The Queue

Yes, folks, it’s that time of year — the time of year when we get our most site traffic ever, as confused and windowless souls seek an answer to, “blizard watch right now?”

…Okay, that may not be entirely true, but it IS the fun time of year when our site name becomes a little more confusing for the world. But that’s neither here nor there. What IS here and there is this:

The Queue.

Rutherford said it would be irresponsible to just sneak out the back when it’s our Queue day, and I see where he’s coming from, but since he can’t really operate a keyboard and Siri’s speech to text doesn’t understand bear, that means he gets to frolic in the snow while I do this.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we answer, but we just want to let you know that it’s kind of a drag on a day like today. I’m just saying.

Can you believe that it’s almost Christmas?

I can’t — there’s still so much to do! I’m going to need about another week easily.

While I talk to someone to see about getting the calendar extended, it’s time for — The Queue.

It’s Friday, the race for world first is going (slowly), and the community figured out how to get Quackers the Terrible to spawn so I was able to snap a S.E.L.F.I.E. and earn the “Birdwatcher” title. Having thus completed my one goal for the Dragonflight expansion, it’s time to log out of the game, uninstall it, and answer some questions while my PC reclaims disk space.

Yep, that’s me, doing Mythic Tomb of Sargeras for transmog. Don’t worry, not a single piece of plate dropped the whole run. I still liked that screenshot, so there it is. The Kil’Jaedan fight is still a pain but I eventually got lucky with it. He didn’t drop any loot I needed, I just wanted to kick his face in.

Gotta get more of my characters to 70. Need a farming corps for this one.

What are the 12 Days of Mitchmas, you ask? Basically, every day starting today, you’ll all receive a random blessing from an Old God. It’ll be fun!

Also everyone has to buy me gifts.

QUEUE TIME!

It would appear that, once again, my inability to keep track of what day it is at any given time has really come back to bite me in the butt. How are Rubix cubes this expensive? How is Rutherford going to use one without thumbs, anyway?

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions, and we’ll get around to answering just as soon as we finish this one last Amazon order.

There weren’t many questions this weekend, so here we go with a one-question Queue. So let’s speed-run the Queue by doing a single question and then talking amongst ourselves.

HADES 2!

I think this was the biggest surprise from the game awards last night! Supergiant hasn’t done a sequel to one of their games yet, so it was a good bet that they’d move on to some new interesting thing. I’ve put many many hours into playing the Supergiant games, and even more hours into listening to the soundtracks. Darren Korb and Ashley Barrett have such wonderful musical harmony together that I cannot wait to hear what they do for this.

Oh, I guess there was another game about the underworld that might’ve gotten a launch date last night. Diablo 4 is cool (hot) and all, and I’m gonna Druid it up to the max in it when it comes out, but that was definitely not as exciting as the HADES announcement to me.

While I try and figure out how to cryogenically freeze myself until HADES 2 comes out, it’s time for — The Queue!

Yesterday was my birthday and I decided that to celebrate it I was going to do as little as possible. Sometimes that’s all you really want — a day to sit back, spend time with your loved ones (in my case my wife Julian and our cats and dog) and do things like mess around in video games and just exist. It was a nice day.

And now we’re back, answering your questions and listening to Damageplan’s song Save Me, and wishing you all a happy Game Awards day.