The Queue

My favorite part of Hearthstone’s latest miniset, Echoes of the Infinite, was when Morchie showed up, calmly said “IT’S MORCHIE TIME!!!” and Morchied all over those guys.

Welcome to The Queue, our daily Q&A column where the Infinite Dragons are infinite, therefore it’s always Morchie time.

I found this post on Reddit and frankly, it resonated with me.

When life is crazy, when insanity seems to dominate the world, stop and think. Is this the life Godzilla wants for you? Does Godzilla want you to endure unassisted or would he have you call to your allies, much as he does? Find your personal Rodan, your Mothra, even your Kong — sometimes a frenemy who respects you is better than a friend who doesn’t.

Always remember — Godzilla wants what’s best for you. Unless you’re the municipality of Tokyo, I guess. He’s really rough on that. Also, MusedMoose, I’m sorry I didn’t see you had posted this before I wrote the intro, but I’m pleased to see you understand Godzilla’s message.

Sometimes you wake up and want to watch the world burn. And sometimes you wake up and your inner kaiju wants to crash through Tokyo. It’s hard to say which force of destruction will manifest at any given time… but for now, I’m trying to think positive thoughts for the poor Warcraft server team, who was up all night trying to cajole WoW Classic into running. I hope you’ve scheduled some nap time into your day.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we answer your questions (and occasionally go on kaiju-related tangents). Let’s see what the comment section holds for us today, shall we?

Yesterday Google told me that, despite “free unlimited backups for photos taken with this phone on Drive” being a whole selling point of the phone, I was now over my limit, somehow. So they immediately removed my ability to save any documents in Drive — which is kind of crucial for a writer! — or backup photos to the cloud, and told me they’re going to shut off the email address I’ve had for 20 years unless I start deleting stuff off the cloud. Should I blow away videos of my kids to be able to save the novel I’ve been working on for almost 2 years now? They do have a solution though — I could pay them a subscription for extra backup space. It’s a trifle, really.

So, of course, I’ve spent the last 24 hours converting everything I possibly can and burning everything google to the ground. Ente photos, Proton Mail, LibreOffice, and Scrivener all have my business now. As an added bonus, Scrivener’s corkboard system will likely replace a lot of what I use Notion for, which I’ve been trying to replace since they went so all-in on AI they told me I should make Dante’s Divine Comedy into an escape room.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we’ll answer. We’re kind of busy though, and the answers will likely be petty and spiteful.

It took me three years, but I did it; I read every book and short story anthology in the Warhammer Horus Heresy and Siege of Terra series. All 67 of them, and boy, are my eyes tired.

First off, shout out to my local library and its ereader app for letting me read all of the books legally and for free. That really helped on the wallet front. Second, I’m going to miss the series. I’ve been reading it for so long that now it’s going to be weird reading anything else. Maybe I’ll ease myself back into non-Warhammer stuff by making a stopover in the Alien novels.

I’m glad I was able to stick with it and read all of them. I’d tried to get through the series as they were first coming out, but having to wait a long time between novels was tough. I love the big over-the-top shooty sci-fi of it all, and getting so many books to watch characters grow and evolve was a fun time. I liked knowing the gist of the ending and seeing how everything lined up to get there, especially at the end, as so many narrative throughlines started getting their payoffs, or their set-ups for Warhammer 40,000 stuff.

While I go sit on a golden throne couch and think about everything that brought me to this point, it’s time for our daily question and answer column — The Queue!

It’s a culinary battle out here, and Two Bosses Enter the arena: “Hemborger Steak,” a delicious beef patty served with eggs, vegetables, and a rich sauce faces off against “Yakisoba Pan,” a hot dog bun filled with noodles, pork belly, and yakisoba sauce. Who wins? Who loses? What’s the ultimate dish?!

As you ponder this extremely important question, we welcome you into The Queue, our daily Q&A column where we’re hungry. We’re very, very hungry.

There are a lot of options if you want to play a Diablo game right now. Diablo 2: Resurrected for people who crave the most iconic and most famous ARPG in existence, Diablo 3 if you want to play a very fast paced, very entertaining game about exploding demons, Diablo Immortal if you want to play Diablo 3 on a train or in a doctor’s office (and please try not to scream in triumph when you crush demon heads) — but for me, I keep coming back to Diablo 4.

Maybe it’s because I can customize the character to a level never before seen in a Diablo game. Maybe because I find the current state of gameplay to be fascinating and extremely fun — my Paladin was an absolute blast to play and now my latest Barbarian has hit upon a build that absorbs so much damage, guys. I’m legit astonished.

It’s the Queue. I love Diablo 4, so smash another hellspawn’s cranium baby.

Congratulate yourself, because you’ve made it half-way through a challenging post-holiday week. It is the first Wednesday of the year (my dudes), so hang in there and we can all make it through the weekend together.

But for now, this is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where we can all hang out and chat instead of doing anything productive. Let’s get to it.

Since today is the twelfth day of Christmas, tonight is the twelfth night. I plan to celebrate by watching the new Great Performances version of the play, featuring Sandra Oh, Lupita Nyong’o, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Peter Dinklage as Malvolio.

We’ve had PBS Passport since 2022, and it’s well worth the price, even though our local has increased from $5 per month to $7 per month this year. And come on, Lupita and her actual brother as Viola and Sebastian? Amazing.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll answer but only if we can wear our yellow stockings and go cross-gartered while we do. And a paaartri-idge in a pear treeeee.

I haven’t seen y’all since last year! It’s been so long, I hope everybody has had a safe and happy time of it.

We’re just getting started on 2026, and this could be a good one! We’re gonna get Midnight, a new Diablo expansion, and they’ll for sure definitely 100% announce a return to full-time development for Heroes of the Storm — I just know it!

While I go and practice my Junkrat skillshots in Heroes, it’s time for our daily question and answer column, the Queue!