The Queue

This year just kind of keeps dragging on, and most days feel like other days. To wit, this entire week has felt like it should be one day ahead. But it is not, in fact, Friday — it’s Thursday. And you know what that means.

We’re gonna have a Queue.

Still playing a lot of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Kind of digging the Crusade mode, which is very much a small tactical wargame inside my isometric RPG. I mean, it’s not Warcraft 3 or anything, but you can name the armies whatever you want within the character limit. Somehow I went from The Fighting Mongooses to Goosemon to Man-Goose-Bear-Pig to this, my ultimate creation.

I’d love to play Untitled Moose Maim. I imagine it as a game where a moose maims people.

What? It doesn’t have to be complicated. Sometimes you just want to play a moose on a rampage. Look I live in Canada, you’ll just have to accept this.

Sometimes, the only way you can express yourself is with a 20 year old meme.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we’ll answer just as soon as we finish burninating the countryside.

I love the fall season. The leaves are changing colors, the air is crisper so I can actually wear one of my several sweaters without overheating, and Halloween spooks are popping up all over the place. It’s my favorite holiday, and I love that it’s right around the corner. I also love that the Headless Horseman will be back soon. I’m a sucker for a fun rhyme, and he’s full of them!

While I try and figure out what I dress up as for Halloween, it’s time for — the Queue.

It’s time to play the music! It’s time to light the lights! It’s time to break out the skeletons, turn on our favorite creepy movies, and either eat too much candy corn or tell the world that candy corn is the worst.

It’s October 1st. It’s our time.

Well, here we are at the end of another month.

September has never been my favorite — and the 30th in particular marks the day I lost my sister, so it always has a melancholy vibe about it. After 11 years, it’s not so much a painful reminder as it is a solemn memory but still. The upside is that it also means I have October to look forward to in less than a day, and that’s great! Spooky season is decidedly “me,” after all.

You know what else there is to look forward to? A Queue! Starting riiiiiight….now!

This is the Queue.

I’ve been playing a lot of Wrath of the Righteous, it’s basically replaced Cyberpunk 2077 which was my previous non-stop play game of 2021. It’s not strictly speaking an open world game, but it is a really big game with a lot of storytelling in it, and that’s something I really enjoy. I think I enjoy all the companion characters except Nenio, who is a lot. She’s not bad, exactly, but I end up taking pretty much anyone besides her in my party because seriously, she’s just a lot.

Pictured above is me and my party about to go buck wild on a Demon after we either blow up or save a big magic rock.

…planets.

Surprising no one, I went back to No Man’s Sky for the Frontiers update. I like it in theory, especially the builds menus, but in practice I really wish I could become the Overseer for more than one Settlement at a time. I get that it’s probably a tech limitation more than a gameplay philosophy restriction, but I’d much rather have Preston Garvey constantly hassling me to go open new ones than have to resign my successful settlement on a garbage planet in order to manage a new one on a different garbage planet.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions, and we hopefully give the right answer, because if not the Sentinels will probably attack again.

Ahead of the Curve!

My guild finally got our first Sylvanas kill! If you’ve been keeping score at home, that’s three Mythic bosses before a full Heroic clear. Difficulty curves are weird.

For some reason, she decided that she’d much rather be a Banshee at the end rather than change back into her more Elvish form. So rather than an unconscious body — we got this Banshee just staring ominously at us while we looted her giant treasure chest.

I really enjoyed this fight. It was super fun to tank since there was almost always something that I needed to be doing. I even liked the chains phase — I think it helped the fight to feel big and epic in a way that the Spine of Deathwing fight tried to be, but didn’t quite nail. I don’t doubt that there’s a parallel dimension where Blizzard split up the chains and final platform phase of Sylvanas into two distinct fights, and I think we would’ve been poorer for it.

We even recovered from my co-tank disconnecting in the middle of the final phase to clinch our victory. So I’m feeling like an extra invincible bear right now.

While I try and remember I am mortal, it’s time for — the Queue!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, everybody! That’s right: it’s Diablo time.

Diablo 2: Resurrected came out yesterday, and slaughtering the minions of hell is my current aesthetic.