The Queue

We’re gearing up for summer, so it’s time to start getting the kids signed up for summer swim programs and the like. These tend to either be eye-wateringly expensive or relatively low-cost but run by volunteers. Surprise, the parents are the volunteers. So, me. It’s me. I’m the volunteer. So it is about to be a very splashy summer. Maybe send a rescue party? Preferably made of ducks?

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where you ask us questions and we’ll give you the answers as soon as I find a towel.

Happy Victoria Day to my fellow Canucks, and only my fellow Canucks. Apparently, we’re the only ones who specifically celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday. It doesn’t hurt that it lands on a good point to make the unofficial start of Summer, that’s totally just a coincidence. If you don’t have a queen to celebrate today, maybe you could celebrate Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades. She’s pretty cool and pointy!

Other good options are the Junker Queen, Queen Talanji, Queen Aszhara, Zagara the Zerg Queen, and the Amazon Queen from Skovos.

While I try to think of more Queens to celebrate in Blizzard games, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

Every single run of The Pit in Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred has your character, worried about some unknown marauder supposedly following them, cursing the place for it (no matter which place it is) — but the encounter with this mysterious assailant never actually happens. I don’t get it, man. Since people recently discovered the Secret Cow Level in Diablo 4, maybe the next secret they should devote themselves to is how to find this elusive character who always follows you in The Pit, but never actually shows their face.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where you ask as questions and we answer them because that’s what “Q&A” means, I think. Right? Right. I mean, I *hope* I’m right about this; otherwise I’ve been doing this column all wrong.

I know that Blizzard has a cool new bundle featuring two treehouse-style home exteriors, but we have trees at home. We don’t need to spend $40 (or $75 if we get the bundle with matching accessories) to build a treehouse. We have trees at home!

We have to build them ourselves, but still, we have trees at home.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where sometimes we have to tackle the important topic of treehouses in video games. Let’s get to your questions.

I mean, it’s kind of hard for me to believe it when people tell me that Diablo 4 is an ARPG and not How I Met Everyone’s Mother with my burly Barbarian regaling her presumably winged children with the story of how she met Lilith.

Come on, she’s literally telling me how much I need her up there. It’s not subtle.

I’m not sure what the etymology of the phrase “it’s got the juice” comes from. I am nearly positive it was a phrase used to reference a particular piece of media being an excellent example of form long before the song (though anything featuring Janelle Monet immediately has the juice). I don’t think it’s a direct reference to that viral clip of that kid eating corn from back when every viral clip was immediately turned into an autotuned song, but it is plausible. As an eating experience, grilled corn on the cob definitely has the juice.

Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll answer — if we got the juice.

There are so many great mothers in Blizzard’s games. A lot more than in Disney movies for some reason…

I still think that the best Warcraft one is Alexstraza. It’s not easy being a mother to so many fire-breathing children. That she can still treat us, the players (other than Death Knights), as nicely as she does is impressive. She’d be well within her rights to ignore the world and go spend all of her time at a spa, relaxing.

While I go find some Pandaren extra giant cucumber slices for her to put over her eyes, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

I am greatly enjoying my Warlock in Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred. Not only is the class really fun to play, she’s very photogenic. I guess one thing you learn early on in Warlock School is that it’s not enough to constantly battle corruption while pursuing infinite demonic power; you have to look really cool while doing it.

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we ride a demonic doggo into battle while dragging our enemies in fire chains behind us, and then we incinerate them. Feels good, man.

In Diablo 4’s latest expansion, my Necromancer has more pets than ever. I can have up up to 27 necromantic minions, and though I don’t yet have the gear to have quite that many at once right now, I did equip a new Runeword that is helping to fill the loneliness in my heart by summoning ghost wolves, based on the number of other minions I have up. Though the ghost wolves only last for seven seconds, they’re constantly being resummoned, and so I am surrounded by a veritable army of the goodest ghostly boys at all times. Truly a miracle of dark magic.

Sure, I can’t find myself on screen in the chaos, but it’s worth it.

If you’re new around here and don’t understand, this is the Queue, our daily Q&A column, and today we’re talking about lot about Diablo and little about kaiju. It’s a perfectly ordinary day, so let’s get to the questions.

Day 8 — So far I still have no idea how I got to this ‘Sanctuary’ place. It is perhaps the worst name for a place I’ve ever encountered, and I’ve been to a world named Draenor after the people who crash landed on it instead of the people native to it.

No one I’ve spoken to can point me to any portals that lead anywhere except to ‘Hell’ which is not helpful. Significant demonic problem — most people here seem terrified of or resigned to the things so I’ve taken on the task to cleaning them out.

On the upside, I can finally dye my armor.