bioemerl

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bioemerl,

Not really.

Rob a bank? Thanks to serial numbers they can tell it's you who is using the money.

Steal from your neighbor? Same deal. Someone will notice.

It's all risks and consequences. Most big acts of "evil" still have those risks and consequences even if you can stop time or whatever else. And your ability is going to be worth so much fuck you money to scientific and other use cases that you really won't have reason to steal or whatever.

bioemerl,

Money gets around and the government has a history of nailing people in unexpected ways.

bioemerl,

They're doing it in every country really.

bioemerl,

Oh my God you have to pay for a service you use?

The scandal! The outrage! The horror!

bioemerl,

Then don't use it. I don't use Facebook every day.

bioemerl,

Just pluck them on occasion, it's fine.

bioemerl,

Sweden had around a quarter of their electricity from fossil fuels.

That's really damn impressive

bioemerl,

Does it still produce more emissions than solar when your have spin up the natural gas plant every winter because people need heat and the sun isn't out?

bioemerl,

And convince them to build more nuclear plants.

bioemerl,

Wind is just as unreliable as support and hydro/geothermal are very niche forms of power that don't really work at the scales needed to run large scale civilization.

All green energy is intermittent. We need storage and/or we need nuclear. Storage isn't technologically feasible yet. Nuclear is. We need to reduce emotions soon. Build nuclear plants. Keep trying to figure out storage so we can decommission them later

bioemerl,

everywhere where you can dig a deep hole

You will need a lot of really deep holes to make significant power in most places. Of course you can get to the mantle from anywhere on earth. That doesn't make it practical.

Now you’re just saying the opposite of what you said before just to fit your agenda.

Don't be a pedantic shit.

pumped storage

Works when you have a lake on a mountain and a lake below the mountain. 90 percent of places? No such luck.

After all those decades of trying to figuring out where to store the highly toxic waste and so far nobody figured it out.

Literally just in a mountain or deep underground. It's been figured out

bioemerl,

Really I think your entire attitude here stems from a really big underestimation of how difficult large scale projects line geothermal boreholes and dams are, and how large these projects would have to actually be.

bioemerl,

Yeah, you're just hilariously out of touch with the scale of these projects.

bioemerl,

May all regional pricing end. I do not want to subsidize development costs for third world nations.

bioemerl,

I'd rather force companies to not use third world labor so they stop suppressing our salaries and pushing down investment in first world labor productivity.

bioemerl,

there aren’t any costs to subsidize.

Literally the entire development cost. Games don't appear for free. They are developed with the money you pay.

Regional pricing is basically saying that for some reason video games should cost more because you have more money to spend on them.

That's just asinine. Every other industry that tries it gets widely criticized for it. If you want to get more money out of people with more money, give them more stuff. Don't arbitrarily decide something costs more in one country than it doesn't another even though the distribution costs are identical and the development costs are identical between them.

bioemerl,

How do you think a price for a product is found in capitalism

It should be priced on supply and demand. It should be priced based on companies like steam having no ability to control which country someone purchases from and everyone on the first world just using a VPN to jump borders and fix the cheapest country available.

Basically we just been a regulation making it illegal for companies like steam to deny people access to regional pricing. Then they will be forced to find a price point that matches supply with demand, instead of fleecing the first world for more money

bioemerl,

Oh I think they are making more revenue by charging the first world more, but I also think they shouldn't be able to get away with it.

bioemerl,

Yeah they are.

The game is being sold to the third world only exist because the first world is paying as much money as they are.

It's literally a scheme to extract more money out of people. It should be illegal to prevent people from the ability to use things like VPNs to get those cheaper prices opening up the market and ensuring the prices actually match supply and demand.

bioemerl,

The alternative is not listing in those regions, not lowering prices for you

The alternative is marginally lower prices for the first world and higher prices for the third world as the prices become global instead of a massive grift which charges you based on how much money you're able to spend.

bioemerl,

Forcing global prices will mean that the revenue maximizing price for the first world will do down.

Publishers will not just ignore the global markets. They will just be forced to sell their games for actual value instead of "how much you can pay"

bioemerl,

Literally just open up a few games in steam DB. It's a smooth gradient of nations with differing prices. It would absolutely not be negligible.

bioemerl,

They have a supply. It's based on their cost to produce.

companies are looking at extracting maximum value for them. You seem to dislike that.

With artificial region locks that shouldn't exist. Open markets are better, and the bigger the market the better it is.

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