FuzzySlippers posted:

I saw some apocalyptic headlines about the Chinese f2p rules but they all seem pretty sensible. Someone sent me a bbc article that was concern trolling about the plight of small studios forced to redesign their games but f2p whale chasing always requires big marketing money anyway doesn’t it?

dead gay comedy forums posted:

Nope.

MPS had issues, of course. It was conceptualized as a way to assess national accounting with Marxism in mind, so it was centered on labor theory of value. Since the matter of productive/unproductive labor is something that we still debate its conventional terms as of 2023, Soviet theoreticians came up with the distinction of material and immaterial goods during the 20s. These immaterial goods would include a lot of what we are used to call "services", but it isn't the actual translation to them; it's a category by itself. The idea was that trying to work out a rigorous Marxist method of national accounting in its strict terms of productive/unproductive labor was a reaaaaaally loving complicated task at the time, because how do we best account for a scientific price for the labor of the musicians of the Petrograd Philharmonic Orchestra (for example)?

What they went for was a more flexible interpretation of labor theory of value and track all material production, understanding that with state control over the economy, the immaterial goods would be inferred separately through the corresponding material activity. For example, an immaterial good here is housing. Market-based forms of national accounting usually start by taking the price of housing through rent and average monthly payment towards home ownership (there are a lot of formulas in differing countries through different indexes just to be clear).

In MPS, since housing is an affair of the state in which it is fully in control of, there are no "housing prices" per se to account for; what it tracks is how much material is necessary to build different units of housing, how many were built, how many were estimated, etc. Since there is no payment for housing, as in the consumption of a service, this isn't accounted in terms of the aggregate of national economy, because there is simply no need to as it is not a material question as such; the material problem is how much steel, glass, cement, bricks, wood, insulation, pipes, roofing and everything else + labor power that is required to build X houses by the estimates of the current plan. That is what gets accounted in GDP terms. The service of healthcare isn't accounted because the thing itself is provided by the state; there's naturally the aggregation of all material inputs required to provide it to the population, but again, the service as such would had to be inferred from all related material activity*.

What this means is that MPS gives out a fundamentally different valuation of GDP that cannot be directly translated to open-market based methods because it is operating on an entirely different framework - that's why I imagine that China created a derivate system to work as a sort-of SNA, so that they could keep their fundamental framework together. To put it in a maybe bad analogy, they are running a SNA emulator, but their system is MPS.

And of course, MPS takes finance out of it entirely because it would be immaterial. FIRE was non-existent in the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, according to statista, FIRE was 20.2% of the USA GDP in 2022. That's a whole fifth of its economy that is not material.

* and that was one hell of a problem for the bolsheviks back then. This is part of the why of the technical deficit problem that the theoreticians were banging in the table that I mentioned a few times in the Marxism thread: this is a large-scale computational problem. MPS, among other things, was a mean to better guess an approximation of a scientific price with the very limited tools available. This means that as the economy grows, the harder it is to better determine prices if computational power and technical capability doesn't increase accordingly, not to mention that eventually the methodology itself would have to be improved or reformed to make use of those capabilities (which is very appropriate in a poetic way -- the tool to take measure of how communism is being built is itself dialectical and can only work as such)

FuzzySlippers posted:

I saw some apocalyptic headlines about the Chinese f2p rules but they all seem pretty sensible. Someone sent me a bbc article that was concern trolling about the plight of small studios forced to redesign their games but f2p whale chasing always requires big marketing money anyway doesn’t it?

gradenko_2000 posted:

what if you developed a game, and you sold whole copies of it, for profit

fart simpson posted:

what im trying to say is those 30-50 people can figure out a real business strategy or they can get real jobs

dead gay comedy forums posted:

stephenthinkpad posted:

I just want to point out higher computational power is not going to give better accuracy to calculate the national output, because 1 the west pretend China's gdp number is fake and only look at the power consumption and PMI numbers; and 2 the US is getting and better and better at faking the domestic economic numbers. Look, all the economic recovery numbers look good, except the egg price is twice as last year.

Some Guy TT posted:

i only just found out that happened through korean media id never heard of it from the english language side

i find it extremely distressing that there simply isnt anything the united states can say or do regarding south korea that south koreans will understand as an insult our media basically treats them as clowns cosplaying as a real country but every drat mention they get just makes them light up and say "look america senpai noticed us!!!"

Palladium posted:

have you asked them how does it feel to be an enviable position being an lapdog of a dying empire while their every industry is gonna get wiped by china in 5 years tops

crepeface posted:

dunno about this strategy or this interpy

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/jmzbeijing/status/1738067225511387453

my innovation-based economy of fart apps and gacha

1stGear posted:

the triple AAA industry

Votskomit posted:

The AAAAAAAAA used car salesmanship industry is actually a pretty good name for how I feel about these studios lately.

Some Guy TT posted:

President Yoon Suk Yeol and the girl group NewJeans have been selected as two of the 71 Most Stylish People of 2023 by The New York Times, Yonhap News reported on the 7th.

The New York Times commented on this year’s selection: “While some of the chosen individuals may not be public figures, all of the selected subjects have sparked conversations about what they wear, how they live, and how they express themselves.”

According to the report, The New York Times selected President Yoon as one of the Most Stylish People of 2023 on the 6th (local time) and posted a photo of him singing “American Pie” at the White House during his visit to the U.S. in April.

The New York Times explained the background of selecting President Yoon, “His flawless performance of ‘American Pie’ at the White House rivaled ‘American Idol.'”
President Yoon made headlines during his visit to the U.S. in April by singing Don McLean’s “American Pie” at a state dinner at the White House.

The New York Times also selected the girl group NewJeans as another Korean figure among the most stylish people of the year.

The New York Times explained the background of selecting NewJeans, “The members of NewJeans, wearing bunny ear hats, topped the Billboard charts with a sound inspired by late 1990s and early 2000s R&B. They also stood out in various ways, including being the first female K-pop singers to perform at Lollapalooza.”

Ardennes posted:

Btw, the KMT and the DPP are neck to neck in some polling (if you look at the Chinese language page in wikipedia) even with the NPP still in the race. It very well may be that the KMT may "brute force it" and expect NPP voters to cross over the last minute.

I assume that Beijing is just putting everyone on notice at this point.

quote:

english.news.cn
World's 1st 4th-generation nuclear power plant goes into commercial operation in China
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BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- The world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant, China's Shidaowan high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) nuclear power plant, has officially gone into commercial operation, according to the National Energy Administration and China Huaneng Group Wednesday.

The project, located in Shandong Province and with China owning fully independent intellectual property rights, is jointly developed by China Huaneng Group, Tsinghua University and China National Nuclear Corporation.

HTGR is an advanced type of reactor that features fourth-generation nuclear power technology, and a key development direction of nuclear power, said Zhang Zuoyi, chief designer of the major program of HTGR nuclear power station and dean of the nuclear energy and new energy technology institute of Tsinghua University.

With "safety" as a key characteristic, the reactor can maintain a safe state and steer away from a meltdown or leak of radioactive materials. This capability is maintained even in the event of a complete loss of cooling capacity, without any intervention actions, Zhang added.

More than 500 companies majoring in design and development, engineering construction, equipment manufacturing, production and operation participated in the project. The localization rate of the equipment of the nuclear power plant reached more than 90 percent, said Zhang Yanxu, a person in charge of the project.

The commercial operation of the nuclear power plant is of great significance in promoting the safety, as well as the scientific, technological and innovation capabilities of China's nuclear power development, he noted.

Construction of Shidaowan HTGR nuclear power plant started in December 2012, and generated power for the first time in December 2021. ■

Danann posted:

China owning fully independent intellectual property rights

Danann posted:

https://english.news.cn/20231206/ceceffbd81034910a09d2876cc654ff5/c.html

new nuclear power plant in Shidaowan

Palladium posted:

DPP agri votebanks completely shocked the mainland will let ECFA expire and they have zero leverage over the matter since no one gives a gently caress about their very irreplaceable pineapples

everyone else: lol

FuzzySlippers posted:

I saw some apocalyptic headlines about the Chinese f2p rules but they all seem pretty sensible. Someone sent me a bbc article that was concern trolling about the plight of small studios forced to redesign their games but f2p whale chasing always requires big marketing money anyway doesn’t it?

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/XisMoments/status/1738766037779362007

"i wish the farmers a happy life as sweet as sugarcane."

eSports Chaebol posted:

letting adults gamble should be illegal and it’s insane that we allow it for children too (my opinion counts double because I’m a table games dealer what of it. better to be a hypocrite than be wrong)

mawarannahr posted:

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