The Queue

There are games that I play because they are familiar and require no real thought. Games I’ve played and played and played and played. Mass Effect 2 and 3. All the Dragon Age games, especially 2 and Inquisition. Diablo 3. Definitely Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. And while I love new games and can’t wait for a bunch of them to come out, right now, I’m very okay with my current dive into old friends as a means to cope with all the things happening in the world today.

This is the Queue.

Uh and that day is certainly a day of the week. Probably. Pandemic time is a whole new thing y’all.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we answer, as long as we remember it’s our day to write The Queue, which I definitely did.

I know that I can’t be the only one who makes little “pew pew pew” laser noises when I’m using my Essence of the Focusing Iris. It happens even more often when I’m on my Demon Hunter between the Essence, Eye Beam, and Fel Barrage. Lasers are fun!

While I’m recharging my lasers, I take you now to — The Queue (Queue Queue)

I honestly don’t know what this is, but Scott told me I should link it. Happy anime Friday, everyone.

I mean, every week has been A Week™ for many weeks now, but this past week was definitely A Week™ in its own right.

Now that I’ve said “week” a bunch, I’d say we’re ready for my weekly weeknanigans. What say we Queue?

Batman Beyond was my favorite piece of Batman media in the past 100 years. Basically, if you take every single thing Batman has ever appeared in, ever, and yes I’m including the Brave and the Bold cartoon, then Batman Beyond is not only my favorite, if you said you were about to press a button and destroy all appearances of Batman that ever existed and I could only save one, it would be Batman Beyond. It has Kevin Conroy’s best turn as Bruce Wayne, some of the best writing that really deals with the fact that Bruce Wayne may care a lot but is absolutely terrible at showing it and what the consequences of that are, and man, I really enjoy Will Friedle as Terry. He manages to be a different kind of Batman while still be recognizably Batman.

Standouts for me are the opening few episodes establishing the character, the future Justice League episode, and the Return of the Joker movie which features an excellent turn by Mark Hamill and the Ras al Ghul episode with Talia and the line “You? She kissed me.”

Plus the show had a great opening.

Am I the only one feverishly leveling alts to make sure I have the perfect one for each Covenant?

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and sometimes the questions answer back.

A lot of questions about the barbershop this week! I haven’t had a real haircut in years, but let’s dive right into virtual ones!

Take a seat right here — in the Queue.

Once again, I am unsure how it came to be Friday, or how I’ve managed to wait so late in the day to write the Queue.

Weird how time is continually slipping out of our fingers, isn’t it? Always moving further into the past, while we move further into the future.

I suppose that means there’s no more time to waste: let’s get to the Queue.

Music and Nintendo. That seems pretty “Mitch,” right?

Yeah.

Now, let’s Queue.