The Queue

This little guy might be the highlight of the weekly events for me. Hunting down wayward Magisters and Thornspeakers for a weirdo with a suffering fixation? Holding fancy parties in the woods? Defending a black hole in the Voidstorm? No thanks. I’ll take this little rat loa, his big booming voice, and his pachinko machine world event. Though maybe doing it sixteen times last week by using eight shards from early access and eight more from week one was a lot.

No, your eyes do not deceive you: it’s a brand new Queue author! But if there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s authoritatively answering questions like I know what I’m talking about, so let’s get into it; you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.

My favorite thing about gaming is the weird lil guys. They’re rarer in AAA, but they’re there if you look.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions, and we don’t have answers. Just fish.

I love it when two of my interests come crashing together like a pair of hockey players slamming each other into the boards! Once again, World of Warcraft sponsored an Edmonton Oilers game, and they were exceedingly kind in inviting me along for the ride! The Blood Elves came back to support the Oilers, and there were prizes, pizzas being parachuted down from the ceiling, and a cool limited edition t-shirt of the Oilers mascot, Hunter the Lynx, glowing all void-y with the Warcraft W on his chest.

Last time they had us up in the special fancy box to watch the game, this time we were rinkside, and what an experience that was. I’ve never been so close to a professional hockey game! The puck was amazingly loud; you felt every slapshot that hit the boards viscerally. It was also super cool to hear it skitter along the glass as they passed it around the end of the rink. To say nothing of watching the aforementioned body checks up close and personal. It gives you a whole new appreciation of the things hockey players put their bodies through.

Sadly, the Oilers didn’t win, so congrats to Kalcheus and every other Carolina fan that night. I was really hoping that the Oilers would be heroes in the storm of Carolina. Still, it was a really close game (until it wasn’t) and I hope they decide to sponsor some Oilers playoff hockey…

While I pitch Blizzard on an Oilers quest hub, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

“Knight to C3,” commanded Peggy Sparklewrench. The gnome was determined to beat Medivh this time.

Medivh cheated. The black Knight burst into flames.

Having lost the game, Peggy said “screw this” and headed to the hot tub that had been set up on the Nightbane balcony, to take a dip with her new friends (a murloc, a cow, and Reno Jackson).

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where stories sometimes have exciting beginnings but predictable endings.

I labeled this Queue carefully so I would not forget about it. But I may have created a problem, because Queues like having unique names, and I’m going to run out of headline variations at some point.

Fortunately that’s a problem for future Liz, and present Liz is doing just fine.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where you ask questions, I try to answer them, and we all get to hang out in the comments section.

Hey, guess what!

Chicken butt.

Guess what else, I’m back again. Like Kael’thas, you just can’t get rid of me. You thought you’d had your fill of me on Monday, but jokes on you — I’m helping cover Liz’s Queue this week, and you’re stuck with me again.

While I try to remember what day of the week it is, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

After all that palling around with all the light users on Azeroth, I can’t help but feel there are a few important characters we forgot to consult. Hm. I’m sure it’s nothing.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll give you answers but they might only be applicable in an easily-accessed alternate universe.

So I’ve been looking at getting a new (used) car, and a lot of what shows up in my criteria has been the Kia Soul. Today, while my most favoritest person and I went to a local farmers’ market, we saw at least five different Souls parked there. I don’t know how closely overlapped the Venn diagram is between Kia Soul owners and Farmers’ Markets are but it’s gotta be overlapped pretty heavily.

I do appreciate that they all seem to be nice and colorful. Most cars I’ve seen are white, grey, or black. When did they all get so boring?!

While I lament the changing automotive trends, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

Looking at the new Silvermoon, and Eversong Woods in general is, in many ways, almost like looking at a “WoW 2.” Or, perhaps, a remastered version of WoW. It’s a bigger, better-looking, improved on nearly every aspect version of the same zones we first saw in Burning Crusade, 19 years ago. Familiar places, locations, NPCs, looking shiny and new and breathtaking.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we have a constant sense of awe finding out how that gate or that tunnel or that spire looks just like it does in our memories, but better.

There’s always one part of a new expansion I have trouble with, and that’s figuring out what in the sam hill hickity heck to do with all this junk before I go accumulate even more junk. I probably should’ve done a ton of crafting and AHing in the lead-up, but the entire gameplay loop of items and crafting just isn’t my thing. I want to hit the ground running in whatever (as long as it’s transmogged) and be a little loot goblin and hoard stuff forever. It doesn’t matter what it is as long as I can pick it up. Anyway, anybody want a scourgestone?

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and the answer is probably not to just buy a new tab and shove all this garbage in there. Right?