The Queue: Unicorns vs. Narwhals is not a Two Bosses Enter

Okay, I know last week I yelled at y’all for asking nothing but Two Bosses Enter questions, but I swear asking you to pick between Narwhals and Unicorns is totally different. I mean, Narwhals already won (rightfully so), which makes it more of a statement of victor. But still. It’s not the same.

Also speaking of Splatfests… next month’s is the very last Splatfest of Splatoon 2. It’s Chaos vs. Order, so you obviously know what I’m voting for, but it still makes me very sad. It’s going to be the end of an era, y’all.

On that sad note, let’s Queue.

Y’know, I’ve gone down this rabbit hole before, and I’ve nearly fallen back down it several times since. But every time I do, I’ve learned to stop myself by reminding myself that Harry Potter is a children’s series. Sure, it gets progressively darker, and it has the sort of mythos that can appeal to all sorts of ages — but at its core, it’s still a children’s series.

Now, whether or not JK Rowling continually trying to expand the lore and give it more depth is helping my argument is another story… but still. The original series is meant for kids. They enjoy the ride without thinking about much beyond, “When will I receive my Hogwarts letter?”

So, what’s happening here is you’re doing things in the wrong order. Smoochums is but one star of my absolute favorite quest chain in this entire expansion — one I loved so much I wrote about as soon as I finished it — but the quest doesn’t start by Smoochums. It starts from Abby Lewis, who’s skipping around in a small town full of dead people. The rest is worth experiencing for yourself (even if you probably can guess at the ending), but I cannot recommend it enough. It’s available for both factions, and it’s exactly the sort of creepy quest that’s been missing from the game since the Eastern Plaguelands revamp.

Man, I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve done this. One small but consistent thing I always try to do is auto-run in Overwatch when I respawn. I know why it doesn’t exist, but man, would having an auto-run option make my life so much easier. And I would stop hitting a pointless button all the time.

In the past, I’ve tried to hit my Fortnite hotkey for building things when I wanted to cross a gap… in WoW. I’ve hit the reload key in SO MANY games that don’t have a reload function. I’ve tried to use click-to-move after playing Diablo or HOTS. I try to double jump after spending too much time playing platformers. The list goes on.

I will say, some of the confusion of swapping games is minimized by having the same function bound to the same key. For instance, Shift + T is how I mount in WoW, so I made sure that it was the same case for FFXIV. It doesn’t work as well between genres, but it’s better than nothing.

Not at all! Personally, I don’t think we’ll kill N’Zoth, even if we do fight him. But even if we do, Old Gods aren’t the ultimate source of our power — the Void is. We have a long way to go before the Void is gone from the universe. And if that ever happened, I don’t think it would be as positive as we wanted.

We’ve seen what uncontained Light entities will do (Draenor/Yrel, anyone?), and the absence of Void would just mean facing the Light’s wrath.

Absolutely I do.

I don’t really know how to take these comments, to be honest. Blizzard — and Ion — does a very good job of talking about issues, but the solutions still never match up in my head. Personally, I don’t want to regain any of our holy abilities. Or more accurately, I’m indifferent to that.

What I’d much rather see is Blizzard split Shadow off into its own class in order to allow Shadow Priests to stand out on their own, both in terms of lore and in terms of gameplay. I feel like Shadow Priests could be enough unique things that a dedicated Shadow Priest class could have two or three talent trees that allow for a choice between Void-based abilities, Psionic abilities, and “San’layn” sort of abilities.

I don’t think it will ever happen, but I really wish Blizz would just make Shadow its own class and stop lumping it under the Priest umbrella. Nothing in the game ever seems to even acknowledge that Priests can be Shadow, and it’s frustrating. Our own class mount scenario had Bronzebeard yelling at us about how bad the Void was and how we had to use the Light to stop it.

Once everyone is converted, there would be no worry of dissent.

I would rather serve than marry, to be honest. I like the dynamic that exists with her as Banshee Queen.

Well, I legit got chills like 1 note into that song. Patty Mason is fantastic, and the background updates are beautiful. It feels like listening to a “full” version of a song versus an acoustic version. I’m actually writing this answer as I listen and I keep stopping my typing because it’s that powerful.

Also, what a wonderful note (no pun intended) to end on. Burn it, Patty. Burn it.

Wow, done already? I hope you enjoyed reading this Queue, and hope even more that you appreciated the fact that I didn’t fill it with the several remaining Two Bosses Enter from last week (which, yes, I still have).

Be nice to Rossi. Mostly because he’s DMing me this weekend in a DnD game, but also because he’s a decent fellow.