gray_fox224
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Giant Bomb #17 | Baby Dan Wyckert
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TharpDaddy
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Is the build of Ultimate Chickenhorse they played on UPF and the Unfinished just the Kickstarter demo build or do they have access to a more up-to-date build?
Are you premium? If so Mario Party Party 5. A newer great Quick Look would be the Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes QL.
Edit:Mario Party Party 5 isn't premium. So take that as a recommendation.
CoolBatteryCharge
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I was randomly clicking around on Youtube and all of a sudden the next video was "Quick Look: Velvet Sundown"
TharpDaddy
Member
Dan as Ingmar and his hate for Boyle is the best thing
I decided to marathon all the Star Wars movies to hype myself before Episode 7 comes out.
Starting with Ep1 tonight (starting with the prequels to get rid of the shit and keep the good stuff for the end).
30min in Episode 1 and I already want to die....
Fucking Jar Jar and Anakin "Are you an angel" Skywalker...ugh
Starting with Ep1 tonight (starting with the prequels to get rid of the shit and keep the good stuff for the end).
30min in Episode 1 and I already want to die....
Fucking Jar Jar and Anakin "Are you an angel" Skywalker...ugh
Jimmyfenix
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Welcome!
Wow I've never seen this before. Lang and Johnny have really great chemistry with Jeff and Ed Boon seems super nice. I love when Lang shows up on streams, him and Legobutts being on the big live live show was some of the best content I've seen all year.
Incandenza
Banned
Definitely watch the Contradiction videos.
Piston Hyundai
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You know you can do that too, right? With the Synchtube, anyone can add videos to it. If you're a registered member, you can also change the order of videos to play or play a video instantly.
Twin Tails
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I would add it to the Giant Bomb synchtube queue https://synchtu.be/r/GiantSync, but that would require me to visit that page.
I know. I was just trying to get more people into the synchtube. #ulteriormotives
bearythebear
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I just finished Episode 4 of Life is Strange and
At least one of the Beast Crew might choke up a bit.
That sounds pretty good. I'm thinking I'll keep repeating the 30 minute run til it becomes easier and I can increase my pace, cause I run pretty slow.
Crimson Kopite
Banned
It's amazing to me that navigating the Giant Bomb video library is still so terrible considering how important video is to users. I mean, unless I'm missing a setting, is there really no way to immediately skip to Metal Gear Scanlon 2 if I want to without scrolling through endless pages of video thumbnails in the "Metal Gear Scanlon" section? Is there something I'm missing? I made a shitty 45 second mockup in Paint that would make a difference.
Even something simple like hovering over for a preview (like porn sites) and tags would make a huge difference. I've had a couple segments I'd like to go back and watch in various UPF's over the years, and without tags, a proper description, or a preview ability, you're basically left to blindly stumble through videos and hope you find what you're looking for.
I realize there have been some crazy changes at Giant Bomb over the last few years, but c'mon now.
Even something simple like hovering over for a preview (like porn sites) and tags would make a huge difference. I've had a couple segments I'd like to go back and watch in various UPF's over the years, and without tags, a proper description, or a preview ability, you're basically left to blindly stumble through videos and hope you find what you're looking for.
I realize there have been some crazy changes at Giant Bomb over the last few years, but c'mon now.
skLaFarebear
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It's amazing to me that navigating the Giant Bomb video library is still so terrible considering how important video is to users. I mean, unless I'm missing a setting, is there really no way to immediately skip to Metal Gear Scanlon 2 if I want to without scrolling through endless pages of video thumbnails in the "Metal Gear Scanlon" section? Is there something I'm missing? I made a shitty 45 second mockup in Paint that would make a difference.
Even something simple like hovering over for a preview (like porn sites) and tags would make a huge difference. I've had a couple segments I'd like to go back and watch in various UPF's over the years, and without tags, a proper description, or a preview ability, you're basically left to blindly stumble through videos and hope you find what you're looking for.
I realize there have been some crazy changes at Giant Bomb over the last few years, but c'mon now.
qlcrew.com
If you're on Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/giant-bomb-season-pass/omcloogakdjglgfeipofceanjjgdeikh
And qlcrew.com.
Crimson Kopite
Banned
That's a good start, but I want direct integration on the website and also better filtering. Here's another 30 second mockup for the home page that would make browsing the recent updates easier. Color code posts by type, and utilize space better so you don't have a bunch of empty useless space surrounding huge box art images.
http://i.imgur.com/UQEVpPk.png linked because huge
From an engineering perspective everything seems to work pretty well, but whoever was last responsible for designing the site seemed more interested in drop shadows than usability.
http://i.imgur.com/UQEVpPk.png linked because huge
From an engineering perspective everything seems to work pretty well, but whoever was last responsible for designing the site seemed more interested in drop shadows than usability.
Crimson Kopite
Banned
Yeah I mean a lot of this stuff was solved collectively by designers over a decade ago, and it's like everywhere you look on the Giant Bomb site there's just a mess of nonsensical, glaring design missteps.
Hell, another basic thing that's fucked up is the search. When you search for "Metal Gear Scanlon 2", episode 6 shows up first. Then 10. Then 5, 9, 13, 4, and 7. With no descriptions. Why? How does this help anybody?
The best way to search for something like that is to search for the game and go to the video section of the WIki.
http://www.giantbomb.com/metal-gear-solid-2-sons-of-liberty/3030-12388/videos/
Yeah, I think the unified look across CBSi sites is fine, but there needs to be room for more customization.
Apparently they are in the process of changing the way videos are categorized and that might help.
I recently realized that there should be a clear indication on QLCrew whether the video is Premium or Free, I should get on that.
As for the video player. I hate it. Recent changes broke it even more. There is a lot of tracking going on in it, but all requests are done synchronously. Whenever you skip position it calls two or more urls and they must complete before the player even decides to do the seeking. This is horrible. Same thing happens when you click play. It makes it feels sluggish.
There is also the initial load of the video file and that could also be improved. The longer the video, the longer you have to wait for it to start playing.
All of this is giving me a headache when I want timestamps or chat archives to work properly. Today I switched to using YouTube embeds wherever I could. Clicking on a timestamp with a YouTube embed loads the video in like 2 seconds, vs. 10 with their video player.
Apparently they are in the process of changing the way videos are categorized and that might help.
I recently realized that there should be a clear indication on QLCrew whether the video is Premium or Free, I should get on that.
As for the video player. I hate it. Recent changes broke it even more. There is a lot of tracking going on in it, but all requests are done synchronously. Whenever you skip position it calls two or more urls and they must complete before the player even decides to do the seeking. This is horrible. Same thing happens when you click play. It makes it feels sluggish.
There is also the initial load of the video file and that could also be improved. The longer the video, the longer you have to wait for it to start playing.
All of this is giving me a headache when I want timestamps or chat archives to work properly. Today I switched to using YouTube embeds wherever I could. Clicking on a timestamp with a YouTube embed loads the video in like 2 seconds, vs. 10 with their video player.
They've recently started to default people to the YT player (might just be new members for now?), so that's a pretty clear sign that they realize that the player on the site is less than optimal.
I've got no problems with the player either, but it's slow compared to YT and some people have problems with it. Compared to pretty much every custom video player on other gaming sites it's really good (check out the Gametrailers player), but YT is superior in every way.
I've never really had any problems with the player buffering or anything like that, and it's decent to skip around in for me.
Giger Pilot
Banned
lol
Crimson Kopite
Banned
I'm sure that works, but if anyone on the design or engineering team thinks this is acceptable, they should be replaced. Seriously. It's 2015 y'all, and it's still a pain in the ass to browse videos on Giant Bomb. All the user jerry-rigging and shortcuts in the world don't excuse fundamentally poor design decisions.
Yeah. Also I take back what I said about engineering being mostly solid because now I'm remembering how it seems like Giant Bomb polls have been fucked up since approximately 1952. How a basic poll function doesn't work is yet another great mystery to me.
By the way, is there a compact mode for Chat? Something like Slack (or really, IRC) which strips out the avatars and dead space around each post so it's more of a raw text feed? Browsing the chat on anything smaller than a 20" monitor is basically useless in its current layout. Again, could be a setting I'm missing.
I'm just pointing you to the easiest option here.
Also, polls mostly work. There's some bugs there from time to time, but I would't really take that as an indicator that the poll system is fucked.
I pretty much always hide the chat so I wouldn't really know. I don't think there's an option like that though.
Yes, I like this option and actually made this for all embeds on the site.
When it works, it's great. But when you try to pause it for a while or change quality it tends to break often.
Things I do with it on my site make it break much more often. For normal use it's mostly fine.
There are also issues with the CDN and that just makes it more broken for many.
Glitchesarecool
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Wow Crimson, dude, it's just a video player. There are options to mitigate the problems you have.
Player works great for me and QL Crew supplies the rest.
Player works great for me and QL Crew supplies the rest.
Really appreciate your work dude. It's a crime so much great content is locked behind awful video navigation/playback, QLcrew is the cure.
OdysseusVA
Banned
MPC-HC is the best option.
Mushroomer25
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If you don't have a Premium membership -
Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes Quick Look
Contradiction - Spot The Liar Quick Look
Giant Bomb Makes Mario 1 & 2 + Patrick playing said levels on his personal YT channel.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 Quick Look
If you do have a Premium membership -
All of Metal Gear Scanlon
All of the Contradiction videos
All of Demo Derby (particularly the most recent one, and the one where the thumbnail is a guy with his face all painted up with Playstation logos).
Mario Party Party 1-4.
Twin Tails
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it kept introducing mechanics bruh
Death Metalist
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Yeah I didn't realise what a difference it was until I went back to an earlier video
stump sock
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kicking a wrestling habit is a major life change after all
BUNTING1243
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I've noticed Brad and Dan seem to have too! Giant Bomb is getting fit. Congrats on your weight loss!
Twin Tails
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