I don't know, I think Waypoint is more critical which is why I listen to them sometimes (also because they're more diverse). However due to them not being in a singular location it's not as conversational as I like.
? If I'm interpreting this correctly I feel like this is so emblematic of something I take a huge issue with in today's general mindset. Which is why being critical and being positive are somehow exclusive to each other/interfere with each other?
Doesn't really make sense to me at all. In my mind both have 0 to do with each other.
It's all in the tone. You can be hyper critical but still be positive in tone and you can be someone with no personal quality bars and still be a negative nancy.
Waypoint is absolutely in tone a super positive and hopeful podcast it comes through in how they approach disagreements, in how they treat other people, in how they argue, in how they talk in tone about things, in how they always try to see various perspectives and weight those against their own, in how they are all very much passionate about games in their own way. And in that I think in that way they don't really fall short of EZA at all.
I don't know why someone would feel otherwise because they're critical? The conflation of both like I said I have trouble understanding it and given that I encounter this attitude quite a bit lately I gotta say it makes discussion somewhat tiring. So it felt like worth challenging it and bringing it up. :-x
On a different note though yeah if their podcast setup was everyone in one place it definitely would pull it up another notch def.