This is the Ryan Davis page headline on his Giant Bomb wiki page now
Ryan Davis was a former GameSpot editor and co-founder of Giant Bomb. He was solely responsible for founding batmanbatmanbatman.com and cocainemountain.com, and went by the online nickname of "Taswell." Was not mean.
I had a weird dream last night about how the community got together, globally, and everyone took a picture of themselves in dark attire with a printout of the artwork up at thanksryan.com, and there were thousand of them which made up a giant mosaic of Ryan's face
it was super cheesy but made me feel fuzzy inside
Also the scenario changed from people to lit candles somehow. Dreams.
Ryan left GameSpot along with Brad Shoemaker, Vinny Caravella, and Alex Navarro soon after Jeff Gerstmann was let go in the infamous "Gerstmanngate" incident of 2007. Ryan soon started a blog titled "Arrow Pointing Down," where he and Jeff recorded a podcast. In early 2008, Ryan began teasing Giant Bomb. It's a website. About video games. It's a video game website. About video games. And pancakes. Also, anime.
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holy shit
well yeah
who gives a shit about corporations and policy when we had a living person taken from us
yeah i mean, that's totally a testament to ryan
the xbox thing was the biggest news thing giant bomb ever broke, and set all sorts of traffic records for them, bringing in tons of people outside of the site's readership
but it's all a drop in the bucket in the face of the outpouring of support from today. i'm genuinely floored by just how far-reaching ryan's loss was felt, scrolling through twitter briefly i was surprised several times seeing the names of some people i had no idea liked giant bomb, let alone had such respect for ryan. it's astounding what a consistent impression he made on people.
I swear to Christ, if I wake up tomorrow and Ryan's wife is pregnant I am going to lose it.
While the timing would be absolutely awful and it's a shame for any child to grow up not knowing a biological parent
I'd have a hard time looking at that as bad news
I think Ryan mentioned a few times that he had been dating his Beyonce/wife for about 10 years, but I don't know if they ever had kids in the plan. Certainly not outspoken, known to us random strangers plans, like Patrick.
I originally wrote that sentence above in present tense, and had to go change it.
This is the Ryan Davis page headline on his Giant Bomb wiki page now
Ryan Davis was a former GameSpot editor and co-founder of Giant Bomb. He was solely responsible for founding batmanbatmanbatman.com and cocainemountain.com, and went by the online nickname of "Taswell." Was not mean.
Yeah, Jeff changed that personally. ;-;
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My sister works at a private school and one of her students' parents showed up on my twitter feed offering condolences and talking about times they shared drinks, because he works for 343.
I’m typically not someone who gets drawn up in public displays of emotion. I’m generally more of the “deal with it quietly while drinking" sort, but so far that hasn’t really worked out.
A lot has already been written and said about Ryan, so I’ll just get right to it and lay out the two thoughts I can’t escape from:
Thing 1: When I first started regularly interfacing with the press I was horrible at it (as I type this I can hear Ryan saying “Waassss horrible?"). I was stiff, nervous, and utterly dull. I’d get done with an interview, listen to it, and be completely displeased with how I represented myself and my company. But what option did I have? I couldn’t actually just be me, right? I’d say something really dumb and make people hate me or the company, and I couldn’t risk that. Only a crazy person would do such a thing.
Then one day I had a thought: “Hey, dummy, all that stuff you’re terrified of, well Ryan does that all the time and for the most part people love that dude." After several mental attempts at derailing this logic, I decided to be sincere and not soften my personality in public. In essence I decided to be more like Ryan. I decided to be genuine in what I say and how I say it. I decided to let people get to know me. If nothing else I’m happier with how the interviews turn out now. Thanks, Ryan.
Thing 2: The military has a term for things that enhance the ability of their troops in the field, they call these things “force multipliers." A force multiplier can be anything…a technology, a skill set, a weather condition…so long as it makes your fighting force more effective than your opponent. An example would be elevation in a ranged skirmish. The geographic features are a force multiplier for the elevated units.
Ryan, and indeed the whole Giant Bomb crew, are Friend Multipliers. I met so many awesome people through them, people I consider dear friends, that I wouldn’t have met otherwise. Ryan and the Giant Bomb guys accepting me as a friend was a good enough credentials check for the rest of their crew to accept me with open arms. So now I’ve got a lot more awesome friends. Thanks, Ryan.
It’s hard to praise Ryan in a bubble. So much of what made Ryan, Ryan was the way he is woven into the fabric of what Giant Bomb is. It’s almost impossible to separate his contributions from those of Jeff, Brad, Patrick, Vinny, or Drew. Because of this a lot of the thanks for Thing 1 and Thing 2 go to those guys as well. I’m not thanking them now, though, because next time I see them those motherfuckers are getting the biggest hugs of their goddamned lives.
Don't think I'll be finishing speed racer tonight. Just too distracted. Need to get some sleep or will be useless tomorrow
Everyone have a good night. Get some ice cream or something that'll help cheer you up. I had a piece of cake a while ago with some strawberries, it helped.
When my grandpa died it didn't really hit me that hard because he was a 95 year old man and had lived a long, full life. Even when he died, he did it in a pretty great way. He died in his car, in front of his house, after putting it in park. Because that's how a chemical engineer dies in his tenth decade of life.
When my uncle died, it fucked me up because it was so sudden and he was much younger than my grandpa. He also wasn't a grandpa, he was always full of life and joking around. He owned a Porsche. He had a goatee. Then he up and died. And, as shocking as it was, at the wake I realized, we should get drunk on expensive wine, eat too much food, and have a bunch of laughs, because that was the way he lived his life. As sad as his death was, he didn't lead a sad life.
This isn't at all as serious to me as that, but I think about what I learned from those experiences, so I'm going to drink some bad beer, watch some dumb videos, and laugh a bunch, because that's the sort of thing he'd want us to do. That's the sort of thing he'd want our dumb butts to be enjoying.
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I'll happily put one together if people are interested. Tweet and let me know. RT: @aaronistweeting will we get a Ryan Davis Tribute?
It is almost impossible for me to sleep a normal schedule because I can't stop thinking. That is just one of the most frightening concepts in the world to me, probably because I equate the absence of active thought with death, or a death-like state. Hearing about people passing away in their sleep only exacerbates this.
This probably wouldn't be so bad if I actually dreamed/remembered my dreams, but this literally happens once every 6 months or so, and it is always some horrible monstrosity of all my failures and self-doubts that I have waken up vomiting.
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i'm not scared of sleeping but i am extremely paranoid about oversleeping
to the point where i really can't get a good night's sleep when i have to get up early because i'll spend all night checking and double-checking that the alarm is set and then checking it some more because maybe i accidentally turned it off the last time i checked it
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i had this very same thought.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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it was super cheesy but made me feel fuzzy inside
Also the scenario changed from people to lit candles somehow. Dreams.
Also, Ryan's dad is on Twitter and just posted a photo of Naked baby Ryan. I have seen Ryan Davis' dick.
He has truly beaten us all, even in death.
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no...
While the timing would be absolutely awful and it's a shame for any child to grow up not knowing a biological parent
I'd have a hard time looking at that as bad news
yeah i mean, that's totally a testament to ryan
the xbox thing was the biggest news thing giant bomb ever broke, and set all sorts of traffic records for them, bringing in tons of people outside of the site's readership
but it's all a drop in the bucket in the face of the outpouring of support from today. i'm genuinely floored by just how far-reaching ryan's loss was felt, scrolling through twitter briefly i was surprised several times seeing the names of some people i had no idea liked giant bomb, let alone had such respect for ryan. it's astounding what a consistent impression he made on people.
i'm gonna miss him a lot.
I think Ryan mentioned a few times that he had been dating his Beyonce/wife for about 10 years, but I don't know if they ever had kids in the plan. Certainly not outspoken, known to us random strangers plans, like Patrick.
I originally wrote that sentence above in present tense, and had to go change it.
It's still weird to me.
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oh, christ
I need to drink this beer faster
Yeah, Jeff changed that personally. ;-;
robots!
RIP in the coffee....
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I fuckin love this guy
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What if its... um
the opposite?
Everyone have a good night. Get some ice cream or something that'll help cheer you up. I had a piece of cake a while ago with some strawberries, it helped.
if you mean what i think you mean
god damn that would be fucking grim.
With that said, what a bunch of bullshit to wake up to this morning. He was clearly a cool dude.
This is why John Drake has kept me happy today
He has been bubbling over with a level of joy that would make Ryan Davis proud
I went ahead and made it my Facebook cover pic today
When my uncle died, it fucked me up because it was so sudden and he was much younger than my grandpa. He also wasn't a grandpa, he was always full of life and joking around. He owned a Porsche. He had a goatee. Then he up and died. And, as shocking as it was, at the wake I realized, we should get drunk on expensive wine, eat too much food, and have a bunch of laughs, because that was the way he lived his life. As sad as his death was, he didn't lead a sad life.
This isn't at all as serious to me as that, but I think about what I learned from those experiences, so I'm going to drink some bad beer, watch some dumb videos, and laugh a bunch, because that's the sort of thing he'd want us to do. That's the sort of thing he'd want our dumb butts to be enjoying.
I mean, I guess.
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Ugh
I'm actually kinda glad to be going back to work tomorrow
It is almost impossible for me to sleep a normal schedule because I can't stop thinking. That is just one of the most frightening concepts in the world to me, probably because I equate the absence of active thought with death, or a death-like state. Hearing about people passing away in their sleep only exacerbates this.
This probably wouldn't be so bad if I actually dreamed/remembered my dreams, but this literally happens once every 6 months or so, and it is always some horrible monstrosity of all my failures and self-doubts that I have waken up vomiting.
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to the point where i really can't get a good night's sleep when i have to get up early because i'll spend all night checking and double-checking that the alarm is set and then checking it some more because maybe i accidentally turned it off the last time i checked it
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