How can I support Giant Bomb?

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#1  Edited By sofakng

I'm a huge fan of Giant Bomb and think it's by far the best gaming website available and I'd like to support them.

Are there any subscription packages or anything like that?  It doesn't look like it and I can't even find any donation links...

How can I best help to support this great place? :)

EDIT: The only bad thing about this site is the name.  I work for the government and am a little afraid of visiting a website called "giant bomb" from work, heh.

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#2  Edited By Pepsiman

Train robberies. Lots of them. You cannot imagine how necessary Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid antics are to the survival of this site.

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#3  Edited By maxszy

Supply them with booze and pancakes.

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#4  Edited By kmdrkul

Buy stuff from their store.

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#5  Edited By Video_Game_King
Maxszy said:
"Supply them with booze and pancakes."
Booze and pancakes are not enough. If anything, they'll just wake up constipated and hungover.

My suggestion: edit the crap out of the Wiki pages. Try to get to 1M.
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#6  Edited By Disgaeamad

Join the Vanguards of the Lunch Revolution.

In all seriousness though, the best way to help the site is just to keep visiting, posting and working on the wiki.

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#7  Edited By SuperZamrod

I agree with you.  These guys have probably gone through all over their own personal savings to get this site up and running.  I think Jeff even had to sell his house or something.  Plus the fact that they're not making any money out of it yet (given they have no ads).  I would also really like to do what I can to help these guys in these troubled economic times. 

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Maxszy said:
"Supply them with booze and pancakes."
kmdrkul said:
"Buy stuff from their store."

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#9  Edited By nakratz
flawless2c said:
"I agree with you.  These guys have probably gone through all over their own personal savings to get this site up and running.  I think Jeff even had to sell his house or something.  Plus the fact that they're not making any money out of it yet (given they have no ads).  I would also really like to do what I can to help these guys in these troubled economic times.  "
They have actually had 2 ad campaigns on this site. Gears of War was one of them and I think Watchmen was the other. They were not intrusive so you probably didn't notice them. But I am sure it was not enough money to cover them for everything. I think they would like booze and pancakes over money any day.
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#10  Edited By IVIorpheus

Hmm, booze and pancakes would probably be apreciated though....

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#11  Edited By Smike

I think they should add an "Donate" tab to the site, for people that just wanna support with no any strings attached.  I dont see how that could hurt them. 

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#14  Edited By Kou_Leifoh

Wash yourself off with goat urine.

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#15  Edited By MikeydCT

support giant bomb and buy war bonds and tea bills. are those still around?

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#16  Edited By vidiot

Sacrifice people in a bizarre un-holy satanic ritual to appeal to the Lucha Deer demigod.

Remember:
Get one of your sacrifices to draw your pentagrams. It doesn't work when you draw them.

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#17  Edited By macot79

Send them alcohol and candy.... swedish candy.

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#18  Edited By MikeydCT
macot79 said:
"Send them alcohol and candy.... swedish candy. "
dont forget sport drinks
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#19  Edited By JJWeatherman

The Giant Bomb T-shirts are probably the best way..

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#20  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator
flawless2c said:
"I agree with you.  These guys have probably gone through all over their own personal savings to get this site up and running.  I think Jeff even had to sell his house or something.  Plus the fact that they're not making any money out of it yet (given they have no ads).  I would also really like to do what I can to help these guys in these troubled economic times.  "
I'm fairly sure they're not in any bother. Whiskey media has the financial backing of Shelby Bonnie, who was the co-founder of Cnet, and only left Cnet about 2 years ago, so I would assume he is worth a fair amount of money. And their costs are relatively low, so I can't imagine money being much of an issue right now.

Smike said:
"I think they should add an "Donate" tab to the site, for people that just wanna support with no any strings attached.  I dont see how that could hurt them.  "
They are a business, there would be big legal complications with them accepting donations.
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Best way to support is to edit pages and mod images. If you don't know how to mod images, from the main navigation bar, just go to HELP > Mod Images. You don't get any points like you do for editing pages, but you still help out a lot and make the processing a lot faster for people submitting images.

And as other people said, the Giant Bomb store is always up there. I don't know how to find the link from the front page though? Someone in this topic already posted the link though.

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#22  Edited By CL60

Buy some shirts and off topic, but

1000 posts! YEAH!

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#23  Edited By Gizmo

I REALLY want to get the Luchadeer zipper hoodie, what would the estimated shipping time to the UK be?

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Has anyone here ordered any of the shirts/hoodies? Hows the quality? I don't have them, but from when I see Jeff wear the hoody, it seems kinda thin and made very well. Just wondering.

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#25  Edited By CL60
TripMasterMunky said:
"Has anyone here ordered any of the shirts/hoodies? Hows the quality? I don't have them, but from when I see Jeff wear the hoody, it seems kinda thin and made very well. Just wondering."
They are pretty good quality.
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#26  Edited By Smike
MattyFTM said:

Smike said:
"I think they should add an "Donate" tab to the site, for people that just wanna support with no any strings attached.  I dont see how that could hurt them.  "
They are a business, there would be big legal complications with them accepting donations. "

I see, you could be right, but I also listen to a film podcast, Filmspotting, that has sponsors but they also ask for donations from people that would like to contribute.  They are a buusiness too from what I can tell, they have interns... :), and part of their podcast airs on NPR.  If they can get away with it I dont think it would be too hard for GB to do it.  Anyways, selling shirts/hoodies is good too :)

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#27  Edited By TheGreatGuero

Contribute to the wiki pages.

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#28  Edited By LiquidPrince
sofakng said:
"I'm a huge fan of Giant Bomb and think it's by far the best gaming website available and I'd like to support them.Are there any subscription packages or anything like that?  It doesn't look like it and I can't even find any donation links...How can I best help to support this great place? :) EDIT: The only bad thing about this site is the name.  I work for the government and am a little afraid of visiting a website called "giant bomb" from work, heh."
Buy some Giant Bomb clothing.
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#29  Edited By Kou_Leifoh

Pornography.