# SquaredCast > A Chris & Chris Podcast ## Posts - [Episode 5 - Bethesda: Broken Games, Broken Dreams](https://squaredcast.com/episode-5/): Bethesda: Broken Games, Broken Dreams | RSS.com a.k.a. “Todd’s Sweet Little Lies” From the studio that brought you Skyrim, Skyrim: Legendary Edition, Skyrim: Special Edition, Skyrim VR, Skyrim for Nintendo Switch, Skyrim: Very Special Edition for Amazon Alexa, Skyrim: Anniversary Edition, and Skyrim for Switch 2… We bring you a special episode tracing Bethesda’s full arc from the golden age of Morrowind through the Fallout 76 dumpster fire, Starfield’s 97.6% player decline, and the belated PS5 relaunch with the Free Lanes update that should have shipped in 2023. We dig into the Creation Engine debate, Todd Howard’s pattern of overpromising, ... Read more - [Episode 4 - Are You 18+? (Sponsored by Meta)](https://squaredcast.com/episode-4/): Are You 18+? (Sponsored by Meta) | RSS.com Recently, two juries hit Meta with back-to-back verdicts in 24 hours: $375 million in New Mexico for child exploitation, and $6 million in Los Angeles for engineering addictive products that harmed a minor. While those verdicts landed, a researcher published findings on GitHub tracing Meta’s lobbying operation across 45 states, with over $25 million directly confirmed and estimates running as high as $2 billion, all designed to shift age verification responsibility onto Apple and Google. Then Apple released iOS 26.4, and UK iPhone users got a new prompt: “Confirm You Are 18+.” ... Read more - [Episode 3 - The Stryker Kill Switch Catastrophe](https://squaredcast.com/episode-3/): The Stryker Kill Switch Catastrophe | RSS.com PLEASE NOTE: The audio for this episode was recorded on March 13, 2026. Some stories covered here have developed since then. Updated sourcing and corrections are in the full show notes on this page. Recently, the lines between smart devices and corporate surveillance got harder to ignore. Hisense TVs started showing unskippable full-screen ads when owners switched HDMI inputs, pushed silently through a firmware update, after the sale, with remote per-device control that nobody disclosed at the register. New York’s attorney general sued Valve for running what she called a gambling operation, and ... Read more - [Episode 2 - RAMmageddon & The Cost of "No"](https://squaredcast.com/episode-2/): SquaredCast Episode 2 – RAMmageddon & The Cost of | RSS.com Last week, the lines between AI companies and the U.S. government got a lot harder to ignore. Anthropic refused to strip weapons and surveillance safeguards from its Pentagon contract. The government blacklisted them, then kept using their AI in a live military operation anyway. OpenAI signed the deal Anthropic wouldn’t, and the money trail tells its own story. Meanwhile, a Helldivers 2 fan tried to raise a thousand dollars for charity and lost his job, his volunteer work, and his safety. Nintendo sued the federal government to get its ... Read more - [Episode 1 - Discord: Your Face, or Your Access](https://squaredcast.com/episode-1/): SquaredCast Episode 1 – Discord: Your Face, or You | RSS.com Discord’s age verification saga is just the visible tip of a much larger shift. Governments, platforms, and identity verification companies are all converging on the same goal: tying your real identity to everything you do online. The framing is child safety. The result is the slow death of anonymous internet use. And the timing of all of it, from Discord’s IPO to California’s new OS-level age verification law, tells you everything you need to know about who this actually serves. Show Notes Topics Covered Plugs Other Links Transcript ## Pages - [Episodes](https://squaredcast.com/episodes/) - [Privacy Policy](https://squaredcast.com/privacy/): Last Updated: February 13, 2026 Who We Are This website is operated by Chris Neal and Chris Volz. The site address is: https://squaredcast.com. SquaredCast is a weekly podcast hosted by two friends, both named Chris. This privacy policy describes how we collect, use, and protect information gathered through this website. For any questions regarding this policy, to request access to your data, or to request deletion of your data, please contact us via the contact form on this site or by email at squaredcastshow@gmail.com. Summary This site runs on WordPress, a self-hosted content management system. The site is hosted on ... Read more - [Subscribe](https://squaredcast.com/subscribe/): Listen Anywhere New episodes drop weekly. Usually. 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We built this site ourselves, and we answer every message ourselves too. If you’ve got something to say, we’ll actually read it! Alternatively, send an email to squaredcastshow@gmail.com. - [Home](https://squaredcast.com/): A Weekly Podcast (Usually) Tech, games, builds, banter. Two friends. Both named Chris. One builds apps and self-hosted tools. The other makes video games. Together they make music as Project CSquared — and talk about tech, gaming, and whatever rabbit holes they’ve fallen into lately. Latest Episodes Become a Patron From self-hosted servers to indie games and whatever else we’re into… Each episode follows a loose structure: the news we can’t stop talking about, what we’re building, and one topic we dive into way too deep. It’s part build-log, part news-roundup, part late-night rabbit hole. Every episode includes: The Rundown: ... 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