Matthew Rossi

I spent yesterday watching a ton of paleontology content, including several that speculated about recent studies about encephalization quotient and therapod dinosaurs. Some of the videos are a bit optimistic, in my opinion, like the one arguing that Tyrannosaurs rex was more intelligent that a chimpanzee. I’m not arguing that T.rex wasn’t smart, there are a lot of studies that are coming to that general conclusion.

Draygonia.

I mean, come on, Draygonia. ONE? You expected me to pick one?

It is a sign of my love for you all that this entire Queue isn’t just me listing several dozen prehistoric animals that should be better known to laypeople. Heck, the fact that there isn’t a dedicated Glyptodon section is pure self-restraint.

Pick one? One? How?

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Now, keep in mind, I’m playing Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader more than a year after it was released. And it certainly loses in the comparison of graphics and animated cutscenes, with W40kRT being a more stylized game with a much darker and more grim tone than  other Isometric CRPG’s (unless you’re Planescape Torment, in which case this could be said to be stealing your bit.)

Honestly, it’s not that this game is better than BG3, so much as it is to me more enjoyable to play than that game. Maybe it’s because you get to swing a giant chainsaw sword around and set things on fire with your mind while flirting with a completely deranged psyker who enjoys screaming people to death, I don’t know. I do know that the inventory system is not what I would call good.

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

Both are technically groups of Dinosaurs.

And yes, I’m listening to Space Age Love Song on repeat.

I briefly talked about Fasolasuchus in a Queue before. But I didn’t really go into much detail about the animal, a massive prehistoric pseudosuchian in the Loricata, an Archosaur clade that included all living members of the Crocodylomorpha and the various large terrestrial animals once called Rauisuchians.

This was a big boy. It hunted early members of the Sauropodomorpha like Lessemsaurus, which while not nearly as big as later Sauropods was still over 10 meters long and weighed upwards of four metric tons. (I accidentally wrote kiloton here instead of metric ton and had to come back in to correct it.)

Yup, I’m riding around Night City in all black and riding an all black bike thanks to the feature where you can change the color on some vehicles, which just so happens to include this bike.

This particular V is significantly more aggressive than earlier incarnations — my current loadout includes the x-MOD 2 variants of the Umbra assault rifle, the MA70 HB light machine gun, and the Pozhar combat shotgun which is crazy strong thanks to the Kneel! mod. I’m also switching in some non x-Mod weapons like Ol’Reliable and scouring the airdrops for the Techtronical special weapons. This time, I’m definitely a solo — haven’t touched a cyberdeck and primarily use a Sandevistan for ease of targeting as well as keeping enemies at a distance.

It’s a lot of fun so far. Might try a chrome compressor build sometime.

It’s March 6th, and an ocean of darkness comes to drown the world.

This is the Queue, and from this lone promontory of land stabbing out into the quivering abyss, we can but delay our imminent madness with diversions of light woven into stories. Hope is fleeting, life is transient, we watch the suffering of those we love helpless to prevent it. Shackled by beliefs that do nothing to hinder others from bringing doom and harm to everyone, we can but watch the next wave building. Soon like Atlantis we will be dragged beneath endless heavy tons of water.

I am a negative man, but we are not under the waves yet. So let us talk while we yet have time.

I find myself wondering if I’ll love this game the way I did DA:The Veilgard, and I honestly don’t know yet. Avowed feels very different to other games I’ve played in the same basic wheelhouse — it lacks the zany satirical feel of The Outer Worlds, the breathless chaos of Fallout: New Vegas, and while you can certainly understand that this game is inspired by games like the various Elder Scrolls games, it doesn’t really feel like one of those.

Sometimes, in the words of another game I enjoyed, Violence is the last, joyous resort of the improvident planner.

Whenever I play V I remember that line, because seriously, all her plans end up in a pile of that aforementioned mass of barnyard secretions. It’s almost like the game rewards me with dopamine for V’s terrible decisions.

I’m looking forward to Avowed on Game Pass, but until I get that, this will be my game.