The Queue

I’ve been playing the card game Snap since I was a kid. I was also passing familiar with Pokémon Snap, but that played on “snapshot” rather than the card game. I assumed Marvel SNAP had gameplay similar to the card game, but also maybe had something in common with the Pokémon version, particularly the “catch em all” motif associated with TCGs. I’m not sure exactly when it hit me that the annoying all-caps brand styling emphasizing SNAP was depicted as cracked and disintegrating, a la the infamous Thanos Snap in the MCU, but man did I feel kinda stupid that it was more recent than it should’ve been.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we’re probably on the ball enough to know the answer. Maybe.

One of the things about playing video games is, they often have soundtracks. Sometimes, I really wish I had something like a soundtrack in my day to day life. just so I’d know when I was about to enter a boss encounter or what have you. Like, I’d be pushing along a cart at the local Superstore and then suddenly a bunch of singers started doing that faux-Latin and the drums pick up so yeah, I’d be ready for werewolves.

Not that I’ve seen werewolves at the Superstore yet. But I’d like to be warned if it ever happens.

Today’s Queue is all about hot transmog, hot chocolate, and chill weekends. So let’s get to it and Queue!

This week has been pretty quiet — not because it’s been slow or anything, but it’s literally been very quiet because I’ve had the house to myself. I mean, I have cats, so it’s not entirely quiet. But it’s quieter than usual.

So let’s find each other some company here, in The Queue.

I make playlists on YouTube sometimes. Sometimes they have videos about a character from Destiny 2 set to the song I want to listen to and so I learn that said character is dead, so I then end up on a Wiki dive to figure out who they were and why they died.

Anyway, yeah, Cayde-6 seems like he was kind of cool. I never played much Destiny 2 so I don’t really get the full impact. Still, it’s a pretty good death sequence, and Nolan North does a good job stepping into a character for his goodbye.

I sometimes fear that I’ll wake up and Nolan North will be doing my voice because that will almost certainly mean that I’m about to die cinematically.

So y’all asked a lot of questions about stuff coming up and I answered. I didn’t realize until after I answered that, hey, wow. That’s kind of a lot.

So this is The Queue, where you ask the questions, and then buckle up for the answers.

Hey, it’s Canadian Thanksgiving! So if you’re Canadian — Happy Thanksgiving! If you’re not, just know that I’m eating and drinking very well this weekend and you should be jealous.

While I get another glass of wine, it’s time for — The Queue.

Sometimes I regret doing the Friday Queue… mostly when I’m staying up to watch Critical Role live and it usually lasts until 1am and then I still have to write the Queue. That means I’m either trying to write during the show, in which case I’m distracted, or I’m trying to write after the show, in which case I’m tired.

Geez, this is just bad planning on my part.

So let’s do this. Let’s Queue.

Time for a Queue, of course!

(…Yeah, not my best intro. Quick, look, a distraction!)

So I can load this site and the CMS to write things for it, but I can’t load the comments on the Queue, nor can I access Discord to look at questions there, and I can’t get Twitter to load.

In case you’re wondering, it is really hard to write the Queue without anything to respond to. I was seriously tempted to just start writing fanfic about you. Luckily I could still play Cyberpunk 2077 for my transmog fix while I waited.