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[Zaph]

So idle speculation to help me get through my graveyard shift at work... Do we still think the new hire will be a "news" person. Obviously they'll be looking for someone good on camera, but will they also need to be a news person like Patrick/Austin? Or will they just hire someone similar to Dan again?

For GBWest's sake, I hope they look for another content machine like Dan.

GB only has 3 dedicated editors - Brad, Alex and Dan. Given their more camera-shy personality types, you'd hope Brad and Alex would be able to completely cover the news/contributors beat themselves and let the new hire make content.

 

[oti]

For GBWest's sake, I hope they look for another content machine like Dan.

GB only has 3 dedicated editors - Brad, Alex and Dan. Given their more camera-shy personality types, you'd hope Brad and Alex would be able to completely cover the news/contributors beat themselves and let the new hire make content.

I hope the new hire will like Nintendo games more. Dan balanced things a bit out but now that he's gone... the night is dark... for Nintendo games.

 

[Tubobutts]

I hope the new hire hates the old games.

 

[Moaradin]

Remember when we thought there would be so much more content because of East? Good times.

There was for a time. Slowed down a lot after Austin left though.

 

[jaina]

I hope the new hire will like Nintendo games more. Dan balanced things a bit out but not that he's gone... the night is dark... for Nintendo games.

I just realized the worst part:
the 3DS capture unit is in San Francisco... so for the 3DS games published throughout 2018 we will only get QLs of the ones Jeff is interested in (like Rhythm Heaven and Picross).

 

[Xater]

I hope the new hire will like Nintendo games more. Dan balanced things a bit out but not that he's gone... the night is dark... for Nintendo games.

I hope they don't just so Nintendo fans can be salty how they don't like Nintendo games which is wrong.

 

[oti]

I hope they don't just so Nintendo fans can be salty how they don't like Nintendo games which is wrong.

Love me some salt.

 

[Forever Changes]

I'd like a more racing focused person

Where's my damn Assetto Corsa quick look?

 

[Xater]

I'd like a more racing focused person

Where's my damn Assetto Corsa quick look?

You mean Drew?

 

[jaina]

You mean Drew?

yeah between Drew and to some extend Jeff, GB has an above average enthusiasm for racing games.
But they should do an Corsetto QL, we often get QLs for games that finally arrived on consoles.

 

[hamchan]

You mean Drew?

Someone who's actually good at racing though.

 

[Forever Changes]

You mean Drew?

Drew hardly does quick looks from what i've seen and when he speaks about racing games on the podcast he lasts about 30 seconds before he has nothing else to say and everyone else moves on.

 

[repeater]

Giant Bomb #25 | 2 0 3 minutes since last attack on a staff member

 

[wild_fire987]

I've never played DOTA/LoL, but I kinda want to see someone on GB be able to talk about the stuff surrounding League... I mean, the crap that goes on around DOTA and The Invitational is bonkers to me, and Brad says that LoL is more popular, then that means we're missing out on a whole world of insane people spending insane money on that game!

Edit: Oops, forgot to add my distaste towards the current GB to blend in here... I hope the site vanishes forever, and I can't wait for my sub to run up in June 2018!

 

[Tubobutts]

Giant Bomb #25 | 2 0 3 minutes since last attack on a staff member

What does Brad even do all day?

 

[Jintor]

i hope the new hire is an AI Jeff constructed out of things he had just held in his hand last sunday

 

[Tubobutts]

i hope the new hire is an AI Jeff constructed out of things he had just held in his hand last sunday

As long as it's voiced by the vocaloid he wants to buy.

 

[kiguel182]

I'm still on the camp of "Brad needs to go back to doing Dota content". Do it Brad. You know you want to.

 

[sammyCYBORG]

It's unrealistic because it would require them to work more than 2 days a week.

Yeah but that's the thing, they're there 5 days a week so why can't it happen?

It's obviously a relatively easy job but they can't be that lazy, there must be something preventing it from happening...

 

[Antiwhippy]

Whoosh.

 

[mnz]

Just look at the schedule for this week on Easy Allies http://easyallies.com . It is ridiculous how little content Giant Bomb produces, i'm really considering canceling my subscription.

Not sure I understand this one. Unless EA has patreon-exclusive content I don't see, GB actually has more.

The one thing EA does and GB really doesn't want to for some reason is to just stream a game for 2 hours a couple of times a week.

 

[oti]

I'm still on the camp of "Brad needs to go back to doing Dota content". Do it Brad. You know you want to.

Oh god no. I'd rather have no content than Dota.

 

[kiguel182]

This whole "the dudes don't work" thing is a little in bad taste. The reason there isn't more premium content isn't laziness.

 

[Forever Changes]

This whole "the dudes don't work" thing is a little in bad taste. The reason there isn't more premium content isn't laziness.

What is it then?

How can they not make demo derby a weekly thing? they sit in a room for an hour or so, have a good time and an easy edit for drew and bam, PREMIUM CONTENT

 

[kiguel182]

What is it then?

How can they not make demo derby a weekly thing? they sit in a room for an hour or so, have a good time and an easy edit for drew and bam, PREMIUM CONTENT

They probably have other stuff to do. And doing a Demo Derby probably takes more than just "let's sit in a room and do this".

Claiming laziness without knowing what goes on behind the scenes is just insulting them for no reason. There's no need for it.

 

[Jintor]

10 min until the next ER. Truly the gods of daily content have blessed us.

I would really love it if they had at least one daily feature running at all times. I bet that's hella production work but damn it would be nice.

 

[Meneses]

I live my liiiiife
Not for honor but for Shenmue

 

[bjork]

UPF is great! It has become my Saturday Morning TV Show, the live stream is a bit to late for me so I always check it out later.

Same here. I get off around 4-4:30 saturday mornings, so I get some Del Taco on the way home and watch some UPF as my post-work ritual.

What is it then?

How can they not make demo derby a weekly thing? they sit in a room for an hour or so, have a good time and an easy edit for drew and bam, PREMIUM CONTENT

It's tough to say without actually being there, but they've alluded to mandatory meetings and stuff like that in the past. I'd imagine being part of CBSi involves having to deal with a lot of extra hoops to jump through that didn't exist previously.

 

[Death Metalist]

Endurance Run: Shenmue - Part 03

All of that Excite QTE training is about to pay dividends as we continue down the mean streets of Dobuita.

It's tough to say without actually being there, but they've alluded to mandatory meetings and stuff like that in the past. I'd imagine being part of CBSi involves having to deal with a lot of extra hoops to jump through that didn't exist previously.

Sometimes I feel like Vinny's post should be in the OP.

 

[Tubobutts]

The ER is going to make it very hard to Fix my sleep schedule.

 

[strafer]

Endurance Run: Shenmue - Part 03

Only 35 minutes? Meh.

 

[Jothel]

What is it then?

How can they not make demo derby a weekly thing? they sit in a room for an hour or so, have a good time and an easy edit for drew and bam, PREMIUM CONTENT

I work for a large corporation, the amount of bullshit meetings is insane, everything also takes forever so I can easily see them be bound down bullshit. Also good to note the conversation Patrick has with Austin, "Giant bomb is 10 people doing the work of 20+" sooooooo cut them some slack?

 

[LiK]

Endurance Run: Shenmue - Part 03

Damn, they post them early.

 

[wild_fire987]

Only 35 minutes? Meh.

35 minutes?!?

CONTENT DROUGHT IS BACK ON BOYS!!!

 

[Death Metalist]

Only 35 minutes? Meh.

You're mistaken if you're thinking they'll all be 1 hour long.

 

[jediyoshi]

Only 35 minutes? Meh.

writing the refund thread now

 

[strafer]

You're mistaken if you're thinking they'll all be 1 hour long.

Guess I'm mistaken then.

 

[Hasney]

Sometimes I feel like Vinny's post should be in the OP.

Yeah, not to bring up EZA (because we know how that goes!) but there were questions about content there too when things were behind schedule due to an editing queue, with some people thinking they could just get in some kid to snip everything up and do it right quick. Even in non corporate overlord companies, there's usually a helluva lot more that goes into a video than what you actually see come out the other end.

 

[strafer]

Okay, I know now why the episode is so short.

Shit.

My guess it was suppose to be longer.

 

[Tubobutts]

NOTHING STOPS THE ENDURANCE RUN

 

[Death Metalist]

Okay, I know now why the episode is so short.

Shit.

My guess it was suppose to be longer.

"It wouldn't be an endurance run if something didn't fuck up"

 

[sammyCYBORG]

They probably have other stuff to do. And doing a Demo Derby probably takes more than just "let's sit in a room and do this".

Claiming laziness without knowing what goes on behind the scenes is just insulting them for no reason. There's no need for it.

I'm not saying they're lazy or don't work but realistically how can it be hard? The video stuff is set up in a way that even Jeff/Brad can drive the desk now when Jason/Drew aren't in.

Plan what disc they want to play, set up video equipment, start recording, check recording, go...

It's tough to say without actually being there, but they've alluded to mandatory meetings and stuff like that in the past. I'd imagine being part of CBSi involves having to deal with a lot of extra hoops to jump through that didn't exist previously.

But they were never pushing out more content before CBS.

 

[Deeku]

would be nice to have someone that can talk about more niche stuff or at least widen their coverage of games - especially since austin's gone. jason actually fits that role but he's half production so not always around.

 

[wild_fire987]

I'd imagine that they're not slacking off... One piece of evidence I'd point to is that apparently Drew has been so busy that he only recently was able to edit together that E3 video... I have a feeling that Drew is not the type of person to just idly hang around at work not doing much...

But that's just this stranger on the internets opinion

 

[Piston Hyundai]

I'm not saying they're lazy or don't work but realistically how can it be hard? The video stuff is set up in a way that even Jeff/Brad can drive the desk now when Jason/Drew aren't in.

Plan what disc they want to play, set up video equipment, start recording, check recording, go...

It's probably not that easy.

Spoiler

I hope it's not that easy.

 

[sammyCYBORG]

It's probably not that easy.

Spoiler

I hope it's not that easy.

If Jeff can come in and live stream from the main office and control the cameras himself, do you really think that it would be hard?

 

[Jintor]

yeah and if something goes wrong?

 

[Zeouterlimits]

Jeez.
Of course it's fair to not be happy with the amount of content you're getting for your euro, but this kind of second guessing & arm chairing, who does it serve?

Maybe they should do a feedback survey? Just so we aren't spending so much time talking about it here.

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Was happily surprised to hear Alex read my e-mail about American Football last weekend.
The match was actually pretty entertaining, had an exciting last "minute" (which, given the nature of the game is more like 5 or 10).
Distinct lack of tacos though.

It was a real "event", more than just the game itself, all the bands, half time show, advertisements and little tv moments / audience interaction bits.

 

[sammyCYBORG]

yeah and if something goes wrong?

Lucky live stream for the duders who were up! Haha.

 

[demidar]

When's Jar Time?

My poop-related questions are burning to be answered.