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Less than 5 and* more than 4.

I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with the point, but all those duel things were mostly about honor and usually among the elites. A lot of them “had” to do it even if they didn’t want to, because of the social norms and stuff.

I mean, they are trying and failing to censure the web to their benefit. Hence the “fines”. Hypothetically, due to fines those services will be blocked anyway, that’s mostly the point.

Does it really help to isolate them from the rest of the world even more? It’s kind of what those dictators are trying to do in the first place.

The oil lobby wouldn’t be specifically against cars from another region, they are against electric vehicles in general, whether they are produced domestically or otherwise. The primary benefactors from the tariffs are the US electric car manufacturers, who would lose profit over not being able to compete with subsidized cars. They are probably the ones who lobbied for them.

Whether you agree or not with their justification (or think that it’s not the real reason), they clearly have no justifications (or reasons) to impose tariffs on unsubsidized (or at least not as heavily subsidized) EU cars.

I don’t think the US would either. Their justification for tariffs on Chinese cars was that they were uncompetitively cheap due to subsidies. Doubt EU is gonna subsidize cars, at least as heavily as China.

What do you mean? Why would Europe impose tariffs on their own cars?

Am I the only one who doesn’t see a less buff John Cena in that photo?

Or worse… expelled.

– No, don’t call my mother, she’ll be so mad! She told me that if I die I shouldn’t come back home for dinner…

Appreciate the Cutting Crew reference. But I can and I will.

Wtf are jere-…

Yeah, ok, thanks.

According to my brain, every time I have to interact with a stranger.

I’m sorry, wtf is “shirts vs skins”?

How many points was that?

Is that so? Then, I stand corrected and retract my complaint, it somewhat makes sense now. And in my defense, it’s been more than a decade since I played and I think I finished it in one sitting, so it’s a blur.

What, you don’t find it fun to understand humor more in-depth by overanalyzing to death the aspects of a joke?! What a weirdo…

Let me try to, anyway.
IIRC, you start the game in the aquarium as an octopus, and then escape. That’s when you’re explicitly shown to be an octopus. Every NPC, however, sees the octopus in some amount of disguise. So even if we constantly roll a nat 1 on perception check like all the NPC, we didn’t have to roll it on the first encounter, therefore we know it’s an octopus.

That’s what I meant, you’re making the joke from the perspective of a person that doesn’t realize there’s an octopus in the game, even though there is one.

And the reason I said it’s confusing is because the game title is only perceived by the player of the game, and the player is explicitly told/shown that you’re playing as an octopus. So the perspective used in the joke is impossible, but I understand that I’m being pedantic, feel free to ignore my ramblings caused by the uncontrollable urge to point out the inconsistency.