The saddest part is: the current next-gen does nothing for gamers. Technological advances are being gobbled up by developers so they can churn out unoptimized slop cheaper.
They sell you shiny new rendering techniques whose only purpose is to hide the shortcomings of their engines. They're barely as good as what we had years ago while being much less efficient.
You're buying that fancy new graphics card so Microsoft & co don't have to spend time optimizing their games.
businesses might actually want to stay small.
Yea, because if they get bigger they'll get crushed by EU regulations, bureaucracy and unions.
And when you don't have enough incoming orders you can't just fire employees. It's more "profitable" to lose out on orders than to hire more people to fulfil those orders. Because you can't just fire excess employees when the economy is in a slump. You're stuck paying them to do nothing.
As a European I call bullshit.
How's that working out for us? Massive layoffs, faltering economies, record insolvencies, companies switching to part time work, companies moving away, companies getting bought by US or Chinese giants, massive tax burden, etc. The one CEO who says he wants to send his employees home at 4pm? Yea, because they don't have enough orders in the books. Employees are a massive liability when you can't fire them when the orders stop coming in. Or you suddenly have powerful unions once you get too big. That's currently crushing VW.
For now, Eastern European countries are benefiting because that's where larger companies are moving and all the EU money is flowing. However, the two largest EU economies are failing and you tell me this is working out? Without those two the whole EU goes down the drain. Without them there's nobody to finance your precious Lithaunia.
At least we'll have time to stand in the bread line at 4pm, while we get stabbed by Mohammed who cuts in line in front of us.
Bunch of fart-smelling drivel.
Edit: Case in point: shorty after writing this I found out that Bosch announced today they're getting rid of another 5,500 employees, bringing the total of jobs lost at Bosch in the last 12 months to about 12,000.
Yea, I still remember that I stopped playing Mass Effect 2 2/3rds through the game when I read that everyone dies at the end of ME3. Never touched any of the Mass Effect games again.
Veilguard, on the other hand, I would only start if I could kill those characters myself the minute I meet them.
Catfishing is when they use their name and history to dig into that nostalgia trying to transfer their clout.
This game is brought to you by the same people that brought you that old game. Except it is not. This game was made by the same logo. The people that made them left the logo 10 years ago and got replaced by a bunch of Jaguar drivers.
Too true unfortunately. Modern Western games are nothing but syphilitic, mentally ill nostalgia whores.
tl;dr: Macaroni's prime minister lost a vote of confidence and now the government is toast.
Macaroni's strategic alliance with the far-left during the last election to defeat the right backfired spectacularly. The left backstabbed him and the right resents him.
Letting hordes of muslims into their countries.