The Fall Of Giantbomb?

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@Vito_Raliffe said:

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" ? no you sound desperate.... "
lol what are you, twelve?   You've offered no defense for anything other than listing a bunch of games at random -- many of which you should well know they'd have no interest in playing let alone running videos of. Do you honestly expect a quick look of a sports game like NHL 11? Do you even frequent Giant Bomb?  "
no you are twelve...   besides ... quicklooks like 1vs 100 , price is right or this water running jumping slippery falling down game are one of the best.... just imagine an eyepet quicklook Oo "
It always blows my mind when someone attempts to use the "NO U" argument without irony or comic intent. "
why? good use of it or what? i dont understand what you want to say. too serious? "
It's a ridiculous argument that only paints you with the notion that you know your argument is flawed, and thus you're resorting to meaningless comebacks in a flailing attempt at distracting your opponent in debate. "
dont be ridiculous. its not even an argument that stands for anything.. he said im twelve and i replied the same... its not like im trying to defend any point... "
In all honesty, your ability to craft a coherent, meaningful argument is staggeringly immature and resembles that of a youth unaccustomed to debating with educated adults. "
you are twelve, not an adult. no wonder you dont understand my mature arguments "
How old are you anyway? "
too personal... you first "
17 "
It's funny how these quote pyramids slowly fade out the words.. so eventually... you have no idea what you were talking about to begin with.. maybe that's a mechanism to stop quote pyramids.... *gasp* conspiracy! "
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#152  Edited By TheDukeofArgyll
@SeriouslyNow:  Obviously everything should be free and nothing costs money, we are the suckers for paying.  Text sarcasm, the finest forum art form.
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#153  Edited By ziropiro
@Vito_Raliffe said:
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" ? no you sound desperate.... "
lol what are you, twelve?   You've offered no defense for anything other than listing a bunch of games at random -- many of which you should well know they'd have no interest in playing let alone running videos of. Do you honestly expect a quick look of a sports game like NHL 11? Do you even frequent Giant Bomb?  "
no you are twelve...   besides ... quicklooks like 1vs 100 , price is right or this water running jumping slippery falling down game are one of the best.... just imagine an eyepet quicklook Oo "
It always blows my mind when someone attempts to use the "NO U" argument without irony or comic intent. "
why? good use of it or what? i dont understand what you want to say. too serious? "
It's a ridiculous argument that only paints you with the notion that you know your argument is flawed, and thus you're resorting to meaningless comebacks in a flailing attempt at distracting your opponent in debate. "
dont be ridiculous. its not even an argument that stands for anything.. he said im twelve and i replied the same... its not like im trying to defend any point... "
In all honesty, your ability to craft a coherent, meaningful argument is staggeringly immature and resembles that of a youth unaccustomed to debating with educated adults. "
you are twelve, not an adult. no wonder you dont understand my mature arguments "
How old are you anyway? "
too personal... you first "
17 "
It's funny how these quote pyramids slowly fade out the words.. so eventually... you have no idea what you were talking about to begin with.. maybe that's a mechanism to stop quote pyramids.... *gasp* conspiracy! "
Echoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo "
HIghlight this for an awesome effect! IT'S 3D!!!!! "
This is the coolest quote pyramid I have ever seen. 
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#154  Edited By phrosnite

I see no ads... Hurray for Bulgaria?

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#155  Edited By FirePrince
@ch13696 said:
"I've been here since the beginning and I noticed those things too. A lot of people won't care, but I do. Except for the Kessler kam. That just needed to go away. "

Agreed.
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#156  Edited By Ryax

im pretty sick of people hating on the screened and tested guys. 

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#157  Edited By Zereta

Live in Singapore and no, no ads here. I will admit that the Quick Look thing sucks and the bombcast potential split is a bummer but whatever, what comes out of Giant Bomb is still awesome.

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#158  Edited By Hailinel
@Ryax said:
" im pretty sick of people hating on the screened and tested guys.  "
Which is especially absurd given that they all work in the same office and that both Alex and Matt were former coworkers of the Giant Bomb crew at Gamespot.
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#159  Edited By SeriouslyNow
@hondorondo said:
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" @hondorondo:  Your better then 17?  Does that mean older or younger?  Maturity in the metaphorical sense is measure by how you act.  And younger people tend to be more immature so when you say stuff like that it makes you seem immature so people assume your younger. "
define maturity, mr. i know everthing! looking down on people makes you mature? i guess than im happy to be immature! "
Maturity : The Inverse of hondorondo's nature.
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#161  Edited By Feanor

The site can't die. To many people here are obsessed with the staff.

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so will this show up as something nondescript on my credit card statement like the porn websites i subscribe to? 
 
thats kind of a deal breaker.

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#163  Edited By NakAttack
@odintal said:
" so will this show up as something nondescript on my credit card statement like the porn websites i subscribe to?  thats kind of a deal breaker. "
this a question that needs answering people.
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#164  Edited By HellBrendy

I too have noticed the fall of in-house produced video, but I have written it off as "momentarely" due to the moving and stuff. Sure hope I am wrong, though.

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#165  Edited By CouncilSpectre
@hondorondo:
You so car-razy!
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It's sad and true, but I am now going to Destructoid for everything. Not for the membership deal being pushed down our throats, oh no, it's because I don't want to encourage the staff of dickheads to boss around their user base. 

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@dudeglove said:
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" It's sad and true, but I am now going to Destructoid for everything. Not for the membership deal being pushed down our throats, oh no, it's because I don't want to encourage the staff of dickheads to boss around their user base.  "
lol. "
yeah, I laughed too. 
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#169  Edited By Feanor
@BestUsernameEver: So did I. People are taking this all a little to far. 
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#170  Edited By crusader8463

I will agree that other then the odd bombcast I haven't enjoyed the site as much as I have in the past. There just doesn't seem to be anything interesting happening all that often, but I'm not going to be a chicken little an run around saying the sky is falling. I'm just not happy with a lot of the decisions that have been made recently.

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#171  Edited By ajn19103

ya, i for one enjoy Will and Norm a lot. Im pretty sure i love every single person who works for whiskey media. They just seem to hire the coolest people.

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#172  Edited By Teaspoon83

They have Will and Norm. Go back and check out the PC Gamer mags of the past and you will see that the two are awesome additions to Whiskey. Seriously, they make being nerdy look good. And what do you want people? Invisible barriers to keep them out of mailbag videos? My God.

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#173  Edited By crusader8463
@Teaspoon83 said:
" They have Will and Norm. Go back and check out the PC Gamer mags of the past and you will see that the two are awesome additions to Whiskey. Seriously, they make being nerdy look good. And what do you want people? Invisible barriers to keep them out of mailbag videos? My God. "
Actually that would be kind of funny to see them running into invisible walls and try to figure out what the fuck is going on. Especially if it's right in front of the bathroom door.
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#174  Edited By Feanor
@crusader8463: Perhaps content has been lacking because they were running out of money. Hopefully it will pick up a bit now that people are paying, and it better or people with gold medals will start flipping shit.
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#175  Edited By osuzoo08

Hey I love me my target Fancy feast ads well my cat's do because whenever I see it I think oh yeah I need to buy more for them. lol 

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#176  Edited By Feanor

Hey these adds are not so bad. I just found the love of my life on geek dating. 
 
 
 
edit: Nvm, it turned out to be a 23 year old girl posing as a 13 year old. When I met her some dateline guy told me to sit down at this table, we chatted and had some lemon-aid. 

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#177  Edited By Daveyo520

The only thing I'll truely agree with is that I saw a stupid ad today for some media player. They did however turn into Halo Reach ads after.

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#178  Edited By Leptok
@BestUsernameEver said:
" It's sad and true, but I am now going to Destructoid for everything. Not for the membership deal being pushed down our throats, oh no, it's because I don't want to encourage the staff of dickheads to boss around their user base.  "
Dude really? What is your problem with the membership? They backed off on the only real membership thing that was an issue, splitting the bombcast. They need to make money dude, advertising doesn't cover everything.
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#179  Edited By admordem
@hondorondo:   
 
As for the ads, I don't see them here in Australia, right now, and my paid sub will mean I won't.
 
The bombcast is a non issue. You will have 2 hours of bombcast a week, even if your a free user account. This was a token gesture to make the people paying for it to feel better about it, without actually taking anything away from the free users, or free users having to actually pay for the bandwidth they use by listening in.
 
Less Quicklooks right now, and agree I want more. But an office move, massive website changes, PAX, The BIg Live Live Show Live, Thursday Night Throwdowns, and a bunch of other things, combined with the fact that its been the slow period for game releases, quickly show at least why. Hopefully the subs turn a growing pile of debt into a successful business, so their continues to be any kind of Giant Bomb. 
 
Yeh more Kessler Kam would have been great, but these kind of short run behind the scenes things will continue to happen. If you like them, help fund them by throwing the guys a couple bucks a month.
 
The other teams involvement in the live and candid stuff is bad? I mean did you watch Will and Rory at the after party? Prolly the funiest stuff to ever grace the site. Love Will in the mailbags, and its never a bad thing having that hot little minx from comic vine? in the frame. Alex and Rorie are a different thing all together - for myself and a lot of other long term fans, having these two back in the same office as the boys is amazing, and can only mean good things.
 
Yeh I agree with the amount of articles not written by the core staff.
 
Your last point about the videos is pretty bad, and if were you, id edit your post.  The reason being you have completely ignored the streams. There is actually more video then ever at the moment, the pre-recorded stuff is slower at the moment because of the nature of the games industry (its always dead for half a year). But 2 hours of TNT a week. Daily Streams by jeff and ryan, over an hour long almost always. The 10 hours of totally awesomess from the Big LIve Show and the after party they did JUST THIS WEEK. The hour and a half LIVE ADDITIONAL BOMBCAST they did also this week. The new show coming of fridays.
 
Man you missed the mark pretty badly on that last point. Compare that shit to 6 months ago and tell me there was more. You sir, need to spend more time watching awesome GB videos, and stop making up things to cry about.
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The site will still continue to maintain it's different and fresh attitude towards games. I just don't see the crew suddenly changing just because of the recent events. And in all honesty, that's all I need to still hang out here. Jeff is awesome, and we will remain so. Ryan is insane and will continue to fill your head with random spews of hilarity. Everyone else does their job really well, at the very least better than any other gaming website.
 
All in all, what were most people expecting? For what it's worth, the guys have gone on exceedingly long without wanting anything from the community, but there's always a limit when it comes to income. They just reached it. Nothing good in life is free, and this should be no exception.