Spent Today Playing Ryse: Son Of Rome (broadly Enjoyed It) And Idk If It's Just Me But I Immediately

Spent today playing Ryse: Son of Rome (broadly enjoyed it) and idk if it's just me but I immediately decided that the alternate timeline the game openly occupies is not ancient Rome, but an alternate modern-day Rome.

Everything about the way it's designed put me in mind of a world where Christianity never rose to prominence, the Roman Empire never split, and somehow the apparatus of the Empire just kept going, like a Japan of the west. Rome looks like you could imagine 1st century Rome eventually looking if they had two thousand years of unchallenged dominance and development behind them.

Emperor Nero isn't OUR Nero Augustus Germanicus - he's a guy with the same name, just like Boudica is (which was by all accounts a common Brythonic name anyway).

Idk, it just made the world feel way more engaging to me.

I love things which show trolling and shithousery are a long and time-honoured tradition

The phrase "sucked off" makes me laugh so much ngl

I cannot take it seriously, every time I hear I fucking lose it

I blame a combination of Peep Show and Kunt And The Gang

Due to a typo I accidentally created the perfect beard drag name the other day: Chick Norris

Someone needs to adopt it purely because you know he'd hate it

Internet kids these days dont even know chuck norris. They dont even know him and his joke

As a child I wanted to be a detective more than ANYTHING, out of a combined love of solving puzzles and a deep and burning passion for justice to be done to those who hurt others (and yet I still somehow wouldn't be diagnosed with autism until my 30s) and then I learned that in order to do that, you had to also be a cop, and my interest in being a detective died a quick death

fucking sucks ass that detective is a subtype of cop or always some type of law enforcement. a detective should be someone who is a master of disguise, a weirdo, socially maligned, and hated by the police. he should solve the cases using his ultra specific knowledge about geography, linguistics, human biology, and cigar ashes