The Queue

Naps aren’t just a pastime, they’re a way of life. A way of life I would rather be following right now.

But my dedication to you, fellow Queuevians, is so great that I am here answering questions  (questions?) instead. Let’s get to it, my friends.

Sometimes, in the words of another game I enjoyed, Violence is the last, joyous resort of the improvident planner.

Whenever I play V I remember that line, because seriously, all her plans end up in a pile of that aforementioned mass of barnyard secretions. It’s almost like the game rewards me with dopamine for V’s terrible decisions.

I’m looking forward to Avowed on Game Pass, but until I get that, this will be my game.

After complaining for the past 10 days that I hadn’t gotten any of the mounts (I’m including the Renewed Proto-Drake Love Armor in that category) I finally had RNG on my side and got the Love Witch Sweeper yesterday. While not as prestigious as the X-45 Heartbreaker it is a nice addition to my mount collection. Inspired by this success I decided to take all my alts through the Crown Chemical Co. fight to see if I could get the Armor or Heartbreaker with low odds — with the promise that whichever character landed me either would get priority with leveling and gearing for the rest of the expansion!

Sadly my offer was refused and I got zilch. On the plus side I had a little time to get my characters cleaned up while waiting in queue, and I even discovered a level 70 toon that had really, really bad gear for their level and wasn’t even a member of my guild, the Undeleted. I’ve mostly rectified the issues, but I’m disappointed the attention didn’t get me a mount. Ah well, there’s still a week of attempts left.

While I sit in queue waiting to be disappointed, let’s answer some questions!

It’s not that I’m anti-holiday per se, or anti-love. It’s that I really just love this header image.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions, and we can be neither blamed nor stopped.

I guess something good happened for some combination of eagles and/or owls? I don’t pretend to understand what’s going on, all I know is that Seal was a literal seal and sang about Mountain Dew. I have no strong feelings about this other than wondering what took us as a society this long to make that happen.

While I suggest some subsequent stuff Senor Seal seal should sell us (seashores?), it’s time for — The Queue!

Oh no, I definitely didn’t forget to write the Queue. I am super prepared and would never do that. I also definitely did not just nope off to Pandaria for some relaxing kite flying (and to take notes on what I want my future home and garden to look like). Not me, I would never do that.

So let’s answer some questions!

I don’t want to get too real here, but recently a series of bad things has happened and one of them was potential uterine cancer for my wife. They had a 10 cm tumor extracted, and since then we’re trying to get her through it.

There’s an ancient legend that speaks of Wednesday as being a day for frogs. And here at Blizzard Watch we’re all about honoring such immemorial traditions.

This is The Queue, and here are some questions and some answers. Ribbit.

Any community that’s been around as long as we have will have some degree of associated lore. Some of it is tidbits about the people themselves — how Cory loves the muppets, or how Mitch is Mitch. But there are some aspects that are a little more intangible. One of those is broadly classed as The Site Curse. This usually manifests in having the Queue break in weird technical ways, but is also associated in some way with the people, and how news just seem to always happen when we’re all indisposed in some way. For instance, I planned a trip to London thinking I was safe, and oops, those are the same dates Diablo 4 dropped their first expansion. Sorry! I’ll try to be less cursed next time.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions, and we’ll hopefully supply some answers, assuming the column saves properly.

It’s hard to believe, but Blizzard Watch turns ten years old — this very day!

That’s like at least three Warcraft expansions, maybe even four!

Along the way, we’ve been to BlizzCon, covered games developed by Blizzard, and branched out into other spheres and mediums. I think it’s likely that we’ve had millions of words added into our little slice of the gaming and nerd worlds, and almost twenty thousand articles (if the number I’m looking at in the back end is right). We’ve seen faces come and go, and friends come and go, even the owners have changed!  But along the way, we’ve always stuck close to our principles of covering the things in the gaming and geek spheres that we’ve been passionate about.

So I’d like to propose a toast, of whatever your favorite beverage of choice is — here’s to all of you fine folks reading this who’ve contributed to making this a great place to be nerdy together. We wouldn’t be here without you, and I know I’m speaking for all of the other writers here and that we’re very thankful you are.

So without further ado, day one of the next ten years! Let’s Queue!