I’m right there with you. The game was beautiful and the characters were wonderfully charming. It’s a highly underrated game and deserved a legit sequel to continue the story.

While it’s not 100% in the modern setting, the moment in ACII when you realize Minerva is speaking to Desmond through Ezio is one of my top 10 gaming experiences. The Adam & Eve memory is also icing on that cake.

That force-choke wrist-flick into the chasm gave me some serious PTSD.

Insider trading fuckery aside, the amount of money our elected officials are just throwing around the stock market is obscene.

The aesthetic reminds me a bit of the title sequence from Casino Royale.

Then, we’d have a Caucasian vampire problem on top of MAGA Cell Anemia

TV show called ReBoot.

That NPC knows it lives in a virtual world. It uses this to its advantage, never sleeping or working, instead of using bugs and game logic to climb his way to the top of the digital Hell he is trapped in.

Having debugged a lot of software, this is too real.

So we’re all just letting “Baker Dill” sit there without making any comments? This is promising for my upcoming novel starring Butcher Sage.

Had to use Google to get this joke. It was worth the journey.

I’m not finding the grind to be all that bad. Like Stephen, I hopped on when it went f2p last year, but mostly let my character lie fallow until this Halloween. Just by playing through the Haunted Forest mission and random jaunts through Titan and the EDZ open areas, my hunter went from 750 power to 930. It’s been…

In a fight with non-milk drinkers, my hardened bones will be the key to victory!

I wait five minutes for the shaders to load

The Air Force wants the the Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD), a podded laser it can mount on any aircraft, protecting the plane from incoming surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles.

How many holes do you have in your head? 7!

Name checks out.

Ikea probably calls shelves something like an Ivarludngren, but if you ask whether you need to defrost it, they will think you were insane.

D&D weekend as bachelor party is also quite nice.

Last guy’s stretching to avoid carpal tunnel.