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I don't know when I'll find time, but I'd like to play through the Mass Effect trilogy one more time before the end of the year. Feels fitting before I lay this story down to rest. It's a big universe out there, with plenty of other stories to tell. Time to say goodbye.

It's interesting to me that we have witnessed the dissolution of two of gaming's most beloved space operas within weeks of each other. First Halo, now Mass Effect. To the latter, I say what did for the former: Sometimes it's okay to let a franchise end. Sometimes you've told the story you needed to tell. Sometimes it's okay to say goodbye. I love Mass Effect. It is one of those stories that I can look at and say, "Yep. That shaped my tastes as a storyteller." To this day, I still want to take a crack at writing a Biblical Space Opera with MilSF set dressing. And someday, I will. But I had no intention of ever playing the next Mass Effect game. The BioWare no longer exists that created what is, in my opinion, the best Space Opera since Empire Strikes Back. Even if that team did exist today, there's no possible way to make a sequel to Mass Effect 3. That trilogy told the story it was meant to tell. No more, no less. And I'll always be grateful for those first three games. For the fire they fueled inside me as a Sci-Fi & Fantasy nerd. For telling a story so timeless, so compelling, that fifteen years later we're still talking about it. Still reminiscing about it. And will be for a long time. BioWare may be gone. And we're never going to get another "official" Mass Effect game. But there's nothing stopping us from going outside, looking up at the stars, and dreaming of The Shepard. There's nothing stopping us from picking up the pen and—whether it be an unofficial continuation of Mass Effect, or a Space Opera of our own—telling one last story.

Man, this one hits you like a truck. She doesn't even realize she did something wrong, and won't for a long time. She'll think Harry dislikes her for no particular reason, and it will feel so unfair to her.

Daaaaaamn this is nice.

Things are crazy at work, but hopefully tonight I'll be able to comment a bit more on Bioware. Because even if a blind bat could see they were in trouble, the Mass Effect trilogy is still one of my favorite games of all time, and it deserves to be remembered.

Not saying I called it, but... Yeah, I called it.

First movie I remember seeing in theaters.

Without politicians holding them back? They'd conquer Afghanistan in a fortnight and rename it after a stripper.

When the time comes for me to enter a nursing home someday, I hope we have weekly Halo night, long-running D&D campaigns, shelves and shelves of Science Fiction & Fantasy to read, and plenty of pen, paper, and typewriters.

"Turn on the news." "What channel?" "Any of them." *Does it.* "Okay, maybe not that one. Try Channel 12."

British Punisher: "Who's ready for a spanking?"

I think this is how they try to get us onto game streaming platforms, by pricing us out of owning our games. But the real future of gaming is in the indie & AA markets. We've reached the point where innovation is driven by gameplay, not graphics—where experiences matter, not polygon count. Smart developers will make their games playable on all manner of machines. And there'll be a hardware market for playing games just well enough, not the bleeding edge. Unless something changes, I won't be getting any of the next console generation. I'll finalize my move to PC, and that's where I'll stay except when I'm playing my library of legacy games, on legacy consoles.

Make a book title edible: The Lord of the Onion Rings

I admit, this discourse has me 10 seconds away from muting the word horror on my timeline—complete with all the splash damage it would cause for things I actually enjoy. But even when someone has a bad take, try to be kind. Except to communists. Screw them.

IT'S TIME TO GET WEIRD!!!

“You've just died, the 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.” Malfoid is a yandere confirmed?

Holy crap. There's literally a movie for the chuds.