Even in my imagination of what the next Lego game would be, I wouldn't guess Jurassic Park. But it's easy to see why this might work really well... cool!
I'm a bit curious about you guys' take on the recent "Freemium Isn't Free" episode of South Park though. I've fallen off from watching every week, but that episode was spot-on with its criticisms and got a few really good laughs out of me.
You never know with stuff like that. The fact that a significant number of people have posted threats on social media and then made good on them sets a dangerous precedent.
The "clearly a joke" defense does not cut it when you consider seemingly jocular remarks about committing violence that turned into real world tragedies. I get it, from a rational, detached perspective it's easy to look at comments like that and think "that's too outlandish to actually happen." But enraged passions and abnormal behavior go hand in hand.
On top of that, even a purely hyperbolic or facetious threat can have a debilitating psychological impact. Celebrities are famous (see what I did) for people having difficulty conceptualizing them as actual human beings. Super-stars like Michael Jackson, Tom Cruise, and Gabe Newell seem to accentuate that notion. Have you ever seen them in the same room together? Think about it... With the internet's dehumanizing tendencies layered on top of that, and the soapbox windtunnel that is social media, I think it can be argued that it's "easy" to go one step too far and say something you don't mean and might later regret. But that's no reason not to clamp down on that behavior.
Big respect for the write-up. I'm sick of the bullshit and hate, and I can't imagine how someone who is forced to confront it on the daily feels.
I'm a fan of games and GB through and through, and I know you guys are awesome. I want to believe most of the users are above this stuff too... And hopefully soon what's broken in the larger community gets fixed.
Yeah, for anyone really wondering about whether contests like this are legit, America has REALLY strict laws that regulate and monitor sweepstakes, contests, lotteries, etc... Everything pretty much has to be above-board or it can be litigious, and legally you have to be able to access (often on the product itself) the fine print containing details about how low your odds are and all sorts of legalese.
At first I misread the title as "compliment," and I was thinking The Super Best Friendcast loves Giant Bomb and they speak highly of those dudes like weekly!
Then I corrected my reading comprehension and I'd still like to recommend Super Best Friendcast.
They are also a humor show, though they're perhaps more crass in some ways than the Bombcast, and there is a different energy overall that I still find appealing. While they are always about games generally, and can be expected to play pretty much everything, they ALL are RPG fans of different types, with Pat and Liam being close to what you might call fanatics in their own way. So you get a TON of Persona talk over the year (it's only been on for ~52 episodes) along with general RPG chatter sprinkled in constantly throughout whatever dumb, often funny bullshit.
It's not really about RPGs, and it's way more... academic... But I'd be remiss to not recommend A Life Well Wasted. It is a loving exploration of some fascinating aspects of the culture that is never dull and features many great interviews of all sorts... it's really fantastic, and you can listen to all of it in a short time.
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