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The Comic Commish - August '13

Toms, Doms and other assorted Bombs, welcome to another charmlessly garrulous Comic Commish. The penultimate picks for this petard-based premium program pageant are dedicated, as always, to Gold sponsor @omghisam and the fine folk of this establishment who are tirelessly creating quality subscriber content as we speak - that after today we'll have had three new pieces of premium content this week alone is a testament to how hard they're working on entertaining us paying plebes. I'd have run off cackling with a big sack with a dollar sign on it were I in their position. (Past Comic Commishes are here: Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun and Jul.)

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"The Klepick"

Patrick's absence in the San Francisco office is felt most keenly during the Bombcast and by the lack of Quick Looks he would've captained. However, he always brought something novel to Unprofessional Fridays by drawing from an indefatigable library of bizarre Indie titles he'd find during the week. Oddities like imscared, the entertainment factor of which really relied on everyone's lack of knowing what the hell was going on. "The Klepick" is simply Patrick sending the crew a link to an Indie game that defies both a straightforward description and reason - the crew plays it and tries vainly to figure out what its deal is. Though Patrick won't physically be there on the couch, his presence would be felt with every inscrutable browser game or Steam curio.

"Engineer Day"

A variant on that perennial cliché of the workplace comedy, Engineer Day switches the editors and the engineers for a single day, allowing the Top Men and Women to let their hair down and play a bunch of games on a live stream while the staffers discover what life is like knee-deep in front-end scripting and site diagnostics. I've no doubt it would be an interesting stream, were there still a site around to watch it on.

"Salty Scrubs"

Salty Bet dot com meets Scrub League: GB employees stream themselves betting on Salty Bet fights with an initial pot of something like $1000 each, and prior to the stream going live the GB users can bet on which GB employee will earn the most money during that period. The stream would be set-up in such a way that we'd see what everyone is betting and their current totals. Betting on betting - infinite recursion insanity.

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