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Giant Bomb's Work-From-Home Spectacular

It's... a Lockdown?

With increasing health concerns around the current viral outbreak, Giant Bomb has determined that, starting Wednesday, 3/11, the San Francisco-based staff will work remotely until further notice. In the meantime, you can join us over at our live chat starting at 11:00 AM PDT for a variety of streams, from our home to yours.

Above: Simulated photo of a Giant Bomb staffer's home streaming rig.
Above: Simulated photo of a Giant Bomb staffer's home streaming rig.

What sort of stuff should we expect?

We'll hopefully have chat live for most of the day with a variety of streams hosted by all your pals from Giant Bomb. These streams will range from casual multiplayer sessions, to live recordings of shows, and maybe even a little more experimental stuff thrown in here and there. Part of the fun is we'll be figuring it out with you along the way.

How much are you streaming?

The current plan is to start every day this week (Wed-Fri) at 11:00 PDT and stream for several hours. Other than that, we'll throw some things in the schedule, but someone will be around to take questions and entertain from the mornings on through the day. We'll make adjustments along the way and see how it all goes. Cool?

Wait, will it all be archived?

Maybe! There might be some chunks missing here and there but we'll do our best to make sure everything worth watching goes up on the site until the inevitable destruction of the Internet.

This is where the quick looks live.
This is where the quick looks live.

That's it! We don't know when things are going to return to "normal," but we'll update you guys as we learn more about the situation. In the meantime, stay safe and wash those hands!

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You are an integral part of my weekly entertainment, so wishing you to stay well is partly a selfish statement, but also as you're human duders, and as I am someone who cares, do stay well!!!

I'm grateful to be in a low risk place at the moment, but for those of you (GB crew and the general public) my well wishes goes out to you all.

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Working from home, the only virus you need to worry about is pacman fever

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Good thing that you’re taking necessary steps, stay safe!

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currently working from home in Iceland so streams are always welcome, keep it clean everyone! :D

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It'll be fun if this turns into the E3 scenario they suggested where they look at the unaffected metrics and ask "Why do we even have an office?"

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That amazing from you to pull that out, very helping in those troubled times

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@16_philo said:

That amazing from you to pull that out, very helping in those troubled times

Dr. Jonathan Reid, vampire doctor of the plague-ridden city of Vampyr, would say things like "in these troubled times" all the troubled time.

It is somewhat surreal to say things like that in these terrible times, and do so with genuine justification.

It is also somewhat amusing though, I think, and in these grievous times that could indeed be helpful.

@fox318 said:

Wash your hands everyone. Stay safe.

Also, moisturize. With frequent washing, your hands will eventually take on the texture of a parking lot. Could eventually cause cracked skin, and that's no good in these burdensome times.

And be mindful of cuts and sores on your hands in general.

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Thanks guys! Stay safe and healthy!

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@syncretic: No need to be rude about it. I sourced Andrew Weil, who has been well known and respected for several decades. All this wash your hands talk is helpful but boosting immune systems of vulnerable people is a vital defense tactic for people with asthma and lung issues. Let's get good info out while we can. If anyone has good advice and can source, I'm all ears. It's foolish to not be during times like this.

https://podcastnotes.org/kevin-rose-show/covid-19-coronavirus-andrew-weil/

Symptom info taken from here (imo, the best site for tracking this nightmare): https://worldometers.info/coronavirus/

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Would love to see Jeff and Jason do some PSO...

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Stay safe.

Any ideas or plans to replace the E3 shows with anything or just be a regular week?

More on the spot call in reports from Ben would be nice too

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Since the lovely Ben Pack suggested throwing suggestions here on this post I thought I might as well.

I'd like to see some Strategy games being streamed, but not the big ones. No Xcom here. I want the B tier games like Mordheim: City of the Damned and the various other Warhammer and Warhammer 40k liscenced games being trotted out for a little bit. Lets get some weird games in during these weird times.

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Could you perhaps change the Stream titles to whoever is playing and whatever it is? As of now it's all under the same title in chunks on the Twitch channel unless it's archived somewhere else.

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Ben do you think youll play any dota?

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Since Jeff played it on stream, I've wanted to try Phantasy Star Online and having a private server for us all to wreck play on together sounds like a lot of fun! Hope you guys stay safe and healthy.

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Jan Can Cook: Live?!

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Big thanks to all the GB team members for still being willing to make videos for us in this trying time! Much love to all.