I'm Calling It: I Love Mondays Is Done

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#1  Edited By ThePickle

I Love Mondays has been on life support for the past few months, with every entry worse than the last. What was once a highly edited, informative bit of content turned into a cobbled together mess that barely came out on Mondays. Now, after weeks without an entry, I think it's safe to say I Love Mondays is deader than Elvis. Cause of death has not yet been determined. My best guess is laziness. 


Now, fellow Giant Bomb members, let us mourn the passing of our lost video feature.

 RIP. 2/9/09 - 4/11/11
 RIP. 2/9/09 - 4/11/11

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#2  Edited By iamjohn

Goodnight, sweet prince.

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#3  Edited By Azteck

I seriously hope not. Where else will I get to know what to expect from the site?

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#4  Edited By JJWeatherman

  

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#5  Edited By OllyOxenFree

Man, I really do miss that bomb blowing up on Vinny's face...

Also, the turkeys. Never forget the turkeys.

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#6  Edited By DougQuaid
Turkey's outside so it must be Monday...
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#7  Edited By Afroman269
@JJWeatherman said:
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or keep tapping this button for more satisfaction.
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#8  Edited By RE_Player1

Yup. I don't hold it against them, I thought it was a fantastic feature but if they don't want to do it they don't have to. At least they didn't split the bombcast, god I can just imagine how horrible that would've been if that actually went through.

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#9  Edited By mnzy

So they just stop doing it, nothing instead of it? They did that with WU-TANG, too. Not the best way, imho.
And I liked ILM.

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#11  Edited By Animasta

the last couple months have been the best ILM's

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#12  Edited By JJWeatherman
@mnzy said:
" So they just stop doing it, nothing instead of it? They did that with WU-TANG, too. Not the best way, imho.And I liked ILM. "
I think Jeff said something about tearing down ILM and starting something new. I'd bet on some form of replacement.
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#13  Edited By Terry_Bogard
@HandsomeDevil said:

 My best guess is laziness.

Probably. It's kind of a shame really.. 
I'm probably the only one who thinks this, but ...
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#14  Edited By Kjellm87

Hope you're wrong-

Ok, they can do ILM in the new style, BUT with the turkey intro. I think that would be perfect.

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#15  Edited By Slaker117

My love for Mondays will never die.

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#16  Edited By ReyGitano
@Atomasist said:
" While it may be dead now, It'll come back in some new format in the future. "
Always in the future, as in it'll never return because the future will always be in the future.
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#17  Edited By JJWeatherman
@Terry_Bogard said:
" @HandsomeDevil said:

 My best guess is laziness.

Probably. It's kind of a shame really.. 
I'm probably the only one who thinks this, but ...
"
Patrick's joined the crew though. That was pretty huuuuge. Besides Drew early on, he's the only addition to the GB staff since launch.

So, there's that. Although I see where you're coming from.
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#18  Edited By Yanngc33

It will rise from its own ashes, as a brilliant phoenix that will light our way down the entire week

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#19  Edited By buzz_killington

Ya think??

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#20  Edited By craigbo180

On who's authority are you calling it? I will not stand for such wild accusations until Brad calls it.

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#21  Edited By BonOrbitz

Looks like someone is not having the case of the Mondays.

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#22  Edited By ThePickle
@Terry_Bogard said:
" @HandsomeDevil said:

 My best guess is laziness.

Probably. It's kind of a shame really.. 
I'm probably the only one who thinks this, but ...
"
Trust me, you are not alone. I feel your pain brother. 
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#23  Edited By AhmadMetallic

the old me woulda reminisced about the old GB and dissed the new corporate GB


the new laid back me thinks it's cool that they're evolving and dropping all those tired video features, focusing more on pointless talk-show-esque Happy Hours and the like ^^
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#24  Edited By chem

This makes me a saaad panda.

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#25  Edited By Animasta

what features did we lose exactly

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#26  Edited By Video_Game_King
@SlashseveN303 said:

" @Atomasist said:

" While it may be dead now, It'll come back in some new format in the future. "
Always in the future, as in it'll never return because the future will always be in the future. "
  
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#27  Edited By ShaneDev

Meh, it always seemed from the start to be a half assed way to interact with the users with the user videos. It did nothing a simple text article couldn't have done. I only started watching them again once they started to change them up. I say bring back Wu-Tang or create something worth while.    

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#28  Edited By Subjugation

I came to this same conclusion a while ago.

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#29  Edited By grilledcheez

NEXT UP IS QUICKLOOKS

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#30  Edited By babblinmule

Move over Monday's, Tuesday is where it's at now!

The king is dead, long live the king.

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#31  Edited By Red12b

BUT WHERE ELSE WILL I GET MY QOTW QUESTION!!!
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#32  Edited By Daveyo520

I enjoyed the cobbled together ones. They are funnier. The only thing I mind is no video at all.

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#33  Edited By Bloodgraiv3
@Laketown said:
"what features did we lose exactly "


Exactly, and we've gained quite a bit of features if we compare the loss to gain.


 

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#34  Edited By aurahack

Maybe it's going down so that they can establish a new feature.


Like a reoccurring I Live Mondays. 
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#35  Edited By Venatio

So anything that takes an amount of editing is gone from the site now? WU-TANG is gone forever most likely and ILM too

Well atleast we get the occasional video review

Still a bummer because the editing is mostly so well done with Whiskey Media videos

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#36  Edited By Skullomania

Question of the week is still good though? Right??? Right guys?!?!? They said it was coming back! THEY SAID!!!!

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#37  Edited By TheHT

I dunno if it's laziness more than them having more shit to do. There's a lot more cross site stuff and live shows not to mention still getting quick looks done. I Love Mondays may be short but someone still has to set up the script and set, film it, and splice in other clips while they could be working on the actual content they'd be talking about doing.

Don't get me wrong though, I love I Love Mondays too.

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#38  Edited By yetiantics

The death of the QOTW lead to the demise of ILM. I hope you QOTW haters are happy. >:(

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#39  Edited By Sin4profit

I'm calling it...TANG is, probably, maybe done...possibly.


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#40  Edited By Bloodgraiv3
@Sin4profit said:
"I'm calling it...TANG is, probably, maybe done...possibly.

"


I just think that they ran out of video game movies to do those on, I'm sure we'll see more when people make more shitty video game movies.


 

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#41  Edited By Hats

in place of i love Mondays a community driven weird game related video of the week would be good
I always enjoy matt's random videos on screened and I would like to see a game verson of 10mins of Ninjers & Their Ninjutsu

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#42  Edited By YoungFrey

As long as they replace it with something in text I'm cool.  It was easily the video feature I cared the least about.  I didn't want to watch a video to find out what was on TNT.  I just want to take 10 seconds and read it.  They can keep making them, just give me a list to read. 

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#43  Edited By p_p_o_d

on the plus side maybe they are using the I<3M time to make other video content



lol.  j/k 
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#44  Edited By Aronman789
@JJWeatherman said:
" @Terry_Bogard said:
" @HandsomeDevil said:

 My best guess is laziness.

Probably. It's kind of a shame really.. 
I'm probably the only one who thinks this, but ...
"
Patrick's joined the crew though. That was pretty huuuuge. Besides Drew early on, he's the only addition to the GB staff since launch.

So, there's that. Although I see where you're coming from.
"
Shouldn't someone update the Bombcast image and add Patrick?
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#45  Edited By JJWeatherman
@Aronman789 said:
" @JJWeatherman said:
" @Terry_Bogard said:
" @HandsomeDevil said:

 My best guess is laziness.

Probably. It's kind of a shame really.. 
I'm probably the only one who thinks this, but ...
"
Patrick's joined the crew though. That was pretty huuuuge. Besides Drew early on, he's the only addition to the GB staff since launch.

So, there's that. Although I see where you're coming from.
"
Shouldn't someone update the Bombcast image and add Patrick? "
Yes, someone should. We were promised a new "season" of the Bombcast a while ago. What the heck's going on?

Ah well. They'll get to it when they get to it.
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#46  Edited By Yummylee

It's weird how the bigger and more popular the site gets, the less variety there is; theres pretty much just Quick Looks with the occasional Quick Look variant. There's still the bombcast (to which they still haven't official begun the ''new season'' art/theme yet), and TNT's stand strong even through the constant struggles they find themselves in. There's also the Happy Hour, but that's a collective feature - with GB as the primary hosts. 

But there's the loss of the QoTW's (for how lame they generally were, they were certainly still something that stood out), mailbags, or any kind of office video in general (which the new interns need to remedy!), I <3 Mondays of course, though it's too early too tell at this point if it'll just be brushed under the carpet for good, and of course TANG, WUTANG AND WUTABBYTANGO; to which there have dozens of new material building up that the feature could take advantage of since Ryan's last review of Farcry at this point as well. Thank god for the quests! The true backbone of the site and the only thing that keeps it together!..
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#47  Edited By Getz

I would be happy with just some text, or a tweet from one of the guys about what's coming up.

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#48  Edited By mnzy
@Sin4profit said:

" I'm calling it...TANG is, probably, maybe done...possibly.
"

I heard Ubisoft is working hard to change that.
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#49  Edited By RE_Player1

I'm calling it... TNT is going to become an every other week feature.

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#50  Edited By ThePickle
@JJWeatherman said:
" @Aronman789 said:
" @JJWeatherman said:
" @Terry_Bogard said:
" @HandsomeDevil said:

 My best guess is laziness.

Probably. It's kind of a shame really.. 
I'm probably the only one who thinks this, but ...
"
Patrick's joined the crew though. That was pretty huuuuge. Besides Drew early on, he's the only addition to the GB staff since launch.

So, there's that. Although I see where you're coming from.
"
Shouldn't someone update the Bombcast image and add Patrick? "
Yes, someone should. We were promised a new "season" of the Bombcast a while ago. What the heck's going on?

Ah well. They'll get to it when they get to it.
"
Kat said it'd be a few weeks, a few weeks ago :( I imagine that with the addition of Pat she had to restart. Still does not excuse the fact that it is May, when last year we got new banner/theme in February. 

A text feature would be totally fine. The main thing I miss about ILM is not knowing the TNT or what QL's to expect. Despite their shittyness, the previous ILM's at least told me what was happening.