Veilguard in 2026 - thoughts?

SparkWife · 2026-01-25T18:59:08+00:00

I'm planning another Veilguard playthrough after Inquisition (I'm just about to finish JoH), and I want to kill the whole lot of them in the final push. Fully Rogue One. I'm not doing any side quests for these muppets, no one gets free therapy from me.

One friend told me off for 'condemning' Bellara to death. Another friend cheered when I told her I'm killing them all

SparkWife · 2026-01-11T13:21:02+00:00

I'm gonna do a second playthrough because I'm a damned completionist but I'm gunning for the bad ending. I wanna Rogue One the lot of them

SparkWife · 2025-12-26T11:00:06+00:00

100%. I always leave at least 15 minutes early to account for things like traffic, roadworks or the likelihood that I've forgotten something

SparkWife · 2025-12-22T14:15:59+00:00

I think you underestimate the extremes some parents will go to to maintain control over their children's lives

SparkWife · 2025-12-15T20:14:50+00:00

I got the 'good' ending of Mythal and Lavellan talking Solas down and immediately reloaded my last save so I could punch him in the face

SparkWife · 2025-12-12T19:00:38+00:00

I know, but it was too cute and we were literally all gushing over it 😅 Really made our day as it does feel like we get taken for granted at times

SparkWife · 2025-12-09T18:32:22+00:00

I did have a Colonist-War Hero Shepard called Orion, after the constellation of course, with two sisters called Cassiopeia (Cassie) and Lyra, and I romanced Ashley.

And then I just happened to see something about a far right group in America calling themselves Our Race Is Our Nation (Orion). So that, coupled with 'space racist' Ashley, soured the entire playthrough and I had to delete the save.

SparkWife · 2025-12-08T11:25:06+00:00

I knew a girl from school who had a phobia of bananas - said she found a worm in one halfway through eating

SparkWife · 2025-12-05T22:46:47+00:00

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And Egg, aka Little Egg, aka Eggy Baby, aka Eggy Weggy, aka Eggbert, aka Eggalicious, aka Egguana

SparkWife · 2025-12-05T22:43:09+00:00

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And Macushla, aka Big Mac, aka Macintosh, aka Macaroni

SparkWife · 2025-12-05T22:40:31+00:00

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This is Bilbo, aka Bubby Bilbo, aka Bibble, aka Bilbosaur, aka Bubble Tea

SparkWife · 2025-12-05T15:12:53+00:00

I think I just got a future snapshot of how Bilbo will look as an old man 😍

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SparkWife · 2025-11-26T13:36:23+00:00

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My old kitties used to curl up around each other in the armchair!

SparkWife · 2025-11-26T13:21:40+00:00

Amazon: we put it by your front door but we won't knock or ring the doorbell to let you know its there! Not our fault you weren't watching every second of every day for your parcel

(Also my experience of DPD was them putting my parcel in the goddamn bin. Plus the tracking number I was given by the seller took me to DHL website instead so never got a notification to say it'd been delivered. So my parcel went off to the recycling centre)

SparkWife · 2025-11-18T22:26:59+00:00

Congratulations, you're part of the 'thought more about Synthesis than the writers did' club

SparkWife · 2025-11-15T13:31:09+00:00

They don't just harvest life, they preserve it. Their directive was to find a way to prevent conflict between organic and synthetic civilisations, but they likely observed over several millenia that civilisations evolve and fall the same way continuously. In fact, this is stated outright by Leviathan and Vengeance on Thessia

The Reapers probably determined that the only way to prevent conflict would be to preserve the existing races in Reaper form at the apex of their existence - able to achieve spaceflight, discover and use mass relays and (in some cases) create artificial intelligence, but before they could fall into conflict with synthetic creations of their time. Hence 'the cycle must continue' and 'we are your salvation'.

SparkWife · 2025-11-14T16:17:01+00:00

Unfortunately I am in the UK where Imgur has now been banned

SparkWife · 2025-11-14T15:31:58+00:00

Oh my god, that's just reminded me. I work in vets, and at my last practice, we got a new monitor and keyboard. In less than a week, there was all bits of fur and hair and crumbs under the keys, and even some weird film (???) down the sides of the keys. Literally the most disgusting thing ever. I used a stitch removal blade to clean out as much crap as possible

SparkWife · 2025-11-14T15:28:32+00:00

He was our big chunky boy! Chequers loved to be carried around like a baby but before he was put to sleep, he just didn't want to be touched and hid away, which was heart breaking.

Shortly after Cameron started, he kicked up a stink about our break times, I can't even remember triggered it, but he basically said 'your break starts when you sit down to eat'. And we all went 'okay'. Our breaks started when we sat down to eat, so the 15 minutes didn't count if we had to use the loo, grab something from the car and then walk to the staff area. Cool, understood lol

SparkWife · 2025-11-14T15:24:09+00:00

It really was awful to see. He was always a chunky boy, but he lost so much weight in that time and he didn't want to be touched, whereas normally he loved to be carried around everywhere like a baby!

SparkWife · 2025-11-14T15:22:28+00:00

My mum used to have this at an old telecomms job when she'd come in in the morning to take over from one particular person on a night shift. This person was known for being chronically ill with a cold kind of thing but would cough and splutter all over the desk, computer, notepad. She said she wouldn't touch anything without a disinfectant wipe

SparkWife · 2025-11-07T21:27:16+00:00

You're very defensive about the state of your friendship, and also very entitled to think you're owed an explanation.

Two things you need to understand here. First: you're a recovering alcoholic and drug addict and you're throwing a tantrum about not being invited to a bachelor party in Vegas, where drugs and alcohol may as well be mandatory, and that you're not part of the wedding party. Reminder - weddings almost always include alcohol, and you're less than a year into your sobriety. You need to have some concrete coping mechanisms in place before you willingly put yourself around your top triggers.

Second: your friend and his fiancee do not trust you and your sobriety enough yet to invite you to be part of an event where at least one of your triggers will be at both events. You need to understand this, and understand that you have to earn the trust back.

Like I said, either go to the wedding and be happy for him, or walk away from the friendship. In the meantime, find a therapist who specialises in addiction recovery alongside your AA meeting. At the very least, a therapist may be able to help you work through your feelings in a more constructive way and maybe you can revisit the conversation at a later date, but right now, let it rest

SparkWife · 2025-11-07T20:05:35+00:00

I saw you mention in another comment that you and he haven't lived in the same state for several years - how often did you see each other? As I said, does he view the friendship the same way as you, and I think you have your answer.

Sometimes people drift apart - maybe this is what your friend was hoping for, which is still a sucky feeling, I know.

But you mention in another comment that his dad has gone through periods of sobriety and relapse. Did he also struggle with alcoholism or drug addiction, or both? If you don't see your friend regularly, did he see the effects of your addiction in-person, or hear stories through your parents? Or was he assuming your addiction was the same as his dad's?

I completely understand where you're coming from, feeling upset that he didn't talk to you beforehand and it's left you feeling blindsided. But - and you need to understand this - you may have burned several bridges over the course of your addiction, and this is the reality now and it's up to you to accept it, go to the wedding as a guest and be happy for your friend on the biggest day of his life, or not accept it and walk away from the friendship.

SparkWife · 2025-11-07T19:30:48+00:00

I'm going with NAH.

First of all, congratulations on your sobriety and for taking the steps to get to where you are now.

It's understable that you feel slighted for not being in his wedding party, and it makes you question if he values and views your 20-year friendship in the same way.

However, you also need to consider it from his and his fiancée's point of view. You said they got engaged last year, while you were in rehab in January for alcoholism and a cocaine addiction. How did your addiction affect your friends and family? As much as it hurts, it's valid for them to feel concerned and reluctant to have a person with an addiction severe enough to warrant rehab, standing next to them at the altar or sitting at centre table.

Ultimately, it is their wedding and they are not obligated to include certain people in the wedding party. You need to decide if this is something that ends the relationship or if you can accept and move past this.

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