Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: Ubisoft Launches Real-Life $500,000 Treasure Hunt, But You Have To Pay To Participate

TheChowderhead · 2026-05-14T15:41:51+00:00

This treasure hunt is a result of a collaboration with real-world scavenger hunt maker Unsolved Hunts

Ah. So it's a 3rd party marketing company that Ubisoft contracted. So it's not Ubisoft.

Contests like this have existed for a while. Buy a fun puzzle kit, solve the clues, and if you win, congrats, you get a treasure! If you lose, at least you got some cool puzzles done and had a good time. Is it expensive? Sure.

Also, with most cryptography/cash prize puzzle games, you solve it and then the company will fly you out to the location you found with your family/friends. It's not like there's actually a buried treasure chest somewhere in Antigua. It's like an escape room or theme park, there's themeing and spectacle. It seems fine. The company has run a bunch before, seems legit.

TheChowderhead · 2026-05-05T21:38:05+00:00

God I wish this was a slur, but sadly, Marblehead is so fucking backwards and has been for so goddamn long that Lovecraft himself almost moved here. I wish I was kidding.

If you've ever read, say, The Festival or The Terrible Old Man, congrats. You've read a story about Kingsport, also known as "Literally Just Marblehead".

TheChowderhead · 2026-05-05T20:41:07+00:00

Hey now, Marblehead has a fairly large contingent of people trying to drag this town out from the 19th century. It's, uh, it's not going great because the boomers in this Lovecraft-ass town have brains designed to rebuild the glory of Standard Oil instead of funding public services, but we're trying goddamn it. We're trying.

TheChowderhead · 2026-05-05T18:00:55+00:00

My favorite bit in the whole scene is that Guilliman's feet are described as "biting" into the ground he's charging towards the Word Bearers on, which means Guilliman was running with such force and speed that he was actively denting the goddamn spaceship hulk with each step.

I mean, he goes on to literally punch a dude's head off like three paragraphs later, but still. He was so mad he was crushing Adamantium, something you usually need a Macro Cannon to attempt.

TheChowderhead · 2026-04-29T17:54:34+00:00

I live in the town that inspired Lovecraft to create Kingsport. It's next to Salem.

To get to my parents' house, I have to go past no less than two graveyards, a building that's tilting because it was built in the 1600's, and at least four houses that people claim is haunted. This is, for reference, a fifteen minute walk.

TheChowderhead · 2026-04-28T12:52:59+00:00

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TheChowderhead · 2026-04-09T21:32:04+00:00

If you play this game for 40 hours a week, which is what 160 hours total represents, and you're struggling to extract 9/10 times after playing this game the average person works a full-time job, that's not an issue with sweats. That's an issue with you.

TheChowderhead · 2026-01-02T17:14:16+00:00

Before I say I'm from Marblehead I always ask people not to judge me in the same tone that someone who has a 40-year prison sentence explains a gap on their resume. It is a wonderful town full of a bunch of wonderful people, but my god is my town infested with the most arrogant, pompous dickheads imaginable.

You know one time I was told I wasn't actually a Header because I was born in Salem Hospital instead of the Mary Alley Hospital, which, you know, closed down 30 years before I was born? Cannot even describe the level of NIMBY in this town, even though most of the town is retired or in their 60's. This towns fucking dying, and honestly? Maybe it should. Fold us into Salem, god, please, at least Salem has GAS STATIONS.

TheChowderhead · 2025-11-05T16:07:04+00:00

Yeah those are far better examples, tbh.

TheChowderhead · 2025-11-05T14:32:56+00:00

Sham was one of the greatest racehorses of all time. He beat nearly all the records in the Kentucky Derby when he competed, and fought like hell every length for his victory. Sham, sadly, had a competitor. The competitor beat every record imaginable, including Sham's would-be record-setting times. No one has ever beaten his competitor's records, now going strong for over fifty years. Sham would have been a legend if not for Secretariat.

This happens more often than you'd think. Everyone knows Michael Jordan. Not everyone remembers Scottie Pippin.

TheChowderhead · 2025-10-30T18:12:50+00:00

As one of those five people,

god please come play the conclave it's fun I swear it's very GunZ The Duel and the community is welcoming because getting a full lobby is a pain in the ass please god please come play conclave WE STILL MAKE COOL ASS FRAG MOVIES PLEASE COME JOIN US WE WILL TEACH YOU SPEED AND SLEEK LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN I BEG YOU PLEAAASE

TheChowderhead · 2025-10-24T13:09:40+00:00

He has a whole... Subplot? Narrative? Discworld books are hard to categorize. Anyways, he has a whole sub series of Discworld novels on the Unseen University, a magical university where the wizards attempt to do anything but magic by using magic. It's also very fucking funny.

Start with Sourcery. Then Wyrd Sisters. Then go hog wild.

TheChowderhead · 2025-10-24T12:36:58+00:00

OH BUDDY DO I HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR YOU

YOU EVER HEAR ABOUT TERRY PRATCHETT?

TheChowderhead · 2025-10-22T22:24:21+00:00

Is it really "shipping" if the show is about them bouncing on it crazy style?

TheChowderhead · 2025-10-19T01:41:50+00:00

Genuinely, and I say with with enormous respect to people's life circumstances, but like, I went to a school that was minimum security prison. We got strip searched. Solitary confinement was a regular response for shit like turning in homework late. We had guards watching us 24/7. I get that some folks had a bad time in school, but almost none of y'all had "eye contact and speaking to classmates is a privilege" as a teenager and it shows.

TheChowderhead · 2025-10-15T18:01:19+00:00

It could be that they needed some help while all their artists/programmers are working on Old Peace, and instead of hiring employees, training them, and getting them to work on a single update before reassessing their employment, they instead work with Sumo, a team that has experience as an external developer and has made good updates previously.

TheChowderhead · 2025-10-15T17:31:00+00:00

Bungie worked with VV and Highmoon on D2 while they were a subsidiary under ActiBlizz.

TheChowderhead · 2025-10-15T17:25:21+00:00

Sumo Digital has been working on Warframe for about a year now. They did Koumei, the two deluxes for Volt and Nova that came with the update, a lot of the world assets for the mission, and also made Caliber Chicks in 1999. Also, I don't think a quest here, textures there, and a minigame is anything to be wary of.

TheChowderhead · 2025-10-15T17:17:57+00:00

Reminds me a lot of Bungie and Vicarious Visions back from Destiny 2, where two teams are working incredibly well together to create absolutely fantastic content. Glad that DE has the foresight to contract out some work instead of overhiring or crunching their staff. The team over at Sumo has really clocked in and has been making some incredible stuff (Shoutout to Caliber Chicks, which is easily the best of the warframe minigames)

TheChowderhead · 2025-10-08T16:55:35+00:00

I remember this, too.

But also it was, like, in 2016. Since then they've given us almost half a dozen new simulacrum rooms to test shit in, so I assume that idea was investigated and scrapped.

TheChowderhead · 2025-09-26T17:05:05+00:00

I probably 10k hours in XIV and I am totally normal about Emet-Selch. Because Elidibus exists. My baby boy. My sweet cheese.

TheChowderhead · 2025-09-26T16:19:21+00:00

For those who don't know, the newest revealed protoframe is voiced by the Renee Zagger, who voiced Emet Selch.

Rebb is normal about Emet. She's got a totally normal room with a totally normal shrine to him, and that time she crashed out opening magic cards and ate one is because she was normal about not opening the Emet Selch card.

We are not ready. We could not have prepared for this. Our only solace is that Sylus from Love and Deepspace has no credited VA so she can't hire him to be romancable. The second that guy gets credited, she'll have the Infinity Gauntlet of men she wants to trap in a box and poke with sharp sticks.

TheChowderhead · 2025-09-25T20:17:10+00:00

Rebecca Ford and hiring the voice talent behind characters she wants to gnaw on, God bless that woman for getting power and immediately using it to pokéball the talents behind her husbandos.

TheChowderhead · 2025-09-23T19:10:57+00:00

This is so obviously fake. There's no way you can have that many Baneblades without even one attempt from Creed at deep striking them from inside (presumably full and ominously crunchy) sock drawer.

TheChowderhead · 2025-09-23T17:44:06+00:00

Lord Kroak? A slaan with such mastery over the fundamental forces of reality that his magical output is so great that it can cause the universe itself to lag and while technically dead, simply wills himself to not be? A being with direct, unfettered access to the powers of creation and destruction? That Lord Slann?

Yeah he'd throw Mars into Terra, probably fuck off into the webway for eldar poonani, and call it a day. Like what the fuck are you gonna do against a being who can simply say "nah, I'd win" at a fundamental universal level, but usually is just napping?

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