The Queue

As y’all can see in the above screenie, Lilith likes to claim we need her to stop Mephisto. After several hundred attempts to kill the Echo of Lilith on Torment 8 (I’m handily clearing Torment 9 content otherwise) I don’t think we do.

I’m really willing to take a chance on this.

Nobody tell Rutherford, whose middle initial does not stand for bear, that I’ve been doing Prey with my cat. It’s bound to be awkward and all, but come on, Leech. Be cool, okay?

Also, what’s the deal with Spirit Beasts. I understand that they don’t want their healing to be too OP, but I swear, one 30 second cooldown heals me for maybe .5% health over 10 seconds. I’d report this as a bug but I’ve been feeling exceptionally suspicious as to whether things are genuinely bugs, or if I’m just doing everything wrong.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the Queues, and we’ll answer .5% of them.

My favorite person and I wandered around a pop art gallery today. It was full of some great pieces involving interesting perspectives, drunken olives who were also pirates, cowboys painted from interesting angles, and more lovely portraits of celebrities and public figures than you can count. It reinforced two things: one, neither of us makes enough money to buy large original art despite how cool it would look on our walls, and two, who knew the world needed so many olive people paintings.

The standouts that we saw, and lamented not being able to buy the most, were a series from a local artist of astronauts and hot dogs in space. There was a fantastic piece that was extra wide and skinny, which was just an astronaut on the moon, with a hot dog cart, and nothing else. For some reason, it spoke to us. Maybe it was the absurdity, maybe it was our love of hot dogs — all I know is that it would be fantastic hanging above my TV, but sadly, I don’t have the two weeks’ wages to spend on whimsical art.

While I look into a set of burglars tools, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

Rumor has it that Conjured Mana Cupcakes contain zero calories. I believe it. A. F. Kay is constantly eating the stuff (while her teammates get eaten by Sindragosa or what-have-you), yet she maintains an impeccable figure regardless.

…then again, she has the exact same figure as every single other Human Female in the game. Hmmm. 🤔

This is The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we give a lot of thought to important questions such as the metaphysics of mana food and the (im)possibilities of using time magic for infinite nourishment.

Why do we have a treasure hunt for statues of our (maybe) enemies? I don’t know, but now it’s become a trend and we have to run with it. More statues, please.

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I am far from a good Diablo 4 player. If you want a talented player, Liz Patt has you covered. What I am is bizarrely and ridiculously tenacious. And, occasionally, I am lucky at the weirdest times. For example, I am wearing Tyrael’s Might, it’s updated for Lord of Hatred but it’s still a really great breastplate. I got it when I turned in my War Plan and Tyrael threw a bunch of loot at me, which included his breastplate.

The next Belial run I ended up on, the chest had El’druin, Sword of Justice in it. All I need are a pair of weird Angel tendrils and a hood and I’m basically cosplaying as the guy, and it’s making every time I turn in a War Plan kind of awkward.

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?

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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.