Jun 8, 2026 · 53 min · 23 segments
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Matt MorganHostBuddy, in this episode, [laughs] I think, I think we're gonna torture ourselves a little bit.
Is that the plan? [laughs] I think that's what we're doing here, right? [laughs]
Um, this is gonna be a lot of disappointment because it's kind of the, the feeling that we got when a lot of these commanders that we're gonna talk about-
[laughs] These are, these are some commanders that are kind of, are good evidence of when innovation goes wrong.
... something new, cool looking new abilities, but girl, they done flopped, and flopped pretty darn [laughs] hard.
They, they, they looked interesting, but they just didn't connect for one reason or another, and maybe that is because of-
... like with us personally, we felt like they didn't quite reach what we were hoping to, or just looking at the numbers, yeah, these commanders were trying something new, but they're at rank like 1,000 or less, [laughs] or things like that.
I hope it is not too completely torturous for [laughs] each of us to talk about these tremendous disappointments in our, uh, o- over the course of Commander's history.
Well, well, thankfully it won't just be our own disappointments, but some of the, like, community, like you said-
... that maybe the community just didn't latch on, or they were very excited about one thing and realized, "Uh, this actually didn't do what I was hoping it was gonna do." Um, so a lot of those types of commanders that we're gonna go over today.
To, to keep on with the Star Wars joke that you opened with, basically these are the commanders that Obi-Wan Kenobi is yelling at saying, "You were supposed to be the chosen one." [laughs] Like, that's kind of the vibe here.
Although, as a quick clarity, I think it's important for us to state upfront that we're not just talking about commanders that are disappointing in general, that, like, let us down right away.
Buddy, in this episode, [laughs] I think, I think we're gonna torture ourselves a little bit.
Is that the plan? [laughs] I think that's what we're doing here, right? [laughs]
Um, this is gonna be a lot of disappointment because it's kind of the, the feeling that we got when a lot of these commanders that we're gonna talk about-
[laughs] These are, these are some commanders that are kind of, are good evidence of when innovation goes wrong.
... something new, cool looking new abilities, but girl, they done flopped, and flopped pretty darn [laughs] hard.
They, they, they looked interesting, but they just didn't connect for one reason or another, and maybe that is because of-
... like with us personally, we felt like they didn't quite reach what we were hoping to, or just looking at the numbers, yeah, these commanders were trying something new, but they're at rank like 1,000 or less, [laughs] or things like that.
I hope it is not too completely torturous for [laughs] each of us to talk about these tremendous disappointments in our, uh, o- over the course of Commander's history.
Well, well, thankfully it won't just be our own disappointments, but some of the, like, community, like you said-
... that maybe the community just didn't latch on, or they were very excited about one thing and realized, "Uh, this actually didn't do what I was hoping it was gonna do." Um, so a lot of those types of commanders that we're gonna go over today.
To, to keep on with the Star Wars joke that you opened with, basically these are the commanders that Obi-Wan Kenobi is yelling at saying, "You were supposed to be the chosen one." [laughs] Like, that's kind of the vibe here.
Although, as a quick clarity, I think it's important for us to state upfront that we're not just talking about commanders that are disappointing in general, that, like, let us down right away.
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