Rob McD

A - Origins. I find DA2 less replayable because Hawke is a more tightly defined character, and Veilguard is too new to have caught up with the rest.

A. I did use the others but Dorian definitely formed part of my core team.

It's also annoying when a show or movie is set in the place it's filmed but you know the geography and they turn a corner and suddenly they are a mile away from where they were.

Hmm... Upon further examination of my previous communication, I note that I errantly used the word "eternally" when it is abundantly clear that the word "unfailingly" would have been an immeasurably preferable selection.

When considering the utilisation of unusually extensive linguistic constructions, I eternally strive for maximal efficiency of communication.

And I don't need to exclude Garfield and Peanuts from the running, either.

Although my actual answer is Calvin and Hobbes.

I always liked this one By Gary Larson, too.

He could contend for the Vuelta or Giro, but at that team I think he's going to end up being fully subordinate to Paul Seixas at the Tour de France. The kid's not even 20 yet and he's looking better and better all the time.

Oh, look. A billionaire spewing bullshit rabble-rousing talking points to deflect from his own hideous greed. What a shock.

A. My only completed playthrough as a man was a Cassmancing rogue.

Mine is a selfie that I took on the way to @qedcon.org, a conference that I regularly attended for 15 years. The first time I went I wore my bowler since I was wearing it in my Twitter avatar at the time and I thought it might help people recognise me. Over the years it developed into a tradition.

When I was a kid my family was visiting Levisham station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Rik Mayall exited the gents, not looking where he was going, and trod on my mum's foot. He was most apologetic. They'd been using the signal box there for an episode of The New Statesman.

Back in the 90s I worked at a video game store in York and I sold a Playstation to Rick Witter off of Shed Seven, and a copy of Myst to Mark Addy.

Hmm... After the fiasco that was Anthem and what happened to Dragon Age, I'm not so sure. Also, why the cartoonish art style? It screams "misstep" to me.

Oh, FFS. They build a single-player franchise built on deep lore, strong stories and characters and they think that fans will want... Whatever the hell this is?

QTP with a fictional female character you love!

There are so many, so I decided to go old-school.

I always loved this quote, but I hadn't read the article from which it came. It seems very apposite for our times, but with the far right on the rise in many parts of Europe and authoritarian regimes in power in China and Russia, who shall take the role of the Americans now?

A further update from the country where the colonisers' language is still the official one despite many native languages being alive.

Here's the park where I exercise, featuring statues of José Maria Morelos, hero of the war of independence and Emiliano Zapata, hero of the revolutionary war.

I'm repping NSF in a huge city in a country famed for its vibrant culture and spicy food. A country that boasted thousands of years of civilization before being taken over by Europeans. A country that has long punched under its weight in cycling. One difference to where you are: Isaac del Toro.

I was always more of a Thundercats guy, myself. It would have to go some to be worse than the Dolph Lundgren version, anyway...

I cannot overstress how much I don't need that hideous thing.

I like when you share your UFO expertise.

"Some may call this junk. Me, I call them treasures."

If there's some kind of mistletoe-like tradition then I'm going with Cassandra.

@kalaelizabeth.bsky.social has some great videos about what we know so far if you want to catch up, and there's also plenty on the game's website.

Civilisations have risen and fallen, wars fought, infrastructure built and seemingly abandoned. Yeah, there's a lot to it.

It's basically all humans but with a twist. The first humans arrived in the part of the galaxy and found habitable worlds so they sent a signal. Your humans followed that signal but 20000+ years passed by the time the arrived and the original lot have evolved into many different beings.

Also it's involves interstellar travel but with no FTL, so the story is going to revolve around time dilation, tens or hundreds of years passing on your home planet when only a short time passes for you, stuff like that. I think it will be a lot more interesting than a simple ME clone.

Have you ever read any Peter F Hamilton? He's a great sci-fi writer especially in terms of world-building and he's helped create the setting for Exodus and written two books set in the universe.