The fact checking is great. They used to be against it but they got so many corrections emails that I think checking the info saves them the grief.
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Giant Bomb #22 | Drew, F*** This Tank
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The fact checking is great. They used to be against it but they got so many corrections emails that I think checking the info saves them the grief.
Salty Catfish
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Yeah, I'm all for the fact-checking. Plus without Jeff's phone we would have missed out on the magic of burgerdicks and #skate4.
Im weirdly excited about Us vs Them today.
Who you got gaf? East or West?
Its hard to really vote without knowing their rosters... but my guess is that Alex will play on the East team even though he is in California with the West duders.
Lets assume its 3v3.. Vinny, Alex, Austin vs Brad, Dan, Jeff
I think im taking East, but my guess is that Dan will actually be the best overall.
Who you got gaf? East or West?
Its hard to really vote without knowing their rosters... but my guess is that Alex will play on the East team even though he is in California with the West duders.
Lets assume its 3v3.. Vinny, Alex, Austin vs Brad, Dan, Jeff
I think im taking East, but my guess is that Dan will actually be the best overall.
Piston Hyundai
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you shouldn't be so excited
MassiveNights
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Unlucky brother, enjoy France vs Romania.
nckillthegrimace
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I preordered all of the Kirby amiibo, but I forgot to buy the game.
Call-ins are the worst
giant_frying_pan
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That's excellent. The #skate4 one was my favourite up until this!
I like this one
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...which side?
East for sure, IMO
The Dear Leader
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Hot Coldman
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Gawker just filed for bankruptcy. Wonder what happens to Patrick now. 
funkystudent
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Good thing he didnt just buy a house or anything.Gawker just filed for bankruptcy. Wonder what happens to Patrick now.
Best of luck Patrick.
Gawker just filed for bankruptcy. Wonder what happens to Patrick now.
Kotaku will probably be bought by someone and he'll be fine
Hot Coldman
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Yeah, that's the problem - Ziff Davis is the first name on the list. Remember 1UP?
stump sock
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Not to get anybody's hopes up or something but filing for Bankruptcy doesn't mean Gawker's going away.
Salty Catfish
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Yep. They'll probably just restructure.
That said, it's a shame the tabloid parts of Gawker could potentially bring down the rest of the stuff under that umbrella.
stump sock
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yeah. chapter 11 means they're probably going to axe some people, maybe entire sites, but in the name of keeping the core business afloat
which in this situation means that the worst parts of the company will probably still exist while whatever good sites they have will be sold or shuttered entirely.
Hot Coldman
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Maybe they should kill Gawker (the site) and rebrand the company. Oh, and fire Nick Denton.
They're unionised, that's actually a possibility. It's his childish behaviour that made this all happen.
giant_frying_pan
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Jeff intimated as much on the final GOTY video wrap-up.
stump sock
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I'm not sure you understand how unions work, but ok
Hot Coldman
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maybe you can educate me then?
Part of why Patrick left was that he was that he was out on his own in Chicago and couldn't be around for video content with the rest of the staff by his own discretion which is huge for a personality driven site, so I'd be doubtful to see him beyond freelancing if Kotaku went away.
But I really, really, really doubt Kotaku is going away.
But I really, really, really doubt Kotaku is going away.
We could get a Bombin' in the AM with Patrick, Vinny and Austin. How amazing would that be?
FlammableD
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this this this this this
stump sock
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if I'm not mistaken, companies can literally disband union contracts under chapter 11 for one thing. I seem to remember some cases where airlines filed chapter 11 specifically to nuke the unions.
and even if it was business as usual, unions don't have any kind of say in who controls a company. their primary role is protecting employees' rights against those people by negotiating contracts, and so on.
e: here you go
Hot Coldman
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Right, fair enough. I would have thought "this man literally threatens the livelihoods of all employees" would be permissible for union action but I guess that's not directly relevant to wages and so on if that's the case.
And those bankruptcy laws are some savagery. :|
stump sock
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on a fundamental level they have on many occasions saved the entire economy from turning into a giant black hole; I know capitalism is the devil and all, but the laws generally serve the greater good in this situation. now of course, corporations being fucking evil will grab at anything that benefits them, fucking over the little people in the process
on paper, the contract cancellation clauses make sense; you're filing chapter 11 to move things around and free up money to pay your obligations. when you have union contracts and pensions that are 30% of your entire spending, that seems like a pretty good place to find money right? I mean, if you have no soul.
Hot Coldman
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Yeah, I get it, it's obviously what you do. Just another way to despise how Western businesses run their shit.
Yeah, the bankruptcy laws are one of the real strengths of the American economy compared to other Western countries.
not sure, he only tweeted he was doing house stuff so he couldn't do as stream this morning.
Yep, bad timing.
Two TVs or a TV and a PC my man.
Multi task my brutha
That's the plan, but i'm defiantly going to be focused on the game.
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