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Danny Devito as Toad > Danny Devito as Mario > Danny Devito as Wario

I'm actually fine with this.

I think Melee takes it by nature of it being the only game on that list to take advantage of the 4 controller ports on the front of the console - for me the gamecube was always a social machine, and is the champion of local co-op, so I think Melee (or Double Dash which you've put right at the bottom of the list) takes the crown.

I don't think any world war 2 game has ever been influenced by Saving Private Ryan, which I've always thought was weird.

@sketchaetch: Did a little research on reddit, seems like there are plenty of people with the same issues you're having. I've just read several threads from people saying they've had their 2FA authentication circumnavigated and disabled without receiving any warnings or messages from Sony. Apparently it's possible to call up sony support, pretend to be someone else using very limited information (Name, DOB, address, etc) tell them you've lost your phone and then blag your way through security until they give you the keys to the account.

@sketchaetch: How did your 2FA get bypassed? If you're using an authenticator app then surely the person who stole your account would need access to your physical phone?

Edit: Apologies if that didn't sound particularly sympathetic - what you're going through absolutely sucks. I'm just confused as to how it was even possible?

As others have said, you should get Sony on a phone and just keep demanding to speak to someone more senior until you get the answers that you want, or at the very least answers that make sense. I assume that's how the guy got access to your account in the first place, by calling up support and claiming to be you with your personal information until they disabled your 2FA and gave him access to your account.

Maybe rather than just throw in the towel, dial back on the overtime and use the time you free up to hunt for work elsewhere. If something catches your eye then you can bail, but if you shop around and there's nothing out there then you can at least stick with your current job knowing that you're in a comfortable position for the time being, and maybe you can look again in a few months.

It sounds like you already know you should leave and this is just a matter of managing the transition.

Well, firstly I guess you're welcome :)

My point was more that Giant Bomb has never been limited to one thing. This website has always been about embracing change and it's identity has evolved multiple times over the years already. You say we're not about any of the things we used to be, but I'd argue the ethos of the site has always been: We're going to do whatever the fuck we want. Right now options are pretty limited because of the pandemic, but I feel like we're still holding true to that, whether it be in the form of Jeff B playing pinball or Jeff G doing his press debriefings, or Jeff still cleaning out his garage of garbage. The only constant is that everything changes.

"Garage of Garbage" would be a pretty great band name.

I've seen a lot of people posting "I want the site to be what it used to be" not just in this thread today but over the years. People are nostalgic, fair enough. But what the site used to be has been a lot of things to a lot of different people. The site for the last few years has been predominantly about liveshows with very little written content. Before that it was Dan playing games with his dad. Before that it was articles from Patrick and Austin. We've had interns making videos, we've had plenty of guest writers (hey remember Brad Nicholson?), we've had crossovers with Tested and ComicVine, we had field trips with Drew, behind the scenes engineer interviews, Ryan talking about movies, and Jeff sorting through a garage of what I maintain is fucking junk that he should just set on fire and be done with. To some people this website is about PAX panels, to some it's about Jeff playing old arcade games. To a (surprisingly persistent) group this website is and always has been about the wiki. Back in the day it was about Endurance Runs and quick looks, and before that it was barely even a website it was just a couple of dudes in the basement drinking rum and talking about having a website. To me personally the site was a small community of people hanging out in an IRC channel and sharing shit in an EpicPM. The only constant has been the podcast, everything else has been fluid and reactive and experimental and dynamic - so when people say "I want the site to be what it used to be" I honestly don't know what they're talking about, and considering the amount of people in here unironically writing "I want this to be a website about videogames" it seems like they don't know either.

I clicked "not sure", because I've read that thread title three times and i'm still not sure what we're talking about.

Entered this thread to say Team Buddies. Was such a cool concept, haven't really seen anything like it since then.

I played a lot of Hohokum. I understand why it was never incredibly popular, but it's a very cool game nonetheless.