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Alex Hates Tuesdays - 05/29/2012

We capture Alex's first trip around the office as we visit his old desk, show him the spot we're hoping to bulldoze for a new studio, and maybe even buy a cola or two. Oh, and we talk about what's going up on the site this week.

May. 29 2012

Posted by: Jeff

In This Episode:

Alex Navarro

Castle Wolfenstein

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Jeff to Alex: ''Have you done the job...? Do the job!''

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NO ALEX

Don't leave us again :(

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30 minutes? Jizz everywhere.

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i love these walk around the office things :)

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@umdesch4 said:

It had to be checked:

Giant Bomb as seen in Lynx
Giant Bomb as seen in Lynx

what is this?

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@LifeByDegrees said:

May we please have another Post-E3 Swag Infomercial like the one back in the day? Except- this one could a live show!

That was back when E3 was pretty much open to everyone. Now that only press get in, there's not nearly as much swag, probably not enough for a video anyway. And the guys got better things to do then run around and get stuff.

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@Paindamnation said:

@iodizedjoe said:

Not funny, smart or worthwhile. Even with Vinny.

You are so lucky E3 is gonna save your asses this year, GB.

After that, please get your song in tune. This has been the worst from you guys in a long, long time.

No one cares about your post or you. No followers no images nothing to contribute. So Kindly "would you Kindly" Shut the fuck up, and troll elsewhere. And PLEASE. reply with some half baked"I'm starter then you reply" because showing how whiny and immature you are is great. Thanks kid. GTFO anytime ;D

He's right lack of content and more important lack of subscriber content! Only so many TNT's of Trackmania I can take. Time to put my monthly sub on hold again I think.

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I'm so glad Alex is working with them, he's such a cool guy. All they need now is Rorie and then they'll be officially ready to go through the Omega-4 Relay

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@umdesch4: Ha! Great job.

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That soda machine is completely INSANE.

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@iodizedjoe said:

@Alex: No other member of GB has ever attacked comments or basked in comments as much as you.

Why are you so insecure?

brad did, actually, one time, attack someone in the comments.

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@Bourbon_Warrior said:

@Paindamnation said:

@iodizedjoe said:

Not funny, smart or worthwhile. Even with Vinny.

You are so lucky E3 is gonna save your asses this year, GB.

After that, please get your song in tune. This has been the worst from you guys in a long, long time.

No one cares about your post or you. No followers no images nothing to contribute. So Kindly "would you Kindly" Shut the fuck up, and troll elsewhere. And PLEASE. reply with some half baked"I'm starter then you reply" because showing how whiny and immature you are is great. Thanks kid. GTFO anytime ;D

He's right lack of content and more important lack of subscriber content! Only so many TNT's of Trackmania I can take.

The problem with complains, not you Bourbon, is they whine and complain like a jack ass. You brought a contribution with valid points not. TROLL here. Anyways, there have been only 2 Track Mania TNT's as far as I know of. One was imprumtu because the TNT of Star Trek Online was incredibly boring, the last one was because there wasn't much for them to do. The every Friday a new subscriber feature is worth it. Dave and Alexis talking about Site redesign, Drew going to Korea, the last lantern run, radio shows. That stuff validates a purchase. They got the shaft end with the deal with CBSi, and lost alot of good equipment. Frankly I'm surprised they got so many quick looks and stuff. For the "video" complaint. He's using a damn iPhone, what's the best you can expect from that? Though, I do agree, they need more "sub" content, but they are doing really well for as short of a stick they got.

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@cikame said:

I'd be on that Tekken 6 machine all the time begging for someone to join me.

I want that machine so bad

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This video has made me feel a whole lot better about what's to come from the site. Looking forward to the guys making use of all that impressive new space and equipment to do extremely childish things in the name of video game coverage.

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@samcroft90 said:

@cikame said:

I'd be on that Tekken 6 machine all the time begging for someone to join me.

I want that machine so bad

I'd rather have a Tekken Tag Tournament machine from the summer of 99

@Paindamnation: I think the last good part of sub. content was the North Korea slideshow, but it seems ever since they joined back with CBS they have just been putting less effort into the site, before the takeover their was multiple Flight Clubs, Endurance Run and Random PC games. Lately its just been TNT's which are free live anyway and the Jeff talking into a webcam videos which I would rather have as a podcast. When you charge for something you open yourself up for more criticism, the rest of the site is good it's just the sub. content that is really lacking. But E3 is coming up which will probably be content overload as usual.

EDIT: Also video reviews should be standard for a site that prides itself on video content, atleast the marquee releases anyway.

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What are write ups?

#e3mysteries

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Brad walks in to work like Mister Rogers.

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I didn't see any Vanilla Coke in that machine. I appreciate making sodas 25 cents each (if I worked there, that machine would be empty all the time), but you need some delicious Vanilla Coke.

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@iodizedjoe said:

Not funny, smart or worthwhile. Even with Vinny.

You are so lucky E3 is gonna save your asses this year, GB.

After that, please get your song in tune. This has been the worst from you guys in a long, long time.

Anyone angry with this comment should read this guy's other posts. Had a great time, it is hilarious how much he hates Alex!

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@blacklab: At one point in the video, around 17:45 Jeff asks "Is this site Lynx compatible? 'Cuz that's the only web browser I'm going to use from here on out."

Lynx was a text-based web browser from the early 90s. We used it all the time when I was in school, so I have fond memories of it. I was amused to find out that it only took me a couple minutes to find a win32 version and get it working. I immediately pointed it at GB to see what I'd get...

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@iodizedjoe said:

Not funny, smart or worthwhile. Even with Vinny.

You are so lucky E3 is gonna save your asses this year, GB.

After that, please get your song in tune. This has been the worst from you guys in a long, long time.

You are smelly

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Why don't they do more content though? A constant stream of anything, any game old or new would be better than nothing. I'm bored of quick looks and videos of people playing games they don't care about.

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@aquacadet said:

Sodas should be free at work. :(

In some weird way I find putting in just 1 quarter (or better yet a nickle) to be even more rewarding than free drinks.

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  1. Someone makes inflammatory comments (or "trolls").
  2. People respond angrily.
  3. Eventually the situation calms itself. This can take anywhere from a couple comments to several pages.
  4. Another person, not following the situation at all, find the first inflammatory comment and decides to comment on it, restarting the process.
  5. ???
  6. The aristocrats!
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@BlackLagoon said:

Was kinda hoping we might get a quicklook of Resistance: Burning Skies... But I guess without the cameras and no Vita capture unit even a half-decent video would be hard to do.

I wish we could do better Vita coverage, but you're right, the way we have to do videos of that system right now isn't really worth doing at all.

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@Paul_Is_Drunk said:

  1. Someone makes inflammatory comments (or "trolls").
  2. People respond angrily.
  3. Eventually the situation calms itself. This can take anywhere from a couple comments to several pages.
  4. Another person, not following the situation at all, find the first inflammatory comment and decides to comment on it, restarting the process.
  5. ???
  6. The aristocrats!

Dont forget the part where I said he was smelly

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@umdesch4 said:

@blacklab: At one point in the video, around 17:45 Jeff asks "Is this site Lynx compatible? 'Cuz that's the only web browser I'm going to use from here on out."

Lynx was a text-based web browser from the early 90s. We used it all the time when I was in school, so I have fond memories of it. I was amused to find out that it only took me a couple minutes to find a win32 version and get it working. I immediately pointed it at GB to see what I'd get...

Thanks for the info (even though I wasn't the one that asked). I didn't know what Jeff was talking about there.

I feel like I've seen it before, but was too young to make any sense of what it was at the time.

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That was a giant Nyancat.... That's terrible.

Kevin van Ord!

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I liked the part where it was all black.

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YES!!!!

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@jonnybob said:

Structural Engineer Vinny is one of my favourite Vinnys

Im kinda partial to the Flight Navigator Vinny.

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Vinny is the man. He could not be anymore the man. He is a man. The man. Dude. What a man.

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This was almost like an episode of The Office, except without any David Brent

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@Brad said:

@BlackLagoon said:

Was kinda hoping we might get a quicklook of Resistance: Burning Skies... But I guess without the cameras and no Vita capture unit even a half-decent video would be hard to do.

I wish we could do better Vita coverage, but you're right, the way we have to do videos of that system right now isn't really worth doing at all.

I just watched the IGN vid review.. if you have to record someone playing a Vita, thumbs and all.. I agree.

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I was enthralled by Vinny's screensaver slideshow.

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For the first time I feel like I got motion sick watching a handheld cam video. So thanks for that.

Fun to watch, though.

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@Bourbon_Warrior said:

@samcroft90 said:

@cikame said:

I'd be on that Tekken 6 machine all the time begging for someone to join me.

I want that machine so bad

I'd rather have a Tekken Tag Tournament machine from the summer of 99

@Paindamnation: I think the last good part of sub. content was the North Korea slideshow, but it seems ever since they joined back with CBS they have just been putting less effort into the site, before the takeover their was multiple Flight Clubs, Endurance Run and Random PC games. Lately its just been TNT's which are free live anyway and the Jeff talking into a webcam videos which I would rather have as a podcast. When you charge for something you open yourself up for more criticism, the rest of the site is good it's just the sub. content that is really lacking. But E3 is coming up which will probably be content overload as usual.

EDIT: Also video reviews should be standard for a site that prides itself on video content, atleast the marquee releases anyway.

I agree with everything you've said. Pretty much feel the same way, you pay for something you expect something. Like when PS was down for a month people started getting over it because no one paid for it(less ps+ subscribers, which is just discounts anyway). But when xbox live went down for a few hours, the internet had a RAGE attack. Depending on what your site does it determines what "subscriber content is". This site is like the basest form of "freemium" content. Because you get the bulk for free, but to support the duders and get special stuff you pay. My theory is that they have to change the way they did things because before it was just. "Hey I want Photoshop" okay heres 3k. Now they have to go through channel after channel, ESPECIALLY a huge company like GS. Buying something in the tech industry that i'm in, has SO many hurdles and loops it's almost not worth it to purchase a damn router by talking to every department involved. I'm sure once E3 is over and they got all the new cameras and studios they will come up with alot of new stuff. Thank you for your legible intelligent non-NERD rage reply.

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Liked this tour. What do they do with double the tricast?

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So they're planning to do E3 in an "event space"?

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Why is all that office space empty? Did cbsi have a round of layoffs?

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What about Amateur Porn, those girls are getting paid for having sex (hopefully).

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@Vigorousjammer said:

This was almost like an episode of The Office, except without any David Brent

You mean Michael Scott

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hey what was that powerpoint thing going on behind you? I'm simply curious.

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@Paindamnation said:

I love how GB are like the Cool Kids in High School, and when they walk around everyone is like Heyyyy whats up. And they curse and don't give a fuck. <3 GB

I was thinking LITERALLY the exact same thing. They some cool motherfuckers!

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Don't know about you guys, but I much prefer this version of I Love Mondays.

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Damn good video.

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Two tricasters? Shenanigans confirmed.

Alex, move back to SF you son of a bitch.

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Typical Jeff, always recording private information and putting it up for people to see.

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Love these random videos, really excited to see what comes out of E3 as well as what the Giantbombers come up with.