The Queue

I find myself wondering if I’ll love this game the way I did DA:The Veilgard, and I honestly don’t know yet. Avowed feels very different to other games I’ve played in the same basic wheelhouse — it lacks the zany satirical feel of The Outer Worlds, the breathless chaos of Fallout: New Vegas, and while you can certainly understand that this game is inspired by games like the various Elder Scrolls games, it doesn’t really feel like one of those.

The Queue is a daily column that fights crime, but some people — especially those trying to make scandalous headlines to sell newspapers — may frown upon what they call “vigilante justice.”

Is The Queue a column of heroes? Are we saving the day by providing insightful and amusing answers to your burning questions?

Or is The Queue a menace in column form? Do we exist to sow chaos and spread confusion? I mean, sometimes we do answer your questions with other questions, or give answers that are technically correct but deeply unhelpful. We also like to misinterpret questions on purpose from time to time. We’re unpredictable and we just wanna have fun, like Queues are wont to do.

As you decide for yourselves, let’s head into another day of crime-fighting and feeble attempts to slowly instill our readers with the urge to embark on a quest for world domination, or veiled hints that their questions might contain a hidden conspiracy theorist subtext.

I love detective and puzzle games. I am actually incredibly good at them, if you don’t mind me saying. But tell me why I can breeze my way through an intentional puzzle featuring rotational symmetry and puns in Italian and music composition and Greek philosophers and medallions featuring all six official Stooges only to discover, when I finally knuckle under and try to find a guide at the part where I’m stuck, the explanation offered is literally “go through the door, and.” What door? Where is it? Is the door in the room with us right now?

Anyway, I’m clearing out my Steam backlog, and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is a great time, as long as you know what a door is, apparently. Also there’s espresso. And a dog (and you can pet the dog).

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we hope you find the answer on this page we ripped out of a journal. Good luck.

We’re getting so close to spring y’all! By this time next week, we might even have temperatures above freezing again! It’s been a long cold start to February for us here in Canada, but we’re almost through it — and I, for one, cannot wait.

While I go scrape the ice off of my car yet again, it’s time for — The Queue!

Naps aren’t just a pastime, they’re a way of life. A way of life I would rather be following right now.

But my dedication to you, fellow Queuevians, is so great that I am here answering questions  (questions?) instead. Let’s get to it, my friends.

Sometimes, in the words of another game I enjoyed, Violence is the last, joyous resort of the improvident planner.

Whenever I play V I remember that line, because seriously, all her plans end up in a pile of that aforementioned mass of barnyard secretions. It’s almost like the game rewards me with dopamine for V’s terrible decisions.

I’m looking forward to Avowed on Game Pass, but until I get that, this will be my game.

After complaining for the past 10 days that I hadn’t gotten any of the mounts (I’m including the Renewed Proto-Drake Love Armor in that category) I finally had RNG on my side and got the Love Witch Sweeper yesterday. While not as prestigious as the X-45 Heartbreaker it is a nice addition to my mount collection. Inspired by this success I decided to take all my alts through the Crown Chemical Co. fight to see if I could get the Armor or Heartbreaker with low odds — with the promise that whichever character landed me either would get priority with leveling and gearing for the rest of the expansion!

Sadly my offer was refused and I got zilch. On the plus side I had a little time to get my characters cleaned up while waiting in queue, and I even discovered a level 70 toon that had really, really bad gear for their level and wasn’t even a member of my guild, the Undeleted. I’ve mostly rectified the issues, but I’m disappointed the attention didn’t get me a mount. Ah well, there’s still a week of attempts left.

While I sit in queue waiting to be disappointed, let’s answer some questions!

It’s not that I’m anti-holiday per se, or anti-love. It’s that I really just love this header image.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions, and we can be neither blamed nor stopped.

I guess something good happened for some combination of eagles and/or owls? I don’t pretend to understand what’s going on, all I know is that Seal was a literal seal and sang about Mountain Dew. I have no strong feelings about this other than wondering what took us as a society this long to make that happen.

While I suggest some subsequent stuff Senor Seal seal should sell us (seashores?), it’s time for — The Queue!

Oh no, I definitely didn’t forget to write the Queue. I am super prepared and would never do that. I also definitely did not just nope off to Pandaria for some relaxing kite flying (and to take notes on what I want my future home and garden to look like). Not me, I would never do that.

So let’s answer some questions!