According to Ryan's twitter, the New Yorker referred to the Giant Bombcast as "charmingly garrulous" and said it was similar to "Car Talk" but with knowledgeable gamers. They even directly quoted Ryan Davis talking about the neck and face stabbing in Assassin's Creed II.
THEY HAVE FINALLY MADE IT.
Mentioned in the New Yorker!
I had to look it up on Google.
We're famous!!!! I'm proud to have been a part of the bombcast's early days before their world domination plans kicked in full force!
" Oh sweet. Is this why there are so many new people appearing today? "I just thought it was quest spam time...
Hell, they made it in my book when they finally got the first ArrowPointingDown Podcast on the air/internet!
That son o' mine! Readin' them videogame websites on the innernets!" @RobotHamster: http://twitpic.com/2b1ur1 If you zoom in you can kind of read it.
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Ryan's quote made me laugh so much. It's so hilariously informal relative to the rest of the article.
Congrats to the crew on this mention. Now every high-class civil minded worker who reads that will listen to one bombcast, but little do they know that the bombcast is more addicting than meth. Slowly but surely they will stop working as they listen in, the itch of waiting a week will set in and they won't be able to concentrate, over time the working class of America will break down.
" Nicholson Baker, novellist and author of the article, also guested on New Yorkers Out Loud podcast. "I tried to shoot him a little bit. In a polite way." "That's actually a really good interview. The guy knows what he's talking about.
" Oh sweet. Is this why there are so many new people appearing today? "Ya, I noticed that when a ton of people started following me and they had the default images.
I still imagine the New Yorker's response to listening to the Bombcast to be something along the lines of this:
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