*SPOILER ALERT* AC Brotherhood Rocks But Nobody Talks

Children, children...what is up?

So, I finished Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. Man what a party. Trying to get 100% synch on everything is insane and I admit I didn't do it on everything. Guild quests were fun and man-oh-man did I have fun. Love, love, love it over AC2. Played the single game, don't know what the multi play is like.

Here is the thing -. Brotherhood actually advances the AC storyline. I wasn't expecting this because it isn't AC3 and I had anticipated that maybe not everyone would play Brotherhood - so for that reason, I just wasn't expecting a storyline leap between AC2 and AC3. Foolish me!!! Dude...wow, what an impact on the storyline happens here. I was rocked out by the events around Desmond. I was so excited I raced to 2o2p but...

Children! Nobody is talking about it that I could locate on the Forum. Huh, why? I kinda missed the brainstorming presumptions, guesses, discussions...I dunno...I think maybe I am too old for 2o2p? I feel like I am a pariah and don't fit. I don't have a clan cause I don't online play. I love to game, no question of that but I like solo playing - no flamers or timmies, its at my own pace (I can spend the extra time exploring without someone impatiently waiting to get back into the action for instance) and its at my own weird time schedule. Sometimes I marathon, and my gaming is usually irregular around friends, family, events, work. I love to game but it isn't solely my life. I have at times wanted to online multi play but service in my area is too intermitten I think I'd be nusiance, maybe even a lag so I can wait and meantime, love to game on. But because I don't really know anyone who games and certainly not my age around here, I am starved for sharing it. Maybe I am too needy for 2o2p? Damn, that is pathetic. I sure as hell don't like that one bit.

Sometimes I am not even sure I mind being an odd fit. Lone she-wolf-type. And that warped humour of mine...well, thats just me...being me.

So...I have to wander onto other sites, or official forums to share my presumptions or try to philosophically surmise what is happening or gonna happen. Its like trying to solve the crime before the movie is over. Anticipate, analyze and try to make some sense. The interaction is fun and I like the range of ideas and concepts. Brainstorming is great exercise. I find younger minds more open, more exploring, wanting to dig it out, the truth or the heart or the meaning...all Timmies are not purely evil, there are some who are surprisingly deep thinkers, open thinkers and that is so encouraging.

Anyway, I did all that I could in Brotherhood and what a hoot. Thanks to Ubisoft big time. While I found Brotherhood a bit more glitchy than previous games I really did enjoy myself. I am half way through the DLC at the moment. I don't want to get into the storyline curve this game threw because even with a spoiler warning people might read this - one or two and maybe one of one, or one of two will think "oh crap!!! She spoiled it for me, that COW!!!" and I would like to keep my few readers.

So there it is - We don't talk and that makes me a little bluesy but I am a tough trooper so it ain't gonna get me too down.

What the hell is up with suicidal squirrels? Sorry for the sudden diversion but today I encountered ANOTHER  of these indecisive fluffy-tailed rodents on the road. The confused zig-zag - should I live or should or die and then the dive for the wheels? Will I brake? No, not I. I have decided that my life and the life of all other humans I share the road with is more valuable than the squirrel who is so depressed over nut collecting or whatever that it needs to end it all as a smudge under my wheels is the greater good. I don't brake, I don't swerve, I don't speed up or deliberately aim, I sometimes toot my horn if there is time and it scares them off the road like fur rockets or...often,  I grit my teeth anticipating the 'bump' of death.  A lot of times I miss the bugger,  I don't want to kill God's creatures great or small, I am sure there is bad karma in that but seriously...squirrels who seemingly want to die?  I am death...in a red mustang...the harbringer of release for Scuridae that no longer wish to live. The involuntary Grim Reaper Kevorkian.

There is something else on my mind. I push it back but it returns like a slow rising mist. On my way out the door for work yesterday I caught a CNN tidbit that Japan had been moved 8 feet. EIGHT FEET!?! A country? A whole country? I still don't know if they were talking about the main island of Honshu or whether it was the whole archipelago of the islands. It sticks like a wad of peanut butter in my throat. Eight feet!?! The shock and trauma of trying to empathize with the events that have unfolded and continue to unfold in this country of over 125 million people is mind boggling enough but when I sit in my house and try to imagine everything I know, all that I knew being 8 feet from where it was, my country being 8 feet closer to another country in a blink of God's eye...it is simply astounding.

They say that over 10,000 people could be missing, could be dead. All those voices, minds, dreams, laughter....just gone from the earth in one horrid instance of time. I wonder sometimes what became of my favourite manga author, Kentaro Miura. Is he alive, is he dead, is he okay, traumatized by this occura...will I ever know how Berserk ends or is it now unfinished forever?

And I find myself briefly thinking of Atlantis...that it is suddenly no surprise that empires have been lost and are gone...forever...Atlantis in some watery grave surrounded by kelp waving in the current of dolphins and manta rays passing by. The mythology is that it sank. It is now no longer impossible for me to imagine a city sinking. 

(I feel bad for the Japanese but I am selfish...glad it wasn't me, my country, my family.)

I am amazed and humbled by the grace of the people of Japan. A brave new world awaits them to rebuild and I believe that they will rise again...a red sun has suddenly become  symbolic.

I am, I have realized, concerned for Libya.