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#1  Edited By TheLegendOfMart

@alexw00d said:

@jonny_anonymous said:

@alexw00d said:

@jonny_anonymous said:

@yummylee said:

@slaps2 said:

Unless he's from Northern Ireland, he ain't British.

Actually you're only technically classified as British if you're from England, Scotland, or Wales.

I doubt people from Northern Ireland would agree with this.

You've probably never met someone from Northern Ireland then... Most 'British' people don't refer to themselves as British anyway, that seems like more of an American thing to generalise everyone here as British.

Also yeah, nice one to the OP for the awful racism in his post.

Um, I lived there for 5 years and I am in fact Scottish not American.

@yummylee Being that they are from the British Isles they they do infact have the right to call themselves Irish.

I didn't say you were American, I am just saying referring to everyone from the UK as British is something I never encountered until I came to these boards/the internet as a whole and noticed people doing it en masse.

Have you never applied for a job, or a passport?

The nationality options on application forms and the like is almost always White British, and not English, Welsh, Scottish, etc..

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@crelio said:

I saw this on my updates and was all like " Whassup?" As the late and great Harry Woodman once said "Remember this. Everything changes in form. There isn't a single thing that can maintain its shape for eternity." Now if you'll excuse me I have important matters to attend to, good day.

The problem is that GB hasn't changed, it's remained stagnant since the passing of Ryan. A couple of years ago they were lucky that they were ahead of the curve when it comes to coverage of videogames but everyone else has caught up and GB might be left for dust if something doesn't happen.

When I signed up I remember seeing "what you get" for a premium subscription and it seems that non-subscribers get the best content lately.

@kishinfoulux said:
@oddish said:

@rockyraccoon37 said:

God forbid they hire someone who isn't a straight white guy. The comments will be ablaze.

Good way to thin out the crowd though...

I'd personally love it if they hired a girl to add a much needed perspective on things.

This will sound awful on my part, but I hope they don't. If she's just chill and laid back then sure, but if it's someone akin to that Danielle gal over at Polygon then no thanks. I don't need constant "grrrrr feminism" crap coming from this site. It's bad enough it's everywhere else. I want this site to remain fun loving and silly.

Why does hiring a woman mean there will be more "grrrrr feminism"?

GB is a sausage fest and we rarely get to see a womans perspective on the gaming industry.

Look at Gamespot, it has several shows that are fronted by women.

I wouldn't go as far as hiring a woman "just because" but if there are suitable candidates I wouldn't have any issues with it.

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@akyho said:

@elixirbronze said:

I've never understood those that criticize the premium fee. $50 for 100s of hours of content each year is not much to ask.

My main issue is that they keep promising more staff members "soon" and have done so ever since they were bought. But here we are 2 years later and now there's even less members on staff than we started out with (of course I'm not taking Ryan's passing into account, his spirit will always remain with us).

A second issue I have is why is there no dedicated weekly feature for Jeff and Vinny yet? They should know by now that people like those two, and yet there hasn't been a single Jeff & Vinny feature since the DP endurance run? Why?

I will cover all parts for you. In year one the E3 equipment was stolen, that same stuff was the super important stuff they needed for all their video work in office, that stuff is expensive. They had to borrow and book Gamespot stuff. So when they got their next budget which was to hire people it had to buy the equipment again. In April 2013 is when this budget would have been done.

So they carried on we lost Ryan which was a huge blow to EVERYTHING. Since Ryan was the Joyous frontman to a lot of things a few shows being made and going to be made halted. They soldiered on yet the budget took a hit as they had to buy a bunch of PS4's and Xbones for reviews and coverage, that expensive.

So thats the budget accounted for in basic until 2014, they have all their video equipment...they have all the consoles.....its time to hire people! So April 2014 would be the new budget and so Jeff is vetting candidates to join Giant Bomb. This is no easy task to make a short list let alone a real list, this may take time.

Finally the reason why there is no Jeff and Vinny stuff....is cos of MEETINGS! How did all the above get paid for? By Vinny and Jeff sitting in meeting's convincing the budget people to give them the money. Aswell as permission to do anything and everything. Then what ever standard meetings they have. Jeff is Chief Editor and Vinny is Head of Video, so they both have to do meetings. While Drew tinkers with videos and Brad sends EMAILS!

Its sadly aint so easy to get things done in a corporation.

No.

Do you really think CBS wouldn't insure the thousands? tens of thousands? of dollars worth of equipment that could well get damaged being shipped around the country?

Stop making excuses for them.

@tesla said:

I think it's shortsighted to want more content from Giant Bomb and not realize that there is a distinct lack of anything for them to cover. Sure I wouldn't mind if they did more streams of throwback games and what not during the launch window down time. But I'm not exactly chomping at the bit ready to demand more.

Here's why: I go other places if there isn't any GB content that interests me. If I want to watch someone play through Maximo I'll go to youtube and find it instead of wondering why Giant Bomb isn't providing that need for me. It's a big internet out there. The fact that I can count on 4-5 hours of content a week in podcasts and quick looks alone, free of charge, is enough for me.

Game droughts aren't a new thing, they happen every year and you would think a site that primarily pumps out videos would plan ahead to have some kind of content ready for the weeks and months that have no releases.

All I read in this thread is more excuses.

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Wow it's gone by so quick.

Wasn't sure at first but I have warmed to @rorie now, wish he would be in more content.

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@edwardt said:

@diz: There wasn't actually a side impact but the rear tyres of guttierez colliding with Maldonado's front tyre that caused the car to flip.

That's not what I saw:

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Clearly - from the video - it was the Lotus nose contacting the side of the Sauber. The commentator even says as much. Perhaps, if you ran F1, could we soon see knobs hanging off F1 wheels?

You haven't seen much open wheel racing have you?

If the car had been t-boned it might have ridden up the nose but not flipped, they weren't even going that fast, it was the tyres touching that flipped the car.

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British Brad? (British actor)

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What a surprise, Patrick reads the situation wrong yet again and writes an article that is defensive and dismissive.

It's not that people think they are owed anything for contributing to the project, it is everything to do with the morals/ethics and business practices of the company that bought oculus.

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Haven't played Fantasy F1 in a while but I'm in it just to beat Danny!