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Officially Unofficial Websites:

• QLCrew: Giant Bomb Video Playlist - The best way to search for GB videos, with lots of options
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• TurboMan(xpantherx)'s Best of Giant Bomb YouTube playlist - fantastic "Best Of" Giant Bomb videos, now an official feature on the site. This link will remain until all archives have been uploaded to Giant Bomb.
• Anjin M's Endurance Runs and other full playthroughs List - My occasionally updated list of (some of) the games the Giant Bomb has played from start to finish.
• Plexirvones's Jeff Gerstmann Mixlr Compilations - Plexirvones's new Best of Jefflr series, on YouTube. See the episode descriptions for mp3 links.

SPECIAL THANKS

To everyone who posted an official thread from which this one is blatantly stolen and build upon:

• Death Metalist
• Zaph
• BUNTING1243
• Myggen
• Jimmyfenix
• SteveWinwood
• Patryn
• Hot Coldman
• randomlyrossy
• Anjin M

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Social medias & ERA accounts:

Jeff Gerstmann(Mixlr): @jeffgerstmann, (Tumblr) Jeff Gerstmann Is Still A Threat, (Era) MonsterDunk, Instagram
Matt Rorie: @frailgesture, (Tumblr) A Long Road
Jason: @unastrike, Instagram
Jan: @_janjerome
Jeff Bakalar: @jeffbakalar, Twitch, Instagram
Jess: @VoidBurger, Twitch, Let's Play, Patreon, Youtube, Theory Channel

Gone, but never forgotten.​

Last edited: Feb 16, 2022

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Sup, DM! Good work as always.

Countdown to the mods changing the thread title but I appreciate the right choice winning.

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Ｎｏ░ｔｈｏｕｇｈｔｓ░ｏｎｌｙ░ｇｏｏｄ░ｖｉｂｅｓ　（ユ゜ヨムア）

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im still in the ops for some reason

ill take it

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a brand trying to chart a new path

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it's a website!

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Giant Bomb? that's that mechanical keyboard site, right?

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I'm with Jeff. If I could never eat again, never got the urge or anything, would 100% take that any day of the week.

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Killer thread as always, DM

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Amazing OT.

Also I really think the name needs to changes to "Bills Seed"!?
Or maybe " a minutes silence for Bill Paxton"?

Reel layers is a bit...right!?

Dan L

Tried to PM someone for a tag

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Reel layers is a bit...right!?

I still haven't seen a straight answer on what it is.

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damn, first new OT in almost a year.

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We're free of the cursed OT omg awwyyisss

Thanks DM!

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R4 themed OP + finally we get our seamen thread title?

*chefs kiss*

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Finally someone brave enough to create an OT we deserve

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whew boy, getting longer between OTs now

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when the mods change the thread title can we have them change it to the correct poll option

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when the mods change the thread title can we have them change it to the correct poll option

Should go to the second highest voted title if that happened.

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New OT, new GB. It feels very strange that the best GB content right now is preproduced stuff like Guilty Treasures, Hot Takeouts and Reel Layers.

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Not that strange considering that had almost always been some of the best content they ever did, just that they did it so sparingly and infrequently.

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Not that strange considering that had almost always been some of the best content they ever did, just that they did it so sparingly and infrequently.

That is what is strange about it. It was some of the best stuff they did 10 years ago. Besides Crime Crew, I don't think we had regular highly produced content since the GOTY skits in 2012.

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Bring back TNT you cowards.

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Bryan Stills snubbed again. First the Pulitzer and now this.

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My GB subscription has lapsed and idk if I will re-up for a while. The new vids are not my thing but the archival stuff will always be important to me.

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I'm subbed for like another year or so and not a lot of this current stuff really interests me either but it's been 10 years and it feels weird to not be premium so I dunno what I'll do. Probably just keep paying like an idiot.

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My number 1 reason for subbing is to listen to the Bombcast live.

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I'm in it for the longest of hauls.

The amount of new and old content makes any other source of media more or less obsolete during weekdays - A bit afraid of the move towards shorter content. TikTok is ruining our ways of life!

• #38

damn, first new OT in almost a year.

Ain't the same

• #39

Wow, this thread is a real Pickle Rick. (That's a "Rick and Morty" reference)

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New topic and Veteran's Day is actually coming up soon

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ahhhhhH new thread smell ive got limp bizkit on the 'Spotify' and im hanging out with my best buddios

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I still haven't seen a straight answer on what it is.

Thanks - I was surprised there wasn't more discussion here about it.

I really enjoyed it, partly because it's a bit, and as a "bit" seems longer running, and more crafted than stuff they normally do. Plus the video itself was quite funny in it's breathy, angsty way (plus the random jokes about the weight of cows).

Very intrigued to see where it goes.

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The amount of people not realising the new show announcement (not the show itself) was a bit is a little concerning.

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Is this where I pitch new Giant Bomb shows?

Pitch 1: Bombcats

A biweekly show where the cat owners among the staff and friends of the site talk about their cats and watch cat videos. It also includes a segment called "Judge my Cat!" where viewers can submit pics/vids of their cats which are then prescreened and presented to the jury who go on to select a winner.

Pitch 2: Start Rec.

I originally was going to pitch this back when they were still owned by CBS Interactive but there should only be minimal impact on the content of the show anyway. Two staff members and a friend of the site play Star Trek games, beginning with the most obscure ones and then moving on to the more popular ones. I expect this series to spawn multiple playthroughs or at least multi part episodes covering some of the games. The composition of the cast should be: 1 Star Trek Fan, 1 Person familiar with Star Trek and 1 Person who doesn't watch Star Trek.

Pitch 3: What a Season!

The staff plays sports games. Viewers vote on the sport that's going to be covered each week and then on a list of games from the winning sports category. Think Bicycle Manager, Handball Simulator and Field Hockey.

• #45

hi i have looked at your pitches but i didnt understand some of the words so i am unfortunately saying No to them i am unfortunate to say i am afraid

• #46

The amount of people not realising the new show announcement (not the show itself) was a bit is a little concerning.

Yeah - I think the crew played it very well, given they are not professional Actors like Jan.

I think the last thing attempted where there was discord/uncomfortableness for humour was *whisper it* Kingdom Hearts

• #47

J and Silent Hill

Jess plays through the entirety of Silent Hill: Book of Memories

• #48

Wow. That video of Janina announcing her show is super awkward.

• #49

An Era of Giant Bomb - the gb crew spend 30 minutes each with every person who's posted in this thread and and they get asked things by the people in this thread

• #50

An Era of Giant Bomb - the gb crew spend 30 minutes each with every person who's posted in this thread and and they get asked things by the people in this thread

All on on this

Is it legal to start up a Giant Bomb fancast

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Source: https://www.resetera.com/threads/giant-bomb-ot-26-speaking-of-cumstains-shout-out-to-our-seamen.509268/

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