Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption is a 2000 role-playing video game developed by Nihilistic Software. Released by Activision for Microsoft Windows on June 7, 2000, and for Mac OS in 2001, the game is based on White Wolf Publishing's role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade. It follows the vampire Christof Romuald from the Dark Ages of 12th century Prague and Vienna to modern-day London and New York City in search of his humanity and his kidnapped love, the nun Anezka. The player controls Christof and up to three allies in first- and third-person perspectives. Nihilistic took 24 months to complete the game on a budget of US$1.8 million. The game received a mixed critical response; reviewers praised its graphics and multiplayer functionality, but were polarized by the quality of the story and combat. Its high-quality graphics and sound ran poorly on some computer systems. It received the 1999 Game Critics Awards for Best Role-Playing Game. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, set in the same fictional universe, was released in November 2004.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1692:

An estimated 7.5 MW earthquake caused Port Royal, Jamaica, to sink below sea level and killed approximately 5,000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1692_Jamaica_earthquake

1788:

Citizens of Grenoble threw roof tiles onto royal soldiers, an event sometimes credited as the beginning of the French Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tiles

1899:

American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and proceeded to destroy all the alcoholic beverages with rocks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation

1948:

Rather than sign the Ninth-of-May Constitution making his nation a Communist state, Edvard Beneš chose to resign as President of Czechoslovakia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Bene%C5%A1

2006:

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, was killed when the United States Air Force bombed his safehouse near Baqubah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Musab_al-Zarqawi

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

quagmire: 1. A swampy, soggy area of ground. 2. (figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quagmire

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved.   --Gwendolyn Brooks https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gwendolyn_Brooks