The Queue

If you can hear this line in your head, congrats! You’ve run Siege of Boralus too many times.

Anyhow, Queue time!

(This week’s Queue is, sadly, not an all-Kalcheus Queue.)

Door explodes outward in a shower of splinters as deranged man throws himself through it, landing on the floor in a heap.

Did someone say pet themed Queue?

Armed men attempt to halt the original man, but he explodes in a whirlwind of shocking violence, an almost operatic display of raw, primordial destruction utilizing a T-Rex jaw clamped around a ridiculously outsized sword with a large eye in the hilt.

My three cats, Aurora, Sasquatch and Puck and my dog Marrina are all named after characters from the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight. Pictured above is Marrina, my dog, named for Marrina Smallwood, the aquatic alien member of the team.

It is Cinco de Mayo and Taco Tuesday, but really I’ll take the flimsiest of excuses to eat some tacos. Or anything, really. Give me a food-related demi-holiday and stand back.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we give the answers.

If both Mitch and Liz get to post pictures of their pets — I get to post mine right?

This is Bacardi, and he’s an ornery lil fella, and he has torn up more than one couch in his lifetime — but he’s my ornery lil jerk.

If Mitch posts a picture of a cat, I have to post a picture of a dog. That’s just how this works, okay?

I currently cannot see my cat because of the quarantine. I mean, it’s technically a family cat that lives with my parents, but I consider him my cat because he loves me so much and also I love him. I’ve visited from a safe distance twice, but I’m pretty sure he’s at least half blind, so he just kind of looked super confused to be outside and didn’t really seem to realize I was there. I can’t wait until I can finally see him again.

But enough about my cat. It’s Queue time.

Hi. It’s the Queue. My Lightforged Draenei looks like he’s a bit worried about what MOTHER plans to do, doesn’t he?

Let us talk about things.

Oh, and yeah, this is very cool. Unfortunately I didn’t see it until just before this Queue went live or it would have been a very different Queue.

You ever have a friend you haven’t seen in a while, but you’re curious (and a little afraid) where they may have gone? You’ve lost touch a bit so you can’t really contact them, and the radio silence is making you really, really nervous? Picture unrelated.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and then we answer them, assuming they don’t save the world from the Burning Legion and then disappear.

Another boss down! Hivemind has fallen and we’re moving further into Mythic Ny’alotha. I’m a little sad to see it go, partly because I love the massive amounts of targets in the Hivemind encounter — having a giant Twilight Devastation rip through a huge pile of bugs will always be super satisfying — and partly because my team is getting into the tougher bosses now. I’ve come to really appreciate how much I dislike the soccer mechanics on Dark Inquisitor Xanesh. They were already really unforgiving on Heroic, but when you jump up to Mythic they are a binary pass/fail. Either your soccer players get their goal or the raid wipes. No second chances, no get out of jail free cards — just splat. Mistakes happen! We’re only human, but man is it rough when you’re having a great pull, and then you blink and everyone is dead.

It also made me appreciate just how lucky I am to be sharing tanking duties with a guy I enjoy playing with. We’d gotten halfway through our night and realized that we weren’t on the same page for the tank swaps. It’s probably because we’d spent the first part of raid comparing the various qualities of rum and whiskey. I’ve had good co-tanks and not so good co-tanks and man is it nice to know that I’ve got a partner who isn’t taking everything too seriously.  It’s a little thing, that can help make the raid wipes just fly by.

But enough about Xanesh. It’s time for — the Queue.

Headline conventions? I don’t have to follow headline conventions.