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This is the behaviour of a company that knows it's in trouble.... desperation

Hard to believe this track is 16 YEARS OLD.... also seems funny to think now how aggressive it sounded at the time....... and also how controversial it was with certain groups of society

I can't believe people are getting their panties in a twist about leaving discs in the drive when the machine is switched off.... this has been an acceptable practice since the dawn of disc based media, be it a portable CD player (remember those, they were a dumb idea) or a games console.

Regarding the mental disc spinning... i've experienced this also about a dozen times since moving to an Xbox slim... sometimes on switch off, sometimes upon exiting the avatar editor... it has nothing to do with leaving discs or peripherals plugged in... it's clearly a very strange and rare bug in the firmware....

At this point in the Xbox's life, there are so many iterations and various combinations of motherboards and disc-drives, that there is always going to be situations that exists whereby a random bug will affect a small percentage of people with a certain configuration of hardware that doesn't effect anyone else... hence it's very easy for Microsoft to be totally unaware of the issue (think back to the last Dashboard update where a number of people had weird dark videos issues that many other people didn't get - i for one, never suffered that one)

The mad spinning disc bug is not a major issue, the spinning stops on it's own accord around 15 seconds or so after the console is switched off - nothing blows up, no damage is caused to the disc, the world carries on turning

Completely agree with the OP... so far this E3 had been a total snoozefest... right up until Ubisoft pulled that out the bag... i just watched the same gameplay twice more on YouTube

Have to say, i'm pretty sure this must be running on a PC, and on the stage demo he was using an Xbox controller

I don't pay a massive amount of attention to my gamerscore, but... Weirdly just noticed that my gamerscore on my Xbox is 49765, but Giant Bomb seems to believe my score is 50035

Clearly the Xbox must be the one that is accurate... but how on Earth has GB some how worked out i have a higher score?... and is everyone else's GB account syncing correctly, or is this a common screw up?

This is GIANT BOMB Golden Duder.... NOT, Whiskey Media Golden Duder.... Why are people voting for Chan in such high numbers??? - Yes i love Norm too, and also feel very loyal to him.... but come on, he hasn't contributed anywhere near the amount of awesomeness to Giant Bomb that Adam has... Think of all the amazing moments that Adam has bought to the Bombcasts, Quick Looks, the many random videos, and particularly the E3 'late night beer cast' specials...

Sort it out duders

@mosespippy said:

I've been here since before they had member sign ups. One of my first experiences with the site (and what ultimately kept me out of the community until quests were added) was trying to do wiki edits and forum posts in that first week but every time I hit the backspace button it would go to the previous page rather than delete the preceding character. I'd lose just about every post because the site was busted in Opera and I refuse to use a separate browser just for one site. Eventually the majority of websites stopped working in Opera and I had to abandon it. I haven't found a good replacement since.

Hey Duder, I use the latest version of Opera with no problems on Giant Bomb (except a slightly laggy front page - but i understand this is because Opera has yet to implement graphics card acceleration until it's next version)

Likewise i very rarely find any sites out there they are broken in Opera

@insane_shadowblade85 said:

I followed Jeff after he was fired from Gamespot (and then damn near everyone left. Super depressing time there). I went to his blog (blog.Jeffgerstmann.net) which he no longer uses, and listened to his and Ryan's very first Skype podcast that would come to be known as "The Arrow Pointing Down Podcast." Then, I read he and Ryan were going to start a new website and, to my surprise, Vinny and Brad were going to be a part of it. I was surprised by that because I stopped going to Gamespot so I didn't know Vinny and Brad quit. Also, Alex was there but announced he was going to work for Harmonix; I think he quit when Jeff got fired as well. I'm trying to remember if he was part of the "Mass Exodus."

Same story here - For me Jeff, Ryan, Brad & Vinny WERE Gamespot - without them, i had no interest in that site anymore.... Kept an eye on Jeff's various travels around the internet while on his sabbatical... and was stoked when he and Ryan announced the formation of a new website together where they were being joined by Brad & Vinny - Never looked back, and at this point barely even bother reading any other game site (quick browse through Joystiq once a day as a news round up - that's it).... But Giant Bomb is definitely my home base on the web now.

Right... IF it's the Whiskey-con (which has been floating around for a good while now, and something Dave have really been pushing for)... Then maybe this Molydeux Jam will be at the same venue - The Whiskey-con would have been secretly in development for a good few weeks... and maybe Patrick saw the opportunity to integrate the crazy idea into the Whiskey-con for relatively little expense