Summer Game Fest Day Zero VLOG

Let's Goooooo!

let's go Jan 45 minutes babyyyyyyy

Yes- thank you for this!!!!!

45 minute behind the scenes VLOG?! Awesome. So awesome.

YES. So good to see some in person content again! Esp. with Tam and Lucy. And Jan, obviously :D

Loved it.

Also, Lucy isn't tagged in this.

It feels like Giant Bomb is already back…. Stoked for this relaunch.

Tam repping the RKG boys, you love to see it.

Herman Li is way into games. Had the pleasure of bumping into him like a decade ago at EGX (UK games expo in London) and he stopped and chatted to me about Gears.

Damn. There was a lot of travelling in this travelogue. Nice :D

Also, what an ending.

This is the content I crave.

@janman the whole team is doing great work, but you're really going above and beyond right now. Stay healthy and thanks for the wonderful efforts

I'm gonna use this video of all things to mildly rant on a subject that feels more and more curious day after day: at about 22 minutes into this video, the crew stops to consider an Uber ride and slightly jokes about how when you order an Uber (these days? I missed if they specified) you often find a 5 minute connection build to a 15 or 20 minute connection by the time you actually get committed. It's funny to joke about, I suppose, but...

I live in a the middle of the middle of the Midwest. Uber and Lyft were a couple years later to us than this or any coast. Gas is typically around $2. It's, right now, typically $4.50. I've got a situation where I could take a bus to one job then walk 13 minutes, the same bus to another job and walk 30 minutes, and in the abstract I'm fine with that...but I think about the conversation here about how 5 or more minutes of walking has become an automatic thought of an Uber.

The ride I took yesterday, the driver mentioned casually that he'd spent $60 more on his gas tank that day than he was used to a month or two ago. It made me think even more about two phrases that are often in the back of my mind: millenial lifestyle subsidy and the many variations of Uber makes no money. Does anyone else ever think about what effect this year is going to have on this expectation of ride share? More specifically to my previous anecdote, I'm not so worried about getting to work as much as I am getting home: those busses I'd mentioned before don't run by the time I get off, turning the 13 minute walk into a nearly 2 hour walk, and the 30 minute walk into a slightly more manageable 1 hour walk...just at 3 or 4 in the morning...

Weird that a Giant Bomb video of three cuties walking around Los Angeles has me on this train of thought, but...what if ride share dies in 2022 or shortly thereafter? I feel like for many people it's a question of convenience or safety (ie. a nice way to get stupid on a night out and get home smartly) but for some, it's become a quite reliable source of transportation to and from work. What if it just...disappeared? Yikes!

2019! was the last VLOG

thank you. things finally getting back to normal

"we want to do more travel vlog type videos"

*posts travel vlog video 3 days later*

heck yeah guys, new giant bomb slaps

I love that the end of this is just an Abby love in

I could watch this crew for hours (and I do), loving the travel-log. These were always a lot of fun around E3 time.

If one's trousers ever rip of their own accord, it's most likely the seat. It gets the most wear the fastest. GL buying a single pair of trousers in LA.

But did Tam buy the Rock Lee ?

Hell yeah travel vlog!

Super fun vid. Thanks, guys!

Loved the video. What camera/gimbal set are you guys rockin?

this is more boots on the ground than CoD

I like these "man on the street" videos.

I'm going to eat dinner and watch this. So excited.

If Jan needs to buy pants

And he's showing his pants to us

JAN IS NOT WEARING PANTS

Oh hell yea, this shit is back baby!

A non Zoom call video?? Hell yeah!

Between The Ritual.mp4 and this, the next era of Giant Bomb is off to a very good start.

Enjoy the video and tour of the fashion district. Hope Jan found some new pants.

great vid, good to see in person stuff.

Video thing!

Love hearing that video thing cue. Been too long!

My god, how I missed these.

I really appreciate that little throwback to the guitar riff and "video thing" at the beginning. I forgot how much I missed the intro guitar in GB videos.

now this is content

This is the content I crave! Just so cool, hopefully we get more of these even outside of the (non-)E3 Season.

@nodima:Yeah, app based ride share really is not a substitute for proper public transportation and when those eventually crash it's going to fuck up entire cities and that's just scary.

Fantastic cliffhanger ending!!

Geoff Kialeigh has been exposed

This is it people - we need more of this!

I know this route/area they are walking around, and it's a very strange location for a E3-ish games event to take place.

"That's two Diet Cokes!"

This is the stuff. This is the stuff.

This is great, old school GB for a new crew. Good stuff.

Premium Drink Ticket Advice: Get a Roy Rogers or a Shirley Temple. I'm 43, and those drinks still slap!

The intro song/riff of old giantbomb was sick! P-Lo name drop hell yea, yay area. But Jan's pants, oh noooooo!!

Stoked for this content, it was awesome.

yes!

can absolutely vouch for the taking the music festival bracelet into the shower thing being harrowing. I did a four day metal fest memorial day weekend and would have my arm raised over the shower because in my mind if the thing got wet it would disintegrate.

I had friends who would wear music festival bracelets for years after they attended. I tried wearing one after attending Glastonbury for the first time and lasted like three days before saying “no, this is grim” and put it in a box as a memento instead.

@tamoor Loved the 1UP talk, such a good website with brilliant writers and personalities. I remember that SFIV vid like it was yesterday, it was their coverage of Gerstmanngate that turned me on to Giantbomb too.