So who's this new British dude?

So GB is my go to website for all things gaming and sometimes just for general entertainment, but I haven't been able to follow it as closely as I'd like in recent months due to the fact that I've been working a shitload more then I use too and I just don't have as much free time as I use too. Anyways, I was listening to the podcast recently and heard some Brit on there that I didn't recognize. (Excuse my ignorance if dude happens to be from some other obscure European country. I can't tell a Brit from a Irishman from a Polack). They didn't introduce him as "the new guy" or anything so I figured maybe he's just a guest. But then I noticed he also (at least I think it's the same dude) showed up on the Sunset Overdrive video! So what gives, who is this cat? I saw that they were looking to hire, is this a new hire? Was there some sort of formal introduction that I missed?

He works at Gamespot, danny o dwyer

Danny O'Dwyer the Irish gentlemen from Gamespot. He's appeared on a few premium stream stuff before with Giant Bomb.

That would be Irishman Danny O'Dwyer from Gamespot. He was just guesting because Jeff was out of town.

He's not a member of GB, he works at Gamespot and visits GB often, he's Irish, and he's Danny O'Dwyer.

I still remember him from way back when he would write in to the Hot Spot. Crazy.

He's Mel Gibson from Braveheart and I hope you get over your accent disability at some point I send my regards to you and your family.

I wonder if the same things happens in the comments on Gamespot when one of the Giantbomb guys turns up there?

I like the idea of Ireland being an obscure European country.

@dixavd: They're all like "Didn't this guy get fired years ago for his Twilight Princess review?"

That's Danny O'Fuckin'Dwyer

This brought a smile to my face.

Also for some reason the title made the George Washington song start playing in my head. "He'll save children, but not the British children. He'll save children, but not the British children."

That would be Gavin McLeod of Rival Video Game Website, who sometimes appears on GameBomb.ru's Highly Professional Mondays to tell us of the Scottish games of his boyhood, like Sensible World of Caber Tossing.

He's from the obscure- almost never ever mentioned by anyone in America at least- island of Ireland. Frankly, I'm not sure how Denis Leary has never mentioned it before. It seems like something he'd be into. =P

Seriously, though, Danny does the F1 podcast with Drew but is mainly a producer of video content at Gamespot (sorry @dannyodwyer, I don't know if you do other editorial work, I've only ever seen you do videos- so correct me if I'm wrong).

He used to work at Gamespot UK, but fairly recently (6 months or a year or something), he relocated to the Gamespot US office (in San Francisco) so he's had more access to the Giantbomb guys when he isn't doing his own crazy shenanigans over at Gamespot.

That of course is my understanding just as a viewer of his work for a few years, but ya. Danny is a cool dude. He was also in the quicklook they made about that terrible Cricket game sometime back and a few Unprofessional Fridays and I think at least one Vinnyvania, and he probably wandered into other stuff too.

Unless he's from Northern Ireland, he ain't British.

Don't call him British to his face.

Danny O'Dwyer from gamespot though. Awesome dude who completely fits with the GB crew. Also produces some great Gamespot content.

@slantedroom:

I can't tell a Brit from a Irishman from a Polack

What the fuck.

Is it bad that I read your post in a New Yorker accent?

Could've sworn it was a french accent.

Err... the derogatory slang towards Polish people was a little weird in that OP.

Not as weird as what I hear whenever I hear Danny's last name. (It's the background music in this video.)

YEEEEEEEEEEP...I thought I was the only one who noticed. 0_o

@slaps2 said:

Actually you're only technically classified as British if you're from England, Scotland, or Wales.

Classy.

Ya, I originally was going to reply this awhile ago, but thought maybe I was being harsh. I see others see the same thing I did, so...

What with the casual racism in the OP a New York accent could make sense.

Oh, Danny <3

He's my celebrity crush. Him and Drew. I can have two Senpais, right?

Hmm....

Nice. Racial slurs. Keeping it classy.

To be fair to the OP he probably didn't even know it was a slur in the first place.

Well, he'll probably knows now that we pointed it out.

KEEP YOUR PAWS OFF OF MY DANNY-SAMA, @alwaysbebombingsan!!!!

I'm saddened that nobody has yet told you to watch the Bioforge playthrough, which you clearly missed if you don't know who Danny is.

I recall there were even semi-frequent "pleas" on the forum for GB to hire Danny away from Gamespot. But as others have clarified, he does not work for GB, and he appears in GB content because he's friends with the crew.

@yummylee: Then he is definitely not British.

@slantedroom: That's not how you refer to Polish people unless you're trying to insult them. They're Poles. You should clean that up.

@slantedroom: The fact that I'm a Polack, and Danny is an Irishman makes your post incredibly funny for some reason. Move over Vinny we have a new casual racist in town.

I think we may be the only two.

I doubt people from Northern Ireland would agree with this.

@jonny_anonymous said:

Even if they don't agree with it they still wouldn't be right. Northern Ireland isn't apart of Britain after all, so. Besides, I'd rather people refer to me with my actual nationality anyway, rather than having us all lumped up as ''British''. The worst part of it all is when someone refers to your accent as 'British'.

Yea but you can't make that call for everybody.

You've probably never met someone from Northern Ireland then... Most 'British' people don't refer to themselves as British anyway, that seems like more of an American thing to generalise everyone here as British.

Also yeah, nice one to the OP for the awful racism in his post.

@jonny_anonymous: ...I'm not making a call, it's a fact -- Northern Irish aren't British. It's not like it's supposed to function as an insult or anything, as if they're not really apart of the UK or something.

Um, I lived there for 5 years and I am in fact Scottish not American.

@yummylee Being that they are from the British Isles they they do infact have the right to call themselves British.

Tell me this is some sort of weird sarcasm.

If not I don't like you and I don't feel other people should like you either.

Er, me?

@jonny_anonymous: Of course they have the right to call themselves Irish. I assume you meant British anywhoo and, whatever, factual evidence dictates that they are technically not classified as British; they may be apart of the British Isles, but they're still not apart of the island of Great Britain itself. Anywhoo we could keep butting heads on this, but it doesn't seem especially productive and doesn't really matter so, let us both move on!

What he said.

Either this is some attempt at humour or you a displaying a disgusting amount of ignorance.

Man, sensitive stuff. I've probably heard Danny himself sling out actual casual racism and too-soon-jokes in almost every other video of his over at Gamespot and some over here as well.

That said, it usually manages to get out a laugh...

I didn't say you were American, I am just saying referring to everyone from the UK as British is something I never encountered until I came to these boards/the internet as a whole and noticed people doing it en masse.