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Giant Bomb #7 | Hey There, Small Business Owner!
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MiniBossBattle
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The ones that do are usually kids that play crappy rap but sometimes its grown-ass people playing crappy rap. The kids I will give them the attention they seek from a 30 something professional that is spending the day in the city. The grown-ups, they are forever lost to us since they are using this to fight that crippling sense of solitude and loneliness that only a major metropolitan can provide.
Keyser Soze
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She seemed a little awkward at her panel with Patrick at PAX East, but I think she could do it. A female voice would also be pretty nice to have.
However, I worry about how she'd take the inevitable backlash. I feel terrible for any woman GB hires, because the harassment would be off the charts. I shudder to think of what would be thrown at her.
And I bet they arrived with Nacho Cheese Dorito dust smeared all over them.
Hot Coldman
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so this was the first question that shows up on Klepek's tumblr after a question that was basically "you should get Cara to do some work for you guys because she's rad" (I sent the question, course)
I was really really hoping it'd inspire some twat to write in with some "offending muh 'pinions" crap, and hook line and sinker
sentiment is genuine though, site needs more Cara. Bring on the freelance budget
Haha you can see panic in his words.
HR will likely screen them first, based on criteria from Jeff and corporate. Guessing that'll eliminate 40-50 percent right there.
I suspect they may just wholesale eliminate anybody not from the commutable San Fran area.
Man, Cara is the best. I became an instant fan of hers after watching her appearance on BitAM. I said this somewhere, but she is a rising star and GB would be really lucky to have her.
maquiladora
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I wouldn't be surprised if they first just looked at applications from people they knew and then if they didn't feel they were good for the position, then look at other peoples applications.
Zoe seems smart and I like her on gdc/bombin in the am but I doubt there's much game Dev insight from someone who has made mostly if not all text adventures.
NumberThree
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maquiladora
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Friends of the site like Zoe are probably getting the internal referral bump, which means that they'll take higher priority over a random application.
It's the same way at any major company.
MiniBossBattle
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I don't think Zoe is that funny though. Karen or Danny, on the other hand, are hilarious.
Yeah I'm not saying theres anything wrong about it, just that it's probably what's going to happen.
NumberThree
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I absolutely want this. Cara would be great.
Anyway she's not a feminist guys chill.
@caraellison said:
Zeouterlimits
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PinkCrayon
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Here I was thinking the weekend was over.
ThreePiMatt
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Giant Bomb is, first and foremost, an entertainment site. Not a news site, not really even a reviews site. If you're not funny and not entertaining you shouldn't be a part of the team. I don't think Zoe is particularly funny or entertaining.
MrTroubleMaker
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That's really how it is everywhere, and I'm especially not surprised that this is the case here since it must be so difficult to hire the right person for a personality-type role like the Assocate Editor position. I'd imagine that it'll be almost impossible to tell if a person will act naturally on camera if he/she doesn't have any experience with that from before.
As for Cara, she seems pretty natural on camera and is an excellent writer. She's also a pretty established name already (that The Guardian list she's on etc.), and it would be cool with a woman on staff. Also, that anon post on Patrick's wall was pretty fun in how sad it was.
I think the coolest thing they could do is grab someone out of obscurity. You can talk about how a female or minority voice would round out the staff, but I think someone who hasn't been writing about video games as a job their entire life would be the most interesting type of person they could hire.
Gozer the Gozerian
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Resident math game expert!
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Man, the Petiton to fire Patrick that he linked on his Tumblr is just fucking hilarious. I honestly can't tell if it's supposed to be serious or not
http://www.petitions24.com/petition_for_giant_bomb_to_fire_patrick_klepek
http://www.petitions24.com/petition_for_giant_bomb_to_fire_patrick_klepek
Kinda bummed, I read that as "It's time for the US, the true Duders, to change this" which would have been far better.
I really hope this is serious. This is fucking fantastic
I think Cara would be great. However, I also wish they had sought new hires last year when Jeff Green was looking for work.
I cannot imagine the type of person who would go to this effort for something like this, so I'm gonna say it's not serious.
I cannot imagine the type of person who would go to this effort for something like this, so I'm gonna say it's not serious.
A text adventure has a lot more to do with story writing than traditional game development, I'm sure you recognize that?
That's not to say there isn't interesting insight to come from that, just that it's a different beast.
The signatures section is whack. Obama. Patrick himself. "jeff gerstmann".
Also Ryan Davis is in there. Comin' at Patrick in proper Chicago style, dead people voting.
Keyser Soze
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Getting away from jobs for a bit...
Drew knows about Eurovision again. THIS IS IMPORTANT
Give me relevant content!!
Drew knows about Eurovision again. THIS IS IMPORTANT
Give me relevant content!!
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Doesn't Cara live in Britain though? They really don't need another Non-SF member.
Premium Feature where Drew and Danny and whoever else wants watch and comment Eurovision would be fantastic. Would probably be the frist time since 2000 or so that I'd watch that piece of shit show.
anotherthought
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Honestly I just want Dave back. I miss random pc game.
Likely they mentioned the annual salary and then the next question was "is that per month?" so they decided to open it up to people willing to live off of instant noodles for a start in the industry.
Also, I am not sure some of these international names are viable, what with work visas and such.
maquiladora
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Well, I mean it'd be great if they wanted to hire her and she wanted to relocate. But yeah, that's probably unlikely.
I hope it's not the rev3 guy. I'm sure he's cool but I never liked him on any Happy Hour he was on.
Sweet! Now imagine a bombcast later this year fully comprised of these "new guys."
Keyser Soze
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smooth.
Zeouterlimits
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I do and don't.
Yes, there is significantly less programming and system design.
But not only would I count some my favourite 90s games as text adventures, I would say there is significant game design that goes in how you structure the stories, what player choices are, how they effect the player and the resultant story, what kind of emotions and reactions do we try to elicit in the player etc, all that fun stuff.
SweetTeddie
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Liking the return of
music in the podcast.
Whatcha been playin?
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