The Queue

Why?

• They make it easier to organize my thoughts
• Often I sit down and use a bulleted list to group together related ideas
  • For example, using a subsidiary bullet to list an idea complimentary to a previous full bullet point
  • Like you could have a bullet saying Theropods and then several sub-bullets like Extinct Theropods with all the various groups like:
    • Carcharadontosaurs
    • Ceratosaurs
    • Megalosaurs
    • Coelurosaurs
      • Extinct Coelurosaurs
      • Extant Coelurosaurs aka birds

Now, let’s Queue this.

The waiting on patch day is the hardest part. It’s like being 8 and it’s Christmas morning, but also like you’re a responsible adult who has columns to write, or whatever. But man am I distracted today.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and I don’t have anything better to do today than answer them I guess.

It’s kinda nice when the main villain in an epic fantasy story is just some human bandit. Strong enough to kill ancient dragons, make legendary weapons out of their bones, and invite his closest friends to drink their magical blood, sure, but still some human bandit!

Who sings his own final boss theme in a tenor voice.

This is The Queue, your daily Q&A column where we really should replay that game for the third time as we wait for the sequel to come out in just over a month.

It’s my eight-year Blizzard Watch anniversary! This very day! It’s hard to believe that it’s been so long. Surely it was just yesterday; now let me take a big sip of water and take a look at a calendar…

Way back when I got hired, I’d basically never written anything outside of school. Now I have 700 articles to my name according to the tracker on WordPress. This is also apparently my 700th article, which is pretty cool! I still remember when I started Anne introducing herself and saying, “Don’t be scared, but I have notes!” Amazingly, she’s as nice as you expect her to be, and she helped me to be a better writer. As well as literally everyone else that Blizzard Watch has gotten to write or edit any of our articles. Special shout-outs to Anna and Liz for keeping everything running and putting up with my overuse of the exclamation point. Even though if they’re reading this right now, they’re shaking their head at how many I’ve already used. It’s been eight years — I’m allowed to be excited!

My first article about Daughter of the Sea still even remains cool! I’m glad it was about something really fun, and not just a patch note roundup. Maybe someday Blizzard will give us another sea-shanty to obsess over.

So here’s to you all for reading my words, and here’s to Blizzard Watch for giving me a place to put those words. Thanks to them, I’ve gotten to do a bunch of really cool things, and I can’t wait to see what else I can do in the future.

While I daydream about that, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

The end of a season in World of Warcraft always heralds the beginning of a new season, full of excitement and adventure. Or in this case, snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

But I have kind of gotten tired of Season 1 content… even though I haven’t entirely finished everything… so off to the Coiled Isle we go.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I attempt to answer your questions. Let’s get to it.

My spouse and I are going to see Spider-Man: Brand New Day this weekend, a date night and the first movie I’ll see in a theatre since 2020. I won’t pretend I’m not nervous — COVID left marks on my soul that have never really faded and the realization that many people living around me would be perfectly happy to let me and other people with risk factors die instead of doing simple, harmless things like wearing masks or getting vaccinated.

Still, I want to see Spider-Man do Spider-Man things. And at least I know he’d wear a mask to keep me safe, if he were real.

It’s been a fun ten days of going to the faire with my favorite person! We rode rides, ate fried food, saw shows, and only got rained out twice. Which, considering the wet year that Edmonton has had, is not too bad. We even snuck in a major concert at a stadium to see Jelly Roll and Post Malone. The show had so many pyrotechnics that we could feel the heat on our faces even way up in the top stands!

My feet may be tired, but I already can’t wait for next year’s faire. It’s super fun, and I love the chance to see so many musical acts that I wouldn’t get to normally. We even managed to not pay a cent for parking during the whole thing, which is a pretty good win in my books.

While I try to adjust to a normal life again, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

Last week I was supposed to be on vacation, but the vacation was clearly cursed. Just absolutely pirate gold, vengeful murdered victorian child levels of nonsense. The one silver lining was passing by The Peachoid twice in two days.

So, behold, I guess.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and just as soon as we get back from the DMV, dentist, and mechanic, and actually let’s pencil in an exorcist so we probably won’t have a chance to answer, sorry. Maybe after I get done very carefully and explicitly not cussing out my “roadside assistance” insurance agent. Oh, probably should check in with my therapist about it, too now that I’m thinking of it.

If you ask a WoW player, Bloodmage Thalnos (or Thalnos the Soulrender) is just a barely-remembered boss in the Scarlet Monastery, not particularly noteworthy. Ask a Hearthstone player, though, and you might just get a declaration of love for one of the most iconic cards that have ever graced the game, and possibly the only card to remain unchanged, and still playable, since the game’s inception.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we want more! More souls!

I do have a Mage alt, but I don’t play it enough to keep up with how to play it, which means I usually don’t play it. I just want to go around spamming Arcane Explosion non-stop and be a ball of violent purple destruction, but apparently that’s inefficient and also it tends to result in my death. I’m that player in pugs when I’m on a Mage.

And I’ve been maining a Death Knight lately, so weirdly I’m not actually used to dying a lot anymore. Every other class I play feels squishy, but Mages more than most. So playing a Mage is a hard ask, but maybe I should anyway.

Existential class questions aside, this is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we attempt to answer your gaming (maybe) questions (maybe) and sometimes succeed (maybe). Let’s get to it.