A-Markov

I am in a very small minority.     I liked Dragon Age II.   I liked Dragon Age II a lot.   Dragon Age II is my favorite of the Dragon Age games. WHAT?!?!?!? You read that correctly, but I’ll say it again.  Dragon Age II is my favorite of the Dragon Age games.   Before you make any assumptions, let me answer a few questions that might have sprung to mind.   Yes, I played Origins.  Yes, I played Origins before I played DA:2. Yes, I played Inquisition.  Yes, I played Inquisition a second time. And, having played Origins, DA:2 and Inquisition, DA:2 is still my favorite.   I won’t claim it was the best “gaming experience&#

I recently started a second play through of Dragon Age: Inquisition and during a conversation with Varric I had a moment of clarity.  I will share it with you now... You don’t know what happened in Kirkwall. Think about that for a minute. You’ve finished playing Inquisition and you’ve discovered that most of the legends and myths of Thedas are, in fact, legends and myths.  They’ve evolved over time and been filtered through the various cultures and now they’ve been exposed as flawed and misinterpreted. This isn’t surprising or even a bad thing.  If anything, it fleshes out the Dragon Age w

Shane Black owes me some boobies. I know what you're thinking... "Who the fuck is Shane Black?"  I feel your confusion.  Shane Black directed Iron Man 3.  Now, don't get me wrong.  I really enjoyed the movie.  There was lots of good action, cool explosions and plenty of witty one-liners.  Everything you could want from a big summer action movie so, good job, Shane. Except for one little thing.  (Spoiler alert) I'm OK with Pepper surviving the two-hundred foot plunge into fiery doom.  The internal sci-fi logic of the movie lets her walk out of it unscathed.  Kind of. Well, not really but I'll allow it because it makes a kind of twisted sense