Moth_Pope

I was solely a huge metal fan for a long time. A large period of my life my revolved around just metal music, but as I've gotten older my tastes have not only altered slightly, but I've just gotten very lazy with new bands and new releases. Compared to you guys I can't compete in this topic as much as I might've a few years ago, but I still need my heavy metal kick on a regular basis! Here are my thoughts and a new addition to the thread...

So happy to see so much love for Devin Townsend! He's my favourite musician of all-time by a long way. Despite being spoiled by so much content over the last few years, I cannot wait for Z2 and all his other plans. So far this year I've really dug the latest Cult Of Luna album, but my current favourite is Pelagial by The Ocean. It's a concept album that depicts a journey from the surface of the sea to the very depths. And it's rad as hell. It's sort of Mastodon's career curve but in reverse, in that it starts light but gets heavier and heavier. Check 'em out.

I wasn't sure if I liked the art-style at first... but damn, I loved it as soon as it got going! Gave me a huge 90s late-night cartoon feel (Beavis & Butt-head, Duckman, etc) which is awesome. Also one of my favourite Bombcast moments. Good job.

No idea how I missed these! Thanks for posting - going to check them both out tomorrow.

@chavtheworld: Ah yes, I can confirm it works perfectly with the touch keyboard.

@chavtheworld: Yeah it's really cool! So nice just to be able to go full-screen and use the time line to skip back and forth. :D After playing around, the forum tools in the reply box definitely do not work, however I have managed to get the Reply, Quote, Flag and Best Answer buttons to (sort of) work. It's not great though, as basically the buttons still remain hidden as they did before. If you hold your finger down on a post they'll pop up but they disappear very shortly after you take your finger off. If you're quick you can press one of the buttons before it goes but even then it doesn't always work. I managed to quote you for this post but it took some doing.

Don't know about anyone else, but most of these issues generally seem fixed now. I can use all the video controls and avatar images are showing up in posts. Thanks, guys! Good work. Only issue still left is the ability to @ reply people and use other forum codes, but for me that's not too big a deal.

@fleabeard: That's great, thanks! A nice easy work around until the official fix.

@alexisg: Thanks for letting us know. Like others have said, really appreciate the hard work you guys are doing to get this running smoothly.

@snail: A tablet is about as mobile as a laptop... I'd certainly group laptops and tablets together over phones and tablets (although the iPad is basically just a big iPhone, but still... other tablets can be a lot more "computer-y"). Like @luciddreams117 said, Giant Bomb's website ran perfectly on the Surface before, with all features, so it's just a shame and really stands out now that it doesn't.

The video fix is my main hope. Just hoping @snide and co can find a way around this soon. Site is awesome otherwise!

@vogon: Wow, that's great to hear. Thank you for looking into it. Hopefully top men will get on it soon! Cheers.

@chavtheworld: Sorry for the late response, I've been at work without the Surface so thought I'd wait to get home and try it out. After looking around, I've got the exact same issues as you. I can't @ reply to messages and the forum text field is completely plain without features... the home page is also lacking the same content you mentioned. I wonder why this is... I've noticed there's a lot more buttons that you need to hover over to see (ie. when I use my mouse to hover over your message on here, it get the Reply, Quote and Flag options), so maybe that's a reason?

Hey. I've had a look around the forum to see if this had been answered but didn't have much luck, so here goes. I do most of my Giant Bombing on my Surface RT tablet which has always been awesome, but since the site's relaunch I've not been able to use the video player controls at all. Once I hit play, that's all I can do. I can't use the scrub bar, play/pause button, volume or fullscreen controls. It's like when I try and tap on the controls the tablet doesn't see them there.

On the previous layout the video player was identical on the Surface to if I was running the website on, say, Chrome on my PC. I also had the Embiggen and playback options (Youtube, Streaming, Progressive) too, which are no longer there when on the tablet (though I realise this may be down to coding on tablets vs. computers).

At the moment I find myself having to go to the Youtube channel to view videos fullscreen and use the controls, which I don't really want to do as I like browsing through the site and using the Premium HD options.

Everything else runs perfectly, but this has been a pretty big issue for me. Any help or suggestions would be great. Cheers!