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About a week ago everyone was talking about Hive as the Twitter replacement but I am increasingly skeptical of that. I've been using it for a week or so and it needs a lot of work. Hive is not ready f...

Yeah the GOTY debate was fine when it was 4 people and those 4 people largely played the same games. When the number of staff taking part in discussions doubled and many of them played different game...

@csl316 said:@janhepcat: What's the alternative? GB's a business. Are they supposed to make money purely off subs? It's part of a corporate entity, it's not just the original 4 anymore, the world's m...

@twins said:Ars doesn't include them alongside the review. They're in deal round-ups dedicated to the practice. Maybe that would be a better fit here too.They have the whole "hey we make money off of...

Even super old-school tech sites with well-regarded review staff like Ars Technica have affiliate links or coupon codes in content now. It's so common now as to be the norm on almost every video game...

What's next? They're gonna start advertising chewable dick pills?Oh wait, they did that for years. Who cares?

@theodoricfriede said:They'll do what everyone else is doing. Complain and then either suck it up and either pay, or lose their verified status.Anyone else who is pretending something else will happe...

@gortonimo said:@mrplayersix: dude, Albummer is well past its 1 year anniversaryDon't forget 8-4 Play, which has been on GB for over a decade now as well. GB hosting non-GB staff content isn't exactl...

Vinny mentioned on the last Nextlander stream that for their section of Extra Life, they will be playing FFXIV, Grounded, Jackbox, and potentially other things. I think he also mentioned there is the ...

@theodoricfriede said: Every person I have ever met who has gotten super into marijuana has become absolutely insufferable about it ranging from trying to push it on everyone they know as some kind o...

@splodge said:@lyndbako: how do you stand watching any content with these professional adults that you see as so pathetic and childish? it must be toughThey used to have a literal bar in their office...

@whitegreyblack said:I realized this is totally reminiscent of that wild stream years and years ago where the Ryan Davis "penitentiary body" clip comes from. So, I mean... sure, Friday Night Forkin m...

When this first came on yesterday I thought it was prerecorded. Then he started reading and responding to twitch chat and my brain melted because I realized it was live and all being controlled by on...

@shindig said:It's been an awful season, to be honest. Verstappen's not had someone snapping at his heels and he hasn't really been fighting for his overtakes like last season. That's largely down to...

@sandwich_jones said:how do i connect discord if im premium? i read there are special channels.Join their Discord: http://www.discord.gg/giantbombGo to the channel called "#bot-linkdump"type in "/prem...

Odyssey is my favourite of the two. I liked it enough that I actually am playing it again right now on PC Game Pass while I have no desire to go back to Origins. Origins was fine too but I found the m...

I only pay full price for Nintendo games. For almost everything else, I tend to wait for sales. With how the Canadian dollar is, paying full price for games gets pretty expensive quickly.

@finaldasa said:I wanna say some of this isn't in GB's control. Youtube slaps ads on everything and not every channel can control that. Previously this was a problem when Youtube decided every channe...

I like Horizon a lot but completely agree, especially with regards to Forbidden West. The wilder thing is one of the areas shown in the b-roll used as an example of detail getting in the way was the f...