{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Your Hate Object Has Redeeming Qualities: The \u201cAbstergo\u201d Frame Story to Assassin\u2019s Creed  \u2022 been pretty consistently about the...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/167507944368/", "html": "<h2>Your Hate Object Has Redeeming Qualities: The \u201cAbstergo\u201d Frame Story to Assassin\u2019s Creed </h2><p>\u2022 been pretty consistently about the coming neoliberal apocalypse from the start, before it was obvious that was the theme of our generation</p><p>\u2022 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</p><p>\u2022 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</p><p>\u2022 where the vulnerability was the neoliberal contracting-out of the break room to an independent coffee stand in the lobby</p><p>\u2022 also Shaun can be a fun voice with a writer who understands that cynical front from inside</p>"}