I'm back. What'd I miss?

Hey... I hope a few of you remember me. I took Ryans death pretty hard and haven't been on here in... forever.

What memes or inside jokes have I missed? Someone help me get up to speed

The entire crew loves Demon/Dark Souls. Except Jeff, of course.

Brad got a huge DOTA 2 tattoo across his back - now whenever he mentions DOTA he turns around and lifts his shirt up. It's kind of awkward on live shows honestly.

We found out why Patrick calls himself Scoops. Alex found out the hard way.

I would have guessed that about Dark Souls. It's a hard game to get into if you don't have the right mind for it. Despite those things related to Brad being hilarious, I am reluctant to believe them! As much as I want the tattoo one to be real

Small Business Man! (Listen to the bombcast and you'll quickly understand).

Alex has become a god of Nintendo 64 wrestling, but had lost respect for everyone else during his ascension.

Oh the Adverts at the beginning? Yeah I listened to one about a month ago and lost my shit. it was hilarious!

Alexis/Drew = OTP

@bocam: Love is in the air my friend.

Yes. They mostly at the beginning of every podcast and some bombcast episodes have had them in the middle. They are spectacularly!

@bocam: that was amazing

@video_game_king: also, it's good to see you're still around, VGK

Australia and Great Britain are in a golden age of peace and good will.

Well, they almost killed dave lang at pax, or something, so you're back just in time for everyone to get arrested! yaaay

Welcome home.

Since you left, Vinny has become a Dark Lord. Drew revealed himself to actually be an alpaca. Brad "Max doesn't count" Shoemaker is out of control. Hey Small Business Man. Under royal Rorie decree: instead of cursing in thread titles, it is now customary to use the word "puppy" to indicate just how puppied up something is.

Patrick "Chicago Brad" Klepek, Max "Cards Against Humanity" Temkin, and Dave "Lang Zone" Lang established Giant Bomb Chicago, the quasi-evil, scrappy counterpoint to Giant Bomb San Francisco. Mento is a mod now, along with rmanthorp. A secret coup is brewing. Brad mainlines Crystal Lizard dust to feel alive. Vinny is playing Castlevania games in a VinnyVania video series. Ding! Wrong answer. The new consoles are okay; gaming isn't dead. Bombin the AM with Scoops and the Wolf is a thing. We also now have F1 racing and wrestling podcasts. Patrick got way into Spelunky for a while.

There are now fun emotes in chat, including one of Brad Muir's smile. The Bombcast is more about starting civil wars than videogames. It's "thongs", not "flip-flops", you backwoods Brisbane hillbilly. All hail FMVinny, savior of many a UPF. There are now "Unfinished" videos for Early Access games. Mother-f*ckin Gang Beasts. Patrick usurped Brad's throne as Senior Anime Editor. Live streams have for the most part been moved from Twitch to GameSpot's video streaming. Danny O'Dwyer is a jewel of a human being. Dave Lang is a piece of human garbage. The dark days of the Navarro World Order are now.

That's pretty much it.

@truthtellah: Yeah, that about.... that about covers everything.

@truthtellah: When you sum it all up like that... what the fuck is this bizarre website that I spend so much time and money on?

I... I don't know, man. I just don't know.

Whatever it is... it's Giant Bomb.

I am the new King of Brownie Mountain.

It's a website, about video games.

Nothing really, Giant Bomb Unplugged is pretty great.

We've all been trucking along, still being awesome. Oh yeah, the site's kept being great too.

@milkman said:

What if in all the excitement Drake grabbed the wrong bottle? That's all I can think about.

@kyreo: uhhhh....

Load our Last Souls with Vinny/Ian/Rorie is fantastic

The GDC thing is something to watch (especially the last 30 minutes or so)

Rorie's Puppie Chat

Backflipping with Bioforge

Patrick defeated Yama/Satan

Dr. Tracksuit

@kyreo: It's no longer gaming website. It's about wrestling, F1, Dark Souls, and Dave Lang selling his products forcefully.

Also, hey there small businessman !

If you don't mind spoilers of the recent PAX 2014, here's some videos to get you up to speed:

The podcast mail segment is now all about spiteful anger and hatred between people and countries, but in an educational way.

I visit the site everyday but still don't know what's been going on. I dunno.. it's a bit different

You'rewelcome.

Also, the GB crew got wayyyyy into Windjammers and then they got wayyyy into Nidhogg.

I don't think they got into Nidhogg NEARLY as much as they got into Windjammers.

Were you here for the 24 hour charity marathons? Some great stuff there.

And watch the royal rumble, and this. Just watch it.

Nah, but they were playing it on UPF for like a month straight.

Yeah, looking back I guess you're right.