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Giant Bomb #8 | It's a Hit!
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Hot Coldman
Banned
This is a good one. That run is so fast!
Seems like it got pulled from the site by mistake? If so, that link is timed exclusive content!
edit: Oh, it's just not on the front page. At least my version of the front page.
Less than 5 mins in, already a winner!
I wonder how they became friends so early on. That wasn't long after Danny joined Gamespot UK. And Giant Bomb hadn't yet been bought by CBSi. They must have met at GDC or something.
Danny was an active blogger on GS (posts dating back to 2007) and regularly submitted questions to On The Spot, so they were aware of him well before he was employed by GS.
Holy crap that run is so fast!.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Huh, yeah that's definitely him.
But he'S saying "I grew up in the UK"
Bwahahaaha that fast run.
Holy shit that's totally danny.
It's crazy how much Danny was into early Gamespot and ended up living his dream.
He even followed Jeff's exact advice on how to break into the industry - he set up his own blog, got a camera and just started doing it. His youtube is filled with his early work and his recent No Man's Sky feature uses some of that footage. He knew what he wanted and went for it.
It's kinda why The Lobby exists - he wants to relive On The Spot's glory days. Shame there are very few personalities at GS to support him, that's what made OTS so good, everyone was way into it. Danny basically has to carry The Lobby on his back.
Northern Ireland is in the uk.
TharpDaddy
Member
"What does she wants from me?"
Edit: Game completely locks up. Quality game.
Edit: Game completely locks up. Quality game.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Use left Stick while left white lady is barley visible
TharpDaddy
Member
This game is great. Broken english "I think i'm going to loose the control", stealing panties, janky running.
Brad's dota team is named League of Legends.
But yeah, him and dan pretty much made fun of them all day.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
That's great, he saw how all the GBers thought people like him didn't represent them at all, and actually just completely left like they asked. Why can't they all be so accommodating?
I like how Danny pretty much still asks the same types of questions these days.
chickdigger802
Banned
its also imo a bit more clunky due to it being 3d, and the UI still isn't 100% great.
They really working Dan hard on his second week eh?
great hire so far.
Yeah I thought he grew up in Waterford.
Maybe he said the uk to give more understandable context to his amiga question.
I remember there was a call on one of the old live shows where a guy read some old Irish poem with a full on accent. It went on forever and it was pretty hard to understand and Jeff's only response was, "I think he just activated a terrorist cell." I wonder if that was Danny as well.
maquiladora
Member
That is Danny. Not sure why he said that, maybe he thought it would just be simpler to say UK since the game releases are the same for UK/Ireland and Jeff would be familiar with the UK scene.
What article?
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/letter-from-the-editor-07-02-2014/1100-4948/
How did this all start?
Read this thread. It was about people who attacked feminist critics on Twitter in a vile fashion.
Letter from the editor
Oh god that whole thing looks like a mess.
How does something like this even start?
Basically the internet, but to be more specific, human nature.
Mmmm, Jeff is such a cool guy. Well said.
I knew about the controversy and Jeff tweeted about it but I missed the article.
They can't fire him, he's the people's hero now!
..channeled through Twitter.
funkystudent
Member
Did they ever quick look that arty looking game about fish falling in love with birds that was announced / released at Sonys E3?
Hopefully 3 hours this time.
I away's knew that lad was a turncoat, I could feel it in my water.
Entwined? No. Didn't get that well received, either, I think.
Huh. Forgot about this stream. Isn't archived on the site, right?
MrTroubleMaker
Member
Yup. I completely forgot about Jeff doing this gameroom stuff. Hopefully all this stuff that is missing gets archived on the site too. They have more help, so they should be able to.
But I haven't seen that much vitriol towards other sites hirings.
Was this a case of the extremes getting amplified by the internet or twitters character limitations leading to poor communication?
Or is this partially a response to Patrick's articles seemingly conflicting with the choice of the new staff?
I'm just glad that Jeff wrote a response and didn't leave something like this to fester. He should write more.
The MRA section of Reddit and 4chan got involved.
Shortly before the announcement of the hires, a prominent critic and fan of of the site brought attention to the fact GB has no female employees on staff. This put a lot of eyes on the upcoming announcement. When the news came it was two straight white guys, some people were vocally disappointed with it. It didn't help that Polygon and IGN had apparently also just hired two straight white guys.
The critics, for the most part, were thoughtful and well reasoned. They understood GB is a small site with few editors, but its influence is very far reaching, becoming a bit of a bastion for the industry.
At that point, Giant Bomb got caught in the middle of a war between the critics and so-called 'anti-SJWs' from 4chan and Reddit. It got ugly, GB's community was (IMO) unfairly blamed, and Jeff had to step in.
One day, maybe not in our lifetime, respectful, critical discussion will be able to happen on the internet. Today is not that day.
Nothing to do with Patrick. A lot to do with twitter giving the worst people on both sides larger voices to speak with than they deserve.
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