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Post by baihu1983 on Jan 28, 2023 16:58:11 GMT
My theory based on absolutely nothing is that Jeff G. made a management decision that was disadvantageous for everybody else but him, seeing how he has a family to take care of now. Sure I read Vinny said he was told in a meeting that he would never get any sort of promotion which was good enough for him to say bye. |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jan 28, 2023 22:32:54 GMT
My theory based on absolutely nothing is that Jeff G. made a management decision that was disadvantageous for everybody else but him, seeing how he has a family to take care of now. Sure I read Vinny said he was told in a meeting that he would never get any sort of promotion which was good enough for him to say bye. I forgot what Jeff’s title was, I think Editor-in-Chief? I remember a bombcast where they joked they’d start calling him chief. Maybe Vinny wanted to be Editor-in-Chief of Giantbomb East? |
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Post by baihu1983 on Jan 31, 2023 1:54:53 GMT
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 14, 2023 16:32:04 GMT
With all the patreons ex GB staff have going on I'm thinking they could just about run a new site together..
Edit - Rorie leaving GB on the 17th.
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Post by hedben on Mar 15, 2023 8:47:14 GMT
I just heard about Matt Rorie leaving - really does feel like it's coming apart at the seams. Hope Jan, Jeff G and Jeff B land on their feet if it does go under.
(I'm sure they'll be fine, especially the Jeffs, they probably have a lot of other stuff they could switch to)
Edit- shame for Dan though, now that he's back at GB after his failed foray into wrestling. But again, I imagine he'd switch to his own thing, or throw everything into Fire Escape Cast maybe
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Post by Frog on Mar 15, 2023 9:38:53 GMT
I imagine Gamespot would assimilate most of them in that situation.
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 15, 2023 12:13:28 GMT
Dan's been doing a lot of streaming by himself anyways.
Both Jeff's have other jobs as well a GB so I think Jan would be the only one at risk unless he just got moved to Gamespot if they ever closed GB.
Suppose it depends on which brand they feel gives the most value.
GB need to freshen things up. I'm not a fan of them but 10 things you should know about/ best endings type videos bring so many cheap clicks and attention to the channel.
OutsideXbox gets more views on 1 video than GB does all year.
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Post by Tuffty on Mar 15, 2023 16:06:12 GMT
It's a shame. It must be disheartening to find the viewership drop off, compiled with the parent company announcing sudden layoffs etc. For me it's a lack of free time in general as other responsibilites have taken it up, I can't listen to the Bombcast and Nextlander and Waypoint and Jeff's own thing for 10 hrs every week. I imagine it's the same with the audience that started from the early days and they don't really do a lot to gain attention from others. They don't really write reviews, covid fucked them over for a while with no activities done in the same space which is where some of their funniest stuff happens and they have other things in ther lives and made them have to split apart and move, whether it's a new job or for other reasons. Im glad it's still around, but it's not been the same for a while now. Cutting Jeff out was absolutely killer for me.
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 15, 2023 17:28:01 GMT
Jeff wanted out anyways and had done for about a year. And oddly enough looking back occasionally at covid time vids you can see how checked out he was and at times how much he hated having to let others talk.
I find myself skipping all of Jeff's stuff now.
Covid definitely did a number on sites like this and I don't think any will really recover.
Also can't justify our even afford to pay towards all these patreons.
But yeah if they want to continue GB they need to mix up what content they put out going forward even if it means reviews and so on.
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Post by deekyfun on Mar 15, 2023 17:33:50 GMT
I would probably listen to Jeff more if his podcasts weren't three hours long and full of invective that is challenging for me to navigate while my 4 year old is within ear-sight.
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 15, 2023 17:35:53 GMT
Yeah 90 minutes would be fine especially as he doesn't really keep up with most current releases.
Also don't care to listen to him ranking energy drinks for 20+ minutes.
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Post by baihu1983 on Apr 28, 2023 10:24:53 GMT
Not GB but... damn
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Post by baihu1983 on Jun 10, 2023 14:46:23 GMT
Good old Giantbomb (not)E3 fun Though cutting them down into several episodes would be a good idea.. |
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Post by Gruf on Jun 10, 2023 15:55:21 GMT
The whole crew have launched their own podcast Remap Radio |
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Post by baihu1983 on Jun 13, 2023 6:19:53 GMT
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Post by Tuffty on Jul 3, 2023 23:58:40 GMT
Good lord, its been 10 years since Ryan passed away. Where does the time go? Was legit bummed out for a while after hearing about it at the time, seemed like the nicest guy.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jul 4, 2023 5:50:09 GMT
Tuesdays have never been the same again.
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Post by baihu1983 on Jul 4, 2023 5:58:15 GMT
Never forget
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Nov 9, 2023 10:44:17 GMT
We don't have a general purpose gaming news thread as far as I can tell and it doesn't seem worth creating another thread for it so I'm sticking it in here as this semi related gaming website fuckery ... The Escapist decided to fire the editor in chief Nic Calandra and in solidarity, most of the team have upped and walked, yahtzee crowshaw included. I imagine the escapist is pretty fucked at this point even if they retained the rights to the Zero Punctuation name www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-67348861 |
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Post by Snake on Nov 9, 2023 11:06:11 GMT
Never understood why Yahtzee didn't spin off a long time ago (,I imagine the name). Until about a year or two ago he was their only content...
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Post by hedben on Nov 9, 2023 13:07:30 GMT
With this news and the GTA VI thread, seems a good time to revisit Yahtzee’s “Ludonarrative dissonance” rhyme-off youtu.be/PhTwWf2r2vo?si=fdLt_vFQaMxESurpMaybe a bit cringey in hindsight, but I really liked it at the time, and it was pretty unique to find videogames discussion via poetry of all things Edit- J. Stephanie Sterling’s poem is really good too. They’ve been doing performative yet justified anger really well for a long time |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Nov 9, 2023 13:25:39 GMT
Never understood why Yahtzee didn't spin off a long time ago (,I imagine the name). Until about a year or two ago he was their only content... Word on the street is that he just liked the arrangement. It was a job with a steady paycheck and they took care of all the admin shit you have to do if youre a one man band which freed up a lot of time for side projects and just living a normal life. Same reason most of us work for someone else rather than running our own business, I suppose. |
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Post by baihu1983 on Nov 15, 2023 12:38:42 GMT
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Post by Tuffty on Nov 15, 2023 13:48:00 GMT
Its a cool idea, I just know members of the audience will take it upon themselves to interject and try to be the funny guy and annoy me.
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Post by baihu1983 on Nov 15, 2023 17:31:32 GMT
Yeah one of the annoying parts of Mario Party 5 being in front of a live crowd.
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Post by Tuffty on Nov 15, 2023 18:04:46 GMT
One of the annoying things of any live podcast ever. People yelling out wanting to make the show about them like they're the star.
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Post by simple on Nov 15, 2023 19:40:56 GMT
Never understood why Yahtzee didn't spin off a long time ago (,I imagine the name). Until about a year or two ago he was their only content... Yeah, the only things they do worth looking at were Zero Punctuation, Extra Punctuation and Slightly Something Else Podcast (starring Yahtzee Croshaw). I assume the site will be dead in no time now. |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Nov 15, 2023 20:30:06 GMT
Yeah one of the annoying parts of Mario Party 5 being in front of a live crowd. Didn’t the crowd rally behind Drew and against Ryckert in that one? |
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Post by baihu1983 on Nov 15, 2023 21:00:41 GMT
Yeah one of the annoying parts of Mario Party 5 being in front of a live crowd. Didn’t the crowd rally behind Drew and against Ryckert in that one? Very much so which was fine but it was the more OTT stuff whenever something would screw Jeff over. Same time the ending to that with Brad screwing Dan to give Drew the win was made better by the live crowd.(and Dan sulking) |
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Post by myk on Nov 16, 2023 9:09:04 GMT
Never understood why Yahtzee didn't spin off a long time ago (,I imagine the name). Until about a year or two ago he was their only content... Yeah, the only things they do worth looking at were Zero Punctuation, Extra Punctuation and Slightly Something Else Podcast (starring Yahtzee Croshaw). I assume the site will be dead in no time now. they were building up other content (like Cold Take, Design Delve and Adventure is Nigh) but all that has moved with Yahtzee and Nick to Second Wind anyways. Second Wind are hoping they'll be mostly Patreon supported so views matter less (and they can keep doing what they want rather than so metric focused). Anyway |
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