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bioemerl, to news in Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony

They're doing it in every country really.

bioemerl, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

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, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

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

bioemerl, to asklemmy in Be honest: if you had the power to stop time, your morals would go out the window.

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

bioemerl, to privacy in Meta offering two options. Either buy addfree experience or accept targeted ads

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

bioemerl, to privacy in Meta offering two options. Either buy addfree experience or accept targeted ads

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

The scandal! The outrage! The horror!

bioemerl, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

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.

bioemerl, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

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, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

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, to upliftingnews in Well, this is something! (fossil-free electricity in Europe)

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

bioemerl, to upliftingnews in Well, this is something! (fossil-free electricity in Europe)

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, to upliftingnews in Well, this is something! (fossil-free electricity in Europe)

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, to upliftingnews in Well, this is something! (fossil-free electricity in Europe)

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, to upliftingnews in Well, this is something! (fossil-free electricity in Europe)

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

That's really damn impressive

bioemerl, to piracy in Steam: New Pricing Needed For Argentina and Turkey by November 20th

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.

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