Michael "Mitch" Mitchell

How’s everyone hanging in there? Hopefully okay. Me? Quarantine life is starting to get to me. It’s not the day-to-day so much (since mine has hardly changed) but more so the other, incidental things that are creeping up on me. Not visiting family for a weekend, not working from a coffee shop for even a few hours, and especially not knowing when any of that’s going to change. It’s exhausting.

Anyhow, in case quarantine life is getting to anyone, I want y’all to say something nice about another Queueman today. Go out of your way to make everyone here feel welcome and appreciated. Even that one guy. You know who I mean.

Now, let’s Queue.

Every year, Blizzard treats us with a host of April Fools jokes from across all of its IPs.

You may recall me being pretty excited about Animal Crossing: New Horizons last week. That hasn’t changed. I love the game. I want to spend every second playing it. I can’t believe I’m even here writing this right now when I could be in my town, saying hi to Isabelle or organizing my fruit orchard.

But instead of Queue and A(nimal Crossing), let’s have some Q&A, shall we?

If you somehow hadn't heard, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is upon us, and there's a solid chance it will make the world as wholesome as it was during the week or so right after Pokémon GO first came out.

If I haven’t made it clear over the last forever, I’m excited that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is finally here. Or, it will be tonight. Same thing. We’re in the final few hours and my excitement could probably power an entire continent. If you don’t hear from me for a while, it has nothing to do with *general hand gestures at world* and entirely everything to do with Animal Crossing. I AM SO EXCITED, YOU GUYS!

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Anyhow. Let’s Queue.

Yesterday, it finally happened.

Man, this has been A Week™, huh? Not gonna lie, it’s surreal feeling like I’m living in Contagion or something. I feel like we’re one “mutated strain created in a lab” away from real life turning into a zombie flick. Like I said, it’s surreal.

Enough of that, though. This is The Queue and we’re about to Queue it.

World of Warcraft, if nothing else, really knows how to deliver raid content.

Today is my (step) dad’s birthday, and next Tuesday is my youngest brother’s birthday. In between those, we’ll be be having a family get-together to celebrate. I won’t lie, I’m looking forward to it. I have nice gifts for both of them, and I’m especially excited to see my brother’s reaction to his. I realize they’re not technically in the same calendar week, but they’re within seven days of each other, so I’m counting it as a birthday week.

But enough about that. It’s Queue time.

One of the hidden-but-not-super-hidden aspects of patch 8.3 was the quest line that ultimately rewards player with a really cool Aqir mount.