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Giant Bomb X | Built-In Automatic Death Thing For Secret People
- Thread starter Hot Coldman
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They clearly are attempting to ape Giant Bomb's personality-driven approach.
She was with Polygon, yeah. But now she's not!
Hopefully she's in some GB content soon.
And now she really can debate Tolkien with Dan.
Nerd vs. Cool Guy can be a new Premium Feature.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Alexa Ray going to Gamespot is great news! She was far too fun for Polygon.
Jimmyfenix
Member
She will make Mordor win GOTY at Gamespot instead of Bayo 2. I believe in you Alexa!
Also i still have confidence over my GB GOTY bet!
#TeamJimmy #TeamTharp #Dreamteam #Ripdaydreaming
Also i still have confidence over my GB GOTY bet!
#TeamJimmy #TeamTharp #Dreamteam #Ripdaydreaming
He was also out there being a community manager for a huge shitshow of a game with features he loved from past versions taken out, and having to spin things as all great. Unless you're just a terrible human being with no problems lying to the public, that's going to be draining regardless of the people you're dealing with on the other end.
And then you're dealing with wrestling fans and video game fans online. I wouldn't be surprised if he woke up whistling and skipping out of bed for weeks after he left that job.
Drunk Jared got really, really emotional on the Summerslam Powerbombcast about VGCW and what 2K15 would do/wouldn't do to that show.
Real talk. Those guys seem to go from self absorbed to completely unlikeable.
Alexa isn't on that spectrum, so probably best she left. Danielle should jump ship too.
Awesome.
I remember Frushtick, Plante and Russ Pitts all leaving fairly recently. What's up with that site?
I think it was a different episode, but he also all but admitted months ago that the story creation would be taken out and the create-wrestler would be gimped in some way. They were talking about VGCW and whether it would continue on the new consoles and he got all high pitched nervous "They can always stay on the current game, right?"
Every time the game got brought up he just deflated. Then again, 2K's policy on the game seems to be "SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THE GAME" so it could just be that he wasn't allowed to say anything at all.
Heh, yeah, I seem to remember that. And yeah, as Jeff and Dan said in the QL of the previous gen of 2K15, there's still SO MUCH we don't know about the current gen version. And it's releasing in like a week? It's pretty crazy.
Hot Coldman
Banned
https://twitter.com/AlexaRayC/status/531896932059598849
Guess we might get Alexa on some GB content at some point in the future?
I already saw this picture like 6 times and I only just noticed Mary
stump sock
Member
Need people to write those Game of Thrones recaps!
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Is that a new Op-ed I see from Ben Kuchera?!
lol at the Screened link in the footer redirecting to MovieFone.
SlowRevolution
Member
she might be filling Shaun's position
nckillthegrimace
Member
They could be paying them less than the people they fired.
They're refocusing to a personality-driven site. How many of the people laid off were on-camera personalities?
None of them, honestly. CBSi has the right idea.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
can someone explain to me how Super Best Friends is already on their 7th thread? As a lifelong Giant Bomber, i am feeling both curious and slightly threatened by these whippersnappers
The Dear Leader
Banned
What if they like merged Gamespot and Giant Bomb into one site, woooaaahhhh.
SlowRevolution
Member
merger got canceled during the avalon stream
They could call it Gamebomb and become huge, even international, like, maybe start a site in Russia!
TharpDaddy
Member
By not talking about Super Best Friends in that thread. If this thread turned into a non-stop random discussion thread then it'd move a lot faster than it does now.
It's a chat room. For as fast as the GB threads go, it's almost always on-topic.
Last night people in the thread had to convince some of the regulars to stop posting porn fan fic (of some anime? I don't know) over there. It's weekend all year long in that thread.
Extra Life stream number 5, baby! Lock Drew into a room, have him try to play through as much as he can on Legendary.
nckillthegrimace
Member
Gamebomb is taken, and Giant Spot sounds like it's affiliated with the beloved Eric Hill character.
Chance Hale
Member
Have they said what they're going to being doing for the Master Chief collection given it's such a large package? Hoping for more than just a quick look, especially given Drew is such a fan of the series.
RepairmanJack
Member
What is Super Best Friends? I saw it brought up in here before and just assumed it was some funny fan name for some pairing on GB(Drew and Jason obviously). I can't see that getting it's own thread and reaching 7 of them, so I guess it isn't what I thought it was.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
and it would stink, yeah
except for all the gamespot talk. Who's is Murray, btw
Oh jeez, that explains why they quickly made their way to community. It took them 5+ years to get us!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You know, if GS is hiring people, it makes you wonder why they let go of people a couple of months ago... including the two most senior people with the GS group. :/
What exactly would warrant "more than just a QL"? There's videos of them playing through all of the content in that collection already on the site. They should fire up Halo 2 and call it a day.
A Youtube Let's Play channel. They also have their own podcast. They have modelled a lot of what they do on Giant Bomb, which the two core guys are big fans of (Pat and Matt). They're okay, but they got too loud for my old man ears.
And they dragged us down with them!
The Dear Leader
Banned
They knew they could never truly trust one another again.
RepairmanJack
Member
God damned Letsplayers! Get off my lawn!
Maybe so they could hire cheaper replacements.
LurkerPrime
Member
What do they usually do for HD collections? IIRC it's launching and playing each version a bit. I imagine they'll do the same thing here, while talking about some of the changes.
I fully expect The Elder Scrolls Online to remain King of the Quick Looks, even in a post-Halo HD Collection world.
Well, she could also be filling Shaun McInnis' position. He wasn't part of the layoffs.
Fucking slacker! It's an endurance run for the audience, and you didn't endure!
Fun fact: The King of the Quick Looks is the only QL on the site I haven't watched from beginning to end.