Matthew Rossi

Just some games that released or are releasing this month:

• Ghost of Yotei
• Pokemon Legends: Z-A
• Ninja Gaiden 4
• PowerWash Simulator 2
• Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2
• Dispatch
• The Outer Worlds 2

Not all of these games are my style, but at least four of them are. I am currently trying to figure out a way to sell my blood or organs so I can afford them. I doubt I’ll find any, so I’m sad. But I probably should hold on to my organs, I suppose.

I have spent a lot of time building houses, settlements, spaceships and other home bases in various games, and so far, everything I’m hearing about player housing has me terrified of what World of Warcraft is going to look like for me going forward.

I can foresee a lot of killing people for specific pieces of furniture.

I mean, it’s the day after the podcast, why wouldn’t they drop a ton of news about the upcoming expansion?

Unrelated but naming your kid Arator is like the WoW version of naming a kid Artur. Just put in the H, you’re not helping.

I don’t know about you guys, but I would play the heck out of a game where you’re an actual wolverine, doing wolverine things like hunting in the snow, killing polar bears with pure stubbornness, and raising their absolutely adorable kiddos in peace.

Frankly, I enjoyed Wolverine better when Laura Kinney was wearing the costume and had an actual pet wolverine.

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.