The Activision-Blizzard Pain Train (Squadcast)

[@LilianOrchard]

Lol male orc warriors malding in the approval queue.

[@mikailaturkleson7472]

How dare you besmirch the proud and honorable guild of MGTOW!?

[@Grayson13XL]

“They’re not writing fantasy stories, they’re writing their fantasy.” I’m no writer, but that’s sounds like a really solid rule. Well said poet.

[@barrettbirks1058]

The best thing you can say about Overwatch is that Blizzard won't ruin their characters with horrible writing because they refuse to write a story for the game

[@barrettbirks1058]

@@rexspecificallyredrex64rem73 but due to the fact that all of that extra media doesn't push the story forward at all, the worst thing Blizard can do to your favorite character is make them gay because Bobby ate another puppy

[@Regina-ys4ct]

Metzen tried extremely hard to futureproof Sylvanas. In the WoW RPG, which is almost exclusively written by Metzen, Sylvanas has a special little feature which states she is completely immortal while the Lich King (Arthas) survives, and that no matter what you do to try and put her down, while he's around she'll come back. And if this is the writer equivalent of "You will make sure this character sees this moment or so help me god..."

[@veolag.1561]

12:35 “ah, HERE’S our routine once-per-xpac ‘tHe ReBeLs ArE bAd BeCaUsE tHeY’rE tOo ViOLeNt’ B-story!” ~me being dragged along that drakonid questline For those keeping track: Helya in Legion, The Entirety of BFA was just “Sylvanas’ Horde Bad”, Forsworn in Shadowlands

[@bebikoniezwyke4727]

No like coz its so disgusting and it made me just not want to engage with the story at all, in Bastion i was determined to just enjoy the visuals and not read any quests about being indoctrinated into a facist cult

[@thomaswetzel6796]

If companies get fined it should be a billion dollars per death and should not be able to get tax returns at minimum

[@thefluffymunchkin5430]

The thing that's most upsetting about Activision Blizzard at this point is that they keep having really good ideas and making really good things, and then ruining them completely. Warcraft was amazing at first and Overwatch was one of the best and most refreshing FPS titles we had had in a while, but both times the higher ups butchered everything by getting too greedy and overconfident. It's such a shame.

[@disgustof-riley]

I'm tempted to go back through and timestamp all the Heavy Quotes.

[@ludekmaly3900]

Oh I'm loving the background, very good job on that!

[@notcharmander9606]

I had only ever heard of Christie Golden from that one Star Wars book I didn’t read. I’m not even a big fan of Ventress but even I thought the blatant fridging of her in order for Vos to return back to the light side was bullcrap. Knowing that the reason for that was from learning of how her WoW books are ten times worse with how she writes female characters good lord…

[@noodrasan]

Never forget nova has more rep as a skin then a character

[@Zerathenezot]

11:27. they did fix that so we actually free her now. After pages and pages and pages of Forum posts of people screaming at them. So blizzard has learned to listen to backlash. But they have failed to learn to not do this stuff in the first place so yey they get 1 point out of 100 for doing the bare minimum.

[@Junglewarfare]

Well they got rid of Golden and Danuser so thats a start

[@unusuallylargecrab9297]

👏 Let’s 👏 get 👏 sad 👏

[@sad_boi_razor8983]

I have a rule for writing my villains; unless they aren't actually villains, they can't also be abuse survivors.

[@colbaltmind5696]

I literally know nothing about WoW but hearing yall rant about misogyny is entertaining and would love to see yall talk abt annoying shit in star wars and its fandom

[@DeltaMarlfox]

Some of my peers from Ascension Classless and other private servers have gone back to Dragonflight, and my only response is a very loud, very confused "WHY?!" I appreciate this podcast for taking about 80% of the words right out of my mouth (this is a good thing).

[@lennytherat]

That comment about them wishing they were writing Game of Thrones is so true! Unfortunately for everyone, the only part of that series they were able to imitate successfully is putting their female characters through intense trauma to make male characters look better. 🙄 I love the fantasy genre but im just. so. tired.

[@Darkspriter4]

Good things terms of service ain't legally worth anything in a court.

[@thomaswetzel6796]

I heard that somewhere as well I don’t know the authenticity of this but it would be a great help to know for sure

[@watchm4ker]

Not... exactly. You can't sign away statutory rights with no consideration, and stuff like the anti-class-action clause are basically legal speedbumps. A good lawyer could probably clear those away, but they're still obstacles.

[@thomaswetzel6796]

Thank you for the clarification

[@disgustof-riley]

54:11 Thought you were gonna say cunt-porations at first 😂

[@therotryzit]

Surprise SquadCast Yea-ha!

[@Armaggedon185]

This is cathartic.

[@summerflutter92]

Well this is a neat surprice

[@pablodonner5213]

Oh boy this gonna get violent

[@d0tghost]

Are you going to make a video on Nimona?

[@LilianOrchard]

Fuck no

[@gunterxvoices4101]

Awooga, tyme for some fun.

[@meikobruxami8522]

Yeah Squat cast! I missed these

[@wholesome_weeaboo5054]

Is it just me or does Brandon sound like Raine Whispers from TOH?

[@LilianOrchard]

Brendan and yeah kinda

[@gato2318]

What’s the intro and outro music for the squadcasts called? I love this music!

[@LilianOrchard]

Kharazhan Harpsicord

[@thegoat20066]

I know nothing about WoW but watching women shit on bad writing decisions is fun

[@EvylServalz]

I'm a Human Male Paladin main, also play an army of cute furry girls and i ship Human(paladin type especially, crusader) x furry(panda preferably) as the ideal couples. What does that say about me?

[@LilianOrchard]

It means you need to stay 95 million miles away from me.

[@EvylServalz]

@@LilianOrchard Understandable, any thoughts on that though

[@Pulsarino]

Hardly surprising that Groxi, a hard Garrosh stan, supports le epic war male criminal being totally unrepentant about his horrific war crimes but hates that Sylvanas "got away too easily" because she's a female character who commited war crimes and that's totally different.

[@LilianOrchard]

All Orc accounts are the same honestly. Like I said, Male Orc Warrior is the Horde's Male Human Paladin

[@terry3368]

2:47 okay now might not be a good time to get into wrestling since it's basically in the toilet now Vince McMahon coming back to the WWE was a mistake The Undertaker is the greatest wrestler of all time and I'll fight you on that I'm more of a mobile player but this podcast is still entertaining love to see it!😂

[@thomaswetzel6796]

Wat slave dragon why would you have that in your game make it the opposite free her their is no excuse to this sort of thing make the champion the good guy in the scenario You can make your character evil but in most of wow they seem to try and paint your character as a good guy at least in the moment

[@Zerathenezot]

To blizzards extremely little credit. They are not putting that quest in the game.

[@thomaswetzel6796]

Oh good still means it was considered which is weird

[@sesshomaru9512]

Unsurprisingly, Groxigar loves Afrasiabi's pet character Garrosh. He loves how the big strong man who commited war crimes is absolutely unrepentant while he's tortured in hell and calls it "based" and "good writing". But the thought of a strong female character "getting away too easily" after her character arc got derailed? Unbearable.

[@LilianOrchard]

Men who play WoW are just kinda shit in general

[@unplaceableface]

Sorry I couldn’t support u on Patreon any more. I only did for 2 months, but I shouldn’t have bc I don’t money now. I did it impulsively, signed up, and felt wrong undoing. Still like your videos tho.

[@LilianOrchard]

Your financial decisions are your own business.

[@unplaceableface]

@@LilianOrchard OK

[@neinja66469]

​@@unplaceablefaceprotip: don't support online creators

[@Deman-sc4rc]

me who has never played or know nothing about WOW enjoying this:

[@MysticDiamonds5566]

So which one is Lily?

[@MysticDiamonds5566]

@@captaincrash9002 tank u 👍🏻

[@furby296]

the center one is Lily’s horde champion character, Anevay, who represents her in this squadcast episode

[@MysticDiamonds5566]

​@@furby296 I had a feeling that was the case.

[@thomaswetzel6796]

I think mikalia was the nightborne? Night elf ancient dudes that allied with the horde

[@mikailaturkleson7472]

@@thomaswetzel6796 Its supposed to be a Darkfallen lol

[@chipsahoykid]

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