My dream is an "internet archive" for all video games, modded to run offline. If the game becomes unavailable for purchase, the archive opens that game and makes it available for all.

The next step is for this kind of release to become law, and supported by manufacturers.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do this with books too. How much we've lost.

[–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Anna's Archive seems to be doing a good job of that

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

+1 for Anna’s Archive. It’s an amazing resource for students too, since they keep research papers and textbooks.

And before someone gets up in arms about the research papers, the researchers don’t get paid by the journals for publishing with them. In fact, the researchers need to pay the journal to publish, and then the journal turns around and charges people to read it.

If you ever need to get research for free, you can usually email the researchers directly and they’ll be happy to share it for free; They hate the journals too, (because like I said earlier, they have to pay the journal thousands of dollars,) but feel obligated to use them to publish.

Even worse, that research and journal publishing was often funded by public funds and research grants. So the journal is paywalling research that taxpayers already paid for, and should be free to access.

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And before someone gets up in arms about the research papers, the researchers don’t get paid by the journals for publishing with them. In fact, the researchers need to pay the journal to publish, and then the journal turns around and charges people to read it.

What you're describing here is called predatory publishing and is not the norm. It's the "fake news" of scientific journals. I'm not "up in arms" about the original topic of making info available to the public whatsoever, just wanted to correct this part.

https://beallslist.net/

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Some respected, high impact journals also charge for submitting.

Lower quality journals charge more and almost guarantee publication.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What you're describing here is called predatory publishing and is not the norm.

No, predatory publishing "is an exploitative academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors while only superficially checking articles for quality and legitimacy" without real peer review. For context reviewers aren't paid by high impact journals either.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just donated to them. :)

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Good human.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

The fast downloads 🏎🏎🏎

[–] Zink@programming.dev 14 points 5 months ago

That sounds like a great plan for all types of media. We would better document our history and make so much human creativity accessible to those who cannot afford to indulge in what’s currently for sale.

Why do we not do this? Oh wait, it’s MONEY? Pfft, it will never happen.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Libraries are communist or something and ESA fights hard for games to stay out of them.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Education? Sounds very communist!

Translations of big text from left to right: "Our country should be most educated and cultural country", "Study and work! Work and study!", "To have more you should produce more, to produce more you should know more".

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Underdogs was such a great site

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I really hate what it's become. Bit of a hollow shell of the glory days

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

The next step is for this kind of release to become law

You mean legal deposit?