Hemingways_Shotgun

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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • Impossible to answer. There’s a lot of different variations of “Favourite”.

    • Favourite comfort show: (ie…rewatchability) Star Trek: TNG. Honourable Mention goes to Quantum Leap.

    • Favourite Drama to rewatch an entire series once a year of so: Battlestar Galactic Remake.

    • Favourite Comedy of all time (similar to comfort show…what’s the comedy I can just pop in a random episode of and enjoy): Night Court (The original one) with honourable mentions to Community and How I Met Your Mother.

    No one of those three beats the other two. They just exist in different worlds.



    • Syndicate (loved), Black Flag (Fun to be a pirate, fun story, but again…that same gameplay loop)

    • Original Assassin’s Creed (I recognize its groundbreaking nature for its time, but found it kind of underwhelming),

    • Rogue (got it for free at some point…don’t know where or when or how. But found it similar to Black Flag; fun to be a pirate, but the same gameplay loop)

    • When I had Game Pass, I also took stabs at Origins and Oddysey.

    I think anyone can recognize the loop I’m talking about. Go into an area. find a point that let’s you sync a bunch of little mini games (in AC it’s syncing from high points, in Watchdogs it’s hacking towers, etc…) Then you just randomly do enough side-plot and main plot missions and kill the sub-bosses until you “control” that part of the map and then do it again. Every game. Every Franchise. They all follow the same loop.

    It’s only when a game adds something somewhat different to the equation (a grappling hook in Syndicate and a train that is constantly looping through the city or sailing a pirate ship in Black Flag) that it has any sort of novelty for me.

    Those cheeky buggars have made the same basic game for over a decade just by changing time periods and art assets.





  • Bullshit.

    Scientists have known for years now that the earth can support far more than our current population, and that’s WITH our current technology. The primary issue isn’t the earth’s carrying capacity, it’s the distribution, political and economic systems we use to manage that carrying capacity.

    To put it bluntly, we have more than enough resources to feed everyone without terrorizing the environment, but we’d rather let people starve and die homeless than give those resources away for no profit.

    Population isn’t the problem. Capitalism is the problem.





  • I’ve always had trouble getting into the Assassin’s Creed games, even though as a history buff they should be right up my alley. There’s something about the Ubisoft generic play-loop that bores me after a certain amount of time. ( I have that same issue with the Total War series…love history, so I should love those games, but for some reason they just don’t click with me).

    Weirdly enough, the only AC game that has really clicked with me is (AFAIK) one of the least popular ones, and that’s Syndicate. I think it’s because the setting. Victorian London had a lot of verticality from the various buildings that allowed a very spider-man like experience.