The Queue

I have a doctor’s appointment in a little bit, and I need to make sure I get the laundry in before that so it has time to run so I can dry it. I’ll probably vacuum a bit later. Maybe go get a coffee if I’m good at the doctor’s.

Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll give you the answers, just like every other day.

A few weeks ago, I wrote that the Winter freeze had broken and Spring was here. There was a whole week of temperatures above freezing!

Oh boy, I should not have said that.

Arthas must’ve heard me and taken it personally. We got more cold, more snow, and then when that second round of snow went away — we got even more this weekend! There was 25 cm! Close to 10 inches for you non-metric people. Maybe next week spring can start.

While I invest in warm socks again, it’s time for — The Queue!

It’s a big dangerous world out there, but it does look a little bit bigger when you’re encountering it from gnome height. But if we were intimidated by every robot dinosaur and giant ape duo we saw, we would never get out of bed.

But for now, we can take a break between pulls to answer a few (a very few) questions.

Both are technically groups of Dinosaurs.

And yes, I’m listening to Space Age Love Song on repeat.

I’m a fan of jazz music, but I wouldn’t really consider myself an aficionado — I only recently discovered Bud Powell, for example —  but I really enjoy the vibe that jazz provides as a soundtrack (like in Undermine). Blue Wednesday goes a step further and makes being a jazz artist the central plot point while mixing elements of Visual Novels, Walking Sims and Rhythm Games. It’s a little on the short side, and it’s too easy to miss some important things on the first day of the game while you’re still getting the hang of it but the atmosphere and vibe are fantastic so I heartily recommend it.

While I finalize plans to visit the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City this September, let’s groove to some questions.

Every so often when I drop into the comments to find questions for the Queue, you all instantly earworm me. There are worse things, I suppose, like living in the apartment beneath Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor at 2 am.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we say good mornin, good mornin, to you.

Isn’t this a great bear?

Surely Blizzard wouldn’t do something silly like introduce such a great bear, only to have players kill it. Then follow that up by telling players it was doubly dead and could never rejoin the cycle of rebirth that other natural things got in a whole expansion focused around the afterlife and letting several things get that treatment. That would be crazy.

While I take a big drink of my water, it’s time for — The Queue!

This is not what I expected, but when is anything what we expect it to be? At least I didn’t become a smudge on the streets of Undermine (again), but Goblin technology could stand to have a couple more creature comforts.

But where here for the Queue, so the Queue we shall have. Let’s get to some questions.

I briefly talked about Fasolasuchus in a Queue before. But I didn’t really go into much detail about the animal, a massive prehistoric pseudosuchian in the Loricata, an Archosaur clade that included all living members of the Crocodylomorpha and the various large terrestrial animals once called Rauisuchians.

This was a big boy. It hunted early members of the Sauropodomorpha like Lessemsaurus, which while not nearly as big as later Sauropods was still over 10 meters long and weighed upwards of four metric tons. (I accidentally wrote kiloton here instead of metric ton and had to come back in to correct it.)

Our house, in the middle of our street.

Our house is a very, very, very fine house.

(Bit violent, though.)

This is The Queue, where we talk about houses, hell houses, and player housing. And we’re all out of players.