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Tethys, I’m pretty sure that’s not how you’re supposed to use a spyglass. You’ve got your finger in the middle of it. …no wonder Tess is so frustrated with you.

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I’m pretty sure Tess Greymane speaks for us all, here. Let’s just…get past the gibberish and get right to your questions, shall we?

It’s a very cool find. I’m more excited about the recent news story that Sue, the famed Tyrannosaur fossil, might turn out to have been a male T-Rex because that would have implications for the upper limit on T-Rex size (females were bigger than males in T-Rex, so if Sue’s a male, that means there would almost have to be a bigger T-Rex out there somewhere not yet found). But the tail, with its perfectly preserved feather structure, is likely a member of the Coelurosauria (all dinosaurs more closely related to birds than carnosaurs were in this group) which means it’s a T-Rex relative.

Yes, T-Rex was a Coelurosaur, not a Carnosaur. Carnosaurs were more closely related to Allosaurus than birds, and T-Rex (despite its looks and predatory nature) was pretty darn close to birds. They may not have looked like giant rock doves, but they had a host of birdlike features. And one thing that little fossil tail might end up telling us is exactly how likely it is that they had feathers, at least in adolescence.

None of this is about World of Warcraft in the slightest, but y’all were going to ask me about it anyway. So there you go. Maybe someday I’ll do another dinosaur Queue.

I have a cold, so let’s have an experiment in how many of these questions I can make Mitch answer.

No one tell him, okay?

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This Queue will be posted on Tuesday, December 6th. My birthday is the day following.

So I guess we’ll just have to not talk about that. If you care, here’s my twitter, and if you don’t we can talk about Blizzard games. Or whatever else you guys talked about in the comments.

Seriously though tomorrow’s my birthday guys. I’m feeling kinda chatty.

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I finally watched Luke Cage this weekend. I can’t believe I waited so long. If you haven’t seen it, do it.

Today’s header image is irrelevant. I picked one at random. That’s just the kind of day it is.

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Look I know the Burning Legion is this all-encompassing terrible thing that threatens the very existence of the entire world of Azeroth as we know it, but…can I just leave the heroic deeds to the rest of you guys and live in the library? I’ll be quiet, I swear. You’ll never know I was here.

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Has anyone played through all the StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops packs? I wasn’t going to pick them up, but the comic they released earlier this week made me slightly more interested in checking it out.

Listening to Filter. Writing the Queue. Thinking about my mortality. My eyes really hurt this time, guys. But on the good news front they’re supposedly improving, and that’s in large part thanks to all of you that helped out when I first found out about the retinopathy. So I wanted to say something and thank you. It’s been a rough year but you made it survivable, and I probably couldn’t have kept my job, played any video games, or finished either of my novels without you.

It’s Friday. Let’s talk, ladies and gents and unaffiliated.