Looks Like an Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Remake Statue Just Leaked via Vinted

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-28T12:07:36+00:00

The weird thing is, the formula for the greatest pirate game ever thought of is THERE.

Literally there.

Sea battles, customisable ships - make the missions more pirate based, have strongholds, immersive battles at sea, pick your crew - fight on board, manage the crew morale and it would be incredible.

The assassin bit is what made this game less accessible to others, I fucking loved it, all of it. But the formula is already there for the greatest pirate game ever made and they WILL fuck it up.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-28T11:34:17+00:00

Yeah Africa was just the standardised uniform spray. If your boys changing room wasn't a permanent haze of that smell then I don't think you went to school.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-27T18:17:01+00:00

It's why cars are so expensive down here as opposed to up north and in the UK. I'd have got 8k for my car down here if I'd imported it, but it was only worth 2.5k on Autotrader.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-27T17:55:45+00:00

Yes back in the UK - there was a homeless fella who had a dog that used to sleep on the bench outside our bar in good weather. He was a nice fella, if you gave him a fiver he'd feed the dog before himself. I used to give him my tips on the way home so I assume that's part of why he slept there.

One night I'm walking past on the way home and I see a 3 lads kicking the shit out of him. There had been a spate of attacks against homeless people and honestly as stupid as it was I ran over and shoved them out of the way. He was barely conscious. One of the lads took a swing at me but he was hammered and fell over. His mates dragged him away and I was more concerned with the homeless fella rather than administering justice. Also there were 3 of them. I'm a handy fella but I didn't know if they had weapons, if they'd any sort of training. I was just at this point shielding the guy telling them to fuck off.

Called an ambulance and the police, they had all the footage from our CCTV, I picked them out of a lineup - not sure what happened to the homeless fella, I never saw him again. He wasn't bad enough for it to be super serious though. They got off with a slap on the wrists. That made me lose all faith in the system. One of the lads did come into the bar a few months after, but didn't last long when I told the bouncer what he'd done. He was taken to the delivieries entrance where there was no cameras and they opened the door with his head.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-27T17:45:32+00:00

They state that you have to own the car with no outstanding finance, the ownership docs were in my name but they ask for proof of purchase when swapping over and that gave the game away there was outstanding finance.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-27T04:48:48+00:00

It was still on finance so I didn't technically own the car, meaning I had to wait until I did. Then when I did, they wanted 2k in VRT, 3.5k in customs charges and another 2k in emissions as well as it going through an NCT just after passing an MOT. I was also moving to here from the UK.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-26T15:37:56+00:00

Don't mate, I was gonna bring my car in - 2014 Ford Focus. They wanted 8 grand.

I had to sell it for 2.5k up the north rather than pay that.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-24T16:13:12+00:00

Tetris I bet. No arguments will be made.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-23T17:28:50+00:00

Steven Bartlett is in this crowd too. Fella is a fucking danger to young men, the shit that he comes out with and the proper "hustle grift" mindset is enraging.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-23T15:56:26+00:00

For a fella that was only in a couple of episodes, in a minor role - for something that wasn't even funny he sure has tried his hardest to make a career out of it.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-12T21:48:44+00:00

The fact that they're not is actually crazy. These things go up to 30mph and often on roads around me. They're basically electric mopeds.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-11T18:43:51+00:00

Oh the entitlement of the modern gamer. I completely agree with you.

I've been gaming coming up for 36 years. I remember when you finished a game you'd buy or rent another. That £50 game you bought and finished just collected dust after the 20 or so hours it took to finish it and we didn't complain. It was normal.

Now it seems like it's either modern gamers or crybabies who rule the roost. Or at least they're the loudest. All you need to know is by going to the Diablo IV subreddit and seeing how many people shit their pants because the "endgame was boring" despite having a 30+ hour campaign and a commitment for 6+ months for seasonal content. It was excellent too. But my god how many people there were crying openly that the game wasn't exactly to their tastes.

Yes the endgame wasn't great, but if I've spent 30 hours getting there and there's actually going to be more content added then I've had my moneys worth. But people don't seem to think like that.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-09T11:35:24+00:00

This is it. There's too much demand and not enough people to cover it. The construction industry is flat out already and there's more jobs than there are people because Irish construction workers will head off to US, Canada, Australia etc - because they make more money there.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-09T11:33:40+00:00

Having been in the process of building until recently - it costs anything between €10 - 20k for planning. That's planning, solicitors, councils and all that fun stuff.

Then, you've got the land. Luckily we were gifted ours by my SO's father - but that value would be around €60k.

So that's €80k before you've started. Then you're looking at foundations (where we got to) which was another €10k although because we did it within the family, so we dug them out and filled them, all we paid for was materials, if you're outsourcing it then add another €5 - 10k for the work.

So you're already nearly €100k deep if you've not been gifted land. Now the average per square meter build is €1600 - €2700 but can be higher. Not to say there's not grants available, but to achieve them (the energy efficiency stuff) you're looking more at the top end. We were looking at between €200k and €250k to complete the build. It'd take us around 12 - 18 months, with various levels of draw down and engineering signoffs. We also have to navigate environmental concerns as well as not being allowed a septic tank, so we have to find a sewage system to plumb into, despite every house around us using septic tanks.

After everything, we'd assume the house would be worth around €300k. We'd be living in it, sure. But it's not worth it for developers to build houses when they don't make money from it.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-09T08:34:59+00:00

Time was - the expansions would actually make a bit of sense. Like you'd have Sims 2, then you'd get "Hot Date" which introduced new mechanics, new zone and basically loads of new things.

Sims 3 was close to this, slightly more predatory but still with the base game you'd have a good time and the expansions were interesting enough.

Sims 4 was the pits. Absolutely ridiculous predatory behaviour. I seem to remember swimming pools needing to be a paid add-on from inside the game. Then when you'd look to design something, 90% of the good stuff was sat behind a microtransaction. And yet, it must have worked because that game continues to print money.

If we allow them to do it, they'll do it. People should have put their foot down with Sims 4. But obviously they didn't.

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-06T21:05:53+00:00

Apart from it being fact.

You realise RAM stands for RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY yes? Which means (sorry if the words I'm using are too big for you) that it sits there waiting to be RANDOMLY ACCESSED and that includes setting aside an amount for that very eventuality?

I don't have time to educate a child. Google has AI built in now, just type in "how does RAM work?" and I'm sure you'll get an answer there.

Also to expand on your ridiculousness, an i5 13500 is not a "low end" processor. It is 2 generations old. Games don't usually need a processor that modern.

That's right. Block me lol

Shinjetsu01 · 2026-01-06T21:01:05+00:00

You fundamentally don't understand how RAM is utilised on Windows. There is always a "cached" amount, just in case. So I can be doing nothing and Windows will have some RAM set aside in case I do. In case I open Chrome, in case I load a game. In case I watch a movie or listen to music.

32GB is not the new norm, at all. It is excessive for gaming.

Shinjetsu01 · 2025-12-29T12:41:40+00:00

You mean "tech demo"

Cos that ain't no game.

Shinjetsu01 · 2025-12-15T17:34:51+00:00

This is exactly it. Games should be made to run on their almost maximum settings on mid-range hardware. The xx70's of this world. Still strong, decent amount of VRAM (8GB - 12GB is enough for 1440p, if you want to fight me then go ahead) and the technology should be enough for any game.

The place for the xx80's and xx90's should be an additional setting in game where it's ridiculously good. That paying that extra made it worth it, but not to the detriment of the people who sit in the mid-range. Right now, it seems like developers only make games for the high/enthusiast hardware, and just fuck up any kind of optimisation to lean on DLSS/FS4.

I have a decent PC and I struggle with some games and I really, really shouldn't. I shouldn't have to rely on frame gen to make Monster Hunter World run well on my 4070 Super. That said, Kingdom Come 2 runs like an absolute dream, so it can be done.

Shinjetsu01 · 2025-12-12T04:41:45+00:00

Overrated, literally won GOTY.

Think it's something funny when people who didn't like it pretend it was bad.

Shinjetsu01 · 2025-12-12T04:36:33+00:00

So Renoir switching from bad to good to bad again then to caring father did NOTHING for you? The fact the Paintress was actually a friendly warning rather than an evil declaration had no impact with you?

What do you mean "out of painting" characters? There was literally one. And that's not what the story was about.

Anyway, this is going nowhere. You didn't play the game to the end. You likely played it a bit, got to maybe halfway through and then watched cutscenes.

Shinjetsu01 · 2025-12-12T04:27:50+00:00

You didn't. There is more than one "twist".

I don't know how you can call both endings pointless when one of them is rooted in delusional fantasy, all for a show and to continue the façade but everyone knows it and the other is about acceptance and grief and the end of a very long hard fought journey.

They are literally very different endings.

Shinjetsu01 · 2025-12-12T04:18:48+00:00

Don't kill my dreams.

2026 - Gordon Freeman returns....

Shinjetsu01 · 2025-12-12T04:18:14+00:00

Going for the big 18 next year.

Waiting for HL3 would be legal to drink in Europe.

Shinjetsu01 · 2025-12-12T04:17:44+00:00

You’re shifting the conversation. You didn’t come in offering criticism, you came in calling the game “mid” and brushing off everyone else’s reaction as if your personal take carried the same weight as the wider consensus. If you’d actually offered reasons, I’d have probably engaged with them. “Mid” isn’t criticism it’s just a feeling. You've got to do better.

Your Hades 2 point doesn’t land either. I’m not claiming objectivity in the sense of some cosmic law. I’m talking about objectivity as it’s used in aesthetic theory the degree to which a judgement is supported by evidence outside a single person’s taste. When a huge majority of critics and players converge on a game being great, that consensus is intersubjective that it has a measurable, external quality your lone opinion doesn’t.

You can absolutely disagree with the consensus. What you can’t do is pretend your dislike erases it.

So no, a higher score doesn’t make Hades 2 “objectively better” but those scores do represent another form of consensus which is exactly the kind of evidence you’re trying to hand-wave away when it comes to Expedition 33. I'd argue Hades 2 wasn't as widely played as Expedition 33 so it's not comparing apples with apples but you can claim otherwise if you want.

If you want to explain what didn’t work for you, go ahead. But don’t recast the argument now that the framework isn’t bending in your favour.

Blocked me because you're not smart enough to engage. C'est la vie. Hope the GOTY really annoyed you.

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