The QueueNov 3, 2025 1:00 pm CT

The Queue: 362 days until Halloween

By Cory Taylor

Halloween may be over for the year, but next year’s is just a few hundred days away; that’s practically nothing! Before we know it, we’ll be getting our fill of fun-sized candy and pumpkin-flavored things. It’s almost not worth mentioning any other holidays between now and then.

Plus, you can always honor Halloween in your heart and try to keep it all the year. I read something similar to that sentiment in a book once… and I’ve seen it in a surprising number of movies.

Like too many movies, and somehow there are going to be two more versions soon?! Forget the war on Christmas, I wanna join up on the war on The Christmas Carol.

While I go and look for more discount Halloween candy, it’s time for — The Queue!

RUKA SHOT A MOVIE ONCE IN MY HOMETOWN EVERYBODY WAS IN IT FROM MILES AROUND

Okay, if they aren’t going to let mounts like the Turkey fly, then it should get a glide function.

The Demon Hunter, Mage, Priest, Moonkin, and Engineering unions would be very upset if mounts started moving in on their nest eggs. They’d cry fowl. They have strong pinions about this matter. They’d all flock together to put a stop to it. You’d be walking on eggshells. I could go on, but I think I’ve gotten my point across and I know when to stop beaking.

Adding extra flavor to mounts like that is a good idea, and there are so many other ways to get glide in-game now that it wouldn’t be the worst thing to make it more accessible for more people.

OUT AT THE SPEEDWAY, SOME KIND OF ARTHONOS THING WELL, I AIN’T NO MOVIE STAR BUT I CAN GET BEHIND ANYTHING

No matter how many times I’ve done simple electrical work on my house, like changing a switch to a dimmer or installing a new light fixture, I still get the urge to shout “not today Satan!” when I’m finished and avoided electrocuting myself.

You should always treat electricity with the care and attention it deserves. I’ve been around enough big power setups in the day job to know not to touch things if you’re not 100% confident in how they work. As cool as some Lichtenberg scars would be, I think it’s better to be safer. Have you considered asking Thor for additional protection before you start working? It couldn’t hurt!

WELL, THE RETPALLYJIL LIKED HER RHYTHM, NEVER LIKED THE STOPS

Q4tQ:

If I learn a profession on a remix alt, does it carry over?

There are no professions allowed in the Remix events — so no.

They’d just get in the way of the speedy time everyone is supposed to be having. So the developers turned the whole system off. I get it, you’re supposed to be focused on fixing the timeways, not picking flowers. I mean, you should be focused on fixing whatever problem is currently at the fore in regular Azeroth, too, but I guess that cat is already out of the bag. I get that we can make powerful armor and weapons and such, but surely the hero’s time would be better spent fighting the evil, and they could just give all of the fancy materials to the master smith back in town between dungeons. Assuming the materials weren’t soulbound, that is, which is really more of a gameplay mechanic than a story one.

BUT YOU GOT TO REMEMBER THE SMARTER KALCHEUS GETS THE FURTHER IT’S GOING TO GO

Q4tQ Isn’t it weird that druids have an ability called Remove Corruption that we can’t use on anyone in Val’sharah/Emerald Dream to free them from the nightmare’s corruption?

Any time we try and help someone remove their corruption, it feels like we need to do a four-to-seven-step quest chain to gather the right materials and make entreaties to the right big powers — only for it to all go awry at the last second. So I can see why we’re not all just running around cleansing people all willy-nilly. What if we make the situation worse?

It could just be a big difference between removing a freshly instilled corruption in combat and corruption that has had some time to dig in.

WHOO,RETPALLYJIL, I FEEL FINE, I’M PRETTY SURE IT’S GENUINE IT MAKES NO SENSE, NO, IT MAKES NO SENSE, BUT I’LL TAKE IT FREE ANY TIME

Q4tQ:

What’s gonna finish first: A Song of Ice and Fire or Order of the Stick?

I’d take out a ridiculous prop bet that we’re never going to see a completed Song of Ice and Fire. The incentive just isn’t there for him to finish any more. Martin has proven really talented at writing large and expanding worlds with lots of characters, but maybe less talented at taking all of those threads and bringing them into a satisfying ending.

WHOEVER FITS HER USUALLY GETS HER, IT WAS THE STRANGEST RED

Q4TQ: are you faster than a skateboarding turtle?

Yeah, as long as it’s not a Teenaged Mutant turtle, I’m betting I can go faster than any wheeled turtle. Turtles are small, and I am tall! This isn’t a tortoise and hare situation either; I’d be smart enough not to get distracted in the middle of my big race.

HOW’D SHE MOVE SO FAST, MOVE SO FAST, INTO THAT LEFTY RING?

QftQ: Why is the Trading Post hot garbage this month?

Yeah? Well, you know, that’s just like uh, your opinion, man.

It may not be to your taste, but I’ve seen a lot of people eager to become food fighters. I do know that Halloween is a tough act to follow, too, so you could be getting a bit of whiplash from that.

Today’s Bacardi is getting his own Halloween treat! It’s a freeze-dried chicken lollipop, and he does really like chomping on them, which is great news for your video game loot!