Ryan Davis, 1979 - 2013

WTF? I come online giddy that this is Tuesday, so I can go through my weekly routine of listening to bombcast, and this is the news I find out.

I must've checked my calender about 10 times, to make sure today was not April 1st.

I know it doesn't mean much, but my life officially got much worse with this news.

All I can say is that, Ryan, you will always be remembered and missed by me.

I did not expect Ryan's passing to have this much of an affect. I never met him just watched some videos from time to time and every time he made me at the very least crack a smile. Part of me still can't believe he's really gone. Selfishly speaking I feel like we as a community have been robbed and its just not fair. My heart goes out to his wife and family (including the gaint bomb crew). He will be missed.

RIP Ryan. you will be missed. My condolences to his family and the whole crew at Giantbomb.

Is it weird that I keep thinking and hoping this is some sick joke? I posted this before but this hasn't sunk in yet because this is too surreal. Ryan has been one of the few constant voices in my ears and my brain simply can't register that he's gone. I don't know how to feel now and I have a suspicion that whatever triggers me finally realizing he's gone forever I will break down.

@bwgmon:

No, I keep having this shocked feeling when I think about it. I woke up from a nap this afternoon honestly believing I had dreamed the whole thing and the podcast would be up tonight with him hosting. When I swam out of sleep enough to remember this was real, it was like the entire world was wrong.

This still doesn't feel real.

I just can't comprehend this right now, I've been following Ryan and the crew ever since they were at Gamespot, listened to every podcast every week. This is such a shock.

R.I.P Ryan Davis

This is still so unbelievable to me. RIP Ryan and my thoughts are with his family and friends :(

Even though I never knew him personally, let alone even met the man, Ryan made a strong impact on my life. Fuck, I'll miss him. Rest in peace, duder.

I'm gonna miss him more than I ever thought I could miss someone I've never met. Ryan was a friend to me, and I'm sorry for his friends and family at home and around the world reading this with me.

For anyone that wants just a bit more of Ryan, I found this.. his appearance on another Podcast... never seen this before.. so it feels a bit like he is still around... /sob

Thank you Ryan. Just...thank you.

I spent today attempting to get my head around Ryan's death... this was a man I admired so much, and hoped to meet in person some day. For him to die so young, it really leaves a hole in this very select circle of honest, intelligent commentators of this hobby we love so passionately.

Thank you so much for the laughs, the information, and your honest opinions, Ryan. You are a role model to be followed. If there is something else out there, I hope you can somehow feel all our feelings towards you, and how much your existence mattered, however short it was. Rest.

I was supposed to be working all night on a fun project for work, I couldnt think right all night and now before bed I did this. Tuesdays are the days I look forward to the most. I listen to my ipod at work all day so I burn through a lot of content. The bombcast is the focal point of every wednesday and I schedule my entire playlist of the day around bombcast. Its what I listen to for the last chunk of the day and if im lucky by the time I am through my door ready for the evenings events, Ryan is happily wishing me a good week and promising he'd see us next time. As I sit here on a tuesday, when I would usually wait for the podcast to drop, I'm thinking about what the show has been through with me. I dont know any of the bombsquad, and I love all you.Thanks for hard work, good humor, and great content week after week.

If the bombsquad printed up a 2nd "china dont care" batch and a "fuck ryan davis" variant of "thanks ryan davis" and that money went to his family, Id support it 100%. I feel like I want to help now and show my support in the future. Thank you to not only Ryan but the whole crew. Heaven dont care.

I can't believe this. I've been outta the loop for a day, come back.. check reddit and there is this. There's no words, this is so messed up.

Tuesday's gone.

I was playing Saints Row the Third today (partly from Ryan's passing), and at one point driving down the street, hand nowhere near the guide button the guide popped up. After the initial shock and looking around I pressed the guide button to return to the game. At which point, having pressed no other buttons my character jumps out of the car she was driving, aims her gun at the car and fires two rounds at it.

Now that may have been a weird Xbox thing going on, but a part of me wonders if maybe Ryan decided to fuck with everyone who has posted something about him the last day one last time. That seems like a Ryan thing to do.

I can't believe I'm actually reading this. I don't know what to say.

R.I.P. Ryan

Shocked. Ryan was a true superstar in his field.

I have never known, or even met Ryan. Although now I feel as though I lost a friend. The world was a warmer, and happier place with you in it.

Where's my Ryan Davis + Creed Montage?!!?

RIP Ryan Davis

I rarely post on the site but I have listened to Ryan for 7 years now and he will leave a small hole in my heart that will never be filled :( Going to miss him

Been thinking about the whole crew and I wish them the best. You're all awesome. Ryan was so great, I'm going to miss him a lot.

rest in peace

Ok here goes:

I have been watching these guys since the Gamespot days and have aged along with them. I am 31 myself and consider the GB crew to be kinda the voice of my generation even though they are a few years older. I have watched and listened and over the last year or so my thoughts changed. Maybe because my mother passed away a year ago in May, but nonetheless my thoughts occurred to me and often regarding the health and well being of all here. I am getting older, there is no way around it and things that would take hours to get hour now take days. Taking this into account I have been watching Ryan over the last year and thinking, 'He is sweating a lot." My wife is an RN and we often quiz each other on medical terminology and ideas. So when I see an overweight man sitting and sweating and my age creeping up behind I think things. But i pushed them away because who the hell am I.

Am I this arrogant, this selfish to think that I matter here at all? Should I have said something to someone, maybe anyone. I dont matter, he was a man and was in control of his life surely. Could I have made a difference if i had reached out and said you should visit a Dr., please. But what an arrogant idiot I am for of course he knew he sweated and he saw Dr.'s. He missed a bunch of time this year and we say he had the CPAP mask and what the hell do I know anyway. But i still had nightmares and awful thoughts and regret about not saying anything to anyone. I wish i could have made a difference, i wish i could have sent fruit to their offices instead of watching videos of people sending them candy.

One day I load up my Andriod GB app and l see the news. I cant even open it now. I cant even look at it. Its a punch in the gut, and I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THE MAN. I dont beleieve it. I cant imagine the anger and sadness and tornado or fiery emotions the guys and his wife feel. I understood when my mom passed last year. The cancer was eating her from the inside and it was blessing when she passed as we could not bear her suffering and neither could she. But Ryan, we were not done with you yet, and no one was suffering. Until now.

This isnt real, just some nightmare or an Andy Kaufman bit taken to the exterme. It isnt real. I cant think the thoughts of all the sadness without wanting to individually hug everyone and tell them I am their friend and they are mine. What incredible loss. I am so sorry.

In Ryan's honor I will try and be better at everything, finish writing this stupid book, be a better father, be a better husband. Be a better witty human with compassion and a smile.

We were lucky.

As someone who has been around anything Ryan has been involved in for years, this comes as a complete shock and news I was not prepared to hear. It still doesn't seem real to me. I have such great memories of back in the Gamespot, to Arrow Pointing Down, to GiantBomb. Ryan will be greatly missed. Anything that can be done to help his family please let this community know. Rest in peace Ryan, you will be loved forever.

RIP Ryan.

Well... I had to come hear to actually understand it was not a joke. RSS reader are great but doesn't carry the over 6800 comments.

RIP Ryan.

@gnatsol: Higher could be the song to do...

RIP Ryan. You will be missed.

For the past two days, I've come to this page repeatedly because this just doesn't seem real. I didn't think there was much more I could say that hasn't been said better by others, but I wanted the GB crew to know how much I appreciated how they, and Ryan in particular, went about their work. I'm sorry for your loss, and I hope you can take solace in how many of the people here are grateful for having had you guys around and are truly saddened by his passing.

Yeah, this is what I feel like every time I stop thinking about it for a while then Ryan pops up in my head again and it all comes back. I mean, I guess that's pretty normal but knowing it's normal for it to feel so surreal and wrong doesn't help any. I don't know if stating it helps any either I just don't know, I can't deal with it, Giant Bomb and the presence of Ryan Davis has been so much of a completely impactful thing for me, like it has for so many of us, these past couple of years. I just feel sick now.

My Tuesdays will never be the same.

I wore my Giant Bomb shirt all day at work today, a few people talked to me about Ryan after seeing it. I didn't even know these people played video games! RIP Ryan <3

I feel the same as many that have posted here. I did not know Ryan Davis personally, but I feel like I did. All the hours I've watched and listened to him really made him feel like a friend I had known for years. You really get attached to people this way. I'm so saddened by all of this. I sincerely feel an emptiness inside. My condolences go out to his family and friends. He will truly be missed. So sorry to Jeff and the rest of the crew. The community is here. Let us help in any way we can.

i woke up feeling like a there was a giant hole in my life.. well, i guess there really is one.

when i broke the news to my girlfriend--who, at first, made fun of me for "watching those giant bomb guys," but has now been converted to love the crew--she had to postpone walking into the office to go and collect herself for awhile.

ryan and the the giant bomb crew have had such a deep, profound effect on my life that hasn't been that apparent until now. the countless bus rides, lunches, work commutes, and hours at home listening, watching, and experiencing what these grown men have to say about video games, numbers stations and mattresses.

stay strong, guys. everyone loves you and ryan.

ps. i chipped in another $45, extending my subscription to oct 2014. i wanted to show my support for you guys somehow...

thank you, giant bomb, for making so many lives that much more fun.

I'm sorry if this has been posted already but there is no way I can check. But this was posted by Shawn Elliot on twitter:

I think like a large portion of people, I am still in shock at this whole thing. My condolences to the family and friends, I can't imagine losing someone so amazing, especially so young and especially after just getting married.

TUEEESDAYYY will never be the same again. RIP Ryan Davis.

PS - China don't care.

My heart goes out to everyone.

I will remember Ryan Davis and Whiskey Media like this forever.

Oh my god, this is completely surreal. I never met Ryan or any of the GB crew. I saw Ryan at PAX Prime last year, (saw Drew also) but was too shy to go and say hi. I really wish that I would've now. I've listened to every episode of the Bombcast at least twice, and this is the weirdest feeling I've ever had, feeling such profound loss and actual emptiness about somebody who I never actually met, but feel like I knew. Watching the Harmonix tribute show is actually making me choke up. This fucking sucks

RIP Ryan Davis, You will be greatly missed.

I've been a listener for years. I created an account just to comment. Condolences to everyone at GiantBomb and his family. RIP Ryan. You were like the coolest big brother I never had.

There are so little things in this world I find I really look forward to anymore but the Bombcast and Giantbomb were one of those special rare gems. With Ryan gone, it has shattered me.

To the Giantbomb crew, his wife & family; you have me sincerest condolences. Losing someone close is something you never fully recover from, you just learn to live with the tragedy. At least they still have each other to stand by with.

:(

This has been a hard couple days. I went from grief to thankfulness of what we still have. I will miss Ryan Davis so so much. He was one of the greatest, jovial souls I can think of. But I am still so grateful for who we still have. I'm grateful for Jeff, Vinny, Brad, Drew, Patrick, Rorie, Alex, and the rest of the supporting crew at Giant Bomb that is still with us. Thank you guys so very much for continued and valued entertainment.

I am like a lot of you...still can't believe he's gone, hoping this is all a sick joke, saddened by the news and confused by the notion that I could feel such despair for a man I never knew. I'm just glad (and I'm sure Ryan would be as well) that a community such as this can exist to help each other through these tough times. If nothing else, it does soften the blow a little to know that Ryan was loved by so many people. He was a great man, an important part of his field, and by all accounts a terrific friend. He will be missed.

P.S. flush a pie in heaven

There is no way that I cannot visit the site and not post something.

As a former member of Gamespot, it was Ryan's zaniness and chemistry with Jeff and the rest of the gang that made me happy to be part of that site. I still remember when Jeff was fired, and the exodus that followed, if I am not mistaken, Ryan was next to leave. And i followed their blogs hoping to keep up with anything they did.

Then the Giant Bomb announcement!!!! exciting times as I knew my fellow gamers friends were coming back!

I drifted off from the site once it became a pay sit, and I have missed a lot of Ryan goodness for which I am sad to have missed.

Ryan, we will miss you. It may sound silly, but I've always felt that the guys at this site are friends, not just gaming journalist. Yesterday when I read the news I could not stop that knot in my stomach, that sadness that crept up on me.

Thank you for all you did, and thank you for being loyal to your friends. Wish I could have met you.

Farewell my friend