Matthew Rossi
The Queue: Upstart Trash
It’s okay to not be good at something you enjoy doing.
The Queue: Lion hugs
Sometimes I just stop and marvel at the way the Diablo 4 team worked our characters into the in-game cinematics. There’s my character up there, confronting Lilith. It’s not just Lilith monologuing, it’s not Tyrael blowing up the Worldstone or Baal breaking a man’s brain, it’s me. The character I’ve been playing all game is the one we get to see step up, and she’s a fully customized, distinct looking figure.
And they even managed to capture how utterly done with Lilith’s whole deal she is.
The Queue: Mornings
Lately pretty much every morning has felt like waking up with a mind flayer tadpole, so I figured I’d embrace it. It’s the Queue. I’m kind of splitting my time between Faerun and Sanctuary lately — yes, I’m that one guy who likes Diablo 4 pretty much just as much as when it launched — and I won’t lie, there’s some cognitive dissonance.
Luckily, I tend to do Dark Urge origins and those are a fair bit more… shall we say sanguine? It makes it easier to leap between them when I go from giant barbarian soaked in blood to giant barbarian soaked in blood, I guess.
What Diablo 4 could learn from the new ARPG Last Epoch
The Queue: The Nuance
Here I am, playing Season 3 of Diablo 4 and I’m still learning new things about the story and lore of the franchise. In one throwaway conversation with Taissa you can ask her about Andariel, and she drops that little bomb.
The Queue: Group hug
Bring it in, everyone.
All of the books coming to D&D in 2024 (and beyond)
The Queue: Disney spent 1.5 billion dollars to get Epic to make a Disney version of Fortnite
We are one step closer to a future where hyperactive AI wearing corporations like armor suits do battle through global media consumption. I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if I live to see us in tanks with wires directly into our brains playing this game Disney and Epic are going to make.
It’s the Queue. I’m terrified of the future.