The Queue: The Impossible Run of Liam Cricket

Cricket is a sport I know nothing about. I assume it features a ball, and some sort of bat (the wooden stick kind, not the animal, although the latter would surely make for an even more interesting game). I can only imagine it has mind-warping rules, space-bending plays, and the audience watches it with the same vim they would watch fields of wheat that somehow turn into black-and-white birds and fly away.

This is The Queue, where we sometimes provide answers to things we know, and other times to things we’re clueless about (such as cricket). Read on, and don’t stop believing.

1) A rogue skill called Masquerade. An execute skill dealing high damage to targets on low health. But if it actually killed them, your character and their target would immediately swap appearances. It would look like “your character” just dropped dead on the ground, while “the enemy” walks away — you’d take on their appearance for 30 seconds. While you had their appearance, all nearby enemies would become “neutral” to you, not attacking you (unless you were already engaged in combat with them). Regardless of fooling your enemies or not, your first attack to any of them would drop your disguise, but deal greatly increased damage and stun them for a few seconds.

2) Hades 2, because it’s full of literal Greek gods and titans. I don’t care if you’ve got a baby delivery service or huge bananas or reality-bending paintings, you’re not beating that.

I wholeheartedly agree. WoW has insisted on that same story beat so many times. It’s beyond tired at this point.

#SaveYrel

Another statement I just agree with. Garrosh had a complete arc, in my opinion, from reluctant leader to someone who actually wants to lead extremely bad (always an undesirable trait for a leader to have, ironically) to a one-track mind supremacist well past the point of no return. His story was done, and based on his actions, his fate is warranted and fair. We don’t need a redemption arc for every villain, and sure as heck not from one who did the things Garrosh did.

If we’re going to talk about characters who might have died before they actually accomplished all that they could and still had enormous potential, that’s Varian Wrynn for me. But I’m not super upset about his demise because, dang, it was epic. I think there was more to be explored with him in the story, especially as a “foil” of sorts to Anduin, both encouraging and challenging him, molding him into a leader (and, frankly, into a less boring character). Through Varian, Anduin could potentially become the anti-Garrosh.

I can’t speak for everyone, but personally, I divide my time. Small chunks for each game.

With single-player games I’m playing on the Steam Deck or PS5 or Switch, it’s easy. I can just play them at my own pace, and I don’t care about taking ages to finish them.

With Hearthstone, it’s a friendly-enough game with my time; I can play about 3-4 games a day, complete all my dailies and weeklies, climb as much as I wanna climb on the ladder (which isn’t that much these days, but I’ve already done the grind in the past, I don’t need to keep doing it over and over).

And then you have WoW. That’s the one that’s truly challenging. I’m able to play it in a limited fashion because I don’t really engage in content like organized raids or pushing Mythic+. I do my own thing, push my delves, do my world quests to get gold, kill world bosses, farm stuff I wanna farm, level alts and gear them up. And in that manner I’m also able to play it in small chunks. But it probably wouldn’t work out for other players who are more dedicated to organized content and the like.

Still, that’s my answer — and that’s not just for videogames. My leisure time is pretty fragmented, with small chunks for each different thing, and that’s a method that works for me.

Australia, because it’s the Ashes Test Series, which starts with an A.

Quite unlike the Escher Test Series, played only once, in 1956, also by Australia and England, but won by England (which starts with an E) on that occasion. The winning score was four paradoxes (under SDS — that’s Standard Dimensional Shift rules for you non-paradox cricket aficionados), which they obtained with a killer Reverse Tessellation Drive followed by a decisive Möbius Swing from England’s star player, Liam Cricket.

Australia put up a good fight, even employing their trademark Infinite Corridor Upside-Down Run, but alas, it wasn’t space-bending enough that time, and 1956 went to the Brits. Sorry, mate.

I’m still caught up in Hades 2 and I’ve interrupted FF Tactics, but I’m in no rush with the latter since it’s a game I’ve already beaten (at least three times over the past couple of decades, maybe more). I might just return to Persona 3 Reload: Aigis Edition, to be honest, and finally make an effort to finish it. Or I might wait until early December and go with Octopath Traveler 0.

No, but his sister Ripley will!

My dignity =(

This has been The Queue. Take care, friends, and have a good and tessellated weekend!