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JJ3 do you like ships?  

I recently found that 2013 (?) Assassin's Creed has a play a pirate game.  it reminds me of "Master and commander/pirates of the Caribbean" (love that movie).

I do appreciate ships...Even if i have to say i'm not an expert...But i i have some knowledges anyway ! 

I watched these two movies...Pirates of the Caribbean is ok ...And Master & Commander is better, but it annoy me in a high level, since the movie has been done when Bush and his gang was preparing his catastrophic war in Irak...And basically the story of the movie is false, since the villains were the British in the Novel, and in the movie it was French...nevermind...France and the US was not in good terms at this time of our mutual History, in the begenning of the 19th Century ...

In Napoleon Total War, the game on PC, there's a mode where we can play with ships from this time, it's pretty good ! The same in Empire Total War ...

Assassin's Creed Rogue is the sequel to Black flag and also has ships.  There's the navigation, ship maintenance, ship economy, whaling, and battle elements (including boarding other ships) but done in however, a rather shallow but visually striking style.  I think the next gen should make a pirate /privateer game with more depth- that would be great.

IIRC Master and commander didn't have villains?  Maybe I forgot.  I just remember it being a sailing movie with depth and good imagery.  The Pirates of the Caribbean had a couple years of success and then the franchise ended.

I should check out the total war series.  I haven't a clue yet.

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IIRC Master and commander didn't have villains?  Maybe I forgot.  I just remember it being a sailing movie with depth and good imagery. 

M&C looked like a road trip but on the ocean  It was not a bad movie...

You should check the  TW series, they are great games ! 

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hah, that's a good one.  I had fun watching that movie- three times.

^ Well, when you read the travel stories of La Pérouse, Dumont d'Urville or even James Cook, it always make me think to a road trip  Or like a behind closed doors story but where the earth is the closed door LOL And Star Wars, the same, but with the whole Universe  

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I need to read those some day.  I've never read those sailing novels.  I am aware of, however, the general things about naval-military life. The complexity/functions of a battleship & long distance travel are quite interesting to me.

The Assassin's Creed franchise is getting a $200 M movie and it's produced from Ubisoft.  It really seems very...french like the comics I've talked about you know?  The British are often the bad guys, the series is about secret societies controlling the world,  there are lots of french characters and french being spoken, etc.  The whole series concept is essentially an excuse to go deep into historical fiction throughout the centuries.  I've seen a lot of translated french works that are entirely about that.  It's the reverse of M & C or british films depicting things from the british perspective.

Travel stories are indeed very interesting ! Especially those from this time. 

Yes i see what you mean... What can i say  UK and France have a very long common History, 1000 years. Surely more ! For the best and worst...

We have two visions of the same world, and our interests are still nowadays antagonists. Btw them and us that's the Entente Cordiale, and it mean everything  

I'm not into the political correstness, but, basically i think France can't trust anyone on this planet, and surely not the government of the UK  

Culturaly we're SO close. 400'000 french people are living in London nowadays, and the same for them in France, especially in the south of country. It mean lot about our relationship.

I'm personally admirative of their culture, less of their History though  

That's interesting to hear.  What is untrustworthy about the UK?  Do you find UK/german govt'/commerce against french interests?

Well, to start, the last 1000 years prooved us we can't trust them. So that's a good base to start the reasoning.

I was only talking about the UK, not Germany...I mean, do i really need to show you how much Germany and France are antagonists ? Commercially, diplomatically, politically, etc ... Here in the UE, but in the rest of the world as well. 

About Germany, more Germans people are living here, than the opposite obviously. The current migrants crisis in Europe definitely shows us we can't trust them, because they are not reliabe...Culturaly we're close because we're living next to each other, but still, i feel britains are closer than us. Basically in Europe the only country i really councider like our friend is Italy. I feel personally deeply close to Italian people. In some extent, the same with Irish people. 

In the US media, the competing interests between the UK, Germany, and France are usually not well emphasized.  "Europe/EU" is often lobbed together into a homogeneous mass with the UK as the US's strongest ally and Germany as the de facto leader of the EU.   I think the general presentation is that relations are mostly amicable.

^ Which media ?  Let's be serious...UK not even adopted the Euro as money, and are not even in the Schengen space ...How can we councider them like a UE member still ? That's pretty much an imposture.

Lets talk about Germany. Why could we call them the leader of the UE ? They have no army force, no strong international diplomacy, etc...

They are industrially strong, no one can deny that. But economically ? Euro was a trap for France retrospectively. We should fixe this ASAP. But a country where a big part of the workers are only working with part time jobs, and too much often without work contracts, well, i can't call that a Leader. 

Once again, everything is matter of point view and perspective. 

But i agree to say that France should MOVE its ass, in everyway. Our situation is not comfortable anymore.

And btw, Europe is not the EU, and the EU is not the Europe. Russia is a great European country, and is not member of this economical and political organization. 

Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post plus The Economist, FT (both from the UK).  The first three are blue chip newspapers that are wildly read, even by the president.

Besides that, Russia is usually depicted negatively and rarely from the perspective of russian political interests.  I don't think the european reporting from the american newspapers has much quality or insight.

Oh well, if the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post plus The Economist are writting that, it must be true, right ?  

What about Fox News ?  

I hope your president doesn't need to read news papers to be aware of what happen in the world, or else, American people should worry about it  

Americans "media" are patriots. What can i say about it. For the Time, Merkel has been the "Person of the Year", what can i say about that...

Fox news and CNN are more television/internet based.

Most of what is in newspapers is speculative bullshxt (the clever ones recognize that) but it is important for politicians and business people to get "market color" so to speak. Perceptions, opinion leadership, etc.  Even false perceptions create reflexive cycles of their own if they are televised loudly enough.  It's a bit like foreign media reporting on the US (usually it's a tool for agendas).  Similar logic can be used when US media reports on the situation elsewhere.  

Overal, i don't trust the media anymore. I'm not saying i'm into the current conspiracy bullshits, i'm not into that. But media are owned by people who have interests in this world. Media are like if Coca was telling us that Pepsy is bad for our health  

Media are judge and party. 

It's sad to see people mindlessly parrot media/political tropes and heated opinions as facts.  That means that they've been hoodwinked.  I think it's best to approach media with the advantage/filtering of a good education or real world knowledge rather than use the media as the tool to "educate".  

The media outlets also decide what is reported and what is not...

These days I avoid politics and stick to business/economic news. (which have pitfalls of their won)

Yes, i agree with that... Media are now taking a too big part in the democratic system. Politics, media and business are too linked. For many, all that is the same thing.