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LAST DAY: Giant Bomb Premium Is On Sale Now!

Turkey! Football! Giant Bomb Premium! It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without them!

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Wow, 2020, huh? It’s been a heck of a year for a lot of reasons, including the fact that Giant Bomb is no longer part of CBS, America’s Most-Watched Network™ and is now under the umbrella of Red Ventures (jokes yet to be determined). I know people have a lot of questions about all this, and the answer is yes: Giant Bomb Premium remains the best source for your gaming dollar, as determined by professionals (me).

That's right: Until 11/30, you can extend your current membership (or get a new one, or three!) for the low, low price of $35. If you missed our last Premium membership sale, boy do I have news for you! It's been a summer full of fun Premium content, like our explorations in Deep Rock Galactic, singing shanties in Sea Beasts, or watching Brad slowly go insane as he tries his hand at wicked Mario! We finally beat Mass Effect 3! We tore down the studio (and are going to try and build a new one when we can get back to the office!)

This membership sale will last until Monday, November 30th at midnight Pacific Time! You can find out more information here, or just head over here to sign up or click here to extend an existing membership.

Also note that we are having a store-wide merchandise sale...now! From today until 11/30, you can take 20% off of all of the merchandise in the store, including our new track suit and Alex ornament!

FREQUENTLY SHOUTED COMMENTS

💣Where's my discount code?! We remove store discount codes from the Yearly Premium membership during sale periods to allow us to offer this membership at a lower price!

💣I'll never give you bastards money! Note that we also now have a free trial system! If you start a free trial during the sale, you should get the sale price when your full membership kicks in, even if that happens after the sale is over.

💣I think I'm in love! Congrats! You should totally get your new soulmate a gift membership to Giant Bomb! Note that gift memberships are full-price during a sale, but you will get an extra few months of time if you buy during the sale. Unfortunately that's the way the new gift sub system works!

💣I renewed at full price! Most renewals during a sale week will go through at the full price with the store code. If you'd prefer to get the sale price, just go ahead and extend your membership during the sale and that'll be that! If you do renew at full price, just email us at support@giantbomb.com and don't use the store code; we can cancel it and refund the difference. It might take a couple of days to get back to you, though!

💣Why all the exclamation points?! I am in the pocket of BIG EXCLAMATION! but their checks haven't cleared yet! Please sign up for Premium so I remain gainfully employed or I might have to see what BIG EMOJI is paying!

💣💣💣💣💣💣💣💣

If you have any questions about this sale, or have any issues taking advantage of it, please get in touch with us at support@giantbomb.com or via PM to me; that'll get you a much quicker response than any other method of reaching out. We get a high volume of support emails during sales but we'll get back to you as soon as possible! Thanks for subscribing; it really does help us run this little dumb train!

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WOW that is a lot of links! Let me know if any of them go awry!

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That ornament is so dumb. I love it!

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That ornament is so dumb. I love it!

It's real dumb! But it's fun for the whole family!

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@rorie, can we get a size chart for the track suit?

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@kaungo said:

@rorie, can we get a size chart for the track suit?

Hmm let me see if social imprints has one handy!

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Ah yes, my annual observation of the MP3 sound clip that plays when you subscribe - still makes me smile year after year since the beginning of subscriptions to the site.

Please, never change that. :D

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Ah yes, my annual observation of the MP3 sound clip that plays when you subscribe - still makes me smile year after year since the beginning of subscriptions to the site.

Please, never change that. :D

No plans to!

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Why no vinyl stickers with the Giant Bomb logo? I don't have a skate board to stick it to, but my car will stick to one (or more) just as easily!

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Is there a way to get a sizing chart for the Track Suit? Rolled up legs on a track suit would probably look silly.

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yeeesss, my sub expires Dec 20 2020, and now it won't!

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Is there a way to get a sizing chart for the Track Suit? Rolled up legs on a track suit would probably look silly.

I just emailed our store people to see if they can add one!

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@rorie: The short folks thank you!

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Instant purchase on that dumb and beautiful ornament.

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I just showed my roommate the ornament and she didn't say I COULDN'T put it on our tree, so I'm getting it.

J/k, she thinks it's hilarious. Would also buy an Abby-themed ornament if one were to be made available.

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Is the GB Skate Deck coming back in stock and if when? I took up skating this year and have gaven considerable thought about buying one.

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Locked in until 2023, let's keep it pumping.

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I bought the ornament. I needed it in my life.

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That ornament is one of the funniest things I've seen in a bit. What a silly ass thing to sell. I love it.

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I’ll never give you bastards money!!

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I still have this in my GB folder. The hamburger thread was and still is a precious museum of GB memes.

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i would buy stuff from GB but your shipping cost is more than the stuff i want to buy haha.

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I bought another year. I think I've only missed 4 months over the course of 10 years.

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Another year! Should be an interesting one... Thanks, team.

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just helping Rorie pay his bills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sales on Premium are always appreciated, but are there any plans to do more Premium content? Because right now, besides the ad-free podcasts, we only really have The Hotspot, Breaking Brad, and the occasional Playdate.

Mass Alex is over, there's no Demo Derby, no Game Tapes, etc. and nothing to replace those shows. I understand we're living in "these unprecedented times" and having the crew working from home and dealing with the process of moving from CBSi to RV makes it way harder to do some types of content. But it would be nice to see a solution for Premium, otherwise we're paying almost the same price as previous years for just two regular shows and some random occasional streams.

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I picked up one of those flat-billed caps so I too can have the honeys (TM) ghost-riding my hoopty (TM).

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Ah yes, my annual observation of the MP3 sound clip that plays when you subscribe - still makes me smile year after year since the beginning of subscriptions to the site.

Please, never change that. :D

Makes me smile too, especially when Vinny say "AW IT'S A GIRL!"

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Premium content has been lacking for obvious reasons. Even the free content has been lacking. I‘m still waiting for Jeff to stream the new Call of Duty and for him to review it. Can’t believe it is taking this long. UPF was the main draw for me to upgrade to premium. Even with UPF I miss Jar Time with Jeff. I would like to see more premium content with Jeff streaming from home. I’ll remain a free member until changes are made.

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This sale price should be the new normal price for premium until things return to normal. There is a serious lack of premium content IMHO. If Jeff and Brad did 1.5 -2 hour premium streams from home ever Friday to replace UPF that would be a great start.

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I think this is kind of cyclical (I remember a forum post from pre-COVID times saying there was too much Premium content). But yeah, it's definitely been a weird year, especially lately. On top of COVID we're also dealing with new consoles which has taken up a significant amount of time for the editors involved in covering those.

But I certainly hear the calls for more Premium content and I'll pass them along! I've been wanting to get a UPF-style show back for a while now so we'll see what the options are there!

Sales on Premium are always appreciated, but are there any plans to do more Premium content? Because right now, besides the ad-free podcasts, we only really have The Hotspot, Breaking Brad, and the occasional Playdate.

Mass Alex is over, there's no Demo Derby, no Game Tapes, etc. and nothing to replace those shows. I understand we're living in "these unprecedented times" and having the crew working from home and dealing with the process of moving from CBSi to RV makes it way harder to do some types of content. But it would be nice to see a solution for Premium, otherwise we're paying almost the same price as previous years for just two regular shows and some random occasional streams.

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I don't order gear from the store very often because the shipping to Australia is steep, but the tracksuit, GB mug and the college hoodie should be winging their way to me soon! I wear my Old Games tshirt all the time, was very happy with the quality.

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@rorie said:
@soulmanim3 said:

Is there a way to get a sizing chart for the Track Suit? Rolled up legs on a track suit would probably look silly.

I just emailed our store people to see if they can add one!

This was the reason I came to the thread. +1 on the size chart. I'm way more vulnerable to impulse buying when I know it will fit, and I was VERY close to pulling that trigger.

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@demonsoul said:

[...] Even the free content has been lacking. I‘m still waiting for Jeff to stream the new Call of Duty and for him to review it. Can’t believe it is taking this long. [...]

To be fair he didn't receive a review copy, so the first time he was able to play the final build (not sure if he played the beta at all) was when it launched a couple days ago.

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I don't mind there not being much premium content. I don't particularly care if other people get to watch for free the stuff i'm paying for.

This is just me saying thanks to you all for being such a big part of my video game entertainment life. I'm glad you're able to do what you do, and if me giving a few bucks every year helps then i'm happy to do so.

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@aistan: Hey thanks, that's very kind! But we'll try to do more Premium stuff too!

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That ornament, oh my!

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As much as Elena, I also love cheap sub extensions ( I think that's what her abbreviation meant ?). Even if the content is lacking in quantity (I can't tell, since I just backlog watch the whole site and haven't even reached 2019...), there has been so much amazing and entertaining stuff by now, that it's just a good feeling to support a worthy cause, which is me getting entertained by strangers on the internet. Sure, I can have that elsewhere for less (Yo, Elena !) but these are trying times on many levels and you people really did and do a great job (also the ones who left by now / will be leaving soon) so instead of me having 2 bags of chips per month, you folks will have those instead.

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Any chance of more Giant Bomb Logo Hats?

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@rorie said:
@soulmanim3 said:

Is there a way to get a sizing chart for the Track Suit? Rolled up legs on a track suit would probably look silly.

I just emailed our store people to see if they can add one!

This was the reason I came to the thread. +1 on the size chart. I'm way more vulnerable to impulse buying when I know it will fit, and I was VERY close to pulling that trigger.

Here is the link to the Size Chart:

LINK

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Even though I haven't been forced to stay quarantined this year and rely on GB to preserve my sanity, and my premium won't expire until late 2022, I decided to add another year anyway. Seems like they might need it more this year.

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@rorie I'm sorry but, how do you actually read the size chart? I assume it is in inches? But I actually don't know. Also, what is TOL? Also, all the measurement descriptions are so weird. A picture would have been helpful. This is confusing. Can someone help me with which measurement shows how long the tracksuit top is and how long the arms are? And, how long are the pants? In S. Honestly, I'm confused.

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Just gotta say, the "add a year to an existing subscription" thing is really cool :)