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Brashnir said:
the real knife show or Jeff and Ryan making fun of it?
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The real knife show. I had the GameSpot video of them doing the e3 give away going at the same time for a bit and it was overwhelming.

I'm sure they've talked about on giant bomb at some point I just forgot when

199 pieces for $198.00
 
Aselith said:
http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-tmnt-training-lair/2300-9264/

This quick look is the greatest thing ever
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A Pretty Panda said:
The real knife show. I had the GameSpot video of them doing the e3 give away going at the same time for a bit and it was overwhelming.

I'm sure they've talked about on giant bomb at some point I just forgot when

199 pieces for $198.00
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I can only take about three consecutive minutes of real knife show myself.
 
what is this knife show

edit: oh you mean like a tv show selling knives? i guess i shoulda figured it out.


I feel like the problem with watching those shows for an extended period of time is suddenly, it seems like a great idea to buy a knife.
 
Listening to Danny interact with Dan during the cricket quick look makes them my new favorite duo, despite this being the only thing I've heard them both in simultaneously. Danny is the best.
 
I say this as a man who hates all sports, has an appropriately American distaste for England/Britain/UK/Across the Pond/Whatever the accepted term is, and doesn't entirely understand how baseball works.

Cricket looks English as shit. And confusing as hell.

Amazing QL though. I was dying just on the title screen.
 
I was sorting through some old emails the other day, and look what I found:

Hello!

You're receiving this e-mail because you wrote in to one of Giant Bomb's e-mail addresses at some point in the past. Congratulations! That means you totally rate!

This e-mail is being sent to let you know that we're getting very close to the beta launch of giantbomb.com -- if you want to be extra-certain that you secure your username of choice, you should start taking occasional looks at the site to see if it's up yet. You will not receive a second e-mail from us, as we're solely focused on the site itself.

So what will you be able to do on Giant Bomb?

Explore a database that already contains...
Entries for over 72,000 releases.
Pages for nearly 90,000 people involved in the creation of video games.
Almost 600 character pages!
Something like 580 pages for gaming franchises!
Dude, I don't know, how about I just write "and much, much more" here and we move on?

Don't forget, you'll be able to edit and add to all of these things!

And of course, we'll have message boards. Tens of thousands of message boards! Way too many message boards! Everything from the PlayStation 3 to hamburgers will have a message board associated with it. In fact, every single page in the database, including consoles, franchises, games, objects, characters, people, and concepts will all have a friendly message board right at the bottom. But don't worry about getting lost or missing out on a conversation. Messages from all boards are easily found in our forum index.

Then there's the same style of award-winning* editorial content from myself, Ryan, Brad, and Vinny. With the site up and running, we'll have even more time to provide reviews, commentary, and previews of the games you care about. Or, at least, the games _we_ care about.

* - not actually award-winning

Look, I could go on all day about this stuff, but I'll save some of it for the welcome letter that you'll find on giantbomb.com once we've launched. Thanks for taking an interest in us, and we think you'll go totally nuts when you see what we've been working on. I know we're all going totally nuts thinking about what you'll do with it once it's available.

xoxo,
Jeff Gerstmann

WHAT TO DO NOW:

1. OPEN UP YOUR WEB BROWSER
2. CHECK OUT http://www.giantbomb.com (REMEMBER, IT'S NOT UP YET! SO KEEP CHECKING...)
3. IF IT IS, CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT... IT'S PAINLESS! IT'S FUN!
4. TELL A FRIEND
5. MAYBE ORDER A PIZZA OR SOMETHING? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE HUNGRY OR WHATEVER
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I got this almost exactly 6 years ago now (20/7/2008). It's fun to think about how the site has changed since those early days (visual design, quest system) and the bizarre stuff they filmed in Sausalito - it was just so different than what any other established sites were doing at the time. The operation also felt pretty scrappy in the early days, so I'm happy the guys have made it this long!
 
Dansk said:
I was sorting through some old emails the other day, and look what I found:



I got this almost exactly 6 years ago now (20/7/2008). It's fun to think about how the site has changed since those early days (visual design, quest system) and the bizarre stuff they filmed in Sausalito - it was just so different than what any other established sites were doing at the time. The operation also felt pretty scrappy in the early days, so I'm happy the guys have made it this long!
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Hah, that's pretty neat.

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Dansk said:
I got this almost exactly 6 years ago now (20/7/2008). It's fun to think about how the site has changed since those early days (visual design, quest system) and the bizarre stuff they filmed in Sausalito - it was just so different than what any other established sites were doing at the time. The operation also felt pretty scrappy in the early days, so I'm happy the guys have made it this long!
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It's hard to believe it's been 6 years already. I still remember the early days of the site when the first piece of content that drew me to GB was a Metal Gear Solid 4 spoiler cast. I was listening to some old 1UP podcasts on This Year Collection the other day and it occurred to me that what I think of as the "glory days" of 1UP only really lasted for 2 years - 2007 and 2008. The first big round of firings was at the end of 2008 (plus many people left of their own accord) and things weren't the same after that. So all of my fond memories of that site come from a relatively short period, and Giantbomb has kept things running for about three times that long already, with more to come. I do miss the "guerrilla video games coverage" feel of the site in the beginning though.
 
it did. so did retronauts and 1up Show. Retronauts was good pretty much out of the gate, CGW/GFW took a few episodes to warm up. 1up Show didn't hit its stride until like the third pr fourth season. I never really cared for 1up Yours except for the times Luke and Shane were on together.

edit: 1up Show started late 2005 but was barely recognizable as what it would become.
 
Blue Estate reminded me of WET. I kinda liked WET, even though it had many problems. I wish a game could get the Grindhouse style down - I feel I would enjoy that.
 
Ok I know I'm like 1 year late but I bought a XB1 2 weeks ago with Forza 5 and Dead Rising 3. Started playing DR3 seriously today (I bought the console for FM5 mostly so I was playing that everyday)... This is my first Dead Rising game and I finally get it (after about an hour of gameplay). The crafting is so much fun!

Btw anybody know if the DLC is worth it?
 
Dan has some really good stares.

When he was explaining the rules to Cannon Brawl and Jeff just activates the dog. Death stares of all death stares.
 
Hey guys. Monthly check in out of the loop post. So what should I check out?

Skimming the last few pages I'm guessing the TMNT quick look is a great one.
 
paul187 said:
Hey guys. Monthly check in out of the loop post. So what should I check out?

Skimming the last few pages I'm guessing the TMNT quick look is a great one.
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Off the top of my head (there's probably way more): The latest Bombcast, Don Bradman Cricket 14 QL, TMNT QL, Velvet Sundown Live (Premium), last two UPFs, Bot Colony (I'd recommend both the Unfinished and the Premium video with Vinny), Sniper Elite III QL.

edit: The two latest Encyclopedia Bombasticas are very good too. And the Freedom Stream!

Been a good month of content.
 
Yeah, the search function is a little wonky for finding the Daily Dota videos, but most of them (with very few exceptions) should be listed under the Dota 2 Videos section. If you're not a subscriber, you can check the "giantbomb" Twitch archives for free Twitch VODs, but that's a much hairier proposition.
 
CrispyLovesYou said:
Yeah, the search function is a little wonky for finding the Daily Dota videos, but most of them (with very few exceptions) should be listed under the Dota 2 Videos section. If you're not a subscriber, you can check the "giantbomb" Twitch archives for free Twitch VODs, but that's a much hairier proposition.
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No one wants to check out Twitch VODs of anything :)

Alucrid said:
the first stop for any dota 2 videos should be the neogaf vs giantbomb matches.
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That video is just depressing.
 
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