The Queue

Who let all those turtles into the Theater of Pain?! Those aren’t fearsome gladiators, they’re just turtles man! I sure hope that nothing bad happens to them. Although I’ve seen what a snapping turtle can do to a watermelon, somebody better warn the Maldraxxi inside…

While the turtles are busy snapping their way through the Theater, it’s time for — The Queue.

Yep, I’m still wearing my sunglasses, even in the darkest corridors of Torghast. I’d say it was a summer thing, but who am I kidding? Why would I ever take these off when I could be looking this stylish? I might be convinced to swap them for the bronze sunglasses if they became transmoggable, but I’m still living that sunglasses life.

…and still debating the best matching transmog. Neither the bronze color of the frames nor the pink-red tint of the lenses are easy to match, and as the screenshot shows, I’m not trying hard for a perfect match. But something must be the perfect compliment to this lovely shade, and one day I will find it.

I realize there’s a whole h*ckin’ lot of stuff happening in the WoWverse right now, but also… It’s my favorite time of the year! Summer Games Done Quick is currently underway, and while we’re a little over halfway through, there’s still plenty on deck to love. Tomorrow and Saturday in particular have some top picks like Fire Emblem Three Houses, Breath of the Wild, and Mario 64 — but I’d suggest checking out the entire schedule for your personal favorites and tuning in. Even if you’ve never seen a speedrun, I bet you’ll have a good time (and you’ll be supporting a good cause!)

Anyhow, I could talk about GDQ forever. But this is The Queue, and it’s time to Queue things.

(As a note: The first two questions talk around the latest cinematic. Nothing is explicitly spoiled, but please do be careful if you’d like to go into the raid 100% blind!)

Look, I’m totally down with you feeling however you feel about World of Warcraft‘s story. But for the love of all that’s holy, don’t make death threats. Seriously, if this site didn’t strive for PG-13 style clean language I would be barfing expletives all over this Queue. The negativity in the WoW discourse has gotten way out of hand.

I straight up do not understand how I ended up even having to type a sentence like Don’t threaten to kill people because you don’t like the story of a video game but here we are.

Hey y’all, it’s time to wake up in hell and probably get ready to fight about video games again, which is its own discrete, but no less tormenting, version of hell.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions but you may not like our answers.

These new sunglasses are incredibly stylish! I’m super glad that the price dropped low enough on one of my servers that I was able to get them on my face. Now I need a full set of fancy jeweled armor to match them though…

While I try and re-do my transmog for the fifth time this patch, it’s time for — The Queue.

Happy Friday, Queue! I hope you’re enjoying patch 9.1 in WoW or patch 20.8 in Hearthstone or the latest and greatest iteration of whatever your favorite game of the moment is. For my part, I’m back in on WoW to get through the latest content (and prep for raid day next week).

So, let’s talk about WoW!

Went in to the eye doctor yesterday, which is why Anna had to cover my Queue for me, now I’m here doing Mitch’s Queue and despite double injections and having my retinas lasered, I still do not have eye based superpowers of any kind. No heat vision, no fel beams, no Cyclops style optic blasts of pure concussive force, nada.

This is the Queue. I’m starting to think I’m not going to get superpowers at all.

The day after a major patch is usually filled with some hiccups and other fixes to smooth things out, but whether or not this is disruptive can depend largely on your expectations and perspectives.

This is the Queue, where you ask us questions and we supply the answers. Quite.

It is hot in Edmonton, gang, and it’s only gonna get hotter all week. I am sweating so much I feel exhausted while I’m sleeping.

Anna and I traded Queues this week because Wednesday is my eye injection day. So I’m going to be going out, getting jabbed in both eyes and then coming home to a 40 degree Celsius hotbox, where I will be simultaneously sweating, bleeding and wincing for the better part of a day. So thank you to Anna for letting me at least not worry about the Queue.

I suspect I will be talking a lot about Hyenas today. Possibly also giant enemy crabs.