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Terrible. Terrible.

Somehow, even though I live in the UK, this hits very close to home, as the saying goes. I hope they find who did this.

Whoop! Working great! Time to catch up :D

P.S I've never had buffering problems in HD (ISP: Virgin Media 60 meg, Location: Manchester, UK), hope yours improve :]

I'm also using the official repo addon, which (as of yesterday when I last checked) is completely broken at the moment. I can't wait for it to be working again, having everything in XBMC at the touch of a remote is great! (Giant Bomb, Tested iPlayer, Movies, TV Shows, Live TV, Music, Photo Albums), it's the future.

WE LIVE IN THE FUTURE.

First off, I know this issue is almost certainly being worked on. Dave posted:

Getting the API up and running, this will also fix any problems you're having with your Roku / Boxee device.

today, and I know that Roku and Boxees are media center setups and probably access the API in the same manner as XBMC. I didn't see XBMC mentioned however, and XBMC is the only way I take Giant Bomb videos in (nothing better than coming home from work, sitting down with my dinner, and firing up today's Quick Looks). I even bought a subscription so I could watch all the awesome subscriber stuff, and get everything in glorious HD!

Anyway, the app still works almost fully, except that the account linking is currently broken, so no HD or premium content. I linked my account up, it threw a couple of errors, and now it seems linked, but no premium content. I'm sure it will be fixed along with the rest of the API stuff, but I just wanted to make a thread you know....in case anybody forgot about XBMC :)

P.S Since the last big update of the app when GB was bought out, there's no "All Videos" tab any more, so I can't browse back through the archives, I have to do a manual search for anything more than a couple of months old. Kinda sucks, sometimes I want to go back and watch an old show or Quick Look, but I don't have anything particular in mind, or can't remember what I'm looking for!

P.P.S The new site is freakin' awesome :D My congratulations to the team. You deserve a year's paid holiday :P

My body is ready, as is my browser. Sure the site's slow, it just got launched, that's cool.

FYI if you can't get at the live shows (when the aliens QL was on earlier, the /chat page told me there was no live show while there was), you can get to it through http://twitch.tv/giantbomb ! I think there's another show on at around 11PM GMT tonight, Breaking Brad.

Kind of surprised they're taking it live this soon. Streaming videos don't work, looks like they just straight up removed the option (kind of a big deal on site where video content is the point and their progressive player doesn't allow skipping), and as of last Unprofessional Friday, the live chat still crashed if you breathed on it the wrong way.

I like the new site though, only thing I don't like design-wise is that reviews are now constrained to a fixed width column like news posts and can no longer resize take up the full width of the screen. IMO they're not as nice to read as a result.

@snide Brilliant news! You guys are awesome. I have just one question. I (and by proxy my family!) watch everything Giant Bomb produces on our XBMC media center. Will the Giant Bomb plugin be affected by any of this?

P.S As a side note, since the plugin redesign last year, the ability to list more than 100 videos in any particular section has disappeared. Basically, it makes it impossible to go back and watch stuff from even a few months ago, unless you know exactly what to search for! Major bummer :(

Aaaaaand now I'll have to tell a bunch of upset customers that the game they've pre-ordered won't be released until four months after they were originally informed itt'd be released.

Oh well. I'm always in favour of extra development time on any game.

I think I'm going to lie down. It's been a long day.

@Jams: Yeah, it's surprising when you first actually start looking, and you see antennas all over the place! And California? I do hope to be able to pick up someone from there at some point! Hmm, I should get a world map, and some pins :P

Hope the neighbours weren't looking at mine today, lowered the mast to do some work, always looks like it could go either way :P. It's only 40 feet from base to tip, but damn when you're lowering it it seems huge :P Speaking of analogue radios, one of the handy things about this Anytone rig is you can program your own channels in, so I've got it set so I can flick through channels, and then use the clarifier to get to all the frequencies in between. It covers 25.615 - 29.205 MHz, FM/AM/USB/LSB/CW. Been wanting it for a year now, so pleased :D

My ultimate goal is to contact Mr Vincent Caravella MUHAHAHAHAHAHAAAaaaa

@TooWalrus I can totally see where you're coming from. Maybe it would help you understand why people enjoy it, if I say that I get a similar sense of wonder and excitement out of bending physics to my will using electronics, and flinging my voice across countless miles directly without any outside aid (unless you count the electricity supply), as I do when I look up at space and think of the probes and rovers we have traveling to other worlds. It's exciting! We're exploring other worlds, and the world of radio is right around us, and easy to get to :D

And who cares if somebody's already explored it? I know I haven't, it's an adventure! The first time I turned on that new radio, I heard a guy talking from Tennessee! That's over four thousand miles away from me! And I'm not using an established and maintained communications network, or a station that somebody else set up. Sure I didn't build the radio from scratch (though at higher licence levels you can, and I totally look forward to that!), but I set everything up, and got it all working, and I'm learning. That's all pretty awesome :D