Hence the desire for a single player offline version of the game...

Not everyone believes that devs are the authority on what makes a game fun, which is why mods are so common on PC games.

A democratic republic is a representative democracy.

Backup ASAP as thoroughly possible and accept you'll probably need to start over. Schedule backups more often in the future as a lesson learned.

However by only contributing what you dislike as opposed to contributing what you do like, you’re coming across as entitled and disrespectful to the spirit of the community.

This is an odd perspective. They're literally contributing by fixing what they dislike and preventing others from having to waste time. They don't come across as entitled. They come across as helpful and respecting the time and attention spans of the community.

This is a decent one, but a ton of the HFY stories are just so problematic. Many just feel like they're congratulating humanity on being vicious and creatively violent, like they think the Terran Empire in the Star Trek Mirror Universe were good guys.

Otherwise, a bunch just feel lazily formulaic and repetitive with others. Take a random human trait or convention from a human culture like say...fried foods. Use an alien narrator to describe how weird they think it is to fry foods. Find an angle to portray humans as plucky and great for their fierce devotion to frying foods and involve it in a narrative about humanity winning against greater odds. "And the human just dumped the entire chargizoid corpse into a vat of boiling oil! And then he took it out with something called tongs and ate it, skin and all! And that's when I knew I needed humans on my side in the coming galactic war..."

I guess I feel like the subgenre plays on the optimism of Star Trek utopianism, but ditches any real criticism of humanity's past (or our present). I think the message from Orville's Season 3 Episode 10 about what made humanity better in their past is a better heir to Star Trek utopianism than most of the HFY stories I've read.

Okay...? Now you're just posting random shit.

You're sealioning about sealioning now.

That's literally the only comic from Wondermark I've ever seen and it was after I saw the term used a lot. That it originated with a comic doesn't mean everyone who uses the term reads the comic. You assume too much.

It's still not stealing. It's plagiarism or fraud or any number of other terms, but stealing necessarily requires the deprivation of a limited, rivalrous thing, like money or property. You can't steal fame or exposure or credit, except poetically. And by that point, the word becomes so watered down that it's meaningless. You might as well say I'm stealing your life seconds at a time by writing this extra sentence.

The purpose of using the term stealing here is only to borrow the negative moral connotations of the term, but it doesn't communicate clearly what exactly is happening.

It's perfectly valid to say you consider it morally equivalent with theft, but it's not stealing.

There's plenty to criticize Google over. It isn't necessary to make stuff up or misinterpret or exaggerate.

Did you respond to the wrong comment? If not, you read a lot into what little I said and much I wouldn't have said, had I said more.

But Bezos' earnings are in addition to what Amazon uses for personnel expenditures, so that's not instead of, it's in addition to the number of people Amazon already can and does employ. Something like ~1.5 million employees, though that includes higher paid employees as well as the warehouse and delivery personnel.