actually we do both, and they are both necessary. Reforming or revolutionizing the system is the root of it all, and in the meanwhile, calling out and demonizing people consciously using the most wasteful and unethical tools available is also good and important. People that keep using these generative AI tools while aware of their impacts deserve being made fun of and cast out of a society which they clearly don't care much about

Just because you had the chance to avoid it (or so you think at least) doesn't mean it's okay in any way, and society for for everyone is being durably impacted by all this fir the worst, demonstrably so. So yes, we'll keep complaining and denouncing it, sorry for your terrible inconvenience

Ah yes, the famously human and ethical devs of f2p games, so ethical in fact that some were found in violation of the law in several countries due to their horrendous monetisation schemes, abusing neurological biases to exploit vulnerable individuals, and being all around predatory...

I couldn't disagree more, I love the game and think it's first and foremost a solo experience. I have around 500 hours in, and about 400 are exclusively solo, in various games since build 38. It's in single player where the truth of the apocalypse hits you, the dread of being alone against the world knowing you will fail but not knowing how and when... Even the sleep mechanic is exclusive to single player and drastically changes how you can approach the game, sticking closer to the gritty realism themes. Multiplayer, even in really harsh settings, often ends up with a somewhat trivialised survival, and sort of a devaluation of defeat. Unless you want to play it hardcore and reset if anyone dies (which can be understandably upsetting to some), you'll just respawn a character, get your stuff back, and you'll only have lost some xp and time which your mates can help you power through, instead of a entire "life" you really cared about.

Don't get me wrong, multiplayer can be heaps of fun, but I truly don't think it's the core of the game, and I'd really encourage you to try your hand at some solo play if you can be convinced :)

Perhaps a 1 user bump to their online user count, so really nothing of importance, like to other said, enjoy yourself with what you already payed for, and rub in that publisher's face that they didn't make anything good since ;)

Hi ! I don't need any of these, but I still wanted to thank you for this initiative :)

Yeah actually I can weigh in, I worked in a dairy farm for a summer, and besides I have a bachelor's degree and a Masters in animal biology and ecology.

Dairy production is at best questionable, most often barbaric. Cows undergo forced impregnation as soon as they are of age, go through pregnancy (a stressful situation for most mammals), have their baby almost immediately taken away from them so that all their milk is available for farming, and are again impregnated as soon as production starts to dry up. The cycle goes on until the cow's body can't take it anymore, then it's killed.

Some farms, especially smaller ones, are more humane, with the newborns able to stay with the mother, and a more delicate milking procedure, sometimes even keeping the older cows in the fields instead of sending them to the slaughter, but it's VERY rare.

And to be precise, I am neither vegan nor even vegetarian, but I am definitely politically opiniated against the agricultural industry as a whole, and meat industry first and foremost

Jizz is only a few percent spermatozoids, the rest is seminal fluid mainly produced by other organs like the prostate and seminal vesicle, so you can absolutely ejaculate with no testicles

Not my timezone of availability, but wishing you all the best ! We regularly run Mothership with friends and it's among our favourite systems :)

Yes, my cat, as you can see in my post history. This poster just steals shit and reposts it

It's both, as in not all fossils preserve things other than hard tissues, but new methods allow both deeper examination and understanding of known exceptional preservation, and discovery of previously unknown soft tissue fossilisation. And anyways, finding any fossil is still as cool as it ever was ;)

Finally my time to shine haha ! Professional paleontologist here, the answer is "yes, but"

We do undersample EVERYTHING solely due to how rare and exceptional the fossilization process is. We especially undersample anything other than hard mineralized tissues, so yes, a lot of metamorphosis is forever lost, but that's a drop of water compared to the universe of soft bodied creatures that we will never get to know...

However, we are not that clueless, for several reasons. First, using a kind of uniformitarian thinking, we can speculate that ecological communities were similarly structured to those we know today, and as such estimate what we're missing, particularly how much we're missing. But also, and perhaps the most exciting, we do discover new things everyday, and I don't think that people grasp how much our discipline has evolved and been changed by new technologies in the last 20 or so years. Scans and 3D imaging techniques allow us to examine the most minute details of fossils previously hard or impossible to study, and methods such as Synchrotron powered X ray fluorescence allow us to unravel unprecedented levels of details and information on soft tissues. I had the opportunity during a research conference to discuss the results of a young researcher working on amphibian metamorphosis on specimens about 300 million years old, using these technologies. He was able to study very early stages of development, and observe structures such as intestines, eyes, and even the various layers of skin !

In conclusion, yes we definitely undersample metamorphosis, but we probably don't underestimate it that much today, because we can estimate how much we're missing. Furthermore, new technologies allow us to study unprecedented levels of detail, including unseen before soft tissues.