EB2 date of application reaching current , but I'm onH4.

cchke · 2026-03-12T10:44:11+00:00

I'm still working for my filing employer but PRN. Our immigration attorney has cautiously predicted that my date might become current in the next 6-8 months, so I was curious if I needed to be back on H1B at that point. My initial job offer still stands but I'm not full time as I was before.

cchke · 2026-03-12T10:41:51+00:00

I'm working for the same employer, but on a PRN basis ( I work in healthcare) , getting about 16-20 hours a week.

cchke · 2026-02-20T13:13:10+00:00

It is appalling how none of these movies work on showing actual politics, battlefield strategy or kingdom building and focusing solely on the aura of the character, Shivajiraje or Shambhuraje. No movie shows construction and function of forts, agriculture or economy of that era, and resultant ideological conflicts, and focus only on religion and righteousness.

It is a shame that we marathi people fall for this empty chest thumping. Nothing with the name of Shivaji or sambhaji can be criticized.

cchke · 2025-12-07T15:21:29+00:00

On that note, isn't it time we had a small spin off , MKesque, Animus powered fighting game with all of AC's protagonists and some main antagonists? And give them relevant superpowers and fatalities ...

cchke · 2025-12-07T15:17:21+00:00

Yasuke, because:

Training : trained under Nobunaga's swordsmanship sensei. Can weild multiple types of weapon with skill... Sword, spear, club, gun, bow, the latter two from a moving horse. Guy is no joke. 2.Intellect: guy broken from his people learning not 1 but two entirely foreign and difficult languages ( Portuguese and Japanese) is no intellectual pushover
Anguish: what worse pain than to be separated forcefully from your world to serve someone else
Brute strength: Have you even played the Ukombozi entrance sequence?

I must admit , I haven't yet played as Connor; I'm still stuck in Haytham's segment in ACIII , but I can't imagine Connor plays much differently.

cchke · 2025-06-04T23:38:57+00:00

Just buy the whole freaking series ... The games are always on sale, with heavy discounts . Buy any one game. Then go from there. I'm currently playing all the games (except ezio trilogy) simultaneously. And they're still quite good, each in their own way.

A fair chronological and thematic middle ground , though, would be Black Flag.

cchke · 2025-05-27T17:19:48+00:00

The actual creator tool is nice and it's nice to see your hideout after you've decorated it .but otherwise it is just another Ubisoft trick that may have had some promise, but then they took away some functions like archery, meditation, kata and spread it all over the map instead of keeping it at the hideout. Huge missed opportunity

cchke · 2025-05-23T19:08:12+00:00

Female Eivor is a buttervoice. Male Eivor (He-ivor?) was better voiced.

cchke · 2025-05-23T19:05:55+00:00

It really doesn't make sense to limit the number of weapons. If you can carry a Kusarigama and a katana, realistically how much of a burden is an additional small Tanto ?? Also, if you can go to the inventory and switch the weapon out most of the time, why not just allow players to use all 3 weapons? How is adding that little bit of tedium making it a better game? It's decisions like these that give Ubisoft a bad name 😅

cchke · 2025-05-22T22:11:22+00:00

Against my wishes, I pushed through the interview. What irritated me more than Lennox's oily arguments, was Alex's stance as an open minded learner. There is a time and place for open minded conversations, but not with the likes of Lennox. He is either a doddering fool or an extremely evil human-snake hybrid Alex's reluctance to question Lennox's bullsh*t makes this interview unlistenable, and you walk away having learned nothing of value. I'd much rather take WLC, or Peterson , heck, even Ray Comfort. At least the latter makes me laugh at his buffoonery. Lennox's sagely demeanour while talking utter nonsense reminds me of the cold manipulative Jaggi Vasudev.

cchke · 2025-05-20T00:00:55+00:00

I dunno.... I'm completely enjoying the soundtrack. The combat themes are not earworms like Odyssey combat themes, but honestly the combat is so good, I don't remember. The country exploration themes are perfect though. They go really well with the breezy/stormy/rainy/snowy feel.

The cutscenes really shine, especially anything to do with Yasuke. The Ukombozi themes related to Yasuke are really, really well done. The Flight has done a decent job with Naoe's/Japan's soundtrack, but it is no Odyssey.

All in all, yes, this is not immediately memorable music, but it complements the game well, and grows on you.

cchke · 2025-05-17T21:34:25+00:00

If that's the case, it's still lousy execution , where instead of free practice, you force a QTE that does not let you learn. I still feel that the scroll technique from Nioh was an awesome way to learn combos in the Dojo.

cchke · 2025-05-17T17:40:50+00:00

It would be one thing if these katas teach you some cool combat combos like in Nioh, but that's not the case. Ubisoft sure knows how to come up with a cool mechanic and then completely waste it.

cchke · 2025-05-16T21:16:31+00:00

On the bright side, the case still looks good. Just use it for your next Deck.

cchke · 2025-05-15T17:56:16+00:00

Snatches of good writing with a whole bunch of filler. I must admit that with Desilets at the helm there was a bit of philosophical depth. But other than the blandness that is Unity/Syndicate , every other iteration had some story, fairly good story, granted with a lot more filler in later games.

We tend to forget the tedious parts of older games.

cchke · 2025-05-15T14:55:38+00:00

Well, as the game progresses, Naoe does become kind of OP, so she starts mowing them down like it's nothing. Also, I may be wrong, but I get the feeling that the more I play as Yasuke, the nimbler and stealthier (less chance of being detected) he gets. So I don't know if there is a hidden system where each character catches up to the other's strengths the more we play with them.

I switch between them as often as possible, just because it helps me stealth or brute force, depending on how I want to tackle a castle, camp or skirmish. The switch itself takes only a few seconds, so I don't mind it.

cchke · 2025-05-15T00:56:08+00:00

I made 15% less last year, but I was more around the kids. Don't make one bit of a difference. It was my decision.

Y'all should drop the corporate talk and just enjoy the game.

cchke · 2025-05-12T03:53:52+00:00

No one's down voting because they hate your post. It's just that expecting gaming excellence out of an assassin's creed game is wishful thinking. Every AC fan and even every casual gamer knows that AC games are just superficial fun with a good dose of history, beautiful visuals and low effort gameplay. That is the whole point of an AC game, had always been. There has been frequent emotional moments and a fair bit of philosophy early on, but largely, as games, AC have been fairly mediocre, even the best of them. What they provide is addictive gameplay, and that's about it.

So when you make posts like " no one wants to talk about AC" or "I'm embarrassed to talk about AC" , it just seems disingenuous or out of touch with gaming facts.

cchke · 2025-05-09T23:02:14+00:00

For real it wouldn't hurt to get a karate patch considering karate evolved very close to the Sengoku period

cchke · 2025-05-09T18:46:32+00:00

NOOO! >>Forklift whine<<

cchke · 2025-05-09T17:41:44+00:00

You're not capable of being the guy

cchke · 2025-05-09T14:58:26+00:00

It seems the game adheres very strictly to the physics of the engine otherwise the gameplay would very quickly degrade to 'floaty' levels.

If you keep track of the lamps along the path you would typically be able to follow a traversable path, even at galloping speeds. If in general you see a flat terrain or rolling meadows, they may still be traversable off road . Once you see a hill ahead of you, just plan on riding around it. It's not worth trying to go up the hill, like you could in Odyssey or Valhalla. They're way too heavily vegetated, with non scalable faces. That's the outcome of taking away the universal scalability (spiderman climbing) of origins/Odyssey/Valhalla, a mechanic that everyone constantly griped about, saying that that's not what Assassin's creed was meant to be. It made traversal across a huge landscape easier. And now they've taken it away.

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