Monday, December 19, 2016

Sailing Around the Caribbean // Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag

The idea is to sail around the Wild West Indies seas without desynchronizing on the border. I sailed around counter clockwise starting from The Great Inagua Hideout. I lost my bearings on the bottom right corner of the map and about north of The Great Inagua Hideout. I tinkered with my counter around those points, so you'll see the timer counting down, and up, paused , and down again to be as close as possible to actual travel time.

I turned on several Abstergo cheats for smooth sailing (no waves) and calm weather. That didn't help much. There were still waves and rain.

Sailing Time............ 37min46sec



I'm done.

Strolling Through Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

I wasn't sure how I would go about doing this in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag. With 50 locations and 75 islands to explore, this proved to be a much harder task.

I decided to just stick with 3 major cities in the game: Havana, Nassau, and Kingston. Along Aveline de Grandré's memories, Freedom Cry and DLC islands, I didn't include the Great Inagua Hideout location, despite it being a major place in the game. The terrain towards the back of the island involves jumping between trees and platforms. It's not a problem with Edward sprinting, but walking makes this impossible.

Sprinting Times
Havana................. 01min48sec
Nassau................. 01min43sec
Kingston............... 03min46sec

Total.................. 07min17sec



I'm done.

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Sprinting Through Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

I wasn't sure how I would go about doing this in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag. With 50 locations and 75 islands to explore, this proved to be a much harder task.

I decided to just stick with 3 major cities in the game: Havana, Nassau, and Kingston. Along Aveline de Grandré's memories, Freedom Cry and DLC islands, I didn't include the Great Inagua Hideout location, despite it being a major place in the game. The terrain towards the back of the island involves jumping between trees and platforms. It's not a problem with Edward sprinting, but walking makes this impossible.

Strolling Times
Havana................. 05min19sec
Nassau................. 05min08sec
Kingston............... 09min48sec

Total.................. 20min15sec



I'm done.

Friday, December 16, 2016

Kubros - Ezio

Kubros is a Mega Blok line of building block figures. It lets you build the biggest icons from gaming, movies, TV, and pop culture.

Ezio Auditore da Firenze is the main protagonist from Assassin's Creed 2, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, and Assassin's Creed Revelations.



I'm done.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

So...


Initially, I needed someone to blame for this election outcome. A scapegoat. So I looked at 3rd party voters. Now that I've cooled off a bit, I looked at the numbers.

In 2008, Pres. Obama won with 69.499 million votes over McCain's 59.948 million votes.

In 2012, Pres. Obama won with 65.916 million votes over Romney's 60.934 million votes.

The current count for Clinton is 59.814 million votes over Trump's 59.612 million votes, but she lost because of the electoral college.

Roughly 8-10% of registered Democrats also voted for Trump.

In these past 8-9 years, the voter turn out for conservative voters were roughly the same.

There's plenty of blame to go around. If you really want to blame someone, blame the almost 10 million people who didn't show up this year. Their votes REALLY MATTERED. Their votes could have flipped Congress in some shape or form. Their votes could have made changes at the state level.

I’m done.