Matthew Rossi

I gotta tell you, if you happen to have been born on the 30th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day? People will think it’s the height of hilarity to use that line from FDR’s speech to describe it. I heard that line so many times growing up it’s practically engraved on my brain.

Anyway, it’s my Birthday so expect a Queue where I go off in random directions. Yes, I know that’s pretty much every Queue I write.

That header was made by Rades, and I think about him frequently whenever I see it.

If for some reason I can't play any of my stable of current games — be it World of Warcraft or Diablo 4 or Starfield or Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty or Baldur's Gate 3 -- I always have something to fall back on.

You’ll see what I mean when you get there.

One of the things that's evolved over time in World of Warcraft, and is going to evolve more in The War Within, is that you can make choices about what you get up to in the game.

One of the strange things above moving to Canada and eventually becoming a Canadian citizen is that today, the last Thursday of November, is just a day.

In a way I’m glad — y’all know about the current unpleasantness — You have been great, but we still could use the help, if you are able to — and I’m glad I don’t have to go into a holiday with that on my mind, and I don’t have to go around coming up with things to be grateful for just now. But it still feels strange to go from Halloween to Christmas without a holiday to bracket them, I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to it.

But anyway, it is Thursday here, and that means I write the Queue.

Player housing is a popular topic — we can't go a week without someone bringing it up — and it's also one of the few remaining icons of the players want this checklist, alongside the Dance Studio and dual-wielding pistols for Hunters.

We're trucking along with patch 10.2 and the Defenders of the Dream storyline.

Look, I’m terrible at pretending things are good when they’re not.

Why do we still play games like World of Warcraft?

I still remember with fond nostalgia going wall walking with my wife back in original World of Warcraft, and all the strange places we found throughout Azeroth.