It's not science unless you're using fancy equipment during the practical experiment!
In the name of scientific accuracy, absolutely. Can't go having inconclusive results, can we? Now I know one might be inclined to split him top and bottom but I posit we do left and right.
You've got my vote. I'm not American but you can rule over my country and give our band of useless cretins the finger too.
Given Sony's recent string of questionable business decisions and show their own customers what a bunch of shady pricks they are, they're probably desperate for any amount of caah injection to put on their quarterly report.
It'd be a very idiotic move, in my opinion but the push towards contactless payment methods seem to be the way banks and payment services are wanting to push society.
It's pirated because it's not through official channels and has the DRM removed, including the requirement for the 2K launcher.
As for the rest of your question, so long as I've understood that mess properly, it's the buyer's problem when companies start taking away the games we've paid for becauae they're hiding behind a license despite never disclosing the purchase had an expiry date or conveniently left out what that date is as time of purchase.
Control freaks laying out blank canvases for themselves and taking away your consumer rights one cut at a time. As a legitimate owner of the Mafia games on PC, I can report having a significantly better experience with pirated copies since they don't require their terrible launcher.
Such a shame. Easily the most enjoyable game of it's genre, in my opinion. I'm not sure I'd want to see a direct sequel but I'd be more than happy to see another story in the world, possibly where new and old characters cross paths.
It all makes for a complete package, honey 😍
Yeah, I'd love to know how they're getting this business plan legit when even grey key sites can't even match those prices.
It used to be called Bundle Stars though I dare say most would have been more familiar with Humble Bundle until the Fanatical rebranding in 2017.
And likely runs better if my experiences with Cemu and the Wii U version of BOTW running better than native Switch are any indication.
You can't delete what was already destroyed!
It's not exactly difficult to have more content than those services when they keep fucking around with exclusivity bullshit.
Supernova Absorption for Nulification
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 @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected] 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.