So I guess he is the modern Thomas Midgley Jr., huh?

That was Obsidian.

Yeah, Andromeda has some cool ideas (the whole Remnant thing felt like a very classic Scifi mistery) but it was stuck in classing BioWare cliches with companions loyalty quests and romances, the main character being weird chosen one, the main plot was dumb and it was barely a Mass Effect because of the disconnect from the main universe and missing some of the favorite Mass Effect things (like the Geth).

It might have been successful if it weren't a Mass Effect. Or maybe not, who knows.

> missing some of the favorite Mass Effect things (like the Geth)

Some of that is interestingly handled in the Andromeda novels and there were hints that even some of the cancelled DLC was going to reintroduce some of those elements, but EA diverted the DLC teams to Anthem instead.

I think a large part of the issue is that the sum total of ME trilogy is a hard act to follow, without aiming to sound hyperbolic it's a very bright light that outshines a lot. Anything trying to be a sequel has a difficult balancing act of being familiar versus being different and bringing new ideas in.

Yeah!

These scientists, whose job it is to think about this really hard, why didn't they just think of the most obviously obviously thing? I'm sure they didn't!

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Dude. Come on.

I was abundantly clear about this exact thing in my comment.

I even asked, explicitly, “what do the scientists know that I don’t?”

I asked despite the question sounding dumb, because that’s what you do when you genuinely want to know more!

Many people don't do their jobs properly. Why should scientists get the benefit of the doubt?

If something is true it will survive the scrutiny, requires no appeal to authority.

Do you admire science for its explanations? Do you like explanations generally?

Except total loss of electricity is not the only case of payment system being unavailable.

Framing IT vs OT differences as a class struggle?

Sir, I think you just invented entirely new type of technomarxism. Sunrise, parabellum!

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As fun as it is, this has nothing to do with laptops and everything to do with someone not implementing Purdue model right.

Only the FIFA Peace Prize.

The Peace Prize that can be purchased with blood money.

> Over here in Finland, we would absolutely love to have peaceful relations with Russia, based on mutual respect and trade. But we're under no illusion about it being possible with current Russian administration.

Russian administration is the reflection of the nature of Russian people. Look at Russian history - it is very unlikely that different administration would behave differently.

Putin is not a blip, he is the trend.

True, even with Putin gone it's more likely than not Russia will continue being a pain. But at least there's a chance.

Russia is the worlds largest state; Russians know full well the designs for their submission floating in the halls of various Western power centers. There will be a string of Putins because of this.

Russians will never submit to war or threats to subjugate their nation.

They will align with mutual economic prosperity, however.

German society seems to be having a moment where it realizes this, suddenly. Germans really don’t want another billion euro’s being spent on slaughtering children. They want the cheap energy back, and they want peace in Europe through the only way there has ever been peace in Europe: strong economic ties between states and mutually assured prosperity.

The Germans had strong economic ties with Russia for last thirty years. That did not stop Russia from starting multiple genocidal wars of conquest.

Would you be okay with another nations nukes on your border, within 7 minutes of your capital city?

Would you be okay if Russia had its bioweapons facilities located within a strong winds’ distance of your states major population centers?

Would you be okay with foreign investors in your country using power and wealth to gain cover for their genocide and influence your politi … ermm .. okay, never mind, you probably are okay with that if you’re an American ..

This is just word salad. Are you LLM and not a very good one, perhaps?

> Russia's undeniable cultural achievements.

You mean war, genocide, destruction and misery?

The Eastern Germans remember the old days fondly (you know, before "the West destroyed their industry" and whatnot) while the Western Germany had a national policy of "not provoking Russia" and "accepting its sphere of influence" for basically all of it's existence.

From personal experience I would also say that Germans and Russians are alike in quite a few ways - both are pretty chauvinist societies looking down at other nations, and both have very low empathy. Obviously, there are big cultural differences as well.