Matthew Rossi

I vaguely remember what it felt like, but I haven’t experienced it in literal years at this point.

It’s the Queue. I’m so so tired.

Yes, I’m listening to Sepultura today.

I’m not saying that telling someone to hug a hippo is attempted murder. But I am saying that it’s a very, very bad idea to actually follow that advice. I know you’ve all heard about how cute house hippos are, but they don’t actually exist and real hippos are considered one of the most dangerous animals in the world.

I’m honestly not surprised, considering that they can weigh up to four and a half to five tons and have tusks the size of railroad spikes. To put this in context, a hippo could body an Allosaurus, because it weighs almost twice as much as the biggest estimated sized Allosaurus specimen we have to date.

Please do not hug a hippo. It will kill you if you are lucky.

It’s the Queue. I fell asleep at an inopportune time, because the only thing more inconvenient than my usual insomnia is when it fails and I sleep exactly when I intended to be doing something else.

Let us do things and stuff. Also, everyone hug Lefty and keep Wade in your thoughts. He’s a good boy. Wade, I mean. I’m not presumptuous enough to assume Lefty is a good boy.

I mean, sure, it’s Paradox Interactive so I can’t pretend to be surprised, but finding out that two of the playable Vampire clans in Vampire the Masquerade — Bloodlines 2 are going to be locked behind a $20 paywall has really bummed me out.

There are six playable clans in this game, and of the four you get for the purchase price of $70 USD — the Banu Haqim, Brujah, Tremere and Ventrue — only one of the four is even remotely interesting to me. But I’d play the heck out of a Toreador. And the idea of having to spend ninety UD dollars just to get a clan I actually want to play does not exactly fill me with excitement.

Anyway, with that out of the way, let’s talk about Arator’s weird facial hair.

I was going to write a depressing “Bad health thing that happened to Ol’ Matthew” post here, but instead, I decided to say hi, talk about how the Blizzard app really hates my computer, and say that I’m back in my Baldur’s Gate 3 BS again. Yes, another Dark Urge. I have yet to play the game as anything but ol’ Durge.

And yes, I really did name the character Thedar Kurge. I wouldn’t lie about that.

Look, I have no idea. But I know I’ve been playing a lot of Fallout 4 since the Fallout TV series debuted, and I know Fallout 4 is rumored to be getting a new update. This is a game that’s been around for 10 years, and it’s getting updated again.

Meanwhile, Fallout 76 is apparently getting the biggest update it’s ever received, even bigger than Wastelanders, the game that introduced human NPC’s to the game. Again, the likely cause is all the people who loved the Fallout TV show (reasonably so, it’s pretty awesome) and this has me hoping at this point that a Starborn shows up on the show so that Starfield could get some love.

Yes, I’m the only one who liked Starfield, I’m comfortable with that.

Y’all knew I was going to weigh in on that one.

Trying to finish before I snooze
Working on my Night Queue
In the summertime
Unusually cold summertime

I’m getting ready for Cyberpunk 2077‘s upcoming patch 2.3 and also August’s Ghosts of K’aresh and as is often the case this means I can’t stop thinking about Anthem. Playing Fallout 4 has gotten me to think about how close to good that game actually was, and how depressing its final fate ended up.