Your Hate Object Has Redeeming Qualities: The “Abstergo” Frame Story to Assassin’s Creed

• been pretty consistently about the coming neoliberal apocalypse from the start, before it was obvious that was the theme of our generation

• once the Dan Brown shit burned off that was the scaffolding, our modern world and all the decoration we associate with it is continuous with the rawest premodern power structures

• there was even that one where they got meta and Abstergo was a Montreal-based game developer making the pivot from single-player campaigns to online matchmaking

• where the vulnerability was the neoliberal contracting-out of the break room to an independent coffee stand in the lobby

• also Shaun can be a fun voice with a writer who understands that cynical front from inside