The Queue: Lucky for me I don’t believe in luck

I was going to try and be clever but let’s face it, nobody comes here for that. Let’s do the Queue, everybody.

Ironically and also tangentially, I have hemochromotosis, or Iron Overload syndrome. It can lead to organ damage and even death. As a result, my blood is extremely rich in iron and thus tends towards oxidization related illnesses. The only treatment is to have your blood removed. Also, the extremely high count of technically cold iron (it hasn’t been in a forge) in my blood means that faeries tend to avoid me.

No idea if vampires like it or not. I assume it’s probably a stronger than normal flavor, but it might be fine or even a rarefied taste for all I know.

I’m still kind of shocked that Demolition Man is still trending towards being the most accurate portrayal of how large corporations absorb and devour other, smaller companies.

As of 2025, There are at least 50 corporations worldwide with consolidated revenues in the billions. These 50 corporations are the 50 largest ones in the world. So we’re not quite down to 3, but it is getting closer and closer to a William Gibson novel all the time.

For me it’s Paleo Rewind. It’s hard for me to explain exactly what it is, it’s kind of a cool yearly thing from Edge Science, which goes over various discoveries and studies for a given year. Various Paleo focused YouTube channels get involved every year, and while it’s a rotating group (basically whoever has time and interest in a particular year to participate) in previous years sites like Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong (one of my favorites) and Ben G. Thomas’s YouTube channel.

Now, please let me say that this is not a Horde bad response. But I have never forgotten the feeling of going into a town under attack by Horde forces and finding a farmer impaled on a pitchfork with his feet dangling off of the ground. It was such a disconcerting sight that I didn’t even immediately think of the Horde when I saw it. Like, if someone told me Garrosh did this, I wouldn’t have believed it. Not even because it was too evil or whatever, it was just so petty. 

I could accept grandiose schemes. I could say “Yeah, the Horde would burn down Teldrassil with people on it.” But the idea that a Horde soldier saw a basically defenseless old farmer and decided to impale the poor old sot on his own pitchfork was just so much the embodiment of the old Banality of Evil idea it confused me. To this day, it honestly doesn’t even feel like the Horde.

To this day it feels like the first real hinto of Shadowlands and its almost industrialization of death. I’ve never forgotten it.

I don’t think we actually have answers to any of these questions, but I’ll speculate.

Going directly to the World Soul would mean your death. It would be like going to the sun. You can’t just go to the sun, the sheer radiant heat around the star would kill you. The surface of the sun is a mere 5,500 degrees Celsius, but the Solar Corona is well over a million degrees Kelvin, with flare ups at an astonishing 72 million degrees Kelvin.

So yeah, I think at some point we’d get in the vicinity of the World Soul and then we’d be incinerated. It’s like when Zeus tried to show Semele his true nature and the poor girl disintegrated.

The Rootlands, on the other hand, I think could go one of two ways. There’s an old D&D adventure called The Lost City where we spend all of our time descending an enormous ancient Ziggurat to confront a hideous unkillable god eater named Zargon. On the way down you ran into three different factions, and you could make friends with them all if you wanted to and even broker peace between the three on your way down.

Undermine already kind of reminds me of this module. So I could see that kind of structure for any further exploration of the Harronir. Either that, or it’s basically a new variation of the whole separate island full of elites and stuff to farm without much story at all.

Beledar is just a giant glowing kinder egg full of Naaru babies. Naaru babies are essentially the same as the Ata’mal Crystal.

Okay, that’s the Queue from me this week. Love you guys. Take care each other.

Oh, and next Wednesday? Maybe ask some dinosaur questions.