Giant Bomb Shenanigans Today?

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edit: Beat me to it haha!

I heard that as well and kind of semi-cringed as well thinking about all the people released from there.

What could it mean!?

@excast: Barkerville is in central BC, unless there's some other Barkerville I've never heard of that happens to be in America.

It's like a 24 hour drive from San Francisco

We seem to all be in the dark here then? If only a magical @rorie would come fill us in!

@giantstalker: There's (supposedly) a Barkerville about 3 hours away from their office. They talked about it on a bombcast.

A lot of video production people were released as well. It wasn't just writers.

wait, so what's happening? There's nothing on the schedule. AHHH!?

AhhH!

@spraynardtatum:

I would look for it to go up tomorrow or Friday. Whatever they recorded will take a while to edit and upload.

Whaaaaat is it? I MUST KNOW.

The sign-ups for that premium meet-up starts tomorrow, right? Maybe they're making some weird promotional thing?

Something so stupid other websites wouldn't dream of doing it, you can believe that!

@lab392: I see, so it isn't a live stream. Can't wait! I bet it's a video of the crew talking about how the Tomb Raider timed exclusivity is a good thing and why we should be excited.

Probably Barkerville or MGS.

They're bringing the Gamescom to them.

Hype is at an unimaginable level. Although I would fully support a trip to THE Barkerville, it is in British Columbia which is a fair distance away from San Francisco. It seems like a long trip just for an inside joke.

The shenanigans is a lie.

Im guessing theyre shooting it today and not actually putting it up. Wish we got something today, but oh well. Still excited for whatever it is.

It's Brad/Jeff vs. Drew/Dan in a Mario Party Ladder Match. If Drew/Dan win, they play a 50 turn game of each iteration over the next few weeks. If Brad/Jeff win, they will be able to smash any and all copies of Mario Party within the San Francisco city limits with cricket bats.

They're LARPing Mario Party...

@flstyle:

I saw that tweet as well. Can't wait.

this is driving me a little crazy not knowing what it is.

What do they mean by "today"? I'm in Europe, so technically it's already tomorrow.

@mak_wikus: Well obviously they refer to their own local time, but they never said anything would go up today.

cutting promos for the next Royal Rumble.

True. I guess I kind of miss live premium content(not counting UPF obviously). I was hoping this would be it.

this has to be something more location-based and probably only tangentially game related. i'm betting yoga. can't wait to see it.

I am both excited and scared.

ENDURANCE RUN! ENDURANCE RUN! ENDURANCE RUN! ENDURANCE RUN! ENDURANCE RUN! ENDURANCE RUN! ENDURANCE RUN! ENDURANCE RUN! ENDURANCE RUN! ENDURANCE RUN!

@daddycabinet: If only...

I would think all of this was over the Akiba's Trip QL, but judging by the timing of all this, we have some Mario Party class horseplay to expect tomorrow. I brought wine coolers.

If it is more Mario Party, I will lose it. That was one of my favorite live streams in Giant Bomb history. Or if it's the kickoff to the Drew/Dan MGS run, that'd be awesome too.

Better not be some premium bullshit after hyping it up on The Lobby.

What, they can't discuss premium content in public? lol come on duder!

shenanigans?? I'm getting my broomstick!

Especially since they weren't going to mention it anyway, Waters brought it up.

I'm getting antsy for shenanigans.

I doubt it's a quick look, maybe a MGS endurance run?

I still think they should be able to talk / hype premium content! Whomever brought it up!

It's nothing to be ashamed about / be all hush hush. Premium is a big part of what keeps the site going and a lot of the best content is already premium. Seems ok to me to talk about it in public. It's not like anyone from GB will ever be so smarmy to say "Oh we have THE BEST feature tomorrow and IT'S ONLY PREMIUM, also sign up now for 10% off!"

Maybe something to do with the last 30 Days of WoW episode?

So is it possible the shenanigans already happened? Like the Akibas Trip QL?

@geraltitude@trafalgarlaw

I completely agree they're free to promote or not promote however they want. I was more pointing out that Jeff and Dan had no intention of bringing it up so it wasn't really hyped up, or at least not intentionally on The Lobby.

oh yeah, totally.

The hype is actually starting to boil inside me. How did Mr. Waters even hear about these shenanigans in the first place? Through the wall? Are there lots of people involved? Famous people? Were the shenanigan plans so crazy it had to go all the way up to corporate?

:/

I hope its a video of Dan eating a bunch of mayonnaise

Nothing on the upcoming yet, are we even sure there is anything happening? Could they have been referencing the Dr Tracksuit situation in Danny's interview with the Big Show?

Jeff says...

@geraltitude said:

Jeff says...

So not today then :)

Oh well!

We will see it when we see it.