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Lightning Strikes
06/10/22 11:42:19 AM
#1:


What does the "B" stand for?


First of all, if youre wondering what the poll is about:

https://mobile.twitter.com/giantbomb/status/1534245468313595905?cxt=HHwWgsCtkf2H3soqAAAA

Anyway, with all the big shakeups (Jeff leaving and starting his own thing, Giant Bomb relaunching, Dan coming back and Jeff Grubb, Tam, and Lucy joining) it seemed like it was time to bring this topic back. Any Waypoint/Nextlander/Jeff Gerstmann Show stuff also goes here.

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ninkendo
06/10/22 11:56:03 AM
#2:


after the One Piece Odyssey trailer, half the people on the Giant Bomb stream were wondering how long it would take for them to catch up if they pivoted to being a One Piece only website


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Lightning Strikes
06/10/22 12:12:32 PM
#3:


That is genuinely why I think the One piece Netflix series is a good thing. So there is a version of the tale people can actually watch.

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Lightning Strikes
06/10/22 1:43:21 PM
#4:


https://youtu.be/gJcJddo_zAM

E3 (ish) vlogs are back! In person videos are back!

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BlAcK TuRtLe
06/10/22 1:44:53 PM
#5:


I still can't believe Red Vultures railroaded Jeff like that. I can understand creative differences as they clearly want to run a website that has nothing to do with video games, but at least give the man who founded the site and ran it for 14 years a proper send off.

I haven't listened to the Bombcast in at least 4 months (basically around the time Danny stopped appearing), but I checked out this week's episode to see how bad it has gotten, and I don't think there has been a bigger fall from grace than what we saw over the last year.

On the plus side, Jeff's solo podcast was a banger, and it was great to be able to listen to Jeff talk without voidburger cutting him off constantly. It also tickled me that during the Keigh-3 stream yesterday, Waypoint was sitting around 800 viewers, Nextlander and Giant Bomb around 3000, and Jeff's solo stream was around 6200. Jeff was the heart and soul of Giant Bomb, and I give the shambling husk that is that website maybe another year before it gets shuttered.

Hopefully someone manages to archive all the old VODs before that happens.

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Lightning Strikes
06/10/22 2:16:24 PM
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The funny thing is not only have the changes been enormously well received and numbers have gone up (also while Jeff had higher stream numbers more people have watched the GB archive and that doesnt even include site views), they are going back to games now and it seems that is part of Jeff leaving as well. Also it is clearly against Jeffs wishes to have ill will against the current Giant Bomb folks. He has a lot of disdain for toxic people like you and has voiced it many times.

Goodbye BT, you will not be missed in these topics.

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BlAcK TuRtLe
06/10/22 2:54:44 PM
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Lightning Strikes posted...
The funny thing is not only have the changes been enormously well received and numbers have gone up (also while Jeff had higher stream numbers more people have watched the GB archive and that doesnt even include site views), they are going back to games now and it seems that is part of Jeff leaving as well. Also it is clearly against Jeffs wishes to have ill will against the current Giant Bomb folks. He has a lot of disdain for toxic people like you and has voiced it many times.

Goodbye BT, you will not be missed in these topics.
Apparently it's "toxic" to dislike a soulless media company that is more interested in bringing in "influencers" to talk about pretty much everything but video games, while at the same time completely disrespecting their staff and the original core audience. Blows my mind that anyone would stick up for Red Vultures and their crew of corporate shills trying to make a quick buck before they inevitably shutter the site and sell off any remaining assets.

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Lightning Strikes
06/10/22 3:06:27 PM
#8:


BT has now been blocked, sorry about that. Now it looks to me like I was talking to myself lol. Heres the schedule for today:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/2/AAEfmDAADU3y.jpg

Ranking of Tekken Endings hype

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UshiromiyaEva
06/10/22 3:34:28 PM
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Surprised as a GB fan you didn't have him blocked already! Feels good.

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Ngamer64
06/10/22 3:45:38 PM
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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...
Apparently it's "toxic" to *describes the same post he's been making every week for the last seven years*
That's correct, glad to see you're catching on!


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Lightning Strikes
06/10/22 4:18:57 PM
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UshiromiyaEva posted...
Surprised as a GB fan you didn't have him blocked already! Feels good.

Yeah I try to keep a clean list, but in BTs case he literally does nothing but post bile in these topics over and over, often targetted at the women members of staff, so there wasnt really much choice.

Anyway, this Tekken stream is off to a great start. Dan remembering his Giant Bomb login details live on the air lol.

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WazzupGenius00
06/10/22 4:45:22 PM
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ninkendo posted...
after the One Piece Odyssey trailer, half the people on the Giant Bomb stream were wondering how long it would take for them to catch up if they pivoted to being a One Piece only website
They discussed that in an episode of JJBA before I think? Or maybe it was just in the comments

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Lightning Strikes
06/10/22 5:48:54 PM
#13:


Okay, that was the best Giant Bomb stream in years.

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ninkendo
06/11/22 11:16:29 AM
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I laughed when they found Maximilion in line for SF6 while they were doing the tour of the show floor

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MoogleKupo141
06/11/22 8:18:41 PM
#15:


The Tekken video was a lot of fun

slightly more structured Dan stuff without the Twitch noises and constant chat interaction is going to be pretty great to have back

it sucks that we had to lose Jeff at the same time, but of any post-Gamespot crew hire, Dans the best possible anchor for the site

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DeepsPraw
06/11/22 9:55:52 PM
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That Tekken stream was glorious. Dan really was the shot in the arm the site needed. And with in-person stuff coming back on the west coast, it really feels like the old GB is back.

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Lightning Strikes
06/12/22 9:32:17 AM
#17:


Tekken vod for those who missed it:

https://youtu.be/IENITx6axgo

Keigh3 day 1 vlog:

https://youtu.be/eJvaN9fbPSs

Also theyll be starting the talk over for the Xbox stream in about three hours. Good stuff happening!

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ninkendo
06/12/22 9:35:24 AM
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I will say the changes to premium probably means I can stop doing that now because i really only used it for shows that were locked behind it, but if they're all free there's no reason for me to do so if I don't really care about all the other perks they've announced

I can switch it over to cover the costs of PS+ premium :O

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Lightning Strikes
06/12/22 9:59:30 AM
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I think Ill keep it for ad-free stuff, but if it werent for existing members being automatically on the second tier Id probably downgrade to the cheaper option when they bring that in as I dont use Discord and so on. It was a good idea to make the shows free so new people can actually watch them I think.

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ninkendo
06/12/22 10:18:13 AM
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https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/1535977961723088896

v___v

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Aecioo
06/12/22 10:24:46 AM
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Tekken stream was great, Dan brings such great energy

also unrelated to anything that's happened recently but I haven't kept up with these topics since I fell off giantbomb for awhile, but I've gotten really into arcade pit

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ninkendo
06/13/22 4:36:51 AM
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As someone who didn't care much for Hollow Knight, I'm glad to see Dan Ryckert as the voice of reason during the xbox conference who also didn't like it when they were showing the Silksong trailer.

Although his issues were more he thought the game didn't play well, but for me it was more not liking the level design.

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Seanchan
06/13/22 6:53:43 AM
#23:


Hollow Knight is amazing and I'm super excited for Silksong

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MoogleKupo141
06/13/22 6:55:47 AM
#24:


I dont totally get the love for Hollow Knight either

I played the whole thing and I just never felt like I was enjoying it as much as I should be. Im not sure if it was the game feel or the level design, but there was definitely something off about it.

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hockeydude15
06/13/22 8:11:41 AM
#25:


When I played Hollow Knight I thought it was good. Then I played Ori afterwards and laughed at how much better Ori was in every aspect.

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Seanchan
06/13/22 8:24:26 AM
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Ori (both of them) are good games. But I enjoyed Hollow Knight even more.

I think for me it comes down to 2 things.

The first is the general atmosphere. I love that whole forlorn/lonely/broken world kind of vibe. Reminded me of Super Metroid. Also, the fact that the game doesn't beat you over the head with dialogue and story (hello Axiom Verges).

The second is that I adored the exploration. The game is pretty open, so you can go off in a direction and make progress without needing to stick to the "correct" path. It rewarded you for playing, poking around and experimenting.

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WazzupGenius00
06/14/22 12:04:46 AM
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https://twitter.com/VoidBurger/status/1536483475594874882

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Lightning Strikes
06/14/22 4:15:25 AM
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Thanks Jess for making that even more cursed.

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ninkendo
06/14/22 4:21:38 AM
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I can't tell what I'm supposed to be hearing

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WazzupGenius00
06/14/22 10:06:08 AM
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https://twitter.com/stevenwallaby/status/1536485598021681152?s=21&t=1YfquXUIYH0YghSwZEGiww

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Maniac64
06/15/22 1:07:16 PM
#31:


Never watched Giant Bomb before but that Tekken ending video was great.

Someone tag me if/when they continue it.

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WazzupGenius00
06/16/22 2:06:33 PM
#32:


Finally got to Jeff's podcast this week, if it wasn't clear he was forced out by Red Ventures before, it is clear now. He didn't explicitly say anything like that but words he did use to describe recent events made it pretty clear

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Mac Arrowny
06/16/22 2:09:41 PM
#33:


I wonder if it had something to do with his opposition to in-office work.

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Seanchan
06/16/22 2:36:12 PM
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WazzupGenius00 posted...
Finally got to Jeff's podcast this week, if it wasn't clear he was forced out by Red Ventures before, it is clear now. He didn't explicitly say anything like that but words he did use to describe recent events made it pretty clear

Have any general timing on when he was talking about it? I don't have time for another 3 hour podcast, unfortunately.

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MoogleKupo141
06/16/22 2:37:37 PM
#35:


that would be pretty weird since most of the crew still cant be in an office together either. Jan, Rorie, and the Gamespot duo are the only people near the office.
Dan and Bakalar can maybe get together occasionally, but Grubb, Jess, and Jason are totally spread out from anyone else.

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WazzupGenius00
06/16/22 3:04:24 PM
#36:


Seanchan posted...
Have any general timing on when he was talking about it? I don't have time for another 3 hour podcast, unfortunately.
It wasn't any extended talk, just random bits here and there. He mentioned getting "future endeavored" (though I suppose one could try to argue he was talking about the Gamespot departure) and also referenced "the bullshit that happened to me in the previous few weeks"

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DeepsPraw
06/16/22 5:50:02 PM
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I bet they wanted him to take a pay cut or something like that.

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WazzupGenius00
06/18/22 3:05:39 AM
#38:


One possibility people have suggested that I could see being likely is that he was planning on leaving soon (perhaps publicly announced at the end of "E3 week" as other staff members have done in the past) and when he told Red Ventures they decided instead to just terminate him that day rather than let him have his week or two weeks or whatever length of time

It clearly wasn't a completely sudden and unexpected departure to the site's staff, I don't think he had to be hastily edited out of that "seance" video for example.

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Lightning Strikes
06/18/22 7:35:05 AM
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Yeah this has clearly been coming for a while regardless of the details. In the first one he even said its been as long as nine years that hes been thinking about it which lines up with what he said shortly after Ryan passed, that they had been talking about doing something else. I will say, if Jeff had left shortly after the relaunch or a few weeks before it, theres a good chance it would have killed the site. They really needed to go from one thing to the other straight away if they were going to survive. You can look at the way things went after the Nextlander split to see this, they took far too long to reboot and didnt have a clear vision. By contrast this has obviously worked, the sites the healthiest its been since before the pandemic. Not to justify anything that did or didnt happen to Jeff of course, just to say that the way the site shifted so rapidly after he left was very necessary.

Anyway, first of all heres a Mythbusters game Unfinished in which Jan shares some amazing stories of his time working on Mythbusters and also the game seems terrible:

https://youtu.be/QO0Sg2he0Dc

Secondly, Abby left G4 after less than a year. Seems like a lot of people getting out of there while they can On the bright side will likely mean a lot more Abby guest content on GB, Nextlander and maybe Jeffs show!

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Lightning Strikes
06/22/22 9:55:38 AM
#40:


Schedule:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/9/4/AAEfmDAADXpe.jpg

Yes Quick Looks are back and then some.

I really like the game of the week segment they did on the Bombcast. Having a game that (nearly) everybody has played did wonders for the discussion over at Nextlander.

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WazzupGenius00
06/22/22 5:53:14 PM
#41:


Not every week can have a game as good as Neon White though!

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WazzupGenius00
06/23/22 1:04:19 AM
#42:


Samantha got robbed on Arcade Pit, that song is originally from Final Fight so she should've at least gotten Close Guess partial credit. Wouldn't have been enough to swing the end result though.

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oneofcircles
06/25/22 5:21:19 PM
#43:


Having TieTuesday as a partner kind of seems like an unfair advantage. I could tell he was holding back his power level.

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Lightning Strikes
06/28/22 7:51:56 PM
#44:


A review!

https://www.giantbomb.com/reviews/neon-white-review/1900-801/

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oneofcircles
06/28/22 8:14:58 PM
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I didn't know Neon White was a Ben Esposito joint. That makes me marginally more intersted, but anime+cards is still a no from me on principle

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Mac Arrowny
06/28/22 8:23:32 PM
#46:


The 'cards' part is just another word for guns, really. You pick up guns, shoot them, and can throw them away for a movement ability. You can only hold two guns at a time, as with many FPSs.

The card part was a turnoff at first for me too, since I've disliked a few games that add card systems, but Neon White doesn't feel like a card system.

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SHINE_GET_64
06/28/22 9:27:45 PM
#47:


https://youtu.be/5h8ZnLDYJN4

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Lightning Strikes
07/05/22 6:43:55 AM
#48:


A few days late, but Ranking of Tekken Endings part 2:

https://youtu.be/dXQC0XR7R50

Edit: Tagging @Maniac64 as requested.

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Maniac64
07/05/22 3:34:07 PM
#49:


Yay!

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Aecioo
07/06/22 10:33:23 PM
#50:


Best arcade pit on giant bomb so far, even with knowing no one involved (other than knowing what Doublefine is)

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