#ACB

[porterdavis]

[axel-draws]

Finally had some decent weather a little while ago so I was able to get some good photos of the clothing I've made so far! More can be found on my portfolio website!

[pretty-little-aesthetics]

maybe the ACB was the friends we made along the way...

[useless-catalanfacts]

I just read this post of yours, and can be this the same reason why Andorra's basketball team play in the ACB the Spanish basketball championship? And Also play in the Catalan tournament? (Which is a KO pre-season tournament?

Yes, Basket Club Andorra is a member of the Catalan Federation of Basketball ever since it was founded in 1970 (the Catalan Federation of Basketball had been founded in 1923).

(Link to the mentioned post)

[eco-collective]

TBH I think Abed, Britta, and Duncan were the ass crack bandits. It started when Britta needed to make up a criminal to profile as part of her psych class and she though 'hmm, profiling this criminal if he were real could give me some psych cred' but she knows that shed get caught so she convinces Abed to do it along the lines of 'cmon man ik you love to commit to the bit' so he does it. Duncan joins 2 years later because he somehow found out but wanted to impress Britta more, so he gives Abed access to the short cuts. Abed ends up telling Troy who ALSO agrees to commit to the bit and let him crack him so no one suspects Abed. they crack Duncan to throw people off their tracks since he decided to use Dave Mathews song lyrics in the notes and it was matter of time before they realized he was a Dave Mathews fan I rest my case

[catofadifferentcolor]

Terrible Fic Idea #85: The Old Guard, but make it Assassin's Creed

My brother has always been a big fan of Assassin's Creed, but I never gave the games a shot until recently, when it seemed a natural progression from all the Crusades research I've been doing for The Old Guard fic I want to write but probably never will. Once I realized Isu bullshit could be a perfect explanation for TOG immortality, this (incredibly self-indulgent) crossover was born.

Or: What if Merrick Pharmaceuticals was a competitor of Abstergo Industries?

aka the And The River of Time fic

Just imagine it:

Pharmaceutical research is an expensive, cut-throat business. Viagra is a $2 billion dollar a year industry. Humira, the blockbuster drug of 2018, sold nearly $20 billion in the US alone. So I imagine if you're a pharmaceutical CEO of limited morals and great ambition, it might seem like a better idea to steal ideas from your competitor who seems to hit it out of the ballpark every time instead of pouring billions of dollars into what may turn out to be an unfruitful venture.

Enter Hugh Merrick, father of Steve Merrick and founder of Merrick Pharmaceuticals. Needing a blockbuster and desperate to get one over on Abstergo, he hires a hacker to slip into Abstergo's servers and find him the ripest, juiciest plum they can sometime in the early 2000s, before the (modern) events of the games or the 2019 TOG movie.

The hacker comes back with the schematics for the Animus.

The idea of genetic memories seems absurd, but Hugh figures that if Abstergo has been using the Animus since the 1980s to get ahead, there's no reason he can't do it too - all he needs is a single Piece of Eden and all his problems are solved.

Hugh builds the Animus and has the hacker go back into Abstergo's systems looking for a candidate to put into it. But finding someone with Assassin blood seems dangerous - they're likely to be an assassin too and could be dangerous if they try to escape, plus the Templars killed off nearly all of them. Templar descendants are out because most are Templars themselves and if Hugh's plan is to succeed he heeds to stay off their radar for as long as possible.

The hacker returns with Abstergo's list of people who may be useful if all other avenues fail. It contains a list of people who were peripherally involved during the invents that interest them - mainly high-ranking courtiers close to Popes Alexander VI and Julius II - and their descendants. They might know things about events of Ezio's time.

Enter Joe and Nicky.

For the past few hundred years, their primary cover identities involve being the children or grandchildren of their previous cover story, all the way back to their first deaths. There are fewer questions and you get to "inherit" all your old stuff.

This method has worked quite well for them - until Merrick learns that their "ancestors" were part of the court of Pope Julius II from 1497 (when he was still Bishop of Ostia) until his death in 1513. Nicky was his private secretary, Joe was a court painter, and contemporary sources suggest they were highly placed enough to know whatever Pope Julius II knew about Ezio's apple. Such as where Ezio might have hidden it.

It's not an unreasonable plan, except for the pesky fact of Joe and Nicky's immortality. After all, the animus is designed to draw on genetic memory, not the subject's own memories. And even if it can be used to view memories laid down in their own genes 500 years ago - which is doubtful, - there's a high likelihood of it killing them - and if Hugh were to learn of their immortality, things would only get worse for them. But they have little choice once they're captured and brought to Hugh's secret research bunker somewhere north of Inverness.

What follows is a largely self-indulgent stroll through the more interesting episodes of Joe and Nicky's life together.

Nicky's first go in the animus is a jumbled, confused mess as Hugh's tech minion learns the ropes as she goes. Nicky ends up hopscotching through his early memories - for instance, a memory where he's learning how to use a sword as a young squire jumps to him using the same move during the Siege of Jerusalem. That strand of memory continues on for a bit until another interaction gets him sent into the memory of another battle/training session/conversation with the person in question and so on.

Joe's first time in the animus goes a little better, as Hugh realizes that his minion needs to learn how to program the animus before they put their most valuable subject into it, and so let's her learn with Joe. Hugh's minion (who is really beginning to regret taking this job) succeeds, pulling Joe into the genetic memory of one of his ancestors: al-Kahina, an Amazigh religious and military leader who led indigenous resistance to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. There should be suggestions of a Sword of Eden somewhere in events, but since they don't share Precursor knowledge, Hugh's not interested in letting the memory play out.

Nicky's second session gets them to the time period they want, but his memories have next to nothing to do with the PoE. The same holds true for Joe, when his second session puts him through his POV of that time period. And though Hugh has his minion take them up and down every memory of that time period searching for the smallest hint of anything that might point them in the right direction, there's nothing to find.

Or, rather: Nicky and Joe did meet Ezio once or twice, in waiting rooms or reception areas or the like, but they spent that time talking about art, or the weather, or philosophy - nothing about politics, or Ezio's travels, or PoEs at all.

Otherwise, most of Nicky and Joe's memories of early 16th century Rome involve Joe's rivalry with Michelangelo, who among other things persisted in flirting with Nicky even after he made it clear he wasn't interested. (Joe was, among other things, responsible for getting Michelangelo the commission for David in Florence to get him out of Rome and away from Nicky.)

There's some Vatican politics as well - Nicky's part in organizing the Swiss Guard, Joe's in organizing the Vatican Museums, and the removal of the Borgias from power - and some global politics - the 1503 dispensation for Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, etc. But most of their memories are largely Joe and Nicky being Joe and Nicky in the High Renaissance (and rather hating their jobs, as neither of them particularly like working for Julius II but were blackmailed into it to avoid being labeled as Ottoman spies.)

This goes on for several days until Hugh orders his minion to start looking for the memories of other "ancestors" - essentially, to refine the animus and her technique while he gets his hacker to find better candidates for the animus. And if this accidentally destroys Joe and Nicky's minds in the process? So be it. The plan was always to kill them at the end of their usefulness anyway.

Hugh's minion spends a day doing as asked - there's a few tantalizing glimpses of Joe and Nicky at the court of Kublai Khan in the 1270s - before she has an opportunity to act on the guilty conscious that's come to plague her.

The minion helps them escape - destroying the animus, wiping the records, and blowing the place sky high to cover the bloody swath they have to cut to get out of the secret research bunker. Amongst the casualties is Hugh Merrick, propelling his son Steve into position as youngest CEO in Pharma.

Joe and Nicky rejoin Andy and Booker - who'd been doing their best to cut their own bloody swath through anyone tangentially related to the mercenaries who kidnapped their brothers - and decide to turn their attention to tracking down PoE and destroying animus technology wherever it can be found, believing there are no peaceful uses for either. As a glad you escaped present, Booker tanks Merrick Pharmaceutical's stocks so badly the company never recovers, eventually going bankrupt.

As for the minion? Maybe she's a young Rebecca Crane prior to her recruitment by the Assassins and it’s her experiences with Hugh's animus that get her recruited by the Assassin Order. Maybe she's just a random OC who sets herself up with a new identity halfway around the world and watches gleefully as Merrick Pharmaceuticals and Abstergo Industries both eventually crash and burn.

Bonuses include: 1) Joe and Nicky being the most passive aggressive kidnapees in the history of kidnappings - on the face of things, going along with exactly what Hugh asks of them, but doing their best to focus on innocuous memories and figuring out how to purposefully make memories "skip" between similar episodes without Hugh ever noticing the glitch. Also, playing up the Bleeding Effect so that by day three they're only speaking in Medieval Italian; 2) Hugh being a better class of villain than his son. Immoral? Unethical? Yes, but in a sophisticated businessman way, not a jacket and hoodie, stab a man with a letter opener type way. For some reason I'm imagining him as Jean-Luc Picard, if Picard ever had a Mirror Universe alternate; and 3) Interludes of Andy and Booker searching for Joe and Nicky after they've been kidnapped. This should be part action-thriller along the lines of Taken, part buddy comedy, and involve an arc wherein Andy learns of Booker's deep unhappiness with his immortality and helps him come to terms with the feelings that would have otherwise eventually led to the events of the 2019 movie.

And that is surprisingly more than I thought I would have had. As always, feel free to adopt this bun, just link back if you decide to do anything with it.

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[sparrow-in-boots]

AC fandom stop treating the Medici (ESPECIALLY LORENZO) as some corrupt tyrants who would be the rennaissance equivalent of snooty entitled rich people?

begging you all to pick up a fucking history book or just, any Renaissance Humanism 101 video on youtube. i promise its not some difficult content hard to get your hands on. i promise your eyes won't fall off to learn that, surprisingly, rich people of the past from mercantilism times ARE NOT EVEN REMOTELY comparable to rich people of today.

Lorenzo wouldn't even make it the top 100 richest people list by today's standards. and he believed it was his moral and political OBLIGATION to devote his wealth for the good of the people. you can't even call what he did as philantropy cus the word has taken such a slimy connotation these days.

P L E A S E

[sweetness-pop]

The Rating of PlayStation Venus 3

Trust me, it's extremely best for Talwyn's, Keira's and Carmelita's PS-exclusive crossover game together to be given the rating T for TEEN by the ESRB.

The content:

·Blood

·Violence

·Strong Language

·Use of Alcohol and Drugs

·Suggestive Themes

·Sexual Themes

·Partial Nudity

Other game ratings around the world for PSV3 would be like these:

Japan-CERO C (Ages 15 & Over)

Europe-PEGI 16 (Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.)

Australia-ACB M/Mature (Not suitable for persons under 15 years.)

Germany-USK 16 (Ages 16 & Over)

Brazil-Classlnd 14 (Suitable for persons 14 & over.)

New Zealand-OFLC Mature/M (For suitable mature audience 16 years and over.)

Mexico-SMECCV B15/+15 Años (Content for ages 15 and over.)

Also, just imagine how unexpected, but surprising of PlayStation Venus 3, an ideal crossover PS5/PS6 game starring Talwyn Apogee of Ratchet & Clank, Keira Hagai of Jak & Daxter, and Carmelita Fox of Sly Cooper were actually get away with!

Honestly, it'd be like femme fatales TKC (Talwyn, Keira, Carmelita) giving Sony's censorship the MIDDLE FINGER! 🖕🖕🖕

[felidae-sims]

Wip: Assassin Sims continues. Got my computer fixed and so the project continues. The picture is from AC:B, not sims yet, I'm just admiring how this game looks, and I'm not even in Rome yet :) Does anybody happen to know a good texture mod for this game? as much as I like photo editing, it would be nice to not do all of them one by one.. haven't found a mod to my liking yet.

Speaking of photo editing, here are my favorite G'MIC-QT filters [an add-on for GIMP]:

P.S., not sure if I got Nvidia to override the game's settings correctly, I'm having this problem with ts2 where it doesn't smooth the edges.. Maybe it's fine here and I'm exaggerating, but the lines look a bit jagged here as well, when zooming in...

[porterdavis]

We knew it was coming

[scivxx]

I told myself a lie and it ruined my life.

I told myself I would be happier.

I told myself it would be easier.

I told myself this is what every girl wants.

I told myself I could be perfect.

I told myself I could change.

I told myself I was happy.

The truth is ,

This isn't my dream.

I'm not happy.

This isn't easier.

I'm not perfect.

This isn't what I want.

I didn't want to change.

I ruined my own life.

[todaynewspakistan0]

Afghanistan Cricket Board’s Bold Move to Host ACC Events

🚨 Big news in cricket! The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) is setting the stage to host future Asian Cricket Council (ACC) events. Announced at the recent ACC meeting in Kuala Lumpur, this move signifies Afghanistan’s rising influence and strategic ambitions in cricket.

Key discussions included the integration of cricket into the 2026 Asian Games and planning for upcoming ACC tournaments. The ACB’s role in expanding cricket’s reach, coupled with the anticipated Bangladesh-Afghanistan series, highlights a promising future for the sport in the region.

For more details on Afghanistan’s cricketing journey and the latest updates, visit todaynewspakistan.com.

[lordoflerion]

Since I’m starting my senior year of highschool in two weeks, comment some of your favourite Assassins Creed quotes (preferably from the games, can be silly or serious) so I can have some ideas for my yearbook quote.

Please cite the character that said them though in case I also want to do so 😭

[guguseti]

Boubacar Touré un león senegalés para la pintura taronja

Seguimos en nuestro intento de ir analizando los jugadores interiores que aterrizan esta temporada 2023 – 2024 en la ACB y es por ello que hoy nos vamos a Valencia, para tratar de conocer un poquito más a Boubacar Touré, un “chiquitín” que ha estado promediando 17.4 de valoración en Turquía. Un poco de historia Boubacar Touré nació un 31 de diciembre de 1995 en Dakar, Senegal, y es un interior…

[trinethramnews]

Mithun Reddy Remanded : వైసీపీ ఎంపీ మిథున్ రెడ్డికి రిమాండ్

[news4u36-in]

छत्तीसगढ़ शराब घोटाला: 23 निलंबित अफसर आज कोर्ट में पेश होंगे

रायपुर। छत्तीसगढ़ के चर्चित 3200 करोड़ रुपये के शराब घोटाले में आज बड़ा मोड़ आने वाला है। इस घोटाले में शामिल 23 निलंबित आबकारी अधिकारियों को कोर्ट में पेश होने का समन जारी हुआ है, और उनकी अग्रिम जमानत याचिका पर भी आज सुनवाई होनी है। पूर्ववर्ती कांग्रेस सरकार के कार्यकाल (2019 से 2023) के दौरान हुए इस घोटाले में भ्रष्टाचार से 88 करोड़ रुपये की अवैध कमाई का आरोप इन अधिकारियों पर है। ईओडब्ल्यू…