Giant Bomb Thread #4: A thread of perceived slights

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Nice, had no idea GoW stuff was coming out so soon.
 
RepairmanJack said:
Not sure if this is the right thread but I just started listening to the bombcast with the most recent show being my first. Was wondering what some good episodes were to go back and listen to.
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Boom.

Linkified said:
If anything, unlike the old Gamespot days, I hardly know any of these personalities - maybe CBSi is trying to get these Gamespot dudes to become more natural and have a tighter grasp on their community. So want Giant Bomb guys to help them with that?

Which for Gamespot would not be a bad thing at all.
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Giancarlo let on to this on some Bombcast a year ago that they wanted to stop being a "one-stop shop for video game information and productions covering everything" or something to that extent, so I put my money behind this.
 
LiK said:
why was he raging about it?
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He wasn't "raging," he was stuck at a particularly hard part and had to ask, on twitter, for help from fellow reviewers. He was more confused (was he encountering a bug?) and shocked (am I just shitty at video games?) than angry.
 
DaBuddaDa said:
He wasn't "raging," he was stuck at a particularly hard part and had to ask, on twitter, for help from fellow reviewers. He was more confused (was he encountering a bug?) and shocked (am I just shitty at video games?) than angry.
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He says in his video that he screamed and "rage bit" his controller for 6 hours on that particular combat sequence... Yeah I would consider that raging lol.
 
RepairmanJack said:
Not sure if this is the right thread but I just started listening to the bombcast with the most recent show being my first. Was wondering what some good episodes were to go back and listen to.
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Like others have said - I've not found an episode to really be a miss since I started listening years ago, but I can't exactly recommend going back and listening to older episodes straight up.

With that in mind, I'd *totally* recommend checking out the collections done by This Year. Consider it a kind of 'best of' for the Giant Bombcast for the years that they have covered so far. http://www.thisyearcollection.org/

That's probably the best way to "get caught up" so to speak.

EDITED: Whoa beaten badly. Might have helped if I finished reading the rest of the thread first. Still - consider it another endorsement to go back and check them out.
 
I like the new show, needs some streamlining maybe, but overall its a good addition to the week. Of course the more games there are the better the show wil be each week, and it could be really great to have later this year.

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I think Twitter is the first piece of technology that makes me feel like an out of touch old man. I understand it in the same way that my dad understands the internet in general.
 
Felix Lighter said:
I think Twitter is the first piece of technology that makes me feel like an out of touch old man. I understand it in the same way that my dad understands the internet in general.
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Lol I'm the same.. no idea why, either. I'm as techie as one can get without it being my profession, but man, twitter..twitter is dumb.
 
Felix Lighter said:
I think Twitter is the first piece of technology that makes me feel like an out of touch old man. I understand it in the same way that my dad understands the internet in general.
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With you 100%. As well as every time someone posts a screencap of a Twitter conversation I never have a clue what direction you read it.
 
Dr Dogg said:
With you 100%. As well as every time someone posts a screencap of a Twitter conversation I never have a clue what direction you read it.
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It's so inefficient.

@kskff RT @sdkfksdf skfjklf #sklflksdfkl #sklfsfjk

What part is the actual..message? Can't we just..use a chatroom?
 
Felix Lighter said:
I think Twitter is the first piece of technology that makes me feel like an out of touch old man. I understand it in the same way that my dad understands the internet in general.
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Sounds more like you are unwilling to understand, because it's not complicated and can be understood with minimal effort.
 
worldrevolution said:
It's so inefficient.

@kskff RT @sdkfksdf skfjklf #sklflksdfkl #sklfsfjk

What part is the actual..message? Can't we just..use a chatroom?
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The ridiculous thing is I can scan through lines of SQL, Python, Ruby ect and see syntax errors and bad formatting not a problem but a simple thing like read what should be a threaded conversation and not have a clue where I am.

Anyway on topic. Be interesting to the God of War Quick Look. Just poked my head into the reviews thread here and it's like the wild west.
 
Twitter is super easy to understand. You have to learn what hashtags mean and how to distinguish between replies and retweets and such, but it's not hard.

Old people can learn how to use the internet too.
 
Sorry, my intention was not to suggest that there is anything particularly wrong or even complicated about Twitter, it's just something I haven't actively attempted to use so my exposure to it is limited to the occasional screen shot or link around here. It something I obviously hear about all the time but for one reason or another haven't felt a desire to participate myself. Same for my Dad and the internet, I would assume.
 
worldrevolution said:
It's so inefficient.

@kskff RT @sdkfksdf skfjklf #sklflksdfkl #sklfsfjk

What part is the actual..message? Can't we just..use a chatroom?
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It seems people would rather communicate via bathroom stall scrawlings. It's good for short announcements and sharing links, but very limiting if you want to do more than echo chamber back-pat or heckle someone. Which may very well be its success formula.
 
Someone made a joke, he didn't think it was a joke and responded (in a non-aggressive way), and other game journalists started joking about as though the situation was a much higher tension and increasingly out of control thing. Or something.
 
worldrevolution said:
It's so inefficient.

@kskff RT @sdkfksdf skfjklf #sklflksdfkl #sklfsfjk

What part is the actual..message? Can't we just..use a chatroom?
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The leftmost mention (denoted by the "@") symbol is this person's response to something they retweeted (denoted by the RT). In this case, they decided to respond by mentioning someone else. Everything to the right of "RT" is the original message. Words prefaced with a # double as hashtags, which can be searched for and tracked separately from the original post.
 
Typographenia said:
Someone made a joke, he didn't think it was a joke and responded (in a non-aggressive way), and other game journalists started joking about as though the situation was a much higher tension and increasingly out of control thing. Or something.
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BUT A PR PERSON JOKED TOO SO THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT AHHHHHH.
 
slightconfuse said:
everyone giving justin shit on twitter is hilarious

https://twitter.com/JustinMcElroy/status/309735289532854272
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Colin Campbell is quite an interesting fellow.

http://wosland.podgamer.com/the-players-and-the-game/

Colin is the only person in my career who’s ever tried to get me to review a game on the understanding that it had to receive a certain minimum score to keep the publisher happy and taking out adverts. It was Domark’s skanky conversion of Super Space Invaders for the C64. I refused, and Commodore Format, which Colin was editor of at the time, ended up giving it 92%.
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Sounds awesome. Unfortunate that Gary isn't there, but I assume he has other engagements.

But of course, Dave isn't a dad yet, so I can see this being like two hours of everyone just scaring the shit out of Dave and then ending with a "but its all worth it."
 
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