Whitout disrespecting MLK, he wrote about completelly different people, with completelly different values who were living in a different time. You cant really bring writings about highly individualistic culture in a time when racial segration was common and slavery were still so fresh there were both, people who used to own slaves and people who were born in slavery alive, and except it to represent modern day europeans accuratelly. I think Bernie Sanders is good example. In USA he is perceived as a borderline extremist by some, but in most european countries his policies are pretty mild and centrist.

I bet EU countries would fare much better than USA in face of economic hardship. Europeans generally are not as invidualistic as americans and social safety nets are better.

And no, i honestly havent seen those comments. I try to steer clear from social media, and what i have seen here are more desperate calls for action than anything else.

I have really hard time beliving the rich and powerfull would on purpose cross the line and bomb the economy, because they have most to lose. The risk and the reward just does not add up.

Android is open source. Google makes money trough playstore and youtube. Google pays for phone manufactorers so they keep apps like maps and gmail preinstalled on the phones. If at some point there would be situation where company like samsung would need to choose between googles money or their biggest market, market wins. By a huge margin.

USA has hard time stopping Algeria from trading with EU by any other way than military force. EU is their biggest trade partner. 48% of their trade is to European Union.

Also where you get the individuals are weak thing? Like i already said. You are over estimating the importance American trade. And you are forgetting trade goes both ways.

Millions of jobs in the United States are related to EU-US trade and investment. The European Union is a reliable source of critical supplies to the United States, including medicinal ingredients and pharmaceutical products, advanced machinery and equipment, and aerospace parts and components. At the same time, the European Union is the largest buyer of the United States’ natural gas and oil, but states are not the biggest importer of gas and oil for EU.

Total bilateral trade in goods between the EU and the US reached €851 billion in 2023. The EU exported €503 billion of goods to the US market, while importing €347 billion; this resulted in a goods trade surplus of €157 billion for the EU. Total bilateral trade in services between the EU and the US was worth €746 billion in 2023. The EU exported €319 billion of services to the US, while importing €427 billion from the US; this resulted in a services trade deficit of €109 billion for the EU.

The difference between EU exports to the US and US exports to the EU stood at €48 billion in 2023; the equivalent of just 3% of the total trade between the EU and the US.

Also since you like to talk about the oligarchs.

The EU and the US are also major investment partners. EU and US firms have €4.7 trillion worth of investment in each other’s markets (2023 data).

How do you think these oligarchs feel if that 5,5 trillion dollars of investments start to unravel.

You are over estimating the importance of american products. Android has 60% market share in eu while iphone has 39%. Norway and Algeria supplied both more LNG to europe than USA in 2024.

At Q3. 2025 EU bought only 14,5% of our petrolium oil from USA. Norway alone was 14,6%.

EU is allready looking into making our own replacement for visa and mastercard.

Food and drink is not really a problem as many processed products USA produces already recognized as non suitable for human consuption. South america will be happy to provide nuts and fruits for EU. Especially when their neighboring country is acting hostile towards them at the moment and most alchohol USA produce is considered bottomself stuff.

Car imports from the USA has been falling for years, even before Trumps tarifs.

I think windows is hardest to shake as most businesses use it and most softwares are designed to use it.

Cultural things like movies, tv series and music and somesoftware are also hard to replace.

I once played a game of twilight imperium where one player got eliminated within a hour. The game lasted over ten hours…

If you dont know when you have lost, you dont know the game well enough to play it seriously.

Conceding when you know you have lost is just respecting other players time. Same goes for letting your opponent to concede.

The sneering was only half intentional. And personaly i quite enjoy discussing things like this.

But i still strongly disagree with your view. Hello Games was small studio at the start, but they havent been ringing the indie bell for their game and in my opinion they havent stolen the limelight from indie devs. Games like Terraria and Stardew valley are still celebrated games and people are praising those games and the work devs have being doing with the updates.

Following your logic one could argue, that companies behind those games are not anywhere near the small indie teams people imagine them. And we should be angry for them too, because they take the spotlight from games like Dwarf Fortress and Project Zomboid, that have been passion projects for years before those earlier two even were concepts.

The main thing that makes No Man Sky different is that those succesfull indie games were good from the beginning, while NMS was horrible and borderline unsalvageable game, but the devs kept working on it and making it slowly better. A effort most companies wont do.

So in my opinion people should be happy and support Hello Games, because that shows to the other companies, that even if the first release of the game is bad, it is possible (and profitable) to keep making the game better.

Of course, if we lived in perfect world we could consider what HG is doing a bare minimum, but we live in a world where what they do is exceptional.

Also i strongly disagree about they doing minimun professionally. They have kept the now almost ten years old game playable, added vr, new console supports. If you want to see what minimal is take a look of Assasins Creed Unitys state in 2025.

I feel like i got it now. You want to add drama. You are the neighbor yelling over the fence, the one who seems to have something against the houses, even if it literaly does not effect on their life at all.

This is why i did not want to respond to your analogy from the beginning. It does not lead to anywhere as everything is makebeliview.

Facts.

The game is overwhelmingly positive status on steam. Recently almost 90% of the people are satisfied to the product.

Its player base keeps getting bigger.

The game is soon 10 years old, but it keeps getting updates.

Hello Games have been working on the game in the situation where industry standard would have been to stop.

If i must abide by your original metafora i would say:

They promised grandiose skycraper and delivered shotty apartment complex and the tenant who had bought the apartments were understandably angry. Very few of the tenants stayed anyway, but by all means the building was a failure to the point it would be completelly understandable to have the whole building just bulldozed.

But where most companies would just disbanded and or disapeared with the money, they kept working on the building. Added new floors, made the yard nicer, lowered the prices of the apartments and the whole time tried their best to keep the remaining few people living there happy. And after few years (decates really if you think how much faster gaming industry develops than housing) the place started to be closer what the original brochure said.

Eventually new people start to get intrested about the apartments and the people who originally bought the apartments started to move back in without paying any additional fees. And while the windows were little smaller and the shower tiling were little different than originally promised, people seem to like living there. In a way the constant repairs and the new additions to the place, make it even better to some people.

The point that makes that building special is that nine times out of ten, in these situations the tenants are left with unhabitable home or even closed down building. And even more often the tenants need to pay additional fees to acces the fixed parts of the building.

Is this purely genorosity from the builder? Of course not. They also have bills to pay and in the end its their livelyhood and they surely have investers waiting a return for their money. But is it monumental showing of backbone from the builder to not walk away from the project, but keep working on it. Absolutelly.

Why would you force other industry term on the gaming industry? Thats just silly. It like saying apple is a bad fruit because it makes for a lousy boat.

Gaming is pretty unique platform in a way where the product is measured by unquantifiable metric called fun, but you want to compare it in standards of other products.

In the end they kept working on a bad product where others would have stopped and ended making it good.

I fully get what you mean, but i also find it very rigid way of looking things.

At release no mans sky was basically a tech demo and cyperpunk was borderline unplayable game. Now if i would go to steam and bought either one of those games at full price i would get good ratio of fun/price and to me that is the important part of the game. How many hours of fun i get/ the amount of money i spend.

Both of those games could very well been abandoned after first few updates and left to be forever bad, like so many other games, but instead somebody high enough made the decition to keep working on it.

Yes its a shame the games dont have all the marketing promised to us and its even bigger shame the games were published in the shape they were, but now at year 2026 both of those games are worth of their price.

So in my mind the games have had a real redemption story.

Remember that at that point the game was allready 8 years old had had several large updates. Not counting few spikes from the updates first four years the game had under 2000 player/month in steam. Financially looking the pragmatic choice would have been to stop the development, but they did not.

There has been several games from big publishers that were abandoned shortly after release, even if it still was possible to fix the game. Battleborn, Anthem, Concord. And even more games that are still in theory playable, but are just full if bugs or not fun to play.

But so far i can think only three games that had bad start, but devs kept working on it and eventually managed to make fun games. No mans sky, Fallout 76 and Cyperpunk 2077

Protection of origin is different than trademarks. Its meant to represent the origin and the cultural value of product and product carrying the name must be made in a way and with the ingrediends that reflect the original.

Like anybody can make salad cheese, but its only feta when its made in Creese using lamb and goat milk.

Beside your generic trademark point is moot.

“Whether or not a mark is popularly identified as genericized, the owner of the mark may still be able to enforce the proprietary rights that attach to the use or registration of the mark, as long as the mark continues to exclusively identify the owner as the commercial origin of the applicable products or services.”

For people who think acidic as a cup of coffee does not sound bad, think about how well your houseplants would grow if watered only with coffee.

I love how you chose to ridicule acidic rain and ozone layer as both of those were real things thay spur international action and new legistation that worked.

I dont know if you are a moron or a child so i decide to treat you as a child. When your papa or mama closes the blinds the world does not disappear behind the window.

His latest addition to his list of wars “ended” is the two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The other seven were between Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.

Most of these were few day long conflicts. Egypt and Ethiopia were not in war, they had decate long disagreement about a damn, and USA helped to mediate it. By my understandment Trump was not even part of the mediation.

Also if these count then he should say he has ended 9 wars because the military situation in Venezuela ended in few hours.

Trump saying he stopped wars is like me saying i saved a childs live today when i decited to not kill them.

72,08GB so far in this month. Needed to do some searching on my phone as i did not know where to see it.

Haha. You are really a grade A mental gymnist. Bravo. Here have a star *. You deserve it.

I havent said single time anything about how i might or might not define a rape. You on the other hand wanted to broaden the definiton to include baby trapping, a completelly different offence that should be its own thing.

Did you learn fancy new word to use?

Im not victim blaming anybody, nor am i saying baby trapping is in any way acceptable, but it definedly is not a rape. And those two crimes are definedly not in any way compareable.

Your definition would also turn custody disputes in to rape cases.

Do you feel clever using words to compare physical abuse and taking away other person bodys sovereignty to financially harming other?

Both are bad and cruel things, but they are not compearable.

Condoms can break and parachutes can fail, but jumping from the plane without parachute is just moronic.

Lol. Baby trapping, while it is bad, its nothing even closely similar to rape.

Also gentlemen, if there is possibility of rain, bring your raincoats and remember, its not rude to keep your hat on when going inside. Even if the lady asks you to remove it.

But i agree that lying about birthcontrol should be punishable.