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I will add to the noise and say these three guys really helped me through some dark days and inspired me in ways I never thought possible. I'm going to miss them but I hope they're happy wherever they go. <>

Yeah, killing one of the last few doctors in the world was definitely not an evil act. Nor was any of the other evil things he did to get there.

You completely missed the point of the first game if you think Joel is anything but a villain.

I'm glad you broke out of your funk, but this seems like it was definitely a user error. Twitch can be as useful or as useless as you allow it to be, just like Giant Bomb. If you just consume, consume, consume, your hobby gets a bit dull when you're neck deep in it. It's always important to take a step back and realize Giant Bomb or Twitch or Gamespot or whatever isn't even close to the majority when it comes to games and the subculture in general.

@liquiddragon: It's literally just Tetris with flashing lights and lo-fi hip hop. You can get the same result with a Youtube playlist and any version of Tetris.

It's way better than Bethesda's Fallouts ever were, that's for sure.

Halloween (2018) - Middling, 5/10

@mamba219: That's pretty insulting to everything that came after that.

@bladeofcreation: Oh dear. I've never seen such a strawman comment. It's so flimsy, too.

Assuming you are serious, yes, Giant Bomb is based around talking about/playing video games made by others. However, if you've listened to/watched pretty much any Bombcast and/or Quick Look in the history of the website, you would know that they don't claim any kind of ownership over those games, nor are they making anything based off of those IPs. Their discussion over and about games falls pretty squarely in the "critique" umbrella of transformative work that the fair use allows.

What Stage 9 did was not at all fair use. They weren't critiquing, nor making a parody, and they definitely weren't trying to educate people either. No, they said "here's a thing we made" despite not being allowed to use that IP to make anything. That's the key difference here: Giant Bomb has never said "look at this game we made" or "Check out this mod/video/piece of content that's ours" when it obviously wasn't. So please don't use Giant Bomb's membership program as a grass shield level of defense against me. It's ridiculous.

@farleyslundgren: Try creating something and then watching as everyone blatantly uses it for their own fun & profit. Copyright laws suck, but they exist for a good reason.