About 5 years ago I was beginning to get back into gaming. Somebody I knew recommended that I give this new site a look. They had a podcast and were apparently alright guys.

The first things I remember were a dark video of some dude (as I knew Jeff then) playing Mega Man 9 and a podcast full of the strage voices of people I didn't know. I thought that this was pretty cool, but it was the trucker tache of one of the staff members that really intrigued me and made me stick around. Ryan Davis' amazing facial made me choose GiantBomb as my primary site for video games.

I hadn't been aware of Gamespot, so these guys were new to me and it was fun to watch them and the site develop and grow. Moving out of the basement into the Whiskey office. Interacting with the other sites and seeing how they played off each other. Throughout all of this, Ryan was sitting there in his host chair, carefully orchestrating it all. It's a credit to him that he did this so subtly that I hardly noticed.

It's only now that he's gone that I realise what a gaping hole he's going to leave on the Bombcast and TNT. A Jeff-cast was a rare, off-the-rails novelty that will sadly become the norm.

Goodbye, Ryan. Host, Summer Jam King, owner of an acerbic wit and posesor of a warm, jolly, genuine belly laugh.