Piston Hyundai
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Giant Bomb #24 | In the beginning...
- Thread starter Anjin M
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Sleeping Lesson
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We all have GB content that we're wrong about.
Like anyone who likes Ranking of Fighters.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Too long! My biggest gripe with the live video podcast is that they never get it up by the time I leave work on Tuesday anymore.
Cindi Mayweather
Member
Anyone familiar with Peanuts comics?
I want to buy the collections for my SO for Christmas.
But I'm not sure which to get him because there are so damn many. Jesus Christ, Schulz slow down.
I want to buy the collections for my SO for Christmas.
But I'm not sure which to get him because there are so damn many. Jesus Christ, Schulz slow down.
over-watch your hip?
Exterminieren
Banned
I'm a relative newbie too; first stuff I actively paid any attention to on the site was the 2015 GOTY stuff this January, because someone (I want to say it was that Green Hotman Cold character) had been banging on about it on Twitter, and I'd just started doing a podcast-friendly commute and wanted some decent stuff to listen to. From there started watching (a selection of) the regular videos, and subscribed a few months back.
I have very little experience of the site from before the past year, apart from the odd podcast and occasional Best of Giant Bomb episode. When I've got a little more time on my hands, I might start doing some deeper dives; I really want to watch some good Ryan videos in particular.
I have very little experience of the site from before the past year, apart from the odd podcast and occasional Best of Giant Bomb episode. When I've got a little more time on my hands, I might start doing some deeper dives; I really want to watch some good Ryan videos in particular.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
He has slowed down considerably this past decade or so.
Don't worry, it's only a matter of time before we go back to curmudgeonly comparing current GB with the glory days!
Cindi Mayweather
Member
Are you sure he's not making new Peanuts comics even after death? That's the kind of work ethic this guy had.
I would say just buy all of them, because having any volume gaps in a comic collection is bad.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
The Tupac of newspaper comics.
Piston Hyundai
Member
I had a thrift store copy of It's for You, Snoopy as a kid and the inside cover had a poem hand-written by the previous owner that basically said God will send me to Hell if I stole the book
Cindi Mayweather
Member
Right?
You can't really go wrong with any Peanuts collection.
Snoopy Vs.the Red Baron seems like a decent collection to start.
Because Snoopy is the coolest guy(dog) around.
Snoopy Vs.the Red Baron seems like a decent collection to start.
Because Snoopy is the coolest guy(dog) around.
Jeff going IN on Bethesda https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann
Piston Hyundai
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nckillthegrimace
Member
Daydream vanished, too. Mysterious.
Jeff's Mario Maker obsession suddenly makes sense. He was the touchscreen the entire time.
MassiveNights
Banned
Alex's Mafia III review coming out in the Mafia IV launch window was really weird
Piston Hyundai
Member
I'm sure daydream is chilling with Myggen in Thugz Mansion
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Yeah, media outlets really have no choice but to 'suck it up'? Like they can say 'Don't preorder' as much as they want, but really Bethesda is going to keep getting youtubers to peddle their bullshit, and they'll have terms like "Don't show anything negative". Even if there's a disclaimer that a youtuber is being paid by Bethesda, there really are no laws against showing only the positives of something whilst hiding the bad shit, is there.
Myggz is still on the reddits
Oh and since we were talking about the beginnings of GB earlier:
What you might not know if you came on later is just how amazing their engineering team was. Dave Snider and his crew were doing ridiculous things for how small of a site it was. Maybe they just lacked focus, but they were building everything. Forums, a wiki, own video player(?), livestreaming/chat, lists, their own CMS and editing backend, achievements, user reviews, blogs, a follow system and probably more I'm forgetting right now.
I think that was one of the things that drew people to them, it felt like they were building something big. It was a very fascinating time following that process as a fan.
What you might not know if you came on later is just how amazing their engineering team was. Dave Snider and his crew were doing ridiculous things for how small of a site it was. Maybe they just lacked focus, but they were building everything. Forums, a wiki, own video player(?), livestreaming/chat, lists, their own CMS and editing backend, achievements, user reviews, blogs, a follow system and probably more I'm forgetting right now.
I think that was one of the things that drew people to them, it felt like they were building something big. It was a very fascinating time following that process as a fan.
Yeah the flow of YouTube hype peddlers is still strong.
Yeah. Youtubers (in general; not all of them) seem to approach game coverage in a very different way than "old" media. While the people at traditional sites think of themselves as journalists and try to hold themselves to appropriately high standards- even avoiding the appearance of quid pro quo- youtubers think of themselves primarily as entertainers, and as such, see nothing wrong with glossing over the negative bits of a game if it means they can deliver content early (lots of exceptions on both sides, of course). Of course publishers would prefer that coverage of their games be delivered primarily by the second group.
Yeah, they dive straight in and spend a good bit of time on it.
Just a heads up, the Designer Notes podcast with Sid Meier is a good listen. Reminded me of the simgolf stream with Ryan so I had to go back and watch that too.
This is true. I mean, if it truly didn't matter to them then who cares when they send review copies?
Patrick or Danny?
don't let the fresh face fool you, justin is a grown man.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
This bullshit plus the personal responsibility-ignoring meltdowns over disappointing releases by game players lately is going to end up going very, very badly in the near future. Watch.
All while showing up to crash Drew's plane, dive into some EuroJank, and showcase soup wallets.
Dave is hardcore. Very much so!
Sleeping Lesson
Member
You know what I could go for this week? A GBeast stream with Jeff Bakalar. Haven't seen that guy on a GB thing in too damn long.
Cindi Mayweather
Member
Watching How To Build A Bomb and realizing they came so far in such a short amount of time is incredible.
CoolBatteryCharge
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My posting has been super rare since getting a new job, but damn I'm happy about this. Went from "won't afford VR for like a year" to "yeah I could easily get one, but I'd rather spend that money on Gundam."
Definitely miss being able to watch stuff live though.
Definitely miss being able to watch stuff live though.
Twin Tails
Member
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
Glad that he said something about it.
MassiveNights
Banned
Jeff nailed Luckey on the Bombcast, what are you talking about?
I don't remember hearing that. I remember Jeff criticizing Luckey on Mixlr but not hearing anything about it on the Bombcast. On the Beastcast I remember Vinny and Bakalar handwaving it away.