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.

…Hang on, Rutherford, I’ll finish this later.

This is The Queue, where you ask us questions and we’ll give you some answers.

So anyway, I sez to Mabel…

I know that it’s not actually Summer yet, but I’ve gotta make sure that I’m ready to hit the beach at a moment’s notice!

While I try and find my tiny beach pail, it’s time for — The Queue!

So yeah, my wife and I moved this week and today — the very Friday you would presumably be reading this Queue — is the first real day of being able to access the internet on my PC. So many updates trying to start all at once. I downloaded the PC beta for Diablo Immortal, and while I think it’s got some issues, like a glaring problem with the controller sensitivity that no amount of tinkering has yet fixed for me, I also think it’s superior to the tablet version. I’ve played both, and I generally prefer the game on PC.

Seriously, the character creation for DI is amazing. That is way more than I was expecting.

Anyway, it’s the Queue, let us do the thing.

Today’s title is inspired both by our first question and the recent (and incredibly annoying) “Bloodborne Remastered” tweet that took off like fire, despite being completely fake. I generally hate those sorts of “jokes” — in which the end result is purely that a bunch of people will be disappointed after having been completely excited — but I digress. We’re here to Queue.

So let’s Queue.