bioemerl

it makes ZERO sense to me that the U.S. hasn’t provided everything possible to push Russia out.

Israel

China

Venezuela getting prepared to invade one of its neighbors.

Couple of nations in Africa are getting ready to go to war too, I forget what the name of it was, Uganda? They’re wanting to get a path to the ocean.

The United States needs to be ready not only to fight in Ukraine, but also about four other places in the world right now. I’m in full support of giving them everything possible, but there’s a lot of valid reason not to go full of ham.

Oh yeah, I’ve had a few brown recluses crawling around in mine.

Also less chance of spiders when you go to bed

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Rape culture

Because someone said bitch and doesn’t follow your orders?

Lol.

But you’re also probably trolling

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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.

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.

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”

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Vegans are all about telling you what you can’t do.

Pirates are all about telling you what you can do.

People like having stuff for free. People don’t like being told what is or isn’t wrong and what they should or shouldn’t do.

A “lie” by definition is intentionally giving a falsehood knowing it’s a falsehood.

Yeah, well you said this:

are you aware that most AI “art” is actually just cobbled together assets from human artists

Which isn’t a question at all, just a statement of fact disguised as an opinion, and a false one at that. Your only “question” is if the OP knew, which is a shitty and manipulative shaming tactic at best

So don’t give my any crap about how you’re just asking questions or you “aren’t lying about anything because I could change my mind”

You’re not being polite or asking a genuine question, you’re spreading lies under the guise of asking questions.

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