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Extra Life 2019: How Weird Is It Gonna Get?

Weird. It's Gonna Get Weird.

Thanks to Hamster for the video!

Kids, huh? Who needs 'em! Well, I'll tell you who: you and me, buddy, if we want anyone to take care of us when we get sent to the Logan's Run Assisted Living facility, where everyone is happy and renewed! Let's help the future programmers of our cyborg overlords fulfill their mission by streaming some video games for the kids this weekend!

ALL STREAMS WILL BE LIVE EITHER HERE OR HERE! ROLL THE DIE!

Before we get into the details, I wanted to thank everyone who has joined our team this year or has joined our team in the past. You might recall that we passed the million-dollar point during last year’s streams, and we couldn’t have done it without the help of everyone who streams on the Giant Bomb team. We already have over $32,000 towards our yearly goal thanks to these fine team members (shout out to Joshua O'Connor and Friends! for leading the way!) and if you want to join as well, there’s plenty of time to do so! Just sign up and join our team and start streaming anytime you like! And we would also be remiss to not thank Matt Pascual for setting up our team and getting everyone organized every year. Check out his forum post or more details on joining our team, should you be so inclined!

Our own personal Giant Bomb member page is right over here, and we’re hoping to raise $100k as a member and $250,000 as a team this year. Hope you can join us for some of the streams!

Here’s a quick schedule for stuff that you can expect to find in the chatroom for the next week, and I’m really hoping I got the timezone right for all of these because that’s what I always screw up:

Start Time (Pacific Time!)Host
9 AM Wednesday - 9 PM WednesdayDrew/Alexis
9 AM Friday - 9 AM SaturdayGiant Bomb West
9 AM Saturday - 9 AM SundayWill Smith
12:01 PM Sunday - 7 AM MondayMatt Pascual
7 AM Monday - 7 PM MondayGiant Bomb East
7 PM Monday - 7 PM TuesdayDave Lang
9 AM - 9 AM Either Weds-Thurs or Thurs-Fri or Weds-ThursDanny O'Dwyer

We have some real "fun" stuff planned for these streams so please do check it out if you have a chance to! You know, for kids!

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@forcen: Thanks for that very much appreciated.

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No Alex is sad. :(

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Dose kids gonna be getting moolahs

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24 hours in the Langzone

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How time flies. Super excited.

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I totally get Alex not going 24/25 this year. He's my age and, man, the thought of staying up that long doing ANYTHING gives me pause.

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Wait, no Alex? UCSF Benioff is gonna lose out on like 50 grand...

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Awesome. Surprised West is doing 24 hours. Bummer that it lines up with blizzcon again though. I need to clone myself to watch both >,>

Can't wait to see what nonsense East comes up this year and the Lang Zone is always a joy.

We will definitely be watching the keynote that day!

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@rorie: Ah good to hear, look forward to that then. The first 3 main stage panels after the keynote are free to watch too this year (seems like they've got a lot of big announcements they want everyone to see this year). If Diablo 4 is announced, maybe yall will want to watch that panel too :P

We'll definitely be following along as blogs update, but since the rest of the panels are all PPV I don't think we'll be able to talk over them directly!

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Really looking forward to this and will for sure donate some money again, but unfortunately I doubt I'll be able to catch a lot of it live. So hopefully the archive won't break like last year, do you know if there are maybe some extra precautions in place this time @rorie?

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@sessh said:

Really looking forward to this and will for sure donate some money again, but unfortunately I doubt I'll be able to catch a lot of it live. So hopefully the archive won't break like last year, do you know if there are maybe some extra precautions in place this time @rorie?

I have taken extra precautions to make sure nothing breaks this year!

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Alexis and Drew should be live right now but all I can see is either the Bungle my Bananas Live stream or an old extra life 2017 video on infinite.

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@rorie: Infinite on Twitch is still streaming old videos and the website is not advertising Drew‘s extra life stream but also the currently streaming twitch video.

without the community I wouldn’t even be able to find out where I could watch extra life.

its not really apparent that a stream that is currently advertised as „2017 Alex Extra Life“ is actually Drew and Alexis playing indigo prophecy

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@nigeth said:

@rorie: Infinite on Twitch is still streaming old videos and the website is not advertising Drew‘s extra life stream but also the currently streaming twitch video.

without the community I wouldn’t even be able to find out where I could watch extra life.

its not really apparent that a stream that is currently advertised as „2017 Alex Extra Life“ is actually Drew and Alexis playing indigo prophecy

Check giantbomb.com/infinite! We had a promo up for the stream on-site but switched it to Burgle while that was going on. We'll get the homepage promo back up in a bit.

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Please tell me there will be running commentary for the Crown Jewel event. I need to see live reactions to how much of a disaster it'll be.

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@janman said:
@sessh said:

Really looking forward to this and will for sure donate some money again, but unfortunately I doubt I'll be able to catch a lot of it live. So hopefully the archive won't break like last year, do you know if there are maybe some extra precautions in place this time @rorie?

I have taken extra precautions to make sure nothing breaks this year!

That's great to hear. You are the best, Jan.

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Great but can we finally get the Donation Names and message turned off before the shitty comments directed at staff flow in? Let them read out big donations, no one cares about the guy donating $5 with some dumb shit attached to it.

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I am looking at the site and I cannot see any livestreams at all. The live icon is grey and Live on GB infinite just shows ExtraLife 2014 - Day 2: Part 11.

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@borklund said:

I am looking at the site and I cannot see any livestreams at all. The live icon is grey and Live on GB infinite just shows ExtraLife 2014 - Day 2: Part 11.

There are some gaps. Mainly this one where the next stream is on Friday.

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Great but can we finally get the Donation Names and message turned off before the shitty comments directed at staff flow in? Let them read out big donations, no one cares about the guy donating $5 with some dumb shit attached to it.

As they tend to say, every donation matters. And I presume the idea is that all donation messages being acknowledged increases participation. I don't know what science would back that up, but it sounds reasonable to me. Like, you can't have $5 Choo Choo donation trains otherwise.

Didn't watch the whole of yesterday, but I only caught one bad donation message. Had penis in it, was removed. So risk-reward ratio is ok so far probably.

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@forcen: Thank you that was extremely nice of you.

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@borklund said:

I am looking at the site and I cannot see any livestreams at all. The live icon is grey and Live on GB infinite just shows ExtraLife 2014 - Day 2: Part 11.

The first stream was yesterday; the next one will start tomorrow (Friday) morning at 9 AM.

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@rorie: Nah, they changed it this year "This year, everyone’s invited to watch the BlizzCon opening ceremony, all of the BlizzCon esports tournaments, and select developer panels—including the first four panels on the Mythic Stage immediately following the opening ceremony—completely free on BlizzCon.com and in the BlizzCon Mobile App." https://blizzcon.com/en-us/news/23189035/blizzcon-2019-preview-schedule-map-and-mobile-app-now-live

Those "four panels on the mythic stage" are the "coming soon" panels aka their new unannounced games/expansions. Seems they want as many people as possible to see panels for their big announcements this year.

Good to know, thanks!

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@janman said:
@sessh said:

Really looking forward to this and will for sure donate some money again, but unfortunately I doubt I'll be able to catch a lot of it live. So hopefully the archive won't break like last year, do you know if there are maybe some extra precautions in place this time @rorie?

I have taken extra precautions to make sure nothing breaks this year!

Thank you, Jan. I was so bummed when I was out of town for last year's GBW steam and was sad the archive never made it up. You're a man among men.

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@elite49 said:

Great but can we finally get the Donation Names and message turned off before the shitty comments directed at staff flow in? Let them read out big donations, no one cares about the guy donating $5 with some dumb shit attached to it.

Except for one instance, I could not disagree more. They for one want to show a flow of donations. Another because a good number of those messages are actually pretty funny. Also some users repeat and that builds out donations. Also hey, it is a donation.

Onetime only it got stupid that I saw, and the staff-member turned it off for a while, being visibly pissed. I did not blame him, but you hope people in the main are better then that, considering what it is all for. Even on the net.

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So there is no stream up atm?

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@bybeach said:
@elite49 said:

Great but can we finally get the Donation Names and message turned off before the shitty comments directed at staff flow in? Let them read out big donations, no one cares about the guy donating $5 with some dumb shit attached to it.

Except for one instance, I could not disagree more. They for one want to show a flow of donations. Another because a good number of those messages are actually pretty funny. Also some users repeat and that builds out donations. Also hey, it is a donation.

Onetime only it got stupid that I saw, and the staff-member turned it off for a while, being visibly pissed. I did not blame him, but you hope people in the main are better then that, considering what it is all for. Even on the net.

hahaha ok as long as you donate some cash, you got free reign of what you say directed at staff.

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This is NOT your fault @rorie but I am very stupid and I'm having trouble understanding the schedule without dates.