it can reverse at up to 30 km/h

Some day some one will make something as cool as our old Strv103 that could reverse as quickly as it could go forward, 50-60km/h, since it had a backup reverse driver sitting in reverse behind the main driver.

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Somewhat OT: deepl.com translated surprisingly well for me (English<->German).

Could be an easier task (or deepl is simply better at this specific task), or we are not actually talking about a translation error but one of understanding. I simply assumed that the issue was with translation since I do not know French that well but now that I look into it further, every single translator program translates "buyback/redemption" to "rachat" and back and across various languages so perhaps I threw some dirt at the AI for the wrong reason (this time).

Except ofc when I asked it to translate it from French to German and it gave me Rückzahlung which is not entirely wrong but IMHO should be Rückkauf instead, aka Rückzahlung is more like a dividend (which a buyback could be seen as by way that it keeps the share price higher than it otherwise would be and thus giving me as a shareholder more value even if I don't get a cash dividend in my hand) but my German is rusty :)

So automatic translations can do strange and confusing things...

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Apparently this was initiated as a GSOC back in 2022 that have now been completed. While not entirely in their normal fold I guess that ScummVM sees this as a form of game conservation which in a way is what they are doing.

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I'm afraid you're unfortunately a troll. I don't know what your interest is in spreading false information, I find it sad. I'll leave you to your conscience...

Sorry to disapoint you in that every one that does not agree with you is not a troll. My interest is in spreading correct information since I always see people being slightly confused on how the stock market works and how stocks / public companies works, having worked for 28 years in the financial market (as a software developer / systems architect but still) have given me some experience in the matter that I am more than happy to share with any one interested.

Every thing I wrote in my earlier post is 100% correct, a board cannot authorize a take over, it can only give it's recommendation for or against. It is the actual share holders that have to authorize such a move by selling their shares or not, no one can force them to do it. And the fact that less than 20% of the Paypal shares are free floating (aka not held up by long term investors) so a silent takeover is not possible, the holding structure of Paypal is public information.

Or as in this case when you unfortunately have been given incorrect information from an automatic translation service. I can see that you still don't believe my but if you go to the link that you provided yourself and simply click on the "Voir l'original" button so you get the English original press release that have this text and headline : "The Board of Directors of PayPal Holdings, Inc. has authorized a buyback plan on February 4, 2025."

I hope this settles the matter?

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That's exactly what the Steam employee told me.

I want to point out that buying 51% of a company's stock makes you its largest shareholder and sole decision-maker...

And as you can read below, PayPal Holdings Inc has indeed authorized a buyout plan (article published on February 4, 2025)

Well that Steam eployee lied to you then. Yes buying up 51% of the votes (not the stock, but the votes) gains you veto power at shareholder meetings but there have been no such bid made on Paypal and 80% of the votes are held by long term investors (read institutions) so you cannot get 51% by silently buying up stocks from the exchange either (aka the free float is less than 20%).

When it comes to your link your AI translation translated it wrongly into French. That news item had nothing to do with authorizing any buyout plan (a board cannot even make such an authorization, what the board can do is give their recommendation for or against a buyout offer, also such a offer must have been made public before the board can make any recommendation and since there exists not such offer there also exists no recommendation).

No what that news item was about was the board launching a share buyback program worth $15bn.

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...A bank bought Paypal...

No they haven't, Paypal is a publicly traded company.

It's not that they want to protect children, it's about that the UK that wants to know who the adults are. All parties in the UK are bad.

If that was true then it would have far easier for the UK to simply ask their very own GRO since they already have a full register on every single UK citizen there. Not everything is a conspiracy, especially when one isn't needed...

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They're starting with smaller markets just to test the waters and see how Valve responds.

For what reason? This is making Paypal loose money (the worst thing that can happen to a capitalistic company), Steam is handing out ungodly amounts of money to Paypal so loosing them as a customer is guaranteed not something that Paypal is planning.

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If not you, then whom? 😐

It is the payment processor, I assume that many people have no clue how this all works since they started to blame VISA and Mastercard for this. To be able to process cards in your store (online or offline) you have to have both an agreement with a card company (VISA, Mastercard and so on) and a payment processor (Klarna, Stripe, Paypal and so on) and it is these last ones that makes lots of demands, at least that is my own experience from having implemented payment solutions as a startup many years ago (they had strict rules against porn, weapons and so on and you had to go through a whole vetting process before they allowed you to use their services).

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You cannot copyright a style. If the new game is a co-op survival game and the old game is a single-player action role-playing game then the new game isn't a clone or copy. Otherwise you may as well say that Company of Heroes is a clone/copy of Medal of Honour.

Try and make a co-up survival game of Supermario and get back to us how well that worked out for you. The type of gamestyle does not matter here, neither would it matter if you rewrote Harry Potter to be in space in order to avoid being sued into oblivion by JK Rowling.

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Why "Clive Barker's Jericho" was removed?

The age old "licensing issues". Apparantly they only licenses the right to use Clive Barker's name for a limited period.

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