LL | Faolain Hawk

Gaming Enthusiast, Secular Humanist, and Father. Lover of All Things Ancient. Former host of the Lore Lines Podcast. @LoreLinesXIV

[Ian McKellen @IanMcKellen]

SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)

Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.

We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.

America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.

His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.

Ian McKellen 29 October 2026

Photo: University of Huddersfield

[Cat Nihon @CatNihon]

You can't stop me

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@striveRoe That's not panic, it's pain. Remarkable video.

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@Agenttexes @Riley_Gaines_ Yikes

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@ranaelchan @PurpledrinkWoW Not sure how being penitent working in Soul Jail counts as forgiven.

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@umitsuru_fire I think 62kg and 70kg strike the right balance.

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I would strongly encourage @Warcraft to officially allow DLSS5 and set the game up to allow native injection ESPECIALLY ahead of WoW: Forever. I am so impressed by this.

https://t.co/brcO2WotbY

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@BellularGaming Hell yes!

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@itxMaggei Yes, the husband and wife definitely have to consider those issues. But it's their call.

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@itxMaggei An established man and a woman with 5-15 years of potential family expansion? Sounds blessed. If they are compatible, it's fine. If age is an issue, you are infantilizing a grown woman. She has the power to choose.

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Ok, Warcraft Forever looks amazing, but Sky Elves strikes me as a major lore ass pull that nobody asked for. We just want alliance faction Quel'dorei, not a brand new invention that is non-canon.

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@Wowrevampai Looks like FFXIV female hyur
highlander skeleton and pose with wow artistic accents in the face.

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I find myself severely tempted with this Ocarina remake.

[Link @_hoodLink_]

Bringing this banger back to your timeline

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For Ala Mhigo!

[AI壁紙屋 @marusan0331]

FFXⅣ／フォルドラ
モンスターハンター衣装ビキニスタイル

いやーフォロワーさんからの意見を参考に作ってみたけどアリだなw
#FF14 #MonsterHunter

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@Le_Crapaud47 Is that Goku?

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@loweysl40 @XFreeze This is an argument as old as time and leads to the extinction of the species. If not now, when? Children are always the future.

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@tugce190333 Missing second hand on the clock.

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@VeridisArpegius I disagree.. During Shadowbringers I had the sense that was peak storytelling and SE would have trouble hitting that bar a second time. Endwalker managed to get close, but retconned lore beats to do it. Dawntrail.0 MSQ is fine and the patches are good, but the bar is too high.

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@VeridisArpegius Final Fantasy 14 is an excellent game that is unfortunately falling to predictable content development and gameplay stagnation. I fully expect that Evercold will reverse that and we'll be back to the Glory Days once again.