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  • I just now stumbled across the picture by coincidence while going through the Moebius art-book Chaos. Only info given is that it´s from a series of commercial illustrations for Europe-Assistance. I did a little research and found out that it´s a travel insurance company based in Belgium. Further research revealed that the series was printed as an album, titled Europ Assistance : Une belle Aventure, nowadays a rare collectors item, sold privately for around 100€ sometimes.

    Beautiful 20-page album presenting Europ Assistance, its history and results, etc. The kind of (in-house) promotional document that will no longer be produced at this level: more than just illustrations, Moebius has created a real universe to accompany this presentation. Exceptional!

    Two more image from the series:

    It reminds me a lot of Sur l’étoile, the exclusive short comic he did for the company anniversary of Citroën in 1983, which introduced Stel and Atan and later became the basis for the beloved The World of Edena series.

    I assume this is also interesting for you @[email protected].

    Considering we have this nice backstory now, I will probably crop it from Chaos myself and post it on [email protected] soon :)


  • Things like this are more than just mildly infuriating to me as a collector. To help all of us calm down after the shock and also to redeem Carlsen Comics, at least a little bit, I present to you my Akira “Original Edition” also known as the “Phone Book Edition”. The layouts of the issues are not accurate to the millimeter but the production tolerance is definitely precise enough to not feel bad about it.


  • Nacktmull@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldHow convenient
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    5 months ago

    So, my opinion is invalid, but yours is okay?

    Please read your first comment again. You didn’t present it as your personal opinion, but as if the game was objectively bad, which is what I have contradicted.

    I also wrote in my last comment.

    If you don´t like it that´s fine but don´t present your individual opinion as being objective.

    So I obviously did not declare your opinion invalid as you can see.

    You, however, are using biased sampling

    No, I am not. The ratings I linked are based on the ratings of everyone who played the game, not just people who played the game and liked it. It´s just that the vast majority of people who played the game liked it, so the ratings are impressively good. What do you even mean with that critique? The only people who can rate the game are the people who actually played it, right? So no, I do not see a flaw there.

    What about people who don’t like what you like? They’re not spending $50 on a game they don’t like.

    How would they even know they don´t like the game without buying and playing it? Besides that, I generally recommend buying games on sale and also to make use of the refund function of steam if you do not enjoy a game.

    I tried DOS (1 & 2) because of the reviews and my live for games like Baldur’s Gate and Pillars. But this game series wasn’t for me and I’m allowed to say so.

    I agree, and again quote what I wrote earlier

    If you don´t like it that´s fine but don´t present your individual opinion as being objective.

    and like everyone else who felt that way, you were free to leave a negative review that impacts the games overall rating, which I assume you did.

    I hope it is clear now that I at no point intended to invalidate your opinion, which I do in fact respect. So let us stop this nerd battle, my fellow rpg connoisseur, shall we?


  • Nacktmull@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldHow convenient
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    And?

    And that shows that you are obviously in the minority with your opinion. Most people who played Divinity 2 gave it a positive rating, so many even that it got the excellent ratings I linked before.

    Sequels are more likely to be purchased by people who liked the original game.

    I never played the original game and anyway liked Divinity 2 a lot. I think it’s an outstanding rpg and recommend it to anyone interested in the genre. If you don´t like it that´s fine but don´t present your individual opinion as being objective.