# on notre dame in assassin's creed unity as a garmes industry crash symbol > absolutely praiseworthy. this is the sort of thing which should be shown to young people to encourage them to take an interest in rather than all the video and computer garmes they immerse themselves in today (emphasis mine) > ~ a daily mail reader talking out of ir arts about a matchstick model consider that the painstakingly re-creation of notre dame in assassin's creed stands as the single biggest example of mis-allocated talent money and (/crunch) time in the whole of modern 'aaa' garming development - apart from e.t the single most important symbol of a video garmes industry crash (regardless of whether one happens or not) the two years spent building the notre dame cathedral in / for assassin's creed unity seems as useless an effort as the 180-odd years utterly wasted on constructing a vast empty stone warehouse to house the massive holy ego of some imaginary deity - and those of human scale despots like kings and emperors // video here dig the way the devs wait lovingly inside ir little model self-admiring how beautiful it all looks - as if to say 'you had better appreciate all this hard work' "impressively worthless" however might be a useful phrase to describe such foolhardy activity since the laughable hokey sci fi nonsense and uninspiring ideas on which assassin's creed are founded aren't arguably worth a single flying buttress even if some (mythical) garmer actually 'cares' about the mind-numbing and stunningly anal level of pointless nerd detail that has gone into this casual prop the dull fact that they care itself won't mean much of anything indeed such a view might give rise to a t-shirt idea / general cultural notion: that "garmer's don't care" - andor rather perhaps the only thing they notice or do care about is a garme's lousy 900p / 30fps performance one of the only truly wondrous and sublime things about the cathedral is that an artist called philippe petit once wire-walked between its two towers - a true act of art without ego without hype or official press releases. in ir collected prose writer paul auster says of petit > every time ey sets foot on the wire philippe takes hold of that life and lives it in all its exhilarating immediacy in all its joy. may ey live to be a hundred // video here // republic of bob