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Well-put. I'd also like to add appreciation for anyone who has worked behind the scenes to make Giant Bomb happen: from the engineers, business people and mods, to their families and friends getting the team through the more stressful part. To those I cannot name, I salute you.

Even though my internet rarely allows me to use it, this is very helpful. Thanks.

Congratulations to the entire Gerstmann family - Jeff, his wife and their two cats - on the new kid. I hope Jeff gets to take a long paternity leave <3

@zombiepie: I donated $120 with "THE POWER OF POSITIVITY" in my comment for 2 hours of positivity with the second FFXIII-2 game. I have a charity savings pot and this was the last amount I could afford (meaning no more donations from me during the stream but that's okay). Now you have to be nice about the game no matter how difficult it gets (and given the moogle in this game... it may be reeeeeally tough for you) ?

I was interested in looking further into this story rather than the four lines originally quoted in the Daily Express(and no other source).

Prince Harry was at an event for the Charity "Heads Together" which is a UK-based charity spearheaded by the Royals aiming to tackle Mental Illness. This event was specifically about mental health with young people and took place at a YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) which provides access to accommodation for young people and families. Invited were the prince, representatives of the charity and schemes, young people to speak about their stories, and mental health experts (I assume journalists were included to cover the event).

Strangley, he wasn't there to make a speech or statement (or even talk about fortnite, video games or social media), he just did photo-ops with a ballet class, and then sat at a discussion table for a long time speaking to those invited. Supposedly, he said these things to someone as part of many normal conversations over the day and a journalist quoted him only on this. In contrst, he's not even quoted once on the charity's own news page for the event. Instead, the focus is on quoting individuals on their personal experiences with mental illness along with mental health experts at the event.

It seems unfair to scrutinise him on this and argue he even wants to ban Fortnite when we don't even know the context of these quotes. For all we know, it could have been in a conversation about someone describing how addiction to video games was the cause of them needing this charity's accommodation (in which case, reacting with such emotive language would be completely expected and no one should confuse it with political statements).

This just seems like poor journalism sparked by a single journalist quoting him out of context with no way of verifying why he said it. If anything, this just seems to show how quickly social media can spread some quotes and ridicule them.

I'm not a royalist (personally, I think they should be stripped of even their performative powers) but I do care about mental health charities as someone who similar charities to cope with my own mental illness... so I'm just sad that this has been the total focus of this story. I hope the people who bravely shared their stories at the event felt listened to there, because they've certainly been ignored by the media.

I donated - I hope I can make it to some of your stream but I may have to focus on revision for exams at the end of April. Sending you energy from afar regardless! ?

@zombiepie: Aww thank you ❤️ I hope you're doing well too.

I agree with you that it seems unlikely that Square Enix would put together a team that manages to nail a personal story again. While I still believe they have the talent to do it (for instance, the actual reason people care about the non-Disney aspects of Kingdom Hearts is that of the surprising amount of sincere character moments sprinkled throughout - 358/2days especially), their focus has been on ever-increasing spectacle.

I'm not yearning for a Final Fantasy X-3, I just think that if a development team wanted to explore it, I'd happily give them a chance. I'm also not as entrenched in the idea that only those who worked on the previous games could make it; I think the more important part is whether Square Enix's publishing side would greenlight a more toned-down character-driven pitch than their current staples.

I like the new site. I don't have any useful feedback, I just wanted to see I appreciate all your hard work.

Minor thing (I use Desktop): Whenever you make a change (for instance, add a show to my list) and get a green bar confirming the change - the green bar covers the top of the screen and thus blocks the entire navigation bar. It's just annoying waiting for it to disappear to then go somewhere else on the site. Could it be moved the bottom of the screen?

A few months ago, I sent a PM to Ben suggesting it for his morning stream but then he stopped doing them.

GB skips games all the time for probably benign reasons (like time, new games coming out, personal commitments, events, etc...). Maybe they'll return to it but probably not. It's fine though, there's no reasonable expectation that they could even see everything let alone quick look them all.

Still, it's a fun game and I'm glad it stuck with you. ?