The Community Is Still A Threat! Giant Bomb's Community Thread!

UPDATED for October 22, 2008!The newest episodes of Bomb Should Have A Face and Interactive Fiction have been added to the community thread!

Welcome to "The Community is Still a Threat!" This is the official Giant Bomb Community Thread!

• The Bombing Run, Giant Bomb's Community Game Night! Join fellow Giant Bomb users in fighting, blasting, and general violent merriment! Details about this week's game. including platforms, game name, and times will be included in the link!  Post here if you want to host a game on a specific platform, as well as any general questions or comments!
• Bomb Should Have A Face, Giant Bomb's Community Podcast! Come to this thread every week to find New Episodes, along with iTunes subscribe links! Comment on the quality of the podcast go he-ah!
• Let's Play, Giant Bomb's Indie and Retro Game club, featuring exciting and thought provoking discussion and free game links! Click the link for this week's game and discussion!
• Giant Bomb IRC! Giant Bomb's community chatroom! Talk about whatever(Video Games! Dreams! Anything you got!)  If you're using Firefox as a browser, download Chatzilla! If not, then download mIRC! Then, click on the link to chat with Giant Bomb

• This week, community guest Systech on Bomb Should Have A Face!
• On the latest episode of Interactive Fiction, Matt Bodega finally answers the question: Are Games Art?

Giant Bomb Community: Your time is now....and You Are Still a Threat!

hmmm...no typos this time. spelling is no longer a threat.

Great thread, love the spelling. :D

Edit:

I liked the other one better, t'was full of DualReaver luv.
Oh, I'm such a narcissistic asshole.

Edit:

I want to give a shout out to MB, for helping us get this thread going. Appreciate it.

Great. Everything's spelled right this time. No stray u's about the place. And you added IRC instructions like I suggested. Now the thread is perfection.

And we're ready. This can work well if we're all willing to work together, guys. Let's do this and make a thriving community, one which we can all enjoy.

Also, getting the staff on BSHAF would be awesome. Someone blackmail them into it.

Now I have to repost, dammit. For next week's Bombing Run, I believe that we will be playing Gears of War or GTA4 if there is more than 8 players that want to participate. We should probably get that organized. There could be a Bombing Run for the PS3 version as well as the 360 version of GTA and I'm assuming that BR also got a lot of attention after the beautifully wrote manifesto, so Gears might be out of the question.

Spelling is no longer a threat?

:(

Great >_>. Anyway, i think you should look for someone to host Wii tourneys. I would do it but i lost my USB thingy

Alright, I will make the post here. Countdown link.

Countdown to the Next Game Night: GTA IV!

is this getting stickied?

Great idea, this is exactly what GB needs. 

Thanks to everyone who contributed in this.

Oh, and one other little suggestion from me. Shouldn't we think of a cool name for the giant bomb IRC? I mean, everything else has a cool name, "The community is still a threat", "Bombing run", "Bomb Should Have a Face", and "Lets play", yet the GB IRC is just called "Giant Bomb IRC".

Couldn't someone come up with a cool name for it like "Bomb should have a Chat" or "The Chat is still a threat" or "Chatting run". (OK, I suck at name suggestions, but someone must be able to come up with something).

And also, does anyone else find it ironic that I keep suggesting things to do with the IRC, but I've never actually used the GB IRC? I'm Weird.

lol at least your haelping out MattyFTM. I think its an idea worth pondering.

GiantBomb IRC name could be: DualReaver without an edit button. :P

Maybe something about it's continuity, how its forever flowing, help me out I'm not a wiz at names.

"is this getting stickied?"

It already was stickied, in General.  To have it show up as a sticky in the Latest Threads feed, it has to be pinned to all boards.  This is going to be sort of subject to change over time as the makeup of sticky threads on the different boards fluxuates.

"Link to Bombing Run 9/19 Thread

I will be glad to host it."

Guys if you want to host something pm me and matt about it just so we dont clutter the forumns with that

Excellent. No longer shall we have to worry about important community threads vanishing beneath the unfathomable depths of the Off Topic forum :D.

Kudos to everybody who's made this possible. I shan't list names, because you know who you are (read as: "because I am lazy :P."). I hope this helps stuff like the IRC and Let's Play to really take off amongst the site's users.

"Guys if you want to host something pm me and matt about it just so we dont clutter the forumns with that"

I'll talk about more platforms when I make the Bombing Run post on Monday. Ideally, we want to get PS3 games and Wii games in the mix, as well as  (if we can) multiple games across the same platform and a decent play time for European/UK players. It's all gonna depend on the community stepping up!

"I'll talk about more platforms when I make the Bombing Run post on Monday. Ideally, we want to get PS3 games and Wii games in the mix, as well as  (if we can) multiple games across the same platform and a decent play time for European/UK players. It's all gonna depend on the community stepping up!"

"MattBodega said:

"I'll talk about more platforms when I make the Bombing Run post on Monday. Ideally, we want to get PS3 games and Wii games in the mix, as well as  (if we can) multiple games across the same platform and a decent play time for European/UK players. It's all gonna depend on the community stepping up!"

Is there any chance that there could be more than one bombing run? i had fun in the last one, but  friday won't work for me from now on."

"MattBodega said:

"I'll talk about more platforms when I make the Bombing Run post on Monday. Ideally, we want to get PS3 games and Wii games in the mix, as well as  (if we can) multiple games across the same platform and a decent play time for European/UK players. It's all gonna depend on the community stepping up!"

Is there any chance that there could be more than one bombing run? i had fun in the last one, but  friday won't work for me from now on."

"Thrawn said:

"MattBodega said:

"I'll talk about more platforms when I make the Bombing Run post on Monday. Ideally, we want to get PS3 games and Wii games in the mix, as well as  (if we can) multiple games across the same platform and a decent play time for European/UK players. It's all gonna depend on the community stepping up!"

Is there any chance that there could be more than one bombing run? i had fun in the last one, but  friday won't work for me from now on."

Maybe we could move the GTA one on Saturday and have the Gears one on Friday."

Back-to-Back Game Nights? Sounds sweet.

bombing run 24/7

Well I'm here for any assistance in setting up a GMT Bombing Run. However in 2 weeks University may take over my life.

Okay, it's official. GTA4 on Saturday.

Here we go again: Gears of War countdown

Countdown to the next Game Night: Gears of War!

Countdown to the next Game Night: GTAIV!

Tell me if they both work.

Ok, lets try getting a PS3 one going at the same time, I live in the UK, but hey these things are fun.

Have we decided on who's hosting Gears of War?
I am up for it, if no one else is in line.

"Have we decided on who's hosting Gears of War?
I am up for it, if no one else is in line."

Someone who is willing to remove Rooftops from the map rotation ought to be host.

"Someone who is willing to remove Rooftops from the map rotation ought to be host.
"

Haha.  I mean, I don't care about winning or losing, but that map is just atrocious.

Alright well, my question is: Is everybody up for me hosting Gears Friday? I just want to make sure I can, I always like to know if I have confirmation.

i think you would need approval from mattbodega? not sure though,

Well you have my vote. :)

"Alright well, my question is: Is everybody up for me hosting Gears Friday? I just want to make sure I can, I always like to know if I have confirmation."

"Karmum said:

"Alright well, my question is: Is everybody up for me hosting Gears Friday? I just want to make sure I can, I always like to know if I have confirmation."

TokyoChicken told me he was hosting it, I believe."

Ok, sorry to diverge a little here, but in 2 weeks I am off to Uni and will be taking my laptop, which is a Macbook Pro. Is there a way to access the IRC on Mac OS, perhaps download Firefox then Chatzilla? I'm not sure. Haven't been on IRC anyway as my PC has hardware failures that I haven't fixed yet. Just chucking this post out there in case anyone has ay pearls of wisdom for me.

"Ok, sorry to diverge a little here, but in 2 weeks I am off to Uni and will be taking my laptop, which is a Macbook Pro. Is there a way to access the IRC on Mac OS, perhaps download Firefox then Chatzilla? I'm not sure. Haven't been on IRC anyway as my PC has hardware failures that I haven't fixed yet. Just chucking this post out there in case anyone has ay pearls of wisdom for me."

"Ok, sorry to diverge a little here, but in 2 weeks I am off to Uni and will be taking my laptop, which is a Macbook Pro. Is there a way to access the IRC on Mac OS, perhaps download Firefox then Chatzilla? I'm not sure. Haven't been on IRC anyway as my PC has hardware failures that I haven't fixed yet. Just chucking this post out there in case anyone has ay pearls of wisdom for me."

Great, thanks for the help guys!

"Great, thanks for the help guys!"

The most recent Lets play link is wrong o.O Try This one