how well known is giant bomb around your friends?

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#1  Edited By Sick_Sick_Sick

so i'm all about the bomb i listen to the podcast, i watch the endurance run and i post on the forums but i am the only person i know who is aware of it. none of my friends have never heard of this place the nearist i'v got is some guy in the class below me put midnight brown in a monopally board he did. So are you the only one who is awere of this place or is there group of you who use the site?

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#2  Edited By Hitchenson

The only person I know kinda real who uses GB, is my LIVE mate. He was also the dude who told me about GB.

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Pretty well known, I own the special edition Brad shirt, so they all asked "WHATS DAT!!1!!?!?1?"

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#4  Edited By Verdugo

I doubt anyone I know has heard of Giant Bomb.

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#5  Edited By zyn
@Verdugo said:
"I doubt anyone I know has heard of Giant Bomb. "
 Most of my frriends don't use the internet to read gaming news.  They know things via word-of-mouth.
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#6  Edited By jeffgoldblum

"Oh are you on that site where you listen to dumb podcasts?"
That is the extent of my friend's knowledge of this site.

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#7  Edited By ShadowKiller

Most of my friends don't play game and the ones who do aren't interested in internet forums.

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#8  Edited By Lowbrow

Nope, only one as far as I know.

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#9  Edited By Lowbrow

Nope, only one as far as I know.

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#10  Edited By The_A_Drain

I'm the only source of info other than stupid kingdom hearts or pokemon fansites (or, ugh IGN) my mates have, so I always tell them about GB but they dont visit the site.

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#11  Edited By ch13696

I'm the only one. As a matter of fact they don't know any video game sites. (except gamespot.com...sorry to bring that up). Any time they want to ask about a game or they want to get past something they always come to me.

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#12  Edited By TheMeat

I got a friend of mine into Persona 4 by showing him an episode of the Endurance Run.  I don't know if he still watches it (probably not since he's playing the game right now).  But the majority of my friends only go to IGN which is quite sad, but if it's what they like then more the power to them.

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#13  Edited By NoDeath

A number of my friends use the bomb for reviews and editorial content, however I'm the only one I know that actually has an account.

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#14  Edited By Vision

My best friend as the only one besides me.

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#15  Edited By gingertastic_10

My friends likes the site, but he doesnt use it.

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#16  Edited By dopeman

nope just me, which is kinda disappointing

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#17  Edited By Cerza

I have one friend that knows about Giant Bomb and lurks about here regularly, but everyone else I know has never heard of Giant Bomb and Luchadeer's amazing saving graces. So like the good devotee I am I plug Giant Bomb every chance I get in order to spread the word.

What really amazes me though is how many people take the big sites (GameSpot, IGN, 1up) word as gospel. How foolish those heathens are. They must be cleansed.

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#18  Edited By Kohe321

All my friends use it whenever they want some information about a game. I often get a mail from one of them giving me a link to something on the site. Like a video, or something else.

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#19  Edited By dudacles

Out of all my friends, only two of them are seriously into games. That said, those two don't speak enough English to get on the net and talk about them, so they don't know any sites on the internet that are game-related. So basically, no one in my immediate environment knows of GB's existence.

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#20  Edited By herreno

A few of them know it exists, I usually send them the TANG video's and one has gotten into the endurance run.

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#21  Edited By Jayge_

A few of my friends know I go here but otherwise nobody really knows it exists or pays attention to it.

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#22  Edited By MeierTheRed

None of my friends knows ore cares about it.

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#23  Edited By thedj93

All my friends in school who give a damn about games knows about giantbomb, courtesy of my good friend Death_Unicorn!

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#24  Edited By MetalGearSunny

Whenever I tell my friend Giantbomb is awesome, he just says NO.

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#25  Edited By Reuben

I got my brother interested in the site, Watched some vids with him and he found the Giantbomb staff to be really funny and entertaining. Though he's not a huge gamer so it's not like he comes to the site as often as I do.

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#26  Edited By danielkempster

A couple of my friends did sign up to the site, but they've since moved on. I'm the only one that's stuck around, I think.

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#27  Edited By Otacon

I only have one friend who is as into games as I am, so he is on here. Apart from that my other friends are either not into games at all or it's not enough of a hobby of theirs to be a member of a gaming site. 

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#28  Edited By brainwins

Sadly no. And everytime I walk around the office and see someone checking gamespot I try to tell them to check Giantbomb first.
When I send links to a video or something videogame realated, it always comes from here :)

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#29  Edited By MKHavoc

My friends don't know about this site.  They just don't care about games as much as I do and they really don't go to any game websites.

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#30  Edited By Tireyo

What friends I used to have and have at the moment doesn't even know that this site exists.

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#31  Edited By ArbitraryWater

One of my friends checks the site occasionally for editorial content, as well as for TANG, but he's not a member. Another one of my friends really doesn't check the site all that much, but he did do some wiki edits back in the day. I'm the only one who listens to the podcast though.

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#32  Edited By StarFoxA

Most of my friends know I'm addicted to Giant Bomb, and thus constantly berate me about it.

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#33  Edited By shadows_kill

I told my friend about the endurance run and he loves it but hes the only one.

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#34  Edited By vilhelmnielsen

It's my little secret.

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#35  Edited By Wolverine

Some of my friends made accounts when the site launched but none of them really got active in the community. I remember the day the sight launched I was on vacation and was staying with my cousin's family and I probably used his laptop that day for 8 hours posting in the forums and editing things. 

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#36  Edited By Win

One of my close friends is a pretty big fan of the site (particularly the Bombcast and Endurance Run). The rest know of the site but don't use it. 

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#37  Edited By mracoon

I doubt any of my friends have heard of Giant Bomb.

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#38  Edited By Pibo47

Friends in real life? Not many. People/internet friends? Known pretty well.