Elizabeth Harper

Earnings calls are by definition very corporate affairs, where senior corporate staff try to make their companies sound particularly appealing to investors.

Activision Blizzard employees are taking more action after yesterday's open letter protesting the company's history of sexual harassment, and its poor handling of the situation.

I suspect we're all struggling with the facts that have been brought to life with the lawsuit against Activision Blizzard that accuses the company of badly mistreating its female employees.

It's 2021 and this kind of behavior shouldn't be acceptable to anyone, anywhere. But here I am, writing another story about a game company accused of mistreating its female employees, creating a work environment where taking sexist harassment and abuse were reportedly just another job requirement.

Okay. The Queue isn’t late or early, but I’m writing it at a time that could be considered both late and early. So I’m just going to say the metaphor suits.

So let’s get to answering some questions and talking about video games.

I hope you like RNG, because this week's Hearthstone Tavern Brawl is as random as it gets.

Yep, I’m still wearing my sunglasses, even in the darkest corridors of Torghast. I’d say it was a summer thing, but who am I kidding? Why would I ever take these off when I could be looking this stylish? I might be convinced to swap them for the bronze sunglasses if they became transmoggable, but I’m still living that sunglasses life.

…and still debating the best matching transmog. Neither the bronze color of the frames nor the pink-red tint of the lenses are easy to match, and as the screenshot shows, I’m not trying hard for a perfect match. But something must be the perfect compliment to this lovely shade, and one day I will find it.

Happy Friday, Queue! I hope you’re enjoying patch 9.1 in WoW or patch 20.8 in Hearthstone or the latest and greatest iteration of whatever your favorite game of the moment is. For my part, I’m back in on WoW to get through the latest content (and prep for raid day next week).

So, let’s talk about WoW!

“Swole” may mean different things to different Stewards. I think I could maintain a Chaddius level of swole, though.

It’s the end of the week… again. And it’s the Friday Queue… again. So let’s get to it.