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Paul Douglas Drinks to Beverages: Lucozade Cherry

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 Paul Douglas is back with another Drink to Beverages! This time he takes on the newest member of the Lucozade family, Lucozade Cherry. What on earth will he make of this bizarre concept (Everyone knows the answer to "Which Lucozade flavour should I drink?" is "Orange", and oranges are nothing like cherries)? Watch and find out!
 

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Questing

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So I guess Giant Bomb is now a meta-game...This is a problem, because the site was already great...Now it's just addictive. Like if you made an MMO which was actually fun. This place is going to become one hell of a timesink.

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Counter Culture Weekly Easter Special: CCW Takes On New Moon

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Counter Culture Weekly wishes you a very happy Easter, the only way we know how. That’s right, we’re taking on yet another godawful movie from the Twilight franchise. If you were concerned that we were suicidal after we took on Twilight at Christmas, that’s nothing compared to the abject horror of The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Listen, if you dare, to our screams of sheer terror as one of the worst moves ever made plays out before our eyes. As with the last instalment, you could conceivably use this as a commentary track, but - again - we add a health warning: Do NOT, I repeat NOT, EVER watch The Twilight Saga: New Moon unless there’s something (Eg. sex) in it for you. You have been warned. 

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Paul Douglas Drinks to Beverages: Red Rooster

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It's the first in a new series as Paul Douglas indulges his well known passion for...Drinking things...In this exciting first episode of Paul Douglas Drinks to Beverages, Paul takes on one of the many cheap knockoffs of Red Bull which have sprung up since the ubiquitous energy drink's rise to popularity, Red Rooster...
 

 
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Counter Culture Weekly 17 - And we're back

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Counter Culture Weekly returns with an explosive 90-minute, un-edited extravaganza of pop culture banter and general talking about nonsense! Paul “Jensonb” Douglas and Tom “SteepInKline” Kline use their time and their new home to discuss cancelled TV shows, Pokemon, sequels to wildly successful 2009 Comedy Movies, Power Rangers and so much more! Counter Culture Weekly is back, at a new home, with new art - grab it while it’s hot!
 
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Counter Culture Weekly 14 - USS Talking about Pop Culture

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Thruster check 75%...72%...Alright, fire. Pre-launch checks have been completed...Greens across the board. We are go for launch, repeat, we are go no go for launch. Counter Culture Weekly blasts off into the unexplored realm of space, and does battle with TV shows like Lost, Glee and Dexter’s Laboratory! Objection! There’s not nearly enough discussion of games and movies in that list, Jensonb! Overruled as Jensonb, SteepInKline and a super-special guest (Who may or may not be Hugh Jackman) also take on the Ace Attorney series and SteepInKline’s number 1 biggest obsession - aside from talking endlessly - which is to say, the Crank series!

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Counter Culture Weekly 13 - I'm going to Disney World!

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Hey sports fans! Grab your commemorative hats and Jerseys and get on down to the Counter Culture Dome to cheer on your heroes Paul “Jensonb” Douglas and Tom “SteepInKline” Kline as they take on future hall of famers The Super Bowl, The Who, Adverts, super heroes with real-world problems, MMOs based on beloved Sci-Fi franchises and anime series which Jensonb cannot write the name of despite SteepInKline coaching him on it for five whole minutes! It’s all here - beer & footbawl ladies and gents! Rush rush rush, rah rah rah and....So forth! Back of the...net...Yeah, sports metaphor over, just listen to the show. 

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Avoiding Controversy 101

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Hello, I'm Jensonb. And that's why I drink.
 
Welcome to Avoiding Controversy 101 . Avoiding controversy in your Blogs is easy, and I would do well to remember that before doing anything like you know what again. So here's a look at the process:
 
Say things which you know your audience will likely agree with.
 
That's pretty much it. So, here we go with a totally uncontroversial Blog Post, which is also me meeting a promise I made several minutes ago on Sweep's Blog:
 
You know what guys? Whether it's rum, vodka, beer, cider or pretty much anything, I think we can all agree that alcohol is awesome. So grab your drink of choice, settle down, stop getting upset over things people didn't mean ill by, don't waste your hate on decent people and...Let's all get drunk, chow down and watch us some fucking Super Bowl! (Or not, I dunno, maybe you don't like NFL, that's cool too).
 
Your pal,
Jensonb

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It's Our Giant Bomb Too

By Jensonb 214 Comments

Wall of Text Alert. Here is a Summary of my Position for Forum Dwellers:

Giant Bomb Community Content is as important as Editorial, and the two should be integrated to give Community Content the same prestige as Editorial, 
which it deserves.
 
You can read the full Blog Post below. If you wanna speed through it, the highlights are in Bold Italics Underlined.

And the Wall of Text (Highlights are in Bold Italics Underlined):

Recently, a good friend I've made through Giant Bomb, by the name of Sweep, posted this . It's a Blog detailing his thoughts on the Giant Bomb Community Content & how it should be promoted, amongst other related things. If you haven't read it, check it out, it's a good read. He makes a lot of great points - and Jeff has revealed in there that the staff are considering a lot of it.
 
It, and the discussion that erupted in the comments, got me thinking though. Thinking about the site, where it's come from...Where it's going. Most  thought provoking of all was a sentiment in the comments there that I've seen all the way through the site's life which runs completely counter to what Giant Bomb is all about to me.
 
That sentiment? "It's their Bomb and we're just living in it."
 
It usually manifests whenever someone is trying to promote Community content - even the staff. Yep, it's most evident in the comments on the Answers to the QOTY. There it takes the form of people complaining about how much they hate the contributions and how they just want to see and hear from the Editorial Team. In discussions like the one Sweep prompted, it takes the form of people projecting that opinion onto the masses - r epeated claims that "Most people are only here to see what the Staff say", or "the Community is dumb, the only thing worthwhile is the Editorial".
 
Those statements, made as absolutes as they are, are complete and utter bullshit. I've been here this whole time, right back from when we used the Comments on the Wordpress Blog as a Forum, through the Chatroom on the Justin.tv channel on launch day when I sat up all night waiting for, and eventually playing with, the site, and up until now where the site has ballooned into something much larger than I ever imagined. And through all that time, I have never seen a scrap of evidence that "most people are ONLY here for the Editorial".
 
Never in all my time on the internet have I ever seen a Community create so much amazing content, so fast, in such a broad array of media as right here at Giant Bomb. Sometimes I sit in awe at the things people have contributed - the Mass Effect 2 Mega Guide, some of the amazingly detailed Wikis, everything ZombiePie does, TurboMan's burger review videos, the sheer masses of Forum Posts and Wiki Points a lot of my fellow users have, awesome Lists like the "Doing a Brad" List, the VOLUME of reviews some users have contributed.
 
Y ou guys in the Giant Bomb Community make me ashamed of how little I've contributed sometimes. I look back at my largest contribution - The Bomb Should Have A Face Podcast and wonder how we ever thought something as miniscule as a Podcast was supposed to contain a summary of everything you guys are doing. I've been here this whole time, and I'm a nobody. Because Giant Bomb's users are some of the finest content creators on the entire internet. I can't keep up with you! The only place I've come close is in the F1 2009 Wiki - and that's because I think I'm the only significant F1 fan on the site!
 
And as ashamed as I feel of my own paltry contribution, I feel nothing but pride in Giant Bomb. All of you, together with Editorial, have made this site a joy to use. I've made friends here, launched my pseudo-Career as a broadcaster here and I've spent hours, maybe days, consuming just a tiny portion of what's produced.
 
So I'm saying here, right now: The belittling of our Community & its contributions has to stop.
 
A big step in the right direction would be the Bomb Shelter concept Sweep conceived, but it has to go further. The Staff alone can't stop all the hate. Not even with the help of a few Community Managers. If (When) the Staff find a way to get the Content up there alongside Editorial, we have to help. Way back when, a bunch of us tried to use Bomb Should Have A Face to spread the love. It was too small. The "Bomb Shelter" concept requires us to all come together and help eachother, the staff and the mods out. If you see a way to vote up content, or vote it down, use it. If people are in the comments hating on users' content for no reason, consider drowning them out with praise, or constructive criticism. I've been remiss in doing this myself. But no more, It has to be done. I genuinely believe, based on what I've seen since I came here, that there is a whole lotta love in the Giant Bomb Community. Let's use it.
 
Lastly, I would like to tack something onto Sweep's "Bomb Shelter" idea. I feel that the Engineering team's concept of promoting content on various pages is not flawed . It just needs refining. The "Bomb Shelter" Tab should act as an engine driving which content makes it out into the "Editorial" walled garden . That way, the best content on the site can be seen by those who just read Editorial (Eg, the unregistered lurkers, link followers etc.).
 
For example, the homepage currently shows a featured review at the bottom, and some Topics. I say, throw that review into the promo bar at the top of the page, with the Editorial. Do the same with the Cream of the Crop in other categories - Blogs, Lists, even Wikis. This has sort of been done in the past. But it's through Jeff or another Editor manually adding in a post, like the one pimping out the Mass Effect 2 Mega Guide, or through the since defunct Weekly Bomb Drop (Which was a fairly inefficient way of doing it - since evolved, via "The Community is Still a Threat" into The Community Spotlight Redux - incidentally my favorite Forum Topic).
 
Anyway, I didn't mean to ramble on at you so much. My point is, the attitude that Community & Editorial are these two separate walled gardens must end. In the words of Jeff Gerstmann: "building a community of people...is a big part of what Giant Bomb is all about". The Community is in this site's blood. It's pumped through the site's very core, the Wiki Database. It's our Bomb too.
 
And if that bomb's going to go off, then Bomb Should Have A Face.
 
PS: That last part was just for old time's sake, I miss the old community show. ;)
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