The Queue

Time is weird every week, but there’s just something about Fridays where time is even weirder. We’re on the cusp of something, of escaping the week. But we aren’t quite there yet. Time stretches and compresses at once. It is Friday. It is every day.

Well, let’s get to the Queue before our sense of time collapses completely.

Honestly, if I didn’t talk about it, you’d all probably come to my house to complain. And yeah, that’s a T. rex image in the header, I honestly haven’t found an image of the new species I like yet.

Y’all wanted an earworm? Y’all got an earworm.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we don’t care bout anything but youuu~

I very rarely follow a Cory queue, so I don’t often get an earworm. I did switch with Anna this week — but I’m still not following a Cory queue because the divine Liz P was up yesterday. Fortunately(?) she replicated Cory’s earworm formula and so I’ll be writing this queue by a crystal blue Italian stream. Unfortunately the weather forecast is:

Look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Oh wait, that’s a different Bangles song. Fun facts: Manic Monday was written by Prince, and A Hazy Shade of Winter was originally a Paul Simon song performed by Simon & Garfunkel. If I had to pick just one Bangles song, though, it would be In Your Room which while a top 5 at the time is largely ignored now. Probably because Walk Like an Egyptian is just as iconic of the band as Manic Monday so those two get all the airtime.

Long story short, they should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside the Go-Go’s and Pat Benatar. Hopefully they’ll be 2024 nominees.

Anyway, while I clearly have an eternal flame for the Bangles, let’s actually answer some questions!

Okay, Watchers, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties ’cause it’s cold outs– wait, this isn’t an audition for Groundhog Day? Whoops!

My weekend involved cleaning the house and my emails. I still managed to play a bunch* of Diablo 3 at the kickoff of Season 30. This is the Queue — I am definitely not your regularly scheduled Cory, but we’ll still have fun today.

(* more than 12 hours and that’s all I’m going to say about it.)

Players have been begging for certain races to become playable for years now. How should they be added to the game? Vrykul and Ogres could become counterparts on the Alliance and Horde, respectively — but aren’t they a bit too large? Would you play a character that keeps getting stuck in doors? Or would you accept it if those races were made slightly smaller — perhaps Tauren-sized?

How would your Naga character wear armor without legs? Sure, we do have the Dracthyr who shun a lot of armor pieces due to their design — but that decision has not proven to be very popular with a large contingent of players. For Naga, could they perhaps turn pants into “tail armor” instead?

While we ponder these and other questions, let’s Queue, my Tuskarr-starved friends.

I wish I could explain how bad it feels to spend an hour or two combing through the Queue, our Discord, and emails to grab a bunch of questions, spend another hour or so answering them, and then lose all of that work because my thumb slipped or I hit the wrong key because I’m blind and can’t see the darn things. It’s bad, guys. I forgot to talk about Babylon 5 last week, that’s how upset I was.

Anyway, here’s the Queue. If I screw this one up I’m gonna punch myself. Might just punch myself anyway, I have it coming.

How much longer must we wait until we can roll a Forsaken Paladin, or a Worgen Demon Hunter? Sadly, I don’t have the answer. But I might have other answers. This is The Queue, and you get a complimentary pair of sunglasses and a roasted chicken for reading.*

*disclaimer: you do not actually get a complimentary pair of sunglasses or a roasted chicken for reading The Queue.

It’s the kind of day where I just want to lie in bed and alternately read and nap, but here we are.

This is The Queue, the daily column where you ask us questions, and we definitely didn’t phone this one in while we were heating up some cocoa.

When we killed Mythic Igira for the first time last night, she fell over in a most undignified position. Honestly, I’m surprised that she was bootable at all! Her feet were the only things sticking out on our side of the fence…

While I go and wash my loot off extra well, it’s time for — The Queue!