The Queue

Hi! I’m feeling excitable! Or maybe panicked! Is that a monster?!? It could be! I don’t even know!

Let’s talk about stuff!

We’re at the point of quarantine where I’m so desperate for a vacation that I’ve been asking — maybe even begging — my kids to go spend the night with me in a tent outside. They are not at all into it.  I don’t fully blame them, since where we live it is uncomfortably hot and sticky, and it’s been raining for the past two days, but still. Since our summer vacation usually involves a road trip with fast food and gas station snacks I’ve also been craving Burger King. I finally broke down and got some gummi bears, but it just isn’t the same.

This is The Queue, where you ask questions and it’s my job to answer them, even though I really need a vacation. No offense.

Over the weekend I finally went and tackled the achievements I was missing from my Glory of the Argus Raider. Turns out that they weren’t that hard with our gear now. I had more trouble making it past Imonar the Soulhunter’s extremely long Sleep Canister ability than most of the bits for the achievements themselves. He likes to reapply it like a jerk before the first one has even fallen off! Well, aside from Aggramar’s — his achievement took a few tries.

I’m glad that my friend convinced me to come along because now I have that beautiful shadowy demon dog. It did make me think though. We run around collecting these demonic and otherworldly mounts all the time, what if that’s secretly part of the Old God’s plan? Soon they’ll have an army of Void beasts just waiting to drop unsuspecting riders to their doom.

But enough about what the dog may or may not be plotting. It’s time for — the Queue.

And now I have written the Queue! Hooray!

But I guess I should skip the self-congratulations and jump straight into the actual questions.

As is tradition, I must remind you all that Games Done Quick is currently underway. There are still a few days left to watch, and even though it’s online this year, it’s been a blast to have it back. Major kudos to the GDQ team for getting it up and running as smoothly as it has been! If you’ve never watched before, it’s fun and supports a great cause. I have no idea what being online will do to their records, but past GDQs have managed to raise over $3 million, which is just mind blowing to me.

Anyhow, go check it out. While you do that, why not join me for a Queue?

Today’s Queue uses a header image from Dusk, it’s a picture of my Dwarf Barbarian Ristana oc Kaltjarn, whose friends call her Rista. She enjoys cold weather, has a polecat for a pet, and her glowing greataxe tends to disintegrate things she kills with it. I’m showing y’all her art because the last month has just sucked so so much, my cats are sick, my life is a continuous series of dumpster fires and I’m just trying to distract myself.

This is the Queue.

Friendship ended with Rutherford, now Ms. Parton is my new best friend.

Please don’t tell Rutherford I said that. Ms. Parton is blonde and beautiful, but she really can’t tank.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions, and we have answers (we hope).

We played Shadowrun again over the weekend, and once again my favorite part was my robo-monkey companion Bowie. So much so that I went and bought this Rebuilt Gorilla Bot in Warcraft and named it after him. He’s the best. In fact, I can’t think of a single game that wouldn’t be improved in some manner with the inclusion of robotic monkey companions. Need someone to watch your back in Fallout? Robo-monkey. Need help driving through the night to get that shipment of dynamite to Iowa in American Truck Simulator? Get a robo-monkey. What about gathering all of your crops in Stardew Valley — oh you better believe a robo-monkey would come in handy there. Especially if you planted robo-bananas.

While I think of examples of games that need more mechanized monkeys, it’s time for — The Queue.

Surely no harm could come to us by examining what’s on the other side of this door, right? It’s so bright and colorful, so inviting! Maybe we could just poke our head in and check it out, and walk right back out if we don’t like it.

Spoilers: In Ny’alotha, none of those things are true. But also it’s a long walk back to the dungeon entrance, so door #1 it is!

Okay. Let’s get to some totally unrelated Queue questions.

Still leveling the Hunter. Don’t have hot pants on anymore.

It’s the Queue. Let’s chat.