It's one of the more memorable ones for some reason. And like all the best horror stories, there is no gore at all. Just that horrible DRR DRR DRR DRR sound...

I'm curious what sort of shortcomings you saw? I'm no expert of the genre, but foe me I thought it was just very samey in gameplay, while still bringing some interesting twist to the table with the masks. And as you said, that art direction is incredible. Still, it felt very much like Eden Ring in Italia. Not necessarily a bad thing, I suppose. I'm still tempted to get it.

I'm having a similar fatigue yeah. It really is amazing visually, the attention to details is fucking unreal and the environments are just so diverse... But it's definitely the same old same old. Main thing that's improved is the maneuvrability, where you can some really amazing feats of climbing, to the point I thought I was doing a really hard mission when I was in fact just going the wrong way (up a cliff). That's another thing I've been having difficulty with : I do like that they listened and did the whole not showing you where the objective is, but some of their hints are fucking atrocious and I've spent way too much time searching the area never to find it. Unfortunate. Anyway, at some point I took a break and haven't picked it up since. Just kinda forgot about it. Same with Origins. I just arrived in Atlantis, but haven't felt any irrépressible urge to get back to it, despite my thorough enjoyment of the game.

"would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard. If fuck me so hard"

And then to take it private because being public means Ubisoft is focusing on pleasing shareholders instead of making great games. The whole message is... unexpected, to say the least. Like a bunch of gamers got together to stop Ubisoft killing itself.

There can certainly be beauty, but can there be art without an artist?

Might be an Abby Winters gathering. They have quite a few sets with many of their models all together for a big party weekend. The vibe and look of the girls certainly feels like it.

That's when you ask things plain and simple. One of my exes was the manager for a fast food joint and at the end of her shift, sitting at my table and kinda chatting away. At some point I simply asked her "so are we going back to your place to make sweet love after that, or what?" with my french accent on full blast. It had the desired effect of making things clear.
I wish I had had the balls to do that more often in my life!

Fair enough

Turning women into baby factories very much seems to be part of the political agenda of some people.

Now stretch it over twenty minutes, with constant repetition of the few known facts, ad "breaks" with a short reminded of what happened beforehand...

It's been a few years and I still wanna throw my phone off the window watching it : The Gift Shop

A compounding factor is that (actual) Italian men are used to hard to get women, and their efforts are therefore scaled for such challenge. Never have I seen men try so fucking hard to chat up anything within sight than Italians.
I still vividly remember seeing a bunch of them moving through the nightclub crowd, chatting up women one after the other, failing, immediately moving on to the next one, etc.

(One could argue it's the other way around : Italian women have developed a resilience up to the challenge of the insatiable appetites and relentless advances of Italian men)