DebatableRaccoon

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[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago

AMD once again showing more of a pro-consumer stance than Nvidia. Good on them.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 hours ago

That's... a bold stance

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I find it much harder to put stock in these kinds of statements after GOG dropped the ball on their support for the Stop Killing Games initiative. Actions speak louder than words

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So it was you who fucked with February!

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

While you're wearing essentially a balloon or a strip of carpet and nothing else

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Those looking to censor and the ignorant letting it happen.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

The lack of forethought when casually allowing broad censorship.

PS: I'm really surprised by the amount of downvotes given the platform we're on so I have to assume my meaning wasn't as clear as I first thought.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago

I've grown to hate that famous quote "It's not personal, it's just business." because it's almost exclusively used to excuse people when they choose to act like sociopaths.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

For what it's worth, I don't think anyone ever considered it was a dev decision. Every comment I saw on the matter was cursing Paradox specifically.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've seen a few of your comments now where you're at least bordering on defending the product so as a best case scenario, I'd say you're already sold on it. If so, just buy it. Otherwise this is starting to feel like a weird advertising strategy. When reviews are 50% I'd happily throw it into the category of "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" and it's not even a particularly spectacular price. Most people don't need 1000W so you can save some money by getting a gold rated unit from good known brands. The drop from platinum to gold isn't all that important for a consumer. Otherwise, wait for a sale on tried and true Seasonic. We aren't all that far from Black Friday, have some patience and buy a product with some pedigree.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"CEO veers off-topic into existential crisis." Cool but what about some promise of people actually owning their games, Randy?

 

I've just recently got my hands on a Video and put an iFlash Quad in it. I intend to use it as a music source in my car and I normally put my phone on one of those magnetic mounts that you shove in the air vent (like this) so I'd like to do the same with my ipod so it's accessible to replay/skip songs while driving. This in mind, my question is whether it's safe to put the ipod on the magnetic mount without borking the ipod? I know electronics used to be sensitive to this but my knowledge of tech tells me it should be fine now that there isn't a spinning metal disk inside it but I'd prefer to not find out the hard way.

 

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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