The Community Spotlight Redux

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Welcome To 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. Join in on a Game Night sometime. If you have a suggestion for improving the thread, PM me.

Game Nights/Bombing Runs

It wouldn’t be a video game website without people who play video games….

Forza 3 Community Contest [11/23-12/11/2009 (Win some cool Persona 4 cars!)]

User Content

Featured User Review

Check out Video_Game_King's review of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Author's note : If you've written a review (or read a review) that you think is deserving of front page honors, feel free to PM Kush with a link to the review and if it truly is a kick ass review it may very likely end up becoming the next featured review! Good luck and keep up all the good work. :)

Lovable Lists

These user created tabulations are surprisingly informative and hilarious.

Fantastic Forum Posts

These are threads of humor to serious discussions on video games and those who play them.

The User Made GB Android Application (By: harris)
Official Black Friday Threaad (By: Jakob187)
A Guide to the Giant Bomb Forza Community (By: PsEG)

Golden Guides

The following guides are truly golden and are wonderful tools of assistance for all GiantBomb users.

Wonderful Wikis

These wikis are wonderful and should be used by all users as a guidance on how to make well written wikis!

User Created Podcasts

Column Head 1	Column Head 2	Column Head 3
Distributed Failure	DF #84: Giving Happy Thanks	Latest Episode: November 26, 2009
Counter Culture Weekly	CCW #6: We Are Oscar Mike	Latest Episode: November 22, 2009

Author's Note: To get content on the Spotlight just post on this forum or send me a PM, and then I'll review it. All content (threads, guides, wikis and podcasts) will be showcased for a max of two weeks and then removed

Features/Useful Content

GiantBomb IRC

Chat with Giant Bombers here! If you're using Firefox as a browser, download Chatzilla. If not, then download
mIRC (windows only)!

GiantBomb Twitter

Follow GiantBombSquad, the Giant Bomb Community Feed. You can also find some user Twitter accounts here .

GiantBomb Steam Group

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

Gamertags/IDs/Friends Codes

Xbox Live Gamertags!

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Post by Jolly_Lolly (3,073 posts) See mini bio

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I am still amazed by some of the people here that put so much work and time into GB related activities.

Good for you, guys.

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Post by Hamz (3,453 posts) See mini bio

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Pinned / stickied / anchored for people to see.

Thanks for stepping up to the challenge.

Posted 8 months ago

Post by Coltonio7 (2,702 posts) See mini bio

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Where's my Systech!? =( =( =(

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Post by Karmum (9,663 posts) See mini bio

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Good luck dude, you will probably want this link, to the banner that was in that topic.

Posted 8 months ago

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ZombiePie said:

"natetodamax said:
"I'm just going to throw a completely random idea out there. Perhaps maybe links to some of the more popular Guides on Giant Bomb?"
Sounds GREAT! A guide of the week feature would fit nicely with the user content I'm trying to plug on this!"

I put up Lies, Jayge, natetodamax, and systech's Fallout 3 Megaguide for guide of the century.

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Post by Disgaeamad (788 posts) See mini bio

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ZombiePie said:

"Don’t worry unlike most IRC chat rooms the GiantBomb isn’t full of weird people…"

Dude...what?

Posted 8 months ago

Post by brukaoru (3,301 posts) See mini bio

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I think the size of the text for the podcasts is too big, but other than that, looking good. Here-here!

Disgaeamad said:

"ZombiePie said:
"Don’t worry unlike most IRC chat rooms the GiantBomb isn’t full of weird people…"
Dude...what?"

LOL. Really... :P

Posted 8 months ago

Post by StarFoxA (1,946 posts) See mini bio

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Kind of a random out of the blue question; what happened to the Sunday Bomb Drop?

Posted 8 months ago

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StarFoxA said:

"Kind of a random out of the blue question; what happened to the Sunday Bomb Drop?"

Staff handed it over to the community, the community sort of bottled it I think. Not sure exactly but some folks did it, then they stopped doing it.

Posted 8 months ago

Post by ZombiePie (1,031 posts) See mini bio

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brukaoru said:

"I think the size of the text for the podcasts is too big, but other than that, looking good. Here-here!

Disgaeamad said:
"ZombiePie said:
"Don’t worry unlike most IRC chat rooms the GiantBomb isn’t full of weird people…"
Dude...what?"
LOL. Really... :P"

You see kids this is why you shouldn't attempt to be funny when you've only had 4.5 hours of sleep. But chatrooms are still filled with perverts nonetheless.

On the puffy text don't you think it would be good to have larger text for the podcasts? They kind of are important.

Posted 8 months ago

Post by ZombiePie (1,031 posts) See mini bio

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Okay so users can now nominate game guides that they feel are worthwhile for me to post on the spotlight. All I need are three people who weren't involved in the production of the guide and I'll decide if its worth plugging. Like I said in the Spotlight I don't want plagiarized achievement guides. What I want are guides that show that someone put a lot of time and effort into them. It isn't called golden guides for nothing!

Edit: Changed so now it only requires one nomination from an uninvolved user.

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Post by Kush (6,797 posts) See mini bio

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The larger text for podcasts is not a good idea...it just makes that section stand out in a negative way.

Posted 8 months ago

Post by ZombiePie (1,031 posts) See mini bio

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Kush said:

"The larger text for podcasts is not a good idea...it just makes that section stand out in a negative way."

Okay that's the second complaint, I'll change it then.

Out of curiosity, have all of your other complaints, the crowded presentation and unnecessary content been addressed?

Posted 8 months ago

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I think the spaces between certain sections are ugly on the eyes...ie. the space the Twitter and Steam section. The images in those sections aren't needed either, but this is all just my opinion.

Posted 8 months ago

Post by RedSox8933 (1,522 posts) See mini bio

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The format looks a lot better now, ZombiePie.

Posted 8 months ago

Post by MattyFTM (6,738 posts) See mini bio

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Hamz said:

"StarFoxA said:
"Kind of a random out of the blue question; what happened to the Sunday Bomb Drop?"
Staff handed it over to the community, the community sort of bottled it I think. Not sure exactly but some folks did it, then they stopped doing it."

I'll answer this question since I was organizing it. The last two that people actually wrote and sent to snide never went up on the site. I meant to check with snide to see what was up, but I never got around to it. To be honest, I can't be bothered with it anymore. I was fine with scheduling it, but when I've got to chase up snide for reasons why they didn't go up, I end up forgetting and before you know it it's 3 weeks ago so there's not much point anymore. And people put a lot of effort into writing them, I feel guilty when they don't go up and I forget to chase it up.

Anyway, SuperMooseman PMed me about it a few days ago, and he said that he might take over organizing them or something, so the ball's in his court at the moment.

Also, Good work on the thread Zombie Pie.

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Post by Kush (6,797 posts) See mini bio

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It definitely looks a lot better...also, I cleaned it up just a tad bit more because I just find extra spaces/etc to be rather bothersome for the eyes.

Posted 8 months ago

Post by StarFoxA (1,946 posts) See mini bio

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You could also post notable wiki pages that single or several users have put a lot of effort into.

Posted 8 months ago

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MattyFTM said:

"I'll answer this question since I was organizing it. The last two that people actually wrote and sent to snide never went up on the site. I meant to check with snide to see what was up, but I never got around to it. To be honest, I can't be bothered with it anymore. I was fine with scheduling it, but when I've got to chase up snide for reasons why they didn't go up, I end up forgetting and before you know it it's 3 weeks ago so there's not much point anymore. And people put a lot of effort into writing them, I feel guilty when they don't go up and I forget to chase it up.Anyway, SuperMooseman PMed me about it a few days ago, and he said that he might take over organizing them or something, so the ball's in his court at the moment.Also, Good work on the thread Zombie Pie."

That's unfortunate, but it was good while it lasted. Perhaps it will return someday.

Posted 8 months ago

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brukaoru said:

"MattyFTM said:
"I'll answer this question since I was organizing it. The last two that people actually wrote and sent to snide never went up on the site. I meant to check with snide to see what was up, but I never got around to it. To be honest, I can't be bothered with it anymore. I was fine with scheduling it, but when I've got to chase up snide for reasons why they didn't go up, I end up forgetting and before you know it it's 3 weeks ago so there's not much point anymore. And people put a lot of effort into writing them, I feel guilty when they don't go up and I forget to chase it up.Anyway, SuperMooseman PMed me about it a few days ago, and he said that he might take over organizing them or something, so the ball's in his court at the moment.Also, Good work on the thread Zombie Pie."
That's unfortunate, but it was good while it lasted. Perhaps it will return someday."

Speaking of the devil, Moose just created a thread about them, so it looks like it might be returning soon.

Posted 8 months ago

Post by SuperMooseman (2,246 posts) See mini bio

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Thanks for featuring my Spy Fox guide in the 'Golden Guide' section! And yeah, those who are wanting the bomb drop back, please post in the thread (link above in Matty's post) if you want to write one, or if you have any suggestions/ideas.

Posted 8 months ago

Post by ZombiePie (1,031 posts) See mini bio

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StarFoxA said:

"You could also post notable wiki pages that single or several users have put a lot of effort into."

Okay lets do this! The Spotlight will now have a feature called Wonderful Wikis. It will feature the same nomination process as the Golden Guides feature, someone who is uninvolved in the making of the wiki must nominate it to be plugged on the Community Spotlight.

Keep the original ideas flowing guys, these are great!

Posted 8 months ago

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