Dropout TV's Brennan Lee Mulligan is formally the Game Master for Critical Role's fourth campaign coming in October 2025.

I’m home now and everything is back to normal. I’m typing this on a proper keyboard, in front of a proper monitor, at my proper desk. It’s glorious!

While I try to remember where I left that thing, y’know that thing? It’s time for — The Queue!

We're officially in back to school mode in our neck of the woods, which means that in addition to our regular activities, there's also a ton of additional orientation activities, plus summer wrap up parties, and shopping, and cleaning.

Usually Friday brings with it multiple new games, but this week things are looking pretty dry.

Occasionally, the stars and the moon and the sun align to create a confluence of perfect experience boosts in World of Warcraft, and friends, one of those events is happening in the next few days.

You’ve become an ace at doing cardio. Kids smile as you jog past them, dogs happily wag their tails, strangers break into song. You can eat as many baguettes as you want: bread doesn’t make you fat.

Suddenly you pass in front of a shop window, and you see your reflection: you realize that you’re wearing a comedic prisoner outfit. Black-and-white stripes, baggy trousers, and the number 24601 plastered across your chest.

At that moment, the sky darkens with heavy clouds, and dramatic music starts to play. Timpani thunder, brass blares, ceremonious cannonballs. A baritone voice can be heard, loud and clear:

“Halt, 24601!”

Inspector Javert barrels into view, running after you, every step a moral judgment. Now you understand why cardio feels so effortless: the universe has turned you into the ultimate sprinter, because running from Javert is a marathon with no finish line in sight, and the audience always asks for another encore.

This is The Queue, where life can be a musical, but that also means life is a musical.

Cory joined us for this week's show, and by coincidence there was also a Heroes of the Storm patch the day they recorded.

The War Within patch 11.2, Ghosts of K'aresh, is just days away, but we did get a last trickle of information about one the patch's new features, Ecological Succession.

World of Warcraft may have added a fairly positively-rated set of combat assist features in patch 11.1.7, including the more hands-off Rotation Assist and the learn-to-play One-Button Rotation, but does anyone remember one of the central features of 11.1.5, the Cooldown Manager?

Y’all knew I was going to weigh in on that one.