The Queue

Look, life is crazy now and I have no idea if we’ll still be around this November. But if we are, I know that I’ll be playing Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered, and for a brief moment. I’ll be Godzilla.

Y’all talked a lot about chips, so don’t be disappointed that this Queue is mostly about that. And about Red and his hunger for dinosaur flesh.

It’s funny how often I’ve had to go back and visit old content because of stuff they’ve discussed on the podcast. This past week, it was trying to remember exactly where and when Rendle pops up. I knew he was in Revendreth, but didn’t remember if he was accessible outside the raid to players who completed the storyline but didn’t join the faction. What was the next set of zones he was in. Undermine? No, that’s not right, but it sort of feels right in terms of his character, you know?

Anyway, it was quite the detour, and wow does Castle Nathria take forever to complete these days.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we don’t remember where to turn in all this anima we suddenly have, so we’ll get to you in a minute.

I’ve done it. I have tried a Kraft Dinner Mac and Cheese… cheesecake. I saw this food crime a couple of weeks ago and made it a mission to eventually try it. I say food crime mainly out of the response I got to it when I mentioned it during the Blizzard Watch podcast a couple of weeks ago. Nobody else seemed to think that it was going to work for some reason. Cowards, the lot of them!

So I’m happy to report back after both eating the cheesecake and surviving eating the cheesecake. It was fine. I’m honestly a little disappointed that it wasn’t more of a trainwreck. I was really hoping that it was going to be amazing or horrible. I didn’t want a safe middle ground here, just pure food chaos! It turns out that if you’re already using something like cream cheese as a base for your cake, adding extra cheese via a dehydrated cheese flavour pouch at some point in the mixture doesn’t really do much to change the flavor profile. It was still just a cheesy cake. There was the barest hint of more of a cheddar flavor on the edge of the taste, but nothing that made me go ick. If you want to make it yourself, you can follow the official recipe, and maybe horrify some of your friends and relatives, but I’d be surprised if they’re also not left feeling just whelmed.

While I go off in search of new and more interesting food crimes, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

I wanna try it. I love ramen (ordered some last night, which is what prompted this thought). Pandaren are canonically extremely good at cooking; they even get a racial about it. Their ramen must be divine.

This is The Queue, our daily column full of Qs and As where we wish we could live in Pandaria. Seriously. Grummles and Yaks and Luckydos; great food and elemental spirits. Just ignore the Sha and the Mantid and the Virmen, and it’s a great place.

What a time to be a gamer. We live in a golden age of video gaming, in which there is a constant deluge of new, great, innovative titles everywhere — and this week in particular is jam-packed with indie game showcases highlighting the weird and the wonderful (and the weird). Of course we also live in an age of big-budget live service games packed with must-have microtransactions, so maybe on the whole it balances out.

But I’m trying to focus on the positive here, which is the many new games hitting my Steam wishlist.

(Is that a positive? Hm.)

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

I’m fishing.

In a video game.

I have never been willing to do this. Diablo 4, I think you’ve broken me.

It’s Pride Month, which has increasingly been co-opted by companies trotting out the same ol graphic year after year to celebrate. As tiresome and disingenuous as that may be, it does make me a little hopeful, in that if it weren’t profitable for them to puke rainbows, they wouldn’t do it.  And conversely, for some, the message of being unrepentantly visible about supporting Pride will outweigh any consequence.

When I say that you matter, that you deserve the right to not only exist but thrive, and I’m happy you’re here, I truly mean that.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions, and we don’t really have any answers but we’re still showing up anyway.

I went and saw one of my favorite bands last week, Alestorm!

They put on one heck of a great show. The standout is, of course, this giant inflatable duck, but they also had a singing parrot and a rapping shark come out for a couple of songs, so it was a pretty wild time. There was crowd surfing, and a mosh pit, and at one point the mosh pit sat on the floor and all rowed in unison with the singer, and a whole bunch of songs about drinking rum! What’s not to love?

I’m a little sad that they didn’t do their cover of The Last Saskatchewan Pirate, written by a local band, but I can understand not changing the tour setlist for just one stop.

While I dive deep into the pirate metal rabbit hole, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

We don’t always get to witness characters getting story advancement and resolution, or happy endings — or something kinda close to “happy,” at least — so what happened to Vanessa VanCleef is really nice to see. I can’t say I disliked her as head of the Defias Brotherhood, trying to avenge her father and make bloody justice (however distorted), but I’m more than happy that she decided to trade the poisoned daggers for baskets full of bread, and dedicate her life to feeding the downtrodden people of Westfall instead of doing murders. It makes me all warm and fuzzy.

This is The Queue, a column where we answer your questions every day, whether they’re about WoW, TV shows, or some more WoW. And we also get to ramble about characters we like.

It’s a gaming-light Queue day, so we will talk about whatever we wish for the time, and maybe find a game (or something equally interesting) along the way.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we answer your questions, whatever they may be, as best we can. Let’s get to it.