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Mailbag

Mailbag: Giant Bomb Mailbag: Propaganda Edition

From Pennsylvania to Brazil, Giant Bomb fans know about weird snacks and drinks!

What's in the mail? Is it an old T-shirt? A lunchbox full of rusty knives? Video game treasures? Canadian energy drinks?

Aug. 27 2010

Posted by: Ryan

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Edited By PK_Koopa

brilliant posters. Nice one Shaun.

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Edited By rjaylee

I love those posters, but I wish whoever made them also made one with Dave on it. It could have had him saying "TOP MEN".
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Edited By slowbird

Sweet!  there's apparently a store that stocks that Kutztown soda right down the road from me.

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Edited By Nytrik

Oh wow, those are really great posters. 

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Edited By ajamafalous

Brad rockin' that MX-518.

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Edited By fognl

I hate to be a pedant but it would be awesome if you guys turned off some auto functions on the camera and worked that focus ring from time to time.  Good camerawork goes a long way!

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@fognl: @fognl said:
" I hate to be a pedant but it would be awesome if you guys turned off some auto functions on the camera and worked that focus ring from time to time.  Good camerawork goes a long way! "
it's a Kodak ZI-i. If you can show us where the focus ring on that is, we're all ears!
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@Simulacrum said:
" @crusader8463 said:
" Seriously, someone who lives near by send these guys a fruit basket or a vegie plate. If you guys really cared about them you would stop sending them all this slow death in candy form. lol "
This. "
You mean, like, a basket of gummy fruit and a vegetable plate smothered in cheese?
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@Chadster said:
" @slyspider said:
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dude ryan has a tatoo! what???

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It says "MOM" in binary. "
fuck the video, that's the coolest shit ever.
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Edited By BunkerBuster

Come on Japan, Cigarettes? I could swear Altria owns half that country and just gives them cigarettes at birth.

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those are some pretty sweet posters

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@Ryan: 
 
Well there we go, that thing is mad tiny.  I forget how you guys get all the neat new gadgets.
 
I guess I'm just too used to lugging around a big ol' camera
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What is the Servbot thing?

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Edited By Nautilus15

what happened to game room? must of sucked this week

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@AlwaysBeClothing: 
 
The bottom of Drew's poster says "Is Not Michael C. Hall" in case you were still wondering
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Edited By kollay

Is Guarana Jesus taken as a gamertag? Fucking dammit if it's not!

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Edited By buzz_killington

Ryan lurking on Facebook at work :P

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Edited By uberexplodey

Kutztown! I went to school there! Fuck yeah Pennsylvania 
 
Edit: Duders totally said it wrong.

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@Nautilus15 said:
"what happened to game room? must of sucked this week "

This weeks game room video has been up since last night, shortly after TNT if I remember correctly.
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Ryan with the Tastykake reference!

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Edited By Sarkhan

Gotta say. Those posters are really good. Well done m8(wich name i forgot now^^ Berr on a friday night you know) But well done:)
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that the only picture of Drew available? only one i found on google when i tried to to a sketch featuring Drew

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Dood, Ryan HAS to be a smoker!  He handled that cigarette like he knew what he was doing!!!

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Edited By 234r2we232

Wow! People can make memes out the Giant Bomb staff? When did this start? You'd think the forums and chat rooms would be over flowing by now.
 

@fognl

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" I hate to be a pedant but it would be awesome if you guys turned off some auto functions on the camera and worked that focus ring from time to time.  Good camerawork goes a long way! "

Clearly the words of someone who has never had to film living people doing living people things ;) with that said, the auto-focus on Ryans camera is less than impressive to say the least.
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Nobody fuck wit the Guarana Jesus!

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That shit looks like the Shiroku store is having a rainy day sale!

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Ryan's hair is extra Tim Schafer-like this week

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Edited By chewii101

Those posters are totally baller. And were those candies the official candy of the BRAZILLLLLLLLLL FOOOTBALLLL (GOLLLLLLLLL) team?

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Edited By grilledcheez

You haven't lived until you've had one of the Amish doughnuts from near Butler, PA.  The best I've ever had...and I've had many a doughnut. 

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@jakob187 said:
" Dood, Ryan HAS to be a smoker!  He handled that cigarette like he knew what he was doing!!! "
Ryan IS a smoker. 
 
Vinny as well. We learned this from the E3 stream.
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Edited By Spike94

Love it. Like usual. Anyone catch what Drew's said? Couldn't make it out.
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@cazamalos said:

" that posters are awesome, but i hope the "el bomba gigante" instead "la bomba giante" was on purpose "

So the guys didn't read my forum name on the mailbag, but I am the poster guy.  And yes, someone did point out to me that the proper Spanish should read "La Bomba" but I really liked the way "El Bomba Gigante" sounded and looked in that font so I kept it.
 
Also, the bottom of Drew's poster says "IS NOT MICHAEL C. HALL" and his word blip is SURSTROMINGINIGNRINIRG or whatever it is (I copied it from the site so I'd have the correct spelling).
 
A big heartfelt thank you to all the kind words/compliments on the posters.  I was freaking out while they were in transit.
 
So awesome to see them on the Mailbag!
 
EDIT:  Also, I have one started for Mr.Snider but I ran out of time (I wanted to get them there before PAX craziness).  I do intend to send one along for him in not too distant a time.
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@Meteora said:
" @jakob187 said:
" Dood, Ryan HAS to be a smoker!  He handled that cigarette like he knew what he was doing!!! "
Ryan IS a smoker.  Vinny as well. We learned this from the E3 stream. "
Well, that would explain why Ryan looks 40 but not vinny, would not think anyone of hte giantbomb team smoked but hey, the more you know
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They should put those posters up for auction. I would pay at least $200 for the one of Vinny...

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@JohnRabbit:  You sent the guys the mexican-revolution style posters? Got  to say, loved the style, fantastic work!
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@Spike94 said:
" Love it. Like usual. Anyone catch what Drew's said? Couldn't make it out. "
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Ryan I love your orange shirt, orange is my second favourite colour (second to yellow). Ryan looks a little exasperated at the end, I'm sure those drinks come in handy! 
 
You know I'm just curious, do you guys have like a fridge to put your drinks in? Or do you just drink it at room temperature?

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Well, now we know. Brad is good at videogames. His poster says so. Those posters are awesome.
 
@JohnRabbit: Granted, you are using images of the GB crew and so you get into issues, but I know I would buy prints of those.

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I would pay large sums of money for those posters.

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Edited By MarcusRocha

Garoto is a brazillian brand, so I guess the GB guys are going to taste these chocolates for the first time. They are rather good, not excellent. About the Guaraná (which they spelled wrong) Jesus, it is more common on northern Brazil. Besides living here, I have never drank.

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@SnakeEyes327 said:

" @Spike94 said:

" Love it. Like usual. Anyone catch what Drew's said? Couldn't make it out. "

Burst transmission "
No, I think it says surstromming.
 
Edit: Oh, the guy who made them posted here.
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Fuck. Those were some amazing posters

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GET OFF OF FACEBOOK YOU SLACKER D:<

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Could anyone decipher what Drew was saying in his poster? 
 
edit: Guarana Jesus? Finally a religion for me.

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Hold the phone, did that candy cigarette emit smoke?  Am I going crazy?

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Nice looking posters.

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@JohnRabbit:  Those posters really are great. Not in the "For being fanmade they are great!", as in "Wow, that looks professional level awesome!" Love the one for Drew, really looking forward to seeing what you do for Dave.
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Those posters look amazing, that guy did a great job on them, very talented.

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@TheClap said:
" Could anyone decipher what Drew was saying in his poster?  edit: Guarana Jesus? Finally a religion for me. "
I think he was saying Surstromming or whatever / however that Swedish can of fish is named. 
 
@cordialsnail said:
" Hold the phone, did that candy cigarette emit smoke?  Am I going crazy? "
Nope, I saw it too. Maybe we're both crazy!
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Edited By winsord

Great, now I want Black Cherry soda, which is near impossible to get here. :/