I’ll always advocate for patient gaming, but in case you were looking to catch up on the first two before this one comes out, I would start sooner than later for a couple reasons. First is just because they are absolutely massive games that may take longer than expected to complete, but second because I think they benefit from taking a break in between. I wouldn’t do one right after the other.

Spring 2027, so less than a year away (assuming no delays). Also will be a simultaneous launch on all systems, no exclusivity window this time.

FWIW, this one isn’t just jumping on a trend, it has a whole fucking odyssey behind it.

Patrice Desilets (original director of the Assassin’s Creed series) had a falling out with Ubisoft and left the company to begin developing this game with THQ between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, THQ declared bankruptcy, got chopped up into pieces to sell, and their Montreal studio along with the 1666 Amsterdam IP were bought up by Ubisoft.

After the buyout, Ubisoft then fired Desilets as a spite move for his earlier departure, canceled the game, and dissolved the studio into Ubisoft Montreal. The only real evidence that this game even existed in tangible form was an early development reel that leaked a few years later. In the interim, there was a whole big lawsuit, and it somehow eventually ended up with Desilets becoming the rightsholder to Amsterdam 1666 again.

So this game has been in something of a development hell for about 15 years now, and it’s pretty cool to see it finally come to light.

Glorious.

I didn’t even know there was a followup movie in the works. I can understand why a sequel could be good given all that’s happened since, but I can’t understand doing so without most of the important people behind the first one. Sorkin’s a good writer, but I don’t think he was 100% responsible for what made the first one a good movie.

Is this Balmoral Castle in Scotland? Where the Queen died? That’s the best guess I have.

and the cops did their job.

Ah so they kept all of the LGBT migrants and anti-Zionists away.

What’s a bit funny is that the name of the Angles (the people) and angle (the shape) are directly related. Both come from an old word meaning “hook”, the Angles being a fishing people originally and an angle being the shape of a hook.

Secondary fun fact: the surname Sax and the demonym Saxon are both derived from the type of blade called a seax.

/ˈvæ.sə.lin/

I was already really good at not believing in literally every other religion around the world, so I asked myself what made the religion that I was raised in any different?

How did I know I was lucky enough to be born into the right faith? If I had been born elsewhere, wouldn’t I just feel the same way about whatever religion is worshipped there? And so is that the infidel’s fault that they were just born in the wrong place, with no one to tell them that they had it wrong? Or perhaps would they think the same about me?

And so if our religion truly was the right one, why didn’t our supposedly omnipotent deity just make everyone else born into societies that worship it, or render infertile anyone who didn’t? Or if someone else’s religion was the right one, with a similarly omnipotent deity (or deities), why was I born here?

Why would a good and loving God condemn them forever for being exactly what (S)he designed them to be?

This is it exactly. Why even have a “chosen people” in the Israelites during the Old Testament? Why create those other people at all? Just to give random people for the Israelites to genocide like they did the Midianites/Canaanites/Hittites/10 other -ites?

And what of the world before Noah? God realizes he messed up and needs to cull all but a small handful of humans? I thought God was supposed to be unerring. Same for Sodom and Gomorrah, why allow cities to become dens of sin? Or why fear the hubris of humanity constructing the Tower of Babel (or create them with motivation to do so in the first place) if divinity remains safely unreachable to mortals?

Just way too much that doesn’t make sense.

There are a few bits of text on the background shirts that are unreadable. Also the cans and Funko pop box on the table. A few of the background posters on the wall also make no visual sense either.

It is AI, but it’s pretty damn convincing. If someone were to come around and say “actually, this is a performance art piece making a statement about the inauthenticity of online community, where they handmade fake AI melty graphics in the real world for a photo,” I could also be convinced of that.

“Why don’t we have White History Month!?”

What, 11 of them aren’t enough?

Could just change it to “Lois campaigns as a Tory” for that international appeal.

I’m a single father, no one told me these secrets.

I think this reply may be attached to the wrong comment in the chain for context, but I think the meaning is a bit different (just slightly).

Clavicular was mid jestergooning

Clavicular was in the middle of making a fool of himself for attention

when a group of Foids came

when a group of women came in (“foids”, female humanoids, dehumanizing)

and spiked his Cortisol levels

and riled him up.

Is Ignoring the Foids while munting

Is ignoring the women while getting blitzed/shitfaced (may not be an accurate interpretation of "munting, but it appears to either be a shock value thing involving necrophilia or just getting high on drugs, so I interpreted it as the latter based on context)

and mogging moids

and styling on the other guys (“moids”, male humanoids, dehumanizing)

more useful then SMV chadfishing in the club?

more useful than increasing his sexual market value by being fake as hell in the club?

Thank you for sharing the video. I ended up watching the whole thing and found myself of a similar mind as the presenters: he makes a lot of points that sound downright reasonable. I expected some vapid jock-type like you typically see on reality TV, but he’s able to articulate a lot of problems about our current society in ways that I can’t really refute. It’s just his solutions to those issues that are wrong.

And I think that’s what makes his position as an influencer so dangerous. He’s speaking to the genuine lack of class mobility that Millennials through Gen Alpha have had to accept as reality, and “proving” his point through his own life. Sure he might die by the age of 40 with how unhealthy his lifestyle is. But I think a lot of people in the younger generations would likewise rather party it up to unhealthy degrees while young than work a menial dead-end job for 50 years, hoping you get a couple years of retirement in your old age before you die.

Not universally so.

E.g. this documentary predates TNG, and consistently uses the long A pronunciation of data:

https://youtu.be/4mfmiecQA98?t=719

(If the timestamp does not work correctly, jump to 12:00 in the video for the example)

Is this the rumored stew that makes you blind for 1 day?