The Queue: Staying cool

Sometimes to stay cool, you just gotta get in a big pool. Whether or not that pool is filled with healing mud, that’s really a personal preference.

I went to an outdoor pool with my favoritest person over the weekend, and it was a lovely way to beat the heat. Followed closely by some tropical beverages at a Tiki Bar. Which is a pretty great one-two punch of staying cool.

While I think about buying another tropical shirt, it’s time for — The Queue!

I’m honestly surprised that we haven’t seen a low-budget attempt at filming this yet. It’s got everything that would drive the internet wild — dogs, aliens, dog assassins, long cabinet meetings, messages about dogs being loyal and true to their masters, flying dogs. The list goes on! Surely all you’d need are a few dogs that can sit in chairs and a camera. We’ve seen the rise of the Instagram comedy skit; this is just that, but a little longer!

This book is a good example of what AI could never hope to pitch. It’s too weird and out there, and strangely charming for its weirdness. Computers would never in a million years come up with the idea of dog assassins sent to kill a frozen Cruella De Ville. Honestly, I’m surprised a human came up with it.

Hey, those herbs from that treasure goblin are marginally more useful than a legendary that will be broken down into what will be one of 8432 orange shards by the end of the season!

Sticking in the realm of Diablo, I’m going to say the Diablo 4 take on the Butcher. I don’t hate the idea of him popping out randomly as you’re doing stuff, but he’s too restricted to just Dungeons and Cellars. This meant that in past seasons, I barely had a chance to run into him. I wanna see him everywhere! Out in the world and everything.

I also want his loot and power to scale up better as you level. He was scary in the first playthrough when you were barely 20 and had maybe a single yellow item to your name, but by the end, he mostly just explodes. Not even worth being called a speed bump! Make him a force to be reckoned with at every step of the way, and give him a better chance to drop shiny stuff.

Yeah, definitely. If not that, they should get rid of weekly lockouts on content more than two expansions old. Change that all to daily, so even if you do mess up, you can come back the next day and have the right setting chosen.

With this extra luck event going on, there’s no reason they couldn’t make it easier to farm these mounts and transmogs for the rest of Warcraft’s existence. Honestly, they could just leave the new drop rates in place and let more people get the shiny fun stuff. Keep the drop chances low for two expansions, but if you can one-shot bosses and skip mythic phases, all of the people who want to feel prestigious for having a rare mount will have so many newer rarer mounts to feel superior over.

It sounds from the preview that it’s going to be more like suburban living. Blizzard made it seem like the neighbourhood would have a variety of densities to choose from for players who want to feel like they’re alone, to people who want to live in cul-de-sacs or a town square kind of feel. Which is a pretty good way to let players have their cake and eat it too of doing their own thing, but together.

Today’s Bacardi is just feeling extra handsome and satisfied in all of the extra luck going around with mounts in Warcraft. It was all his idea, he’s pretty sure.

Would you rather?

Your best friend turns out to be a spy for a hostile foreign power

Or

Your best friend is a bankrobber in hiding.

Today’s Anna Earworm: Moves Like Jagger

Have yourselves an excellent day, everybody! Remember that lots of questions for the Queue help other writers also have excellent days!