The Queue: Death to Aphids!

I mean, not all ladybugs are great — the Mexican Bean Beetle, for example, is kind of a hazard to agriculture cause it’s herbivorous and eats all the crops — but in general, ladybugs/ladybirds/ladybird beetles are a friend to humanity and cute as a button on top of it.

I suppose I should admit that the part where they catch aphids and lay their eggs inside them is less awww, so adorable and more I have torn nature’s mask and found it woven of horrors, but I’m sure they’re probably grossed out by us too sometimes.

I don’t think Dragonriding would work for underwater mounts. While some people talk about Penguins using their wing-flippers to ‘fly’ through the water, the truth is that water is not air and has different properties. I suppose you could adapt it to an underwater swimming system, but if it didn’t take into account things like buoyancy vs. ballast, it would feel really bizarre. And that’s not even dealing with questions like Do Tauren Paladins weigh too much to do anything but sink like a stone or are small fish constantly eating my Forsaken every time she goes down there which I feel need to be addressed.

But if I was tasked with coming up with a way to do it, I’d probably use it as part of some kind of current riding or wave catching game, where your character found an underwater current to speed them up and used waves once they got near the surface to deposit themselves on shore near where they wanted to go.

As for the rest of your comment, I mean, I’m on record as wanting a naval exploration expansion. I’d also like one where we get back on the Vindicar and go exploring various worlds out in the cosmos, especially now that Horde and Alliance are finally getting along and can even join the same guilds. There’s something about the whole let’s see what’s out there aspect of exploration stories I like, even if in actual history most ‘explorers’ were less about finding cool new people to meet and places to go and more about the whole plunder aspect and land stealing, and let’s not forget all the genocide and enslavement going on.

What the duck do you have against ladybugs? They’re the bugs that eat all the bugs we hate! Aphids? DEATH. There isn’t a gardener in the world who wouldn’t follow ladybugs to Hell itself.

Okay, that may be hyperbole, but you are sincerely the first person I’ve ever seen badmouth ladybugs.

See? Even RED likes ladybugs, and in terms of things he likes vs things I like, it’s a Venn diagram with almost no overlap.

Seriously, man, when you’re on the wrong side of Red and me, that’s just like being so wrong that Vader and Kenobi team up to stop you.

The other night we killed Heroic Broodmother and she dropped that staff and our Dracthyr were all less than online. It got sharded. I sincerely considered rolling greed on it for transmog purposes. But in the end I was feeling kind of sick and just needed to go lie down.

As a survivor of the vanilla WoW Furbolg rep grind, I’m heartened to read this. I was legitimately twitching a bit at the idea of Furbolg Rep 2.0, so reading that I can probably knock it out in an afternoon is a big relief.

I wish. Based on the Mag’har intro quests, I’m not sure she’ll be coming back to save us, but I’m hopeful that there’s a big disconnect that will reveal that it wasn’t as cut and dried a heel turn as it seemed. I really liked Yrel in Warlords and I don’t want her to come back in as a villain for us to raid.

A lovely person gifted the game to me on PC, so for now that’s where I have it. But I’m really tempted to get it on console as well due to the ease of cross platform play and how nice the game looks/plays on console.

So we’ve established that ladybugs — except the Mexican Bean Beetle, but most of the Coccinella seem like okay folks — are good and we all like them. Good. Glad that’s settled.

That’s the Queue for me this week. Be kind to Liz and yourselves.