Happy Valentine's Day to all the Gamers out there!

I'd like to wish a happy Valentine's day to all the gamers out there.  I hope everyone has a nice day celebrating a holiday dedicated to love or at least re-branded to be about love.  In college I wrote a paper for a history class about the pagan origins of most Christian holidays and was enlightened about their beginnings.  Valentine's day started out as Lupercalia, a festival to celebrate the founding of Rome by the twins Romulus and Remus (who were raised by wolves--seriously).  The festival involved the ritual sacrifice of several animals and then making their skins into leather thongs (not like the underwear) and running a course through the hills and slapping women with them to symbolize fertility.  Totally romantic.  Then Christianity came into Rome and turned it into a holiday celebrating St. Valentine who secretly married couples so that men could avoid being conscripted into the Roman military.  There's your history lesson for the day.

Since it's Valentine's day I am dedicating the rest of this post to my favorite character to romance--Liara from Mass Effect.  Sure, she's an Asari--the alien race that seems to have been created sheerly to be eye-candy--but her personality makes her one of my favorite characters.  Her good-bye to Shepard in Mass Effect 3 is seriously tear-jerking.  I always feel like someone is punching me in the heart when I get to that part of the game.  So here's to you Liara.