Mary Mary she's our man! If she can't do it, no one can!

I just want Paul to sit in on every UPF from now on.

In all honesty, my true fantasy is that GBEast didn't exist at all, and Vinny, Dan, and Alex were with the rest of the West coast crew, really get WEIRD with it.

I have really enjoyed Tim Turi when he has been on UPF and he's kind of the anti-Dan. I know he's busy drooling over all things Resident Evil at Capcom but, if we're talking fantasy, I would love to see Tim join the crew.

Mary is great too though.

I think Mary would be a great choice. Alternatively I would settle for a fake computer.

@sincave said:

They wasted Brad so fucking hard. I'm still salty about that. He was fucking tremendous on Podtoid. He was hilarious and had such a presence. He just sadly never gelled here at all.

This so much. I remember when the split happened people tried to be optimistic about it and here we are however long later and I just see it as an almost utter failure. The point is driven home even further when the groups do reunite for E3 or GOTY and you're just like "man they're fucking amazing together! Welp time to go split up again for 90% of the year!".

The only correct Danswers is New Dan or Paul.

Me!

@dudeglove said:

Ooooo we'd all get .gif profile pics!

Finding anyone who wants to try to afford SF rent will be the real challenge. That said, I'd love to see more of Cara Ellison.

Helmut Kruger

buy waypoint. those chuckleheads can't leave that easily!

Chief Beef

Dave snider is always the correct answer to these questions

@eastbound4: You seem to misunderstand the point of diversity.

To answer the threads question: Whoever the fuck they deem best. They've done a great job in the past, lets trust them guys.

Somebody that has a diverse taste in games when compared to the rest of the crew. Maybe somebody who's big into rpgs (jrpg, crpg), or strategy games or turn based etc. Just to give a broader viewpoint.

Maybe they don't need to replace Dan.

@skullpanda1: Yeah Cara Ellison is awesome. Doesn't she also have some knowledge of Japanese or am I misremembering?

Personally I would like to see a female hire who can fill in the spot of Japanese games(mainly JRPG's) which don't always get the full cover on here.

In terms of absolute fantasy: I wish Tim Turi didn't work at Capcom anymore and would jump ship to Giant Bomb. Doubting that will happen however, I have to go with Mary Kish. She's just so delightful.

Since it's fantasy I'll go with Austin Walker.

My fantasy pick is Xavier Woods

bob dole

In a perfect world, sure, the split was bad. But people have families and lives outside of, what appears to be, the garbage city of San Fran. I'd rather someone like Vinny live on content wise on the east coast than have burnout, family conflicts, or attacks by the homeless cause issues. Their lives come first.

I honestly feel sorry for whoever will take the job. They will get so much undeserved hate that I pray for their sanity. Hopefully they will be able to let it bounce off like Dan and Jason seemingly did.

@magmamud: I'm not sure how multilingual Cara is, but I believe she does know some Japanese.

I'd personally love Janine Hawkins get a shot. Might be an interesting shot in the arm...

The guests from this list who I enjoy hearing from most are Dave Lang and Danny O'Dwyer, but they both are super busy, so I guess I don't really care

CARRIE GOUSKOS you fools!? Why is she not #1 on this list!

Mary would be great, but I don't think that'll actually happen. Whoever it is, I hope they can adapt as quickly as Austin did!

Paul is gonna run out of SI Magazines one of these days.

No love for our old friend Matt Kessler?

I dunno, who's the #1 Youtube-personality draft pick? Some new PewDiePie wannabe. Gotta #monetize them #teens.

Jeff Green is my fantasy pick but alas, he ain't available.

That would be awesome! Otherwise, it might be time to splurge and go for two instead of one: Nick Robinson and Griffin McElroy. Get GB in front of those millennials.

Now we're talking.

I just want Austin back...

What's that Austin Walker guy doing these days?

Matt Kessler

At the very least, somebody who'll stay up on the non-action Japanese games front. It'd be super cool if they had some kind of import hour of stuff that really ought to get localized, as opposed to Jeff's 'anime creeper cam' shtick.

I would say Cara Ellison, but she seems (based on what she wrote in her Top 10 of 2017 list) to be MUCH happier now that she's out of the games journalism grind.

So I'd put my not-actually-worth-anything vote towards friend of the site (and now at the table, this season) freelancer Janine Hawkins!

If Giant Bomb really wants to embrace our cyber future, they should stop hiring weak humans, and instead put that money into buying a pair or those robot iPads, one for each coast.

ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER

The Drummer from Godspeed You Black Emperor

Former Hull City Manager Mike Phelan can be hired to provide post-podcast thoughts.

Robot Vinny.

New Blood!

Whenever one of these threads pop up, I will always vote for Cara Ellison, Giant Bomb could use a scottish person. Think about it, you know it's true.