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Nishastra said:
And you're a subscriber? Weird.

Takes all kinds, I guess.
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I pay money to a videogame site because I like that site's videogame coverage and not because I like to hear the banalities of their daily lives. I don't see what is so weird about that.

It does sometimes feel akin to turning on a football game to see what the score is and having to fucking fast foward through 10 minutes of the announcers talking about how their winter garden is doing before they bother to let me know about a game, though. I think it's really shitty and unprofessional when GB does that to their audience and it's disrespectful to a large portion of it, but since there's almost nobody else doing the kind of video coverage they do, I kind of have to put up with it.
 
nbthedude said:
You'll find a segment of the GB audience that will literally defend anything and everything the crew ever does and every opinion they ever express. I don't know why it has that cult following, I find it kind of creepy, but it exists.

I just like their games commentary and that's why I visit donate to the site. I personally think it's weird and totally unprofessional to expect people to be interesting in whatever the fuck you want to do. It's a general pet peeve of mine that people don't consider their audience and who is listening/reading anymore in the narcissistic age of social media. (No, nobody cares to see a picture of the lunch you ate, thanks or to read your fights with your boyfriend be aired in public.) I don't mind it as much when they want to just split off entire non-gaming segments that I can wholly ignore, though. It's when I have to wade through and constantly skip forward to get to the actual content the site is supposed to be about that it starts to annoy me.
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"the site is supposed to be about"

Ok, champ.
 
nbthedude said:
You'll find a segment of the GB audience that will literally defend anything and everything the crew ever does and every opinion they ever express. I don't know why it has that cult following, I find it kind of creepy, but it exists.
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That goes for pretty much anything that has a following.

I, for one, am waiting for Justin Bieber to kill somebody to see a bunch of people on Twitter defend it.
 
MiniBossBattle said:
BradCasts>Power Bombcasts > games
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i miss button mashing
 
Brakke said:
GB is the commonality of the GB audience.
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That's the most banal tautology I've heard.

It's akin to say "I write for people who are into what I write."

GB isn't a cultural phenomenon that has generated it's own lifestyle. It's not a cultural movement or a religion or way of life. It's a website about videogames.
 
nbthedude said:
That's the most banal tautology I've heard.

It's akin to say "I write for people who are into what I write."

GB isn't a cultural phenomenon that has generated it's own lifestyle. It's not a cultural movement or a religion or way of life. It's a website about videogames.
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It's a personality based website? That's always been what they were shooting for. Though I don't expect a rational perspective from somebody who crucified them for wanting to put out some kind of segment after they had a technical hitch though. Also try not to criticise people for tautology when you're ending your posts with statements like that.
 
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