The Queue

It’s been a long week and I’m sure we could all use a nap by now.

I really worry sometimes that I’m reflexively at odds with whatever seems to me the most popular or prevailing attitude about things in a reflexive manner. Opposing things simply because other people believe them is no better than embracing them simply because everyone else does, after all. Your opinions should be the result of time and rumination, not simply to be contrary. I’ve often been opposed to nostalgia and group thinks, but I see others out in the world today being reflexively opposed to things that are, by and large, so overwhelmingly true that one has to really go through mental gymnastics to disbelieve them, and I never want to be like that.

Heterodoxy shouldn’t be habitual, after all. It leads to rejecting popular ideas simply because they are popular, and not based on their relative merits or lack thereof, something I would not want to indulge in.

It’s early in the morning and I’ve got my playlist of writing music on repeat, so let’s do this. Let’s Queue this? That feels kind of corny.

In yesterday’s Queue, a hellish vision of evil was presented to us wherein I, and others of my ilk, would have been bound into actually having to participate in Pet Battles. The only way to prevent such a nightmare was to overthrow the tyrant responsible and seize control of the Queue, and I have now done so. Tomorrow we march forward into a bright future where nobody has to know anything about why a little turnip can somehow fight a werewolf and a sparkly dragon and come out victorious.

Pet Battles will always be the best system in WoW entirely because I never, ever have to take part in them.

Pfft, no, of course I’m not launching a coup to take over The Queue. That’s too much rhyming.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we may deign to answer, peasants. Bring me the first petitioner.

I have conquered the mighty Tarragrue! My guild got our first kill in Mythic Sanctum last night and it feels good. I just wish that every Tarragrue victory didn’t involve me being dead on the floor. I can actually survive a couple of hits on Normal difficulty, but it’s just too strong on Heroic and Mythic. That last 10% enrage it gets winds up killing me almost instantly– even through my cheat death trinket from Kael’thas, and that guy knows a thing or two about cheating death!

We still haven’t gotten to the last bosses on Heroic though. Mythic Tarragrue wound up taking us fewer pulls than Heroic Fatescribe did! By the time we finished it off tonight, there was no raid left to go introduce ourselves to Kel’Thuzad. I’ve got a good feeling about next week though…

While I spend the next few raid nights killing Kel’Thuzad over and over and over again and watching him still keep coming back, it’s time for — The Queue.

Hello? Is this thing on? HELLO? Is anybody out there? Hellooooo?

My 2021 journey through the Soulsborne series is inching closer to its completion. The other day, I beat the final (non-DLC) boss of Dark Souls 2, which leaves just the DLC and then Dark Souls 3 and Sekiro left on my list of “to finish” Soulsborne games. For the unfamiliar, the games typically have a “choose your own ending” element to them — not surprisingly, I favor the endings that lead the world into an age of Dark.

Anyhow, I’ll talk more about my Soulsborne obsessions tomorrow — for today, we Queue.

Just a mellow Queue where I answered various questions. No real theme. It was actually kind of nice, really, sort of relaxing.

Hey guys! I’ve been on vacation for the first time in two years! Anything big happen in the past two weeks?

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we answer them by cracking a joke or two because we’re deeply upset and cope with gallows humor because otherwise we probably wouldn’t be able to get out of bed.

It’s my three-year anniversary of writing for Blizzard Watch!!! Well, it was on Saturday, but we’ll not get that up in arms over being a day or two late. My first article was this piece about how Blizzard translated Daughter of the Sea into other languages for the different regions — which immediately sent me down a spiral of finding all the different covers I could of it on Youtube. It’s been a shanty-filled weekend, to say the least.

I’m still so thankful to all of the people involved in the decision to hire me for getting me the job. Considering that before I got the offer from Blizzard Watch I’d basically never written professionally before — I think it’s been going fairly well! I’ve written an uncountable number of words for the site, and have over 350 articles to my name! Here’s to the next year!

While I try and figure out if I get a sword at five years, it’s time for — the Queue.