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The Queue: More Tetris than the human mind can safely absorb

Without bumming people out with too much real life stuff, the past week has been nightmarishly stressful and I’ve been using Tetris Effect on my Xbox — thanks again, Game Pass — to get through it. I’ve found that it’s surprisingly helpful when I’m panicking about things I can’t possibly change to just zone out and play Tetris for an hour or so. Or more. A lot more, really.

 


The Queue: Presidents Day

Rutherford Bear Hayes would like to take this opportunity to thank all his queuestituents for their undying support. I’m sure he didn’t mean that as a suspiciously troubling reference to the Scourge.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we answer them, just as soon as we make sure our house is bearproof, hypothetically.


The Queue: For the bears

We just spent our first night on Mythic Terros progression, and woof there’s a lot of damage happening in that fight!

It’s not that hard mechanically, but the numbers checks are pretty rough. Not to mention the; can your Demon Hunter avoid falling into the big hole in the middle of the room, check. He couldn’t — at least not until the end of the night. We were able to get to 35% but that was always at about half strength and out of gas. Maybe next time we get to him we’ll be able to avoid all of the rocky bits and chisel out a victory.

While I work on getting the gravel out from between my claws, it’s time for — The Queue!


The Queue: When you come up with a mechanic

So I run a few D&D games for the folks here at Blizzard Watch — and maybe I could run one for y’all someday, who knows, I’m eyeing a Pathfinder 2e campaign lately — and recently, while blatantly stealing Blackwing Lair and making it the end dungeon of the current campaign storyline, I came up with a new mechanic for the Razorgore fight.

Well, technically, it’s not the Razorgore fight because I’m not that basic, but it is a fight involving Dragon Eggs in an ancient fortress of dragonkind, so anyway, close enough for what I’m about. But the mechanic I came up with as a lair action is so much fun, I’m really looking forward to seeing how the players respond to it.

Anyway, howdy. Lets queue this.


The Queue: White chocolate stole the show

Well, after it seemed like it would be a match of dark vs. milk chocolate, with white chocolate mostly an afterthought, it turns out that white chocolate won the Splatfest. And not just, like, a normal win — they swept every. single. category.

So, well played to Team White Chocolate. Shiver, we’ll win the next one.

Until that time, let’s have a Queue, shall we?


The Queue: Spa day

I have been swamped at my day job for a while, so I could use a spa day.

I just hope this masseuse knows what they’re doing. I have so many knots for them to work out!

While I come up with more massage-related tree puns, it’s time for — The Queue.


The Queue: It’s all butterflies from here

My very first day in Dragonflight I found an item in the Waking Shores that, when clicked spawned butterflies around me. The butterflies kept spawning around me, in multiple colors, fluttering around, for a half hour. I’ve never found the item again — it isn’t where I originally saw it. It was one of those small, delightful surprises that seems to permeate the Dragon Isles.

Dragonflight feels like a whole new game.

Let’s talk about it.


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