The Queue

It’s the first full day of a new/old Blizzard game with the launch of World of Warcraft: Forever, which has us all caught between the lure of nostalgia and the lure of new content. And without anything to buy, it’s pretty tempting to log on and check it out… perhaps falling into the nostalgia trap yourself.

But maybe it’s worth it, to turn back the clock and try to re-experience Azeroth in Forever. Maybe it’s a brand new/old day for Warcraft.

And in the meanwhile, the Midnight servers feel empty and hopefully you, like me, are not still trying to get your Ahead of the Curve achievement as your guild has grown a little disenchanted with the modern game. Gulp.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we do our best to answer your gaming (and other) questions. Let’s get to it.

So yeah, I’ve been trying to write the intro to this Queue and every possible thing that could interfere to stop me has in fact happened. So here’s a picture of my dog because y’all were showing pictures of your pets yesterday, I might as well get in on that.

It has come to my attention that many of you have adorable fuzzy (and less fuzzy!) companions and many of you do not post photos without requests. Just know that literally every day, I am psychically requesting to see the baby. If in doubt, more baby.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and if you haven’t telepathically received the answers already that’s just another sign that our powers haven’t quite come in yet.

For some of you, time has changed. Clocks have fallen back, and somehow the powers that be have granted you another hour of life. Of course, they’ll take it back in a few months, but enjoy it until then!

For people in some Canadian provinces, we’re just not doing daylight saving any more. I had no time change at all, no extra hour, and you’d think no extra confusion! However, somehow that isn’t the case. My phone worked right and kept the time it was supposed to; my lady friend’s phone, not so much. My computer that I’m writing this on has fallen back, and my Xbox fell back and couldn’t be convinced to not fall back. All of these will get ironed out in the coming days, hopefully, but what’s really weird is that now I’m basically on Central Time, and that’s super odd.

It won’t be so bad; it’ll mainly confuse me when I jump on the BlizzardWatch podcast, as now I join that an hour later. At least until Spring, when I’ll go back to my old time. I’m so glad that we’re not doing anything confusing like Daylight Saving Time anymore.

While I go mess with other fundamental forces of nature, it’s time for our daily question-and-answer column — The Queue!

There has been some discussion lately as to the meaning of the Queue. It is, of course, a Q&A column, but that’s a Q and not a Queue (and explains why we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel for questions some days). Liz claims it’s from “login queue” but none of you people are waiting to log in, unless it’s to reserve a name in Forever. Hope that went well for you this week, by the way. Personally, I think “Queue” is just short for “Queuenathan.” “Please, call it The Queue; The Queuenathan is my father(‘s column).”

Look, it’s a Friday. This is the Queuenathan, our daily Q&A column where occasionally I go off the rails and sometimes I even answer your questions.

Thursday keeps coming around, and even though time ostensibly runs in one direction it’s also cyclical. Somehow it’s always Thursday, and we’re always here in the Queue.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I do my very best to answer your gaming questions. Let’s get to it.

I apologize for the header image being somewhat washed out, it’s the best I could do with the teaser vid.

You are waiting with your spreadsheet to try to grab a unique first and last name. I am about to get on a steam train in the wilderness in a DLC for one of my favorite long-term games.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions, and we deny all evidence to the contrary that the island in the DLC is named after me.

It’s just around the corner!

Have you eaten your first box of candy and needed to buy the “Shameful Second” box? The “Is What It Is third box?” The “Accepting You Have a Problem and Doing Nothing to Change It” fourth box?

I certainly don’t know what you’re talking about, and I resent your accusatory stares right now.

While I try and find a spot to dispose of a small mountain of wrappers, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

I’m going on a vacation trip soon and I hope I get isekai’d into some videogame world. Some of those locations you see in games look so realistic that one might think they could actually exist in real life!

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where sometimes we wonder what it would be like to visit Azeroth, or Hyrule, or Planet Zebes, and then we decide to play some Assassin’s Creed. (I wish Florence was real.)