The Queue

I see you all giving me that judgmental stare, but I am only concerned about safety. This ship could go down any second now, and this murloc floatie could save my life. Really you should be wearing one yourself! Hmph.

I suppose we’ll move on to questions, while I quietly question all of your fashion choices.

I want to watch Big Trouble in Little China again.

There’s a lot happening next week:

The end of ReMists.

The release of the next Guild Wars 2 expansion Janthir Wilds.

Gamescom — Europe’s biggest gaming convention — starts on Tuesday with an opening night show featuring who else but Geoff Keighley.

Oh, and there’s a little thing called The War Within releasing in early access.

So even though I had earmarked this week for in-game cleanup, I knew I had to get out last weekend and take in the sunshine while I still could. So I drove on up to the Blue Ridge Parkway and stopped at many places on the Virginia portion south of Roanoke. Mabry Mill (pictured in the header) is one of the more iconic sites on the BRP so it was nice to see the water flowing and the wheel turning. Unfortunately the sun was high up in the sky when I arrived so the picture looks pretty washed out, but that’s ok — it’s a memory, not a piece of artwork. I saw a deer grazing on the side of the road, hawks riding the thermals, and lots of pretty butterflies. It was a nice trip, and hopefully I’ve stored up enough air and sunlight and mountain music to last me these next few weeks.

While I feverishly plan my next trip outdoors, let’s answer some questions!

Whenever I write the Queue, rest assured that it’s coming straight from a laptop in my cozy bedroom with my very cute pet which happens to be a bunny. Or something like that.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we give you the answers, just as soon as we finish redecorating. Again.

Some people have been talking about Overwatch as a fighting game, but clearly, the thing that should get new life as a fighting game is ultra popular Heroes of the Storm! 

It’s even got the first two proof-of-concept screenshots right in the arcades of Overwatch. I can’t think of a better way for Blizzard to enter the modern fighting game sphere than by taking all of their best characters and making them fight each other. The best part is that by not limiting yourself to just Overwatch you can have so many more of those fun characters to play with!

While I practice more of Kael’thas’ mid-range air juggle combos, it’s time for — The Queue!

But it really is hard to say which one is more prominent than the other. We could spend the rest of the day dwelling on that question, but instead, let’s queue.

As to what we’re queueing for, it’s hard to say, but let’s queue all the same.

I’m not good at grief. I’ve lost pets before — in my time writing here I lost both Grim and Aurora. The same stabbing pain, the heartbreak of it, never really gets any easier.

She was my little girl. She played WoW, and even healed a raid once — and did a better job than I did, for that matter. I love her and I’ll miss her. She fought and rode the Roomba, she loved basking in the sunlight, she was brave enough to yell at a cop for daring to come into her house.

Goodbye, little sun shadow.

I only smile in the dark
My only comfort is the night gone black
I didn’t accidentally tell you that
I’m only happy when it rains

Most of the time when Cory earworms me it’s because of something completely tangential to the song he actually picked.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll answer just as soon as we find out who got the keys to the Jeep, vrooooooom.

We had an absolutely lovely storm roll through last night. There was thunder and lightning, and several hours of rain. I certainly didn’t put off writing this Queue to sit and listen to the rain at all. No sir, not me!

While I brew another pot of coffee for my sleep-deprived self, it’s time for — The Queue!