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Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

hawowanlawow posted:

"been libertarian on"


:eyepop:
He's saying he's in NAMBLA

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Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
Assassin's Creed sounds like it'd be a lot cooler if they dumped the metaplot and just had you be an assassin in fun times in history tbqh

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Assassin's Creed sounds like it'd be a lot cooler if they dumped the metaplot and just had you be an assassin in fun times in history tbqh

That's the entire series in a nutshell.

hyperhazard
Dec 4, 2011

I am the one lascivious
With magic potion niveous

Kantesu posted:

I read it more as "Let's pray the Rapture into happening," which on top of the Rapture being an idea built out of really strained readings of disparate texts that ignores much more apparent themes in those texts, goes against the usual Rapture "no one knows the day or hour/God works in mysterious ways" stuff to basically say that enough people asking can just make it happen at will.

Of course, God directly taking people to Heaven is in most ways functionally identical to death, so it's more Suicide by God than Suicide by Cop.

I took "civil conflict would be preferable to the slow dictatorship of liberal democracy" to mean that they wanted christians to rise up and overthrow the government. But I think you're right, they think the end times are here and want the rapture to happen.

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Assassin's Creed sounds like it'd be a lot cooler if they dumped the metaplot and just had you be an assassin in fun times in history tbqh

The conspiracy collectibles/puzzles in the first few games hinted towards a significantly better metaplot than what we got.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/Bigdawg2jules/status/1272888629732544512

:thunk:

(PS: they're both idiots for different reasons)

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

https://twitter.com/kittynouveau/status/1272963690892009473?s=21

Mercedes Colomar
Nov 1, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Who's the OP? I had them blocked already for some reason. I'm gonna go with being a chud.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

I may have found the worst cat Twitter.

https://twitter.com/_islamicat/status/1272948109203701761?s=21

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Manuel Calavera posted:

Who's the OP? I had them blocked already for some reason. I'm gonna go with being a chud.

Wow, I didn't even dig into that:

Woozie66
Sep 8, 2009

I'll wait for the next era

My eyes glazed over and I had to read this like five times. Not a fan.

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider

The Neal! posted:

We're probably talking about this too much in this thread but I have to know, if the big bad is dead, what's the new thing for everyone to be worried about in the future parts of the new games?

Yeah, I fell off the series a few games later so I could be off-base (and this is the last effort post I’ll make about the games itt)

I think they moved back to the Assassin-Templar conflict (the games had started portraying them as pawns of Juno, basically tricked into fighting instead of working together and finding a way to save the world without freeing her)

Also there was this whole thing about “sages”. Basically one of the precursor attempts to save themselves backfired and the one married to Juno died but somehow his DNA got into humans and so every now and again a genetic clone is born and takes on his memories and does some shut. Famous sages include Black Bart, Jacques de Molay, a lot of the villains in the historical parts, and the IT guy of basically in-universe Ubisoft

Wendell
May 11, 2003

Why would you...

https://twitter.com/PlayAvengers/status/1272921879003770881?s=20

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
https://twitter.com/YesYoureRacist/status/1272896486171426817?s=20

Is she just incapable of not making something about her dad?

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1272868576555384832

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat

lol it didn't take long for them to take that down.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

https://twitter.com/lovely_leah_x/status/1268067769494405122

https://twitter.com/lovely_leah_x/status/1268079738641358848

Question Mark Mound
Jun 14, 2006

Tokyo Crystal Mew
Dancing Godzilla
Deleted already, but...

Byzantine
Sep 1, 2007

MizPiz posted:

I could've sworn that they basically made the Assassins and Templars an apolitical version of the left-right divide, with the bad people being the extremists on both sides. Granted, I checked out of the story after Unity.

One problem is they decided the Assassins were the good guys, so all the famous assassins like Oswald or Booth weren't Assassins.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Byzantine posted:

One problem is they decided the Assassins were the good guys, so all the famous assassins like Oswald or Booth weren't Assassins.

It was because Assassin's Creed was their first attempt at making a major original franchise in years (most of their catalogue at the time was purchased IPs), so they thought up a cool game about the Hashashin vs. the Templars in the Crusades and slowly revealing it to be a still ongoing war with implications about the true history of the world...and that's about it. Then they had to keep it going and steadily get more and more historical figures involved until they started contradicting themselves (like 2 showing Washington gaining power with an Apple of Eden when 3 shows him explicitly refusing it).

BioEnchanted
Aug 9, 2011

He plays for the dreamers that forgot how to dream, and the lovers that forgot how to love.
Honestly if Assassin's Creed had been as into it's metaplot as Kingdom Hearts it would have been better. At least in Kingdom hearts you get to fight all the baddies. If AC had had the confidence that Kingdom Hearts had, we'd have fought Juno as a boss fight and it would have been rad.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
Does any of the AC games have a mode that removes all the stupid modern-day stuff so you can focus on being an assassin in 19th Century London or Ancient Greece or whatever?

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Does any of the AC games have a mode that removes all the stupid modern-day stuff so you can focus on being an assassin in 19th Century London or Ancient Greece or whatever?

I don't think any of them excise it completely, but they became smaller and smaller parts of the game as the series went on. Like I think in Odyssey (the most recent) you don't actually play any of the modern parts, just see cutscenes very sporadically. Which is good, but does kinda make the modern parts even more jarring, especially if you do a lot of side content so you can go 20-30 hours just wandering ancient greece and then suddenly you get dragged into the modern metaplot because you did something from the main story. But again, it's just a couple minutes at a time at most.

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009

MizPiz posted:

I could've sworn that they basically made the Assassins and Templars an apolitical version of the left-right divide, with the bad people being the extremists on both sides. Granted, I checked out of the story after Unity.

IOSM tax:
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1272904470721179648?s=19

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Does any of the AC games have a mode that removes all the stupid modern-day stuff so you can focus on being an assassin in 19th Century London or Ancient Greece or whatever?
Origins and Odyssey have a "tour mode" where you can just wander around the ancient world and read things about the ancient monuments and whatnot. But I don't think you can go around stabbing people in that mode.

Skwirl posted:

I don't think any of them excise it completely, but they became smaller and smaller parts of the game as the series went on. Like I think in Odyssey (the most recent) you don't actually play any of the modern parts, just see cutscenes very sporadically. Which is good, but does kinda make the modern parts even more jarring, especially if you do a lot of side content so you can go 20-30 hours just wandering ancient greece and then suddenly you get dragged into the modern metaplot because you did something from the main story. But again, it's just a couple minutes at a time at most.
You do play the modern parts in Odyssey, but yeah there's maybe 10-20 minutes total of that.

Bonster
Mar 3, 2007

Keep rolling, rolling
Can we have an antidote?

https://twitter.com/kharypayton/status/1272582338531045376

I mean, there's lots of idiots in the comments...

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Question Mark Mound posted:

Deleted already, but...

Oh good loving lord everything about this project smells like a trainwreck.

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.

Blue Labour is basically the exact same contrarian right wing grift train that stuff like Spiked and TPUK are, with the only difference being that BL tend to be still decent on trade unions.

Endymion FRS MK1
Oct 29, 2011

I don't know what this thing is, and I don't care. I'm just tired of seeing your stupid newbie av from 2011.

Skwirl posted:

https://twitter.com/YesYoureRacist/status/1272896486171426817?s=20

Is she just incapable of not making something about her dad?

I mean I'm dreading it because my dad literally died on Father's Day two years ago but I'd rather use it as an opportunity to celebrate memories of him when he was alive, like everyone with living father's would ideally do. I'm not gonna crusade to destroy the holiday.

sugar mouse
Oct 17, 2006

Now we know.

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/robin__craig/status/1272907223774179328

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
https://linktr.ee/Cylindricule

As a father, please stop with the Father's Day. In practice it seems to be a day full of backhanded compliments tinged with the stale flavor of patriarchy.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/Nature_and_Race/status/1105786020942041089

Brawnfire
Jul 13, 2004

🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
https://linktr.ee/Cylindricule


Okay. I'm just gonna... have a cup of tea and a sit.

wizzardstaff
Apr 6, 2018

Zorch! Splat! Pow!
Trying to imagine the bubble this guy lives in where he has to back up and explain to an incredulous audience why anyone might possibly want to attack him for being a Nazi.

oldpainless
Oct 30, 2009

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Brawnfire posted:

As a father, please stop with the Father's Day. In practice it seems to be a day full of backhanded compliments tinged with the stale flavor of patriarchy.

100% this. It’s bad enough I have to pretend to care about my parents on Christmas and their birthdays. Extra days push the limit.

apatheticman
May 13, 2003

Wedge Regret

March 2019?

And you are screen capping?

T-man
Aug 22, 2010


Talk shit, get bzzzt.


JK Rowling has faced so much transphobiaphobia recently :(

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Pastel Candy Snake posted:

https://twitter.com/MNFreedomFund/status/1272726417650995202

This is probably, maybe, slightly not okay. Just a feeling.

Nah, they’ll figure it out. They took down their donation page shortly after the huge influx started, so I don’t think they’re trying for Maximum Grift.

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Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

apatheticman posted:

March 2019?

And you are screen capping?

If you'll look at this winner's twitter you'll see he's never stopped posting Nazi poo poo. I'm just hoping the account gets suspended.

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