Mass Effect

We've talked before about how Video Games adaptations seem to work better as episodic series than one-shot movies, and in the past few years we've seen some amazing series like Arcane, The Last of Us, and Fallout, and some really bad movies like Borderlands.

There hasn't been enough time since launch for a lot of people to even finish Dragon Age: The Veilguard, but patch 1 is out now for PC and console.

Congratulations on making it to another Friday, Watchers!

I think a lot about games and gaming moments.

I have pretty weird tastes in video games, I suspect.

I've been ruminating on the events of Mass Effect 2 and 3, and the more I do, the more that I believe there's a mysterious shadow conspiracy at the heart of the Mass Effect trilogy.

It has been a really terrifying, hellish month and it's only the third day of it as I write this, and so, as a coping mechanism I've been playing a lot of Fallout 4.  Yes, that's right, I deal with stress by playing a game where humanity blew up the world.

Thanks to a very thoughtful Christmas gift, I have been obsessively replaying the original Mass Effect trilogy and ruminating on what it's like to play all three games.

If you're the gamer in your friend group or family, you often get asked about the various games you play, be they video games, tabletop RPGs, board games -- I have lost track of the amount of times I've been asked to explain Catan to people -- and you're put in the position of serving as a sort of unofficial ambassador for the hobbies you participate in and enjoy.

Amazon Prime is loving the views for its Wheel of Time series, and the future for this streaming service seems to be focusing more on genre shows like the upcoming Lord of the Rings series and — to me at least more interestingly — possibly a Mass Effect series as well.