The Queue

I am pretty excited about Outlaw Rogues. Just how excited am I? I’ve already started annoying my guild with Pirates of Penzance.

Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly,
Than play a sanctimonious part,
With a pirate head and a pirate heart.
Away to the cheating world go you,
Where pirates all are well-to-do;
But I’ll be true to the song I sing,
And live and die a Pirate King Queen.

And now it’s time to move on before we get too far into my affection for operetta. Another day has dawned over the Queue, which means it’s time for your questions and our answers — and I promise they’re not all about pirates.

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!

Okay so I realize we just had three new Overwatch heroes introduced at BlizzCon, and while I played a little with Mei last night and she was pretty cool, Winston is still the best. Because he is. Ice walls are cool and all, but there is nothing like getting super angry and punching someone off a building, Warner Bros. style.

Team Blizzard Watch has returned from the wilds of Southern California, which means we’re back on a regular (ish) Queue schedule. And by “regular (ish)” I mean that Rossi is finally getting some days off from Queue duty. Unfortunately, that means you’re stuck with me today and tomorrow.

That said, let’s get on to today’s Q&A session!

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!

Road trips are fun, even if I didn’t have an Alex Ziebart with me this time around. Solo road trips are fun because you can bring your own music and totally rock out and sing as loudly and horribly as you’d like. And the scenery is great. If you’ve never gone on a road trip anywhere, take a weekend and just go drive. You never know what you’ll see on the way! Now that I’m finally home and at my own computer again, let’s see about answering some questions, shall we?

Y’all can blame our Holy Paladin columnist Mike Eng for the header image. Since this is my last Queue of the big “BlizzCon forces everyone else to be doing something else so Matt writes the Queue over and over again” period, I thought we could all go out with something special.

Hopefully y’all asked a lot of questions. Let’s do The Queue again.

(Yes, that was to the tune of Time Warp.)

With half the office away doing BlizzCon, you’re stuck with me again. I promise someone else will be doing the Queue come Wednesday. (I’m still doing my usual Tuesday Queue.)

I’m very sorry, I’m sure you’re all very sick of me by now. But let’s do The Queue anyway.

So it turns out I’ll be maining a Fury Warrior in Legion after all, because thanks to the Legion Q&A I know that Titan’s Grip isn’t going anywhere — the Artifact weapons for Fury Warriors are 2h weapons, they’re just not sized properly yet. Special thanks to Jay Wilson for answering the question at the Q&A, and Dylan Rondeau for asking the question in the first place. Whew. I’m super happy now.

Let’s do this first post-BlizzCon Queue while I’m all happy.

So, I watched the cinematic like a million freaking times.

Can it be Summer 2016 yet?

Okay, let’s do The Queue. Questions?

I was going to talk about BlizzCon but then this happened.

Welcome Dakotaraptor, a contender for largest Dromaeosaurid ever. Not only is it nearly the same size as Utahraptor (it’s built on a more gracile body plan, so it almost certainly weighed less) but this late Cretaceous raptor is a game changer for a variety of reasons. It’s much akin to its relatives Velociraptor or Deinonychus but scaled up to bigger than even Jurassic Park dared dream, and it had long feathers on its forelimbs in a structure that even the most anti-feathered dinosaur grump would have to admit is a wing.

Wings. This nearly twenty foot (six meters) long raptor had wings. No, it couldn’t fly with them any more than an ostrich can, but it had clear, unmistakably feathered forelimbs. At this point, if you put featherless raptors in your dinosaur movie, you look like an idiot. It would be like having hairless lions and tigers in your movie because they look cooler. Just stop it, Hollywood.

This will be another in the long line of BlizzCons I don’t get to go to.

Well, can’t just sit here feeling sorry for myself. It’s Queue time.