The Queue: Mana potion

My health is a loss: I’m just trying to hang on to my sanity, so it’s all mana potions for mental energy over here. It’s a survival strategy (and it’s usually a Red Bull). Mm, delicious, refreshing energy.

But now that we are all energized, let’s Queue.

I enjoy how deeply weird this event is. You’re going into an arena to brawl robotic versions of past bosses, in exchange for a few toys, a pet, a mount, a few transmogs, and a selection of random gear. You get high scores by destroying scenery, eating bad food, and standing in spotlights while you fight. It’s just so deeply strange.

Also if you’re trying to gear up any alts, it’s incredibly efficient. Runs don’t take much longer than five minutes, you can do the event with NPCs, you can complete it without worrying about getting a high score, you can run it as much as you want, and you get a piece of veteran gear every time. (And a piece of champion gear once a week.) Sure, the current event in Hallowfall is the same: you get a piece of veteran gear every time you do it, even after the first. But it also takes ten to fifteen minutes and only happens once an hour. Dastardly Duos blows that out of the water.

Also it’s fun. More fun than running around to do random objectives that other players snipe out from under you while a buggy event makes those objectives appear and disappear at random.

So let’s get brawling. Hey, Vinnie, sign me up!

It’s launching on June 17 with WoW patch 11.1.7, so there’s a couple of weeks before it starts (and then you need to fit in five weeks of Timewalking after that). So you have time!

Lefty mentioned Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and so I’m going to mention LOOM, a contemporaneous point-and-click adventure (with certainly some puzzle elements) from LucasArts.

Freeing yourself from the tyranny of wires is key to freeing your mind. These days I use relatively inexpensive (ish) earbuds (Anker Soundcore) for listening, but then I have a fairly good stand-alone microphone rather than relying on tiny earbuds to pick up tinny audio. (Joe would probably be unhappy with me if I did.) This lets me move around or even get up while still listening, without getting tangled, and it’s kind of a game changer. When they die it’s inevitably because I’ve sat them in their charger wrong so they don’t connect. (Or, when I was recording last week and nearly lost power, because I hadn’t had them charging and I had them in battery-consuming noise cancelation mode.) As long as I remember to charge them between podcasts and raids they have more than enough juice…. but it probably wouldn’t  be enough if I were stuck in meetings all day.

This neither answers a question nor helps, and I’m sorry. Don’t be me and remember to charge your electronics between uses so that you can be free from the tyranny of wires when it matters.

And that’s all, my friends! Take care of yourself, remember to stay hydrated and drink plenty of water (not just Red Bull), and I’ll catch you right back here next week.