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Given that just a few months ago a lot of the HN crowd was frantically down voting anyone who was predicting such a thing and denouncing them as CCP shill, simp

Given that just a few months ago a lot of the HN crowd was frantically down voting anyone who was predicting such a thing and denouncing them as CCP shill, simply for being realistic I think it's a good thing that they are being humbled a bit. Being humbled isn't a bad thing. I grew up in Germany, and until I moved to Asia I actually thought that most of everything that has a name that can remotely be pronounced in a German fashion was in fact German. I suspect that that is very much the case for large numbers of Americans and even more so in the European and American political class.

Semaphor 3y ago
> I grew in Germany and until I moved to Asia, I actually thought that most of everything that has a name that can remotely be pronounced in a German fashion was in fact German. That requires to be pretty sheltered, culturally, though. I’m (also German) pretty much on the opposite end, and regularly surprised how many things are indeed German.
gs17 3y ago
> Being humbled isn't a bad thing. I grew in Germany and until I moved to Asia, I actually thought that most of everything that has a name that can remotely be pronounced in a German fashion was in fact German. I had a kind of funny example of that, a Chinese student named Weiman buying a cart full of Weiman brand cleaning products. Pronounced totally different.