Real talk, what is the real barrier to somebody creating a competing publishing firm for these things.

I'm not a scientist, but I always hear about how expensive it is to either publish or get access to scientific papers without contacting the author directly. Why does that reputation exist? Why does it seem like the scientific community is so dependent on stuff like this?

Do it 2 days before highly anticipated mod drops

The biggest thing he got wrong is the assumption that it's good programmers writing libraries.

This was my take away. They paid 1 individual over twice the amount they lost last year. That fix is easy math to me.

This doesn't mean they aren't. Just that we don't have proof yet.

Back in my day we just looked at photoshopped pictures of celebrities like respectable men!

Are you suggesting that just because their ancestors were tortured beyond recognition that they are no longer worthy of basic rights?

That's definitely a hot take if I've ever seen one.

Not gonna lie. I've never heard of Substack but I appreciate their stance of publicly announcing why I would continue to avoid them.

Where is the nearest fire to dump this comment in?

And this whole conversation overlooks one of the major complaints a player would have of Bethesda did the same thing.

Entering an atmosphere changes the physics and those physics are different for all sorts of reasons on every planetary body for every ship. From gravity to atmospheric density the ship would fly differently on every one and that ignores the fact that ships are near enough to infinite in configuration in this game due to the builder.

If Bethesda did this, players would be complaining it wasn't realistic enough.

Lemmy is a collection of instances with the express purpose of each instance getting to set us own moderation rules.

As a concept, it can neither be pro or anti censorship as the software doesn't enforce either model.

That's not a Reddit thing. That's just a thing.