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The Community Spotlight - 08/08/2014

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Dan Ryckert is Solid Snake, and Drew Scanlon is Raiden!
Dan Ryckert is Solid Snake, and Drew Scanlon is Raiden!

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight, I am your host as always! Jeff is back from his week long vacation, but we are still in the troughs of the Summer Game Drought! However, there is one bit of important piece of news worth going over. Twitch recently changed their Terms of Service, and as many of you have show here there are concerns about the status of Giant Bomb's Twitch archives. If there are any streams you are concerned about please do join in the effort found in the previous link, but rest assured that the engineering team and staff are examining the situation and their options seriously. Finally on a lighter note you might want to keep an eye out for Alex or Vinny on the TV Guide Channel as they both provided assistance to network in the form of promo narration. The first example of which has already been found as seen here.

Clip of the Week

@lieutenanteddy/LieutenantEddy(YouTube) has animated the Bombcasts's hilarious discussion about the "Poop Gambit," whereas wiggmortem provides the most recent effort to remix the Bombcast theme with the Space Jam theme song.

Awesome Art

Special thanks to @mortface for a graph mapping the performance of each of the participants of the Mario Party stream; @pabba for continuing to provide web comics based on the food based ignorance of @danryckert, this time related to BBQ sauce; @michaeldim for printing on dollar bills in the name of Giant Bomb; and finally @posh for pointing out that Brad could be a Seinfeld character.

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Community Activities

  • DOTA 2 Community Tournament, 2nd Edition: Sign-Ups - Sign You and Your Team Up for the Next Tournament Here!
  • DOTA 2 Community Tournament, 2nd Edition: Team Creation - Send a Yelp to Join a Team for the Tournament Over Here!
  • The Last of Us Remastered PSN ID Trading Thread - Play The Last of Us Remastered Online with Other Users Here!

Wonderful Wikis

Fish breeding is you concept page of the week, and I am here to say that it is here to stay! Also some great work has been done on the Eidolon game page. @yummylee shows how much of an American he is through his detailed wiki work on a couple of gun object pages.

Best of Blogs

supermike6 has the follow up to his incredibly interesting introspective blog series about Deadly Premonition, this episode is about the combat. JadeGL shares how Diablo III and Star Trek Online both made her care about her NPC companions, and IcyEyes continues to detail the rocky and tumultuous road that lead him to creating Giant Bomb Jammers. If you want puns both good and bad then look no further than Mento's puntacular blog about Ni No Kuni, though Video_Game_King provides a close approximation with a blog about Kick Challenger Air Foot and Puzzle Boy(though not really). Yummylee wrote a blog NOT about zombies or Resident Evil and instead has a detailed blog about his foray into the Castlevania franchise. Inspired by his playthrough of Tropical Freeze, Sarumarine decided to go back and give Donkey Kong Country 2 a shot and explains how it has held up. Speaking of throwbacks daneian finally got his hands on Bayonetta and reviews why he thinks its the character action game that has a little bit of everything. BlazeHedgehog not only has a great video review of Mario Kart 8, but he also breaks down the time and effort it took to make the review, whereas MooseyMcMan extrapolates on why he bought a WiiU and what he's been playing on it. Self professed fighting game amateur PerfidiousSinn has written on his effort to get proficient at playing Injustice: Gods Among Us online. dankempster writes about why he's been away from Giant Bomb and what he's been playing, and similarly JensonB returns to the blog scene with a write-up on The Last of Us Remasted and it's morally ambiguous nature. ChampInMaking has his penultimate blog on why KOTOR 2 is better than KOTOR 1 and this time dedicates an entire blog on the character Kreia. MajorMitch has a monthly summary on what he's played ranging from Nidhogg to Valdis Story, whereas bobafettjm has another summation of his great work on the Giant Bomb wiki.

Fantastic Forums

As already mentioned there is an effort to "save" Giant Bomb's old Twitch Streams worth checking out or even supporting if you can. juiceman has some custom ringtones based off of clips from the Bombcast, and we finally have a Dan Ryckert appreciation thread. Finally join the discussion in regards to the best JRPG stories, and what you think the odds are a fish can beat Pokemon.

Lovable Lists

Mento tops the list with a list chronicling all of the examples of sky pirates he has experienced in his gaming history. DevourerOfTime has a list of games he wish he could experience for the first time again. wumbo3000 finally got around to making his GoTY list for the years 2013 and 2012. Finally bloodycanadian1985 wants you to join his effort to annotate every single black female character in video game history.

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