The Community Spotlight

 

Welcome to the Giant Bomb Community Thread! Here, you can find links to user run content like the IRC channel and podcasts such as the user acclaimed Bomb Should Have A Face and the Broken Lampcast. Join in a Game Night sometime because it's the best way to get to know the Community and have a lot of fun at the same time. If you want to get your own business on the thread or if you just have a suggestion for improving the thread, PM me and I might magically put it in the thread!

Features

Giant Bomb IRC

• Hop into the Giant Bomb IRC to talk with fellow users about games and other things people talk about in real life! 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.

Giant Bomb Twitter

• If you guys want to keep in touch with Giantbombers off of the site and you have a twitter account, Follow GiantBombSquad, the Giant Bomb Community Feed. The main goal of this account is to unite fellow users and connect you to their feeds. If you follow, others will follow you back! You can also find some user Twitter accounts here.
  

• Find and connect with other users through Steam by joining the Steam Giantbomb Community Group.

Game Nights/Bombing Runs

• Thordain is organizing a PC TF2 bombing run on March 28th. Check it out HERE! and leave your Steam details.

• Gambit is organizing a tournament for Street Fighter IV on X360 on March 29th at 5PM CST. You can sign up HERE.

  
  

User-Created Podcasts

Recent Updates!

• March 27: A new episodeof Distributed Failure is up for your listening displeasure.
• March 27: A new episode of BEAT.British is now up for your listening pleasure.
• March 27: New "Featured User Review" on the front page! - SunKing's review of The Path.
• March 23: A new episode of BSHAF is up for your listening pleasure.
  

Great job.

WHAT'S GOING ON?!  THIS...THIS IS MADNESS!!!

"WHAT'S GOING ON?!  THIS...THIS IS MADNESS!!!

*insert Leonidas here*

Come on, stop changing everything!!!  lol  You're confusing my already pea-sized mind!

"

Nice work, a few minor things to sort but otherwise its come along well. I think a little pat on the back is in order for systech from the rest of the community ;)

Looking at the post now...it seems more like a podcast spotlight with other things thrown in. The podcasts take up so much room.

"Looking at the post now...it seems more like a podcast spotlight with other things thrown in. The podcasts take up so much room."

"Kush said:

"Looking at the post now...it seems more like a podcast spotlight with other things thrown in. The podcasts take up so much room."

The podcasts section looks longer because of the way the bullet points are set up.   It just needs some formatting help and editing."

Gragh! New pages...

Personally, I prefer the updates and game nights to be on top, followed by the Features and Podcasts. I think a table of the podcasts would also take up less room and look neater. Still, a better layout than before. Good work Systech!

SO MANY CHANGES! But seriously, good job.

Guess the community is no longer a threat =(

"Personally, I prefer the updates and game nights to be on top, followed by the Features and Podcasts. I think a table of the podcasts would also take up less room and look neater. Still, a better layout than before. Good work Systech!"

"It's all very well listing podcasts, but this is meant to be a GiantBomb community thread. I don't think any of those podcasts - except BSHAF - are actually about GiantBomb, and so I don't think there is any need for them to be listed... anyone agree?"

"SuperMooseman said:

"It's all very well listing podcasts, but this is meant to be a GiantBomb community thread. I don't think any of those podcasts - except BSHAF - are actually about GiantBomb, and so I don't think there is any need for them to be listed... anyone agree?"

The thread is meant to be about great content created by the users of GB, not just something that only relates to GB. Also, BSHAF in its current form is much more of an IRC podcast than a full blown GB bombcast, but that is just my personal opinion."

The list of podcasts definitely look better in that table. Very nice. :)

So the community is no longer a threat?

"Guess the community is no longer a threat =("

"So the community is no longer a threat?"

Very nice, very nice.

That looks much better. Great job Systech.

WE ARE STILL A THREAT!

Dude, that table is PRO.

Fucking hate those things. Never work the way I want them to.

If you can work it in without destroying the formatting, you should add which users do what casts- I know it was in here before, and it's nice to know.

"SuperMooseman said:

"It's all very well listing podcasts, but this is meant to be a GiantBomb community thread. I don't think any of those podcasts - except BSHAF - are actually about GiantBomb, and so I don't think there is any need for them to be listed... anyone agree?"

The thread is meant to be about great content created by the users of GB, not just something that only relates to GB. Also, BSHAF in its current form is much more of an IRC podcast than a full blown GB bombcast, but that is just my personal opinion."

"Kush said:

"SuperMooseman said:

"It's all very well listing podcasts, but this is meant to be a GiantBomb community thread. I don't think any of those podcasts - except BSHAF - are actually about GiantBomb, and so I don't think there is any need for them to be listed... anyone agree?"

The thread is meant to be about great content created by the users of GB, not just something that only relates to GB. Also, BSHAF in its current form is much more of an IRC podcast than a full blown GB bombcast, but that is just my personal opinion."

Frequent guests and inside jokes aside, BSHAF is very much dedicated to bringing up and talking about all aspects of the community. Even if there is a large correlation between the most active members of the community and IRC dwellers."

"Kush said:

"SuperMooseman said:

"It's all very well listing podcasts, but this is meant to be a GiantBomb community thread. I don't think any of those podcasts - except BSHAF - are actually about GiantBomb, and so I don't think there is any need for them to be listed... anyone agree?"

The thread is meant to be about great content created by the users of GB, not just something that only relates to GB. Also, BSHAF in its current form is much more of an IRC podcast than a full blown GB bombcast, but that is just my personal opinion."

Frequent guests and inside jokes aside, BSHAF is very much dedicated to bringing up and talking about all aspects of the community. Even if there is a large correlation between the most active members of the community and IRC dwellers."

-Checks-

I think this is a topic about community stuff, and not a debate about the merits of the IRC, guys.

Statements on IRC.

Thanks Systech, because of this post, I am now a member of the Giantbomb Steam Group and looking forward to an official Giantbomb TF2 server.

"To further illustrate my point, take a quick glance at the most recent 50 topics on the forums and tell me how many IRC folks names' you see.  Probably not very many.  In fact, IRC seems to appeal to people that don't like message boards that much - I know that a great deal of the IRC rarely, if ever, posts on the forums.  They prefer chatting, which is totally cool, but please don't make the mistake of calling those people "the community", it's really a disservice to the hundreds and thousands of other users who are dedicated to this site, yet couldn't be less interested in IRC."

"It's all very well listing podcasts, but this is meant to be a GiantBomb community thread. I don't think any of those podcasts - except BSHAF - are actually about GiantBomb, and so I don't think there is any need for them to be listed... anyone agree?"

Speaking for the BLC, we at least serve some kind of practical purpose, of being a hybrid of game criticism and concept discussion, and I say that is a great deal more informative, constructive, and interesting than discussing forum posts you saw, or user reviews you disagree with. At that point, you're spending time expressing ideas other people have already gotten to, and that's a rather dull way to spend time, both yours and someone elses.

"SuperMooseman said:

"It's all very well listing podcasts, but this is meant to be a GiantBomb community thread. I don't think any of those podcasts - except BSHAF - are actually about GiantBomb, and so I don't think there is any need for them to be listed... anyone agree?"

However, your point still stands. I don't really post on the forums that much, and my cohosts don't at all. Nonetheless, I am a part of Giant Bomb's community, and that shouldn't be invalidated by the fact that my post count is maybe double digits (I don't even know right now). Therefore, I petition that my podcast remain in the thread for now. I'll have some introduction thread in the near future, probably before the next episode goes up."

 People who are apart of GiantBomb and have game-related content outside of the website should be allowed free plugs.

"Jayge said:

"Kush said:

"SuperMooseman said:

"It's all very well listing podcasts, but this is meant to be a GiantBomb community thread. I don't think any of those podcasts - except BSHAF - are actually about GiantBomb, and so I don't think there is any need for them to be listed... anyone agree?"

The thread is meant to be about great content created by the users of GB, not just something that only relates to GB. Also, BSHAF in its current form is much more of an IRC podcast than a full blown GB bombcast, but that is just my personal opinion."

Frequent guests and inside jokes aside, BSHAF is very much dedicated to bringing up and talking about all aspects of the community. Even if there is a large correlation between the most active members of the community and IRC dwellers."

Not really.  IRC is but a small subset of the userbase and not really a good representation of it's makeup, nor do they represent everyone.  We're trying to get away from this mistaken impression that IRC folks are "the" community.  When it comes down to it, there are maybe 20 or so regularly active members that chat in IRC - that is nothing compared to how many users are active on the forums every day, or who may be actively commenting on articles or editing the wiki all the time. 

To further illustrate my point, take a quick glance at the most recent 50 topics on the forums and tell me how many IRC folks names' you see.  Probably not very many.  In fact, IRC seems to appeal to people that don't like message boards that much - I know that a great deal of the IRC rarely, if ever, posts on the forums.  They prefer chatting, which is totally cool, but please don't make the mistake of calling those people "the community", it's really a disservice to the hundreds and thousands of other users who are dedicated to this site, yet couldn't be less interested in IRC."

In Conclusion, if you would like to feel better about the BSHAF, go join the IRC!

We are in your community

Stealing your attention.

http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic/31/we-made-a-podcast/228514/#3

same here

Thanks for sticking me up there systech!

"MB said:

"Jayge said:

"Kush said:

"SuperMooseman said:

"It's all very well listing podcasts, but this is meant to be a GiantBomb community thread. I don't think any of those podcasts - except BSHAF - are actually about GiantBomb, and so I don't think there is any need for them to be listed... anyone agree?"

The thread is meant to be about great content created by the users of GB, not just something that only relates to GB. Also, BSHAF in its current form is much more of an IRC podcast than a full blown GB bombcast, but that is just my personal opinion."

Frequent guests and inside jokes aside, BSHAF is very much dedicated to bringing up and talking about all aspects of the community. Even if there is a large correlation between the most active members of the community and IRC dwellers."

Not really.  IRC is but a small subset of the userbase and not really a good representation of it's makeup, nor do they represent everyone.  We're trying to get away from this mistaken impression that IRC folks are "the" community.  When it comes down to it, there are maybe 20 or so regularly active members that chat in IRC - that is nothing compared to how many users are active on the forums every day, or who may be actively commenting on articles or editing the wiki all the time. 

To further illustrate my point, take a quick glance at the most recent 50 topics on the forums and tell me how many IRC folks names' you see.  Probably not very many.  In fact, IRC seems to appeal to people that don't like message boards that much - I know that a great deal of the IRC rarely, if ever, posts on the forums.  They prefer chatting, which is totally cool, but please don't make the mistake of calling those people "the community", it's really a disservice to the hundreds and thousands of other users who are dedicated to this site, yet couldn't be less interested in IRC."

Thanks for speaking my mind."

Needs more Australian GB podcasts, who's with me.

"Needs more Australian GB podcasts, who's with me."

"Cheapoz said:

"Needs more Australian GB podcasts, who's with me."

THIS here podcast is brand new and features an Australian! ...as well as a vagina!"

"Kush said:

"Cheapoz said:

"Needs more Australian GB podcasts, who's with me."

THIS here podcast is brand new and features an Australian! ...as well as a vagina!"

Calling Wallace a vagina is not cool man."

"Rowr said:

"Kush said:

"Cheapoz said:

"Needs more Australian GB podcasts, who's with me."

THIS here podcast is brand new and features an Australian! ...as well as a vagina!"

Calling Wallace a vagina is not cool man."

Who are you kidding, he loves it. Have you guys named it yet?"

"Rowr said:

"Kush said:

"Cheapoz said:

"Needs more Australian GB podcasts, who's with me."

THIS here podcast is brand new and features an Australian! ...as well as a vagina!"

Calling Wallace a vagina is not cool man."

Who are you kidding, he loves it. Have you guys named it yet?"

Community is still a threat was funny at the time, this thread should be just as good!

Cool, another update. KEEP IT UP!

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And just like that...The spotlight has been updated. Fresh new bulb for your blinding pleasure!