Matthew Rossi

During the Opening Ceremonies Mike Morhaime announced that there's a new Make a Wish Foundation pet coming this December 2nd.

I was going to talk about BlizzCon but then this happened.

Welcome Dakotaraptor, a contender for largest Dromaeosaurid ever. Not only is it nearly the same size as Utahraptor (it’s built on a more gracile body plan, so it almost certainly weighed less) but this late Cretaceous raptor is a game changer for a variety of reasons. It’s much akin to its relatives Velociraptor or Deinonychus but scaled up to bigger than even Jurassic Park dared dream, and it had long feathers on its forelimbs in a structure that even the most anti-feathered dinosaur grump would have to admit is a wing.

Wings. This nearly twenty foot (six meters) long raptor had wings. No, it couldn’t fly with them any more than an ostrich can, but it had clear, unmistakably feathered forelimbs. At this point, if you put featherless raptors in your dinosaur movie, you look like an idiot. It would be like having hairless lions and tigers in your movie because they look cooler. Just stop it, Hollywood.

This will be another in the long line of BlizzCons I don’t get to go to.

Well, can’t just sit here feeling sorry for myself. It’s Queue time.

I'm one of those people who can't be led to something.

Does reviving beloved shows of the past add to the memories or destroy them?

They are mocked.

I’m listening to Brainsaw by Therapy? and writing The Queue. BlizzCon is in a few days.

Let’s talk about Blizzard games, shall we?

Buried in Blizzard's BlizzCon Q&A panel poll (which is worthwhile on its own) is a single question that had me jump to my feet and say yes.

Just in case you're not aware that BlizzCon is happening this week: BlizzCon is happening this week.

If you played Pen and Paper RPG's in the 90's, you probably know about White Wolf, the game company that brought us Ars Magica (I know it was Lion Rampant first, still counts) and more famously the World of Darkness games, including Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension and others.