So I finally made it to Venice where I undertook what can best be described as a walking tour heavily influenced by Assassin’s Creed II (with a smattering of Civilization VI). Did spending hours exploring a virtual simulacrum of a (historical version of a) real-world city have any bearing on a visit? Frankly? Yes. Look,… Continue reading Venice in Person
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Virtual Tourism
I’m spending a couple days in Venice, Italy in a month so I’m preparing the best way I know how: By replaying Assassin’s Creed II. A good chunk of the game takes place in a fairly faithful recreation of Renaissance Venice, I haven’t played it since I first did, fourteen years ago, a sentence that’s… Continue reading Virtual Tourism
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