I hope that we meet again somewhere, one day.

Hurts.

I'm sorry.

"Flawless Victory (And How to Avoid It" In honor of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced's release, here's a brief essay about how I approached the writing of its main narrative, 13 years ago. darbymcdevitt.substack.com/p/flawless-v... Big thanks to @jon.inkle.co for nudging me to write this one.

One really, really cool trait to add to a potential Nightmare/Corsair/Dread Pirate/whatever difficulty in Resynced -- the harder-than-hard difficulty that always ships post-launch in these, is to do with the whole enemy-adaptation mechanic they have going on:

It is childlike to dream that something which goes Unseen may also be Understood, may be wanted to be Understood. I don't know how to live somewhere Incurious about why I hurt, I don't know how I'm meant to extend good faith when I obviously don't deserve any myself. It was noble. And warm.

Ah.

Joshua x Estelle commissioned by @Golden_Glaive (Twitter)! ✨ Thank you so much for commissioning! 💕

Have been barely scraping by for about 6 months now as the sole provider for 4 transfems but between the upcoming move next month, my hunt for a better paying job stalling out, and getting hit with overdraft fees after all my expenses hit at once, I could use some help ko-fi.com/lynnarang

Ellipsus kind of bangs, as a writing tool.

It’s okay to pick and choose where it makes the most sense for you That does mean that you have to be more strategic about how you make demands of other people. But I think you should be doing that regardless.

after much demand i have a steam page for Devil Typocrypha so PLEASE WISHLIST SO I CAN RIG THE ALGORITHM FOR THIS WEEKEND'S UPCOMING OPEN SAUCE & SECRET SAUCE STEAM EVENT #aLt-Project store.steampowered.com/app/4707000/...

「すべては御心のままに」

One of the things that, as lead writer, I had to bang into the head of senior leadership sometimes was that writers were not interchangeable even within a project. One writer knew a certain companion inside and out. When we lost that writer, a new writer coming in took twice as long to do the work.

Michel Bollinger #fatamoru #fanart

Commentary: Warehouse Raids Improvised Stealth/Combat Gameplay #AssassinsCreedBlackFlagResynced youtu.be/-ENIdcurgZs

She’s so hot this summer… 🏝☀️ Artwork by @yankodiac.com ✨

Enjoying this game a bit more than some recent ones in the series because it can really value pressing a lot of buttons-per-minute, and that's just something I'm always going to click with. Any Assassin's Creed in which I can FEEL my decision-making getting faster and faster as I acclimate is Good.

Smoke can buy time to See what archetypes are fighting you. RopeDart -> Sweep is lethal but costs a lot of time. Catch fleeing enemies with a gunshot. Enemies trying to shoot you become instant-killable with a Rope Dart. Cancel Brute "spin-to-wins" by deliberately failing a Vault on them.

I'm so tired these days that even just Resting actively Costs me energy. And yet, there is still so much left undone...

Seeing even great players get tripped up by Hard Stealth so I'm shuffling things, going to release some improvised Warehouse raid commentary showcasing decision making and keeping everything tight and controlled with tools + defusing fights fast (with Gray gear ideally so it applies universally).

リオナさん！ #カグライ

Spooky.

Drove through the Cascades, made the required pilgrimage:

I really praise Resynced for how smartly-scoped it is. Every change is intelligent, everything IN the game WORKS for the most part. There are advantages to working with existing material, but many teams would have been tempted to over-scope like crazy and make mistakes.

In-Depth Thoughts / Review on Resynced soon/tomorrow-ish. (I write a lot when it's about these.) Overall, I really like it, every major aspect of play meets or exceeds my minimums for what I want out of THIS series. No AC game since Black Flag '13 has done that, I think that's a crazy achievement.

New reason to live just happened.

幻夜の淵で、また逢いましょう

you have to work on your bullet patterns bro. they're calling you 'grazebait' bro

エルフの女王

Play ZeroRanger

Titi

Happy #BlackFlagResynced release day! #art #assassinscreed

Enjoyed this a lot. SGBR always puts in the time, effort and above all else, nerves, to produce something smooth and entertaining. A bar for quality to aspire to, which most typically won't reach. youtu.be/itr9wzz6eOU

the usage of nostalgia as a tool of fascism/capitalism comes at us from two ends, both to lure us away from the march of progress, and to deny its current degradation of everything, "no everything's not getting worse, that's just nostalgia talking! you only miss it because you were young"

Happy to see the Jackdaw setting sail once again (now with 20 percent more Caroline Scott Kenway).

💢 #YuiYuesdays #gpose

the idea that games are the result of a single person's ironclad vision rather than a thousand little decisions and compromises and individual people's ideas all coming together in complicated ways

comm, thanks!

if you like mechanical deep dives, you'll enjoy my piece on the Mega Man Zero series imagine if DMC had that combat depth, but no style system to surface it, and everyone only compared it to the Resident Evil series that's how people talk about this series canonfire.net/post/6775935...

I think some complaints from “casual” players for certain games are people who secretly want to actually be hardcore but just don’t feel good about where they’re at

me: "i just need to turn my brain off and play a shmup for a bit" u fouele, you insoulente coweurde, cannot be turnin ur brain off when shmup, yo ucame wrong neighbor hood

Break time.

So basically it smiles every day

10 Minutes of Extremely Normal On-Foot Gameplay www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNdf...

I love how they expanded on the story in this game.