The Queue: Today’s my day!

Friday is always a surprise, showing up without warning. But let’s put on our sunglasses and face the day. Let’s Queue.

I will be the devil on your shoulder and say buy it and make the time. It’s a great game.

But apparently Kalcheus in the comments is the angel on your other shoulder, reminding us both that there will be a Steam Winter Sale, also.

I suppose he’s right. There will be another sale eventually. Maybe even a better sale.

The highest level mount collection achievement is Thanks for the Carry! at 500 mounts, which is a lot of mounts, even considering the many new mounts we can collect in WoW Remix.

But it’s also a pretty recent achievement, added with Dragonflight. Before that most recent one, Blizzard added two mount collection achievements in BFA, two in Warlords, two in the original Mists of Pandaria, and the rest in Wrath when achievements were first rolled out.

Which is to say mount achievements have rolled out fairly regularly over a long period of time. I don’t think they’re done, I just think Blizzard hasn’t gotten around to doing another.

When I started playing Fallout New Vegas for the first time — I just jumped into it recently, this year, shortly after the TV show — I made a low strength character. I thought I’d play an agile character who didn’t need much strength, and mostly fought in VATS. I could just lean on my companions for carrying capacity.

But guns were seeming very ineffective. Did VATS just not work very well in New Vegas? I was missing all the time.

Well, it turns out different guns have strength requirements and I did not meet any of them, seriously handicapping me. It took me a very long time to realize this, at which point I started spending precious feats to give myself extra strength or reduce weapon strength requirements. Oops.

But surprisingly, combat started going much better at that point.

… I still haven’t finished New Vegas. I put it aside to do something else and I didn’t get back to it. It’s on the list!

Shout out to the humble firefly, which lights up summer nights like this with a brief, ephemeral glow. There’s a magic to them… but a lot of pesticides kill them off, so it’s not common to see clouds of them, which is where it starts to get magical.

I’m failing to see the problem here.

Well, that’s all for today because I have to go get some ice cream. Take care everyone! Have a good afternoon (I recommend ice cream) and a good weekend to come (I still recommend ice cream). I’ll see you again next week!