The Queue: Group hug

Bring it in, everyone.

Oddly enough, when leveling my alts people doing that world quest were a positive boon for me, the least social person alive still playing MMO’s in 2024. I basically just kept having people murdering the bosses as fast as I spawned them so they could get the one they wanted for the World Quest and get out of there.

I’m not sure why that was my experience and yours wasn’t as positive, but it could just be server culture for all I know. Or maybe I looked particularly pathetic?

I happen to wear two wedding rings, because my first wedding ring ended too big for my hand due to my losing a lot of weight over the years and at one point it fell off and I couldn’t find it.

I freaked out and my wife decided to order me a new one (I wear a fairly inexpensive titanium wedding band) and it was sized to more snugly fit around my ring finder. Then, one night, I found my original, still too big for my ring finger wedding ring in the pocket of a pair of jeans I hadn’t worn for a while.

Long story short (too late) I’m wearing that ring on the middle finger of my right hand, so I have two wedding rings now.

Should I do a countdown for the Malfurion hate here, or just assume it’ll be one of the first comments?

Man, liking Malfurion can be a real chore sometimes. Still, the part where he hugs Tyrande and Shandris is cute AF and I’m glad we get the sense that he sees Shandris as his daughter.

Don’t ever let anyone take the ability to complain about all the irritating pains and aches of our mortal lives away from you. Complaining about these deliquescent sacks of animate carbon glop we’re forced to exist in is our right and our solemn duty.

Combining exhaustion and pain is one of the worst experiences you can have, imho. Never let anyone tell you that you have to eat that experience with a smile.

I think we could salvage Valentine’s Day if we embraced just how freaking weird ol’ Valentinus was. I mean, there were at least three Valentines, maybe more (up to seven, I believe) and he’s the patron saint of beekeeping and epilepsy. There are eleven other Saints Valentine as well, that we know are different from the ones we usually think might be the one who was martyred on February 14.

No, no, he doesn’t go around like bestowing epilepsy on folks, he generally cures it. He’s also prayed to for help with plagues, and is seen as a patron for the mentally ill as well. In one famous story, a Judge brought Valentinus his blind daughter and promised to do anything he said if he could restore her sight, and after he did in fact do so, the Judge not only converted but released all of his slaves. However, this ended up drawing the attention of Rome, and in time Valentinus ended up in custody.

Things looked up for Valentinus when the Emperor Claudius II decided he was an alright bloke and cool to be friends with, but they looked down for him once Claudius decided his new friend Valentinus was a bit too preachy and decided to cut the friendship… and his new friend… short. So Valentinus was dragged out to the Via Flaminia, beaten with cudgels, and then had his head cut off.

I’m not saying we should include over references to beheadings in our Valentine’s Day celebrations. Well, I wasn’t saying that, now I am. We should do that. Like, a Valentine’s Day card could be a severed head surrounded by epileptic bees.

If that fails, we could always start celebrating Saint Sebastian the Twice Martyred, who just refused to die. I think a holiday about surviving being completely pincushioned with arrows by a jerk, getting up, and going to where you know he’s gonna be to tell him off to his face even though he’s gonna have you beaten to death for it really symbolized modern existence.

Okay, that’s the Queue for today. Take care, everyone.