And who could forget Snake's ecstatic monologue about the modified 1911 he receives in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater?

I went to vote, and my pencil went straight through the paper...

THIS FORM IS FRAGILE.

I still think the poor old Collector General's death is one of the saddest parts in the entire ME Trilogy.

It's such a good moment that it only just occurred to me now (15 years on!) that the General might be evil itself, like all the other uncontrolled Collectors, rather than an unwilling puppet.

...Dammit, now I want that scene in a pantomime.

Just have a Baneblade emerging and retreating behind cover like it's being hidden by Creed's TACTICAL GENIUS, with the other characters always being too slow to turn around and spot it.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who still thinks about this!

...Are you similarly obsessed with "It is the BANEBLADE!", too?

It is, yes!

And THAT'S ... the Mourn you know!

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only MOURN.

Knew I could count on you!

All of a sudden, I'm very disappointed in myself ... despite having a good-sized IG army back in the day, I never bought a Basilisk and daubed "I can shell your house from here!" on the front of it.

FPS games wouldn't either, right?

If I get shot a few times, my health will restore to maximum if I just hide for a couple of seconds, right?

Because ... ow ... it seems to be taking longer than I'd expected.

What's that? Taking an airship to the planet's desolate northern wastes?

Thanks for the reminder; I've been meaning to dig out my old Warhammer novels at some point...

I don't know much about photography and the visual arts ... but this photo?

You can be EXTRA proud of this one.

And this picture of sunset at the harbour.

I remember getting my first up-close look at a cruise ship, sixteen years ago, in the docks of San Francisco.

It was called The World. Which, I felt, was pretty appropriate for something that huge.