The Queue: Genius!

I love detective and puzzle games. I am actually incredibly good at them, if you don’t mind me saying. But tell me why I can breeze my way through an intentional puzzle featuring rotational symmetry and puns in Italian and music composition and Greek philosophers and medallions featuring all six official Stooges only to discover, when I finally knuckle under and try to find a guide at the part where I’m stuck, the explanation offered is literally “go through the door, and.” What door? Where is it? Is the door in the room with us right now?

Anyway, I’m clearing out my Steam backlog, and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is a great time, as long as you know what a door is, apparently. Also there’s espresso. And a dog (and you can pet the dog).

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we hope you find the answer on this page we ripped out of a journal. Good luck.

I was going to point to the Christmas Duck in Gone Home, because not only is it kind of weird, you don’t really “get” most items in that game, but if you want you can drag physical items around with you like you do in Skyrim, by holding onto them with right click while you walk around with WASD. So it takes a lot of effort to tote that lil guy around (and I do).

However, I’ve realized that the far stranger scenario is actually, if you think about it, almost any game with a base decoration mechanic. Thank you for finding my lost sock adventurer, here’s an armoire for a reward, good luck dragging it around until you get home! I find it to be a huge pain just to carry things that are relatively portable like lamps IRL, let alone shoving a huge sideboard in my pack, or a potted plant with damp dirt, or a whole freakin 20 gallons worth of fish tank.

It’s fun, don’t get me wrong, but man is it weird.

Given the choices they’re showing, I’m not sure what I’m going to do, because I mostly play a Blood Elf but the vast majority of the Durotar/Barrens area, and especially the Horde spikes-n-skins aesthetic ain’t my (or my character’s) scene. Mm, dust. Great. Love that for me. They said they’ll make a part of it a kinda coastal area, but even then, big meh. Maybe there’ll be a little peek of a non-deforested Ashenvale? Just depressing all around.

Really, my answer is to put up with whatever they give us until they make the Grizzly Hills map, because you know they’re gonna.

No. <3

Mechanicals are my favorite, because they can be almost anything: weird little constructed dragons or rabbits or dudes are all fair game.

My favorite Hunter pet is bear.

In terms of physics, it’s an impossibility.

But we’re talking about World of Warcraft here, so physics be darned. I doubt we’ll see this simply because there isn’t much reason for it, from past lore or even in future events. I’d think that in terms of collisions or other events, I’d think that to have either moon disappear fully in lore (The Blue Child being characterized as “wandering” is, to my mind, pretty clearly influenced by “whoops, forgot to put that one in the skybox painting” style errors), it would have to be a universe-ending cataclysmic event, a la The Last Battle in the Chronicles of Narnia. Even then, I’d guess it would be more likely to involve The White Lady, just because we’ve seen her a lot more in myth and legend, and she’s associated so closely with Elune and the creation mythos.