The Queue

Ok the title is a joke, because as expected Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 absolutely cleaned up at the Game Awards last night taking home Game of the Year and eight other trophies. The one trophy it didn’t take home though? Best Audio Design, which went to Battlefield 6. It’s kind of an odd exclusion because E33 won Best Score and Music, so I’m really curious what Battlefield 6 was able to do in their audio that earned them the reward. I mean not curious enough to actually play it, but still.

So while I mentally recover from all the times I saw “2027” in the show, let’s answer some questions starting with a couple about wood!

It likes when I give pets. Sure, it’s a robot that floats and can shoot people with the gun mounted to its tail, but it still likes a good skritch.

I promise you that this isn’t becoming a site that’s only about player housing. But that doesn’t mean that we aren’t super obsessed with player housing and writing about other things might just slip our minds.

…was I saying something?

…oh, right, the Queue. Let’s get to it.

Khadgar hates this euphemism. It’s a good thing I haven’t really built my bedroom yet, then we might really be in trouble.

This is The Queue, the daily column where you ask us questions, and we’re going to spend the next 15 minutes pretending we’re on MTV Cribs.

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!

Player Housing has only just begun (in fact, it hasn’t even officially started yet) and I already find myself thinking “I wanna play some WoW, but I don’t wanna do anything ‘serious’ right now… guess I’ll just mess with my house for a few minutes.”

This is great. I like this.

Welcome to The Queue, where we talk about an assortment of things, and also our very very very fine houses.

To be fair, nobody said there would be any, I was just being careful.

It’s the Queue. No werewolves yet. Fingers crossed.

No? Okay then. Let’s have a nice, calm Queue and answer your questions this nice, calm Wednesday.

The daily Q&A column on a day where we all know both the A and the Q, and we’re just waiting for it to happen, is the most liminal space on the internet. It’s just that day, and eventually we’ll get to do the thing. For now, we’re all here, transitory, waiting.

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!