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Giant Bomb #8 | It's a Hit!
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Keyser Soze
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Yesterday, I was working my way through the Game Informer Super Replay of Yoshi's Island (starting Dan Ryckert amongst others), everything was fine. Today I go to finish it...
#sitebeef
#sitebeef
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I mean, it's kind of a reflection of the gaming industry really. The big guns are reserved for the slowly decreasing old guard, the middleman is rapidly falling away, and the small developers are starting to increase a hundredfold.
They had the opportunity to hire two individuals who are well experienced in the industry, experienced in the same craft that Giant Bomb focuses on, fit both positions that Giant Bomb desperately needs, and both are well experienced with one another.
It's a dream hire. There's not a single thing that doesn't make them perfect hires. And the opportunity has arrived a time where Giant Bomb is severely understaffed and is a shriveled husk of what it once was.
It's a dream hire. There's not a single thing that doesn't make them perfect hires. And the opportunity has arrived a time where Giant Bomb is severely understaffed and is a shriveled husk of what it once was.
Great thing about Youtube is that it'll become an increasingly accurate barometer for gauging the type of people who are really trying to break into the industry.
Many people are angry at the lack of jobs given to all the women and minorities that are out there struggling, but the question is, how many of them are deadly serious about breaking into the industry vs how many just have an English degree, think working with games is fun and are angry a job hasn't fallen onto their lap?
If we continue to see a trend where the vast majority of Youtubers (a place with zero barrier to entry) are white men - and I'm not unfairly talking about the superstars here, I'm talking about the people who put regular content out for years and barely have 100 subscribers, hoping they'll get noticed one day - then that'll confirm there are a lot of people who make noise about not being given a chance but aren't taking the advice so many veterans like Jeff are giving them - make your own content and get camera ready. Having a written-only portfolio is becoming more irrelevant every day. Even Danny said his crappy Youtube channel helped get him the Gamespot job.
EmCeeGramr
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You can't. We had support for it for like a day, but then it turned out that it caused all sorts of browser performance issues if there were too many on a single page, especially if there was embedded media in the tweets.
I really wish they would have hired a female...because I can't tell Dan and Jason apart on the Bombcast!! I had the same issue with Jeff and Ryan when I started listening years ago.
Pretty good Bombcast so far. We should all make a pilgrimage to the Costner casino. I wish Drew would speak up more. Was hoping he would be more willing to talk since he's no longer the new guy. Oh well.
Pretty good Bombcast so far. We should all make a pilgrimage to the Costner casino. I wish Drew would speak up more. Was hoping he would be more willing to talk since he's no longer the new guy. Oh well.
ShockingAlberto
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I want someone at GB that understands action games
They can do other things too, but I'd love to see discussion of an action game that does not just boil down to "Those things that game did were crazy!" in the Michael Bay sense.
They can do other things too, but I'd love to see discussion of an action game that does not just boil down to "Those things that game did were crazy!" in the Michael Bay sense.
Yesterday, I was working my way through the Game Informer Super Replay of Yoshi's Island (starting Dan Ryckert amongst others), everything was fine. Today I go to finish it...
#sitebeef
The replay videos with Dan still work on Game Informer even though they got taken down from Youtube for whatever reason. I wish they didn't because the Game Informer player sucks ass.
Chance Hale
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"This is a real dumb game"
Jeff already said that they'll hire more people in the future. Though I am not really itching for diversity, if they are gonna do it, better do it by expanding the NY office.
SF is an old man already set in his ways. NY is a hot teen who wants to experiment and open to suggestions.
SF is an old man already set in his ways. NY is a hot teen who wants to experiment and open to suggestions.
SandwichMeat
Member
Yup, now I want a quick look where Jason explains all the aspects of the Avatar universe to Jeff while he sits on a couch shaking his head.
AuthenticM
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Dan's dad needs to keep doing his annual visit of his son's job.
NumberThree
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Dan loves Nintendo, Jason loves Bayonetta. These guys are fucking great.
If they don't I at least hope they're entertaining about it like Jeff
Well, that's a bit much.
Anyways, I think they both did great on the Bombcast. Dan will continue to be a permanent member, hope Jason will too!
Encyclopedia Bombastica. We're not quite there yet!
Hot Coldman
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Catching up on the last few pages. Nice of Rorie to reply, but honestly, I think people probably aren't going to be happy until Jeff speaks up. Seeing as he's usually mum about shit like this and all.
Anyway, Dan rocks, nice to get someone who gives Waluigi the respect he deserves.
Anyway, Dan rocks, nice to get someone who gives Waluigi the respect he deserves.
YoYo Switch
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i'm very excited to see dan ryckert join.
he's an amazing fit and i really enjoyed his previous work
he's an amazing fit and i really enjoyed his previous work
Mowki Kowski
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While I'm one of the people who voiced concerns about all this, I don't think anyone who regularly visits Giant Bomb (myself included) hates anyone, much less Jeff.
She has said on some GB content (think it was a PAX panel) that she could never go back to the press side after working on a dev team because she has seen how hard they work etc. Would be difficult to criticise games after that or something. So she's never coming "back".
Anyways, a bit of a bummer that this has almost turned into something negative by this point (not that much in this thread, but overall). I think it'll settle down in a few days after people have been able to blow up some steam. My main takeaway from this is how much GB seems to matter to so many people, even on the industry side of things: People wouldn't react like this if they didn't care about the site and held it to "a higher standard" or whatever.
Anyways, as a gay man I'm happy to have the HOTTIE that is Dan Ryckert on board (he's also really funny).
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I still think Jared Rosen is the new hire.
I still find the Rosen thing incredibly funny because 1. he apparently didn't even apply, and 2. he's now working with Zoe Quinn, who did apply, on her next game.
No no no, you're remembering this wrong. They started the CT ER because of all the hate towards Patrick from some part of the internet/the GB community. The CT ER had nothing to do with that. I think the hate came from 1) he wasn't Jeff/Vinny/Ryan/Brad and 2) he didn't have much experience on camera so came across as pretty awkward at first.
Hot Coldman
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Ryan didn't do things because of whiny internet fuckers
that's not his or Giant Bomb's life
that's not his or Giant Bomb's life
BUNTING1243
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In retrospect Patrick has done a really fantastic job improving his on-camera skills. Some of those early videos were a little rough.
Ventilaator
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Been reading some twitter reactions and my god, I need to not do that. There totally is a diversity problem. That can't be argued and that's the truth. But I would really appreciate it if the arguments of people who claim to be in support of more diversity weren't mostly just "They didn't hire a black guy. Do you people realize that this means Giant Bomb won't have a black guy!?"
Congratulations to the new guys. What I've seen of Dan makes him seem like the best possible choice.
Congratulations to the new guys. What I've seen of Dan makes him seem like the best possible choice.
That reminds me, isn't that literally what Jeff said on the latest Jar Time video?
He got another "I want to be a gaming journalist, how do I go about it?" question, and Jeff basically said: "Don't". He talked about how the more traditional gaming journalism profession was dying, being killed by YT and Twitch, and how you're up against people with 10+ years in the industry because there's so few jobs to go around.
So yeah, it must suck to be a gaming journalist right now. There's probably fewer freelance jobs than ever, and they pay less than ever too. What's left of jobs are mostly in video, and sites would expect you to get going right away with that so you'll need plenty of experience on camera with other people. The GB job description in particular seems demanding, especially now when they'd expect the new hires to hit the ground running because of how understaffed the SF office is.
Infinite Justice
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BUNTING1243
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i still say he achieved his final form once he got the beard.
If I'm watching random giant bomb videos and land on one with non-bearded Patrick I'll usually just skip it.
Jason is waaaay into the FGC, loves Platinum games etc. He's your man if you want a person who understands action games (I do too, even if i don't really understand them myself!).
Also, kind words from Rich Gallup. I agree with him.
firehawk12
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FGC? I hope this means someone goes to Evo this year.
yes and i hope it's jeff and drew
Jeff has already said on Tumblr that he's busy with other stuff that weekend, so won't go. Maybe Jason can drag Drew there to film some stuff?
:[ Just hire Rich, Jeff. Maybe him an offer he can't refuse! Start GBoston! Somethin'! ;-;
yeah, Dad Strength bros!
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