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>>375673619
They seem fine to me. I just wish they'd put them in opposite offices; the SF podcast desperately needs a shakeup (a good kind, anyway) and I don't know if bringing back an old intern is going to accomplish that.

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The lady seems batshit. I can't tell whether she's a genuine shitposter or a LOL SO QUIRKY xD gaymur girl.

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ostensibly makes you think

>>375673951

There doesn't seem to be any SJW fuckery on her twitter. Maybe she will riff with Dan and Vinny and push Alex to realize he's not a good fit and should finally off himself.

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>>375674132

Surely nobody could be as bad as Patty and Austin.................. RIGHT?

>read the girls tweets
>macgruber, taco bell, hulk hogan, zelda

is this just dan in a wig?

>>375674132
I feel like the interview process must have at least involved some amount of mock podcasting or something similar to get an idea of how well their finalists would mesh.

Also Alex is fine, /v/ needs to calm down with the poor guy.

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>people born in 1998 are now being hired to be personalities on giantbomb

>>375674584

I would be so fucking down with that.

>>375674662

Alex is not fine. He's so cringy in every fucking video. Vinny and Dan are so good that it's still tolerable, but Alex threatens to ruin my enjoyment every time he opens his mouth. Even fucking Rorie makes me laugh every now and then. Alex is 100% unfunny all the fucking time.

>>375674584
macgruber the movie is funny.

>>375674697
He had to give up his pro wrestling dream to move, he needs a new project. Why not a cross-dressing alter ego?!

I just want to hear them so we know. I was shocked at least Ben wasn't involved in the Battlegrounds stream.
Also do we know if Abby's going to be a personality right out of the gate, or at least start more behind the scenes like Drew and Dave?

>>375673619
>Ben has lived in the Bay Area his whole life
The woman will make some dumb comments, contribute nothing and be gone in 8 months. The nu-male will probably be the ne Klepek.

>>375674584
That'd probably be the best thing for GB

>eceleb thread
People born in 1990's or later GTFO

>>375674891

>Battlegrounds stream

When the fuck are they going to upload the archive of that thing? Been waiting all afternoon.

>>375674891
i'm sure she will be on the podcast
probably wont be on quicklooks unless it's a specfic type of game only she likes like Jason/Rorie.

I'm curious how much she appears on playdates. I'd assume she would be in the control room (if they even have one?)

>>375674974
Nah he'll be the new brad.

>>375674891
>>375675078

She's an improv actress. I don't think they would have hired an improv actress unless she was going to be on camera.

>>375674854
Most of the time I don't mind him; but whenever he tries to steer a conversation back to the game/movie their supposed to be talking about, or pull them away from what their doing to make sure they don't miss the super cool thing that's actually not that cool he comes off as a huge buzzkill.

>>375674854
I don't know, I never saw him that way. Yeah, he's low-energy and sometimes the depressive self-effacement ends up falling flat, but he's never ruined streams for me or anything.

Even when the humour's at his expense sometimes (like the last mega man video, where he slowly realizes he's made a huge mistake while Vinny and Dan drive him insane by being Vinny and Dan), I still like the guy. I knew a couple Alexes back in school, maybe that's why. They were good dudes, just real depressed.

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xD

>>375675423
Oh cool, quirky random Borderlands humor.

>>375675175
i'm not saying she won't ever be. But she was hired to be a producer. which is what drew/jason's job is.

She isn't going to be on camera as much as alex and dan

Why is the chatango on lockdown, did you faggots plan to murder one of the new hires in there or something?

>>375675536

Jason was on camera from moment one. I think they've realized that putting their producers behind a curtain like they did with Drew for so long is a mistake.

>>375675559
Someone was posting leaked pics of Rorie putting his gin pin inches deep into dog hole.

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I hope you're ready for tall jokes forever and for Brad to have someone to discuss dota with.

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Oh my god she is literally Dan.

>>375675625
I think three is usually the best number for streams anyway (like the playdates) so they'll probably start rotating out, whoever it is. Maybe they'll let her pick the next FMV game to get started

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>le woman gam3r
Well I'm done

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>>375675423

>>375675857
I don't think I'd want to take a whole course but Costume History sounds like it might be kind of interesting

>>375675775

>for Brad to have someone to discuss dota with.

UPF just got a whole lot better!

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>>375675857
>"art" majors

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xDD

>>375674662
I don't think he's the devil or anything, but Alex is by far the worst of the group.

Well, I scrolled back through her twitter all the way to before the election, and there were a grand total of two political tweets. Both were pretty mild retweets.

mitebcool

>last thread gets deleted
>"I know let's make it again!"

More white people smdh

>>375675992
vinnie explicitly said he wanted someone fresh out of college / looking to get a start in the field so she fits. seems like she's got some video production experience and a personality to boot, so she's already better qualified than jason in all regards.

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>the tall guy who wanted people to give him money to go to japan cause "lol, im tall guise"

jesus christ, tell me hes cheap or something
he had precisely zero personality at WM even the spic and the fat kid were better

that least its not the gay furry

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>>375676370
I canceled my sub

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I hope it turns out well, but I'm getting the feeling that this girl is one of those people who think that they need to constantly say something funny, even if they don't have anything funny to say.

>>375676351
don't worry she will use giantbomb to jumpstart to working for Austins dead company in a year.

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>>375676339

>GB catches hell for hiring Dan and Jason, two white dudes
>two more positions open up
>they just hire two more white people

Based Jeff and Vinny

>>375676452
I'm getting a really bad Sarah Silverman/Amy Schumer vibe out of these shitty tweets.

She seems fun. Not obnoxious, she's cute, and has decent taste in games. It'll be nice to have a girl on the Beastcast, and she legitimately does seem like FeDan.

Like someone else said above, the other guy to me is literally 0% interesting. I'll wait and see how he is on live stuff/podcasts, but the last thing I wanted was a intern from old Whiskey Media who plays a shitton of Dota.

They need a contrarian to fucking counter jaded-ass Jeff and stale-ass Brad. I wish Ryan were still around.

Since theyre hiring more I hope we get someone with some life. Drew leaving sucked.

Not one, but TWO awkward lanklets on GBW. What was Jeff thinking?

>>375675969
i was getting ready to say it sounds dumb as shit, but I actually wonder too if there's anything in there. I mean there must be for it to be a full class, right? I wouldn't take a full semester either, but it wouldn't hurt to look in on a lecture or know the curriculum, maybe. Sounds interesting, but not interesting enough to warrant any real attention.

>>375674662
Do you need help tying a noose Alex?

>big ben is back
always liked that dude

>>375676445
good lad

>I sent in my application
>I love vidya and play it all the time
>Have a BA journalism
>I'm 24

>They higher a 22 year old because it's a woman

Hold me bros

>>375676639
>She seems fun. Not obnoxious, she's cute, and has decent taste in games

None of this is even remotely true

>>375676639
>She seems fun
>LOL FARTS AND QUEEFS

>>375676824
These are both producers, not editors. The new editor hasn't been revealed yet.

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>Peter Brown sits in on a few bombcasts
>he has an actual passion for video games
>he's super knowledgeable and goes down really interesting rabbit holes
>plays lots of genres
>into Japanese stuff
>young and enthusiastic
>even calls Brad on his "my twitter feed is the entire world" narrow minded worldview
>this is exactly what GBW needs
>instead they hire a fucking dullard who plays nothing but Dota

>>375676445
You should honestly consider ending yourself for subscribing in the first place.

>>375676654
If I won the lottery or something, I'd probably become one of those weird dudes at universities who are on the twentieth year of their degree. Just take two or three courses a semester for something to do, and learn costume history or about fifteenth century mushroom growing techniques or whatever the hell the country's finest second-tier university will teach me.

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as a joke, i pretended to be emptyhero, sent them an application and a sample of his writings
they called me a racist and told me to never "darken their mail room again"
lol

>>375676824
Gotta shine out in your application to at least get the interview. Interview is what gets you in the door, lets you make a mark on the actual person hiring you, and gives you a chance to stand out.

>>375676847
>>375676949
Agree to disagree. That stuff is obnoxious, but reading through the rest of her twitter she seems quirky and fine. Obviously looks are subjective too, but she likes Zelda, Katamari, Red Dead, etc. That's good taste enough in my book.

Now all I need to do is hear her voice. If its good we're set.

>>375676950
ben is an editor, not a producer

>>375677071

Proof or gtfo

>>375677071

Screen Cap? That sounds amusing if true

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>>375677120
Wow, a girl who likes Zelda! Better hold on to a gem like that!

>>375676994

A lot of people aren't going to give up their day job to be on a staff of five autistic Internet personalities.

>>375677303
>Wow, a girl who likes Zelda! Better hold on to a gem like that!

Obviously she impressed the guys at GB so yeah, she does seem to be something more than ordinary. BoTW is a pretty good game so I see nothing wrong with liking it.

>>375677121

Jeff hired some guy who's only done video production at Destructoid as editor?

Regardless, there's still someone else coming in.

>>375676994
Nah fuck Peter Brown
Literally spoiled Nier Automata Ending E for no reason a week after it was out on the bombcast.
Just straight up went in depth on it without even having played it because someone had told him about it.

>>375673619
Drew leaving is the worst thing that has happened to GB. Yes, even worse than Ryan dying.

>>375677570
Ryan dying wasn't bad

>>375676994
Need to be an entertaining, outlandish character. Very thick skin. Not some cynical guy

>>375677570

I honestly agree. Drew kept the ship on track and him leaving was a sign the site is stagnant/dead

>>375677406

Apparently he interned with them back in the day. Iirc he had a kinda dopey "big guy" voice, like an ogre or something. He seemed fine.

>>375677570
>>375677752

Drew is fucking boring and barely plays video games.

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>>375673619

>>375677801

Drew was the straight man and he wasn't just video games, he did tons of other stuff like traveling. I love Dan but we don't need more of them

>>375677801
Incorrect. He's a weirdo autist but he has great, dry sense of humor.

>>375677925
How old is Drew? Is he married?

>>375677303
Zelda is a great series anon, and BOTW is one of the peaks of it. Chill the fuck out.

>>375673619
Ben seems boring as fuck even in his old videos. Chick I dunno, her twitter was alright.

East is going to remain the place to watch cause Brad Rorie and Jason are now joined by yet another boring person while Jeff flails around without anyone to support him.

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>>375677925

>Drew was the straight man

Oh shit, I bet Ben is gonna be awesome. Interned with them at whiskey media and they brought him back, so they have to like him.

>>375678060
Why do people hate Jason? He's ok.

>>375676370
RIP

>>375678158

He pretends to be way more knowledgeable about games than he actually is. All he does is wax nostalgic about his childhood and play shitty anime games.

>>375678089
>>375678020

30 something and everyone assumes he's gay after Mary Kish tossed himself at him and he turned it down

>>375678158
Dudes a poser, an inoffensive poser but a poser regardless. Not a very funny guy either. I just find him boring, I don't think I'm the only one.

>>375678261

Pretty sure he's 28.

>>375677925
>drew
>straight
your gaydar seems to be malfunctioning

>>375678158

He's boring and Jeff beats him at his specialty. Dan was beating him and dan is dan

>>375678258
>>375678268
Ok, I can kinda see that. I still find him enjoyable. At least he isn't Alex.

>>375678375
>28 and still not married

What the fuck? He's handsome as hell. How is he not married yet.

>>375678258

Does he play anything that isn't mon hun or Musou trash?

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>>375678487

I'm 28 and handsome and not married

>>375678506

He claims to play fighting games but doesn't actually.

>>375678487
Drew is the type of guy who focuses on what he feels like doing and does it. He quit what most consider to be an absolute dream job in the industry to go jet around the world if that tells you anything.

Women and travel flat out don't mix.

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He's so tall but couldn't grow a proper jawline.

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far left. i can't actually be bothered to watch it.

>>375677570
So what's Drew doing now?

>>375678894
Railing high quality girls in various countries.

>>375678894
Collecting Patreon money for travelling the world and posting a few videos about it.

>>375678919
>girls

>>375678979
Seriously? How much is he getting?

>>375673989
oh nooooooo

>>375678990
Round these parts we call them 10 metre girls because you can't tell their ladyboys until you're closer than 10 metres heheouu

>>375679080
Bit over 21k USD a month.

>>375676639
She's just a video producer, so she won't be in front of the camera nearly as much. She's mostly there to free up Vinny to do less video setup

>>375678556
No you're not

>>375678605
Women don't like traveling?

>>375678894
>>375679080
https://www.patreon.com/clothmap

>>375673989
Ok that's funny

>>375679264
Already stated that she'll sit in on podcasts and some videos. They didn't hire an improv actress to sit behind a monitor all day, that's not what GB does.
>>375679323
All the time? No.

I'm actually starting to miss Austin at this point.

One of them better actually like Japanese games. Sick of everyone not playing Jap shit
"Ah nier that's definitely in my list" more than a month later and only fucking Alex has beaten it

Literally just meme games, western AAA, and fotm steam trash

>>375679220
>>375679346
Wow, good for him.

I hope he stays out of the middle east. A pretty whyte boi like that will get raped in a flash.

>>375679487
Hi Austin

>>375679487
I absolutely hated him at the beginning but after ignoring all his dumb pseudo-intellectual writing he wasn't that bad.

>>375675175
Jeff said they had everyone take an improv class though. It's just a required part of the resume now

>>375675372
Alex isn't the best but I find his banter perfectly fine 90% of the time

>>375679658
What the hell kind of place do you think the Middle East is?

>>375679710
Vinny and Dan are a good combo for getting that stick out of Alex's ass. I hope the new girl doesn't upset the only dynamic that works on the site now.

>>375679665
Austin was wayyyy more tolerable than Patrick or Alex when he wasn't talking about politics, which was most of the time.

>>375678610
In all fairness he lost some weight

>>375679737
It's a beautiful place full of rainbows and unicorns that is very welcoming and tolerant to westerners.

Fucking idiot.

SIX FUCKING TEN

>>375679897
Sounds like you've never visited.

>>375679817
Agree desu
Besides, he was the only one who actually talked about weebshit

>>375679710

That's because they want to put out more content but don't have the budget or the people to do it. Hence, making due by having production staff also sit on quick looks

Vinny also wanted someone to do the grunt work

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>>375673619
>girl who looks like Patrick and has an amy schumer personality

Bombcast will go back to being #1 by default due to no more guests/Rorie and Vinny being drowned in with awful personalities

>>375674854
Alex was an alpha in the Gamespot days

wonder what happened

>>375679968
I've never gone swimming in shark infested waters either.

>>375679817

His voice drives me insane. It's really petulant and it's like he wants the teacher to see how smart he is

>>375679897
It's not a battleground. It's a collection of different countries and cultures of varying degrees of secularization with a couple of hotspots that you wouldn't venture in anyway

>>375680072

Alex just adopts whatever fake personality he thinks will make people like him. In the early 2000's, that was the edgy punk rock dickhead. Now, it's the virtue signaling "I've matured and I'm going to tell everyone about it" dickhead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQ_7R9lrzg

I would totally suck his dick. No homo.

>>375680152
And they're not too fond of westerners, either.

in before everyone realizes alex the ass pained SJW is the reason why GB east is getting female klepek hire

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>looks like Patrick but acts like Dan

>>375680183
Not only that but he's the most obnoxious backseat gamer. That Snipperclips quicklook was the most painful thing I've seen.

>>375680275
Vinny hired her.

Alex doesn't do production and would have little say on the matter.

>>375680152
Now that Egypt went to shit after the arab spring, Iran is pretty much the only decent Middle East country.

Is bakalar going to leave soon? I didn't want a neurotic New Yorker stereotype in my bombcast

>>375680623
Bakalar not being on the podcast anymore and an indroduction of girl-Dan. 2 Dans and an Alex. I don't know if I'd be able to deal with it. Vinny really hasn't been the same since moving back either.

When is Ryan coming back?

>>375680452
;)

>>375680623
that fucker barley plays video games
he's just some stereotypical bagel-eating jewish new yorker

>>375680982

Nigga don't hate on bagels, they're delicious.

>>375680982
those stereotypical hockey playing jew yorkers

>>375680908
Jeff said hes not coming back until finishes the god of war ascension review

>>375680982
Yet he's still better than the other two fucks not named Vinny.

>>375680908
>>375680623
Why would Bakalar leave? He was on the podcast when Austin was there. Sure, they called it a revolving guest chair but he wasn't in it only like once.

>Patricia Kekplex and Lurch

>>375680452
>>375680948
>implying alex wasnt seething with triggered rage while vinny looked over the hires
>literal "WHITE SUPREMACIST" rant during goty podcasts
>think he wasnt driving force for fem klepek

>>375680908
Dude is a genuine idiot.

>>375679652
nier is a meme game you retard

>>375676036
Everyone smells their own farts. Whether they want to or not.

>>375681543
She's fem Dan though. Nothing we've seen about her even hints that she has strong political opinions.

I wonder if either of them can actually play games or if they're more Brads and Vinnies who seem like they're picking up a controller for the first time in their life every time they play anything.

Obviously going to be the chick. Wasn't the tall nigga an intern at some point?

>>375681954
just you wait

>>375682370

What are you talking about? Vinny is very good at video games.

>>375682370
I think you mean Brad and Dan. Watching that Yooka Laylee Quick Look was torture.

>>375682370
None of them will, seemingly only Dan plays modern videogames. Everyone else just plays an hour of whatever just came out and then complains about not having more time to do so.

>>375680908
>When is Ryan coming back?
This, what the fuck? Nigga taking a long ass sabbatical.

>>375682750
He's on his honeymoon.

there's a quick look with jeff and ben up

>>375679652

The dudes twitter is nothing but Persona 5

>>375682890
Persona 5 is entry level though

>>375682953
And Nier Automata isn't?

>>375682953

You said Japanese not questionably legal.

>>375682856
Damn, he's so bland.

Can't be worse than Patty McKlepek and I don't remember Ben being bad in the little content he was in.

>>375683173
Yeah.

But he's gotta get in the groove.

At least he's not obnoxious.

>>375676994
PB is too good for GBW

>>375674662
I'll put up with Alex for now. He's the only one who cared about properly playing Automata and Persona.

>>375683173

Dan was like that in his first few QLs too now look at him.

Also, bad game to be interesting puzzle games are the worst for QLs.

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>>375673619
>that one giant bomb guy who is fat and talks about his diet and his stomach ulcers and breathes heavily while being disinterested in video games

OH SHIT WAIT

>>375683425
he does that to keep up with twitter memes

>>375676824
Yeah I'm sure it was the gender that was the problem.

>>375676994

>even calls Brad on his "my twitter feed is the entire world" narrow minded worldview

In what? I missed that would've good to hear/see.

theres a monastery near me that does pilgrimages and while people are on pilgrimage they feed them warm, lighty slated water and crackers.

thats what Ben reminds me of

I just looked up Bodega on Twitter and he got even fatter.

>>375683568

I don't remember the bomcast or the topic, but Brad was making some bullshit anecdotal argument about how everyone must believe a certain thing because everyone on his twitter feed believes it. Peter was like "okay but how many people do you follow on Twitter?" Brad got noticeably upset.

>>375683576
Made me chuckle. Where are you from?

>>375676824
>higher
No wonder they didn't hire you, you can't even spell.

>>375683675

I would've chuckled. Libs and their twitter bubbles are ridiculous.

>>375683731
nice try cop, I just zeroed all my hdds, posting this from a burner

>>375683173
Just give him a bit to get settled into the new offices.

>>375680623
Fuhgeddaboudit!

>>375673619

both of the hires are video producers they haven't gotten the replacement for dan yet but my bet is the woman in east will be trouble in the long run just look at that shitty twitter kek

>>375683917
Why? You done something naughty with your computer?

>>375683927
>>375683486
>>375683332

I hope so. Jeff needs someone to get him going. Vinnie and Drew were perfect for him.

>>375683173
hes already better than brad

>>375679652
This... but also someone who is cool about it.

>>375684186
Not a hard task to do.

Is Ben sick or is that his natural voice?

What does Rorie even do? Answer emails and sometimes mumble incomprehensibly into a microphone?

>>375684186
A cardboard box would be better than Brad, let me sum up literally every interaction Brad has.
>MMMMMMMMMM
>MMMHHHHMMMM
>Laughs at the end of his sentence

>>375684498
"site admin" i think. amounts to moderating chat and managing the store and subscriptions.

Patrick ruined everything a long time ago, they've been dead and uninteresting since. The only time I hear about them now is due to some kind of non relevant SJW drama

>>375681783
Persona is a meme game

>>375677507
Cry more, baby. Not everyone is going to play your shitty game and it's not even that much of a spoiler.

>this game is SO SO SO GOOD but I can't tell you why
get fucked

>>375673619
God Ben is so fucking bland. GB West is dead.

>>375679771
It's gonna be her and Dan agreeing with everything cause they're the same person, Alex defending anything she says cause she's a woman, and Vinny having an awful time cause it's just gonna be a circle jerk around the woman

>>375673619
can anyone explain something to me, really

I grew up on video games, they're a huge part of my life, been so for 30 years now

i have never once really wanted to ever sit around and watch people play games in this type of format, or listen to them talk about games or anything. What is the appeal of this show and things like it?

Do you just watch it purely because its video game related content? Because 90% of what I see is people talking about hating some certain person, so why watch it? Just because its about games?

>>375685042
They should spoil more so there can be some fucking VIDEO GAME discussions going on.

>>375685349

I am too tired to actually play video games. It also makes me feel like I have friends.

I'm happy for their job security but being owned by CBS does absolutely nothing but hinder their productivity with endless meetings and trigger free work environment seminars.

>>375685349
I leave them open when doing work at home and listen to their podcast when I'm actually at work.
Mostly just background noise but if I ever decide to actually listen it's something I sort of care about some times

>>375685438
How sad

>>375685438
well i watcfh some people play games and shit now, mostly horror games because theres no real value in playing them yourself, watching them is mostly same experience

isnt this more like a show though? more focused on the "personalities" and them talking?

>>375685349

Quick Looks are how I check out new games and judge whether I'm going to buy them.

>>375685585
The only time I buy games because of quick looks is when I see Bad playing them bradly and I must play it myself just to make sure it's absolutely his fault and not the games.

>>375680576
Iran's great. Best food I've ever had.

>>375685349
>why do people listen to radio talk shows
>why do people watch late night talk shows
>why do sporting events have commentators who just narrate the game and fill dead air
>why do people come to 4chan to have anonymous discussions

come on bruh you know the answer

>>375676445
>monthly

why

>>375685690
I really don't know the answer

I think a big part of it is you care about other peoples opinions on games, as someone who has been around since basically gamings beginning i have always noticed that i've always been able to tell what games are good and bad with basically perfect accuracy...so nobody elses analysis or opinion of any game is worth anything to me

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>they will never hire a cute young boy that plays Japanese games and acts very feminine
Site could be literal perfection if they got one on gb west

>>375676445
Cancelled mine too. Not because I hate the new hires but just because I've come to terms with my path and GB's path diverging.

>>375685801

>i've always been able to tell what games are good and bad with basically perfect accuracy

Ah, you're a faggot. Why did I waste time responding.

>>375685349
Not really. I listen to their podcasts to hear Jeff talk about 40s and other dumb shit.

>>375676609
let's be real

last time they went outside their race they got burned

>>375685871
dude it blows me away that everyone here can't do this

but like i said i have pretty much consummate knowledge of video games from the beginning and i knew shit indicated bad games 10 years before you were born

i just dont undersatnd needing someone to tell you if a game is good...you can tell by watching previews etc

>>375685801
sometimes you just want to hear people talk about a thing you like.

>>375685970

>I'M OLD
>I'M OLD
>I'M OLD

Dude this is /v/, we've all been playing games for decades. Get over yourself and fuck off.

>>375686038
what no, everything they say will be wrong

but i picked up apparently that some guy on that show likes windjammers a lot so it gives me hope that they at least know what they're talking about (windjammers is a design exercise in how to make a purely fun video game)

you know whats another windjammers? uniracers. I wonder why that game disappeared into the aether, it was actually quite a big deal when it came out, invented tony hawk gameplay ffs

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It's happening again.

>>375686223
>aether
stopped reading there

>>375686286
>around 2030
>certain corporations get special government permission to try a risky experiment
>hire only the people who seem most qualified and do the best job
>the company ends up being all white and asian males
>defeats every other company in their field

it's only a matter of time before money talks louder than illusion

How do the GB staff manage to have a job playing video games and still only play the most casual normie-tier shit all the time?

I don't think I've ever heard a game from one of them that wasn't a big release or already had a ton of steam, none of them ever have a game that they thought sounded interesting and gave it a shot on a whim, it's always just the big releases

I get that they have to cover the big stuff but when your job and your hobby is the same thing, you'd think there would be more esoteric games highlighted on the site

I still love all the members of the crew except that alcoholic idiot Rorie though

>>375686223
you dont have to pretend you're an asocial autist you're preaching to the choir my man. even so i can understand the concept of enjoying discussion.

eh

ben seems alright

>>375686434
i am asocial though i take basically no value in peoples opinions of entertainment media, they are almost always wrong

i don't enjoy discussion of games at all, i enjoy me telling other people what the best opinions to have are

>>375677925
>he did tons of other stuff like traveling
zzzzzzz

>>375686621

>i enjoy me telling other people what the best opinions to have are

We can tell.

>>375686651
well then why shouldn't i make a channel and tell other people my opinions, since the opinions of people are something you can sell, and my opinions are better?

of course, it wouldn't be me. if i ever did this, it'd be some ravishingly hot girl just regurgitating whatever i give her to asy

>>375685383
I fucking wish video game nerds weren't such crying faggots. I'd love to hear more stuff actually talked about instead of the same surface level shit over and over.

>>375678375
drews 30

just like me ;-;

>>375686732

You genuinely have autism, and I want you to go away.

Ben definitely has marfan syndrome

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>They will never hire a cute boy to replace Drew
Why even keep watching???

>>375686782
wait, let me get a group of people and pretend to be all social and laugh while we talk about video games

is that better

see the reality of it is this shit was always for people like me, people like you who think you are somehow different are just unsuccessful normies..giantbomb looks like a bnuch of fuckin normie shit
>hurr hurr look at me laughing with my friends

definition of fucking normies

>>375685815
>>375686868
boyfuckers RAUS

>>375678674
fuck improv is awful

why would anyone waste their time on this?

>>375686939
>>375686926
see this is what im tlaking about...

video game show and they hire theatre people...literally THE fucking normies out of all normies...theatre people are the EXACT OPPOSITE of video game autists..every single thing they do in their life is about other people and getting attention from others

there needs to be a video game channel from a guy who lives in a basement

that should be my angle..i should get an ultimate neckbeard and ultimate hot girl and make them regurgitate my opinions and argue and the shit will get 300k views a video

see you on the other side of the money pile, thanks for the input

>>375686939

There is some good improv out there friend. It's just that bad improv is like really really BAD and cringy

>>375681079
whitest sport on earth

>>375687103
go gettem tiger

>>375687307
>6 months from now
>neckbeards vs. normies
>characterize all the neckbeards as having shit video game opinions
>characterize the hot girls as knowing their shit and totally crushing the neckbeards

this is going to be so good actually

>>375673989

I already placed my bets on the jew curls. She reminded me too much of that flaming cunt faggot. Guess she's gonna be it.

Let's be real you watch Giant Bomb for Jeff and Vinny. They are the best. Brad and Dan are usually pretty great too but can get annoying after a while. Everyone else is ok and you just hope they don't take up too much time talking about pointless shit or politics.

>>375679817
dude has no personality and his attempts at humor and jokes are fucking sad and neutered from all his safe space thinking

>>375687808
Its why there shouldn't be 2 studios and GBW should have moved out East to a cheaper location. Its sad that their best stuff they've put out in the last few years has been cross coast quicklooks and Game of the year videos where Vinny and Jeff are together.

Ben was a bad hire because he isn't anything but a sounding board, just like everyone else out west.

>>375688119
Spotted the east coaster
Fuck you, east coaster
West coast is BEST coast

>>375673619
Death to SJWs

>>375688278
West coast has Jeff, everyone else there sucks. San Fran is straight up way more expensive than New York, this cannot be debated.

>>375688119
Battlegrounds was a great video tho.

>>375680948

nah everyone likes to think that vinny is based, in the past he was definitely but he's since been castrated and is a massive pussy.

>>375688531
Because it was cross coast. That's literally what I'm talking about. The only shit they put out thats good anymore involves Jeff with the guys over east.

>check back in on GB to see how it is
>it somehow got even worse
every time

Jeff playing old games at his home is the best content. You can't prove this wrong. That Trackmania video is the best.

>>375685526

You're on /v/, you don't have friends either.

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>>375689401
You don't have to be so mean anon.

ways to get hired at giant bomb
>know jeff gerstmann
>be black or a woman

>>375686286
>GB gets a "diversity" hire with austin
>he leaves within a year at the first chance to advance

jeff will never say it but im sure he was real pissed when austin did this

>>375689580
The entire history of giant bomb has had 1 woman and 1 black. Try harder anon.

>>375689580
Which one is Dan?

>>375689710
He didn't react well to it at all and has admitted that its thrown the entire hire process out the window for him. It explains why he hired a known person who used to Intern for them over literally anyone else more qualified or who would fit better. I bet Drew leaving really twisted the knife.

>>375689761
you try harder
the only people who worked at giant bomb who didn't know jeff gerstmann previously are a black guy and a woman

>>375689805
dan was at one of the e3 night shows, danfag kys

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>>375686783

You might be on to something there, especially since he looks a lot like Vincent Schiavelli and Jonathan Larson who also had the disease.

But the disease is also known for making you incredibly skinny and he was fat as fuck when he was a WH intern. Either he ate a STUPID amount of food, or he's just tall and goofy looking and doesn't actually have the syndrome.

>>375673989
This one actually juiced my lemons

>>375689761

The guys used to joke about bringing a woman on, saying it would be a bad idea and cause office drama. It was just some banter of course, but they'd never say anything like that now, even in jest. Sad.

Oh who cares. Unless they can hire zombie Ryan and a clone of Drew and Dave the side will never be good again.

What happened with that mexican dude that worked as an intern together with kessler? Their Condemned lets play was pretty damn good.

>>375689891
>He didn't react well to it at all and has admitted that its thrown the entire hire process out the window for him
link to sauce

>>375690765
probably stopped interning

>>375690818
On his tumblr somewhere, someone asked about if Austin leaving burned him, he admitted so and contemplated contracts.

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>>375689286
Even if Giant Bomb would devolve into just Jeff alone playing old video games from home, I would still pick him over the rest of the journos and """"influencers"""""

>>375685349
their videogame content is awful, but the have some funny interactions and Jeffs rants are always top-tier, where he can go for hours about some weird shit.

>>375687103
>...
>this writing style
>12 year old pretending to be old
Worst fags out there

>>375691171
>>375691389
He also used to make really bad music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZXcrnFlB60
Dude is indeed rad af.

>>375691492

it's a redditor you can always tell by the faux-kindness and spacing

>>375690901
>contract

yeah that would cut the hiring pool by about 90%. its gotta be annoying though to "cultivate" a guy and have him become part of the community just for him to leave though. pretty much every business hates when you do that.

>>375693076
Yeah, that's why he didnt' go through with it. Hard enough getting people to live in or near SF. That alone cut the hiring pool. Explains his thought process for hiring a guy that used to intern for him over say any other known or unknown quantity. Ben's a bad fit and not what they need, but he's controllable so Jeff hired him. No fear of him cutting and running, which every up and coming "Journalist" would do, or known person for that matter.

When will Brad leave

>>375694729
Never, because he's unqualified for anything else and he's got one of the cushiest jobs in the world. Even if he absolutely despises it.

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>>375694729
Why would he?

Livin the dream. He doesn't even have to write reviews anymore.

>>375694831
The reason that Brad isn't married is that he is the only one in the group that is really fucking ashamed of being a professional video game player (that also happens to be really bad at video games)

Generally I would describe Brad's attitude like that of a stick drifting down a river

>>375694729
brads a lifer

jeff will be doing the sign off for giant bomb 10 years from now and brad will be standing in the background

>>375695439
somehow that brings me comfort

>>375695503
>tfw could be saying the same thing about ryan

well, i guess he was in it for life

>>375694920
i'd give anything to smell 2014 brad's skidmarked whitey tighties after a long dota sesh

>>375695680
>Ben has 5k hours on Dota 2
The ride never ends.

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>>375695561
I'd always expected ryan and brad being the only originals left there with jeff when they finally shut down

Why does everyone love Ryan? I got into GB shortly after he died and after watching several of old quicklooks with Ryan I just don't get it.

>>375695780
I don't think Ryan could exist simultaneously with PS4, Xbone and modern PC

that dude was an Xbox 360 as a person

>>375696119
I thought he was a bit of a corporate shill from time to time on the podcast, but I mean jolly fat guy with solid chemistry with Jeff and Vinny, hard to hate

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>>375681510
Anon you fucker.