not everyone is American! gasp!

[Matt Brown]

pfft, US attack Russia? is this kid nuts?

no way america attacks the only country with a nuke arsenal almost as great as ours.
This isnt the cold war anymore. I actually think that america looks to be out of the war bussiness for a while..although I woulnt be surprised to see troops in less combantant roles in other nations

[Meowster]

Yes... not all of us are from America...

*Looks wistfully at her picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA*

[TheYak]

Heh, Yufster:
Pic I did of GGB awhile back.

Contemplating moving to SF, actually. Rent's cheaper.

Back to topic, I think it was a good point and it's good to be reminded of this once in awhile but 5 pages?

[TerranRich]

Okay, I had to skim through most of the posts in this thread, for they were either silly and humorous, or unnecessary, and I, too, think 5 pages in 6 days is a little crazy.

I think the problem resides in not knowing whether a company is global or not. I mean, how am I supposed to know that Best Buy isn't an international company? Am I supposed to go to their web site and look up their corporate information? Or call them up and ask them how far their reach extends?

No. We all say what is familiar to us, and if a French AGSer mentions a French business that he thinks might be in other countries as well, then so be it. Like everybody else said, we can figure out what most businesses are from the context clues, and whatnot.

As for calling ourselves American, what else are we supposed to call ourselves? People from Mexico are called Mexicans, people from Brazil are Brazillian, people from Canada are Canadian. People from the U.S.A. are...

Well, since "American" isn't use exclusively, we took it for ourselves. Otherwise, what else would we call ourselves?

[AGA]

United States of Americans

Anyway, the safest thing to do is not assume that any companies exist outside of your country (if you see what I mean...) . It's not as though specific company games are necessary anyway. If I was talking about buying a game, I could say "get it at your local game store" instead of saying "get it from Electronics Boutique". Of course, if someone was asking a specific question about a certain country, like "Any Brits know where I could get Knights of the Old Republic from", it would make sense to answer with a Britain-specific store-name...

[Meowster]

Awesome picture, Yak.

But here is a question for you all.

Does it really matter?

[InCreator]

Does it really matter?

Of course not! That's the first law of democracy. We can yell or arses off and no-one gives a damn about what we say. So we can blabber forever here.

there's still a rivalry between the US and Russia?

I opened window and looked towards east. Didn't notice any nuke mushrooms... Or is it just my bad sight?

All the crap about who found america

So Vikings discovered America. So America is a viking colony. Russians are vikings in long line too. All russian names are ancient viking names (Jelena, Oleg, Igor, etc). Russia was ruled by a Viking king once.

Now, mathematic dudes, think: if A = B and A = C how are B and C related?

[Inkoddi]

They both are the same as A

[evenwolf]

InCreator:

"Vikings discovered America so it is a viking colony"

You might want to check your records and make sure that no power changed hands since then.  I'm not sure but I believe there is some story about the british, the french, and another about revolutionaries. I think the accepted priniciple is "for a ___ colony to exist,  ____ people must actually inhabit it".  

[evenwolf]

Saying there should be no qaulms between Russia and US based on their viking heritage would be like Space Aliens killing all US citizens, colonizing the states, and then coming after Russia.

Then you can try to convince the Space Aliens there's nothing to fight about.
"But we're both Viking colonies!"    

[Las Naranjas]

May also mention that the viking element in Russia, even with all the dilution of a millenia, was rather restricted the White Russia.

[Captain Mostly]

I suspect Oranges is american.

[Las Naranjas]

You should know Mostly. We lived next to each other in Orange County remember?

[evenwolf]

I suspect Oranges is american.

If so, he's a little more secretive about it than some of us around here

[Captain Mostly]

I'm only resting there. I'm a free spirit, roaming the globe on my piagio ciao... burning dust like knicker springs. YEE HAW!

*peddles frantically, then rides off into the sunset*

[The Weird Sir]

Myself, I buy games from Future Shop.  

Oh wait, Best Buy bought it off. So much for patriotism.