I've been sitting on this for a better part of a year now. Of course it would take something like Whiskey getting sold to finally get off my ass and post this. Part of it is that my camera took blurry pictures, but the larger part is I was just lazy.

In any case, here are a bunch of (crappy) shots from when Giant Bomb still had a bar in the office. To date this, this was the Pengwill happy hour! (Here's my Tested themed recap)

When I first arrived, Ethan let me into the building an gave me a tour. Everyone there was super graceful about letting some random stranger into their place of work! I got to see stuff like the Control Room, podcast room, the bar! They took me over to the engineer bay and Dave showed me some stuff he was working on.

Then I was shuffled into the intern area until the show began. It was cool speaking with the then-terns Corey and Ben. When the show began I was able to sit on the flea couch, which is way cooler than it sounds. I took a bunch of pictures during the show and had a blast. Once again, everyone was super kind. Daniel brought me beers, Corey chatted with me throughout the show, Drew introduced me to Ryan when I was way too nervous to approach him myself. Ryan in his infinite grace, only berated me a little given he had just finished a long hard day of work (its amazing he tolerated me at all). The Tested crew showed me around and Will gave me popcorn which I ate! It was an amazing experience all around and I am thankful they were the kind of company to allow me to do something so fun. I'd like to think of this as a time capsule because a lot of this freewheeling nature might be inappropriate in a corporate workplace, also a lot of these people are parting ways.

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This is awesome! How did you get to tour their office?

Wow, must have been a great time duder. Really awesome pics that you have here. Gonna miss Whiskey. :(

@Castermhief117: About a year ago it was as simple as pming Ethan and just arranging a time! Super easy, just ask and they were fine with it. Apparently after I did it, the amount of people following suit was so high that they had to close it off. I'm not really sure if it'll be quite as easy to tour their CBS offices though. Probably not for the foreseeable future anyway.

@Phatmac: Yeah, the Whiskey family will live on in our hearts, and also through the Whiskey staff.

Id always planned to show up to one of the Street party things, i wonder if they will still do them when they are at the Gamespot offices...id have to imagine no..but you never know lol

That's nuts! Well, they did make that joke about you in the After Burner Climax Endurance Run, so it was only fair.

Kidding, of course.

You must had a blast, duder. I envy you.

The blurriness makes it seem like the photos were taken while drunk (not a bad thing!).

I also think the phrase "Bonus Coonce" is amazing.

My girlfriend and I would love if we could visit the GB offices in the future. It would be amazing!

@Ravenlight: I won't lie, Dan gave me two glasses of their special on tap stuff. I may have been a little incapacitated! Mostly though, it was their studio lighting wrecking havok on my camera. I didn't post over half of the pictures I took because they're just too blurry.

Yeah, Coonce showing up was definitely a bonus in my book. I'm just really sad Jeff wasn't in the office that day

Shit, you mustve been really stoked!  I hope they have a bar in their new office space.  That would be funny

Shit, you mustve been really stoked!  I hope they have a bar in their new office space.  That would be funny

Bearded @Daniel! Oh man.

I don't know if I've mentioned this (I have). I'm so envious of you. So very very envious. :(

@Sparklykiss: It was as amazing as you think it is. They were very chill about letting me geek out in their offices!

Awesome pictures! It is indeed like a time capsule.