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[Piston Hyundai]

dude's got two first names

oh cool, new page

no I will not quote what I'm responding to; go back a page, nerd

 

[Myggen]

So I just fell into the rabbit hole on reading the Giant Bomb Wikipedia article. For some reason, Ryan's article was basically merged with the main Giant Bomb article and that one silly SMB3 rollercoaster video gets an entire paragraph on it and an associating thumbnail picture. I can't believe the controversy over the hirings got a section as well.

Also, I just found out that Alexa previously worked in Giant Bomb and now all the excitement over his appearances on UPFs make a lot more sense now.

Alexis? He worked at Whiskey Media (GB's previous parent company), and then at CBSi until he left for Twitch. He was never technically employed at GB, but by Whiskey Media and then CBSi as a designer (but he was in a bunch of content). The "employees" section of the Wikipedia article is pretty inaccurate since neither Dave Snider, Ian Kelly, Alexis or Rorie have ever been employed by GB, but always by the parent company directly. To say that Ian was employed by GB is like saying that Andy Bauman is employed by GB right now.

Also, Ryan had a Wikipedia article for a long time, but it got taken down because it didn't contain enough information. I'm guessing it has something to do with Wikipedia's different requirements for articles about living people and people who have passed away.

 

[strafer]

maybe the new hire is Jon Stewart.. :O

 

[BanGy.nz]

Wild new hire speculation time:

Anyone else in here listen to Lazer Time Podcasts? Henry Gilbert's leaving GamesRadar a week and a half before the BLLS, he's been a fan of Giant Bomb for a while and has history with podcasting. He was the features editor at GamesRadar so to me it seems like he could cover the News part of the site and he'd also cover a few holes in GB's.

Spoiler

He also favorite my tweet asking him if he was moving to NY.

I like how we're all just assuming the new hire will be announced during the BLLSL, I expect we'll get Jeff saying "Yeah, we're still workin on it". #HireCara

no I will not quote what I'm responding to; go back a page, nerd

Nicely done.

 

[chaobreaker]

Alexis? He worked at Whiskey Media (GB's previous parent company), and then at CBSi until he left for Twitch. He was never technically employed at GB, but by Whiskey Media and then CBSi as a designer (but he was in a bunch of content). The "employees" section of the Wikipedia article is pretty inaccurate since neither Dave Snider, Ian Kelly, Alexis or Rorie have ever been employed by GB, but always by the parent company directly. To say that Ian was employed by GB is like saying that Andy Bauman is employed by GB right now.

Also, Ryan had a Wikipedia article for a long time, but it got taken down because it didn't contain enough information. I'm guessing it has something to do with Wikipedia's different requirements for articles about living people and people who have passed away.

Is Rorie a full fledged GB employee now? If not, that would be surprising.

 

[stump sock]

tikitikitiki desu ka?

 

[BearPawB]

Wild new hire speculation time:

Anyone else in here listen to Lazer Time Podcasts? Henry Gilbert's leaving GamesRadar a week and a half before the BLLS, he's been a fan of Giant Bomb for a while and has history with podcasting. He was the features editor at GamesRadar so to me it seems like he could cover the News part of the site and he'd also cover a few holes in GB's.

Spoiler

He also favorite my tweet asking him if he was moving to NY.

I think there is a less than zero chance of the new hire being a white male.

 

[Myggen]

Is Rorie a full fledged GB employee now? If not, that would be surprising.

He's still employed by CBSi directly, not GB. He's the support guy for Comic Vine as well as GB (his Twitter description reads: Get in touch at support@giantbomb.com or support@comicvine.com for anything you like.).

 

[tchocky]

I think there is a less than zero chance of the new hire being a white male.

I think it will be most interesting to see if they hire outside of their friends since I believe every other person Jeff has hired has been a friend of the crew either through working at Gamespot (original GB) Brads friend (Patrick) or Powerbombcast (Dan). Vinny has not been guilty of this hiring Drew and Jason who he didn't know beforehand.

 

[TheMrPliskin]

I think there is a less than zero chance of the new hire being a white male.

I think that's crazy talk.

 

[chaobreaker]

Jeff is a cool guy. He must have at least one black friend.

 

[Bacon]

I think there is a less than zero chance of the new hire being a white male.

I wouldn't go that far

 

[RepairmanJack]

I think there is a less than zero chance of the new hire being a white male.

Not that I think this will have anything to do with the hiring at all, but what if he wasn't a straight white male?

 

[stump sock]

hire DMX

 

[tchocky]

Not that I think this will have anything to do with the hiring at all, but what if he wasn't a straight white male?

I think Christian Nutt from Gamasutra would be a decent hire he has a history of writing news and doing interviews, he is mostly into Japanese games and jrpgs which is a area GB is lacking. I have noticed he has started streaming but I haven't watched any so I don't know how good the video are. I don't know whether he would want to move to NY though.

 

[stump sock]

I think Christian Nutt from Gamasutra would be a decent hire he has a history of writing news and doing interviews, he is mostly into Japanese games and jrpgs which is a area GB is lacking. I have noticed he has started streaming but I haven't watched any so I don't know how good the video are. I don't know whether he would want to move to NY though.

I'd be somewhat surprised because he's married and I think he has a lot of ties to SF

but who knows. I wouldn't mind having a Falcom fanboy on the staff

 

[TheMrPliskin]

hire DMX

That's a terrible idea, he would just bail once he gets his thirty two hundred dollars.

 

[mnz]

Wild new hire speculation time:

Anyone else in here listen to Lazer Time Podcasts? Henry Gilbert's leaving GamesRadar a week and a half before the BLLS, he's been a fan of Giant Bomb for a while and has history with podcasting. He was the features editor at GamesRadar so to me it seems like he could cover the News part of the site and he'd also cover a few holes in GB's.

Spoiler

He also favorite my tweet asking him if he was moving to NY.

Apparently he was on a Power Bombcast. It's a done deal.

 

[hamchan]

It's Jared Rosen guys.

 

[Xater]

Yup, Jared is going to leave Nintendo to join GB just so we can have Jackie Chan cash games every week.

 

[No_Style]

This is my first Danswers. Jeff & his dad :/

 

[Glitchesarecool]

I really want the new hire to be Patrick, and it was a ruse all along.

GODDAMNIT I MISS HIM WITH THE GANG.

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

I really want the new hire to be Patrick, and it was a ruse all along.

GODDAMNIT I MISS HIM WITH THE GANG.

Needs to be the way they reveal it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kujo7V9m0gk

 

[Glitchesarecool]

Needs to be the way they reveal it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kujo7V9m0gk

Exactly!

 

[Jimmyfenix]

I really want the new hire to be Patrick, and it was a ruse all along.

GODDAMNIT I MISS HIM WITH THE GANG.

Who?

 

[SteveWinwood]

Yup, Jared is going to leave Nintendo to join GB just so we can have Jackie Chan cash games every week.

that would be an amazing feature

 

[TharpDaddy]

Since it's GB NY I wonder if Vinny/Alex will have most of the say in hiring the new person? Vinny hired Jason since he was the most qualified but since this one is on the editorial side I could see Alex being the one holding taking the most responsibility for hiring. I hope Alex does the right thing and hires someone who can stand for Xenoblade X when the time comes.

 

[Tucah]

I'd be somewhat surprised because he's married and I think he has a lot of ties to SF

but who knows. I wouldn't mind having a Falcom fanboy on the staff

I don't know anything about the guy but you saying he's a Falcom fanboy automatically makes me want him to join the site.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

> i am bread quicklook

>mfw no bread hosting

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

I am bread seemed like a great 4/20 game. Blown opportunity, really

 

[Antiwhippy]

Who?

Kleptok.

 

[Curufinwe]

Since it's GB NY I wonder if Vinny/Alex will have most of the say in hiring the new person? Vinny hired Jason since he was the most qualified but since this one is on the editorial side I could see Alex being the one holding taking the most responsibility for hiring. I hope Alex does the right thing and hires someone who can stand for Xenoblade X when the time comes.

Jeff runs editorial for GB.

 

[stump sock]

I Am Bread is great. I stopped playing it for a while and decided to wait for the full version. Excited to play the full thing.

 

[TharpDaddy]

Jeff runs editorial for GB.

Yup, I know, but since this person won't be working in his office I was wondering if he might defer some more of the say in the hiring to one of the people in GB NY.

 

[totowhoa]

Oh man

Everything about Dave Lang's LinkedIn page is just wonderful

Yup, I know, but since this person won't be working in his office I was wondering if he might defer some more of the say in the hiring to one of the people in GB NY.

Given the nature of the site, I'm sure most of the team probably gets a chance to talk to potential new hires so that they can all can confirm a good fit.

 

[Tucah]

I may be misremembering things but Alex has a much better grasp of the Bread controls than whoever ran the Unfinished.

 

[HamPster PamPster]

I really want the new hire to be Patrick, and it was a ruse all along.

GODDAMNIT I MISS HIM WITH THE GANG.

I wish he would rope someone into doing a normal podcast with him instead of that weekly solo tumblur Q&A video he does

 

[BearPawB]

It's going to be Robyn from TVGuide

 

[stump sock]

I may be misremembering things but Alex has a much better grasp of the Bread controls than whoever ran the Unfinished.

they've also made it slightly easier over time (more grip meter, etc), but yes

but once you get past even what Alex is doing here is where it gets crazy. when you learn to frisbee yourself across the levels it gets really special.

 

[Glitchesarecool]

I wish he would rope someone into doing a normal podcast with him instead of that weekly solo tumblur Q&A video he does

Yeah he definitely needs someone to play off of for video/audio content. Even his youtube videos were a little rough when I was following that.

 

[kershner]

Bread is without a doubt the most competent 'YouTube' game. It gets insanely challenging and rewarding.

 

[Tucah]

they've also made it slightly easier over time (more grip meter, etc), but yes

but once you get past even what Alex is doing here is where it gets crazy. when you learn to frisbee yourself across the levels it gets really special.

Yeah, even from what I've seen of the QL the game seems really cool. The extra modes look fun as well, I'll definitely look into grabbing the game during a Steam Sale or something.

 

[Jimmyfenix]

bread is yummy

 

[stump sock]

Yeah, even from what I've seen of the QL the game seems really cool. The extra modes look fun as well, I'll definitely look into grabbing the game during a Steam Sale or something.

I've had a hard time convincing people in real life that it's not just a "lol look how hard it is" game because you definitely pick up the controls pretty quickly once you get past that first hump. after that it's super addictive when it becomes second nature and you're making increasingly crazy runs.

but screw them, they don't know what they're missing.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Who?

He was the guy who was constantly talking about lifting weights IIRC

 

[giant_frying_pan]

bread is yummy

 

[Jimmyfenix]

He was the guy who was constantly talking about lifting weights IIRC

I thought the weights guy was Josh who was the camera man in How to Build a Bomb Episode 4


Chaobreaker you need to watch the how to build a bomb series.

 

[Data West]

Nicholson is the Chuck Cunningham of GB

 

[Hot Coldman]

I Am Bread is the GOTY.

 

[Master_Funk]

Oh man I cannot wait for a few people from video games sites to leave all at the same time, so that we can make another of those hireing charts like last time.