Tarquin ! What a beautiful reference. Sadly still as pertinent as ever.

But why would you want to remember he even existed?

Holy shit in so glad it’s not just me. All I have ever seen from Java seems to be NullPointerException. (Which makes sense, but still, it’s pretty funny)

I’m really thankful that Audi rolled back whatever they were doing and gave me knobs and switched to deal with. Like in fucking planes and space shuttles !

And fingers crossed all this common sense gets enshrined in law soonish.

They could do class write-ups as collectibles in boosters, with rare prestige classes and ultra rare full art versions and so on. You know it!

That’s interesting! That would explain the “you can talk it over” for me. I was thinking the joke was a giant duck attacking a bread factory, but I like yours better.

I’m so glad Ass Creed is top comment to this, because those games get a lot of shit, but the traversal is absolutely too notch. “See that mountain? You can climb it” should totally be their line, these days. It’s become slightly boring though. Because no challenge.

The first person version is still fun though. Frontiers of Pandora has fantastic traversal, with crazy jumping and catching ledges and shit, but still not actual climbing. And not a drop of yellow paint anywhere.

“Tester, c’est douter”

It’s about wanking, I believe. “Turning Japanese” is a euphemism for your O-face.

One thing I learnt in Ireland is you better have a thick skin because no quarter is given when it comes to slagging and taking the piss. And the more you take yourself seriously and the more they will gang up until you learn to shut the fuck up. Absolutely love it.

Looks like it. It’s something you need to negotiate during your job interview otherwise you’re fucked. Every company I looked at during my last round of job search was going for that bullshit 3 days at work 2 at home thing. Infuriating. Meanwhile, having our team leader be in an office on the other side of France and remotely manage several dozen people in a different site is apparently totally fine and not the same at all.

But could it also be merry ? Perhaps even jolly? The jury is still out.

Living the fucking dream, though. I salute you!

I thought that was the joke, but then I noticed he’s not on the mat. And then the comment about the size of the mat!

Well if you have to pay for US-priced surgery, clearly!

It’s one of the more memorable ones for some reason. And like all the best horror stories, there is no gore at all. Just that horrible DRR DRR DRR DRR sound…

I’m curious what sort of shortcomings you saw? I’m no expert of the genre, but foe me I thought it was just very samey in gameplay, while still bringing some interesting twist to the table with the masks. And as you said, that art direction is incredible. Still, it felt very much like Eden Ring in Italia. Not necessarily a bad thing, I suppose. I’m still tempted to get it.

I’m having a similar fatigue yeah. It really is amazing visually, the attention to details is fucking unreal and the environments are just so diverse… But it’s definitely the same old same old. Main thing that’s improved is the maneuvrability, where you can some really amazing feats of climbing, to the point I thought I was doing a really hard mission when I was in fact just going the wrong way (up a cliff). That’s another thing I’ve been having difficulty with : I do like that they listened and did the whole not showing you where the objective is, but some of their hints are fucking atrocious and I’ve spent way too much time searching the area never to find it. Unfortunate. Anyway, at some point I took a break and haven’t picked it up since. Just kinda forgot about it. Same with Origins. I just arrived in Atlantis, but haven’t felt any irrépressible urge to get back to it, despite my thorough enjoyment of the game.

“would you fuck me? I’d fuck me. I’d fuck me hard. If fuck me so hard”

And then to take it private because being public means Ubisoft is focusing on pleasing shareholders instead of making great games. The whole message is… unexpected, to say the least. Like a bunch of gamers got together to stop Ubisoft killing itself.