Cory Taylor

I’ve just come from a big tour of the local craft brewery scene, and boy, are my arms tired! For my second year in a row, and fourth overall, the local brewers have put on a celebration of the weirdest beers that they can make. I’ve drank cricket beer, ice cream beer, and ice cream float beer, donut beer, chicken wing beer, and even an absinthe barleywine! One of them was garnished with a scorpion! Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the first 100 people to show up for prizes, so I didn’t get a cool medal — but I think I made the right choice to not stand outside longer in -20 °C weather for that. It was a long, strange, and strangely delicious trip. Nothing was truly awful, and the ice cream beers were really good, although I could do without crickets floating in my drink. I can’t wait to see what they get up to next year!

While I take a much-needed drink of water, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

I have the sneaking suspicion that something important is happening this week. I can’t quite put my finger on it, though. I’m pretty sure that we’ve hit the major holidays already, and I’m not forgetting Christmas 2: And This Time it’s Personal. I’m also pretty sure I remembered to feed the cat and take the garbage out.

Whatever it is, I’m sure that it can’t be that important, or I’d remember it. Guess it’s just a regular week.

While I go about my business as usual, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

It took me three years, but I did it; I read every book and short story anthology in the Warhammer Horus Heresy and Siege of Terra series. All 67 of them, and boy, are my eyes tired.

First off, shout out to my local library and its ereader app for letting me read all of the books legally and for free. That really helped on the wallet front. Second, I’m going to miss the series. I’ve been reading it for so long that now it’s going to be weird reading anything else. Maybe I’ll ease myself back into non-Warhammer stuff by making a stopover in the Alien novels.

I’m glad I was able to stick with it and read all of them. I’d tried to get through the series as they were first coming out, but having to wait a long time between novels was tough. I love the big over-the-top shooty sci-fi of it all, and getting so many books to watch characters grow and evolve was a fun time. I liked knowing the gist of the ending and seeing how everything lined up to get there, especially at the end, as so many narrative throughlines started getting their payoffs, or their set-ups for Warhammer 40,000 stuff.

While I go sit on a golden throne couch and think about everything that brought me to this point, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

I haven’t seen y’all since last year! It’s been so long, I hope everybody has had a safe and happy time of it.

We’re just getting started on 2026, and this could be a good one! We’re gonna get Midnight, a new Diablo expansion, and they’ll for sure definitely 100% announce a return to full-time development for Heroes of the Storm — I just know it!

While I go and practice my Junkrat skillshots in Heroes, it’s time for our daily question and answer column, the Queue!

The last week of the year is like the end of a lopsided sports match; nothing really matters, and it just feels like you’re running out the clock. Enough people take vacation time that no real work feels like it can be done, and even if you’re going to work, it is likely going to be slow. Unless you’re working at a mall, in which case, good luck.

This year it has a double meaning for me as I’ve spent the last few days being sick with a fever. I don’t recommend it. At least I seem to be through the worst of it in time for the new year.

While I rest up for a new year of Queues, our daily question and answer column, it’s time for — The Queue!

It’s almost Christmas, and unlike the last few years — it’s a cold one for me. I had people warning me that it was gonna be a rougher winter, and I foolishly didn’t believe them. I’m as shocked as you all are, I’m sure. Only my face doesn’t look like it because it’s frozen like Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining. 

While I try to warm up, it’s time for our daily reader question and answer column — The Queue!

After a couple of seasons off, I’m back in Diablo-land. There have been a couple of system changes since the last time I played. Things are mostly how I remember them, but also some things are different, and I’m not sure how I feel about the new defensive stat allocation. As always, defensive stats feel the least fun to actually chase after — I just wanna blow demons up faster, don’t make me protect myself at the same time!

I’m still not sure how I’m going to build my Spiritborn this time around; that’s a problem for later. I’ve never done the crazy always be evading build, but also I’m not playing with a mouse wheel, and I don’t want to do weird evade cooldown math. My other options seem to be big Gorilla fun times or lots of exploding lightning feathers.

While I try and choose between a giant eagle and a giant gorilla, it’s time for — The Queue!

In a big surprise, Blizzard sponsored the Saturday night Edmonton Oilers game. Even more surprising was that they invited me to attend as their guest! I got my first-ever taste of the luxury box lifestyle thanks to Midnight. I ate jumbo shrimp, drank delicious drinks, and got to watch a great game of hockey with my favorite person, and another local Warcraft content creator, Kesslive. There were even some Blood Elves in attendance! They were kept pretty busy filming some fun stuff around the arena and appearing on a celebrity lookalike segment, but I did manage to get a picture with them (forgive me for Instagram’s terrible cropping).

This was truly the weirdest thing I’ve ever gotten to do, thanks to World of Warcraft, and I’m very thankful to the team at Blizzard who made it happen. A little birdy has told me that there’ll be another sponsored Oilers game in March, and I’m crossing my fingers really hard that I get another invite for that one. Also, if anyone on the Warcraft team is reading this and wants to come up with something weirder for me to do as a promotion, I’m game.

While I savor the memory of the Oilers victory (and the jumbo shrimp), it’s time for — The Queue!

I swear, we were just doing Halloween, and now we’ve just crossed the threshold to December and the final winding down of the year. Where does the time go? I don’t even have the Thanksgiving holiday madness to blame anything on! At best, I can point to the last week at work and our final large conference to run A/V for. Which went well and the clients were happy — cue applause.

While I go and do all sorts of things to get ready for Christmas, it’s time for — The Queue!

It’s been a busy weekend, and now we’re here on Monday. I could go for another few hours of sleep, but alas, it’s not in the cards.

I’m sure I’ll perk up once I get a good helping of the free food at work today. Free food makes everything better.

While I go and pour myself another coffee, it’s time for — The Queue!