Dinosaurs

America has seen a lot of wars.

One of my favorite dinosaur/paleontology books is All Yesterdays. It's been out for six years edging towards seven, and it's a book with a simple but interesting premise: it renders dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals with a more speculative eye, and then uses modern animal skeletons to show the limitations of most paleo reconstruction art.

This is the last Queue I’ll be writing in 2018.

It’s been a heck of a year, some good, some really bad. It’s finally over. Next year will, I hope and pray, be slightly better for all of us. I hope you all had a good holiday if you celebrated it, and if not, I hope your week has been peaceful.

Please don't try to pet the seagulls, it is a very bad idea.

If you've been paying any attention at all to the hype surrounding Battle for Azeroth, you may have noticed the Zandalari and dinosaurs kind of go hand-in-hand.

So this is the Tavern Queue, which is like The Queue, only not even tangentially about Blizzard games.

My friend Matt Fossen made that picture for me. Thanks, Matt.

Yes, it’s a little weird for me to be talking to someone else named Matt. Believe it or not, all my IRL friends call me Matt. Nobody calls me Rossi.

This is The Queue. Let us answer questions together.

Because don't we all need more Satanic Nightjar references in our lives?

I have now perfected my Draenei transmog by matching it with a perfect mount. Yes, this is actually important to me. Yes, I will actually match my mounts to my transmog. Yes, I know I have a problem. Luckily, the Wardrobe will solve it.

Let’s talk about things, Blizzard and its games, stuff like that. Yesterday was Thanksgiving, so I’m going to be more open to off topic questions and answers than I usually would be.

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?