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Giant Bomb #24 | In the beginning...
- Thread starter Anjin M
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Piston Hyundai
Member
As long as it doesn't cross into personal attacks or otherwise being shitty, I don't see the harm in it. I can't blame people for wanting to know what the workflow situation is like at the site during dry spells. Besides, the only stuff to really talk about at the moment is the ER and the Bombcast, and those both have their own gaming side threads.
We can't really know if concerns over content are valid when we don't really have any context.
tamaster92
Member
Do we know if the PAX panel will be posted on the site?
it's on GBunarchived but i'd rather wait for drew's version if there will be one
it's on GBunarchived but i'd rather wait for drew's version if there will be one
It will be but it will probably take a while. I think last time it took like a week.
bloodyroarxx
Member
Yeah, Jeff has implied that he seems to spend an unreasonable amount of time in meetings.
stump sock
Member
if the difficulty is in their actual video setup then that's a self-manufactured problem. it's probably time to consider an alternative, minimal streaming set up so they can do more spontaneous videos if they want to. They probably shouldn't need a half hour+ warmup for something like "Jeff wants to play famicom games on an emulator for an hour"
That seems to be a theme for GB. The video Bombcast is another example - Jeff talked about all the effort Drew put into the elaborate multi-cam podcast studio, and honestly I prefer the ones like Tested where it's just a fixed camera connected to a laptop and you can always see everyone at the same time.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
oh wow, how did I miss someone was making a new SimTower? Please don't be shite.
Piston Hyundai
Member
Shame Saito isn't involved in this one, but goddamn do I want to try this. Looks like it's got dat styyyllleee.
CoolBatteryCharge
Member
Yes, context is extremely important. The more I've learned about this stuff, the more I learn to almost never make assumptions of people's production pipelines because a huge amount of factors cause them to vary significantly. Not just recording/streaming hardware and software (a complicated mess on its own), but time, prep work, corporate involvement, etc. Sometimes weird stuff just happens because different things just happened to add up in a weird way in that time frame. I wish I could be on that side to see those factors in play.
Something I've always wondered is how much does CBSi govern their bandwidth. Do they have a weekly or monthly bandwidth cap they have to maintain? Is it a consistent amount each time or does it vary? How much of "consistency of content output" is based around bandwidth?
This is very valid, though I wonder how much an alternate setup would interfere with the current setup or if it could be done separately without interference. For as much trouble it may cause, I do have respect for their complicated setup allowing for uncompressed capture of all a/v in one go which seemingly avoids the need for post in most cases. I can imagine many files in the terabytes. Maybe they are very set in their ways about having all that video archived at extremely high quality that a cheaper alternative wouldn't give them.
No, I don't remember any smackdown.
Saw early builds being played on streams. Judging buy those it seems quite competent.
Incandenza
Banned
Man I hope they figure out all the weird video stuff with Shenmue eventually. The weird artifacting is pretty distracting.
Premium content. There is a difference.
well, the majority of the complaints were (and are) in regard to West. Even so, "let's wait for a month until something great appears" isn't that satisfying.
edit: and what Xater said
Piston Hyundai
Member
Who was whining about Beast? Even before the ER, those dudes were doing Summerslam videos, Summer Games streams, Hitman stuff, VinnyVania, and Quick Looks. If anything, the only reasonable complaint there is that they didn't do too much premium stuff.
What exactly did the West Coast crew record in secret?
stump sock
Member
Most complaints have been so general, it's hard to argue. "How hard can it be" is not a good explanation.
People were definitely bitching about not enough Dan content when he went east and now we got a full endurance run, because they recorded that while he was there.
we don't know their schedules/what bs CBS meetings they have to attend.
But there has been A LOT going on in their personal lives. Weddings, engagements, illness, vacations. For a lot of the past few weeks they have not exactly been at full capacity.
I think it is rude to assume the lack of premium content is because they are all just sitting on their ass at their computer doing nothing.
To me, the biggest GBWest problem is that they have lost almost any spontaneity.
Unprofessional Fridays has become the most routine thing of all time.
Unprof Fridays are supposed to be the time of the week where they stream whatever they want. But now it has become, "here is some garbage i found on steam 5 minutes before the show starts".
and then we get a quick look of the same game in a few days.
Unprofessional Fridays has become the most routine thing of all time.
Unprof Fridays are supposed to be the time of the week where they stream whatever they want. But now it has become, "here is some garbage i found on steam 5 minutes before the show starts".
and then we get a quick look of the same game in a few days.
It is not about being rude. They are running a business and people pay a significant amount of money for the premium subs. In a business you can't let personal stuff get in the way or people will leave.
No, you clearly hate my best friends the giant bomb.
Incandenza
Banned
I only like the old Bomb
It happened, and it was good.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
I hope so! Guy needs a proper Giant Bomb sendoff. I think I'll even tune in to The Lobby this week. Who'll cry more, Danny or Mary?
most likely
We would finally find out what Brad does all day and his magic would be dispelled.
MassiveNights
Banned
I thought pretending they were lazy was a running thread joke.
Death Metalist
Member
Give me Rorie cam and I'm there.