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Cory Taylor

Cory Taylor @CoryjTaylor — Cory comes from the Land of Ice and Snow, an avid Blizzard fan he's been hooked since Warcraft 2. He spends his time in Warcraft as a Guardian Druid, and out of Warcraft wishing he could spend 6 months out of the year hibernating.


The Queue: Fine Art

My favorite person and I wandered around a pop art gallery today. It was full of some great pieces involving interesting perspectives, drunken olives who were also pirates, cowboys painted from interesting angles, and more lovely portraits of celebrities and public figures than you can count. It reinforced two things: one, neither of us makes enough money to buy large original art despite how cool it would look on our walls, and two, who knew the world needed so many olive people paintings.

The standouts that we saw, and lamented not being able to buy the most, were a series from a local artist of astronauts and hot dogs in space. There was a fantastic piece that was extra wide and skinny, which was just an astronaut on the moon, with a hot dog cart, and nothing else. For some reason, it spoke to us. Maybe it was the absurdity, maybe it was our love of hot dogs — all I know is that it would be fantastic hanging above my TV, but sadly, I don’t have the two weeks’ wages to spend on whimsical art.

While I look into a set of burglars tools, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!


The Queue: For the Queen!

Happy Victoria Day to my fellow Canucks, and only my fellow Canucks. Apparently, we’re the only ones who specifically celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday. It doesn’t hurt that it lands on a good point to make the unofficial start of Summer, that’s totally just a coincidence. If you don’t have a queen to celebrate today, maybe you could celebrate Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades. She’s pretty cool and pointy!

Other good options are the Junker Queen, Queen Talanji, Queen Aszhara, Zagara the Zerg Queen, and the Amazon Queen from Skovos.

While I try to think of more Queens to celebrate in Blizzard games, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!


The Queue: Mother’s Day!

There are so many great mothers in Blizzard’s games. A lot more than in Disney movies for some reason…

I still think that the best Warcraft one is Alexstraza. It’s not easy being a mother to so many fire-breathing children. That she can still treat us, the players (other than Death Knights), as nicely as she does is impressive. She’d be well within her rights to ignore the world and go spend all of her time at a spa, relaxing.

While I go find some Pandaren extra giant cucumber slices for her to put over her eyes, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!


The Queue: Wanna go sledding?

The snow just disappeared here. It wasn’t a particularly rough winter, but it was long, and the snow kept coming back, so now that it’s properly gone, wanna go sledding?

We saw Sledding Game randomly scrolling in the Xbox app, and it’s a cute little friend game with terrible physics and minigames. It’s not deeper than watching a pudgy little frog with a funny hat drink hot chocolate on a ski lift, but that’s the charm.

So while I go down the mountain again, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!


The Queue: Olympus, I accept this message

I’ve been playing a bunch of HADES 2 this week, and it more than lives up to the hype. I knew it would, the first one was excellent, and I’ve loved everything else that Supergiant has put out. I even have the Bastion soundtrack on a CD around here somewhere!

I don’t know what it is about sending a godling to escape the underworld that is so compelling, but the “one more run, then I’ll go be productive” is super strong in this game. Maybe it’s the music, maybe it’s the art, maybe it’s the snappy combat. Whatever it is, I know that I can’t get enough of it. Seriously, they gave me a weapon that’s some big metal claws with wings, and the wings launch rockets at my enemies — sometimes, while I’m punching those very same enemies! Is it very accurate in history? Not particularly. Is it rad as heck? Definitely. Plus how do we know for sure that there wasn’t a god roaming around ancient Greece with some badass rocket launcher wings? Maybe all of their statues were blown up… y’know, in the incident.

While I go and try out the new version of those wings that come equipped with a frickin moon “laser”, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!


The Queue: It’s been a weekend

I had a nice, relaxing weekend out and about (or oot and aboot if you’re Canadian), and I’m already missing it.

It’s very rude that weekends are only two days long; we should all get together and petition someone to make them longer. Maybe three or four days! That’d be nice and civilized, I think.

While I go back to work and grumble about not being able to sleep more, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!


The Queue: Sunny days

The days out there are getting sunnier. Unfortunately, I don’t have a good set of prescription sunglasses, so I’m left squinting at things a lot of the time. It’s going to be a long summer. Maybe this will be the year that I finally get a pair. They’ve always seemed like a huge luxury, which I why I don’t have a pair already. Also, what if I’m bad at hanging onto sunglasses? I’ve heard lots of stories of people losing every pair of sunglasses they own.

While I try to find a new hat to wear all the time, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!


The Queue: Doom!

DOOM and Diablo are a match made in… well, not heaven, somewhere hotter.

This makes the most sense for a Diablo crossover ever and I love seeing my Barbarian spinning around with the cool DOOM weapons. I’d love it even more if the armor and Cacodemon pet weren’t as expensive as they were, but at least I got the cool DOOM shield for when I make my Paladin in Lord of Hatred.

I’m not the biggest fan of crossing IP over in games like Diablo and Destiny. Games with an actual story shouldn’t randomly have other universes dropped into them. Although the DOOM gear fits extremely well into the aesthetic that Diablo 4 has got going on, so I’d likely not even notice if I showed up a year from now and saw a player in the gear. It makes more sense than StarCraft crossovers do!

While I go and collect more DOOM: The Dark Ages Currency to be able to afford the cool town portal, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!


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