The Queue

I’ve been playing a lot of the Mystery Heroes mode of Overwatch 2 lately to unwind, and man has it made for a whole lot of wackiness. There is no other explanation.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we are somehow supposed to come up with a clutch answer, we guess.

Finally, after many nice days in the California air conditioning, I have returned home to the great Frozen North. Luckily it wasn’t actually that cold when I landed because all I had was a hoody to keep myself warm.

Unfortunately, now I have to back to the day job and can’t spend my time being super excited about upcoming Blizzard products and Korean BBQ.

While I try and remember what my day job is, it’s time for — The Queue.

I thought it felt pretty quiet. I didn’t miss anything, did I?

Just a little Celldweller this morning.

Well the patch 10.2 maintenance finally ended so we’re all having fun in the Emerald Dream now I reckon. The one thing I dislike is the faction name “Dream Warden”. I get it, it’s supposed to sound like you’re guarding the Dream, but “Warden” always feels like to me you’re keeping bad stuff in as a jailor, not preventing things from getting inside. Dream Warriors would’ve been a better name, and not just because it’s the theme song to a horror movie.

I’m Kalcheus, and Mitch is still not available to answer questions so I’ll do it! Let’s go.

There is a point every BlizzCon where my brain has devolved into a useless mass of half-wrinkled goo. At that point, everything seems funny, everything is enraging, everything seems like simultaneously a good and bad idea. Brings me back to college, really.

It was at this time when I encountered this photo of a single tiny cactus in the Hearthstone area from our Away Team member Joe Collins. I don’t know why this cactus is such a vibe — so lonely, so precious, so special, so charming — but it is the best thing to come out of BlizzCon 2023, and I will protect it with my life. It is so stupid. I love it so much.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we’re… not promising anything at this point.

What a BlizzCon! I saw legends in action and got my socks blown off by all of the big World of Warcraft announcements! Which is probably for the best because after all of the walking I did that weekend my socks were getting a little holy…

While I see if Diablo 4 wants to use my socks to help keep Lilith at bay, it’s time for — The Queue!

The time is nearly upon us. Let us Queue before it arrives.

Recovering from being sick can really just be the worst.

The famous “Sakeru Gummy vs. Long Sakeru Gummy” series of commercials — more popularly known as the “Long Long Man” commercials — are some of the greatest commercials ever made. So much that they actually won the top prize (the Silver Lion) at the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, among other awards.

I’m reminded of that commercial because last night I asked for Queue questions, and you guys delivered (I love you all): I got so many of them that this Queue grew incredibly long. So long that the very first draft already went over the unknown limit where the ghosts in the machine get fed up with our crap and decide to erase the whole thing. So I had to cut some questions, which is really sad.

Alas, much like our hero Tooru-san, This Queue will forever be envious of a longer Queue — the kind of Queue that would make his beloved Chi-chan swoon — but that it’ll never be.