Late entry for Tux Tuesday
*mumbles*.... stupid work keeping me away from all the Shaun tux-ness...
Sorry guys... uggghh... why do I have to work when I could be on here/looking at pics of Shaun/on here looking at pics of Shaun
Anyway... I hope this makes up for my lateness
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Look at him 💀
Sorry... don't know the owner of the pic. Possibly Endeavourneverland? So many of the amazing ones are 😊
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So I've been playing The Great Ace Attorney, which is one of the newer games by Capcom that features the appearance of The Great Detective, Sherlock Holmes. (Annoyingly named Herlock Sholmes since this game came out before he was fully copyright free.)
And I was trying to figure out what year the game took place in.
I heard one character, Mael Strongheart, mention the "Great Exhibition", and immediately it hit me that he was talking about the World's Fair.
But, you see, the World's Fair was only hosted in London twice.
1851, and 1862.
The first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study In Scarlet, was published in 1887.
"Oh, well. Guess they shifted one forward or one back." I figured.
Except, hold on. Mael Stronghart mentions that he wants to make "Paris' World's Fair look like a toy shop."
So, the World's Fair isn't new, and it's been hosted in France before?
The first time France hosted the World's Fair was in 1855, and was the only other host before the UK's last fair. And the timing would still be mis-labeled.
Except.
Except.
On the Wikipedia page, I went searching for the World's Fair which presented the Eiffel Tower, as I was wondering if it would be this one.
The Eiffel Tower was actually presented in 1889. Okay, coolio. Technically after the first Holmes story, but, this Exhibition was hosted in Paris, France. Not London, England.
But there's another exception.
In the 1889 World's Fair, France had the French Revolution on their minds. And so they themed the Fair around Revolution and Anti-Monarchy ideals. And so, quite a few countries chose to boycott the exhibition instead.
And would you be surprised, that one of the groups on that list was the United Kingdom?
This would line up quite perfectly with the events of the game.
In 1887, Sherlock Holmes comes into existence with the publication of A Study In Scarlet, which in the canon of The Great Ace Attorney, is the first publication of his adventures.
In 1889, Paris, France hosts the World's Faire, titled the Exposition Universelle.
The United Kingdom, a monarchy, boycotts this exhibition because it is anti-monarchy.
That year or later, they decide, in TGAA, to host their own exhibition, to outshine the exhibition in which Paris dominated with their presentation of the Eiffel Tower, a feat of modern architecture.
Because Holmes is a prominent character in the game, he talks at times about the very stories he appears in, and references them as "Short stories".
The very first short story to feature Holmes was A Scandal in Bohemia, published 1891. And within the events of the games, there are cases which strongly resemble:
The Red-Headed League,
The Man with the Twisted Lip,
The Adventure of the Speckled Band,
and hints to a few others.
The Red-Headed League is the earliest of these to occur, and being published in 1891, makes 1891 the latest possible year the events of TGAA could have occurred.
Therefore!
I put it to you, dear reader,
That the events of The Great Ace Attorney, published by Capcom
Begin and occur throughout the year of 1891!
And I probably could've avoided ALL of the World's Fair talk, but WHERE is the fun in that??
(Picture from this article:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/the-great-ace-attorney-chronicles/pc-sherlock-holmes)
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Thoughts on Purgatory Day 4:
God what a fun day, and yet funnily enough a much more relaxed one.
It's gonna be interesting to see what the ramifications of blue's logout strat are gonna be because it's definitely going to be banned, but, from my understanding, blue used this strat to prove a point: that red's strategy was unfair.
Which is true, or at least I think it was true.
Personally, I feel like it was mostly unfair due to how difficult it used to be to get to global, but I feel like the admins have pretty fairly counteracted that and balanced things with today's introduction of the spawn portals.
Because with red's strat players HAD to physically travel to global and turn in the contracts within at least the last 30 minutes of gameplay. The portals now easily allow other teams to show up and at least put up a good fight, and we actually got to see how effective they are today with cellbit and charlie's assist they pulled for roier. If they had been just slightly quicker, green might've been able to steal back the win.
Which I think brings me to the other potentially unfair part of red's strat that I've seen be brought up which is that it isn't fair for streamers in European timezones/streamers who play earlier. Which is a fair criticism, but honestly I haven't personally been able to think of a way for the admins to balance the contracts around that without either: A) completely changing how contracts work, or B) unfairly punishing later streamers.
I think it's complicated, and I feel like the main thing that's gonna result from today isn't going to be them banning turning in tasks late but instead banning logging out right in front of the global NPCs. Knowing the admins, they'll probably figure out something I hadn't thought of and make the whole thing more fair for everyone.
Competition and lore wise, tomorrow is gonna be really interesting as well. A small alliance might be blooming between red and green and that might have massive ramifications going forward. That and I think (???????) that players might be getting their eggs tomorrow (?????). I know they described a period in which they had to keep them alive and the actual event ends on the 10th so I'm guessing they're arriving tomorrow. If they are, that shit is going to be crazy.
(Side note: It was also a delight to see teams casually hanging out more together today. As much as I enjoy the competition, I missed them all just chilling)
Overall, congrats blue on the win! Cheesy as fuck and they knew it but it was absolutely deserved! They worked their asses off! And green put up a hell of a fight! I hope they get their chance to win as well tomorrow!
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