The Queue: I like this screenshot

I think it’s a good transmog set and it’s a good place and staging. I enjoy it.

Yes, I can too enjoy things. I enjoyed all those sick exclusives for the Xbox at E3 this year! I’m looking forward to the new Arkane Studios game, Redfall, just because it’s vampires instead of zombies. In general I’m looking forward to seeing what Obsidian and Bethesda get up to as Xbox studios.

Snip to you too, man. Snip to you too.

Snip in the place where you live, cut the things, think about the reason that you snipped in the Queue yesterday. Snip!

Honestly, considering that there’s going to be Battle.net support for Overwatch, even on the Switch, I wouldn’t expect it will be a problem for Diablo 2: Resurrected. We know that Battle.net multiplayer will be part of the game, and I expect it should be fine.

I mean, the rewinding time power just makes me think about Life is Strange and that’s pretty much distracting me from this question, so I’ll say that power.

I’d like to help, but since you didn’t ask a question there’s not much I can do here, sorry.

What’s amazing is, as bad as the K-Pg boundary extinction event was, it still wasn’t the worst mass extinction event Earth has ever seen. It’s not even in the top three. The Permian-Triassic extinction event, colloquially known as ‘The Great Dying’ was an order of magnitude worse, with 70% of terrestrial life and 95% of marine life being wiped out. The Ordovician-Silurian was the second most awful extinction event in terms of biodiversity loss, just behind the Permian-Triassic, and the Late Devonian saw 50% of all animal genera wiped out. The K-Pg event is behind all of these, and there’s some debate about whether to include the Oxidation crisis of 2.5 billion years ago, which wiped out a whole host of anaeroic microbes and paved the way for oxygen breathing ones, which of course led to all current complex life on Earth.

Heck the Triassic-Jurassic extinction actually was more deadly in terms of biodiversity loss than the K-Pg event. It’s actually fascinating to consider how often mass extinctions benefitted the dinosaurs — the Permian-Triassic end times destroyed almost all of the Synapsids, leaving only a few to huddle in the shadow of the archosaurs, and the Triassic-Jurassic event wiped out a whole host of competing archosaurs and gave the dinosaurs utter dominion over the world, which they then held on to until the K-Pg event some 66 million years ago. Mammals as they exist now were shaped by their long exile during the Mesozoic era — for over 180 million years, the former Synapsid masters of the world were driven into warrens and dens to watch as their rivals dominated the world,

Compare that to the 48 million year period of Synapsid dominance in the Permian, a period which they were in constant competition with their Sauropsid cousins who would become the ancestors of the Archosaurs, and it’s clear that mass extinctions ultimately helped dinosaurs far more than they hurt them. Even today, dinosaurs flock in our skies, swim in our oceans, and run in our grasslands. Even if you add the 48 million years of the Permian and the 65 million years of the Cenozoic, that’s still only 113 million years, well short of the 180 million years of the Mesozoic. The Permian-Triassic event was so destructive that it took Mammals, the last major line of Synapsids, the full 180 million years of the Mesozoic and another mass extinction to even begin to outcompete the avian dinosaurs.

I’m not going to have children, because I can’t, so no, my children’s children will not exist, and thus will not see patch 9.1. Plus, even if I had kids right now, it’s not likely they would also have kids by the end of July.

K-Pg stands for Cretaceous-Paleogene, for the same reason an ECG or Electrocardiogram is sometimes called an EKG, because the German word for Cretaceous starts with a K.

That’s the Queue for today. Be good, y’all.