Waffles13

Saint Paul, MN, USA

I'll keep subscribing until the end of time.

That said, I think people are at least partially right when they say that Jeff seems really out of it and doesn't appear excited about much of anything. I think the best thing would be for the core GB crew to have a businessman or two who actually understand the site and what they're doing, and have those businessmen deal with CBS and meetings and all the monetary bullshit so that the core guys have more time and energy to devote to actually having fun with games, rather than just covering them.

@azurath: While I think the content GB does pump out is pretty great (I'm with you on the Patrick stuff, though), I definitely feel like there's a relatively small amount of it. Granted, they make up for that by having really fucking long videos and there are somehow people who manage to complain about that, but I just want more.

The problem is that I don't know what I want. They do a pretty good number of "let's play lots of old shit" videos, and while those are fun here and there watching 20+ old-ass sidescrollers gets boring fast. At the same time, taking multiple looks at the same game doesn't really appeal to me for most new releases, and while the endurance run style series are fun they seem to get into a rut where even the person playing it is in a sort of "here we go again" sort of mood.

I guess what I really want is less direct video game videos. Not that I want them to get into scripted stuff, but my favorite part of the site is when they get wildly off topic and just discuss random things. I don't know how that would manifest as proper content any more than just making the podcast longer or something like that. Seems like it would also semi-solve the problem others have discussed which is that the guys (Jeff in particular) just seem to have a lot of trouble getting excited about most gaming related stuff in a non-journalistic way. If it was just a site about stupid shit that they were way into, that'd be a way more interesting course and could fill the gaps between the 3-5 quicklooks and 1-2 livestreams a week.

P.S. It seems like all these discussions are kind of moot until the new editor(s) get hired. Hopefully that will shake things up a bit and make it all crazy. Or maybe it'll be Brad Nicholson all over again.

P.P.S. While I agree that they have way more resources than your average LPer, you can look at a group like the Yogscast for the counter argument. They have something like a dozen folks on staff including (to my knowledge) multiple dedicated video editors and yet as a group and across multiple Youtube channels they release like five 10-15 minute videos a day. Obviously coordinating their recording sessions and their editing processes are a bit more intensive than the work GB has to do for (most of) their content, but by those metrics GB is putting out many more raw hours of content a week than those places.

People always seem to think PC building is a way, way bigger and more intensive process. The fact is that as long as you use common sense and maybe a video tutorial or two, you really can't screw it up. The only really "controversial" part is the CPU and GPU brands, but at this point it pretty much boils down to AMD for price and Intel/Nvidia for performance (more or less). Everything beyond that is largely personal preference and as long as you use Newegg or Amazon reviews you really can't go wrong. Putting it together is like Legos, except it all can only fit one way.

I'm guessing that normal became normal because when analog sticks first came to consoles, most people there didn't have flight sim experience and as a result it's easier to say "up is up" than explain why inverted makes physical sense.

The one great thing about the 360 was that I set my preference as inverted in 2006 and have never once had to toggle it in a game. The fact that the Xbox One doesn't have that any more is insane and annoying.

Please Harrison Ford. Care. Just a little bit. Just this once.

@blaineblaine:

I'm in the same boat as you in that nothing is ever really able to offend me. I'm assuming it comes from some combination of being a middle class white guy in America and from spending much of the 2000s on 4chan and various other despicable places. The worst I can really say is that some things gross me out, but that's usually more of a visual gag reflex and not on any moral basis.

Maybe we're secretly sociopaths, but as long as you're not going around deliberately pissing everyone off, does it matter? Again, this is coming from someone who has it objectively easy in society, but I feel like everyone would have a lot easier of a time if they all grew a thicker skin and weren't immediately offended by every little joke and comment that anyone makes ever.

He does have a thesaurus though, and that's basically the same thing.

I like the game, but the actual physical version is such a goddamn hassle to get going and then maintain organization for the 60 hours a single playthrough takes.

Monopoly Party for the Gamecube though. That's the pinnacle of all Monopoly ever. It's got themes and shit, and an AI player named Granny who is the biggest goddamn bitch in the world.