Obviously it is a memoir by a German officer and so I expect it to be subjective and biased like any other memoir but my great grandfather who did serve in WWII as part of the British Eighth Army and was taken prisoner after Tobruk surrendered and spent a year as a prisoner in Italy until the armistice at Cassibile (he married an Italian lady and later moved to the United States, go figure) gave me this book along with the Rommel Papers and told me that they're some of the best books about the axis. I have really enjoyed the Rommel Papers and am about to start Panzer Leader, I want to know if it is a generally trustworthy though subjective memoir or a book of outright lies before I begin.
First of all, I actually enjoyed Origins and Odyssey and I don't HATE Valhalla. But I do have an issue with the concept of the recent entries into the series...
Before you downvote just hear me out...Assassin's Creed was titled as such because there was a real life Order of Assassins founded around 1090 AD. So the fact that we're now seeing games set BEFORE this date is bizarre to me. In saying that, I understand that the Hidden Ones and Order of the Ancients were birthed from Smenkhkare's desire to recreate Isu populations on Earth at the demise of humanity. The concept of the Isu is something I can talk about for a while too...
I think my issue lies with the concept of the Hidden Ones versus the Order of the Ancients as these are entirely fictional entities as opposed to the Assassins and the Templar. What enticed me to the games was the historical revisionism that still retained a sense of realism through the use of figures, locations and groups that actually existed throughout history. Am I just overthinking it? It is just the plot of a video game series after all and a watertight plot is a rarity in this field of entertainment.
The new Valhalla extension has divided the fandom. It is...different...It is just a bit of fun after all and non-canonical to the overarching story. But is this an indicator to the fact that the creators are running out of ideas? A YouTuber called Erick Lee done an amazing video essay on the Assassin's Creed series and he informed me of the first team of creators on the series setting a 'Can and Cannot' parameter which clearly stated that Assassin's Creed should never employ magical concepts.
Does anyone else feel this way? Does anyone else dislike the reveal of the Isu and wished they went a different route with the series? With the Isu origin story it feels like we can actually go back to the beginnings of humans on Earth which would be ridiculous. A time period I really wanted to explore was the Bolshevik Revolution but that was used in a Chronicles game on the DS...Why? I wish we got a fully fleshed out game of all those time periods. But it looks like we're going back with the settings.
It is a matter of opinion after all. So no hate and lemme know what you guys think.
this is not a rant on canon but a discussion on interpretation
"Because r/tesfanfiction....I'm sorry r/teslore wants to belive that their fanfictions are true and canon .Many of them spend more time talking about Vivecs dick than the actual lore which many of them are shockingly clueless about." - an anonymous Reddit user
People often tend to be hostile to esoteric Lore. Muatra, CHIM, Kalpa, Godhead, pankratosword to name a few. When someone mentions the more esoteric and crazy lore online, invetably some person will be quick to point how it's all just fan theories or just the work of a writer publishing FanFiction not writing for Bethesda. I have some rebuttals that I think help to further discussion.
- Intentional Ambiguity and Implications
TES Lore, as written by Bethesda, has always always been intentionally ambiguous and non-omnscient. It's company policy to have the perspective of the god, king, peasant and dog. As Loremaster Leamon Tuttle put it
"These characters—like people in real life—have unique perspectives that provide a glimpse of the world as they understand it. Their words might carry some truth, but that 'truth' is often skewed by personal biases and it's always incomplete."
There is no all knowing all correct account of events given to us. There is no JK Rowling handing down word of God about the lore from above , but many writers, designers and artists all contributing often contradictory lore. And this is by design.
As an example : where did the dwarves disappear to? Did they zero sum? Think themselves out of existence? Become the skin of teh Numidium? Go to dwemer heaven and sip dry martinis? Was it intentional? The lore implies certain things but never tells us outright leaving us to analyze and discuss and interpret.
- "ItS nOt In ThE gAmEs!"
Another criticism I see of esoteric Lore is that it's only blog posts and random writings of MK and the like. and while it's true the very weird and esoteric Lore aspects are certainly Out of Game texts that's not the whole story. Many of these concepts are directly mentioned in the game. CHIM is referred to by the 36 Lessons of Vivec and the Mysterium Xarxes. ESO ESO Lore about the Ansei and the PGE3 state the fall of Yokuda was due to a forbidden usage of SwordSinging by the Ansei. this is directly related to the p
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
Put it on my bill
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
Calcium, nickel, neon
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
I've been aware of this show and its popularity for a few years now, but last month is when I finally gave it a proper shot on Disney+. I have to admit the show didn't look like it was up my alley; a typical fairy tale about a magical princess learning to harness magic to its full potential. It sounded like you just mixed something Sleeping Beauty-esque with Harry Potter. I love the latter, which I might reference later, but not so much the former. But after some thinking, I finally gave it a shot; all four seasons. As a whole, I found Star vs. the Forces of Evil to be a genuinely good cartoon with some phenomenal high points, mixed in with some clunky aspects that did hurt my enjoyment in the long run. The best way for me to try and elaborate on this is to go through the seasons in order.
Season 1 I found to be mostly unspectacular and it was quickly confirming how much this show didn't seem like it was for me. The comedy frequently fell flat for me, due to it being so reliant on random based humour that started to blend in after a while. It felt tedious to get through, not helped by how much of a hyperactive goofball Star is. There is something admittedly charming about her thoughtless approach to solving problems and use of magic, but it felt like there was too much of this with little in the way of actual learning, and her whole personality screams being ridiculously high on sugar. I also found Star and Marco's friendship to be sudden and not very believable, like it all happens in just the first episode. Then there's the main bad guy of the season being Ludo, who is incredibly inept and was just an extra cherry on top of all of the nonsense happening. Fortunately he is replaced soon by Toffee, which is when the season started to get interesting. He's much more cunning and potentially threatening, and his goal and motives were ambiguous. It adds a lot mystery, which kept me watching to the end. The season does end on such an awesome finale 'Storm The Castle' which made watching the season feel rewarding and made up for some of the tedious parts. But yeah, I didn't care for Season 1 overall and I was thinking of dropping the show altogether. In the end, I persevered and checked out the next season. Suddenly, I was now enjoying it.
Season 2 is when the show really starts getting good. My biggest gripes have mostly been addressed. The pacing is a lot more relaxed, Star is considerably more restrained and likeable, the friendshi
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