The Queue

I understand that it may not be to everyone’s tastes, but personally, I can’t come up with anything I’m enjoying more in my convalescence than a rousing game of pretending the Doom Slayer crashed onto Sanctuary somehow and is now showing an entirely new set of demons why the only thing they should fear is me.

It’s the Queue, everyone.

I am at that peculiar crossroads between excited anticipation, and the melancholy that comes when something is over. The final episode of The Long Dark‘s story mode releases today. While I’ll still be able to keep playing it in survival mode, and revisit the story as well, it remains one of my most cherished gaming experiences, and I had a genuine lump in my throat when they announced it “went gold” on Steam a couple weeks ago.

This is it. It’s almost over. But it’s almost a new beginning.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and I definitely didn’t write this early so I could binge a video game for the rest of the day.

I definitely did not authorize it to be Monday already. The dilemma of weekends: the more I do on the weekend, the more I feel like I need a second weekend after my weekend because I used the first one up doing stuff, but the less I do on the weekend, the more I feel like I need a second weekened because I wasted the first one.

Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily Q&A column. Grab your favorite morning beverage (I have an iced coffee, unlike the fine captain up here) and let’s get to answering some questions.

I take a lot of screenshots, no matter which game I’m playing, and WoW is, of course, no exception. I have an excessive amount of screenshots of various games saved on my drives. I guess taking cool screenshots is the main reason I do transmog.

It’s even better when weird stuff like graphical glitches happen (even if they’re minor, like your transmog showing both your 2H and dual wielding weapons at the same time). That’s the kind of stuff that’s fun to post about the moment it happens, and also fun to remember later.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we encourage everyone to make their toons look good and find the perfect angle.

Look, I just spent a week in bed with nothing but YouTube clips of Godzilla to distract me from the enormous gaping hole in my foot where my bones used to be. Please just allow me these small consolations.

On Monday nights, after our raid ends, I like to park myself right at the Great Vault so that when I get home from work Tuesday afternoon I’m ready to log in and hopefully secure a piece of shiny new loot. This week, for the first vault of the season, I decided to wander over to the Horde-only side of Silvermoon City and see if we had a bank over there with our own Great Vault. We do, as it turns out, and I thought — you know, it’s silly, but maybe as a Horde character, I’ll have slightly better luck if I use the Horde-only Vault.

I did get some Hero-tier gloves that I can catalyze next week, and I managed to continue to evade the bug where people are getting nothing but the same item slot over and over (example: eight sets of bracers), so I guess it worked? I’ll probably continue to do this on Mondays. If baseball players can be superstitious, so can I.

Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where you ask questions, and we probably have answers, but we have to do a little ritual first. Just in case.

It never fails. We get to the part of spring when it’s lovely and I want nothing more than to be outside and throw open all the windows, and then, boom, the pollen count is 6,000 and everything is coated in yellow-green dust. Gross.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll give a zyrtec-fueled answer. Gesundheit.

DOOM and Diablo are a match made in… well, not heaven, somewhere hotter.

This makes the most sense for a Diablo crossover ever and I love seeing my Barbarian spinning around with the cool DOOM weapons. I’d love it even more if the armor and Cacodemon pet weren’t as expensive as they were, but at least I got the cool DOOM shield for when I make my Paladin in Lord of Hatred.

I’m not the biggest fan of crossing IP over in games like Diablo and Destiny. Games with an actual story shouldn’t randomly have other universes dropped into them. Although the DOOM gear fits extremely well into the aesthetic that Diablo 4 has got going on, so I’d likely not even notice if I showed up a year from now and saw a player in the gear. It makes more sense than StarCraft crossovers do!

While I go and collect more DOOM: The Dark Ages Currency to be able to afford the cool town portal, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

Yes, I know WoW has a new expansion and everyone is excited about it. Xal’atath is great, yadda yadda. Did you know that the Cataclysm expansion has just been released as well?! (For Hearthstone.)

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we play other Blizzard games too! (But we also play a lot of WoW, and we are super excited about it as well, so you’ll get that too, of course.)

Let’s open with a Hearthstone question.

It’s a beautiful day in Silvermoon City… as long as you don’t turn around and look up at the sky, anyway. But there’s no time to sit around enjoying the scenery, because we have quests to finish, reputation to grind, prey to track, and delves to clear.

And we can’t forget the Queue, of course. This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we do our best to answer your questions and we all get to have a good time in the comments section because of it. Let’s get to it.