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We start off with a look at this week's news as the recent Activision Blizzard law continues to gain steam and teams around the league promote and donate to different women's causes. We talk about the recent timeline of events with the company and how the story may continue to play out over the coming months.

Next we recap the past week of Overwatch League action, covering all of the major moments, player performances and huge plays from the first week of Countdown Cup qualifiers. We go on to preview next week's games and pick out our highlight matches as teams battle to secure playoff seeding.

We wrap up with a look ahead to awards season, as we make our predictions for which players and staff are frontrunners for MVP, Rookie of the Year and other awards.

Static and Crashtag are back for another episode of Double Tap, a podcast dedicated to the FGC. In the Fighter's Corner, Melty Blood showcases their latest character Akiha Tohno and King of Fighters brings back Athena. Then, we give our impressions on Goldlewis and with him came possible leaks. Skullgirls then teases Umbrella for their next character and Street Fighter V announces their Summer update. in the Randoms of the FGC, Max unveils a hastag, #freemvc2, Crashtag finds a long lost SFII video and we see the EVO numbers. In today's Focus Attack, we have a twitter question and a recent twitter topic gains steam about Strive and feeling burned out. Finally, we finish with two mod highlights.

Pull up a stool, charge your glasses and get comfortable as Happy Hour Episode 31 is here for your listening pleasure. That’s right – Mike, Rob, and Brad are back for more podcast-based shenanigans also they’re joined by returning special guest with alcohol aplenty. For this episode, the lads talk about the new Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer, the newly announced Battlefield Portal mode and trailer for Dune. And actually get down to business and discuss what the lads have been up to and the content they’re looking fowards amongst other news and shenanigans.

The crew is joined by SteelWolf this week to talk about everything coming soon in phase 2.

Time Stamps

0:00:00 - Intro

0:03:38 - What have we been up to lately in WoW Classic/TBC Classic

0:31:35 - Holly Longdale Interview - Upcoming Burning Crusade Classic PvP Changes and Phase 2 Testing Soon

https://tbc.wowhead.com/news/holly-longdale-interview-upcoming-burning-crusade-classic-pvp-changes-and-phase-323548

0:42:45 - LFG Tool - Phase 2 Testing coming to Burning Crusade Classic PTR

https://tbc.wowhead.com/news/lfg-tool-phase-2-testing-coming-to-burning-crusade-classic-ptr-323551

0:48:50 - Serpentshrine Cavern & The Eye Raid Tests - Phase 2 Testing coming to Burning Crusade Classic PTR

https://tbc.wowhead.com/news/serpentshrine-cavern-and-the-eye-raid-tests-phase-2-testing-coming-to-burning-323552

0:56:30 - Druid's Swift Flight Form Coming in Phase 2 of Burning Crusade Classic

https://tbc.wowhead.com/news/druids-swift-flight-form-coming-in-phase-2-of-burning-crusade-classic-323606

1:06:45 - Engineering Epic Goggle Recipes on the Burning Crusade Classic PTR

https://tbc.wowhead.com/news/engineering-epic-goggle-recipes-on-the-burning-crusade-classic-ptr-323607

1:10:45 - Spit Emote Removed on Burning Crusade Classic PTR

https://tbc.wowhead.com/news/spit-emote-removed-on-burning-crusade-classic-ptr-323613

1:39:00 - Closing

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On July 21st the State of California Department of Fair Employment and Housing announced it was pursuing litigation against Activision-Blizzard due to multiple claims of harassment and discrimination against their female employees. Nick and Katie discuss the news ranging from their reaction to their concern for the victims and their disappointment with Blizzard and attempt to process what happened.

Thank you for listening to The Tauren & the Goblin. Please believe women and fight harassment and discrimination wherever you may find it.

Nick, Chip, and Kurabara are back to talk about their experiences in the Mass Effect Legendary Edition. This week, they begin talking about the various side quests in the game before they focus in on heading to Citadel and advancing to endgame.

First, they talk about their strategy for how they approached the side quests and when they did them. They also talk a bit about the planetary exploration and how that evolves over the course of the trilogy. They also talk about whether it is worth it to skip Mass Effect 1 and play the comic at the start of Mass Effect 2, or to do all the side quests and play out all the decisions on the game that the comic skips.

Next, they get into the various side quests. They talk about UNC: Lost Module which features the introduction of the monkeyish race which is similar to pyjacks. There's also a Prothean beacon near this quest which leads to them discussing the Consort and whether you received the data key from her.

Then, they talk about the Distress Call in Argus Rho. This is just a straight Geth trap which lasts long enough to include some Star Wars jokes.

After that, they discuss the Missing Persons quest, where you find a ship that was raided by pirates. After killing the pirates, you find the corpse of the captain, and return to his brother on the Citadel to inform him that his brother is dead.

They also talk about the Rogue VI quest, which takes place on the moon (Luna.) The Rogue VI emits a strange signal when it is killed. and Shepard earns their specialization class.

Missing Survey Team is a quest regarding ExoGeni, the biotech company running the Thorian experiments on Feros. Shepard tracks a signal to a mine, where the survey team is all husks now, having found some strange Geth technology.

There are more husks (well, Thorian Creepers), on Nodacrux, where ExoGeni was shipping the Thorian Creepers from Feros for study. Killing the Thorian caused them to go berserk, and Shepard can choose how to deal with what is left of the crew.

Finally, they discuss the MSV Cornucopia, a ship that found an artifact, went into Geth space, and came back as husks.

Thank you for listening to Squad Goals - A Mass Effect Legendary Edition Podcast! Please send any comments or questions to [email protected] or @squadgoalsN7 on twitter.

On July 21st the State of California Department of Fair Employment and Housing announced it was pursuing litigation against Activision-Blizzard due to multiple claims of harassment and discrimination against their female employees. This week, Jarret, founder of Mash Those Buttons and formerly of Watchpoint Radio and The Mash Those Buttons Show joins us to discuss the allegations against Blizzard and the community reaction.

We also discuss Order of Corrupted Souls recent experiences pugging and raiding. Eric and Rei raided with another group and downed Sylvanas and Harv has been showing up to play, although struggling because he's under-geared.

Thank you for listening to WoW! Talk! Please believe women and do what you can to end harassment and discrimination. Our support is with the victims and the hundreds of Blizzard employees disatisfied with their company's response.

Hello to all our new players (and maybe new listeners)! This week we bring to you our tales of delight from interacting with all the fresh faces in the game. There's a little bit to discuss with the 5.58 patch, but mostly we just wanted to talk about how excited we are to see all the new players and how good it's all going. Really, that's a fifth sarcasm at most. We're delighted to have you all!

This week, we discuss the confirmed changes coming to the next season: Emergence! Including Seer's kit, legend balance changes, new World's Edge POI's, weapon and hop-up changes, including a new LMG, and the upcoming ranked Arenas mode!

On this week's episode, we go over the past week of events around a recent suit filed by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing accusing Activision Blizzard of sexism and discrimination. We talk about the brief filed last week, along with the multitude of statements put forward by individuals both inside and outside of the company. We talk about where the case may go from here, as well as outside reactions from fans and players.