We used to think that world first Raiders were were crazy
intense sweaty sweat Lords, but it turns out the housing mains
are the crazy intense sweaty sweat Lords.
These are the Animal Crossers, they're the Minecrafters,
they're the farm villas, and they are nothing if not ultra
efficient. Victory for the Forsaken.
For Lauderon. For the Karen tour for.
Pandaria for. Calendar.
To the burning region for Gilnaeus, but has not done for
the Lich King for the Sindora. For the alliance.
For the Horn for Azeroth. Hello and welcome to another
episode of For Azeroth. I'm one of your hosts, Sean.
Today I am joined by the incomparable Flex Rance Lex.
How you doing? I'm doing great.
I'm 50% of the show today. Yeah, we are both 50% of the
show. That's crazy.
All listeners who only TuneIn for Manny, he's not here today,
so you could hit stop right now. Mark has played and it'll go to
your folder. You'll never see it again.
But for those of you who's sticking around, you've got
what's that thing where people would like they've merged their
names like Bennifer. If we merged our names, we would
be. We'd be LON.
Yeah, LON, we're going to go with LON.
We would be. LON Welcome to the LON show.
Welcome to the LON show. Yeah, way better than the
alternative. What I almost said our names
would be if they were mixed together.
Lex, how has the World of Warcraft been treating you?
Manny would have cut all that out.
Listeners, you're welcome. It's just us.
You get the absolute unhinged, minimal news.
It's going to be so great. That's.
Right, all vibes. So this has been an interesting
week. I have.
So I was reading Beyond the Dark Portal and I was like, wow.
I'm finding myself consistently frustrated and annoyed with the
writing style and the, you know, kind of archaic writing of a
book from 2008. There's there's one solution to
the situation of me not lighting this, like liking this writing
style. And it turns out it was me
buying Warcraft free Forge. So I have spent the last week
very slowly. I started on Warcraft one and
let's be I'm going to be so for real you guys, I'm not good at
real time strategy. This blew everyone's mind.
Everyone was expecting me to be a real time strategy.
Absolute whiz, I'm sure. See I'm really bad at it.
I think I'm on like the the 5th campaign at this point.
The the second one. No, the the third one took me so
long. Like when they first start, you
have to like actually attack the orcs.
Yeah, it's I'm, I'm, I'm not, I'm not good at it, but I'm
having, I'm having a really good time.
I'm understanding why people played this game.
So yeah, I logged on approximately an hour ago to
play pre patch. So I could say that I played pre
patch on the show. Nice, nice.
Let's stick it on this Warcraft a little bit.
So is this your first time playing through?
Because your dad played the Warcraft series, didn't he?
Yes, he was He was a Warcraft man from the beginning and moved
right into obviously World of Warcraft when that came out, But
I so I don't remember him playing Warcraft one.
The more I play Warcraft one, the more I feel like I this is a
very skippable game. I'm having fun using it to teach
like as a way to teach me real time strategy technique, but
it's there's no real lore. The there's just this weird
little scene in the middle, like between every single campaign.
And it's just, I guess, you know, in Lothar it's not super
clear who's apparently eating. He's just chewing and he has a
big like stick of meat, like a like a, you know, a drumstick, a
big, you know, Renfair drumstick.
And it has like a hole in the middle, not like a bite mark,
like a hole drilled through it. So in in Lothar does not.
I'm a little confused about him. And then I guess like just the
most generic wizard you've seen in your life.
And it just, it's, it's the same guy who voices everything.
I'm sure somebody knows who that is.
I probably should know who that is.
But one the same voice for everything, which is a little
bit like it took me a while to get used to.
But now I, I just have accepted that I will not be able to tell
my peasants from my, my Wizards from my freaking footman.
But yeah, yeah. So I, I, I will see whether or
not I finished Warcraft one or whether I give up and decide I
want a little bit of storyline and move to Warcraft 2.
But. Does the book?
Are you appreciating the now? I don't know who wrote The Dark
Beyond the Dark Portal, but based on your description I'm
going to say was it Richard Mack?
No, it was Aaron Rosen. Well, so this is the weird
thing. It was Aaron Rosenberg and
Christy Golden. Oh.
I know and I I so I really think a lot of.
Christie. Love Christie.
I was so surprised that, well, I, I think a lot of the problem
is I don't, I don't think they were given a lot to work with
because they have a huge tendency to repeat descriptors.
Like every time Alaria is introduced in any scene, they
describe her as a beautiful Ranger.
Like I'm so sick of people talking about how beautiful and
not even like talking about how beautiful Alaria is it just,
she's beautiful. Like they just throw the every
time. Oh, and the beautiful Ranger
with her beautiful Ranger hands like constantly.
If I hear one more time the CAD guard has an aged face and
youthful eyes, I'm going to. Throw a.
Fit like it's absurd. I'm so over it.
But I understand that that's more just them, not like they
only had a limited amount of things to go through.
The other thing that I think I find myself bothered with, and
this is this is something that I've known annoys me with like
early 2000s video game writing in general, is it's just so rule
of cool focused. But like if every single scene,
someone's getting decapitated and someone's getting sliced in
two, and then someone is casting a big powerful spell and then
someone else is getting decapitated and this part of
like it ceases to be cool. It is just all right, everyone's
overpowered and none of this is meaningful.
Let's go, let's go, let's go. So I think it's mostly just the
the fact that the writing has aged.
But if you were feeling down on World of Warcraft's writing,
it's gotten better. It's gotten better.
The beautiful Ranger Illyria Windrunner pulled back on her
bow with her beautiful hand to lose a beautiful arrow into the
orcs beautiful face. I'm going to lose my mind.
If you want to do a solo show, all yours, but if anyone was
wondering, Ted Gar was artificially aged as they really
want to make sure I remember. Yeah, but as you can't, his
eyes, like his face is aged, his body is aged, but his eyes are
youth. They're super youth.
Yeah, super youth. Like youthful?
They're really, really youthful and everything's subtle too.
That's another thing that like once I picked up on, it started
to annoy me. Like there was one page where
they used subtle twice and I'm like girl but it's OK.
And also as as if if you're curious, if you're wondering
whether or not you should join the discord at fit dot LY slash
faz discord, you can find me complaining about historic,
chronological, or lore inaccuracies that happen when
you are writing books with multiple people writing
different things over 2 decades. Will you carry on into Warcraft?
Two kinds of darkness, I think that one is.
Do I have types of darkness? So I think I have I should be
able to see it, but for some reason I'm feeling stupid.
I have Day of the Dragon. Day of the Dragon is the first
book I have. I have not read it.
And then I have Beyond the Dark Portal and then I have Night of
the Dragon. And then I, I actually, I either
have Rise, I don't know, I don't remember where Rise of the Horde
is, But so I've been kind of popcorn ING these books in
general, like reading one and then like, oh, what if I go over
here? So I, I don't have them all in
chronological order. I don't have all of the books.
Do I have friends? I'm trying to remember Rise of
the Horde is the one that I have or if it's the one that's like
$500 because they only did one print and now it's crazy.
It's expensive. Oh, that reminds me.
Speaking of Rise of the Horde, Christie is selling a copy on
her Etsy that I would like to buy on her Shopify that I would
like to buy, but they only ship to the US.
I'm leaving this in the show. If I sent you an E transfer for
the money, can you buy it and have it shipped to your house
and bring it for me at BlizzCon? Yeah, totally.
OK, I'll do that off the air. I'm not going to get our.
There's still informations aired.
So you had a, you had a little bit of that.
We're going to just move on like this never happened.
Nobody's ever going to notice this.
I'll make a note this. May or may not be tariff
evasion, I don't know, but we're going to going for it.
No, no, it's not tariff. Oh, is it tariff?
It could be, yeah, I never thought of that.
Screw it. It might be a warmer then
anyway. X.
You blocked on to the beta briefly.
Oh what did you do? Did you dive in is your UIMS?
Did you instantly install LVY like I did?
So I'm having a great time because my UI was always a mess
so I logged in. I'm like oh nothing changed.
What's? The thing it's a little tidier.
Yeah, exactly. So I really OK, I'm a really bad
podcaster. Surprise, surprise.
You guys can go write your mean comments.
Anyway, I'm a really bad podcaster because I've been
doing this for so long and I logged in today and I was like,
wow, I'm excited to test out the pre patched storyline quest,
which drops on the 27th by the way, So don't don't do that.
That's I mean you can try. You can also log in and say I
wonder, I wonder what the pre touch event this time is and you
can be just as disappointed as me because that drops on the
27th. So I logged in.
So what I ended up doing was jumping into endeavor.
So I I think we all have the same one.
We're all grumble yeah, of course, because there were a
million people in grumble world. So yes, we all have the same
one. No.
I you have a choice. Oh yeah.
Each neighborhood gets to choose from 3:00, so we all have the
same 3 to choose from. And then you choose whatever one
your neighborhood chose. You can go and do and buy the
vendors, but if you want the other ones, you can go to other
people's neighborhoods that have those ones and buy the stuff
from their vendors. Geely Yeah.
So what other options? Are there?
Yeah. So Kniffin was one Drac Theor
was one is the third one that grumbles.
Yeah, well, that's the word. Yeah, so those are the options.
So hot tip, if you're somebody who's looking to get the
endeavors, buy all the stuff from the Endeavors Beck LFG,
because there's lots of groups that are like, hey, I have
Niffin completed, come to my neighborhood, go see the vendor.
Yeah, people who goes grumbles. Completed.
Yeah, lots of people did. Yeah, the housing community are
fiends. We used to think that World
First Raiders were or crazy intense sweaty sweatlords, but
it turns out the housing mains are the crazy intense sweaty
sweatlords. These are the Animal Crossers,
they're the Minecrafters, they're the farm villas, and
they are nothing if not ultra efficient.
Sean, the fact that you don't know this makes me think that
you've never watched a SIM like a really high level Sims creator
stream. No I play The Sims one the first
Sims and didn't put a door in my house and my person died and
then I never turned it back on and I've never watched The Sims
again. Wait, that was not on purpose.
No, I was traumatized. I mean, I so no, I wanted to see
what would happen with no door. And it turns out they get really
unhappy. Yeah.
And then they die of
unhappiness, which, Yeah. So no, no, no, Yeah, People that
sort of creative world is I'm not quite there.
I'm not close to there. I I'm not that degree of, of
energized about things like that.
But you're right. They're they're crazy in a good
way. This is a faction.
It crazy, Yeah, we're not. We're not anywhere.
We've like two of us have done things in the endeavors.
We're nowhere near finished. OK, so but is it fun?
What? What is an endeavor like?
I didn't. I haven't endeavored to try them
yet, so. At least the way that I'm doing
it, it's basically like all of the most screw around parts of
World of Warcraft just in your neighborhood, right?
So if you want to go do silly little quests just for like just
you know that aren't really going to give you much, but you
just feel like doing quests in a day, you can go to, at least for
us, it's the Kun Lao summit and you can just do quests for a
while. If you want to do a little
Easter egg hunt where you run around looking for glowy things
on the ground, you pick them up. You can go run around glowy to
glowy things, pick them up. If you want to do the little
climbing mini games or like other silly little mini games
that you get in world quests, you go, you go do the little
mini games, right. It's really just the the most
silly things in World of Warcraft all together.
And when I again again, this is set affectionately, like I had a
really good time. I just for an hour I was like, I
want to play a video game for the sake of playing a video game
and I don't want to worry too much about, you know,
everything's perfect and I'm mid maxing and it's all amazing.
You know, we're just going to go have fun.
And I did that and it was really fun.
It was fun to just do quests and none of the matter.
And you get like 2 gold and who cares?
And eventually they give a little Oh Dang, you got a little
housing. I think it's 5 quest gives you a
little bit of housing stuff. And then so there's all sorts of
activities and some of them are also like more intense, right?
Like you can go do delves, you can do mythic plus, you can kill
raid bosses, things like that. Whenever you complete an
achievement or like a little subsection thing, you get a
little bit of points for the endeavour as a whole.
And you also get some coupons that I don't fully understand
yet because I don't think we've unlocked anything and our
venture. But so currently we're all just
kind of doing the little the little fun things.
And I think it's going to go much faster once we're in like
not pre patched because again, there is, you know, all these
are all repeatable. I think they're all repeatable.
So like every I think it's like 10.
It's not ten. I mean, certain number of delves
you do, you're going to get some credit every, you know, mythic
plus you do you get some credit. A brave boss as you kill, you
get some credit. And so when your entire Guild is
off doing things and they're collecting their herbs and then
they get some credit and they're, you know, some people
are playing the silly games in the, the neighborhood, they get
some credit and, you know, some people are off grinding mythic
plus they get some credit. Like that's going to build up
much quicker. But right now our Guild is kind
of on pretty, pretty solid hiatus.
And so we're being, we're not, we're not moving too fast.
We're taking our time. Yeah, we're.
Just hanging out. We have 39 days that's.
Right. You get all kinds of time.
I love it.
I people have been going crazy for endeavors like it's a wild
it's like a whole new part of Warcraft has been unlocked with
housing. There are people who don't give
any cares. They give no ducks for the lore,
for the stories, for the rating, for the mythic.
They just want housing and those people are thriving right now.
There are so many of them, it's frightening.
The player base will soon be outnumbered I think by housing
mates and I'm OK with it because they're all like super chill and
lovely, so let's get more of them.
The one thing that was really striking to me and me again,
this is probably that I was doing it wrong, but it kept
while I was doing the endeavor today, I kept thinking like, I
feel like I'm not being as efficient as I could.
And then I'm like, ah, but it's a video game.
Like this was the, the first time in a while that I've played
World of Warcraft and it's felt like I was just playing a game
for the sake of fun and not doing work to achieve the next
thing that I can then push for so I can do more work, so I can
achieve the next thing. Which I mean, I, I'm, I love,
right. Like, I'm a writer.
I love doing that grind and, and doing the, you know, learning
the certain fights and, and figuring out what I need next
and talking my team about. Like, that's, that is fun for
me. I'm not unhappy about that.
But sometimes it's nice to just log on and play a game because
you want to play a game. Yeah.
Yeah, for sure. And Speaking of the patch day, I
mean, mean, it's going to extend it a couple of times.
So it did go long, but it was a pretty massive patch.
It was coming in like a big change.
The team was on top of it. They gave us a bunch of advance
warnings. I think it got extended by, I
want to say 3 hours and then one hour.
So it ended up coming back at about 9:00 PM Eastern roughly.
And there was some issues, faction changing was breaking
transmog. Some raid bosses had 50 HP.
Oh like not 50,000, not 5050. They had 50 HP.
Thumb gear was not scalable, others was.
But for the most part I think like awful, groundbreaking
nobody. You can't play, there's nothing
you can do. It was a pretty good patch
launch, so kudos to the team for that.
And on top of that, I am happy to announce that the raid is
properly, I don't know properly to the right word, but the raid
is very, very, very accessible right now.
Yeah, they were. So for a reference the Mythic
Dementias fight pre midnight patch, it would be commonplace
for teams to transition from phase one after the 4th or just
as the 4th slam was about to happen.
And common for teams to get the kill on dementias in phase three
around the time of like just after that second devour when
the the next set of grips are coming.
Last night teams were phasing from P1 before the 1st slam and
killing dementias before the 1st devourer.
So it might have been the second slam, it might have been the
second slam. But anyway, very early, so the
nerfs that they made, they worked.
You know, it's these fights shouldn't be hard.
People should be able to just walk in and push these over
right now. And that's the way that it
looks. So if you're a Raider, great.
If you're somebody who's looking for the mount, you could
probably find one cheap. I imagine prices are going to go
down a little bit with it being as easy to clear as it is if
you're buying it. But maybe just throw a group
together, ask one of your buddies if they have a lock for
Dementius and I'm going to give it a couple of poles.
Maybe you get a kill. Yeah, So it's not too bad.
This is good because I know last week we were stressed that all
of the changes together we're going to mean that it wasn't
going to be tuned enough. And so, yeah, it's good to know
the after you just cut big numbers off everything, if
you're like actually like 50% health gone.
It's not that, not that. Hard to kill and mythic plus.
So I am on the record as saying that I would quit podcasting if
Blizzard didn't adjust Mythic plus, and I'm happy to say that
the highest Halls of atonement that was completed pre patch was
I think a 22 and today a solo havoc Demon Hunter timed a + 40.
So those have also been tuned. Yay.
It's kind. It's kind of bonkers out there.
It's kind of bonkers. The squish worked, folks.
So Sean, a question I know part of the the concern, the reason
that you said that you were going to quit podcasting if
Mythic Plus wasn't tuned was because you felt like a thing
that was really exciting and fun for you was kind of being taken
away. And why are you playing the game
then, now that it's sort of face role, does it still kind of feel
like a fun thing is taken away because it's just yeah or.
OK, yeah, I love that. I really like feeling like a
God. I think that's.
I think, listen, I I respect the grind, I respect the work.
I understand that games need challenge to be fun, and that's
why sometimes I play real time strategy and get myself wiped
off the map 10 times by works. But I I do sometimes it's fun to
just go in and like blast. And yeah, if that was the entire
expansion, like if nothing had challenged and everything rolled
over, World of Warcraft would be boring.
But I think pretty patch is the time to be silly and to have fun
for the sake of fun. Yeah, and for clarity, that plus
40 was completed in 9 minutes solo.
This is classic Havoc Havoc even Hunter behavior alone, I think.
I think that a solo Havoc Demon Hunter has always been able to
time a + 40. We were just holding back
because we didn't want you guys to feel bad.
Was this you, Lex? Yeah, of course.
Let me see, let me look up the character name.
Lex T rants. Oh my God.
Oh yeah, of course. As you guys know, I am famous
for pushing high mythic plus keys.
It must. Be really confusing if you are
getting into for Azeroth like in the last few episodes and you're
like Wow, they really do have one of everyone.
They have someone who's great at PvP and also pushes keys and
also a mythic Raider. And then I guess they have these
like Sean and Manny to like play the the casual side.
If anybody heard you during your PvP claim to title fame and then
heard the number that you said you felt was the high enough
number for title that they do, that was a good PvP.
Yeah, they're aware. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
They're aware that I'm on top of the charts.
Yeah, that's right. That's right.
You're nailing it. Yeah, overall, pretty good
launch. So we're doing people are right
and they like, if you went on Twitch today, it was literally
just every stream was building my UI and then everybody was
using some amalgamation of the tools that are out there and
available. I myself spent the day building
my UII didn't stream it though and I kept it very simple.
I used LVY and life was good. LVY is was late coming back but
it's old faithful. It's something I've used in the
past so I threw it on there. Tweaks UI is another one that I
know a lot of people in my Guild were using.
Was getting good traction and unhalted unit frames and the
better cooldown manager which is done by the same demos on all
the unit frames. I think those three were the
most popular ones that I saw bouncing around my Guild and my
friend groups. And then there was some we're
not going to get into drama. We don't drama pedal here on For
Azeroth. But there was some drama that
some of the more popular add-ons that had been leading the charge
in beta, it turns out stole some of their code wholesale from
other new add-ons in the beta. Now you know it's a question of
did they copy and paste it and just change the variable names
or did they happen to put the exact same prompt into Claude
and get the same result when they built it when they bought?
Nobody knows for sure, but there was some drama running around.
All I'm saying is for you to land on an AUI, go ahead and pop
into the Discord for that UI. Just get a sense of the the vibe
of the the atmosphere. Make sure because you don't want
to get stuck on something or block into something and then
have it have no coverage or no support in the next three weeks,
that'll be off. Or have it not know how to do
hands. Or have the have the dev not
have any idea how to do any of it.
You just log in and all of a sudden you're like 2 fingers.
You're like, OK, your chains don't work right.
The earring holes are in different places than your
earrings. You're like, something's up
here. Yeah, I feel like it wasn't like
this when I left. Yeah.
So that I mean, that was it was it's been a mostly by a week.
So we we left the weekend was not much news because we were
getting ready. We had a new video come out for
the launch to midnight, which had some fun clips in it.
And then another interview where they talked about redesigning N
trend for the last Titan that we were going to talk about.
But the more I think about it, I feel like we should push that
off a little bit like we're not even in midnight yet.
So I think maybe we'll talk about last Titan video a little
closer. The last that's Titan this.
Is also my feeling about BlizzCon.
I'm really worried about like, what are we really going to
announce? Because I don't really want to
hear about Last Titan when we're, you know what, 6 months,
seven. I can do math seven months into
midnight. Do we do a BlizzCon announcement
prediction right now? Oh, sure.
Do you want to go first? I'll.
Yeah, I'll go first. Not that you need time to think
of yours because you're just being gracious to let me go 1st
and I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
So I think overall, the biggest thing we're going to get Blues
come, we're going to get that StarCraft announcement
everyone's talking about. It's going to be a, it's not
just going to be 1 game, it's going to be 3 games, going to be
a StarCraft first person shooter.
It's going to be a new StarCraft RTS and then a StarCraft mobile
game. So you think that's the mobile
game? Yeah.
So those three I think are the big like this is, hey, this is
what's happening at BlizzCon now.
Warcraft specific, specific to Warcraft, I think we're going to
be getting 11 point, sorry, 12.2 information because at that
point we will already have 12.1 and I think we'll be in it.
We will have just got into it. So we'll already have 12.1
information, but too late to get that.
But I think we're going to get 12.2 information and while I do
think they might give us a glimpse of Last Titan, I think
they will tease that there is something beyond Last Titan
instead. Those are my big predictions.
So 12.2 and then like a post Last Titan tease.
Now, I don't necessarily think that the last Titan is the last
expansion that they're going to give.
But if I was a major company that bought a studio that didn't
want to keep running the same game, I would tell them you have
a trilogy to wrap this up. I don't think that's the case.
I don't think that's what's, I don't think that's what's
happening on this show where we're positive on other shows
where I'm less positive and that could be the prediction I give.
But yeah, but I'm really happy with the StarCraft because I
think we're getting 3 StarCraft announcements.
OK, I would believe because I was actually feeling really as
as a big Rumble girly. I was kind of annoyed when they
mentioned that there was a mobile game in the works and I'm
like, you just killed one. It's like a great one.
Less than a year ago, you killed your mobile game and you're
bringing back a new one. But not to be a girl who's like,
I just got into War of Warcraft before.
It's my entire personality for this podcast.
But I do actually feel like real time strategy makes a lot of
sense on a phone game. Like, yeah, there's totally,
100% should go in. And to be fair, that was
basically what Rumble was, right?
Like it was a essentially, I even remember when I was playing
Rumble and my dad looked over my shoulders like, Oh yeah, that's
like what we did in Warcraft. If it's if it's too much of A
Rumble clone, I'm going to I'm going to make some more grumpy
noise. Feeling like a Plants versus
Zombies where you're building turrets and you're shooting
Zerg. OK, we low key love that.
Sort of. So.
I will also say the fact that at the last blitz con we had just
gotten Rumble was really, really big because Liz Con is such a
line fest. And so having a thing that
everyone can do in a line that we all can either bond over or
you can kind of, you know, sit back and dissociate a little bit
because everything's loud. That was a game changer.
Like I genuinely do not think that Blizz Con would have been
as fun if we didn't all have a fun little game that we could,
you know, pluck away at. So can.
You imagine the opening ceremony they big screen hits.
Boom. StarCraft Zurd versus Terrans
versus Protoss and it's a plants versus zombies clones and you
can play it today we pre downloaded it onto your phone
they're. Like we know you have phones
now. That's right, that.
'D be great. Yeah I I do.
So I do think that we will get a look at what is happening after
Last Titan just because they did at the last Liz con they gave us
3 expansions in one. And I agree that I don't really
want lore spoilers for Last Titan or what's coming after it,
but you are not the first person to suggest that a trilogy like
talking about how they want to finish up these stories feels
interesting. Like, what are we moving for
then? Like what's happening?
So I think either there will be a very large, exciting or
stressful announcement coming there, or they will assuage our
fears by telling us that they have another expansion in the
works. And here's what it is.
And here's the basic information.
I do want to be clear that on this show for Azeroth, I do not
think that Last Titan is the end.
I don't I mean World War have Prince money still, like I mean
it doesn't, but it does right. Like it's not as much as it was
in the golden age, but. I'm not getting nervous, right?
Microsoft likes to buy things and close them.
Right. You know well.
So that is how I think that's what happened with Rumble.
That's what happened with the game that got killed, the
survival game, I I think. But I The thing is that Blizzard
like World of Warcraft is Blizzard right?
And it's still, I think, I guess I don't really know numbers
compared to Final Fantasy, but I think it's still the largest and
most income generating MMORPG we have.
I see. I mean, I can imagine a world
where it goes on life support and they pull devs off of it.
I but even then. We're getting something after
and we're getting the show. I'm doubling down Lex.
I'm doubling down. We're getting something after.
We're going to Air Thor. We're going to fight the Arathi
and we're going to fight future and when, because everybody
knows that's who the the Emperor of Air Thor is.
It's and when from the future. There's a total time travel
thing. They love time travel.
And we're getting an announcement of a Warcraft
animated series on Apple TV. Fingers crossed it's Apple.
They do such good work, such quality work.
Crazy, I've never. Oh my God.
Apple TV was no Apple TV. Apple TV is amazing.
OK, yeah, there's like, I don't know if you have access to Apple
TV, but there is a list of shows.
I I know about what's the one that everyone knows of not
succession, severance. Severance is amazing, Silo is
amazing, Foundation is really good.
The Morning show, the first season was they do the first
season of the morning show was good.
The servant other single word was good.
That's a one episode or one that's no, it's like three
seasons a servant. Those are all fantastic.
There's one where it's called bad Sisters where this woman's
husband's abusive and then he ends up dead and they got to
try. The police think the sisters
killed them, so they're trying to figure it out and hilarity
ensues. It's really good.
Yeah. Anyway, you got to get Apple if
you don't have Apple TV, Lex, you got to get Apple.
Even if you have a friend who has Apple TV, they can put you
on their family plan. You can have the six people on
your family plan. Mine's full where I would offer
you a spot on mine and then you get access to it.
It's so good. I am like a huge Apple TV.
It's by far the best quality streaming service available.
Apple TV If you're looking to sponsor a show, we have proven
that we'll just do an ad for you in the middle of ours for free.
Right. Yeah.
Whoops. No, no, no.
Yeah. OK, That's that.
I, I would love there to be a World of Warcraft show.
I do think I I think we've talked a little bit about the
time that I watched the Warcraft movie.
And I really, I think the reason that war World of Warcraft, the
the why the movie suffered so much is because it just got so
in the weeds. Like it was trying to tell a
story that our argument, frankly, that I've been told a
few times, right? The early Warcraft it there's
novels of it, there's the actual games, there's chronicles.
Like those of us who know the story, we know it so all, which
also means that, you know, we're kind of if there's like it has
to be word by word by word exactly the same.
And they just, I think bit off way more than they can chew.
And they also, I feel like they jumped in at a kind of a
confusing place and ended up anyway.
I don't think they picked the right story there.
But the lore has so much possibility.
Like we talk all the time about how the, you know, side quests
are huge. It's so beautiful and exciting.
Like I, I don't think they should do a story of the main
characters because I think that that is overdone and requires so
much information and you have to get into these like, and here's
Corona and this is but she was a slave, but then she would kill
the with her friend. Like it.
There's just too much right. Versus if you have little spin
offs and maybe, you know, Oh, here's the beautiful range of
Hilaria and that she's out of the scene and we're caring about
the actual thing going on here, you know?
What my favorite call back the show's ever done.
I'm so sick of it. I'm convinced she at this point
the contrarian of me has decided that I think hilarious ugly just
because I'm so mad at them telling me so many times that
she's beautiful. I'm like, never mind.
I think she's hideous and I think the cat girl's eyes are
old. His face is normal, but his eyes
are so old. If they did a live action I
think they should do an animated series.
I think animated just because the world is so stylistic.
But if it is live action, who would she want to play?
The beautiful Ranger? Hilaria Windrunner.
Don't ask me to name actress. You go first.
Time to think about it. Who?
Are you ready to hate? Who would I pick?
Well, they were actually like Charlize Theron.
Somebody tall? I think she's quite tall.
That wouldn't be she. Might be too old to play
Illaria. Not the show least Theron is old
or looks old but Illaria is like young appearing Anya Taylor Joy,
the Queen's the Queen's gambit. I think she is.
She looks ethereal. I think she would make a great
Illaria Windrunner. She is the beautiful Ranger
Illaria Windrunner. She was in Queen's Gambit and
the Gorge. I OK I I this is half baked I
feel like. I feel like she almost gives me
more self honest vibes. Like you see what?
You're saying, but there's. She looks like she could burn
down a whole tree full of people.
You're getting genocide vibes from her.
It's a weird. There's a like a an intent.
I don't know how to. It's a wild comms Lex.
I can see, I don't know, a, a darkness in her.
I don't know. I feel like she would do really
good as I I feel like she'd be a really good Sylvanus.
OK, see, Charlize, I'm. I'm so bad with faces and
everything. If something was not obviously
written for somebody, I'm just utterly cooked.
I feel like Charlize Theron is such an obvious choice though,
because that's like what she plays like.
That is the character of Charlize Theron.
I like Charlize Theron a lot. I really liked her in Mad Max as
Furiosa. I thought she was incredible in
that. Yeah, I think she would work.
And I'm happy casting Anya Taylor Joy as her genocidal
sister. Yeah, and she sees such darkness
in her eyes. I just think it would work.
I think that would. Be OK listeners, let us know you
tell us. Come into bit dot LY slash fast
discord. Don't be weird about it, just
tell us which you. Can be weird about it.
Wait. Oh, don't be weird about it.
Don't be weird about it. I take it back.
Yeah. I was.
Immediately, No, I, I, I was thinking like, I don't know,
joining the Discord weirdly, like, you can't do that, babes.
Well, everyone's welcome here, but no, please don't be weird
about actresses. Yeah, come on and let us know
who you think would be a good Illyria.
A beautiful Illyria. And running.
Beautiful Ranger. Your fingers, yeah.
Is that what they say? Slender fingers constantly.
Little kind of sausage fingers. Well then you're not the
beautiful beautiful. Ranger, I guess I'm out of the
running. I can't play Illyria.
Yeah. Let us know what you think.
Let us know if you also think Anya Taylor Joy looks like a
mass murderer. Like Lexus.
Which is? See.
That I just I feel like there's AI don't know.
I'm going to stop trying justifying.
His darkness. I'm going to.
I'm just going to keep twisting it.
Lex. I don't really have anything
else to talk about. And I know it's not been an
hour, but I sometimes feel like less is more.
Yeah. If you guys want to listen to us
ramble constantly I guess sucks to suck because this is static
media and so the second that we stop recording it's over.
Yeah, but if you're a part of the Patreon, you get the full
pre show and post show, which isn't very much more and not any
more exciting, but it's there and you got it.
I. Swear a ton more she.
Does she does all right? Well, I think that's it folks.
Get out there, dive into the pre patch, get your UI set up, jump
into that raid, have some fun, enjoy the World of Warcraft, get
into housing, and above all else, may all your hits be
crits.