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This feels like the most likely explanation given everything we DO know right now.

Kinda felt like this might be the move going forward, and it's likely been in the works for a good while. Sorta feels like what Giant Bomb would launch like in 2021 if things were just getting started here. Happy they've got something going forward and hopefully it pans out.

Kinda always felt that I'd be reading something like this someday. Even though I'm not as active on this site as I used to be it stings like hell though. Ryan and Vinny in particular are two voices that inspired the lighthearted, creative, fun, and informative nature I've always wanted my online content to have.

Wishing best of luck to all those moving on and to Jeff and the rest of Giant Bomb moving forward. Sending positive vibes and hoping for nothing but the best.

Best of luck, Austin. You singlehandedly revived my interest in Giant Bomb again when it'd grown a bit stale for me. Yours is a voice that'll be sorely missed around these parts, but I know with the amazing personality, humor, intelligence, and writing chops you have that you're gonna do wonderful no matter where you land.

Lots of love, duder.

It started in early December with Scott Weiland. Then Lemmy. Then Bowie. Three people who highly influenced the music I enjoy and create. It's been a terrible terrible time watching all these inspirations drift off. All I can do now is hope to use the inspiration they gave me to some way inspire others.

This game's cute and not a bad way to spend an evening. Controls feel a bit wonky every now and again and the level design isn't the greatest, but I liked it well enough.

I just have this unquenchable thirst for some Afterbirth!

The new Chelsea Wolfe album "Abyss" is fangoddamntastic. So brow-beatingly distorted and large, yet lush and atmospheric at the same time. I think she's really nailed a sound she's been playing around with for a while and this album is tops front to back.

The new Dre album is fantastic as well. I had my doubts going in but jeez it really is a pretty outside the box project for him and it's a great note for his solo career to go out on.

Waiting for new mixtapes from Mick Jenkins and Sean Price (RIP) later this month.

Dre's never been the main spotlight of any of his albums. He's always used his talent as a producer to propel the careers of younger or unknown talent. Snoop Dogg wouldn't be anywhere near where he is today without his features on The Chronic, nor would a lot of the folks who ended up on that album. 2001 was a showpiece for Eminem to fully break out as well as other folks like XZibit and Obie Trice. Compton is no different. Mez and Anderson .Paak are all over this thing and for the better too. Granted, the features on previous albums have been hit or miss for some people, but he's always been mainly a producer, even in NWA.

Dre is featured pretty heavily on Compton and there were a few times where I didn't even recognize him at first because he's hitting points in his register and going after flows I've never heard before. It's no big secret that he doesn't write all of his own lyrics and on this album he can be even more of a chameleon as he takes on inflections that are clearly those of the folks providing him with lyrics.

Dre as a producer has an uncanny ability to pull latent talent out of some people and fire up people who may have fallen off. Snoop's verse on One Shot, One Kill for instance is probably the most ferocious and hungry he's sounded in ten years. The one time the entire album dips for me is when he does sorta regress back to his 2001-era sound with Medicine Man featuring Eminem. It's the worst track on the album and doesn't fit the themes or soundscape of the album at all.

I was very surprised and am pretty happy with the album right now and with how it's an evolution of what he can do as a producer. I think it hangs just as tough as The Chronic and 2001 and is a much more mature effort than either of them. If it's his last big hurrah as a top billed talent, he chose a great album to go out on and made the right decision in shelving Detox (which was sounding pretty dreadful from the tracks we'd already heard anyway.) I'm more than happy to hear more of Dre behind the boards on other artists' work since that's what the man does best anyway.

@magnulus: I just want an answer about these poppy pods.