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If their goal with making games is to just make as much money as possible, then yeah. More than likely it will just go the same way it did with Bioware, they'll ruin themselves chasing that dragon. Multiple companies since have shown that Isometric/CRPG can be done well and with commercial success. You hit the nail on the head there I think, although I think Avowed had much better marketing (even taking in to account the disaster of the first trailer). PoE had a terrible pitch which is ultimately what did it in and shot PoE2 in the crib. They sold it as a successor of the Infinity Engine games and delivered something very different. On the one hand they shouldn't have pushed the spiritual successor" pitch, on the other hand would they have had such a successful kickstarter had they not done it.

I can never get over how good The Fifth Element is. I am usually not one for rewatching movies, but this one is for some reason so easy to come back to.

Eeeexcuuuuse me. Are you trying to label me with the xy gender... I was just making some fun. Happy that the forum is getting some foot traffic and new blood. Hopefully we get some interesting new trolls, because the good ones left and the ones we have I'm afraid aren't trolling. For starters they need to move from AWS and get them some of that free Azure goodness. That's what I find puzzling. Like not even a discount?

Why? Who uses forums in this day and age.

Uf, what a cliffhanger for Berserk...

I mean in the India air show the su-57e was flying while the f-35 was sitting on the ground. I'll laugh my ass off if India ends up going with the rafale.

20 hour drive is miserable any time of the year, but I guess you guys are used to it.

It's not, they've been on the decline for a fair bit now. Mercedes had a sharp decline with the electrification movement and now with the move to the hybrid 4 cylinder, they are basically selling SUVs and even there they are not in the top 5. I think the only popular model they have atm is the G class. BMW is having an identity crisis where they have started leaning more in to luxury and comfort than performance and while that is a major contributor to their sales their enthusiasts are cooling off of the brand, thus making it less popular. Kind of like Bioware, they chase the the sales numbers and in the process lose their identity. VW is just not cheap enough or good enough anymore and Audi is basically just a bit of a more premium VW, so it's kind of being dragged down with it. Both BMW and Mercedes had a big enough following for foreign cars in the US. It's not fair to compare them with Toyota as they are not in the same class, a better comparison would be Lexus, Acura, Infinity and there they were competitive because they either offered better performance (BMW) or better luxury (Mercedes). Also from what I understand Mercedes was (is?) very popular in China. It was the biggest market they had, I think even outstripping Europe. (Similar with BMW, the whole reason they started doing those ridiculous grills was because of the Chinese) You remember correctly, they overengenired the crap out of them and hence there were a lot of parts that could break, also Americans notoriously don't service their cars. I mean you were just unfortunate in this situation in that you share a border with US.

The car issue is simple enough. They don't have their hand on the pulse anymore. The cheap stuff, other companies are building cheaper and with more options, and the expensive stuff is not good enough to get anyone exited. Porsche is the only one who is doing well, but the luxury market is never going to drive the economy. The big money was always in the "cheap"/mass market car segment. edit: Also as far as car manufacturing the EU and US function the same, if you build the cars in the EU they will not be subjected to tariffs, a lot of the Japanese and Korean brands have factories across the EU and manufacture the cars they sell there. Also something like 90% of the components also need to be manufactured in the EU for the rule to apply.

Or maybe they don't want to talk about their actual reason because they don't want to get in to it with you. Here in Serbia for the longest time the "right" was a silent majority. When you talked with the fiery left about voting they always were confused about not know anyone who voted for the right. Well yeah, because people don't care about you enough to get in to a discussion, especially when they see you are looking for a fight. The real reasons people are voting for a different option are obvious enough, the migrants and the economy. There isn't a year that goes by that you don't hear about someone driving a vehicle through a crowd of people or something similar. The economy is down in the dumps without any outlook for improvement. Euribor is sky high, the sanctions on Russia are hurting the EU more then they are the Russians. People want to be secure and well fed, that's always been the main voting motivator.

Oh now that would be a good one. Well aware that things are not as simple as that, but on the other hand the EU is defending its jobs from Chinese auto manufacturing by imposing even worse tariffs, even though everyone apart from Porsche is in freefall. Another thing to consider is for how long the far east market is going to remain open, things there are far from certain and everything done so far to curtail China's rise has been ineffective. The next logical step for cheap/slave labor would be Africa, go figure, but China seems to have been ahead of the game there. Which leaves South America and that will be a though nut to crack considering the history with the west. Point being that it may not be a bad idea to have a self sufficient economy in the near future, question is if it's too late. As I said, I find it amusing how unabashed folks seem to be regarding what constitutes as world changing. I mean if you guys actually thought the US somehow cares for you apart from caring about what benefits they can get from you, then you brought this upon yourself. They stole tech from their allies, they spy on their allies, they coerce their allies to join wars. From the outside looking in to us it always seemed like the US allies are just vassals, the treatment you would get only depends on the power you hold. I won't pretend to know why he did it or if it was even a good idea, but I guess we will find out how it plays out. People here are pissed off that Trump is going to build a hotel on the site of the ruins of our Military headquarters that were bombed in 99. That's a slap in the face if there ever was one, so it's not like I care for him much either. But a slap is better than a bomb I guess.

As far back as I remember Americans have been complaining that jobs are being moved outside the US, now they get the opportunity to move them back. I find it amusing that tariffs are somehow terrible on the scale of what a president can do, considering how many wars were started or facilitated by the previous presidents.

You are really out of touch if you think that's why people are voting for the right.

Probably someone somewhere wrote C needs to get big tariffs again and someone assumed it was Canada. Abbreviations cause trouble I tell you... Either way I don't see how more conflicts is exactly a change in the foreign policy of the US, or why these tariffs are world ending as was stated. I would much rather trade actual wars for economics war, but I guess we will see how that pans out.

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