these days.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago (3 children)

They didn't exactly get a warm welcome when they first launched the poorly performing pile of excrement, which they never fixed so it's honestly a surprise they've clung on even this long.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The EA app. With Denuvo, that sickness goes away once the company deems the ongoing cost to not be worth it. That has yet to happen with the hellspawn known as Origin.

 

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.

 
view more: next ›