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I personally enjoy the interoffice drama, but wading through it as a listener without Rone is unbearable. 75% of participants on these shows are too incompetent to form thoughts or ask pointed questions, and the other 25% feign ignorance to shield themselves of whatever minor repercussions may arise from revealing any information personally or forcing someone else to reveal information. I can’t stand the “I’m old, I don’t get it.” You’re 40 not 85

Rone did a great job as host of the Spring Break show and will put people’s personal feelings towards him at risk to deliver for the audience, which is severely lacking among those with high standing in the rest of the company. It’s a shame he isn

Moving 1000MPH in their interview

To preface this post, I’m not saying it’s wrong to think that Shotzzy is a bad player or his playstyle doesn’t work. I’m more-so interested in how the discourse and conversation surrounding him has turned so negative, particularly among his own fan base. I think it’s accurate to say he’s the least liked and most frequently denigrated player on Optic among their own fans. I think he’s actually more respected by fans of other teams. Is it the rise of watch parties and CoD podcasters? A quick, loose recollection of events for those not initiated:

- Optic wins champs in IW
- Optic enters dark period, one LAN win from WW2 through Cold War (excluding MW 8 team homestand) and mostly place T6-

How exciting would it be to see Shotzzy go to FaZe for 04 and play against Optic? The Green Wall has spurned him, despite winning them champs twice, and are now putting the blame on him for losing Major 3 despite him leading the series in kills and Merc dropping three consecutive 0.8s. The Green Wall deserves to be reminded what it’s like to play against him, it’s been too long. They’ve forgotten what Optic was looking like in the pre-Shotzzy era

Have no idea what the ramifications will be for esports, but the Saudi Public Investment Fund has announced a tactical change to narrow its focus and reprioritize its spending.

LIV Golf (sponsored by PIF) is rumored to be ceasing operations imminently, potentially something similar could happen in the esports world, although esports operations expenses are a drop in the bucket compared to what has been spent on LIV

Re-listening to some old episodes in the background today at work, and immediately juxtaposed it with the most recently released episode. It’s fascinating how much his voice has changed, the tone isn’t necessarily higher or lower, but he speaks softer and more giggly with a slight lisp almost as compared to 2020-2022

I have my own theories but I’ll leave it up to the bonafide blue collar alphas on this sub to speculate

I’ll preface this by saying obviously the roster change was out of Optic’s control, so there was nothing they could do to prevent a downgrade. I do agree with consensus that Huke was by far the best option they had given the circumstances. I even agree that stylistically Huke is a much better fit for Shotzzy than Pred.

However, I think what’s being missed is a potential major downgrade in slaying power. Out of the 12 players on the top 3 teams, I think Optic now has the two weakest slayers in Kenny and Huke.

With Pred, Shotzzy, and Dashy, I feel a major part of their success last year compared to previous iterations of Optic was that they never got outslayed so bad that they completely l

The “early” meta is 4 ARs again (XMRs). I feel like this happens every year now, funny enough I believe it was with the exact same gun in Cold War until it was GA’d.

He mentions that during their slump after major 3, Dashy was the one they were most frustrated with about not making the right plays that they had previously talked about. I thought this was interesting considering the fact basically all outsiders (analysts and fans) put it on Pred (he does also mention Pred but says it wasn’t as much)

3x World Champion at age 23 and the unequivocal best player on all three of those teams

Not bad for an onliner

I know Pred has been taking a lot of shit for Optic’s performance but Kenny has been dreadful

The hosts of this show complain nearly weekly about how every course isn’t hard enough and specifically how every course is a driving distance contest… MV is basically the opposite of that. I didn’t really understand the justification beyond “it would take me 45 minutes to explain.” 16, 17, 18 are extremely difficult but I don’t understand how that doesn’t lend itself to interesting golf because bogeys are definitely still out there. Obviously they love Augusta where 17 and 18 almost always play over par. Sometimes, it feels like they dislike golf courses because it makes them seem smarter or more refined in their tastes and are not logically consistent.