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Matthew Rossi

Matthew Rossi @MatthewWRossi — Matthew Rossi is a synapsid, perhaps descended from Cynognathus. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and grew up there before leaving to see the world and be mistaken for a sasquatch and/or minor singing celebrity in various locales. He currently lives and writes in Edmonton alongside his amazing and beautiful wife and their cats. He’s written three collections of speculative fiction, Things That Never Were, Bottled Demon and At Last, Atlantis. He loves playing warriors in World of Warcraft, barbarians in Diablo III, and he’s beginning to notice a pattern here.


The Queue: Startled Gasp

I don’t know why I can rewatch the opening cinematic for Diablo 4 and catch new things I love every time. Small things, like the frustrated sigh and startled gasp captions when your character finds their no longer alive horse with its innards outer.

This is the Queue. Torment 1 wasn’t that hard to unlock, but I’m not looking forward to Torment 2.


Mike Morhaime’s Dreamhaven has a potential cozy hit on its hands with Sunderfolk, the cutest freaking Tactical RPG I have ever seen

According to the official Sunderfolk site, the upcoming first outing from former Blizzard head honcho Mike Morhaime's Dreamhaven Studios  is intended to be, "a turn-based tactical RPG adventure for one to four players that's tailored for a deeply engaging couch co-op experience." However, it also reminds me a lot of games like Wildermyth and TTRPGs like Pugmire, Wanderhome, or even the tabletop RPG adaptation of the board game ROOT that Magpie Games is working on.

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.


The Queue: Everything is glowing and shooting at me

Shattered Space is a real paradigm shift of a DLC, it takes the standard Starfield experience and treats it like that weird cube the Cenobites have in the Hellraiser films. Now, I’m not saying it’s a genre altering masterwork — in a lot of ways, it’s as quirky and weird as Bethesda games always are. It has weird bugs and weird bugs, glowing people trying to kill me, and a whole lot of desperate people who are willing to believe their big snakey god has sent me despite all the evidence that trusting me is an absolute mistake.

It’s the Queue. I keep shooting ghosts and hoping for the best.


The Queue: I am partially fused with infinity

A little bit?

You’re riding a huge cat! And stars are falling all around you!

Hey, y’all. It’s The Queue. Shattered Space is out next Monday. Sadly, I cannot afford it — I had to choose, and I chose Vessel of Hatred. Plus Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be out soon. I’m sorry, Shattered Space, but I am not a Being of Indescribably Power.

Let us do that Queue that you do so well.


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