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This Is Not About Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood


Yes, I finally finished Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Though I originally planned to finish it within a week, it got delayed due to some unfortunate *cough* events, but I still finished it anyway. Though the game's ending (which in all it's fairness is a shocker, but I will not spoil it) never took me by surprise simply because I already watched the ending on Youtube.



Yes, I do that all the time. I enjoy spoiling myself of endings, be it movies or games. You see, I have this desire to know the conclusion of everything in advance. Maybe it's my left side of the brain, or maybe I am just really curious, I still can't understand. One reason could be because I'm a schemer, like what good-'ol Joker once said. I plan things, I make decisions on things that yet to come, that's why I always make it a point to see how it will end early on, or to predict how one thing would happen. I have these strings in my mind, where I connect events and decisions in my life, thinking like, if I do this, this would happen, if I do that, that will happen and so on.

Which all boils down to that unfortunate event that happened recently in my life. What bothers me most now is that, looking back to the time when we were still not together, I realized that I knew back then that this would happen. We were friends for a long time, and I knew her like the back of my hand, and somehow, a small voice inside of me kept on whispering: Don't do this man, don't hit on her, you know her, you know how this would end, you'll just be crying like the little lonely kid you are. But still, despite that self-warning, I still jumped in and fell in love with her.

And to cut the long story short, shit happened, and I'm here in this mess I call life.

And so? Well... I think it happens to some people as well: knowing that doing something will not end up bad but still doing it. Like scientists inventing guns and explosives and weapons of mass destruction even though they knew it will blow up Mother Earth; and government officials knowing that signing this bill, or passing this law will just make things worse, but still doing it anyway. It's the you-knew-the-consequences-but-you-still-did-it syndrome. And it's not just a mis-judgement of good or bad effects, because you know deep inside that the consequences are really not better.

It makes me wonder, can we humans (or at least the people who acknowledge that they are like what I described) really avoid committing mistakes? Can we really make a sound and logical decision if we keep on ignoring the negative consequences? For the world? Or at least, for our own lives? If some guy from the future would return in the past (our present) and warn you that crossing the street would kill you, will it stop you from crossing the street?
You see, I already knew how Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood ended, but I still played it.



Well, in all it's fairness, AC:B is a great game, and I really enjoyed playing it even though I already knew how it will all end, and I would still play it over and over again, and not move on with my life, and still hope that someday we can be together again and.. oh shit, I told you this is not about that game.

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