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Its really a complete change from all the " anti-Ukraine " rhetoric from last week but Trump was doing what he always does. He has perfected the art of creating SM drama and making controversial public comments in order to get the deal he wants. He did this Canada and Panama and now Ukraine and he will keep doing it because most governments and SM commentators fall for it every time He doesnt even have to worry about long periods of negotiating terms because so much media attention is created its easy for him to get most of what he wants I dont like this strategy but its clearly effective https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c337461n3xlo "Without confirming that an agreement had been reached, Trump said on Tuesday that in return for the deal Ukraine would get "the right to fight on". "They're very brave," he told reporters, but "without the United States and its money and its military equipment, this war would have been over in a very short period of time". Asked whether supplies of US equipment and ammunition to Ukraine would continue, he said: "Maybe until we have a deal with Russia... We need to have a deal, otherwise it's going to continue."

Its a UNGA vote that doesnt mean much except for sentiment but it is embarrassing to see the list of countries that voted on the same side of the US

None of the other German political parties will work with AfD in a coalition so they will be relegated to making noise in the opposition benches @Lexx and @Boeroer Are you guys prepared to share who you voted for and why? Are you happy with the overall results considering what it could have been?

At first I thought you were saying " I met my wife through a magazine " like a Russian bride But I see what you mean, great photos

The point is there was story posted on this thread around Musk getting this deal and it was concerning because of his proximity to Trump and it could easily be seen as conflict as interest The story wasnt true and fake news stories should be a concern to everyone

https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-is-the-state-department-about-to-pay-tesla-400-million-for-cybertrucks/21860274/ There are real developments to be concerned about around Trump but we should also we aware of some of the fake news and misinformation This one is about the $400 Tesla contract that Musk was getting

Thanks, I will go through this because I want to clear if these points are a real issue or its an exaggeration For example just from a history perspective do US schools not teach the Civil War and the reality of slavery from history ? @Hurlshort Apartheid for example is an included part of our history perspective because it is part of our history

It would be a great idea and it just has to be similar to PoE2 around design, narrative choice and mechanics But I remember an article about this and Im sure Obsidian said its not in the pipeline because they not focusing on Isometric games but it could be possible one day

I appreciate you going through this because now we can discuss what is the issue around some of the points you mentioned, I just want examples because Im not sure what the is issue about What do they mean by Christian beliefs in public schools, do they mean having a new subject in schools ? Ban African American books? What is an example of a African American books What books would you ban about Slavery, do they mean they will ban the discussion about slavery in schools as a subject? What is meant by condemn single mothers, would this be speeches. I dont see a single women being concerned with this. I know lots of single mothers and the last thing they would be concerned about is some condescending conservative politician who doesn't know them

Thanks, this link provides the best way to understand Project 2025 because they have put immense effort into making it easy and using categories and then you can see examples around what exactly he has done. It really creates the best approach and way of tracking Project 2025 But I also clarified a few times what I was saying about Project 2025 and I will explain it again because its weeks after the last debate My issue was always how certain media houses were talking about it and they used a specific image that contained the most controversial points of Project 2025 Here is the same image that @Pidescoand I posted and my issue was this was a selective list of Project 2025 and it suggested Trump was going to implement , so go through this list then confirm what Trump has now implemented? But this specific view of Project 2025 is not necessary to understand because your link is the way to do it because it clearly was built for that So that would be my suggestion for anyone who has concerns about Project 2025 but now any concerns can tracked and seen if they are real

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/obsidian-plans-to-make-rpgs-for-100-years-by-not-trying-to-grow-aggressively-expand-our-team-size-or-make-super-profitable-games/ Here is a really good link from Obsidian around there vision of the company and how they plan to survive and ensure profitability in a reasonable way They have learnt lessons from the likes of Bioware and Veilguard and its sales failures and they plan to avoid that type of financial crisis for the company " They didn't call out any examples themselves, but the duo was clearly setting themselves apart from companies that pour enormous budgets into long and turbulent development cycles and then announce that the resulting game underperformed because it didn't immediately sell tens of millions of copies. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the most recent high-profile example of an expensive RPG that didn't meet its owner's sales expectations, and EA cut jobs at BioWare after the miss. "

Yes its biggest fault for me was the repetition of dungeon design , it was lazy But I enjoyed the narrative and how it involved over years and I liked the companions and Romance arcs. Especially Isabela

Please provide a detailed review of this game as you progress similar to how you review other games I really want this game to succeed and we can assess sales numbers later because we wont know that now

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/13/middleeast/hamas-hostage-release-israel-gaza-intl/index.html Some good news, it looks like Hamas will release some hostages on Saturday Hopefully the war reigniting doesn't happen?

Yes and its up to Hamas to release the hostages or the war will continue like we discussed in the other thread And the tariff threat being effective was more about South American countries that initially didnt want to accept there own citizens back But the Canadian tariff threat was a silly example of Trumps theater and grandstanding