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“I’ve been playing dota for over 15 years and am a big fan of Sunsfan and Synd. I’ve watched We Say Things pretty consistently since episode 12 about a year ago. This podcast has so much potential, but it has declined in quality over the last few months. If you read this and care (maybe you won’t!) here’s why the show is at a 2-star right now.
Prep work! Every week it feels like Sunsfan gets the topics together to be discussed, does a little prep work, and then Synd wakes up, rolls out of bed, and looks over the topics for the first time ever. The topics y’all discuss are great, but when Synd is supposed to bring the good analysis and he hasn’t even watched the games being discussed it’s kind of frustrating. Last week the Nigma disconnect happened and you guys didn’t know which series it was, who won the series, or whether gh played the series after forfeiting game 1.
Too long! It wouldn’t hurt to cut down on some of the stuff that make these episodes go long. The material could easily be cut down to 45 minute episodes if you stick to talking about what you want to talk about, but there are moments like last week where you did a sound check after starting your recording where you could just cut that out. The long intros are unnecessary. This goes back to prep work as well, if you know exactly what you’ll be talking about and what you want to say you can push through the topics more efficiently.
Have an opinion. There are too many times when watching I feel like you’re just talking to talk. This may be another point that goes back to prep work, but if you do the research ahead of time you don’t find yourself talking about topics you’re not informed on and can have an opinion on it. Maybe this is a dota thing where because things change so much you don’t want to have an opinion that may look dated in a few weeks or something, but just hearing you bring up topics and talk theoretical about them isn’t very fun to listen to personally.
Lastly, WHY DID YOU RUSH SYND THROUGH A TOP PLAYERS IN DOTA CONVO?! Just save that for when you can prep and give an honest answer with reasons to back it up. It’s probably the most interesting discussion to have involving pro dota and you guys spent 16 minutes on it, half of which was Sunsfan trying to rush Synd’s thought process. Do you look at these questions beforehand? I would happily sit through an hour and a half discussion on the topic, or read an article like how Suns used to do the Aghs rankings.
Hoping you take these criticisms into consideration. I genuinely enjoy you both and think you have an amazing podcast on your hands, just hate to see you let it fall to the wayside due to lack of interest/organization.”
Tomi Fischer via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/13/20
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