Rorie's been an honest-to-god legend. As someone who goes all the way back to the Whiskey Media days, he's our strongest current link to early Giant Bomb. His casual and earnest on-camera presence, even when interjecting with something absolutely wild, was always amiable and entertaining. I've also appreciated his willingness to throw himself into situations that make him a little nervous, his offers to get drinks with fans wherever he is, and his taste in music. Rorie's the reason I sing along with the Star Trek: Enterprise theme every time. Like any good personality here, he's had a palpable signature taste in games, and he deserves kudos for holding so many community events, putting in the work on Extra Life, and his side streams for obscurer titles that could easily have fallen by the wayside.
A project as big as Giant Bomb also requires a lot of behind-the-scenes work that goes largely unacknowledged, and it's hard to overemphasise how much Rorie has done in that department. He's been willing to resolve issues at a moment's notice and still checked in on weekends. He's been in constant contact with the mod team to shoot the shit, give advice, or fix problems, and he's consistently been just the coolest and most helpful with how he's talked to us. It's been so much easier to get support stuff taken care of since he's arrived. He's really glued a lot of stuff together and helped keep this place running for almost ten years, even when I know he was going through hell trying to process merch shipments. He's still saying people can contact him about issues and doing giveaways even now. I'm sure there is a bunch more vital and delightful stuff he's done for Giant Bomb that I'm forgetting, but he deserves all the best where he goes next, and with his track record, I know he's going to crush it.
Keep chomping those puppers.
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