I’m not saying that telling someone to hug a hippo is attempted murder. But I am saying that it’s a very, very bad idea to actually follow that advice. I know you’ve all heard about how cute house hippos are, but they don’t actually exist and real hippos are considered one of the most dangerous animals in the world.

I’m honestly not surprised, considering that they can weigh up to four and a half to five tons and have tusks the size of railroad spikes. To put this in context, a hippo could body an Allosaurus, because it weighs almost twice as much as the biggest estimated sized Allosaurus specimen we have to date.

Please do not hug a hippo. It will kill you if you are lucky.

Epic Games Store is giving away just one game this week, with intensely cozy vibes on the package, but with a much deeper complexity than they may seem to have at first glance.

AI is everywhere, it has been genuinely astonishing the speed it has inserted itself into things it probably has no place being.

Information is still filtering out from Gamescom, but one thing we have seen from Blizzard’s Developer Deep Dive Panel was an update on their push to eliminate the need for third party combat addons.

It's hard find good help these days, but we're here to help with the Hearthstone Henchmania Tavern Brawl, in which the League of E.V.I.L.

Somebody here gets to go to the zoo today and it is not me. I am extremely jealous, but despite that I am still here to write the Queue. Responsibility really is just the worst.

But let’s get to the questions.

Lore Watch this week explores three questions sent in by our listeners, all ending in answers we may see as we go forward into Midnight.

Probably the biggest Guild Wars 2 feature introduced in the Janthir Wilds expansion was Homesteads. GW2's version of player housing eschews the neighborhood approach of FF14 and World of Warcraft's upcoming implementation for a large personal instance with a ton of customization options.

Diablo 3 Season 35 kicked off pure pandemonium on June 6, with the Season of Eternal Conflict's array of killstreak rewards designed to rain treasure, smite your enemies, and more.

So, it’s not what you think — I have a major problem with storage, but again, it’s not what you think. I have a Google Pixel phone, so I use it to take photos, like you do. But in this last generation, despite it being a major selling point of the phone, they’ve started charging me for storing the photos I take on my phone, and screenshots, and all the photos of birds I take for the Merlin app. This is also tied to my email, so now until I migrate and/or delete a bunch of stuff, I can’t receive emails. Well, I can from the Old Navy marketing department, but not my kids’ schools, apparently. And now I’m also getting messages that my OneDrive, which I use exclusively for my writing and backups, is also jammed with stuff. So many people didn’t configure their OneDrive to backup the stuff they wanted backed up and complained when stuff got deleted, so now Microsoft made it so it automatically backs up your Desktop and you can’t turn that off. The desktop is where I have folders where I shove things like one-off screenshots and memes, so now my writing is all slammed in there next to gifs I thought I’d deleted almost as soon as I used them — but not from the cloud.

Anyway, this is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us questions and I’ll answer just as soon as I finish deleting this terabyte of memes I didn’t even want.