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If memory serves me well, Yugos were made in former Yugoslavia and were known for being extremely cheap and dangerous for everyone in and around them. Am I correct?

But this makes me scratch my head.

American manufacturers exist in Europe today and regardless of not being a fan the cars sell, regardless the constant attempts to introduce pure US models, like the F series.

Ford may be the most widespread manufacturer but I’ve seen a few Dodge, Chevrolet (but GM officially pulled from the market after a 3 years run, stating it wasn’t willing to remain in a market where a minimum 25% of market share wasn’t attainable; competition sucks, apparently!), JEEP and Chrysler.

What is stopping these brands to import back the technology being used here, on their european models, back to the home country? It’s already owned here!

I remember reading an article on a joint project between GM and FIAT to develop a new and shared platform. After X number of years and a gross amount of money invested, GM drops the project, FIAT finishes it and starts building an entire new generation of cars, still being built today.

Why put time, money and effort into a project to just drop it? Having a shared platform, capable of being used to assemble vehicles on both sides of the ocean makes sense.

Can someone help with clarifying a few things?

There is a build up to the full issue, so I’m going to set a few entry questions:

• Are the acquired studios privately owned or in the market, open for hostile takeovers?

Somewhere in the future there will be an information leak or some other reliable source of information from which it will be made known that at some point Nintendo lost years of code due to pure incompetence of some bored employee (even better if an executive ordered the destruction of such data on basis of being obsolete) and had to viciously attack this creator and their site in order to attain a viable way to rebuild their original technology, after realizing people want to play old titles.

Try doing some real physical labor, alone, with basic hand tools, outside, under the sun, then report back.

I’m a city boy moved to the country and went all cocky I could do and landed on my face. It gets scary when you see the world wobble in front of your eyes from exertion.

It may be oversimplified and exeggerated but for someone unaccostumed to hard physical labor it is gruelling.

It’s the worst part of the game for myself, honestly. Feels unnecessary in a game like Stardew Valley, the part of having monsters and combat.

I could understand a mechanic of having to explore mines deeper in order to find large quantities of metals for making items and making such exploration dangerous (gas, cave ins, narrow passages, hard labirynths, exhaustion, etc) but monsters doesn’t cut it for me.

You can bribe the ghost with a diamond (placed on the shrine, if memory serves me well) and have it come back to reappraise your accomplishments.

It should. An open technology standard should gain traction over closed proprietary ones.

Thank you.

But… Why do you assume I have instant knowledge of acronyms because I opted to insert a comment on a topic that teased my interest? Does it pressuposes anything about my person?

Good morning.

Let’s call that example the canary in the mine but I’m seeing many similar situations where I live.

Being in a less than urban area, there is still a bit of industry around and some factories are cutting staff and a few have already shut down operations, especially in sectors more closely related with end user products (clothing, footwear, yarn, etc). Industries with ties to industrial use (metal working, construction materials, wood and derivates) are keeping afloat but only replacing workers that go into retirement or that for some reason or another just quit, and these industries, in my understanding, are keeping afloat because of the hard push into more sustainable and efficient houses, which is forcing a good deal of public investment into large renovation projects and funds.

Parallel to this, bakeries, coffee shops, small businesses that rely on consumption, are shutting down. For me, this implies there is less money floating around.

Paired with the hike in housing…

You are going to have to unfold all of those acronyms before we can move forward with this conversation.

I don’t have the palest of ideas of what you are trying to convey.

The only thing I’m sure of is death and taxes.

I’m risking that statement because I’m seeing a good deal of events similar to what happened the last time we went through one (the world) and the big companies starting to let go people is like the canary in the mine.

I smell a recession forming!

If it is impossible, either shut down operations or find a way to pay for it.

Seems promising.

I’ll play it somewhere in the next 3 to 5 years.

GOG

Just the hability to have my entire collection in a backup disk I can keep in my drawer, to install and play with no need for an internet connection makes all the difference.

Bonus: no DRM

My exact thought.

And perhaps this will force the eyes open of many companies that use that garbage to circulate private and delicate communications.

This is the same Capcom that published Neverwinter Nights? The game that still lives on because of mods and fan made expansions?

Atari.

Just checked the box. I’ll see myself out.

This sounds a lot like a threat.

You want to bet this kind of iluminated wisdom is what is going to push small independent studios and indie authors to the front line?

I don’t own this game and I don’t intend on buying any time soon.

But when I eventually get it, if I think find that figure in the game, I’m going after it and throw it off a very tall building. Twice.