As someone who is also High Functioning Autistic as well. I can relate to the first story... however there are discrepancies in said story that have me questioning it's validity.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but, if you're saved to a raid, you cannot just go clear it again. You wouldn't be able to enter the same version of the raid instance as others as raid IDs are unique. This just sounds like a lie.

"If you didn't realize I was joking, how are you watching this show?". lol!!!

No multiple of the same raid or transmog in tbc ... vet the stories bex!

Always look forward to these uploads!

20:00 That story is FAKE!

Everyone calling the first story fake because of the Kara runs...chill holy shit. It was 17 years ago and its probably just a combination of mis-remembering/inflating details/being dramatic. It's like when you tell a fishing story and every time the fish gets 1 inch bigger.

How in the world did he even get into Kara multiple times? I thought the raid lockout system would take whomever was saved and apply their progress across the entire rest of the dungeon prior to the personal loot error. I remember lots of bitching over using someone elses lockout ID on a nax runn once back when I was playing WoTLK

First story has to be fake on purpose. Even if you never played TBC you can't get this much wrong on accident. Edit: At least the start with Kara.

Love the channel Preach

48:17 Cannot stress this enough. That is a MASSIVE red flag. Grooming shit at best, worst case you'd have lost your kidney or never been found again lol.

There's 2 discrepancies in the story. 1-No loot lockouts, though considering this was so long ago the author might have misremembered. He stated there was 3 weeks of kara raiding so maybe he was pulling people to his own instance lockout and then "not getting gear" because he was locked out? 2nd, transmog. I've listened to that segment a couple of times and it sounds like the groomer girl was trying to get the author to IRL wear a brown outfit (cowsuit?) Other than that, I can totally relate to how someone on the spectrum acted. Besides, those two things didn't affect the story. You all latch onto 2 discrepancies in an hour long recollection of something that happened closer to 20 years ago.

such weird little lies throughout the first story.

29:30 preach and I just said "oh no..." in sync lol

ok i'm listening to this on spotify and had to come here and say.....holy shit the story at 37:41...I can't, dear lord, holy shit this is so....I've spent many a nights in bed cringing at my past but this just tops the cake. Author you're a beast for submitting thank you for sending this in I'm so glad you can look back and see how far you've grown

ACCIDENTAL SUCCESS! THE BEST SUCESS!

I honestly can't remember when I got broadband, or at least decent broadband. According to what I can find online my town got fibre braodband in 2015 but we probably had faster than 56k/ADSL earlier. I definitely remember playing SWG on dial up at least into Jump to Lightspeed which was 2004, the same year WoW released so I was playing both of those at the time. Had broadband when I went back to uni in 2017. So definitely had some form of broadband but not fiber at least until the 2015 and can't remember what the speeds were like. Honestly I was just thankful to be able to play games without dreading a DC because someone needed to use the phone.

so funny as always

As a long time FF14 player there is no reward that anybody could offer me that would get me to raid in a brown outfit.

Speaking of pwned being an old term, I remembered people used to say imba back in the day…lol

Is this an old story? For some reason I thought I have heard it before.

Didn't Swifty do that back in the day when he was hunting down grand marshal? The taking his laptop to McDonalds or Denney's

That first story is incredibly eyeroll and fake, I think everyone can see that.

Australian ADSL could indeed be basically dialup. not literally, but things like steam detect it as dialup because of the abysmal speed. To give you an idea of how bad it is, my upload speed would register as somewhere between 0.1kbps and literally 0. My best download speed was 200kbps, though in practice, it would actually oscillate between 40 and 120kbps. This was indeed in the 2010's. It was so bad, when we got fucking satellite internet, our speed increased by a factor of 100. It was so slow that satellite was better. My current internet speed is probably considered awful by most peoples standards, but I'm so used to that fuckawful dialup tier internet, that my current internet speed may as well be infinite in comparison. I don't need to set aside literal weeks to download things any more.

These Eastern Europeans are something else lol

I need the image of anime boy Mike for reasons

If you go after a child, expect childish behaviour.

The first story is fake TBC was instance locks not loot locks Legion baby larping

Blood elfs got back? lol...

Please increase audio…guys pls like this comment so preach sees it…can always turn it down but can’t turn it up anymore so pls make it louder for us factory workers

Yeah, despite the author swearing the first story is true, it's full of holes. Transmog definitely was NOT a thing during TBC, not to mention raid lockouts would prevent you from doing the same raid. I smell BS

We need some of the chat emotes that are getting spammed to show up in the VOD. That first story was gold

Anyone who offers their parents internet to DL WoW is a bro 🤣

ya no with the way raid id lockouts worked is how they work with mythic raids now you could not enter another raid lockout, and transmog wasnt brought in till i think the end of cata this story is bullshit lol

Man I haven't heard pwned since your Top 5 Scumbags in WoW vid 😂

All surv hunters are simps 😏

29:40 "I was 16..." oh no... RED ALERT! 53:55 noticing a theme of age-range of author at the time of the story and race-class combo with this episode.

Bwner Pwner

molten wow takes me back i played on the very same buggy private server when it only had tbc servers 😂 i still remember having to put a ticket up for a gm to manually teach me smelt adamantine ore because they couldn't fix the miner trainer

Joining the army isn't a " 'murica" event, I can name a number of countries from Israel to Finland where it's mandatory.

In the story of the 16 year old who fell in love with someone in the guild and they edated, how much older was she? Are we talking about a grooming nonce??

Oh god, that autistic sense of justice in that first story. I know the exact feeling. The rage. I think I've generally grown out of it but at that age with hormones raging and you learning that the world isn't as fair as you were told is was supposed to be. He's lucky that outburst happened in WoW and not in real life. My worst one had me "threaten a teacher". You just keep digging deeper and the thing is, in the initial point that set you off, you were right. But your behaviour and the way you've flipped out is whats caused the actual issue, and you just can't reconcile it. You just keep raging against the injustice and you don't understand why everyone else can't see it. I think everyone can understand why injustice sucks but autistic people are prone to a very black and white way of thinking, especially at that age. And when that rigid morality and sense of justice meets reality the culture shock is absolutely brutal. And then you generally struggle with emotional regulation and on top of that you also struggle with understanding what emotions you're feeling at all. You can be absolutely fucking livid and you think you're calm. So imagine it. The perfect storm of teenage hormones, emotional disregulation, an inability to even realise that you're in a heightened emotional state, and all of that bundled up in a petty situation that has nonetheless absolutely shattered every preconception you have about how the world aught to be. Everything you've been told. Everything you model your behaviour on. It all falls apart and a meltdown starts. The whole world seems out to get you. Nobody seems to understand that this tiny petty situation is "the worst thing to ever happen". The anger and sadness just builds and builds until... it breaks. Either something shakes you out of it, your burn yourself out and shut yourself off from the world, or your escalating behaviour and anger lands you in a situation bad enough that it makes you finally shut up. Thinking back, I'm amazed I didn't get myself in bigger trouble in school.

The first story is fake