The Community Spotlight - 06/21/2013

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I am your host as always and this week everyone is recovering from the deluge of stuff from E3. Unfortunately this means that we say farewell to our good friend and amazing contributor Patrick Klepek. As it has already been mentioned he'll still be around as our official Chicago Correspondent, but he just wont be at the GameSpot offices. Unfortunately Patrick isn't the only person that we say farewell to this week. Engineer Thomas, @idbloc is also leaving us and you can wish him the best over here. On a brighter note there's a couple of site changes that have been launched! Lists have been re-designed, and there's a new notification system for everyone that misses the old Friend's Feed. Finally for those of you that have noticed that the site automatically scrolls you to the bottom of a forum topic understand that the issue has been located, but the engineers do not have a timeline for when the issue will be fixed.

(Anime) Clip of the Week

Yeah, this feature is quickly becoming the Giant Bomb x Anime clip of the week. Anyways, here's a mashup video that crosses Giant Bomb with the Attack on Titan theme song:

Community Activities

• Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run for Child's Play - Help Raise Money for Charity Over Here!
• Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn Official Giant Bomb Company - Join the Company as it Prepares for the Official Release Here!
• Giant Bomb The Last of Us Online Clan - Hook Up with Other GB Users to Play Online Here!

Wonderful Wikis

In honor of Patrick he's going to be the top wiki article on the Spotlight for this week followed by his new home, Chicago. Shantae is coming out for the 3DS eshop and Luigi is getting his very own DLC this week.

• Patrick Klepek
• Chicago
• Shantae
• Luigi

Best of Blogs

Humanity has another video game fan poster featuring Jeff with this week's being The Last of Us. Stubbleman talks about the storied career of Karen Strassman. Video_game_King graces us with two blogs this week with one discussing eating sankes whereas the other guides us to our destiny using tarot cards. Mento has his most recent MS Paint webcomic and PsEG continues his dark journey with iRacing.com. Marino takes you on a trip down memory lane with clips of E3 2001. Chaser324 discusses why the Xbox One polcy reversal isn't a total victory for gamers, and Gamer_152 talks about the games from E3 he is most excited about. Bracknews wants you to help him on deciding which games he should knock off his backlog this summerand Ch3burashka gives you an update on his efforts to make a gaming PC. EpicSteve shares his take on the a recent controversy with PAX Australia and two amateur Encyclopedia Bombcasticas. Evercaptor explains why the stigmas related to gaming depress him. Brodehouse examines the science of The Last of Us whereas granderojo gives you his impressions of the game after having beaten it.

• Jeff in Video Games: Last of Us Edition (By: @humanity)
• Behind the Voice: Karen Strassman Part 1 (By: @stubbleman)
• Metal Gear: Then and Now. Also, Wrestling SpongeBob (By: @video_game_king)
• Divining the Future One Screenshot at a Time (By: @video_game_king)
• The Comic Commish - June '13 (By: @mento)
• iDecide My Next Step – iRacing Blog, Day 27 [Day 23] (By: @pseg)
• VHScapades: E3 2001 (By: @marino)
• The Reluctant Death of a "M$ Shill" - A Defense of the Old Xbox One Policies (By: @chaser324)
• My Summerjam Shamejam 2013 (By: @brackynews)
• My Second Blog Post - PC Building Edition (By: @ch3burashka)
• Everyone's a Sexist!? What Happened to our Industry? (By: @epicsteve)
• Amateur Encyclopedia Bombastica: Call of Duty 2 [Quake 4 Edition] (By: @epicsteve)
• A Brief Thought on Nomenclature (By: @evercaptor)
• A Look At Science and Society In The Post-Apocalypse (By: @brodehouse)
• The Sound and The Fury. Let's Talk about The Last of Us (By: @granderojo)
• E3 2013: Outside the Conferences (By: @gamer_152)

Fantastic Forums

The thread of the week goes to Tireyo643 whose Video Game Remix Jukebox gives you all fo the best remixes and remasters of video game music. The Video_Game_King asks you to talk about any video game habits that have become compulsions. If you have played The Last of Us to completion talk about your thoughts about the ending on the discussion thread. If you have bought any goodies from the GOG.com Summer Sale talk about them and other deal on the official discussion thread for the event.

• The Video Game Remixed and Remastered Jukebox (By: @tireyo643)
• GOG.com's Summer Sale Discussion Thread (By: @bonorbitz)
• The Last of Us Ending Discussion Thread (By: @naru_joe93)
• Your Gaming Compulsions (By: @video_game_king)

Lovable Lists

Mento is back at editing lists and this week shares the thirty boss themes that you should give a listen to. I seem to recall there being someone else on this site that appears to be and expert video game boss themes, but that may just be me.

• Finally, a Boss "Final Boss Theme"-Themed List (By: @mento)

Useful User Reviews

• @video_game_king's user review of Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D
• @crusader8463's user review of Evoland

I am a dangerous man. (Also, I am only guiding my own destiny. Your own destinies are not within my control....yet.)

Awesome!

*ahem*

I may have done a little review of Tekken Revolution. I've also been hard at work on the wiki as well.

http://www.giantbomb.com/tekken-revolution/3030-42880/user-reviews/2200-26008

Oh man, seeing stuff I did in the Community Showcase makes me feel...alive.

I need this high again.

Yet again for some bizzare site-revamp reason I am no longer following ZP. Oh well, 5 more to 85k!

I played a somewhat old CRPG. Shocker!

Got them, thanks as always!

So let's test out the new notification system to see if it's able to "notify" users using @Replies yet:

@typographenia@chavtheworld@aurahack and @epicsteve

You all did cool stuff, keep up the good work!

@zombiepie: Thanks! And it works! ... I think? It still seems pretty iffy. I've not been pinged for a few things but otherwise it seems to work.

@zombiepie: Thanks!

With the notifications feature I'm noticing it's only notifying me on about half the blog comments I've received

@zombiepie: Thank you kind ZombiePie! And I've even stopped getting emails for all notifications now, fantastic!

ECHO THIS! Thanks for helping make this madness even more madness-er!

Noising it up, once again: http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic-31/new-hamst3r-music-facemelter-dance-sucka-dance-1442483/

I <3 ZombiePie

Speaking of shameless advertising...

I hope to have the new TurboMento blog completed by today. I also have a review and a list.

/ETA: Guess I wrote something else. Probably too late - I'll link to it again next week if that's the case.

Here's another set of notifications to user that they have done stuff that will be on the next Community Spotlight:

@rasta_zergling@daneian@thecheeto@billythekid

You did good stuff, keep up the good work!

That picture of Scoops makes me sad. But here's this thing I did.

I wrote this a little while ago. It was originally for a city life website I worked on but it could fit well here too I suppose. It's an article on that Pinball Wizard arcade they talked about on the Bombcast.

I had you covered when you first wrote it in April. I look forward to any new blogs or articles that you write.

Oh well shit, thanks! I needed a good incentive to write more :D

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