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Unrelated to COVID, I finished the main plot foo of Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

I find it extremely anticlimactic not to have an actual ending. Like, I had to go and look up what the supposed nine possible endings were in order to find out 'oh, there are X possible endings to this main plot, you got ending Y; there are X possible endings to this other main plot, you got ending Z; and there's this other plot that can go in this way, bla bla bla'. There should have been an ending that felt more like an ending.

Holding off on playing the DLC until later. I've been at this game a long time. At some point I may go through the historical tour stuff just to get to walk around ancient Greece without conspiratorial stabbiness.

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Important Fun Fact I Have Learned From Assassin's Creed Odyssey:

If you have ever, EVER, learned a Greek name, whether mythological or historical, from a teacher whose primary language was American English... unless their second language was some form of Greek, whether modern or Koine?

Your pronunciation is wrong.

Either the English version changed the vowels or it changed the emphasis to a completely different and unfamiliar syllable, or both, but when actual Greek speakers pronounce the Greek names in this game, with a handful of exceptions, the pronunciations do not even RESEMBLE those that are handed down in American classrooms. And if you use the Greek speakers' pronunciation in front of your history/literature/classics teacher, unless they speak Greek, they will correct you for sounding like a goober.

brought to you by an encounter last night with General De-mo-STHEN-ehz, not General De-MAAAAH-sthen-eez; also by the favor of hair-MEHS, not HURMeez, the historian hair-oh-doh-TOSE, not Her-AHD-oh-tuss, and the pass at ther-mow-PEEL-ey, not Ther-MAHP-ee-lay.

at least 'Apollo', 'Zeus', and 'Leonidas' sound pretty much the same but now I really have to wonder exactly how badly Americans are mispronouncing the names of the Egyptian gods given that the names we use are the Greek versions of the Egyptian names so that's one serious game of Telephone

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Turns out there's one spot in the fight area for the Kalydonian Boar where you can perch just out of strike range, and while the pig will summon lesser pigs to come help it fight, none of them are good at this whole 'stand up on your hind legs' thing. They just stand there staring expectantly at you, but since you're within the fight area, they don't heal up. You can hit them repeatedly with ranged weapons until it's safe to come down.

Things have continued apace otherwise. There's cultists!

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WHY THE !*(@)!@ IS THE !$*!)@%^!@% KALYDONIAN BOAR ROAMING AROUND !@*)(!^% IRON AGE GREECE

THAT WAS A @#*()^)(#^)@(#&$ BRONZE AGE MONSTER

FREAKING !#^!&%)!(@^#()*!%_#@)!&@)&!#@* PIG

.... guess why I didn't get to bed last night until close to 3 AM. Go on. Guess.

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Pluses to making it to Delphi in AC Odyssey:

- So many archaeological sub-sites within the Delphi sanctuary replicated in full visible glory
- Very, very pretty landscaping and historically-as-accurate-as-possible paintjobs
- The old semi-retired mercenary is a fun conversation
- Herodotos
- Nobody, literally nobody, notices or cares that you are climbing up the outside of the Temple of Apollo and doing a balancing act on the highest point of the highest statue
- Unless you jump off at a spot other than the conveniently placed pile of flowers and land in front of them, at which point they gasp but otherwise don't really fuss

Minuses to making it to Delphi in AC Odyssey:

- A conversation that includes the words 'bear scrotums'

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.... apparently Ubisoft's ancient Greece has cuccos; I got attacked by no less than five level 5 chickens when I was investigating a farm on Kefallonia last night.....

not that being level 5 helped, I mean, they all died of being hit with a sword exactly once, but they DID have '5' markers over their heads.

but still.