The Queue

“BlizzCon is over, and everything is worse now.” – Unknown Horse Prophet

That’s as clever an intro as I can think of right now. Let’s Queue.

This morning I’ve prepped three loads of laundry, cleared the entire sink worth of dishes, emptied two Halloween buckets full of wrappers — Halloween was less than a week ago — and I still have to write at least one more article about BlizzCon esports. I feel like I’ve aged five years in the past three days. Like Rip Van Winkle, I need to brush my hair and answer a whole lot of questions.

So, this is the queue. Let’s get to it.

BlizzCon is always one of those moments that kind of erases the normal scheduling in my head, which is why I completely forgot I still have to write the Queue until like just now. Just now is like an hour before it’s supposed to go live.

Anyway, let’s chat. I’m not panicking, you’re panicking.

Sorry for the late Queue today, folks! I blame baby.

Maybe it’s a holiday. Maybe it’s a virtual holiday. Maybe it’s just a Wednesday.

Reality is quite objective, so who’s to say, really?

By this time tomorrow, I will be in (or at least very close to) California. Even if the sum total of BlizzCon announcements this year are shrug-worthy, this is still the trip I look forward to every year — from the moment it ends right up until the next one. For those of you watching at home, I encourage you to make A Thing out of it with your fellow Queuemans. Grab popcorn/unhealthy food, drink of choice, and just spend the whole time chatting and enjoying the fact that you can nerd out with friends. For those of you attending in person… I hope to see you soon!

Now, let’s Queue.

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

Shh, don’t wake the trash panda. He’s had a very long weekend of trashing houses in Drustvar and digging through garbage for interesting trinkets and things to eat. Don’t worry, another five minutes and he’ll wake up with a jolt and realize that BlizzCon is mere days away. In the meantime, let’s answer your questions, shall we?

Enjoy this video from 2007. Yes, that’s what the models really looked like.

I’m extremely ill. Breathing through my nose requires cooldowns. Let’s talk about stuff.

Gone for a bit to have a kid and they practically took my name off the site! The nerve!

I’m not even the one s!@#posting on Twitter anymore! Ugh. Time to start a new Watch.

Maybe Turtle Watch, a site that just live streams baby turtles doing baby turtle things? Actually, wait…

After nearly a week out of town, I have lost all sense of the passage of time and space. But no one else has written the Queue today, so I guess it must be my turn. That’s how these things work, right? Hopefully that’s how these things work.

And if not, that’s how I’m going to make them work. Let’s do this.