I really think it's fascinating, despite Riot acknowledging that both Shyvana and Aurelion Sol need work, they've pushed the former significantly back (maybe she'll hit in 2023) and generally just don't seem to know what to do with the latter. There's insane potential and a possible player base for both "half-dragon with full dragon form?!" "galaxy dragon?!" And yet they can't crack it, and I don't think it's from lack of trying.
What's missing here? Why can't they click the power fantasy of playing a dragon with these two champs?
Let's start at the beginning: original sin. The problem God had with Adam and Eve eating the fruit wasn't that they did something morally wrong. I mean, how could they have done something morally wrong before they even had knowledge of good and evil? The problem God had was that they had disobeyed. God said don't eat the fruit, and they ate it. Disobedience and disloyalty.
Another example is Job. When God tested Job, it wasn't his morality being tested. It was a test of his loyalty. It wasn't a question of whether Job was a good man or not, it was a question of whether Job would remain faithful no matter what happened.
God also tested Abraham. He ordered him to kill his son, and Abraham was rewarded for showing that he was willing to obey. You can't get a much clearer indication that what's really important isn't morality but rather loyalty and obedience.
And it's all laid out in the Ten Commandments. Sure, there's some good stuff in there like not killing people, but most of Commandments are about loyalty (idols, coveting, and so on).
And the focus doesn't change with Jesus and the New Testament. As the story goes, the ritual human sacrifice of Jesus on the cross meant that all of humanity's sins are forgiven. Only that's not true, is it? There's still one sin that cannot be forgiven: disloyalty. You have a free pass to rape, murder, and steal: just say you're sorry, and it's all good. But if you "turn your back" on God, then you'll burn for eternity.
It's not a coincidence that "faithful" and "loyal" are synonyms.
So, why do you suppose it is that a church would want to teach its followers that the most important traits a person can have are loyalty and obedience?
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With his medical skills, he's known as the first centaur for disease control!
Let's just get it out of the way right from the beginning - Yes, I am a fan of older AC games and i think AC doesn't need to be RPG. However, I am also a huge RPG fan, and i probably like those type of games more than traditional Assassin's Creed. So I am not making this kind of post because i hate RPGs - I just think that it is perfectly okay that there are franchises that focus on it's own thing without the need to "evolve" into something they shouldn't be.
I am saying all of this because i think the need to stick to AC brand is what's keeping these recent games down for me. The traditional AC elements are being dumbed down in favor of RPG elements, and RPG elements imo are getting poor explanations that take me right out of the immersion because of the need to connect them with The Animus and The Isu and modern day.
The Animus suddenly became a machine that let's you have choices, even though it's literally supposed to be a device that relives history. The Isu and their technology look less like technology and more like fantasy. And because of previous two, modern day is just dogshit.
Not to mention how Assassins, their creed, social stealth, more complex parkour, etc. are pretty much non existent. Assassin's Creed to me is about war between Assassins and Templars, told in a grounded story that shows fake history in a plausible way. And if they didn't want to make that, which is apparent, they should have just let this series rest and revive it only if they got some good ideas about stealthy action-adventure games.
If Ubisoft started new IP that didn't need to have modern day, and where mythological stuff is actual supernatural mythic stuff, i think I would have enjoyed Odyssey and Valhalla more. And I know Fenyx exists, but i'm talking more about a game that's less cartoony and where historical lands exist along with gods and mytholocial creatures and supernatural abilities.
The reason i hear they didn't do above mentioned is so that they can have a bigger sales because AC already has a lot of fans. But Ubisoft is a pretty big company with a large marketing machine - they could have promoted Odyssey and Valhalla exactly like they did now - with absolutely minimal Assassin's Creed references - and I think the games would sell really well. Instead, a number of older fans that Ubisoft counted in that bigger sales number now feel that AC completely lost it's identity, myself included. And new fans, which are now majority let's be honest, like this new
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As everyone is probably aware, we are in the middle of Mars's transit through Cancer, the sign of his fall. I've been thinking about what that means energetically and archetypically, and felt drawn to looking into this seemingly detrimental transit on an esoteric level.
I was surprised to learn through my research that there is a strong connection between Mars and the watery sign of Cancer in the ancient Babylonian mythology of Nergal, the god that corresponds to the planet Mars, and also ruler of the underworld. In ancient Babylonian myth, and in several other cultures including ancient Greek and Roman, the gate to the underworld is in the sign of Cancer.
I wrote a more in depth analysis that you can read here, but I'd love to start a discussion and see if anyone else has been experiencing these themes during this transit.
Edit: substack, the newsletter platform I use is experiencing some issues, so please check back later if that link isn't working for you. #justMarsinCancerThings
As in Percy Jackson where each character is a demigod
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