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
We lost one of the greats of stage and screen today. And, in my book, a tremendous friend and man. I learned so much from him. I will miss you, Patrick Stewart, all of my days. @mang0ld
@4thSnake Nice, meanwhile I'm 200 hours in and I sorta restarted on hard mode, because I wanted to redo some character stats and make merged super units XD. I've completed Cai and Dietrich part 1 on hard, currently on Theodora
@LegacyKillaHD Genuine question, if you agree with all the terrible practices TakeTwo is doing, pricing it at $80 when it's really a $100 game because there locking out content, no physical version etc. Yet your still gonna buy it day 1, idk I just can't get behind that, seems hypocritical no?
@4thSnake you're manually doing part 2 for each character? XD I just did it for Dietrich and skipped for the rest of them, epecially that last battle, i could not be asked to do that 3 more times XD
@setaimx@4thSnake The order I played was Cai, Leda, Dietrich, Theodora. I read guides and what other people said, Everyone agrees to do Cai first, Leda & Dietrich can be swapped for 2nd & 3rd, & then save Theodora last because her route transitions into part 2 naturally to cap off all of part 1
@4thSnake I just finished Part 2 w/ Dietrich because that group easily had the highest stats for me & last night started Part 3. I do like how Part 2 is structured where you don't also have to do that 4 times either XD. But yeah I was also at the 120 hour mark when I finished all 4 Part 1s
@CyborgMarc Too many games!!! I'm 100 hours into Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave, still only on part 1 of the game XD still only touched the prologue of Dawnwalker and I want to get onimusha and Ace Combat 8, also Final Fantasy Resonance, oh AND phantom Blade Zero, Lmao it's too much XD
>Black Panther peak squandered b/c of ChadBo's death
>Miles never getting his own name
>Black Lightning never leaving the CW ghetto
>Blade stuck in production purgatory
>Static bound by legal red tape
>John Stewart rep ruined for simping for murderers and genocidal aliens
Man...
@4thSnake I completed Cai, Leda, & now Dietrich. Finally moving on to Theodora, I will start tomorrow. It's crazy, my save file says I just got to 100 HOURS and I'm STILL in part 1 XD. So far my favorite Team is Dietrich, & adding Orchel & Talimun members to the team. My 3 favorite groups