That’s very eloquently put.

I spent ten years at EA in QA, starting as a QA contract tester and spending several years as a lead on the Battlefield franchise before moving onto a more general QA role (a tedious, highly technical but very necessary job).

My daughter is nearly eight years old and I cannot imagine what I would do if anything happened to her.

One small point on this - a lot of the people you mention there would be members of Equity, the actor’s union. One of the conditions of membership is that you cannot have the same name as an existing member.

Most WW2 games have a Battle of Berlin mission, but I agree that the Eastern Europe/Middle East theatre is woefully underused.

That was one of the disappointments for me of CoD:WW2 - it seemed very formulaic, the same levels we’ve played again and again, many of which have arguably been done better already by other games.

You had me at Donnie Yen and Jet Li.

When I get a minute, I am seriously going to scratch-build a model of one of these...

Didn’t the Neon have that crappy front suspension setup same as the PT Cruiser, where the bushes wore out about four times a week?

I must say, despite playing games pretty hardcore since the late ‘70s, quite often these days I play on the easiest setting.

Perhaps this was funny for a non-American audience

I made this comment elsewhere, but it’s worth repeating.

You know what the GOP’s response to this will be, right?

and when you go back through the history of the Bible

A little known fact here in the UK is that you can get nicked for being drunk in charge of any vehicle, even a bicycle or a skateboard and, yes, horses too.

I’ll just leave this here...

Denial is not a river in Egypt...

They glued the roof on?

I remember watching colleagues testing Orange Box on the consoles at EA while I was working on Battlefield Bad Company 1.

Mercedes Benz did this in the early ‘90s with their EXT92 concept truck.