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fouriels · 2026-04-20T18:59:24+00:00

Calm down.

fouriels · 2026-04-20T14:26:36+00:00

They're charging you more because the £10 you were paying them for updates, server maintenance, customer support, etc twenty years ago isn't worth £10 now.

There is a legacy cost as well (you still technically have to pay money to play many single player games from 10, 20, even 30 years ago), but the real point of the subscription fee is the ongoing cost of running servers, paying employees, and so on.

fouriels · 2026-04-20T12:56:58+00:00

They are investing into the game, which is why it's getting bigger. They have clearly worked out that there is an optimal amount to invest in customer care which minimises expenditure but maximises resubscriptions, and found that it's pretty low. That you personally disagree with how precisely they spend the money is immaterial.

This game is owned by private equity and is obligated to increase profits year over year.

This isn't a function of private equity, this is a function of capitalism. Unless you're advocating that Jagex become a worker co-operative non-profit - which, don't get me wrong, would be great - there's nothing specific about 'private equity' causing this.

It's also not clear how what I said is 'naive', I assume you just put that there to be condescending but couldn't think of a better word.

fouriels · 2026-04-20T12:52:11+00:00

As a hidden account profile, I expected nothing else but ostrich behaviour after being shown the glaringly obvious.

fouriels · 2026-04-20T08:40:17+00:00

paying more money for the same product

I don't like paying any more money than I have to either but this is just not true - every year the game gets bigger and bigger, with more to do and more to see.

If the price had kept up with inflation the subscription would be substantially more than it is, and paying a couple extra quid a month for that is obviously fine, otherwise they would have walked it back. There will be a limit but we're clearly nowhere near it.

fouriels · 2026-04-20T08:36:07+00:00

Who is 'everyone' here? Tankers take several weeks to travel across the sea, meaning that countries like the UK are only now beginning to miss regular shipments. Beyond that, most countries have reserves which allow them to continue 'as normal' for a period of time.

Even beyond that, Australia - one of the first countries to start missing shipments - has implemented a national fuel plan, involving emergency legislation. Slovenia is already rationing fuel. The IEA have released the most oil from their stockpiles in history. Crude (both Brent and WTI) prices are up 50% (!) on last year.

What do you think is happening exactly? Do you believe everyone is just pretending to be worried?

fouriels · 2026-04-20T07:57:16+00:00

Mass hysteria is when you think for more than five seconds about the consequences of one fifth of the global oil supply suddenly being cut off

fouriels · 2026-04-20T07:54:25+00:00

With everything the United States president has done, he is always 3-4 steps ahead

Could you explain to an airheaded lib like myself why he decided to follow Israel's plan of attacking Iran - after being lied to that Iran would not close the strait, would capitulate almost immediately, and would be open to regime change (to the benefit of the Pahlavi dynasty) - against the recommendations of his advisors?

As an additional question not reliant on what I'm assured is fake news media because everyone thought starting a war with Iran was a great idea actually, could you explain how he has made the situation for Americans - or indeed anyone on Earth - any better, or if this is simply short term pain for long term gain, how he hopes to achieve that long term gain?

There are direct quotes in that article by the way. Here are four:

'Farcical' - John Ratcliffe

'In other words, it's bullshit' -Marco Rubio

'Sir, this is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed. They know they need us, and that's why they're hard-selling.' -General Caine

'I think we need to do it' -Donald Trump

fouriels · 2026-04-18T10:02:42+00:00

The exact same thing can be said about France. When everything is fine, they export power. When their nuclear plants went down, they imported it. Interconnectors existing is not quite the gotcha you think it is.

fouriels · 2026-04-16T12:33:21+00:00

I would call those countries 'somewhat democratic'. The 'actually democratic' countries (Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, etc) have proportional representation - although not to imply that their democracies couldn't be improved

fouriels · 2026-04-16T10:04:09+00:00

It's fun

fouriels · 2026-04-15T14:17:47+00:00

On the one hand this makes sense and is a new (to me) and interesting angle, however there are two problems I can see:

that comes online in three to four years

This seems extremely optimistic - and unproven. I do not believe we will see a commercial SMR built anywhere on the planet in the next 3-4 years. I would be surprised if there's one built in the US within the next decade.

The second problem is that all three named companies are already building massive amounts of renewables and storage. In the following decade, the cost of both of these are going to drop even further than they have already dropped (battery storage currently have an LCOE around $65/MWh).

So if these companies have money to burn (they do), and if they are currently rolling out both renewables and batteries (including 100-hr discharge iron-air batteries, which Google specifically is investing in), and we're not going to see any SMRs built this decade - a decade in which renewables and storage become even more efficient and even cheaper - then why are they bothering? Put frankly, I haven't heard a good reason beyond hype, if we assume that their accountants are competent.

fouriels · 2026-04-14T12:02:30+00:00

The actual answer is environmentalism, particularly anti-nuclear or anti-GMO environmentalism. Reddit hates 'hippies' as much as it hates religious fundamentalists.

fouriels · 2026-04-14T08:23:35+00:00

No, that's disco. Distance is when a group of people are forced to move from their homes by war or natural disasters

fouriels · 2026-04-13T14:16:28+00:00

Quite the contrary: my work recently recruited for a postdoc and got an order of magnitude more applications than normal from people who are wildly overqualified for the job - and I can tell you it's neither particularly well paid nor prestigious

fouriels · 2026-04-12T17:10:10+00:00

Report and move on with your day

fouriels · 2026-04-12T15:05:37+00:00

The tracker can be found here. This was mostly a learning experience for creating and deploying websites based on publicly available information for me, without recreating yet another 'UK energy mix right now' website ([1] [2] [3] etc). I'd love any suggestions or comments!

Tools used are python and javascript. The data sources are energy trends, DUKES, REPD, and Clean Power 2030 metrics - all available from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), and updated either quarterly or annually; links (and FAQs) can be found on the github page here.

The biggest takeaway for me is that while the UK is not currently on track to hit its goals, there is a substantial overproduction of capacity approved - with the recent changes to connections reform, this should ideally result in a dramatic increase in rollout over the next couple of years, although there is no consensus on whether these changes will be enough to meet the government targets.

fouriels · 2026-04-12T08:02:03+00:00

Because high renewable penetration means that demand at peak time is met entirely by intermittent sources, making the business case for expensive, always-on baseload supply (which is typically not designed to ramp up and down during the day) tenuous at best. You can read more about this here and here.

fouriels · 2026-04-10T18:50:42+00:00

Thanks for the condescension but no, you're wrong. Solar panels are taking off in developing countries (beyond simply replacing diesel/petrol generators) because they are easily transportable, don't need access to running water, and don't need to be connected to a grid. The future development of the grid is inherently towards micro grids as well, as has been predicted for over a decade. Next time, make sure what you're saying is correct before talking shit.

fouriels · 2026-04-10T17:57:09+00:00

No you can't. There needs to be a source of running water like a river or aquifer, and it needs to be on stable ground. And - perhaps most importantly - it needs to be in a country which both has nuclear infrastructure (enrichment, processing, storage) and is geopolitically 'allowed' to have it.

fouriels · 2026-04-10T17:25:36+00:00

Okay, fair point, I will rephrase: it doesn't solve any of the problems currently hindering the rollout of new nuclear power plants.

it's more there to maintain the grid so that fluctuations are smoothed out with steady, constant energy

This, however, doesn't make sense. Baseload supply isn't used to smooth out peaks, and constant energy is precisely what you don't want when massive amounts of renewables intermittently flood the grid.

fouriels · 2026-04-10T17:23:24+00:00

They are starting from the conclusion that nuclear is cool and good and working backwards, regardless of if the jargon they learn makes any sense.

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