The Queue

Hey, we’re all here, doing things completely chill and normal. No freakouts about anything. You can tell because I’m not even using exclamation points. I might even stop capitalizing stuff, make it totally relaxed and inconspicuous.

this is the queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and there’s nothing else on our minds so of course we have an answer.

Happy Easter Noblegarden, everyone! I hope that you can go out and get all of your new fun transmogs and another year down on the checks notes 6!? year duck transmog journey. Ok, that has to be a typo; nobody would make something that took six years to fully complete in Warcraft.

Three different orphans for Children’s week is fine, but six different duck disguises?! Absurd! Who even knew there were that many flavors of duck?

While I go brush up on my duck watching skills, it’s time for — The Queue!

A normal work week starts on Mitsuru Monday and ends on Fuuka Friday. It is known.

Today is Fuuka Friday, a truly blessed day. A day where smiles come easy, where work feels light, where everyone comes together to breathe a sigh of relief for a long, hard week is at last over.

A day where even lemons taste sweet.

So run along, friends, and let’s do this Friday Queue thing — which is a thing we do now!

Draygonia.

I mean, come on, Draygonia. ONE? You expected me to pick one?

It is a sign of my love for you all that this entire Queue isn’t just me listing several dozen prehistoric animals that should be better known to laypeople. Heck, the fact that there isn’t a dedicated Glyptodon section is pure self-restraint.

Pick one? One? How?

It’s Wednesday afternoon and the Queue is not late, I meant to post it right now. This exact moment! The moment of arriving!

That’s a roundabout way of saying we’re planning to push the Queue back an hour permanently, scheduling it at 11am pacific/12pm mountain/1pm central (site time)/2pm eastern. (I have to write it out like that to try to stick the change in my own head.) It’s about standardizing post scheduling every day and keeping posts spread out throughout the day rather than clumped together (which tended to happen on podcast days when the podcast went live a half hour before the Queue). We’ll see how it goes.

Now, this is the Queue. Let’s talk.

It’s Nozdormu Day, so any wibbly-wobbly should be expected. It’s almost the end of the school year, but that’s impossible. And yet. By the way, Noblegarden is this week? I don’t…?

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we may answer… eventually. Anyone for a mixed drink with a little umbrella?

It doesn’t matter how long it’s been between matches, I can’t start a game of Heroes of the Storm without a polite greeting and a “good luck, have fun.” I could have suffered a concussion and lost an arm, but I’d still do it!

It’s that important!

Ending with a GG and/or a “better luck next game” is also important, but that one can be tougher. Especially if you’ve just gotten run roughshod over and people have been being salty. I still try though, just maybe not super hard sometimes…

Hi friendos! Good luck and have fun, it’s time for — The Queue!

Actual conversation in our Discord channel:

Liz: Wednesday queues are so easy! You get questions based on all the early week news!

Kalcheus: Friday queues are easier! It’s the end of the week, everyone is excited for the weekend!

Liz: You have it so easy!

Kalcheus: No you have it easy!

Liz & Kalcheus: I wish I could trade queues with you for just one day!

But of course it’s not just one day, it’s permanent (until it’s not)! Red and I will still be alternating weeks, though. So be sure to ask Red plenty of questions next Thursday!

Anyway while I try to figure out how to navigate life as a gnome, let’s answer some questions!

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Now, keep in mind, I’m playing Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader more than a year after it was released. And it certainly loses in the comparison of graphics and animated cutscenes, with W40kRT being a more stylized game with a much darker and more grim tone than  other Isometric CRPG’s (unless you’re Planescape Torment, in which case this could be said to be stealing your bit.)

Honestly, it’s not that this game is better than BG3, so much as it is to me more enjoyable to play than that game. Maybe it’s because you get to swing a giant chainsaw sword around and set things on fire with your mind while flirting with a completely deranged psyker who enjoys screaming people to death, I don’t know. I do know that the inventory system is not what I would call good.

Good afternoon, Queue! I will be your host today, and am going to be making a permanent swap to doing the Queue on Wednesday because I keep getting really busy on Thursday/Friday which has occasionally resulted in late Queues. (Definitely not just because I’m staying up to watch Critical Role, I am legitimately very busy at the end of the week, definitely.)

But enough about me. How are you all doing? Let’s answer some questions, Queue.