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[Dark Schala]

Best new thread title.

 

[Dragon]

Thread title change

 

[mrplaid]

New thread title got me misty-eyed. Goddammit...

 

[Loxley]

Great title change.

 

[LiK]

great idea strafer. love the new thread title.

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

Thanks for the title change that is a wonderful one <3

 

[Tucah]

New thread title is perfect, I'm tearing up right now.

 

[Megasoum]

 

[Felix Lighter]

Still the best!

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince/2300-952/

For me, the best way to deal with this is to celebrate the entertainment he brought me.

 

[Zaph]

This is so strange. I had to get off the phone earlier with a friend. I just wasn't in the mood for a casual chat and it felt crazy telling her "there's the podcast I listen to from a website that makes funny videos and live streams about games - their main host just died". So instead I just made excuses and hung up.

Fuck.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

New thread title is perfect, I'm tearing up right now.

me too

 

[jgminto]

I'm going to miss him so fucking much.

 

[derFeef]

Thanks for the title change <3

 

[vitaminwateryum]

Tuesdays will never be the same.

Truly. Ryan was a key component to one of the highlights of my week.

I just sent him a tube full of Tyler Stout artwork a month or two ago and had a set of Olly Moss artwork prepped to send. It's a goddamn shame I'll never get to send it.

It's so bizzare that Ryan's passing is able to affect me so much more than a family member. At the same time, it's so heartwarming to see how many people he positively affected.

 

[FStop7]

I hope when they have a memorial service they have a big celebration of his life afterward. When my best friend died it helped so much.

 

[YoYo Switch]

I agree. Giantbomb was what I would do when I had nowhere else to turn for some entertainment. I've spent many a night just laying in bed watching old quick looks, and many hours of gameplay listening to the bombcast.

fucking video games, man.

spent 5 years and what might be hundreds, hell might even be thousands of hours listening to this guy's voice.

not to mention the gamespot days.

added all up and this guy has touched so many lives. even if it is as something as simple as snarky video game commentary, he's had to have some significant effect on people. It's so frightening to think that a part of that is gone.

he will be missed.

 

[Pound_lb003]

Bad news.

I love that guy. Never met him, but yeah, the thread title is good.

 

[Salsa]

what an ass

 

[Patryn]

 

[bloodyroarxx]

Game Informer sent over these lovely flowers to the guys, wish I would of thought of that.

 

[GlamFM]

This is so strange. I had to get off the phone earlier with a friend. I just wasn't in the mood for a casual chat and it felt crazy telling her "there's the podcast I listen to from a website that makes funny videos and live streams about games - their main host just died". So instead I just made excuses and hung up.

Fuck.

I was just trying to explain to my wife why I don´t have the energy to bring our daughter to bed tonight..

 

[Salsa]

looks like harmonix will be doing something

 

[YoYo Switch]

Love the title change.

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

Game Informer sent over these lovely flowers to the guys, wish I would of thought of that.

I thought about a Bay area gaffer could do it for us? if we pay pal him/her some money but I never thought they would come to the office this week

 

[justjim89]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. From Ryan's wife's twitter.

&#8207;@EnemyNanner 40m
@LostTurntable 5 motherfucking days! Motherfucking @KimKardashian was married longer than me! #butmymarriagewasREAL

What's her name, anyway?

 

[illmatic19]

I genuinely called Ryan a "goddamn idiot" on twitter after the whole John Drake flight tracker stuff. He retweeted it. Ryan always found the humor in everything. I'm gonna miss that idiot dearly.

 

[bloodyroarxx]

I thought about a Bay area gaffer could do it for us? if we pay pal him/her some money but I never thought they would come to the office this week

Yea maybe a bottle of Ryans favorite too, the guys can pour one out for him.

 

[megalowho]

Love the title change, though it's getting to me. Time to turn away from these hard to watch videos and turn up some summer jams.

 

[jonabbey]

I keep randomly tearing up during the day and it is so weird thinking about telling people someone I've never met who I kinda followed over the internet died and the news hit me in the gut.

This is crap.

I'm right there with you. Dammit.

 

[Megasoum]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. From Ryan's wife's twitter.



What's her name, anyway?

Anna

 

[Nopren]

Tribute channel live over on twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/thanksryan

 

[zroid]

just whipped this together if anyone wants

 

[strafer]

Fuck, it's hard hearing his voice now.

 

[GlamFM]

https://vine.co/v/haiIlp9jxlU

Dancing on his wedding...

 

[Kyari]

I just buried my aunt a few weeks ago, and it's remarkable how different these two deaths have affected me. My aunt was sick. She suffered multiple strokes and various sicknesses and injuries. Her passing was the release from this earthly coil she needed. I was sad for my family and I missed her, but I was relieved because she could rest. She had little left to offer any of us at that point and all she was doing was hurting.

Ryan was a young guy with a new wife and dear friends who was looking forward to the rest of his life with a woman he loved. He has a site with thousands upon thousands of fans based upon his camaraderie with his best friends. He had so damn much left to offer so many people and now he's gone. I'm more upset and more torn up over losing an entertainer I'd enjoyed for years over my own blood. Does that make me an asshole?

Btw, anyone have a link to old On the Spot episodes? My first memory of enjoying Ryan was his banter with Rich Gallup every episode.

"But first, Rich!"

"But first, Ryan Davis!"

Pretty much had this same train of thought except with my grandfather. Its comforting knowing I'm not alone in that train of thought.

 

[drizzle]

I might've said something to Ryan that pissed him off 2-3 years ago, because he blocked me from his twitter, which he usually would do.

No biggie, as I created another twitter only so I could follow him (and made sure to never talk to him except when I really had something worthwhile to say), and I was finding it strange that he wasn't posting any more shennanigans like "As the first guy to ever say this, finding satisfying shit to tap your wedding ring on is the new Cracking Your Knuckles" on his twitter since the third. "Oh, he's just enjoying his wedding and the fourth of July" I thought...

 

[zroid]

This is so strange. I had to get off the phone earlier with a friend. I just wasn't in the mood for a casual chat and it felt crazy telling her "there's the podcast I listen to from a website that makes funny videos and live streams about games - their main host just died". So instead I just made excuses and hung up.

Fuck.

Was trying to do the same thing with my mom this afternoon. Wasn't easy.

 

[windyblue]

damn, man. A wake up call to get my own act together. 34 is too young. It is hard to imagine what Giantbomb will be going forward. His laugh and smile were infectious

RIP Davis

 

[Roddslayer]

I'm sure this was asked before but does anybody now what games he had been playing before passing?

 

[mattiewheels]

I am not looking forward to hearing the next podcast. I'm guessing it's going to be very painful to listen to. I hope they take enough time off that they can sort through this before having to do it again.

 

[tamaster92]

I'm sure this was asked before but does anybody now what games he had been playing before passing?

I hope he got to play that early build of SR4 they got in the office

 

[Willkiller]

He was so excited about next-gen too. I'll certainly be thinking of him when I pick up the DS4 for the first time.

 

[bloodyroarxx]

He was so excited about next-gen too. I'll certainly be thinking of him when I pick up the DS4 for the first time.

I know him and the whole office were totally re-energized after e3 and getting to really see the next gen stuff.

 

[zroid]

He was so excited about next-gen too. I'll certainly be thinking of him when I pick up the DS4 for the first time.

I wish you hadn't said this

suddenly my sadness just multiplied threefold

 

[LiK]

I wish you hadn't said this

suddenly my sadness just multiplied threefold

I just relistened to the last Bombcast he was on and he talked about preordering Xbox One. Gah

 

[dark_prinny]

In memoriam.

 

[brandnew]

Had to hold back tears at work all day today. So weird how the death of someone I didn't know affected me so much. It really felt like I knew him though. All of the bombcasts/quick looks... But I really loved reading all of the great things people had to say about him. What a genuinely awesome duder.

 

[Trevelyon]

looks like harmonix will be doing something

Never really vibed the Drake/Pope posse, but obviously Ryan was incredibly tight with them. Wll be tuning in, and will drinking away my sorrows.

 

[J-Roderton]

Oh god, the Half Blood Prince quick look. Too funny. Definitely cheering me up.

 

[FStop7]

Are we SURE this isn't some fucked up, horribly misguided prank? Because I'm ready to forgive and forget. I mean it. Water under the bridge. Just bring him out to tell us it was all a joke.








please?