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Jimmyfenix

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Don't be a jerk.
A self-explanatory rule, but an important one nonetheless. People who disagree with you are not "insane." They are not "pathetic." They are not "a dick." Even if you think they're wrong about something, there's no reason to treat them with disrespect.

If someone is posting something that terrible or offensive that you really feel the need to respond strongly? Either keep it clean or report it to a moderator and one or more mods will decide what to do. Y'all are rather good about not needing mod intervention, so I can trust that will rarely ever happen.

Remember that the Giant Bomb staff are posters and read this thread.
Please try to remember that Jeff, Brad, Dan, and Vinny are posters here. While that doesn't mean you can't criticize or disagree with anything they say or do (more on that below), it does mean that you should treat them like any other NeoGAF user: with the same respect as outlined above. While commentary on a on-screen personality's attitude or performance in games is expected, try to remember that they're reading the things you write, and that it impacts whether and how they'll respond here.

As examples:

"Brad seemed to be wrong there. He didn't understand that you had to junction the bafmodad in order to hyperjump even when the prompt told him to." This is fine.
"Brad is so hardheaded and terrible at games lol" This isn't necessarily rulebreaking, but it doesn't really add to anything, especially if the page is already filled with similar comments.
"Jeff seemed to be in a bad mood today. Wouldn't want to get on his bad side!" Sure, fine.
"Jeff seemed to be a jaded husk of a man today. After going through his Twitter timeline and Facebook photos, and crossreferencing with the DSM-5, I'm fairly certain I can diagnose Jeff and recommend some lifestyle changes." This is really creepy and overly personal!


This is not the Giant Bomb Secret Clubhouse.
Giant Bomb is a unique site. It covers games in a way that a lot of other sites don't. That's why we love them! So it's to be expected that a passionate and dedicated community would spring up here. Hooray for Giant Bomb!

That said, it's still a thread on NeoGAF, and not everyone will have the same tastes as you, especially if something is unique. If someone comes in and doesn't "quite get" what Giant Bomb is about or why they do the things they do, please be courteous in responding to them. Don't just drive them away by being bossy or getting up in their face about it.

This also, in general, applies to anyone (new or old) who merely has a criticism or differing opinion on what Giant Bomb's doing or saying. If someone notes that a Quick Look or UPF wasn't great for whatever reason, don't accuse them of being fanboys for the game(s) in question or get overly defensive of Giant Bomb. When a person thinks a video might have been more entertaining if the staff knew more about the game, don't trot out ridiculous false dichotomies like "Oh, so you think they shouldn't have fun, they should be thrown in jail for 20 years because they don't play like soulless TAS robots, huh!?!?!?" This doesn't contribute to the conversation at all. Trying to be passive-aggressive about it by airing complaints about "some people in this thread" isn't any different, it just makes you look condescending and overdefensive.
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ABOUT A BOMB

Giant Bomb is the most hippin'est, happenin'est, charmingly garrulous website about video games on the Internet! With a potent mixture of live streams, videos, podcasts, interviews, hot news scoops and incisive commentary, Giant Bomb has won the hearts and minds of us entitled internet hoards time and time again. The Bombadiers cover pretty much the entire spectrum of video games; whether it's watching two grown men spend 99 hours and 59 minutes falling in love with a Japanese schoolgirl, or watching another grown man scream at a creepy low-poly bogeyman in the dead of night, you'll find something to love here.

Unless you like Monster Hunter. In which you're SOL. Leave this place.

THE BOMB SQUAD

Jeff Gerstmann

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Age: Unknown; records say he simply came into being during the completion of Spacewar
Nationality: Space Egyptian
Location: Petaluma
Aliases: Dr Tracksuit, Big Jeffrey, The Rap Man
Abilities: Impervious to pre-release hype; unnatural comic timing; powerful enough to launch his enemies into the sun
Enemies: Miley Cyrus; Kid Rock; Korn; Rooster Teeth; Nintendo; Dave Lang; Chipotle
Favourite game: Majora's Mask

Brad Shoemaker

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Age: 70 (post-Dota)
Nationality: English
Location: San Francisco
Aliases: rudds, Bradx0r, XXXShoenoscoper420blazeitupXXX
Abilities: Can hear an uninformed forum post from over 50 kilometres away; voice of an angel
Enemies: Arch-viles; Ultranationalists; NeoGAF; the basic human need for sleep
Favourite game: League of Legends

Vincent Caravella

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Age: 70 (post-Max)
Nationality: Sicilian
Location: New York
Aliases: The Italian Stallion, mindcavity, A wizard
Abilities: Can destroy any aircraft in a matter of minutes; incredible violent energy can be summoned for use in open worlds; ice magic powers
Enemies: Pop-ups; dudes with sunglasses; the Y button; Adele
Favourite game: Bot Colony


Alex Navarro


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Age: fuck if I know
Nationality: Spanish
Location: New York
Aliases: The Wolf, Jesse Pinkman
Abilities: Ability to keep his facial hair mostly unchanged through 3 different decades; is awesome at Punch-Out!!
Enemies: Bad video games; Jeff Gerstmann , Dan Ryckert
Favourite game: Big Rigs

Drew Scanlon

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Age: 21 forever
Nationality: Russian
Location: Bay Area
Aliases: Comrade Scanlonski, funkify, Michael C. Hall
Abilities: Impeccable posture; expert archer; speaks over 50 languages; can infiltrate enemy territory; mastery over vehicles; can survive the rabies virus
Enemies: CBSi HR. That's pretty much it.
Favourite game: Metal Gear Solid 3

Matt Rorie

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Age:26
Nationality: Canadian
Location: Bay Area
Aliases: Matt Rorie
Abilities: Can talk to dogs, The Dungeon Master
Enemies: Cats, Ian
Favorite game: Alpha Protocol

D.

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Age:12
Nationality: From The South
Location: Bay Area
Aliases: Daniel Ryckert
Abilities: Can do a superkick , Beat the shit out of Mike Tyson
Enemies: Monster Hunter 4 , Alex Navarro . Drago
Favorite game: Monster Hunter 4

Jason Oestreicher

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Age 37
Nationality: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Location: Bay Area
Aliases: A-Striker
Abilities: Can produce the DMX Goomba any time he wants, Monster Hunting
Enemies: Dan Ryckert
Favorite game: The Legend Of Korra By Platinum Games

HERE'S WHAT'S BLOWING UP RIGHT NOW

Quick Looks - The guys jump into a new release and give it a whirl for about 40 minutes or so. Unedited, no bullshit - your Giant Bomb meat 'n' potatoes.

Demo Derby - Dan , Drew & now Jeff look at old Demo Discs across multiple platforms in this Feature. Some times we get to see demos of good old classic games & Other times we get to see demos of the worst games ever made.

Encyclopedia Bombastica - Quick Looks for older games, basically. Generally comes with more of an "in the know" feel, and usually just ran by one person.

Unprofessional Fridays - Premium member exclusive show. Just 90 minutes of whatever nonsense the crew feel like showing off. Giant Bomb at its most chaotic.

Interview Dumptruck - Alex (and sometimes Jeff) interviews a wide range of name from the industry and gaming community, and posts the mostly raw footage straight to the site.

Metal Gear Scanlon - Drew is on a mission to play through all numbered MGS games as he has never played them before. Local MGS nut Dan Ryckert tries to Help ( Trolls) Drew through out the play through. It is pretty fucking cool man.

Mario Party Party - The Gang play 50 fucking turns of every single numbered Mario Party game will be played. NOBODY WINS

Unplugged - A Premium Series where The Gang play various DnD games.

And of course, there is the Giant Bombcast, up every Tuesday, with an accompanying thread popping up here on GAF near enough on the dot.

EXPLOSIVELY USEFUL INFO

Twitters, and GAF User Names

Brad: @bradshoemaker, rudds
Jeff: @jeffgerstmann, MonsterDunk
Vinny: @VinnyCaravella, bionicpuppy
Drew: @drewscanlon, N/A
Alex: @alex_navarro, N/A
Matt Rorie: @frailgesture, N/A
Jason Oestreicher: @unastrike N/A
Dan Ryckert: @DanRyckert . DanRyckert




Officially Unofficial Websites


Giant Bomb Video Playlist (THE best way to search for TNTs and Game Rooms)




Click here to see fellow GB Gaf member Myggen list of best premium content to watch or listen to


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Big Thanks to daydream/Renpatsu for the banner!

Also coldman for the OT template.

(Rest in peace, Ryan.)
 
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Myggen

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This is a surprisingly good thread, Jimmy!

edit: Bringing this over to this new thread:

A list of (some of) the Premium content worth watching/listening to:

- A lot of the UPF episodes, e.g. the Second Life episode, the PS4 Playroom episode, the Dream Gear episode, the Lego Island episode, the Halcyon episode, the one with the whole crew back in SF, the Paul Ryckert episode etc.

- Every Random PC Game feature (1-10 on that list are all the available videos)

- Mario Party Party - 50 turns of sadness, Mario Party Party 2 and Mario Party Party 3: The Saddening/Nobody Wins, Mario Party Party 4: The Saddening 2 (Part 1, Part 2)

- On The Green With Sim Golf, Members Only SNES Party, The Olympic Games Olympiad

- The Breaking Brad: Demon's Souls series, the Load Our Last Souls series, the Metal Gear Scanlon series (season 1, season 2, season 3)

- Backflips n' Bioforge

- Vinny plays Bot Company, goes insane, Vinny plays Velvet Sundown

- Drew is a North Korean spy, Iceland: The Cutting Room Floor

- All the Premium Flight Club videos, like Digital Combat Simulator: P-51D Mustang Beta

- The best TNTs: Fortune Street, Dead Island, Gears of War 3, Cards Against Humanity etc.

- The Running of the Lanterns, and various Breaking Brads like Doom II Ultra Violence, Volgarr the Viking etc.

- The Load Our Last Save features. Freedom Fighters is a great place to start.

- Demo Disc Derby (10 videos so far)

- Giant Bomb Unplugged: Pathfinder, Giant Bomb Unplugged: Avalon, Giant Bomb Unplugged: Dungeons & Dragons

- Podcasts: Bomb After Reading: Sphere, A Very Ryckert Holiday: Conversations With Dan & Paul, The Powerbombcast episode 14 (but really, every Powerbombcast is worth listening to), Danswers 07: Return of the Gerstdann (every Danswers is worth listening to, especially the ones with guests)
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chaobreaker

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Dan should just shave his whole face and furrow his brow more. Then he'll look like a tough guy who gets into fights and examines dead corpses of naked women.
 
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Patryn

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KingKong said:
new thread wish: Vinny premium playthrough of Bloodborne
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The weird thing is that this almost seems in the realm of possibility.

I really don't think it'd happen, but I can see Vinny pitching it, if only to give him a chance to play through the game in a timely fashion.
 
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