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The Instance: Deep Dives for Gamers

Special Interview: Chris Metzen 2.0

The Instance: Deep Dives for Gamers

Scott Johnson

Leisure, Video Games

4.88.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Another sit down with Chris Metzen to talk about fandom, when it gets toxic and why, and lots of other great stuff. Hop in and thanks for listening!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello. Hey, man. You can hear me. I can. You sound great. Excellent.

0:12.7

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to a special interview. A follow up at 2.0, if you will, of my conversation

0:18.4

with the legend, the man, Chris Metson. Chris, welcome back. Hey, thanks, Scott. It's been too long,

0:23.6

dude. I saw you briefly at Blizzcon, but, um, uh, and we talked here and there on text and stuff

0:28.7

that it's been a while and it's nice to finally catch up. It has. It's kind of hard to keep track of

0:33.0

time to be honest with you. It just goes by so fast these days. Yeah. It's good to see you then,

0:38.0

though. You had this crazy cool beard and then, then Chris got, uh, had to have surgery and we were

0:43.4

all, you know, concerned about and stuff. It all went well. Sounds like. Yeah, yeah. And had, uh,

0:48.0

had shaved that beard. Not to get too technical. A bunch of bad discs, I guess I had had forever.

0:55.2

And the bones, bone spurs were starting to, um, like, cut my spinal cord a little bit and,

1:03.2

you know, just off and on, pain and, um, numbness. So, yeah, they went in and did a bunch of

1:11.1

crazy cut in and, um, grafting of metals. Uh, so my cyborg parts are working really well.

1:17.2

It's, uh, faster, stronger. Oh, that's great. Dude, modern technology, modern medicine is

1:23.1

something amazing. Yeah. It's the thing to behold. Pretty amazing. It was kind of the first thing

1:26.9

I've ever been in for. You know, I've been to, you know, I don't know, in and out of

1:31.3

burgeon cares and things for years, but I've never really had a procedure done. So it was pretty,

1:36.4

it's pretty wild, but the crew was really good and that's great. It took a care. I mean,

1:40.4

that's awesome. So, you know, not to make a direct reference, but not unlike the,

1:45.2

the orcs in the next world of work craft expansion, you have, you know, have the option to stand

1:49.0

up straight and not hunch over. And that's fantastic. Wow. Wow, dude. That was pretty depth.

1:55.4

Well, I mean, I got it's a weird little tiny detail they've added to this thing, but I've

2:00.4

actually really like orc standing up are really kind of badass. I mean, I have to admit,

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