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  • Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpas

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  • I'm still sad they killed the 2008 Prince of Persia after the DLC, top of my list from them. (Lost Crown isn't far)

    Also TBF, Origins isn't the best example to blame them for making a stale loop, since that's precisely the game where they updated the AC formula to make it a lot more RPG.

    But I cannot for the life of me understand how the series blew up into a juggernaut of a dozen releases over two decades.

    Heavily historical setting fairly accurate about settings that a lot of people are interested about. Nothing easier. You can literally throw a dart at a map and a timeline and make something interesting with a shit story. People will buy a million of them, doesn't matter if they're all the same game. It's a goddamn mystery that no one is doing anything like that with their own engine, absolute lack of imagination.

  • ‘I’ve tried to separate myself from this job’: The Witcher’s Anya Chalotra on fan abuse, Henry Cavill

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  • Good for the guy. Wikipedia says it started as short stories in a magazine starting 1986, became books in 1994, games in 2007. So it did take a while, work, and layers of recognition from the magazine readers to the Netflix execs. Showrunners just say skip all that.

  • ‘I’ve tried to separate myself from this job’: The Witcher’s Anya Chalotra on fan abuse, Henry Cavill

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  • No, there were books, then there were games. The games changed some stuff (probably, didn't read the books didn't play the games didn't watch the show), the show changed more from the games.

    The books were an original idea, but there were a few of them before it got notable enough. Point is the showrunners aren't pitching original ideas that immediately shoot to popularity, original shows need time to build up to know if it's good but networks and publishers can pull the plug anytime they decide it's not fast enough. You don't strike gold on the first 3 episodes.

  • The Odyssey

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  • The hint was that the Aeneid is Roman and the Odyssey is Greek. Greece is centuries before the Romans.

  • Newsom Says He Will Consider a 2028 Presidential Run After the Midterms

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  • The biggest party in the parliament, or a coalition, pick the prime minister. I'm pretty sure this one was from a coalition, and she was the leader of her party, and her party was the bigger of the coalition. Members of parliament do get elected into it by the people, who vote for a person and/or for a list. They didn't pick her to be leader of the party, but they voted for the people in the party that she recently became leader of.

  • Newsom Says He Will Consider a 2028 Presidential Run After the Midterms

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  • I don't understand how but she's supposedly a conservative.

    Far right Trump lover who wants a return to traditional values. You know which tradition she's talking about, and it's not a Japanese tradition.

    Also, prime minister not president, and not elected.

  • UFC Fighter Who Vowed To Take A Bullet For Trump Has Revelation

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  • Just start with Wikipedia there's no single source, it's pretty widely recognized.

  • Fictional

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  • Every base is base 10 dumdum

    0, 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21...

    e: starting at 0 to not shame programmers.

  • MTG pressures Johnson to reconvene House as shutdown becomes one of the longest in US history

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  • We should be passing bills that make President Trump’s executive orders permanent.

    Can she though

  • "Y'all motherfuckers need Jesus" - Early Modern Europeans immediately after meeting another culture

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  • So just to correct the record here, the spread of Buddhism was done through severe wars and good old religious rewriting and recontextualizing of historical events and local mythology. It took a few tries and several centuries of propaganda before that settled down. Hell, the only reason Japan became a big Buddhism spot the first time around is the few huge temples that were built quickly by Chinese money (edit for correction: Korean initially) and preachers lobbying the rich and the powerful, because a couple big families near the throne decided that it could make them money. So it didn't really do Japan good until it was completely integrated and everything was rewritten, actually. And the rewriting that worked was "pretend that actually Shinto and Buddhism are really the same thing" (honji suijaku). Which shouldn't be too foreign if you know anything about Christian conversion of countries. ... Or ancient Greek conversion of countries, or anything else, for that matter.

    On the other hand, Japan is currently known on that regard for integrating anything they see and having multiple faiths coexist, so it shouldn't really be that surprising that anything would be allowed to mix in. Though I don't know exactly how accepting the people were at the time beside how the ruling class was divided between converts and antagonists - just like when Buddhism came in.

    So it's a bit both not really surprising that Christianity was accepted by the people, and also not the first time a foreign religion tried to wipe out the local religion of Japan through the people in power. No matter which way works, it's not a surprise because none of it is the first time, you just roll the dice to see which one makes it through this time.

    What's different is that Christianity tends to be the one that doesn't want to coexist. I mean, Buddhism tried that too, but it ended up as part of the mix. So, the usual MO for Christianity is to target a few rich families in high positions and in trouble to get funds, kickstart some buildings, create an illusion of importance, and make that the new normal. Which is pretty much how it went for Buddhism. But here, the Edo shogunate shut down those big convert families (and of course a big war happened around them), so there was no big religious center or two to gather more money and start the cycle, so the converts stayed hidden instead, which diminished the "return on investment" and killed the adoption rate.

    Preying on suffering people who already have nothing to lose is a secondary step to all that - though there was no shortage of oppressed people in Japan for a very long time. Spreading a grassroot-like movement would be more in line with what should work, it's just that it would take centuries of the government just slaughtering the sect of weirdos, until someone in power converts the whole country in the name of all the martyrs (that should also sound familiar). But that's not what Christianity has been doing in that period where it just figured it could walk in and do whatever they wanted. It's just not the oppressed people getting swayed in that can change that on the scale of a country. So, shutting down the funding from the rich families is what did it in.

    Also, conquest was another drive of the spread of Buddhism, like around the 8th and 9th centuries when they were still wiping out the north, powerful families were still the ones using that opportunity to build more big temples, both in the capital and in the newly conquered territories, and spread more propaganda. That conquest process was killed when the country actually got unified just when the Christians tried to come in.

  • Jimmy Kimmel Thought His Show Would Never Return After Suspension: ‘I Said to My Wife, That’s It. It’s Over’

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  • I think Colbert also kept paying his full staff when in covid lockdown even when he was filming it from his bathtub and then his shed or something.

    And then there's also the whole freedom of speech, journalistic freedom thing.

  • What does it feel like to be a horny man?

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  • Instructions unclear, ate burgers for 10 years and gained 30kg.

  • Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines?

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  • Not the basket D:

  • Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines?

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  • You can also add jets to make it shoot down faster.

  • Takaichi wins LDP leadership vote; likely to become Japan's first female PM

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  • saying it is against tradition

    The fuck? She doesn't know anything about Japanese traditions, does she?

  • Are the character names in most Anime real Japanese names or just made up?

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  • 99.9% of anime is slice of life in real Japan with mostly real or real-ish names, what are you talking about

  • Mike Johnson Caught on Camera Admitting Trump Is ‘Unwell’

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  • Define unwell. He and she are not talking about the same thing, he's not agreeing with her, he's muddying the water on what anyone is talking about.

    Like "he's committing genocide, he's crazy" "but what about cinnamon rolls, that's crazy too" is not him agreeing, it's him changing the subject.

  • Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”

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  • Not for the canary cry emoji

  • Mike Johnson Caught on Camera Admitting Trump Is ‘Unwell’

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  • No, he's changing the meaning of "unwell" by comparing what she says about Trump to what Republicans say about Democrats. Which is not that they are actually too old and sick to govern. Well, they do say that and a lot more, but that's not the implication he's making here. He's downplaying how "unwell" Trump is. Because "unwell" is a fucking understatement, and this is him just pushing it further under.