I Jumped The Gun So Hard On This But I'm Thankful It Was Still Useful

i jumped the gun so hard on this but i'm thankful it was still useful

also yes i gave $8 to tumblr haaaaaa

for the 4 or 5 people considering unironically to tumblr after elon bought twitter, i'll be reposting art from my art twitter and pixiv here over the next couple weeks or so <3

the gold on his neck thing matches the weights . thank you bethesda very cool

Munch series part 2: it's beautiful Envy

i know people rightfully give ubisoft shit for what they did to the "Tom Clancy" franchise

but then i remember that tom clancy also wrote japan doing 9/11

one of my pet theories/fan-canon is that the Gray Men are effectively divided by 2010/AC5

as their mission to spite osea and yuktobania grows, so does their membership. it's no longer just revanchist belkans, it's ex-AWWNB, it's Hamilton from Osea, it's Estovakians, it's everyone that wants this old order to die.

it's people that see that the death of superpowers means a new beginning not just for Belka but for other countries under their influence to get to chart their own paths. getting osea and yuktobania to destroy their own prestige and standing greatly helps their cause

until shit starts going down. suddenly their plans are starting to unravel. the more level-headed of the bunch are gravely concerned, but they're well connected by now to disappear.

the belkan nationalists, on the other hand, don't want their fading dreams of empire to finally die. they try to pull out all the nuclear stops and end up failing miserably.

they're the ones that get hunted - and to the ones founding General Resource and others, they're the perfect decoy to cast off. the world will need to rebuild after this, after Emmeria and the Lighthouse War, and the rebuilding will get done with their capital.

only by then, they've transcended nationhood altogether. what are national boundaries needed for when everyone can live under the new corporate umbrella?

well, they'll still need to protect their own facilities. especially since a free market can't survive without competition, and Neucom just set up its shops. by 2040, that old vision is just a dot in the mirror...

man, playing ac7 and ac3 back to back (and thus in chronological order) puts the former's ending in such a cold light. the lighthouse war WAS the last great international conflict, it WAS the death knell for nationalism, and it didn't *matter*. a new world has been built, and because capital was permitted to build it, there's nothing here worth fighting for. heroism, pride, hatred, all have given way to a lonely unreality in which people with nowhere to go kill one another for reasons they'll never fully understand. it isn't that ace combat 3 presents a world where there's nothing left to live for, but there's nothing here worth dying for; in a game about battle, that's a horribly sad thing.