toastus

Nice review, thank you.

I am pretty sure Epic has given this game away for free in the past so you may have access to it without having to buy it.

I think it is worth a try if you want a relatively relaxed platformer experience (or you are a hardcore gamer and want to try the final boss unprepared, which I am told is quite the challenge).

Not that my opinion matters any more than the next person's, but I also can't recommend Celeste enough.

It does so many things so very right.
The pure gameplay is crisp and responsive platforming.
Like any good platfmorer it has some specific mechanics that make it unique, but every one is intuitive enough to pick up easily enough. I have heard it called something like "the hardest platformer that everyone can finish."

And it is true. I could never finish some of the harder SMB levels but I never got too frustrated with Celeste.
And if I were, there would have been accessibility options to make the game more approachable.

But it also caters to the hardcore crowd with completely optional collectibles that are organically included into the gorgeous level design.

It is speedrunnable for those folks.

And as if that wasn't enough to make a good platformer it also tells a heartwarming story supported by a beautiful soundtrack.

Sorry I am rambling, but Celeste is fucking awesome.

I am not in love with this artstyle but if the gameplay is as crisp as one should expect from Evil Empire I will probably give this a chance.

I'd argue there is only micro in chess and no macro, but I get your point.

I know it's trendy to shit on Germany rn (and Isreal obviously and for good reason), but 90 year old holocaust survivors surely aren't the ones commiting genocide.
And they very well might have had to relive a trauma that Germany rightfully feels a responsibility for.

So what is the problem with giving those old folks that really had to endure some of the worst things anyone ever had to endure a symbolic sum to show them that they are not forgotten?

This is in no way defending Germanys support of Israel, while it is committing cruel war crimes.
But let's be real here, is this gesture really that outrageous to you?

Well the stock rising does generate money for Trump no matter if anyone shortsells it.

If you shortsell, you position yourself against the stock.
If it rises Trump wins and you lose.
If it falls Trump loses and you win.

But neither way is it you shorting the stock that makes Trump win.
He wins if the company represented by the stock actually grows in value and the stock price rises or if idiots buy his stocks and make the price go up. But I predict that after a brief rush on the stock by his gullible idiots in the beginning noone will want to buy his stock anymore.
That's why I would consider shorting it, because I predict the stock to keep falling.
This I predict because I think the company that is represented by the stock is shit and basically worthless, which the stockprice should represent in due time.

A shortseller thus wants to profit off of Trumps losses.

Also, I don't quite remember what happens if shorting fails, but it benefits the stock, doesn't it?

First things first, I don't really know how to actually shortsell stuff. My portfolio is super basic and my original comment was only half serious.

But I think you have the causality the wrong way around.

It's less that the stock profits if my short fails.
It's more that my short fails (in that I lose money) if the price of the stock goes up.

A single small shortsale can't really affect the stock price in a meaningful way, but if it could it would generally lower the stocks price since it is a signal that the market (which the shortseller is a part of) has no trust in the stock.

That said I am by no means a trading expert myself and could possibly miss some effects on the market.
I only invest long term in broadly spread ETFs (think MSCI World and similar).

Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but I also would never think of actually investing in anything Trump.

Shortselling is betting that the stock value falls without actually holding the stock.

That stock is the first time that I actually considered shortselling anything.

I am by no means am expert.
I just went of this:

The halberd is still the ceremonial weapon of the Swiss Guard in the Vatican.

And I am pretty sure that in German they call the weapon of the Swiss Guard Hellebarde.

You will be happy to hear they still use halberds instead.