The Queue: The RNG will continue until morale improves

Diablo 4 went hard on RNG in the expansion, and it isn’t backing down. But it’s long since hit the point where I’m exhausted of fighting it and getting the “right” piece of gear for my build. And yet the RNG perseveres, when I do not. There is no defeating it; it will always loom over us, in every hour of every day of every game. We are slaves to this torment.

But while I continue to mourn my loot chances, let’s answer some questions. This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I make an attempt to answer your questions.

I agree that capybara is the obvious answer, though at the same time a capybara doesn’t make sense as a fast or flying mount. They’re so laid back it’s hard to imagine them in a rush to get anywhere, so it would make more sense to have them be a snail-speed ground mount. Not going anywhere fast, but enjoying the journey.

Which is usually not what we want mounts for. We’ve got places to go and things to kill, after all.

But, at the same time, maybe that’s just what we need, to have a chill stroll around Azeroth with nothing to worry about.

You could use Edit Mode to move it or make it smaller, though it doesn’t let you make it very small or move it to where it’s off or even partially off your screen. It’s one of those things that Blizzard considers essential and doesn’t let you hide completely in the default UI.

If you untrack every quest, it will vanish entirely, but I don’t know if that will help with the problem of it popping back up, which it can when quest statuses change, like getting a new quest or an update to an existing quest.

There are plenty of games, books, movies, and TV shows that I haven’t engaged with because they seem like they would have a deleterious effect on my mental health. You don’t always know in advance that something will be like that, but you can usually judge the tone from trailers and descriptions. I tend to shy away from things that are too real or too sad or too dark; there’s enough reality in reality, and usually I want to escape it. But what feels “too much” for me in any of those categories varies day to day and topic to topic. (Though harm to pets is a very consistent no from me.)

So yeah, I get it. Deer and Boy definitely seems like a mood, and that mood may not be for you. Or it may not be for you right now, but may have seemed appealing when you wishlisted it. Nothing wrong or unusual with skipping it if it doesn’t feel like something you want to do right now.

There’s nothing wrong with suggesting a game to someone, but overly pressing the matter can get tiresome very quickly. Not every game is for everybody, and even if you’re sure someone will like something, there may be reasons they don’t want to play it — or may just not have time or energy to engage with something new. Peer pressure won’t help, but saying “I liked this and I really think you would too” can be a pretty convincing sell.

Also if you go the peer pressure route, you might just wind up with somebody like me who will then refuse to play it out of stubbornness and/or spite.

Befriending a crow pays a lifetime of dividends.

I have a collection of backyard birds, and a titmouse was staring at me while I refilled the feeder earlier after the squirrels knocked it down. Cardinals, sparrows, titmice, doves, hummingbirds, cowbirds, woodpeckers, purple finches (which are actually red), goldfinches, nuthatches, chickadees. Sometimes hawks, though they make the rest of the yard empty of birds pretty fast. There’s a grosbeak at the feeder right now.

But I don’t think any of them have the same loyalty as a crow. If you see a crow, befriend it!

That’s all for today folks. Take care of yourselves and I’ll see you in the comments section.