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[Giant Bomb] was a website about video games

SimBenSimBen Hodor?Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
edited May 2021 in Social Entropy++
Attention: Giant Bomb isn't dead dead, but Brad, Vinny and Alex have announced that they're leaving at the end of the week. So while it's still around it's definitely won't be the same going forward. Jeff is signaling that it's not the end and there will be more to come.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG_8XHk5JDk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA7GK-48sR8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JoQZs72JKE



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW3JrHH6Zc0

Who knows where we go from here. Jeff is still there. Who knows. He's about to have another baby, so who knows x1000.

Remember Giant Bomb? I remember Giant Bomb.

Fuck.

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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    Jeff said he'll announce what happens next with Giant Bomb later this week or next.



    Whatever happens next, Vinny, Brad, and Alex leaving is not a minor change!

    I wish that someway, somehow, that I could save every one of us
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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    they finally Broke Brad

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    Game Room, classic trash, Dynasty Warrior quick looks, classic trash, 65% of Ranking of Fighters entrants, classic trash

    All this sewage, like sludge in the rain, a rain of more sludge

    God bless you all

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    These thread titles (here and in G&T) are really breaking my ability to not start weeping in the middle of my office.

  • ZayZay yes i am zay Registered User regular
    does this mean video games are no longer art

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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    Finally, the videogames have won

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  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    Is there....anything preventing the veterans leaving from making New Site?

    Fuck, what a miserable day

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    Cello wrote: »
    Is there....anything preventing the veterans leaving from making New Site?

    Fuck, what a miserable day

    would you want to keep working in this industry

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    there might be a non-compete exit clause in their contracts I guess, but they also must grapple with whether they still want to do video games talky show shit anymore

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    I just heard and tuned in

    this is so, so sad :(
    GB has been synonymous with video games for so long now, for me.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    These thread titles (here and in G&T) are really breaking my ability to not start weeping in the middle of my office.

    Sorry :(

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  • UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    i'm not going to cancel my subscription immediately, i'll stick around and see how things go, but i've been falling off for a little while, the new people brought me back in, then the new people left, now the old people are leaving, so let's see if there's any new new people

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    I think the realities of that are that if they want to continue doing that, they don't even need a website. They can make a podcast and run a twitch channel and/or a youtube channel, have a patreon, or something like that.

    I don't necessarily think any of them go that route, personally.

    Brad has been less forward facing for awhile, Vinny sort of fell into that role in a weird way, Alex I don't think would be comfortable doing it on his own.

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    Ubik wrote: »
    i'm not going to cancel my subscription immediately, i'll stick around and see how things go, but i've been falling off for a little while, the new people brought me back in, then the new people left, now the old people are leaving, so let's see if there's any new new people

    I highly doubt it tbh. Even if, without Vinny, GB is dead anyway, at least to me.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Yeah for me it's all eyes on Jeff, I don't think I could ever completely tune out of whatever he's associated with in the moment

    but FUCK this sucks

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Australian beef

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  • SCREECH OF THE FARGSCREECH OF THE FARG #1 PARROTHEAD margaritavilleRegistered User regular
    brad is leaving

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  • agoajagoaj Top Tier One FearRegistered User regular
    This news is deserving of 3 sad Batmen
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  • simulacrumsimulacrum She/herRegistered User regular
    Probably a good idea to download any videos you really care about just in case

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    simulacrum wrote: »
    Probably a good idea to download any videos you really care about just in case

    Might have to get another external hard drive for that

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    https://youtu.be/k8jNkAAM9gU
    Later Brad and Vinny. You knew humor when you saw it.

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  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    Cello wrote: »
    Is there....anything preventing the veterans leaving from making New Site?

    Fuck, what a miserable day

    would you want to keep working in this industry

    Surely working in game criticism would be better than engineering for equity and compensation and harassment and- ahahahahaha

    No, seriously, someone hire me

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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
  • SatanIsMyMotorSatanIsMyMotor Fuck Warren Ellis Registered User regular
    there might be a non-compete exit clause in their contracts I guess, but they also must grapple with whether they still want to do video games talky show shit anymore

    Non-compete's are almost impossible to enforce unless you're the CxO of some company.

  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    KetBra wrote: »

    Not gonna lie

    now knowing it wasn't an accident breaks the magic of this one a little bit

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Pick up the pepper grinder.

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    simulacrum wrote: »
    Probably a good idea to download any videos you really care about just in case

    I need to grab and finally watch the persona 4 run

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  • el_vicioel_vicio Registered User regular
    SimBen wrote: »
    KetBra wrote: »

    Not gonna lie

    now knowing it wasn't an accident breaks the magic of this one a little bit

    I lost it when that was revealed - I think Jeff's commando-crawl setup for it enhances it

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    I'm going to use this money to buy guns! Illegal guns!

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
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  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    Honestly the more surprising thing is the site dying before E3 does

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    We haven't proved E3 is alive yet

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