Matthew Rossi

Yesterday, while I’ve been busy being too ill to move, y’all had a discussion of the new Hearthstone pet, an adorable baby devilsaur that out-chibi’s Chibi Godzilla. You know, the one where you have to play a gatcha game and spend up to $158 dollars to get him? Y’all remember, it was yesterday’s Queue.

It’s a good thing the CMS has me afraid to write long responses to things here, because otherwise I’d literally be ranting for 20,000 words about how much I dislike this.

Going over this Queue, a few paltry hours from yet another doctor’s appointment (one in which my foot will have chunks of callouses carved off, and no, that’s not a joke) and I’m realizing that I’m trying as hard as I can to give short answers because every time I get excited and write a long one the CMS crashes.

Like that sentence above. That’ll probably kill this Queue. I’m literally shaking right now imagining it.

Or a Fallout 5 for that matter.

I was downloading some mods for Fallout 4 when it hit me — this game is going to be ten years old this year. At this point, why make TES 6 when you can just get a version of Skyrim that’ll run on your refridgerator?

Be honest, the idea of building concrete forts and arming them with laser turrets, then patrolling them wearing a suit of power armor sounds pretty intriguing right about now.

It’s the Queue and while I regress down the Fallout 4 construction vortex, let’s talk about some stuff you mentioned.

I wrote a Queue last week and it just vanished. I intended to use this picture of Doom Guy and Isabelle from Animal Crossing and I don’t remember why anymore. But here it is.

Please let this Queue survive the fickle whims of the CMS, dreadful ones.

Left to my own devices I will absolutely just keep expanding the backstories I create for each and every tabletop RPG character I make, and truthfully, even characters I make for video games like Baldur’s Gate 3, Wrath of the Righteous or Rogue Trader.  I mean, paragraph after paragraph explaining every single detail of my character’s life and history.

I don’t know why I do this.

Good news! We’re going to be playing Masks for the Tavern Watch RPG podcasts.

Sad news for me! I can only play one of the roughly eleventy trillion character concepts I have bouncing around in my head.

Saurophaganax maximus was thought to be a very large predatory theropod that lived in the famous Morrison Formation of Jurassic North America. Several of the bones assigned to this genus were very similar to, but significantly larger than, those of Allosaurus specimens which had already been found in the Morrison, while others were unusual for those of a theropod at all, especially some of the vertebrae.

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?