Matthew Rossi

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.

I mean, I did in fact forget it was Thursday, but I’m capable of lying, so I could tell you I didn’t forget.

I did, though. I may or may not have gotten to the point where I’m modding Starfield with Power Armor from Fallout, while also modding Fallout with Starfield themed robots. I know, I could just get the Captain Cosmos PA from the Creation Club, but that costs money and I don’t have any of that.

Yes, I am still that one guy you know who really likes Starfield and wish other people had given it a chance. I was that guy for Diablo 3 and nowadays everyone thinks that game was a masterpiece, so I figure I’ll just try and wait it out. Besides, I’m likely going back to WoW next week anyway.

If you're a transmog fiend, it's okay, you're among friends here -- there's no shame in wanting pretty outfits.

So I may be just a bit modhappy when it comes to Fallout 4. To the point where I’ve started playing my current character, a frozen lawyer, as if she found one of Bruce Wayne’s many many caves full of all sorts of high tech nonsense and is now dressing up in the power armor from Batman Beyond to fight raider gangs and other criminals.

Look, you get through life however you can. And I admit I laugh every time I see Batman standing there but the dialog is captioned ‘Jennifer.’