He nearly corrects Dave into 'General Germany' as a tease, but it seems just a touch to irreverent for his side of the conversation. It does pull a smile though. Dave doesn't have to elaborate, Albert already knows through talking with Steve about the amount of similarities in their histories and being compared to such a good man is nothing short of a compliment.

"I think it's more people that are predictable in general, but it is something of a comfort. Underneath, humanity doesn't change." Not even here. Underneath the strangeness of the Capitol and all the technology of the future is still basic human instincts. Greed and fear are chief among them, but there is love too, and the social constructs of gossip and such things. Everything seems to have changed but nothing really has but the shell of culture.

"May I ask what happened in your universe?"