Cory Taylor

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!

The new Hearthstone set has our favorite Infinite Pirate Dragon, and now they’ve gotten a promotion! No longer a mere Time Captain, now they’re an Admiral. Does that mean that there are whole fleets of pirate ships out there under the command of a Dragon? Does that feel more or less dangerous than a regular old dragon?

Surely it can’t be that hard to convince a bunch of pirates to follow you if you are a dragon, y’know, you’ve got all those claws and teeth and such. I just feel like it’s more impressive if they’re achieving their goals through straight-up Dragon stuff, rather than convincing a bunch of weak-willed pirates to do pirate stuff.

Yes, all of this was an excuse to use this card art as my header. Why do you ask?

While I go find more awesome card art in the new Hearthstone expansion, it’s time for — The Queue!

Halloween may be over for the year, but next year’s is just a few hundred days away; that’s practically nothing! Before we know it, we’ll be getting our fill of fun-sized candy and pumpkin-flavored things. It’s almost not worth mentioning any other holidays between now and then.

Plus, you can always honor Halloween in your heart and try to keep it all the year. I read something similar to that sentiment in a book once… and I’ve seen it in a surprising number of movies.

Like too many movies, and somehow there are going to be two more versions soon?! Forget the war on Christmas, I wanna join up on the war on The Christmas Carol. 

While I go and look for more discount Halloween candy, it’s time for — The Queue!

It’s only a few sleeps until Halloween!

It should always be on a Friday, it seems more fun that way. At the very least, it should always have a day off after it. Give everyone the chance to recover from the sugar crash. Who do I have to bribe to make that happen? I’ll do it, I’ll sacrifice some of my candy if that’s what it takes.

While I figure out the best mini chocolate bar to bribe someone with, it’s time for — The Queue!

It was my birthday! I’m another year older and maybe wiser… maybe. Let’s not be hasty.

It was a great weekend of fun times with my favoritest person ever. I still have another day off, and I’m going to enjoy it by *checks notes* voting in my city election and running a car-related errand? Is that right? Dang, being older is lame. At least I have cake!

While I eat another piece of my delcious peanut butter cake, it’s time for — The Queue!

We’ve done it, we’ve reached the end of the week, and can celebrate! Especially since the next time I see you all, I’ll be another year older! My birthday is this weekend, and my favoritest person in the world has some secret plans for me to celebrate it. I’ve also done the positively luxurious thing and taken a four-day weekend — I know, you can be jealous right now.

So, I’m all set for a great weekend, and I hope that you’ll all have one just as good.

While I go relax, it’s time for — The Queue!

We have a fresh patch for Heroes of the Storm that have made some big changes to how easy it is to take buildings, but that's a small change compared to the brand-new mount that was just added to the game.