Why is South Africa part of Europe? Because it’s wealthier and Europe was the easiest option?
Edit: and Africa is on the same region as Russia and India? I think I should stop trying to rationalize this.
Probably results of varied trade deals, buisnesses, colonization, and just a long history of how the world has globalized in general.
For a second I thought maybe due to their historical colonial ties to the UK but that logic falls apart when you realize AU and NZ are in a separate region from the UK… so… 🤷♂️
The longer I look at this map the less it makes sense.
Ah yes, DRM… burn it down, burn it all down
New Ace Combat lore just dropped
Okay but why is this in RPG Memes?
I guess it could be used in many different ways, but when I read it I thought of it in the context of a homebrew campaign’s lore (maybe ttrpg memes have corrupted my mind?)
Worldbuilding aka lore
What’s a DVD?
An invented creation used to segment regions of the Earth in homebrew RPG campaigns :P
An extremely successful physical format for storing data, mostly as video, released in 1996, it is still one of, if not the most popular video format sold globally.
And while they tried to DRM it, the DVD standard still ended up having to maintain compatibility across all readers and discs, but for bluray they regularly deprecate older readers who no longer can play newer movies because new releases use new encryption keys which the old readers don’t have access to (and for this reason the PS consoles are the best bluray movie players because Sony keeps them updated)
Why did they decide to lump in Australia/NZ with Latin America?
There’s three regions missing here - region 0 is “worldwide”, region 7 is “special purpose”, Oscar screening DVDs and the like, and region 8 is “international waters” for cruise ships and things. You can set several regions on the same disk, to make a 2/4/5 and the like. Set each region as a bit, and you can store that in a single byte - that makes it very easy to flash the firmware on DVD players to decide which disks they can play. Aus/NZ will want content in English and Latin America will want Spanish or Portuguese, so the DVD consortium can still get up to their often-illegal, certainly immoral, price fixing and bullshit.
Really, fuck DVDs. So much potential in the increased capacity, and then it was mired in crap like this and “disabled user operations” so that you can’t skip trailers. Time to raise the black flag and set sail for prosperous waters, me hearties.
