When did you stop visiting GiantBomb?

When did you stop visiting GiantBomb?

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I never really visited it familio

The whole gb thing of weird pseudo friend YouTube stuff is for sad friendless dorks

Vinny heading east was the last straw. They were going downhill since they moved to CBSi

Literally who?

When ryan davis died and they featured patrick more and more. I miss ryan davis so much...

I never started.

I haven't stopped completely--mostly just listen to the two main podcasts while working/driving/etc.--- but the period between Ryan's death and Dan signing on was the roughest downturn in quality of any publication to my knowledge.

Have not watched an UPF or a Playdate ever though.

Same here my man. Sucks really, nothing beats classic GB.

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Is the Giantbomb forums the most cancerous thing on the internet?

I firmly believe if any of the crew posted jokes in alt accounts even their asses would get banned

after the new hires, they are just excruciatingly boring, I have no idea why jeff looked at ben and thought that he would bring anything interesting or energetic to west, east has too many shit locked in premium so I don't even care about them.

it was a rather quick process for me, click on new video, oh god it's ben and his nail on chalkboard grating voice, and he's not interesting in anyway either... and then I realize that I haven't clicked on a GB quicklook for more than 2 weeks, that was pretty much the realization that there is no redeeming quality left in GB and they are heading for a slow apathetic death, also jeff doesn't seem to give a shit anymore and is barely in any videos.

*webm of a puppy being skinned alive, screaming in agony*

Patrick. And then Austin. All the Vinny content having to be viewed with Austin or Alex. That era of seeing a new quick look, and having it be either Alex or Austin killed any interest I have in GB. It's sad.

With Austin gone, maybe Alex will leave and I enjoy it again. Can only hope.

i never started

sony E3 conference 2 or 3 years ago

once you come to the conclusion giant bomb are nothing but passive aggressive cali hipsters, it all clicks into place and they cease being relevant in your mind


even worse now that their staff goes on rants during GOTY podcasts about how supporting trump makes you a white supremacist, and their support of blacklisting game devs like last night dev, then having the whore on their couch the next day

pretty dead to me, and nothing they can do will matter, fucking jeff's fatass doesnt even show up to the office anymore, he sits at home like a depressed old faggot who sold his soul years ago

The one where they were all on their laptops not even engaged with the conference itself?

Yes 100%

...

patrick

the bombcast genuinely sucks now

at least beastcast is alright

not sure what alex did to you, but he's honestly not that bad.

Alex is a complete charisma vacuum that belongs on waypoint with the rest of the trash.

No new good content,Jeff just doesnt care anymore.

>hire a woman
>have the worst E3 coverage, unable to connect to anything, in recent memory
Seriously it was never perfect, but I don't remember it shitting out as hard as it did this year.

Tech just kills itself around women.

Women kill everything

>pro-abortion is just women wanting to kill EVEN MORE THINGS
they just can't stop killing things
really makes you think

never went, thought youtube shows were pretty shit as a teenager. 10 years later, nothings changed.

>Blaming little orphan abby for Jason's failures

lmao you were a teenager once
bet you even listened to linkin park
and had a really serious sounding name on your favourite Counter-Strike server!

Yoihave no idea how soul sucking watching sports with women is

When they went full retard SJW after ryan died.
I wonder what their sub numbers are like now.

more like fugazi and thursday, unreal tournament rather then cs. Just the flip side of it all.

The content and features the east crew have been doing are pretty good, I lost interest in the west when Ben was hired but he's growing on me a bit

He's pretty funny when paired with the right people. Patrick brought out the worst in him

When ben pack joined
I only listen to the beastcast now

Damn...

What do you guys think about the allegations of harassment from Nick Robinson of Polygon? He's been put on suspension and everyone in that "cricle" has pretty much voiced their disgust in way that sounds he like fucked up pretty bad and is getting universally ghosted.

It could be a hitpiece by that SJW circle but the fact that Nick hasn't said anything since these allegations came out says a lot about it.

When Drew left I completely stopped with West coast stuff. Vinny's doing great on GBeast though. Looking forward to the next Yakuza game, and the Xcom series, and Steal My Sunshine.

Alex is no less insufferable than Ben.

Alex leaving for Waypoint and getting replaced with somebody less grating would be perfect. Imagine if the West coast just closed completely and Jeff moved to New York. A man can dream.

t. Ben pack

The two podcasts where Alex was on vacation were the best ones they've done in ages. It's like they were allowed to have fun again.

Should have called him millennial.
Thats Ben's favorite insult.

They getting mad at remasters / remakes because they think they take the place of new IPs was just unbelievable to me. These guys have 35+ years behind them on average and they act like grumpy old men that can't enjoy anything.

I find them all insufferable except Jeff, Vinny and Brad.

I'm pretty sure they got a note from a CBS exec along the lines of "please hire my boring gay son, he wants to cover video games and i don't want that giant faggot anywhere that gets any media spotlight, so your little shitshow gets him"

What? He accused who?

First it was Ryan dying. You knew that things were going to be rocky but you stuck around because nobody could have foreseen that happening. You hope that things get better.

Then Dave Snider left. He could have sustained a cushy job as an engineer with CBS but he chose to leave on his own terms for whatever reason. No more Random PC game with Vinny which was imho one of the best segments that GB had going for it at the time.

Vinny leaving for New York was a simple decision, he comes from there, his family is there so that's what grounds him. I still understand how they managed to trick CBS into allowing GBEAST.

Dan was a great hire regardless of what you think of his character. Retards don't seem to get that he has played up his character of being the annoying heel the whole time, as he also did this (to a lesser extent) at game informer. Demo Derby and Metal Gear Scanlon are great shows, and it was postive that they were doing original content again. Rather than just shitting out boring quicklooks that comprise of
>here's this game that came out
>20 mins pass
>i dunno, seems alright
Or playing the same shitty indie games on ever unprofessional friday and nothing ever interesting happens. Extra life streams were great but they only came once a year.
Cont.

Wait for the BELETED

>Mary poster retired
>Mary moved to twitch
>"executive assistant" read secretary
>she doesn't like it
>should have been hired in GB

>there are podcast apps on Android that just have access to the premium versions of the bombcast and beastcast for free

Lel

Drew left because the sole content creator patreon train has finally become viable and it suits his adventurous personality. Simple as that. He probably weighed up his future at GB and decided that he could be earning way more money doing what he truly loves, while doing it on a flexible schedule.

Ben Pack is a fucking terrible hire who brings nothing to the table. His videogame knowledge only consists of millennial esports/twitch culture garbage, and he is a terrible on screen personality. Jeff probably hired him because out of familiarity. It's really puzzling.

Abby is fine. She is clearly out of her depth but she is a smart girl because she is adapting fast. Don't really have much more to say.

Reminder that Dave Snider was the only one with dignity.

Small business guy made the non premium podcast superior. I miss him. Hopefully his business isn't so small anymore.

Ben was hired because he's the archetypal numale and Giant Bomb is the most SJW gaming site around.

when did you guys realize Ben Pack was a pretty shitty friend? (assuming he didn't secretly know something all along)

I think Ben was hired simply so Jeff didn't have to do quick looks and shit anymore

Abby seems like a nice girl, but hiring women will never go well.

If there's ANY drama from GB, any bitching YOU KNOW it's going to come from a woman. If you hire a woman, you are just asking for it.

there was nothing wrong with linkin park, other than being a little melodramatic. you clearly never listened to shit like staind, puddle of mudd or papa roach.

Drew's videos have been trash. At least Danny tried shit with his Patreon.

I hate Ben Pack's face, voice, and humor (if you could even call it that.)

I miss Drew.

I'm hating Alex more and more.

No more O'Dwyer.

Abby's cool.

What happened?

Also someone post the pics of Ben's "partner" it's fucking hilarious

> charisma vacuum

this means nothing.

>Abby seems like a nice girl, but hiring women will never go well.

I think the problem is more so that their token female hire doesn't play games or know anything about games past an extremely casual level.

What's wrong with the videos

Couple this with Vinny's crushing need to halt everything to bring her into the conversation every 5 minutes.

Nothing wrong with these two homosexual men.

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CUTE!

they seem mediocre for how much money he's bringing in, I guess I haven't watched everything but I saw that nuclear silo one and it was the benign, 10 years late shit ever.

Yeah, his trip to North Korea was cool, and a bit insane. But he's not gonna do that again, he's trying to pull some early VICE stuff and I don't think he can pull it off.

Polygon put him on suspension amidst claims of (what I assume) workplace harassment. A lot of people in the gaming media have come out about it Austin Walker is on his soapbox again.

>listen and believe

posts the one where she actually looks like a passable girl

SHAME!

Do you have the one where it shows its armpit hair?

things not known to the public
>who is making the allegations
>what the allegations are

a good enough excuse for giant bomb SJWs to attack lol

She's not meant to look like a girl, though.

I don't mind that too much, because GB is all personality. Drew only really cared simulator games and he fit in well.

A direction of 'teaching a girl about video games and history', ie using her in videos as a pleb position could work.

But you fundamentally kill the atmosphere with a woman around. The mood and rules of a group changes. You ask for drama and bitching if you hire a woman. Source: I'm a woman. It's just a fact.

I like to crack open some colas after a long day of throwing my friends under the bus too.

I like Abby

I know that, that's why I said shame. If you're gonna go full SJW and drag your "boyfriend" into this at a least be honest about that persons overt "gender identity" instead of being a vague fence sitter.

If you're an SJW wouldn't you want to be proud of normalizing your trans-relationship? Shame.

Here's the Editor in Chief of Polygon describing it.

Me too.

>workplace harassment
sort of, the best accusations I got was that he was hitting up industry females with flirts and requests for nudes.

Sexual harassment is great, it's what got Uber dragged through the mud for months
Expect the feeding frenzy to continue and Polygon to get attacked further now that they've shown weakness

*zzzzip*
Hell no

Alex has been described as negative charisma, null charisma, a charisma blackhole, and charisma vacuum consistently for years.

It seems to mean enough to most people.

GBEast has just become the new West, and West is containment for all the undesirables, with Jeff the Overlord to watch over them. Soon Alex will be sent West too.

The only person worth listening to for the past 5 years has been Jeff. If you don't like him then there is no reason to invest any time in GB at all.

Yep

Even Reddit and the fourms agree West sucks right now. Comments on Ben videos are pretty great. Reddit does the usual "I totally still love them but
...it sucks" shit so on so forth. They keep saying they are doing well, but it's clear West is taking some serious hits.

I've heard that Austin is a trans chaser (specifically towards transwomen indie game devs and transwomen indie journalists), and kinda creepy.

Haven't heard any accusations of begging for nudes towards indie game transwomen but wouldn't be surprised.

Well he isnt going to move to New York, so hes stuck minding the idiots

Brad as a podcast host is still awful after many years... How

they hired Ben because Jeff didn't want to have anyone that's even borderline thin.
Also he looks hideous and talks like he have mouth full of shit.

Boring fucking shit without any value.

I watch almost aonly Bombcast, but it's a habit.

I have a feeling that Nick Robinson was so close to being hired by Jeff but it all fell apart after he tweeted about masturbated to that star fox character and twitter got mad at him. Then Jeff had to settle for the other former intern.

I believe it

He would have been a better hire than Ben Pack that's for sure.

>tfw marathoned metal gear scanlon when drew said he was leaving

Make me appreciate Dan more, but then you watch a Mario Party Party and that goes out the window

It surprises me because at least Ben plays vidya and can talk about it. Abby is like a little lamb with no apriori knowledge or desire outside of her work to learn vidya. Like who gives a shit?

I am loathe to admit this, but the Giant Bomb subreddit is the better place to discuss their content.

If you post ANY dissenting opinion on the main board, you just get banned, or your comment deleted.

I was in a wrestling thread on their main board and said "That was pretty gay" and got permabanned for "Homophobic language and behaviour", when they KNOW I wasn't trying to say homophobic slur. You can tell the mods on GB are fucking Americans- They can never take a joke

On my new account, I said something like "East are embarassing West with their breadth of content" and got a warning from the biggest cunt mod, MB saying something like "Stop trying to instigate arguments"

At least on Reddit you're allowed to say what you want. Fuck me

He doesn't care, he only does the bare minimum.