The Queue

Do you ever read a word so many times that it ceases to look like a real word? Lately, for me, that’s been “Void.” We’ve been combating the forces of the Void for years now. We fought a Voidlord. We’ve visited their home turf in Voidstorm. We’ve empowered Voidforges to get Voidshards we can make into a Voidcore, and then there’s the other Voidcore that’s a bonus roll. We’ve got Void Invasions, Void Assaults, and Void Rituals in ritual sites. Now we’re off for a Void Showdown on other planets.

I guess if there’s one thing you can say for the Void, it’s got consistent branding.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and the answers, like your Voidwalker used to complain, are void where prohibited.

It’s that time of year, when the humidity and heat conspire, and there is a predictable, yet unpredictable, 15 minute thunderstorm almost every afternoon. Comes on suddenly, pours, then stops and the sun comes out immediately, the pavement smoking as the rain evaporates. It’s a pretty wild phenomenon I haven’t really seen in many other places, and it means the dog days of summer are truly upon us.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we have an umbrella just in case.

I spent the afternoon on Sunday walking around a park with my favorite person and a 163-pound St. Bernard. The local Humane Society puts on a big afternoon for people to bring pets to the park called, fittingly, Pets in the Park. We saw lots of dogs of all shapes and sizes, a few cats, some gerbils, and a bird. Somewhere there might’ve been a turtle too! There was a dachshund dash, and vendors, kiddie pools for the dogs to splash around in, and even free pup cups from Starbucks!

A great time was had by all. Arthur the St. Bernard was a very good boy and well behaved, which is never a guarantee when there are so many new smells and animals around. He was definitely the centre of attention wherever he went. There wasn’t a bigger dog that we saw all day! He even got to meet a very chill cat that was being carried around by its owner all day.

While I go and tell him what a good boy he was again, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — the Queue!

Feels like good games are just dropping from the sky. There are so many games that have been announced recently that I’m tremendously excited about, like Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, the long-awaited finale to the FF7 Remake project, seven years after it started. But there are many more, and we’ll talk about them — but also about WoW, and other random things, like hot dogs, and gravity!

This is The Queue. It’s a column. It’s daily. It has Qs. Let’s gather together, look at the sky, and wait for those As to drop down, and let’s try to catch them. It’ll be fun!

It’s been a busy week of games, so this week should really be dedicated to sleeping things off. Or at least a nice piece of cake. As a treat. The week hasn’t been like that at all, but it should have been.

Many weeks are marred by a disappointing number of naps (and disappointing lack of cake).

But this is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we try to answer your questions. Let’s dive in.

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.