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The Nextlander guys definitely hit the right time to get out it seems. Jeff too, since he wanted to quit anyway, just before being actually laid off.

Real shame, and no speculation blabla, but things are not going well. That is a fact.

Okay, sure, why not? Dan at the realms can definitely make things very...interesting again. The other new additions were obvious, but are no less appreciated.

I still kinda hate, the blog post from yesterday and how this was handled in general, but oh well.

Also any word yet on if Dan will still continue the Fire Escape Cast and the planned "Best Podcast ever" (occasionally) for Nextlander? That's a lot of podcasts for one guy.

I platinumed the game yesterday - took me maybe 30 hours, if that.

Loads of fun, but yeah, it is too easy, since you can really just Shift around everywhere, alerting enemies left and right and they won't ever be able to really put the damage on you. It's a bit stupid honestly, but I guess it's a nice speed running game?

The more stealthy approach is similarly easy with an upgraded Aether.

Even playing the game "for real" it's still easy, since you have soooo many options to savely disengage. Just standing around fighting is more challenging and can lead to the occasional death or two, but even here you can basically turn yourself invincible with the right trinkents.

I also think it's a bit short overall and the story unfortunately goes nowhere in the end. Not looking for any explanations about the loop's mechanics or something like that, just a real resolution to the story. Hopefully they'll do some DLC.

Solid 8/10 for me.

Right, Jeff Grub. I thought this was going to be a Bugsnax feature (so well done, naming this one).

Anyway, sounds good. Excited to see how the show's will turn out.

Content on a Monday? Don't be crazy.

This seems very cool, happy to see Danny as an official signee and the return of Dan, in whatever capacity it will end up as, is honestly a bit insane to me.

Between these news and Nextlander I'm stoked for the future of all bombers and ex-bombers. (What a weird sentence that is.)

I really don't get the negativity that is going on in a lot of places. We'll never get a clear answer about what exactly happened, or didn't happen that caused the split and we don't need to. That's between them, not us.

Jeff and the guys are friends, so I doubt there will ever truly be any bad blood. Also sure, they might be considered "contenders" now, but whatever, there's thousands upon thousands of twitch streamers etc. out there, who also want a part of the cake. What I'm saying is: there's more than enough (cake) to go around for everyone to succeed, and GB will be just fine.

The "high" pricing for their Patreon tiers are also a completely logical thing, since they are now just trying to get a new business going, and will probably change (along with the amount and quality of content they'll put out in the future) too. If you want to support them, go ahead, if you don't or can't, that's also fine. You can still catch their free stuff and just support them in words and deeds instead.

I for one, am just really, really happy to get both New Giant Bomb and Nextlander.

Quick question: Since I don't want to sift through all the speculation on cast members that left, but am not quite cought up on the Bombcast yet: has there been any word on new hires or plans beyond what's happening now?

Help, my babies' new bed is a pinball machine!

Already looking forward on finding out what his actual position/job will be, since right now this sounds a big vague. Anyway, I'm obviously glad that this means he'll stick around for more GB content.