The Queue: Collector’s Edition

Check out my new, slightly used copy of Warcraft 3’s collector’s edition! It’s so shiny and full of great art and fun little side bits.

I got it for a song and a half, too, so I’m pretty happy to have it up on my shelf. It’s even got the original CD key, so I wonder if I could install it on a computer without the internet and play the very base version of the game before all of the patches and such tweaked things. It’d be interesting to find out!

While I see if I still have a computer with a cd tray, it’s time for — The Queue!

Thanks to Xbox Game Pass, it can be lower than ever before! I don’t have hard numbers because usually when I hit uninstall, I tend to just leave things behind in the dust and start thinking about whatever game I’m going to be playing next.

Of course, nowadays, if a game features a strict dodge/parry mechanic, that number is almost guaranteed to be negative-three minutes — Doom: The Dark Ages aside. I fully ripped and tore my way through demons galore, and it was good. It was also a fairly forgiving shield parry with very obvious green indicators.

That’s also why demos should exist for all games! Let us try things out and see if the game “has the juice” as the kids say these days. Don’t try to lock us into something that we feel obligated to finish because it costs a bunch of money.

It’s YouTube, man.

Most skip ad buttons used to show up five seconds in, so if you can cram a whole exciting trailer into those five seconds, you might tempt people into actually watching your real trailer.

I’m sure it’s not limited to YouTube anymore, but that’s the reason why you’re seeing short micro trailers before the real trailers, as far as I can tell. We’re all just barreling full speed towards the no-attention-span apocalypse with all of the short-form content people consume now, so it’s also possible that these micro trailers are doing more to get people to movies than any other kind of marketing.

I mean, I don’t know what people who can’t pay attention to something without a second video playing beside it would do at the movies now, but I imagine that’s why theater attendance is down, too.

There’s never not a good time for Sandstorm!

It would make more sense tied to opening the gates of Ahn’Qiraj or with the announcement of a new desert zone, but I won’t be mad at it!

Well, I’ll never get a better moment to link it — so here’s one of my Videography class projects from my Television course. We had to film an instructional cooking video and keep it under two minutes — I asked nicely and my teacher let me run long, because I just couldn’t edit it down any shorter, I didn’t want to kill my darlings. I’m particularly proud of the overhead camera angle that I achieved with a GoPro clamped onto a ceiling fan.

Bon Appetite!

First of all, how dare you?

Bear should be the only Druid class! Just rename it to Bear and be done with it.

As for the rest, I’m sure there are some cuts to be made. Keep in mind, these are mostly said to bring the classes down to the purest essence of the class. Mostly.

• Mage – Frost can go, feels more Shaman-y anyways.
• Hunter – Survival is right out, stick to the ranged fantasy.
• Priest – Discipline is gone, fold all their spells into Holy, and rework Holy to be a mix of both healing specs.
• Warrior – Fury, just give arms a Titan Grip option and call it good.
• Rogue – Subtlety right out, Assassins and Outlaws fulfil the core fantasy.
• Monk – Mistweaver, stick to the martial arts.
• Warlock – Destruction can be dropped, Demons, and Affliction both destroy things.
• Shaman – Enhancement is out of there, Shamans as spellcasters who use elements to heal and hurt is all you need.
• Paladin – Protection, Paladins should be swinging giant two-handed weapons the whole time.
• Evoker – Augmentation, just make more of the other kits pick up the augmenting slack.
• Death Knight – Blood, just make Unholy have more Blood magic in it. Frost and Unholy are all over the aesthetic.
• Demon Hunter – Vengeance, Demon Hunters were always meant to be nimbly bimbly and not stand and fight-y.

This is my view most mornings of Bacardi coming and sitting on my chest until I get up to feed him. Although it usually has a bit less bright camera flash in it. You’ll all be happy to know that he was well fed and will likely be in a good loot granting mood for all of your various slaying needs.

Would you rather:

Live in a tiny apartment in the center of town.

Or

Live in a little cabin in a secluded forest.

Today’s Anna Earworm™: Dance, Dance

Have an excellent week, everybody! Always remember to leave lots of Queue questions for your upcoming writers!

Go Oilers go!!