The Queue: Time is weird, man

For some of you, time has changed. Clocks have fallen back, and somehow the powers that be have granted you another hour of life. Of course, they’ll take it back in a few months, but enjoy it until then!

For people in some Canadian provinces, we’re just not doing daylight saving any more. I had no time change at all, no extra hour, and you’d think no extra confusion! However, somehow that isn’t the case. My phone worked right and kept the time it was supposed to; my lady friend’s phone, not so much. My computer that I’m writing this on has fallen back, and my Xbox fell back and couldn’t be convinced to not fall back. All of these will get ironed out in the coming days, hopefully, but what’s really weird is that now I’m basically on Central Time, and that’s super odd.

It won’t be so bad; it’ll mainly confuse me when I jump on the BlizzardWatch podcast, as now I join that an hour later. At least until Spring, when I’ll go back to my old time. I’m so glad that we’re not doing anything confusing like Daylight Saving Time anymore.

While I go mess with other fundamental forces of nature, it’s time for our daily question-and-answer column — The Queue!

Embedding the scene was a pain, so to recap: Linda has the Christmas tree up the day after Halloween, and Bob doesn’t seem super thrilled about that.

I’m a Bob for sure. Christmas should give Halloween some space! It should certainly give Remembrance Day on the 11th some space. If you absolutely have to, after the 11th is fine. I still think it should hold to the end of November, though. I super don’t love seeing all of the stores putting out Christmas merch in August.

It’s like that meme about getting into a new hobby and how your $100 investment isn’t even that much, like you can spare $500, right? That $500 will be the best $2100 you ever spent. Except it’s the length of the Christmas season.

Bah, humbug.

All of the cool blood effects from around Revendreth! Also, all of the cool tentacle effects from Old God stuff. Basically, if it looks evil and menacing, lemme slap that up around my house. What else are houses for?

I just think the Void is neat, is all.

I mean, yeah, but that’s just like regular laws.

Unless you mean specifically in the case of a Florida Panther fan visiting Edmonton, in which case what happens is on their own head, and may god have mercy on their souls.

It’s not a huge deal. You’ve got the tenders you’ve got, and in theory, the things you’re going to spend them on are things you want to some degree. They’re not going to expire or fail to roll over, so the only pressure you’re feeling is your own. It shouldn’t matter if they give you advance notice or not. I don’t think it’s laziness or secretiveness, though; I think it’s just that they’re having a busy posting time with Forever on the horizon and saving all of their bandwidth for it. You don’t want to flood your channel and have things get missed.

I do get people wanting the heads-up on things, though. It’s nice to be able to make more informed spending decisions. There’s got to be a better way.

I’ve done it a couple of times, and it’s just kinda breaking a pattern. All of a sudden, I missed something that I couldn’t get again, and I thought that was a good spot to stop. It wasn’t a super conscious decision, just more things outside of the game taking my attention and fewer things keeping me playing all hours of the day/night. One day I just didn’t play, then another passed, and then a week, and so on. Maybe it was a lack of compelling content, maybe things were too samey after the last few expansions, maybe enough of my friends had also moved away and found other things to do.

Bacardi is recuperating after all the ghouls and goblins who visited the house last night. I heard it wasn’t our busiest year, but there were apparently a fair amount of kids who came by. And most of those kids left un-maimed! What a good kitty; he may even share his share of the candy spoils with y’all if you ask nicely.

Would you rather

Drive to trick or treat in the nice neighbourhood with the mansions

Or

Trick or treat around your neighbourhood

Today’s Anna Earworm™: Every Morning

Have a great non-spooky week, everybody! Help Anna keep the frights at bay by leaving her lots of questions for tomorrow.