PAX East 2011: Giant Bomb Panel - Part 03

" No-one asked Alex why he's there or asked him  to go back to plugging crap on QVC were he belongs.     "

You can hear me yell "Russians!" at 12:40 and "Mindjack!" at 40:25. 
 
So glad to be a piece of history. lol.

17:25... watch the dude behind the guy asking the question. You can see him mouthing, "... the fuck?" 
That alone had me dying for like 5 minutes.

Some of these questions are a little shit as some of them always are. 
 
EDIT: Actually some of these people have really good questions but some of them are just shit and the people asking them come off as real creepy but I guess asking questions in a huge room full of people will do that.

" 17:25... watch the dude behind the guy asking the question. You can see him mouthing, "... the fuck?" That alone had me dying for like 5 minutes. "

Aside from a few exceptions, the questions actually weren't that bad this time.

" And now imagine those questions in post-form. That's how funny those repeated memes are, people. "

Wow that one guy...

 Hey guys, I know you wanna ask alot but when you say, "I've actually got TWO questions", I can't help but be annoyed. That's not how this shit works. You get ONE question. There's a line of dudes behind you that have questions, let them fucking go.
 
I mean, do you think you're the only person that thought of asking two questions? That the rest of this lineup just couldn't come up with two? Seriously, it's just common courtesy. 
 
This shit goes for live call-ins too.

Alex killed, what are you people talking about? He got more laughs than Ryan or Jeff.

Here's the thing, before you want to ask a question, talk to someone who will give you an honest opinion and say everything you want to say to them. So they can then tell you how much of an asshole you sound like trying to be "cool" and instead you can sound like an intelligent human being. Don't be afraid to rehearse because that's how you get the nervousness out of your system. So, instead of being immortalized as the guy who kept yelling for the Giant Bomb crew to listen to you be smarmy and bring up inside jokes that even the guys who started them have forgotten, you can be seen as the guy who made the segment better. 

The guy asking Dave questions at 11:00 sounds...almost exactly like Dave. But with a cracking voice. Huh!

Ok there comments thought the Q & A was going to be some sort of unbearable cringeworthy grenade of awkwardness exploding through my monitor and blowing my face off. Like 80% of the questions were fine and there was only like two that were really bad. I have watched my fair share of panels on internet television and this was probably one of the less terrible ones I have seen. 
 
Also, shirtless Dave Snider.

Giant Bomb have viewers in Poland. At least one... 

Uh, why didn't Ryan order it from Australia? It'd be in English.

Ahahaha, the guy who said "so like some kind of....triangle scheme?" was the funniest (and normalest) question-asker of all.

Wow. No shortage of douchebags asking questions.
 
Patriarchy?

FYI: 
 
99.9% of all people hate when the questioner tries be "cute" and add his/her own coy aside. Ask your question, then move the fuck on. Nobody wants to hear your life story or your weak attempt at trying to make the questioned laugh with your feeble use of snark/humor. People are there to see the panel, not hoping to see a spotlight hog from the audience.

Seems Ryan is the only one to appreciate the house band due to him being slightly familiar with the music in the podcast.  Agreed with Jeff & others as someone else who's played games about the same amount of time as the giantbomb crew, you pick & choose what to get jaded with.
 
Also belated cheers for Dave (missed out going to Pax East this year) & all the other giantbomb crew :)

I love how explicitly Vinny ripped that overly-long-shit-comedy-Sony-saves rant.

Aaaand closing with a Midnight Brown cover. Perfect.

Good question by the guy who asked about how the guys stop getting jaded with games after being in the reviewing biz for a decade - thought that was interesting.

A wild Dave appears! 
 
And there is no such thing as a proud PC game. I'm sorry.

" Ok there comments thought the Q & A was going to be some sort of unbearable cringeworthy grenade of awkwardness exploding through my monitor and blowing my face off. Like 80% of the questions were fine and there was only like two that were really bad. I have watched my fair share of panels on internet television and this was probably one of the less terrible ones I have seen.   Also, shirtless Dave Snider. "

" @Seroth said:

" Again...it's PAX. :P These are video game fans, fans of Penny Arcade, and fans of Giant Bomb. You put these things together, and they probably aspire to the humor of Penny Arcade and Giant Bomb. They're gonna try to emulate it, and will probably fail. I'm not saying it's something they should be doing, but it still is to be expected.

So? because its to be expected its suddenly not terrible?  Because, it is.    

AA@Seroth said:

" @mutha3 said:

" @Seroth said:

" Again...it's PAX. :P These are video game fans, fans of Penny Arcade, and fans of Giant Bomb. You put these things together, and they probably aspire to the humor of Penny Arcade and Giant Bomb. They're gonna try to emulate it, and will probably fail. I'm not saying it's something they should be doing, but it still is to be expected.

So? because its to be expected its suddenly not terrible?  Because, it is.    

I said "I'm not saying it's something they should be doing, but it still is to be expected." "

I can totally get behind an AR Pokemon Snap.

I was the second to last guy in the red shirt, 
 
man those few seconds after "LONG ISLAND!" were tense haha

The bad questions are made good by the guys putdowns. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
 
 
EDIT: Some of these questions are actually quite good. The one about the most used words in the guys reviews was very interesting especially for someone like me who likes to write.

"

The bad questions are made good by the guys putdowns. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

"

pissed myself laughing, was anxious about the Q/A but it was a blast, great stuff guys!

Great stuff guys.

Holy shit, not gonna lie, I marked out when they started play Too Hot at the end!

I saw turbotoaster next to kessler, shirtless dave is classic man I was expecting questions to be meaner. the band was awesome.

" @mnzy said:

" And now imagine those questions in post-form. That's how funny those repeated memes are, people. "

"

Raynor's Cabin, no doubt.

Hmm... I wonder why Jeff was checking with Brad all the time 0.o something suspicious and Brad knows more about what Jeff writes than Jeff xD.

Fuck me, do any of you dudes know how to ask a question!

" AA@Seroth said:

" @mutha3 said:

" @Seroth said:

" Again...it's PAX. :P These are video game fans, fans of Penny Arcade, and fans of Giant Bomb. You put these things together, and they probably aspire to the humor of Penny Arcade and Giant Bomb. They're gonna try to emulate it, and will probably fail. I'm not saying it's something they should be doing, but it still is to be expected.

So? because its to be expected its suddenly not terrible?  Because, it is.    

I said "I'm not saying it's something they should be doing, but it still is to be expected." "

And I'm saying who cares if its to be expected, its still terrible. I don't see anyone feigning surprise here. I, uh, don't see the point you're trying to make. "

" Hmm... I wonder why Jeff was checking with Brad all the time 0.o something suspicious and Brad knows more about what Jeff writes than Jeff xD. "

I remember that guy who was wearing that Ijiek jacket from another event. And his manner of speaking, too.

I have that X-wing jacket, and that member shirt.

Sexy Dave.

" @sofacitysweetheart said:

" @mnzy said:

" And now imagine those questions in post-form. That's how funny those repeated memes are, people. "

"

"

The live phone calls during the Happy Hour weren't bad enough, now people use Giantbomb to act all cool and hip in front of a room full of people as if we want to see that shit. That's why I was glad to see that idiot laughed off the mic when the Bombsquad didn't know what the hell he was talking about.
 
Otherwise, great to see the Master: Mr. Richadine Kelvin Gallup, the Evil Eyebrow himself, although sans Pimpsuit. Giantbomb is awesome because they'll do stuff like this for their fans and make it really entertaining. We MUST send these dude around the word and spread the Good News! Subscribe! I wanna see a World Tour!!
 
Holy crap! The Hotspot theme... Have the gloves come off...

I was really expecting most of these questions to be total ass. Only a few were. Bravo audience.

" Holy shit, not gonna lie, I marked out when they started play Too Hot at the end! "

" The guy in the mermaid shirt was asking Vinny about two NY establishments that have closed down:  a restaurant called Raynors Chicken Cabin and Nunley's Amusement Park. "

Really great panel- and I loved the too hot outro