The Queue

I’m really glad Kate Bush is seeing a bit of the resurgence she deserves, but if we stop at Running Up That Hill I’m gonna be real annoyed.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we’re probably in the attic in a bean bag chair listening to some records. We’ll be down in a few. Be cool. Don’t tell mom.

Oh, that’s right, it’s behind me!

I could finally line up with my raid team to get Ahead of the Curve for the Jailer. It turns out that having a job that isn’t the usual 9-5 can make it hard to make a raid sometimes! How rude!!

It also turns out that when you can get your whole raid through the first phase without anyone falling into a hole, or getting mind-controlled by the Jailer — it gets a lot easier to do the next two phases, who knew! Armed with this new knowledge I’m sure that we’ll be a Race to World First contender in no time.

While I start practicing my victory speech, it’s time for — The Queue.

Well, it’s Friday… again. I just don’t know how this keeps happening.

We’re only 85 days away from Splatoon 3, but I’m still itching for some Splatfests. Y’all remember those, right? Hopefully Nintendo will do that pre-launch thing they sometimes do and have a beta Splatfest. Wouldn’t that be rad? (Yes, yes it would.)

You know what’s also rad? The Queue.

One thing that’s really hampering my ability to actually progress in Diablo Immortal is my inability to stop myself from rolling yet another Barbarian and testing out the different options for tweaking their faces and hair colors. I feel like if there were a few more baseline options to start with this could really be something great, especially considering it works across six classes and two gender options.

Yes, this is utterly trivial. I’ve got a lot on my mind, okay? It helps fight off the sad thoughts. Feeling down? Spend a half hour coming up with a face for a Barbarian, go into Wertham, kill stuff until you get bored and then start it all over again.

I have spent almost all of Monday crying.

Surprise weekend in that there were a ton of surprise announcements over the weekend, not possibly better surprise couple of days off work to go and relax.

Overwatch 2 gets a release date and they confirmed the Junker Queen. Which is a character that I’ve been hoping would be rad since they teased her back in the Junkrat video. Still holding out hope for our good friend Jetpack Cat though.

Diablo 4 also got that sweet Necromancer confirmation and some more details. When I played it back at BlizzCon 2019 it felt really solid. The Necromancer is probably the only class that could make me waver in my Druid choice though. I’m going have some tough decisions when it eventually comes out.

While I make a giant spreadsheet of pros and cons about Druids and Necromancers, it’s time for — The Queue.

The problem is that once I start talking about Star Trek, it’s hard to get me to stop… so I’ve left that for the end and tried to answer a few questions first.

I feel like a broken record — or, maybe just an adult in 2022? — but it’s been a busy week, and things don’t feel like they’re going to slow down anytime soon. But hey, it’s Thursday (right?) and it’s time for a Queue.

So let’s Queue.

I’m only playing the first one I made, the rest are just to see how much I can do with the character creator.