Please stop doing this shoot/work stuff. It's so confusing and to me just feels like you're telling everyone "we don't want you here unless you're a hardcore wrestling fan."
Aw come on, really? It's no different than any other long-running podcast/video series/IRL group of friends/whatever developing it's own bit of slang or in-jokes. It's super common and you really don't need to have ever seen a second of wrestling to understand it because they've talked about it 100 times now. It's really not hard, shoot = real, work = fake. That's literally it, and that's coming from someone who hates wrestling. It's such a non-issue.. Also on a larger scale, that's literally just how language works. Words bleed through and transfer from one culture to another, just like how tons of videogame terms like "level up" have become common parlance that you hear everywhere. Let the guys have their fun. Part of the appeal of Giant Bomb is and has always been that they are a bit off-beat, idiosyncratic, and unprofessional. No-one is trying to exclude anyone, it's a bunch of dudes shooting the shit and having a laugh while they work, that's it.
Grubb, that rant about Epic/Tim Sweeney was righteous and spot on. Getting sick of this hypercapitalist crap destroying everything for normal people, it's depressing.
Thank you Grubb, thank you Lex. As a trans woman in the UK the past couple of weeks have been so hard having that crap shoved in my face constantly, on top of all the other stuff going on. It means so much to have an ally in a prominent position tell them all to fuck off in no uncertain terms.
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