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Brad was a mix of good and bad as the host. Listeners can fast-forward through "boring" conversations, but people who are interested can't magically hear a conversation that never happened or was cut short. If the people in the room want to talk, and there's one person out there who wants to listen, why cut them off?

Three movies everyone must watch:

1. Citizen Kane (1941, Black and White) - see if you can spot how every movie takes its inspiration from Citizen Kane. Maybe you'll be too busy enjoying the great story and camera work. Whether you know the ending ahead of time or not is irrelevant: it's an interesting footnote on the best and most revolutionary movie ever made.

2. The Godfather (1972, Color) - Marlon Brando stars and gives the best performance of any person in any film, as far as I have seen. Mobsters doing mob things. Boring at times, yet in retrospect, everything is necessary.

3. North by Northwest - (1959, Color) - Alfred Hitchcock, the king of suspense, directs his most suspenseful movie ever: a cold-war-era spy drama. Never a dull moment, never more than one step ahead of the bad guys.

I use IMDB and TSPDT for my classic-movie needs. TSPDT is heavily biased towards "artsy" and "classic" movies, while IMDB is biased towards movies that are fun to watch and that a man aged around 18-30 would enjoy.

North by Northwest will be the easiest one to get drawn into (10 minutes should be plenty). But as the other two movies get going, they are very interesting. The Godfather starts out pretty interesting, takes a little break, then gets more interesting.

They're pretty great but they aren't on the site anywhere. Does anyone have a backup?

edit: Here's a page as a JPEG and I think less than full-size?

http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/bomb-squad-6871/let-s-make-more-emoticons-for-the-chat-1458201/

I'd rather get a subscription for $35 than a $50 one that comes with $15 off for their store. I guess subscriber numbers are good enough that they don't need to do this anymore?

If you've actually played Windjammers, you know how much fun it is. If the Giant Bomb staff wasn't having fun playing Windjammers, they wouldn't play it.

This is great.

I'm at 1:39:10 and after horror I haven't noticed any spoilers. edit: Stanley Parable references around 1:50

I'm 0 for 3 so far, but Zelda made it to position number 01 on Vinny's list. Kind of a wash for my overall site prediction then.

@me3639:I had an awesome post here about how Animal Crossing is too iterative and the original GC game is still about as good as New Leaf. I think the site staff feels about the same - New Leaf is great for new players but really really iterative for the people who don't spend hundreds of hours playing the game. (Although I did play hundreds of hours in AC GC and maybe even broke that by playing online in AC Wii.)

@somedelicook: "I'm curious OP, how does a game you don't think will be anyone's top game make it as the site's GOTY? I don't see the logic in that, this isn't VGX"

It's a game they all like a lot, it seems. Jeff doesn't like Mario and Patrick doesn't like GTA 5. Etc.

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