Change is scary!
Everything is different now, well, sort of. A little bit different for sure. Things look different, and there’s a whole bunch of new stuff behind the scenes that will make our lives better in the long run, even if this is all completely different than what I’ve been doing for the last eight years.
There were a couple of hiccups in the initial rollout — but Liz Patt worked long hours into the night tweaking and fiddling and adjusting things until we’ve gotten ourselves pretty close to normal operations. Everyone should say several nice things about her, and Liz Harper and Dan too, for helping to get things settled and ready. There were probably close to a thousand messages in channels I could see, and I wouldn’t be surprised to hear there were three times that in other places.
Sadly, what didn’t quite go so smoothly was our comment system migration. It should’ve all come online at the same time as everything else, but you know the internet! Maybe by the time you’re reading this, everything will have been fixed! However, that doesn’t really help when you have a column built off of the comments you leave. I’m sure I’ll figure something out.
While I cross my fingers really hard that everything works properly eventually, it’s time for our daily question-and-answer column where we hope we can actually leave questions again soon — The Queue!
Cory
Gee Cory, what are you going to do without any questions to build your Queue off of?
I don’t know, Other Cory, but I’m sure I’ll figure something out. Could you imagine if our first Queue on BlizzardWatch 2.0 just had me talking to myself in what is surely meant to be just a placeholder question to test how the new formatting works? That would be embarrassing!
Cory
Cory, I can’t help but notice that you’ve written another question to yourself from yourself.
Actually, it’s worse than that; it’s a statement to myself that doesn’t actually ask anything. As well, the response is just me pointing out that it’s not even a question. Surely, Liz will be getting her big red Fire Cory button all warmed up. Which is a bit presumptuous of me to believe that she has a button specifically for me, but I do like to be a mischievous scamp. Why wouldn’t such a button exist!
Cory
Get anything good in the mail recently?
You know I did! I was going to have a big thing about how cool it was and put some pictures up, but then I got busy and couldn’t get the quality of shots that I wanted. I’ll tell you all more about it next week; until then, you just have to live in the antici…
Cory
What do you think is going to happen with BioWare?
I want to be optimistic. I thrive on that! I just don’t see the Canadian government really able to do much to save it. The initial call for it to become a federally owned studio came from the New Democrat Party, which doesn’t have much power at the federal level anymore.
I know the concept could work, but a lot of moving pieces would have to be lined up just right. Especially since even if they could get the band back together, who knows what even would happen with Mass Effect. They could get everybody back into the office only to find out that EA wouldn’t sell the rights back to them, and have to start over fresh on a new property anyways. Which takes time and funding — all to build to something that might not even be well received. Which doesn’t usually secure a lot of government dollars.
So I think this is a situation where signing the petitions is good, and can help you feel better, but maybe this won’t be a story with a big phoenix-like happy ending.
Today’s Bacardi is trying to fit in with the new cats in the neighbourhood. If you look carefully, you can see the package in the background that I’m not telling you anything about yet. But look how big it is! Surely there’s some good loot in there for you! Bacardi does like boxes…
Would you rather
Have to walk a large lazy dog who likes to take frequent rests
Or
Move a small sleeping dog out of the middle of your bed
Today’s Anna Earworm™: Talking To Ourselves
That wasn’t so bad! I’m sure tomorrow will be better, so assuming you can, make sure to leave Anna lots of questions for her Queue!