So while I'm waiting for my edits to be approved I've been jumping into random threads on the general discussion and off-topic forums. I happened upon an IRC channel that someone set up and I figure I'll spread the word.

(This blurb is taken from Jax's blog post)
Server: irc.gamesurge.net
Port: 6667
Channel: #giantbomb

For Firefox users:

Download your friendly neighborhood IRC Client (I recommend ChatZilla https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16)
Restart Firefox
Open up ChatZilla

To join the GiantBomb IRC chat users should do these steps...
            1. in the chat box enter "/server irc.gamesurge.net
            2. again in the chat box enter "/join #giantbomb"
            3. Chat away!


If you have Chatzilla you can also just click this link and it'll connect automatically.

irc://irc.gamesurge.net/giantbomb