The Queue: I love Diablo 4 even more now
All I have done since I closed the podcast this Tuesday is play Diablo 4, use the potty, shovel emergency food into my craw so I can continue to play Diablo 4, and love my wife. And that last one I don’t have to think about because she’s the only thing I love more than Diablo 4 right now. My cat and dog are on par with it, and the rest? Well, I’m sure it’s all very nice. But I don’t have a giant winged hat or glowing tattoos all over my body in real life, much less blow up demons with blood orbs.
Anyway, let’s get this Queue done so I can go back to Sanctuary and see just how bad Neyrelle has screwed this all up.
With Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred finally out, have you gotten a Barbarian to 60 yet? Finished the expansion campaign story? Stopped to breathe?
- Yes! One Barb at 60, another at 53, and my Season Barb is a little baby 5.
- Nope, I just got to Kurast and met up with (Redacted) inside the (Redacted) and now I’m off to the Field of Giants! Leveling is a lot faster if you just run in Penitent off of the bang. Need to finish the campaign and then I can get my Torment on.
- I kept breathing the whole time. When I stop I tend to pass out.
Late Q for the Rossi Queue: who was your first D&D character, and how would you recreate them in 5E?
My first D&D character was Andak the Wolf-Born. He was a half-elf ranger, and along with his brother Badger Bearclaw (my cousin) went on many adventures. It was Andak who used flaming arrows to burn down an entire forest so that the Lich we were hunting down didn’t have armies of undead to throw at us. It was Andak who found a hat that could command wolves and never once used it to command a wolf because that would be rude. I certainly asked them for help, but I never once made them.
If I were making them in 5e? I’d probably just roll a Ranger. They weren’t a very complicated character. My first D&D was actually AD&D, so I was happy just to be there, you know?
Q4Q: How many skulls can your main adorn themselves with?
I mean, at the moment I’m playing Diablo 4 more than WoW, just because that’s what I have time to do. I’m fairly certain I could put a skull on every single slot of armor, and that’s five, so five skulls.
In WoW? Geez. I play a Warrior and that means I have access to a lot of Death Knight offset pieces. I could likely slap a skull on all of those as well, and I know I could do the shoulders, chest, belt, and boots so that’s at least six (one for each shoulder, one on chest, one on belt, and one on each boot) and I wouldn’t rule out the helm or pants but I can’t remember any specific skull hats or pants while I absolutely do remember the other slot options.
Anyone else find it a little depressing that the pet battle scene in WoW is so neglected that the most efficient way to level pets is to run content from a decade ago?
I mean, I’m upset for players who enjoy that content and want more stuff. Personally, however, I have never touched pet battles, so it’s not a personal issue, just one of solidarity with my fellow players that do enjoy it.
Found a way to use multiple mods to mix and match armor pieces and put on something a bit more… protective.
Well, at least a little more, I AM still a Barbarian :P
I also found a mod that added many more horn variants to Tieflings – my horns are now so magnificent that I struggled to get a good screenshot that showed them in full.
Say, any good Aasimar mods out yet? I don’t want an OP character, but I love playing an Aasimar Barbarian, it’s like an Angel is coming but they’re stuck on Old Testament today.
What’s hilarious about Minority Report is that in the original story, the moral isn’t “Precrime is a bad thing” it’s “just have to review all the results if someone who views the footage is a part of it”. There’s no moral message in the story, it’s basically a what if for precognition.
Honestly, I don’t know if I agree with your reading.
I think one of the things PKD was doing with his narrative was highlighting how bureaucracy would make use of predictive abilities. And like a lot of his other work, while it doesn’t nail the mechanism of a real world example, it does grasp the potential pitfalls.
We live in a world of statistics based profiling and predictive algorithms. We are getting closer and closer to being able to know with a high degree of accuracy what people will do before they do it, and we’re already at the point where corporations and governments are using these to control outcomes.
By showing Precrime as an established, accepted thing and not even once having any of the characters make a moral pronouncement about whether or not it’s right, PKD is showing us that we often can and do accept things that we should likely think twice about as just fine dog fire meme, because we’re the ones doing them.
But that’s just the take I had after I read it.
Q4tQ: I have an opportunity to learn curling, but I’ve never had even a slight interest in the sport. Do I go for it?
I wouldn’t, but that’s not because curling is bad. I just don’t generally spend a lot of time doing things I’m not interested in. Much less learning how to do them. That’s a big time commitment for something I’m not interested in doing.
Maybe you’ve got some cool friends and it’s a bonding experience? It’s hard for me to maintain motivation if I’m not halving fun.
I was so tempted to just have this entire Queue be screenshots, y’all.
Okay, that’s the Queue for today. Take care of each other, please.
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