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Mahonay said:
I'm going to guess WM gave them the drives because it would be a dickish move to keep all of the drives that has every piece of Giant Bomb content on it.
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I'm going to guess that there wasn't any giving involved, and the terms of who gets what was spelled out in whatever contracts the lawyers took so long figuring out.
 
Was bored and watching older Giant Bomb videos earlier today and I noticed something on the behind the scenes video for episode 50 of persona 4... At one point Ryan says that the 50th episode is 'a golden anniversary'. Persona 4: The Golden, anyone?

(Note: I know that it was most likely purely coincidental, but still pretty neat :))

Edit: Bah! Never realized that the 50th anniversary was called a golden anniversary. Fact checking ftl.
 
LiQuid! said:
What's some story behind this? I didn't get really into GB until some time in 2010.
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It was last summer. Basically Amazon's web stuff went down, taking down a bunch of sites in the process. GB put up some placeholder pages up, and we got content like Dave just taking phone calls for hours on end, the first Scrub League, a livestream of the guys MSTing a QL that they had shot a couple days before, etc.

It was basically all off-the-cuff and totally random stuff, and it was great.
 
Crewnh said:
The outage was last year during the PSN debacle.
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Patryn said:
It was last summer. Basically Amazon's web stuff went down, taking down a bunch of sites in the process. GB put up some placeholder pages up, and we got content like Dave just taking phone calls for hours on end, the first Scrub League, a livestream of the guys MSTing a QL that they had shot a couple days before, etc.

It was basically all off-the-cuff and totally random stuff, and it was great.
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Ooooh, god yes. I was thinking it had something to do with the Amazon website directly, I forgot about the server outage last year.
 
Using that random link has reminded me of the sheer volume of great content... like hey guys, remember Game Room? and Jeff's slow spiral of depression and madness? Remember when he had to sucker other giantbombers into it because Ryan refused to do it anymore?
 
Aaron said:
Using that random link has reminded me of the sheer volume of great content... like hey guys, remember Game Room? and Jeff's slow spiral of depression and madness? Remember when he had to sucker other giantbombers into it because Ryan refused to do it anymore?
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The best one was probably when the office was empty because of bugs (?) but NOTHING WILL STOP THE GAME ROOM QL!
 
Giant Bomb will end in one final video where Vinny buys a hundred-million dollar NASA shuttle training center so he can play flight sims and Jeff buys a complete collection of every game ever made, plus a Chinese factory to produce endless cheap merchandise.
 
God, now I've got the urge to watch through all the Game Room QL's now.
 
shadyspace said:
The best game room video was the one where Jeff tricked Ryan into thinking they were quick looking some game.
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The Game Room QL's were some of my favorite. I loved watching the slow decline of hope and Jeff's denial week after week. What make it even better was the lure of a single, great game that was pushed back again and again, never to be released but on the hard drive and ending with venetian blinds.

That's like Breaking Bad quality story there.
 
Darklord said:
The Game Room QL's were some of my favorite. I loved watching the slow decline of hope and Jeff's denial week after week. What make it even better was the lure of a single, great game that was pushed back again and again, never to be released but on the hard drive and ending with venetian blinds.

That's like Breaking Bad quality story there.
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GameRoom is where hopes & dreams die and QuickLooks flourish.
We need more trainwrecks like GameRoom.
 
MiniBossBattle said:
GameRoom is where hopes & dreams die and QuickLooks flourish.
We need more trainwrecks like GameRoom.
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snoopeasystreet said:
The game room series is the best thing giant bomb produced. I wish ryan was in the last episode though. He deserved to be there.
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I think playing some really terrible XBLA indie games might be entertaining. Just pick some at random with out knowing what they are.

I know they played a slew of random indie games a long time ago and it was pretty funny. I forget if it was on a Happy Hour or what.
 
If anyone over there is reading this, then an official request for Mario Party TNT:

If possible, play by the "Wario Party" house rules, which means setting all the speed options to high and turning off all minigame explanations.
 
Mahonay said:
I think playing some really terrible XBLA indie games might be entertaining. Just pick some at random with out knowing what they are.

I know they played a slew of random indie games a long time ago and it was pretty funny. I forget if it was on a Happy Hour or what.
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Two words; Vibration games

Scratch that. Four words; Vibration games, green screen.
 
Mahonay said:
I think playing some really terrible XBLA indie games might be entertaining. Just pick some at random with out knowing what they are.

I know they played a slew of random indie games a long time ago and it was pretty funny. I forget if it was on a Happy Hour or what.
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No, it was a QL. That QL is also the home of the great bit where Jeff is depressed on Christmas and wants to put his head in the burning fireplace.
 
SmithnCo said:
No, it was a QL. That QL is also the home of the great bit where Jeff is depressed on Christmas and wants to put his head in the burning fireplace.
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Oh god damn it yes. That is up there in my favorite Giant Bomb moments ever. Thank you for reminding me where that's from.
 
LiQuid! said:
God, now I've got the urge to watch through all the Game Room QL's now.
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Just watch this instead, you get the important parts of the videos.
Seriously though excluding Persona 4, the Game Room series is the secret best Endurance Run.
EmCeeGramr said:
If anyone over there is reading this, then an official request for Mario Party TNT:

If possible, play by the "Wario Party" house rules, which means setting all the speed options to high and turning off all minigame explanations.
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Pretty sure those options aren't in Mario Party 9.
 
OMG Aero said:
Just watch this instead, you get the important parts of the videos.
Seriously though excluding Persona 4, the Game Room series is the secret best Endurance Run.
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YESSSSSSSsssssssss. Thank you. Watching now.
 
Listened to a hour of that best of the hotspot thing some guy made and now watching gameroom videos.


I bet Detrick was involved with gameroom somehow.
 
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Neeerrrrddddssssss
 
Patryn said:
It was last summer. Basically Amazon's web stuff went down, taking down a bunch of sites in the process. GB put up some placeholder pages up, and we got content like Dave just taking phone calls for hours on end, the first Scrub League, a livestream of the guys MSTing a QL that they had shot a couple days before, etc.

It was basically all off-the-cuff and totally random stuff, and it was great.
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Is this archived anywhere?
 
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