On September 8th, 1966, at 8:30 P.M., the starship Enterprise visited Planet M-113, an arid and forlorn world far from Earth. It was the sort of mission that would become characteristic of a new television show called 'Star Trek': the ship’s doctor, Leonard (Bones) McCoy, was sent to perform a medical examination of two archeologists, only to discover that one of them—Bones’s former paramour—had been replaced by a rather grotesque shape-shifting alien vampire that drew susten

I love the Dragon Age series, and Inquisition in particular is responsible for inspiring my personal renaissance, without which I would not be here—in every sense of that phrase you can imagine. I was in a dark place twelve years ago, struggling in every sense of the word. I felt listless, staring down the long tunnel of my life wondering “Is this all I have to look forward to?”; “Is this all that I am?”; “Is there nothing more?” I had an unfulfilling job that paid well but m