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AnOminous said:
It died with Ryan Davis.
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I partially disagree.

Ryan Davis dying killed Giantbomb as a something "truly great/generational" but Giantbomb was still important as a "videogame publication that had even a whiff if integrity and slight sense of professionalism" - that Giantbomb died when they could no longer source the right kind of people (and hired Walker/Kepler/Void/etc).
 
Austin Walker was a diversity hire but he was at least funny.

I never watched the show for the longest time, so I just thought he was just another vanilla Brooklyn Jew. I spat out coffee once when listening to him talk about Mafia 3 when he yelled out "IT'S NIGGER MAGIC!" I figured the GB crew were just letting it hang out in a way that Vinny/Brad/Jeff normally wouldn't. Then I found out he's just a vanilla Brooklyn black dude.

The final team that I really enjoyed was basically Brad/Jeff on the West Coast and Abby/Vinny on the East.

Jan and Ben were the beginning of the end for me. Ben didn't like what he did and it was obvious he wasn't into it and he did the right thing and left. His only contribution to the show was making it more like an annoying FM radio morning commute type show with the email dump truck and voice mail.

Jan is just embarrassing and completely unaware of it.
 
Win98SE said:
Giant Bomb fans are currently having two concurrent meltdowns.
  1. In a bizarre segment on the Giant Bombcast, Jeff Grubb admits to playing Marvel Snap (consooooomer gacha game) while driving. After receiving some backlash from his cohosts for distracted driving, he claims that he's "built different" and can multitask because he used to drive professionally. Redditors demand an apology, but Grubb comments and claims he was actually just doing a bit despite being very adamant he was not doing a bit.
  2. Someone noticed that Quick Looks now have promo codes for the game in the description. These are codes for a service called Fanatical, which is a product of Fandom, who now owns Giant Bomb. While not uncommon elsewhere in games coverage, this is incredibly funny given the whole Jeff vs. Gamespot fiasco that gave birth to Giant Bomb was entirely around advertisers attempting to directly influence game reviews, but this point is lost on Jess (AKA Voidburger), who ran to twitter to make a series of now-deleted tweets claiming that "reviews are just ads anyway" and "we have ads on the podcast for boner pills, why would it matter if we had codes for games?"
There's no way GB is making it through 2023, right?
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Well it has always been about ethics in games journalism, has it not?
 
welp this showed up on the giantbomb youtube channel an hour ago


feels bad man, on so many levels.
giantbomb died with ryan davis, but patrick was a cancer that would have killed the site eventually.
ryan and jeff had such amazing chemistry and were two of the funniest motherfuckers. on the memorial podcast i think jeff says they were thinking of getting out of videogames journalism altogether and doing something different. i wish i could have seen that.
this video straight up feels like a parody video ryan would have produced if he was still alive in current year at giantbomb. take out the name and logo and its unrecognizable from the wasteland of diversity checkmark bland corporate faggotry. theres nothing recognizable as giantbomb in that video except for dan ryckert, who will be the last vestige to be excised as soon as possible,
i first got a giantbomb sub in 2011 and stopped around 2015. it really was something special and it was sad watching it fade away
fuck i still listen to the old bombcasts for various takes on games/happenings. use qlcrew, tick jeff/vinny/ryan/dave/drew and cross out patrick/brad/alex and everything there is gold
seriously though fuck you patrick klepeck you twink faggot i hope you caught AIDS from zoey

oh also
 
That'd be a great video if they were being deluged with new subs and wanted to give them a quick vid on what GB is all about.

But that's not what that is. That's a late night informercial trying to sell you a Philips CD-i.

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Listened to the Jeff Gerstmann show this morning. First listen he had a cohost and a storyline subject they were telling. This was just him psychotically ranting, alone. It was sad. 15 minutes of him "I signed up for a thing but then my credit card didn't work so I had to get an email but guess what? The email went to my SPAM FOLDER!!!! and I missed out on a window and had to do it again and eventually I just signed in with my Facebook account."

Real. Riveting. Radio.
 
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That video is a war crime.

The comment section is also a war crime. Someone unironically wrote "What's the big deal - other YT channels have an intro like this" The key to Giant Bomb's success - "Other YT Channels do it".

Ryan Davis now 100% confirmed spinning in his grave. Jeff Gerstmann now punching holes in his drywall thinking about a Video Game News Site once so respected that the presidents of Sony and Xbox would ask for interviews yearly now hosting even more riveting Silent Hill 2 longform Essays.

This feels like the closest I've ever seen to watching someone else suffer due to a deal they made with the Devil. Jeff got to make the website of his dreams but now has to watch it be defiled.
 
I like the original version better
I bet most of the soys that put together the new video don't even know this one exists
 
Alcoholism said:
Listened to the Jeff Gerstmann show this morning. First listen he had a cohost and a storyline subject they were telling. This was just him psychotically ranting, alone. It was sad. 15 minutes of him "I signed up for a thing but then my credit card didn't work so I had to get an email but guess what? The email went to my SPAM FOLDER!!!! and I missed out on a window and had to do it again and eventually I just signed in with my Facebook account."

Real. Riveting. Radio.
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Jeff can still be heaps of fun to watch on his own. his garage cleanout videos were full of cool stories and deep vidyagame lore and shit and his home game streams were good too.

the episode i tried to watch of his new show he spent 20 minutes alternately complaining about and then justifying masks during covid.
 
spacko said:
Jeff can still be heaps of fun to watch on his own. his garage cleanout videos were full of cool stories and deep vidyagame lore and shit and his home game streams were good too.

the episode i tried to watch of his new show he spent 20 minutes alternately complaining about and then justifying masks during covid.
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He desperately needs a focus - either a task or someone to keep him on track. I hope he finds one soon.
 
Came across this article:
gamerant.com

Steam Makes New Game Free, But You Have to Act Fast

Steam users can get a newly released game for free and keep it forever, but players need to be fast as the offer expires soon.
gamerant.com gamerant.com

Hahaha game journalism in 2022.

The original name was:

Steam Makes New Game Free, But You Have to Act Fast​

Apparently it's just an add for DKO, who will be F2P soon.
 
spacko said:
Jeff can still be heaps of fun to watch on his own. his garage cleanout videos were full of cool stories and deep vidyagame lore and shit and his home game streams were good too.
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Slight tangent but a bunch of those old Gamespot people were good to watch, even some of the boring guys because they at least all liked games and were knowledgeable and interested in the subject. Back in the day gamespot put out some kino content like the system retrospectives which surprisingly someone archived on youtube. All of these people come across like they're genuinely into the subject.
These new people at giantbomb, and the other sites to be hones, are unwatchable to me because they all come across like they don't know what the fuck they are talking about and are just in it for the social media clout.
 
Whenever I hear the term "gaming journalism" I just think if writers at the New York times can't be trusted to write well researched and unbiased articles why the fuck would anyone take what a gaming journalist has to say? Gaming a hobby that's been regarded as a man-child activity for 40 years. Also gatekeeping was a necessary and when it stopped happening the hobby was infected
 
Deathfromabove said:
Whenever I hear the term "gaming journalism" I just think if writers at the New York times can't be trusted to write well researched and unbiased articles why the fuck would anyone take what a gaming journalist has to say? Gaming a hobby that's been regarded as a man-child activity for 40 years. Also gatekeeping was a necessary and when it stopped happening the hobby was infected
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Real journalists from The New York Times (if you can even say that with a straight face) secretly dislike gaming journalists since they don’t offer anything new or important to the genre as a whole.

Most gaming journalists are really failed journalists that could not hang or deal with the upper echelon of journalists that they have to report over.
 
Jonah Hill poster said:
Most gaming journalists are really failed journalists that could not hang or deal with the upper echelon of journalists that they have to report over.
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Meanwhile they have contempt for their audience, when the only contempt they should really be allowed to have is for themselves for being such absolute losers they're locked into a joke of a profession that they hate. At least their gamer audience enjoys vidya (although nobody enjoys games journalism).
 
AnOminous said:
Meanwhile they have contempt for their audience, when the only contempt they should really be allowed to have is for themselves for being such absolute losers they're locked into a joke of a profession that they hate. At least their gamer audience enjoys vidya (although nobody enjoys games journalism).
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The total difference between a casual gamer and a journalist is quite simple really. While the two play games and love games, only journalists want to shoehorn in identity politics.
 
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