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@	May 1, 2008 00:53
First comment: 26 July, 2004	155 comments written
..what?
Wellan	May 1, 2008 02:16
First comment: 27 November, 2007	247 comments written
Huh?
Wonderer	May 1, 2008 02:40
First comment: 22 March, 2007	106 comments written
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin's_Creed ...I think. Never played it. All I know is that its backstory is something utterly dreadful. Oh, what' the heck. I'll just go "Huh?" too.
Wellan	May 1, 2008 03:05
First comment: 27 November, 2007	247 comments written
I think I'm going to have to go with poor for complete obscurity.
Grey Knight	May 1, 2008 11:43
First comment: 20 October, 2005	116 comments written
Needs more cowbell (and explication).
Feory	May 1, 2008 12:28
First comment: 15 August, 2006	63 comments written
It's just an assassin's creed-y thing, and doesn't actually have a punchline. 'References' do not a good comic make. Or something like that.
	May 1, 2008 14:21
First comment: 1 April, 2004	431 comments written
I believe it is meant to poke fun at the boring and repetitive quests in Assassin's Creed, where the hero's name is Altair, and the initial setting is the Holy Land (hence the "Do you really want to leave Jerusalem?" thing). The "Welcome back, Miles" thing indicates that he has Not, in fact, successfully quitMaltar: [...] I remembered a little saying I learned my first day at the academy. Natalie: Yeah, yeah, I know. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Maltar: What? No! Winners never quit and quitters should be cast into the flaming pit of death. [ Snow Day, directed by Chris Koch, written by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. the game of Assassin's Creed, but has instead returned to the modern world in Assassin's Creed, in which Altair's name is really Desmond Miles, and weird people in lab coats want to extract his memories.
@	May 1, 2008 15:35
First comment: 26 July, 2004	155 comments written
Glad I'm not alone. Never played it. Sounds kind of dull from what I've heard.
Vin	May 1, 2008 15:57
First comment: 7 January, 2008	7 comments written
It isn't actually all that bad. The miniquests are repetitive, but stealth-killing some random prick who annoys you is always good, clean fun. Unless you get caught. Then it gets messy. Essentially, it makes a better free-roaming-sociopath simulator than mission-based game, but hey...
Grey Knight	May 1, 2008 16:13
First comment: 20 October, 2005	116 comments written
References can help with a comic, but in general you need to (a) either use a subject well-known to the readers (hard to judge) or else specify it ("Greetings, Altair the HumanThese strange creatures live mostly on the surface of the earth, gathering together in societies of various forms, but occasionally a stray will descend into the depths and commit mayhem among the dungeon residents who, naturally, often resent the intrusion of such beasts. They are capable of using weapons and magic, and it is even rumored that the Wizard of Yendor is a member of this species. Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. Assassin! Welcome to Nethack's Creed!" might've done it). Also, you still need some funny for when someone inevitably doesn't get it.
Slowpoke	May 1, 2008 16:53
First comment: 27 February, 2007	239 comments written
I'll give it Fair because it seems well-crafted, but like everyone else I had to go look up the reference.
Antheridium	May 2, 2008 02:36
First comment: 17 May, 2007	442 comments written
I figured that was Assassin's Creed, but, knowing nothing about the game, I had no idea what the "welcome back miles" was about. Indeed, at first I thought it was some kind of Star Trek reference. Not a bad joke once it's explained. But it seems like complete nonsense at first.
Lurker Above	May 2, 2008 16:08
First comment: 2 May, 2008	2 comments written
Star Trek reference? You mean Miles O'Brien? Could also be Miles Bennett Dyson from T2. BTW, Star Trek also had an episode with a Dyson SphereThe attack by those who want to die -- this is the attack against which you cannot prepare a perfect defense. --Human aphorism [ The Dosadi Experiment, by Frank Herbert ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details., but it was named after physicist Freeman Dyson. Not to be confused with Gordon Freeman, another physicist who killed lots of aliens with his crowbar. Or maybe it was Gordon Gekko. Nethack has Geckos too... DO YOU SEE THE OBVIOUS PATTERN?
Antheridium	May 5, 2008 19:56
First comment: 17 May, 2007	442 comments written
Yes... it is THE most indirect newt(kinds of) small animal, like a lizard, which spends most of its time in the water. [ Oxford's Student's Dictionary of Current English ] "Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble." [ Macbeth, by William Shakespeare ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. joke in comic history. I am ashamed. Newt(kinds of) small animal, like a lizard, which spends most of its time in the water. [ Oxford's Student's Dictionary of Current English ] "Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble." [ Macbeth, by William Shakespeare ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details.-puddingThese giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing more than puddles of slime, but they both live and move, feeding on metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer to supplement their diet. But we were not on a station platform. We were on the track ahead as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the pallid abyss vapor. It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. [ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details..
Hammy	August 30, 2008 16:33
First comment: 30 August, 2008	1 comments written
What, you think that if we could afford an Xbox 360 and Assassin's Creed to play for our very own as much as we want we'd be hanging around here long enough to read that joke about it? :p
MadDawg2552	October 9, 2008 20:48
First comment: 6 October, 2008	69 comments written
Heh, Hammy. I thought you wereIn 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province, "notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase." The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears, had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from eating infants on a fast day. [ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ] Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. going to say, "...if we could afford an Xbox 360 and Assasin's Creed... do you think we'd be playing NetHack?"

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