The Queue: Look at what I’ve been reduced to

I’m fishing.

In a video game.

I have never been willing to do this. Diablo 4, I think you’ve broken me.

I literally logged on during the podcast and bought every Tauren themed outfit and item I could possibly afford, and I haven’t played my Tauren seriously in years. I am a total mark for the Shu’halo.

I felt like I had to take the opportunity to link this post for the sweet mural of the Star Trek Original Series Enterprise on the side of a conversion van.

I think Airbrushing looks a bit silly on anything else but nothing, no matter what, looks out of place when painted on the side of a conversion van.

I was not aware of your extremely strongly held opinions about decorating vans.

But while I probably wouldn’t have said it as forcefully, I can’t argue with you. Wraps are, essentially, cheating. If you’re willing to display your soul on your van, you need to commit to it.

This is why I think Terry Pratchett’s Boots Theory is so apt and underrated. Being poor often pushes you into spending more money on cheap replacements than you would have just buying something more expensive but better made and more durable. However, often I find myself forced to accept that I’ll be buying a new mouse in a couple of years because I simply can’t afford the better option.

Replace mouse with clothes, or furniture, or whatever you want because that’s how life works sometimes. But I always think about Vimes ad his boots when I have to make those kinds of choices.

Also I tend to buy Logitech stuff because it doesn’t seem to break. Considering how hard I am on my keyboards and mice, the solidity of my Logitech keyboard is almost suspicious.

All things change. I’ve seen colors like metallic and/or forest green, Ford Blue (yes, it’s a real thing) and of course various shades of red not only for aesthetic reasons but for its documented (by Warhammer Orks) speed increasing properties. Meanwhile, in the pictures my parents had of our family in the 1970’s, pretty much every car you would have seen was blue, black or white.

Colors like black, white, and grey/silver are often considered neutral colors. They’re safe choices. I expect in a society that feels very unstable and has for years now, something safe and boring — a choice that doesn’t require much mental energy — is desired by people who feel that tension. Plus, nowadays, relatively few people can afford a new car, and leasing does not always allow for your first choice.

Plus every Prius is secretly Goth.

The other day it was literally 30c outside and then suddenly we got a hailstorm with golf to softball sized shards of ice pelting our house and yard so violently we were worried about the apple tree in the backyard. Five minutes later, it was all over and nothing was destroyed. It was like the sky suddenly just went nuts. It was like that old Power Records story about Superman being attacked by alien creatures that fell from the sky like bullets, which kind of like alien creatures that look like feathers attacking me by falling softly around me now that I think about it.

Oh no, I’m being attacked by… bullets… which I am completely invulnerable to and thus am in no more danger than I would if this was just rain. 

A moment of panic followed by absolutely nothing being wrong. Is it weird to feel let down by hail?

Okay, back to Diablo 4 and not to fish because I don’t do that.