I've played through the entire game on Ps3, and I can prettymuch tell you that he really IS being overly-critical for the most part.

The money isn't useless, there's actually neat money-sinks in the game that allow you to do things like purchase upgrades for Monteregionni(Your villa) including art made during the renaissance, and you can't pickpocket things like throwing knives anymore. You can loot dead bodies and maybe find one every once in a while, but you've still gotta pay for the majority of replenishment for Poisons, bullets, knives, smoke bombs etc.

The game itself isn't easy for the most part, combat can be made quite easy because it really is just a lot of standing in a circle waiting to counter-attack for the easy I-win button, but I preferred to make it a challenge to start the fight by trying to assassinate as many guards as possible (Say, in a group of 4 or 6) before the first one I killed fell, and the rest noticed I was killing their buddies.

It's still a damn fine game.. just, bit of an off ending. The one complaint I have is you're supposed to get all these symbol things throughout the game before you complete the game, but if you don't find them it doesn't make as much sense.

That being said, now you know.


In reply to this comment by ForgedReality:
>> ^KnivesOut:
Well, I still bought it, but I haven't played it yet. We'll see. I actually really liked the first one, even with the repetitive mission structure.


So did I. I played it on PC, and I found it to be a lot of fun going through and doing every single side mission before attempting the plot missions, cleaning out each area of the city.

But the whole thing about it being too easy? And the uselessness of the money system? I dunno. That might be a deal breaker for me right there

>> ^entr0py:
From what I understand, this will make it easier to construct things on the moon using materials found on the moon. Now all we have to do is build a few hyper intelligent robots with the ability to repair and replicate themselves, and shoot them at the moon along with plans for some nice moon villas. Wait a few years for them to finish their task, then move in. It's a fool proof plan.


Your name says it all.

From what I understand, this will make it easier to construct things on the moon using materials found on the moon. Now all we have to do is build a few hyper intelligent robots with the ability to repair and replicate themselves, and shoot them at the moon along with plans for some nice moon villas. Wait a few years for them to finish their task, then move in. It's a fool proof plan.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'luxury, villas, sardinia, pool, hoilday houses' to 'banned, redacted' - edited by burdturgler

Portishead's P3, very fine comeback.

A cover of Elliot Smith's "Twilight" (nothing to do with the recent movie!) from a certain Alex Cohen.

Usual digging on the "past-yard" at music villa.

...hundreds...of millions...of dollars. And the company goes bankrupt.

His villas, his homes need to be razed.

Ron Paul is now a millionaire, he'll get over it. If hes smart he'll take his grandkids and leave this pathetic country behind. Go buy a villa on some foreign beach and live the good life. This country doesn't deserve men like him.

That first guy falling is Knut Anders Fostervold, a retired Norwegian footballer. This incident occured in 1999 and got a lot of media attention. So the next week, John Carew (currently playing for Aston Villa), made fun of it, as can be seen in the second clip.

In the 1920's the Du Pont company developed and patented fuel additives such as tetraethyl lead, as well as the sulfate and sulfite processes for manufacture of pulp paper and numerous new synthetic products such as nylon, cellophane, and other plastics. At the same time other companies were developing synthetic products from renewable biomass resources--especially hemp. The hemp decorticator promised to eliminate much of the need for wood-pulp paper, thus threatening to drastically reduce the value of the vast timberlands still owned by Hearst. Ford and other companies were already promising to make every product from cannabis carbohydrates that was currently currently being made from petroleum hydrocarbons. In response, from 1935 to 1937, Du Pont lobbied the chief counsel of the Treasury Department, Herman Oliphant, for the prohibition of cannabis, assuring him that Du Pont's synthetic petrochemicals (such as urethane) could replace hemp seed oil in the marketplace.

William Randolf Hearst hated minorities, and he used his chain of newspapers to aggravate racial tensions at every opportunity. Hearst especially hated Mexicans. Hearst papers portrayed Mexicans as lazy, degenerate, and violent, and as marijuana smokers and job stealers. The real motive behind this prejudice may well have been that Hearst had lost 800,000 acres of prime timberland to the rebel Pancho Villa, suggesting that Hearst's racism was fueled by Mexican threat to his empire.


Just another FYI:
Peter Bensinger is a former head of the DEA. He and his partner Robert DuPont (former Director of NIDA) created Bensinger, DuPont & Associates, which profits from selling drug war related consulting and testing services.

anecdote: i ranted so much about how much i hate simon and garfunkel that my friends promised to play simon and garfunkel at my funeral.

this song's great though. probably because they didn't write it.

http://www.geocities.com/paris/villa/3895/

"In the middle ages, people didn't usually take credit for songs or other works of art they made, so the writer of Scarborough Fair is unknown. The song was sung by bards (or shapers, as they were known in medieval England) who went from town to town, and as they heard the song and took it with them to another town, the lyrics and arrangements changed."

tell that to the RIAA, who insist that music can only exist if musicians give their copyright to a major label and have the incentive of being dropped at any moment after spending their advance.

From Neatorama..

People in Cali, Colombia, are shocked to see the bond between a large
African lion and a woman who saved it from abuse, involving long,
affectionate kisses and hugs between the pair.

Ana Julia Torres, who runs the Villa Lorena animal shelter in Cali, fed
and nursed Jupiter the African lion back to health years ago after it
was found abused and emaciated in a traveling circus. "It is
amazing to see an animal like that be so sweet and affectionate," said
Torres. "This hug is the most sincere one that I have received in my
life."

from Pravda:

"About a third of its 7-year life, bear Potapych was boozing. As a bear-cub, he was bought by a successful businessman who wanted to impress his friends with his haughty manners, and they kept the bear in his villa. Though, later, the businessman was imprisoned, and the bear stood in the villa with his caretaker, uncle Misha. Uncle Misha loved the bear in his own way, feeding him and giving him drink. They even drank together: uncle Misha was a drunkard, so Potapych took to alcohol too. Potapych even got accustomed to drinking from a glass. In the evening, the bear was usually drunk and sometimes he went out of the fence and followed passing people. In the morning, he had a hang-over and uncle Misha gave him something drink again. Local people preferred to avoid meeting the bear. Afterwards, the bear even stared to attack people. Therefore, workers of zoo of the State Cinema Fund, feeling sorry for the bear, decided to take Potapych. Uncle Misha made a farewell banquet for his booze companion; therefore, the bear was completely drunk when the workers of zoo arrived to take him.

The next morning, Potapych had a hang-over and was depressed. He did not want to eat. The workers of the zoo-base were afraid the bear would die. All the more, it was very famished. So zoo workers decided to gradually reduce the doze of alcohol in the bear’s daily ration to break the animal of the bad habit. At first, the bear was very weak, though later he cheered up. After a month, the bear was cured of his alcoholism and turned to milk. The bear put on weight and became similar to its brethren, though it is still behind normal bears in terms of weight and size. Zoo worker Tatyana Yarkina, looking after Potapych, says that the bear's psyche is disturbed, so she needs to keep paying constant attention to the animal. However, she is optimistic about its future and considers Potapych to be a good bear."