The Queue

Behold, Dimetrodon! Not a direct ancestor of us mammals, they are still a beloved relative of us all and more closely related to you (yes, even you, Kalcheus) than they are to the Dinosaurs people often mistake them for.

The genus Dimetrodon has a variety of species, from the extremely small Dimetrodon teutonis which was 60 centimeters and 14 kilograms, to the nearly 5 meter long Dimetrodon angelensis.

And I know nobody asked but I don’t care, I love Dimetrodon like a drunk uncle that approves of us mammals in a distant, confused way.

I adore that we actually get to hang out with some of these friends in Neighborhoods. They are adorable and I miss them, and they were too good to be a silly little throwaway in one expansion. Given their adventurous nature, I’m surprised we don’t see more little contingents and quest camps of exploring old friends sometimes. There are always new friends, but sometimes the old buddies are fun, too.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we’ll reminisce a bit, maybe over some tea.

It’s road trip time with my favorite person! We’re going to go see a band I like, visit some hot springs, and do other things! It’s gonna be fun on the bun. Or at least fun on the Twizzlers and other gummy candies, as the only way I can buy road trip snacks is to act like an eight-year-old who’s just been given a twenty in a candy shop.

By the time you’re reading this, I’ll have already been driving for a few hours, so wish me good coffee and clear roads.

While I check the map once again to see if there’s any short cuts to take, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

Together, we ride. We go to some ranch and we rent some horses for two hours or something, I don’t know. We’ll figure this out.

This is The Queue, our daily column where if Qs were horses and As were also horses, we’d ride them! Together!

Mitch and I had a great time streaming the cute little game of Penguin Colony last night, in which you are a penguin sliding around a serene antarctic landscape, and also some other things happen. I won’t bore you with the details, but I do have penguins on the brain today.

But we can talk about more than penguins. We can even talk about more animals than penguins, so we should get started on that. This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I do my best to answer whatever questions you throw at me.

Why?

• They make it easier to organize my thoughts
• Often I sit down and use a bulleted list to group together related ideas
  • For example, using a subsidiary bullet to list an idea complimentary to a previous full bullet point
  • Like you could have a bullet saying Theropods and then several sub-bullets like Extinct Theropods with all the various groups like:
    • Carcharadontosaurs
    • Ceratosaurs
    • Megalosaurs
    • Coelurosaurs
      • Extinct Coelurosaurs
      • Extant Coelurosaurs aka birds

Now, let’s Queue this.

The waiting on patch day is the hardest part. It’s like being 8 and it’s Christmas morning, but also like you’re a responsible adult who has columns to write, or whatever. But man am I distracted today.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and I don’t have anything better to do today than answer them I guess.

It’s kinda nice when the main villain in an epic fantasy story is just some human bandit. Strong enough to kill ancient dragons, make legendary weapons out of their bones, and invite his closest friends to drink their magical blood, sure, but still some human bandit!

Who sings his own final boss theme in a tenor voice.

This is The Queue, your daily Q&A column where we really should replay that game for the third time as we wait for the sequel to come out in just over a month.

It’s my eight-year Blizzard Watch anniversary! This very day! It’s hard to believe that it’s been so long. Surely it was just yesterday; now let me take a big sip of water and take a look at a calendar…

Way back when I got hired, I’d basically never written anything outside of school. Now I have 700 articles to my name according to the tracker on WordPress. This is also apparently my 700th article, which is pretty cool! I still remember when I started Anne introducing herself and saying, “Don’t be scared, but I have notes!” Amazingly, she’s as nice as you expect her to be, and she helped me to be a better writer. As well as literally everyone else that Blizzard Watch has gotten to write or edit any of our articles. Special shout-outs to Anna and Liz for keeping everything running and putting up with my overuse of the exclamation point. Even though if they’re reading this right now, they’re shaking their head at how many I’ve already used. It’s been eight years — I’m allowed to be excited!

My first article about Daughter of the Sea still even remains cool! I’m glad it was about something really fun, and not just a patch note roundup. Maybe someday Blizzard will give us another sea-shanty to obsess over.

So here’s to you all for reading my words, and here’s to Blizzard Watch for giving me a place to put those words. Thanks to them, I’ve gotten to do a bunch of really cool things, and I can’t wait to see what else I can do in the future.

While I daydream about that, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

The end of a season in World of Warcraft always heralds the beginning of a new season, full of excitement and adventure. Or in this case, snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

But I have kind of gotten tired of Season 1 content… even though I haven’t entirely finished everything… so off to the Coiled Isle we go.

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