This is not an angry post. I've always been on team "Giant Bomb has to evolve" so I get it. There are reasons that GB seems to have moved beyond the Quick Look. For one these streams have gotten longer and longer to the point where they're usually between 60-90 minutes, which is not that quick. For another I am sure there are SEO reasons, since GB seems to have moved more to Youtube and other video hosts rather than focusing on the site's internal hosting (which also makes sense.)
And I'm sure there's something of a desire to break from the past now that the originals are all gone and the people with longer tenures weren't necessarily Quick Look focused anyway (Dan was on some but more focused on his various gimmicky shenanigans.)
So I can't really argue with the decision, but it's just another sign of how the old Giant Bomb is kind of fading. Even its branding doesn't have the power it once did. And that whole era, of games coverage, games, my life, the world, is just getting old. I mean I already know that I'm getting old, but this is just more confirmation.
Meanwhile Twitch just laid off 35% of its staff, so the new era of games coverage doesn't seem to be going that amazingly either. 2023 was, by some measures, a great year for games, and PlayStation and Nintendo are both in very strong spots right now, but man, the industry just feels in flux and unstable and I'm doing the old man thing of missing when in 2011 I could go to the GB website and delight because some goofy looking game just got a Quick Look uploaded and I suddenly knew what I was going to watch during dinner.
I will now go search my sweater for Werther's Originals. Maybe that reference is too outdated for younger people to even get it. That's depressing in and of itself.
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