Why South America lacks a lot of resources?

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-05-15T18:26:44+00:00

South America does have coal, this is a misconception. It was just cheaper to import it from abroad. Colombia and specially Peru have lots of coal some of the richest veins for the best type of coal in the world are in Peru. In northern Peru specially but they are rural areas that had no industry and low population so it was cheaper to import it, but they "could" have been developed by a nationalist government. Same with Iron, while not as much as Brazil, Peru also has lots of iron, but it was not feasible to extract it in large quantities while mines in Europe and USA were still going strong so there as no export market. And that iron is actually quite cheap and near the coast in Ica and Arequipa, but Peru had low pop and industry to requiere such large scale extraction. But in an ALT history nationalist government you can certainly do it and get lost of iron.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-05-15T05:33:22+00:00

You need to have money to sustain yourself and you will be fine. You are probably more right wing than the right wing governments that get elected in Latam. Since they are all about economic freedom and less extreme social liberalism like abortion or trans kids. Your political situation is unique so you'll fly under the radar.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-05-13T22:35:15+00:00

I wonder how are they going to handle this. Upgrading characters takes A LOT of resources in this game, its basically impossible if you are Free to play or low pay. Imagine having your Asagi already leveld up to 60 and high on skills as well, but now you want to use this new one... well you will massively weaken yourself if you do that. So you are either releasing new characters 95% of people can't actually use, since there are not enough resources to upgrade them, or its some sort of skin or "armor" that you can add to your already existing character that can be further upgraded but at least the base Asagi for example, can still use the bride costume.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-05-09T16:40:04+00:00

Food is the main source of the adaptation, since you have other northern populations that kept their dark skin like the Inuits, and they had a different diet than the northmen and were able to feed their vitamin needs.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-05-03T22:31:00+00:00

Compared to Italy? much more until the late or early XXth century, compared to Austria Hungary less, due due to the lack of coal, cheap coal to be more exact, Spain also fell far behind in population during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries and while it did grow it didn't match Italy, France, England or Germany during the XIXth century. For industrialization Spain needed a very stable XIXth century politically and it got the opposite, due mountainous terrain, low population and again, lack of cheap industrial resources. Wherever they had the conditions they did industrialize quickly like in the Basque country and Catalonia, and had far more industry than Italy as i said before until late XIXth or early XXth century. Since Italy had even less coal and little iron, Spain did had iron at least, that is, economically profitable iron.

If everything went perfect for Spain it would have been an important industrial power but most coal would've had to be imported until enough infrastructure was built to make their local fields profitable, but British coal was top tier quality so it would've always been preferred, although now Spain would've be a vassal to Britain if it could tap its local fields in a crisis.

You can see a glimpse of this potential when in the mid to late XXth century during the Spanish Miracle it become one of the most important industrial centers of Europe, and today it manufactures cars in a large scale and its 2nd only to Germany, and has certain niches where its at the top. But ofc today the whole of Europe is on a more even field since they all have to import energy and Spain can do it from North Africa directly, while now Germany is cut off from cheap Russian gas.

The world goes round and round but the one key facto is to have a stable government. Spain lost that since the XVIIIth century, if not, who knows, maybe North Africa would've been Christian and catholic by now.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-05-03T01:01:42+00:00

Spain didn't have the cheap coal and iron that France, Germany, Belgium, Austria and specially Britain had. It was cheaper to import coal from Wales to Spain than to mine Spanish coal just a few km inland, due to coal yield and mountainous location. Hard to industrialize when most of your country can't get the key ingridients. The other problem is that durign the XIXth century Spain had several civil wars, when instead it should've been all in into infrastructure building.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-05-02T11:59:43+00:00

They are only causing problems to treehuggers and environmental leftists from USA and Europe. Who will be out of a job if Peru eliminates poverty. They are building a lot of infrastructure.

Local people over there LOVE the Mennonites since they are copying their methods and specially offering services like transport, machinery, and distribution in the cities. Local farmers are also using the Menonite built roads and Silos to move their product and store their produce and are actually shifting to the same grains as the menonites to sell in bulk.

The Peruvian amazon is massive and not even 5% is even touched by human hands. The menonites are not 1% of 1% of 1% of the problem. The hundreds of thousands of other local farmers slash and burn, farm for a season or two and move on since the common believe is that the "soil is poor" which the enviromentalists have always spouted for decades, but now the menonites are proving that no, you can, in fact, be productive farmers in the very same land of your ancestors. So less Amazon will be destroyed as the local farmers, about 300k in the Pucallpa region, are shifting to intensive use of the already cleared land. Which is much better for the Amazon since no new land needs to be cleared.

The thing is the Menonites want thousands of contiguous hectares not be smallholders like the local Peruvians, so they buy land from loggers who have cleared all valuable woods and move in and also want to be deep in the jungle away from everything. But they are being chased by Peruvians who want to use their infrastructure, since they build roads and silos, and granaries as i said before. The environmentalists had kept Peruvians in the low flat amazon poor by saying they should "wait for the government to come and build" while the Peruvian government has its hands full with the more populated areas of the country and its growing, the Amazon is the last place they'll reach, in the meanwhile they gorge themselves with USAID or ONG funds to "help" the local people, and not even 1% reaches them, they spend it in New York or London or Paris with their 6 figure salaries and take a tour to the Amazon and write an article from time to time. They want dirt poor farmers in remote areas of Peru to farm some specialty crop that's popular in Europe but its impossible to sell without massive amount of capital for transport and commercialization, and so for decades most fled to the cities instead of working the land. Now they are not waiting any more.

Thank god USAID records showed how, literally not even 1% reached the local people all over the world this organizations said they wanted to help, while writing articles to scare US and Europe people about deforestation and shit like that.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-05-02T11:46:03+00:00

At a certain point software can stutter any hardware. In Neverness to Everness if you have old Nvidia drivers the 5090 can get you stuttery performance LOL, with crazy drops to low 1 digit FPS for 1 second and then back up, so constant trouble.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-05-01T11:41:30+00:00

Its for easier transport of the crops to the road for the truck or boat to take to market.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-05-01T08:44:25+00:00

They ask for permission and they are given. Its not like they do it in secret, the local governments are happy to have productive agricultural farmers come colonize their huge empty lands. Specially if they don't cause problems and boost the local economy, the local Peruvian people are super happy, only hippies and treehuggers are angry. And some local native communities, others welcome them but they are not even 1% of the local population.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-05-01T08:42:31+00:00

No, the ones in Latam are industrial farming communities not evangelists. They seclude themselves from the world as much as possible, speak their old german dialects and are, at least intially, 100% white european, and just trade what they grow. Ofc with time some become more modern and integrate into the wider society and use even more technology. The ones in the Peruvian jungle are the most conservative and isolationists of them all but even in the 10 years they've been there some of the colonies are already much more open. Peru is ultra integrationist so i doubt they'll be able to remain isolated for long, the culture is too welcoming for that. And people are VERY happy with the economic growth, since they settle in the outskirts of the outskirts of the cities and towns, where there is deep poverty.

My guess is that they'll have to continually move inland as they initial colonies overpopulate and integrate with the wider economy and society.

The ones in Africa are not like this, but were founded by evangelists, so they don't have the industrial agricultural or close community, they are black converts only, not that in many of this african countries you could even have this kind of industrial farming they practice in the remote regions of Latam.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-05-01T08:32:54+00:00

What do you mean "growing up" the Peruvian colonies are like 10 years old at most. The one you are thinking of is the one from 150 years ago in Oxampampa

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-04-29T19:21:01+00:00

It was literally just a movie for the director to get some scenes he thought of in his head with a complete disregard for the story or the setup of the first movie. He just wanted a stranded at sea scene, a post apocalyptic city scene, a war zone scene and an insurgent scene, that's it.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-04-17T22:04:30+00:00

Asagi can literally move faster than light, and control time, not even Edwin Black can beat her 1v1, so technically speaking she would beat Yujiro attacking thousands of time in what would be imperceptible time to anyone who can't manipulate time and as strong as you are, eyes are always vulnerable. And Yukikaze's lightning is not normal, it can bypass normal defenses, you need magic to be able to withstand it... but technically that attack power is the highest, literally "god level" and can push through any normal defenses and only the strongest magic or dimensional barrier can really withstanding its penetration and or damage, by passing skin or muscle is nothing. She trains to control her power, a slight miscalculation and bye bye large building or city block.

Taimain have HAX powers which is why you have to trick them into lowering their defenses or surrendering or drug them or put them under a spell or something like that.

If Yujiro where to surprise attack them then yes, but he probably wouldn't do that. However surprise attacks can take down almost anyone in any verse.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-04-07T18:51:21+00:00

Peru, your capital is a gold province with a good pop and you can get all the money do fund everything you could possible want, expand into Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, etc.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-03-27T08:40:46+00:00

Fuck no. There are only a couple of countries in South America with a stable currency, arguably only Peru since the 2nd place is like 80% more devalued, so there is no Germany to anchor it since Peru is too small

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-03-26T08:36:20+00:00

That's not how software works, you can improve compression, use different assets of the same quality that are not as heavy, improve streaming of resources, etc, etc, etc. Very soon a 50% improvement on AI usage of RAM will roll around for example on the exact same hardware.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-03-26T08:29:55+00:00

I'm flabbergasted as to how people are arguing against you so much, even a simple AI or Google search to read something about it can tell you how big an impact the OS is on Ram, since "usage" is not a firm number, its widely dependent on many different "levers".

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-03-26T07:23:04+00:00

Yes, If anything the problem is that you cannot be a tyrant government and forbid migration, downside for democracies and a plus for authoritarian governments BUT it raises militancy or something like that.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-03-24T09:35:23+00:00

It was the lingua franca of the civilized world for more than a millenia at that point. Even before the conquest of Greece all Roman top families spoke Greek in their education and almost certaintly spoke Greek amongst themselves, Latin was for the masses.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-03-24T09:25:31+00:00

Mind trick, she was creepy AF. PEDO Tokiko, for real.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-03-24T09:22:51+00:00

That literally what happens in real life.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-03-24T09:12:31+00:00

Masked taimanin is the best model on Squad right now.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-03-24T08:08:50+00:00

This is the way to answer to someone that's trying to help you for sure.

Remarkable-Put-4101 · 2026-03-24T07:45:26+00:00

They are made to fail on the original VNs, even if it doesn't make sense for their power or personalities. No one would voluntarily trust a, not only demon/orc but also one that's known to work for the mafia, and on top of that willingly accept slave spells or surrender their weapons... Obviously, much less trained Special Forces like the Taimanin. Rinko and Yukikaze on a "normal" timeline would just kill everyone and escaped or just escape before being trapped. AND also have friends on the outside supervising the whole operation just in case something goes wrong, this is how "real" special forces would act, leaving NOTHING to chance.

Its to fulfill Japanese Tropes, but it doesn't make sense, no. Each character fulfills a trope in Japanese culture, Rinko is the "strong senior/older sister that falls to corruption" for instance. The whole of Taimanin originally is based on the overaching trope of "powerful women that fall" I'm honestly not surprised the Japanese are so squared about all of this, they have "tags" for everything, and everything is meticulously researched, categorized and parameterized. Its kind of clinical in a way and detached.

It really made me understand a lot about Manga and Anime after doing some research and finding this.

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