#So fuck you Ubisoft

[mass-convergence]

For the end of the year ask! 8, 14, 20 and 25?

8. Game of the year? - Valheim. Definitely Valheim. It's such a beautiful game with amazing crafting/building mechanics and you get to be a viking that runs around punching deer to death in the meadows. There's really not much to dislike about that game aside from the absolute grind.

14. Favorite book you read this year? - Bold of you to assume I have the attention span to read an entire book. But I have started reading Fire Logic by Laurie J Marks and it is delightfully gay with a lot of women with swords. And I have been assured that the gays do not die stupid and pointlessly tragic deaths.

20. What’s something you learned this year? - Learned a lot on account of still starting out with my job. Most importantly I learned how to use the software we use to make our forecasts. Outside of work ... I learned how to sew which I hope to use that skill more and make my own tunics and stuff for historical reenactments.

25. Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year? Describe one. - Aside from my small army of self-inserts. Someone I created was Ratha for one of my AC Valhalla fics exploring Soma as an aroace lesbian. While I'm still not 100% comfortable writing her - she's a blacksmith in Grantebridge who Soma took in after finding her half dead on a battlefield. They strike up a very close friendship and definitely will become platonic life partners at some point. And it's also a fix-it fic because I don't understand why the fuck Soma doesn't have like at least chainmail if not something more substantial and stab proof.

Like yeah it was expensive af but she's literally the lord of a city that's ostensibly a successful trading hub in the area (fuck it becomes Cambridge in the future). Like as much as I'm sure she doesn't want to become like one of those nobles that just shit on their subjects and she wants to be down in the rough with all her men and be a good ally to Eivor.

She would or should at least be wearing some kind of mail or scale or lamellar armor (Also like Eivor can get the fancy ass fantasy style armor so Soma can at least get something historically accurate for a battle that's not whatever the fuck that leather vest is). And I'd argue that a viking age sword wasn't really designed to pierce through chainmail yet* - probably would have seriously ruined her day and knocked her out of commission but she'd probably be alive.

I just have a lot of opinions on the direction they took with her and really all the women in this franchise okay?

*- Chainmail is definitely weaker to piercing damage. Rapiers, longswords, and daggers were specifically designed later on to have thin tips so as to get between the links of maille and break them apart. I've seen that some Viking age swords had rather fat tips which would be more difficult in piercing the links of mail from what I understand of the matter. Also like ... it's fanfic I can write whatever I want.

Please don't get me started on lamellar or scale armor - which, side note, I'd definitely like to try my hand at making one of these days.

[isa-belle1367]

The story of Desmond Miles and his ancestors is genuinely so beautiful and meaningful. So this is why I'm so mad that they HAVE THE ABILITY to write beautiful and meaningful stories like that. BUT THEY CHOOSE NOT TO IN ORDER TO RAKE IN MORE MONEY??

[andromeda-vita]

i swear to god

if so . r they really using pngs to promote this 😭😭😭

[shit-borg-sims]

Not to be a bitch but ubisoft making another assassin's creed where they once again cant let the playable protag just be ONE woman makes my eye twitch

[thou-babbling-brook]

Ain’t no way the AC Shadows trailer pulled a “we are fnaf”

[caernua]

it is actually devastatingly ironic that ac valhalla told its main story about a woman refusing to bow down and lose control to the man who represents the past life she used to be even delivering the very powerful line “i will not be captive to another man’s gaudy design, my fate is my own” only for her to not receive a proper farewell bc ubisoft instead chose to make the big budget dlc based on the man who was her past life. thanks

[gravehags]

me waiting for ubisoft to make an assassin’s creed game with a solo female protag

[chris-but-alt]

[collinnmckinley]

I dont even play the game anymore, but for a very well known reason this makes me mad...

I was actually thinking about coming back to this game, but now i dont think i will if they do my main that dirty.

[phosphinite]

Dudes I finished watching captain laserhawk and BROOOO (positive)

[devotedlystrangewizard]

ac rogue is so perfectly everything i would want from a franchise like assassins creed and it SUCKS because to play it i need to swallow my pride and download the ubisoft launcher and its horrible

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Anything specific or just Not really feeling either VV or metaphor?

I don't trust Atlus/Wada after them lying about the Answer (literally 9 months ago they said it wouldn't be a thing along with P3P stuff, but lo and behold we have the DLC and I see remnants of P3P stuff in P3R). Between the bs price, and I think Midori said this DLC has been done for years along with P3R even being announced........yeah

And now they wanna pin it on SEGA, but they've been shitty with DLC practices since before that merger. My good faith is gone. I don't believe them.

So I'm saying fuck it. I dunno if they'll try to pull a re-release BS with VV and Refan. So...... :')

[isa-belle1367]

Something that I think about way too often is that one side conversation you can have with Bill later on in ac3 where Desmond says this one sentence:

"It just keeps happening over and over again."

Do you wanna know why I think about this? BECAUSE NOT ONLY WAS HE REFERRING TO THE CYCLE THAT HE HAS SEEN HIS ANCESTORS GO THROUGH OVER AND OVER AGAIN, IT WAS ALSO FORESHADOWING WHAT HAPPENED TO LAYLA

Even though Desmond and Layla had such different stories, personalities, backgrounds, and motives. THEY STILL ENDED UP IN THE SAME SPOT

[fullmetalwindbreaker]

hm. i did buy ac mirage last night on a whim because it’s on sale but i think i’m not going to start it until i finish replaying the first game now that i found out how to fix the stutter

[teecupangel]

I have an idea for a "Desmond survives, actually, fuck you Ubisoft" fic of my own, but I'm worried that people would get frustrated with a sporadic update schedule. Would it be worth it to try anyway?

In my honest opinion, we will always be thirsty for more Desmond content so any new fic is welcomed. Sporadic update schedules are fine for me personally since I know that you write because you want to. You're doing this in your free time and anyone who understands that would understand if you have a sporadic update schedule. They should anyway.

Also, it is definitely worth it to try if you want to write it and you want to share your idea with us. Who knows? Maybe your idea will inspire others to create more Desmond content of any kind which will always be nice.

And it's a fuck you to Ubisoft which I will always approve of. XD

[thou-babbling-brook]

assassin’s creed fans are wild because I just read a fic yesterday that had an accompanying BIBLIOGRAPHY in proper MLA format. nobody works harder than y’all fr fr.