The Queue: Chaos AD

Yes, I’m listening to Sepultura today.

• The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811 – 1812. At the time, New Madrid was part of the Louisiana territories purchased by Thomas Jefferson’s government. Today, it’s part of Missouri. The earthquakes equal or exceeded a modern Magnitude 7 earthquake and were felt throughout the United States. In fact, they remain the most powerful earthquakes to date in the contiguous United States in recorded history. That’s right, the record for most powerful earthquake in the United States does not belong to California, but to Missouri.
• The Midcontinent Rift System, which dates back to that time that the North American continental tectonic plate tried and almost succeeded in ripping itself in half around 1.1 billion years ago. It could be pointed out by someone that the MRS, despite taking place 1.1 billion years (give or take a few hundred) before the New Madrid quakes, is pretty much a giant upside down horseshoe shaped around Missouri and other parts of the central US that reported feeling the New Madrid quakes.
• The inexact understanding of the formation of multicellular life, once thought to date back 600 million years and now some evidence is linked to a potential existence of multicellular life dating back a billion or so years, perhaps even further. Like, say, 1.1 billion or so years.
• Trilobites, cephalopods, and other ancient prehistoric creatures that date back to around 500 million years ago or slightly more, and how they may  have been survivors of an earlier age of completely alien (to us) life that was destroyed during the Late Ordovician mass extinction event when the surface of the planet Earth almost entirely froze over.
• The various amazing soundtracks of the past three Doom games.

See, this is how I feel about Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, really. Alexios? He’s fine. Nothing wrong with him. The actor is good and he does a good job with the character. But to me Kassandra is the main character of the game and it’s not even close, and the idea of Alexios as the primary character of the game feels weird and foreign to me.

Meanwhile, I like both Mark Meer and Jennifer Hale and have seen the two of them doing so many cool interviews together, so I’d be upset if either of them got ignored by the show. Also, why is no one talking about how you cannot make this show without Brandon Keener?

Wait, I got it. Hale does Shepard, Meer does Blasto the Hanar Spectre, any Vorcha that show up, and that one Turian on the Citadel who will rip you a new one if you mess up your spice chirality.

Do I think it’s possible, or even something that should happen? Sure.

Do I expect it? No, not really. The very fact that people were so upset by the Cataclysm world revamp that we ended up with WoW Classic makes me believe that it’s unlikely.

I think we’re more likely to see things like what we saw in Battle for Azeroth where specific zones like Darkshore or the Arathi Highlands got changes, but the kind of sweeping, multiple zone revanps of Cataclysm feel like a less likely idea to me. Not impossible, just not likely.

I don’t know if the Army of the Light is the you must offer us X to help you kind of organization, but I could see Lor’themar thinking that they might impose their beliefs on the whole region. However, I tend to think it’s far more likely that Lor’themar remembers that time the Scourge walked up through Quel’thalas and eventually blew up the Sunwell and the Light did… let me check my notes… ah, yes, sweet pirate ghost all to help.

So it’s quite possible that Lor’themar simply didn’t think they’d come and thought Liadrin should shut up about it and get down to stabbing things.

Meanwhile, where’s Lor’themar’s wife? You know, the Nightborne lady with her own magical city and army full of spellbreakers and a powerful magical teleportation system under her control? Thalyssra, I think her name was? I seem to recall the two of them getting married in a short story a few years ago now.

• How likely do you think it could be that ancient multicellular life created massive mats of organic material, lacking in any structures like bone, carapaces/exoskeletons. or rigid matter like wood yet could still exert enough biological pressure to alter the weather and even have geological impact during the formation of the Midcontinental Rift System?
• Do you believe that the End-Permian extinction was caused by the formation of the Siberian traps, huge pools of molten rock formed by a similar process as the MRS formation but obviously later?
• Was Orthoceras created by earlier, completely incomprehensible entities that left behind no real fossils — or at least not fossils that we would easily recognize as such due to their lack of easily preserved structures like bone plates, exoskeletons or teeth? Perhaps during the Proterozoic Eon?
• What’s my middle name?

He did say to ask him anything.

This has been the Queue. Love you guys. Ask lots of questions, please, just to be kind to the next person.