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PAX Prime 2014: The Giant Bomb Panel

Giant Bomb descends upon Seattle to break hot video game news, international sanctions, and noses.

Sep. 3 2014

Cast: Jeff, Brad, Alex, Patrick, Dan

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

PAX Prime 2014

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God damn it, this might be the Harmonics and Friends show now. Jesus, they're amazing.

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Pax Prime 2014: The Firewatch panel.

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Pax Prime 2014: The Firewatch panel.

But... what is it...

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I don't think Jeff was being entirely truthful when stating that Giant Bomb is a website that "reviews" video games.

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Just starting to watch but WHY IS THAT ROOM SO SMALL?! PAX had to tweet out to stop lining up so early for the GB panel but they gave them a smaller room? That's def a smaller room than they've had in years right?

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The gamebomb.ru segment is easily the best of the Harmonix/former Harmonix bits they have done.

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@tournamentofhate: At PAX East people were also lined up super early and I heard all the enforcers completely confused as to what Giantbomb is and why anyone lined up. Im not sure what the room selection process is like but it would be nice if they had as big as a room as possible.

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This was amazing. Gamebomb.ru for glory.

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Holy shit that Eric Pope bit.. John Drake is a comedic genius.

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Hugely enjoyable.

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Sweet.. 2 hours I'm going to enjoy.

THANKS FOR PUTTING THIS UP DREW!

That wrestling kick Dan made was fucking nuts! Well done guys.

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Finally, thanks for putting it up, can't wait to watch it.

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Jeff, when you do decide to expand Giant Bomb into Europe, I happen to know a pretty cool guy for the job: professional shagbark herder and videogamesman @matt Pascual!

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This was pure gold!

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Overall the panel was a good one but I think jeff was trying to hard to be funny at times and the russia segment was plane bad. The bear could have been funny if they did not drag it out or maybe if he had something funny to say and relying solely on broken english to make things funny made it kinda sad really.

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Damn, Dan has a real sweet superkick on 'em. Kudos to Alex for selling it like a champ, too.

The panel was pretty good, too.

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Someone give Drew a raise, I'm in tears!

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@splodge said:

@thomascro said:

Pax Prime 2014: The Firewatch panel.

But... what is it...

it's a MOBA

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I set my socks on fire.

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brilliant panel, gamebomb.ru, the wrestling stuff, firewatch, some video game chat as well

all i would say is, some sort of vetting for audience questions would be helpful, or maybe get rid of them altogether?

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@wlleiotl said:

brilliant panel, gamebomb.ru, the wrestling stuff, firewatch, some video game chat as well

all i would say is, some sort of vetting for audience questions would be helpful, or maybe get rid of them altogether?

Jeff has been asked about this a number of times before, and his response has always been that a big reason why they do panels is for Q&As and they're not going away. For better and for worse, I guess. Also, I don't think there's any effective way of vetting an audience with the staff they have; there's a reason why Q&As on panels at places like PAX and Comic Con are almost never vetted.

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Looks like Alex caught it pretty hard in the face there at the end. If that was a fake kick it was executed with all the grace of someone who, as a kid, practiced a whooole lot in his back yard.

Great panel and a great PAX debut for Dan.

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Love these Pax panels, it's the closest we get to a Jeff standup comedy special.

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Putting "Ninja" in your job title is so god damn stupid. This stuff is so out of control.

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Is it just me that's going crazy for that "mic-humming" that's apparent throughout!?

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@tournamentofhate: At PAX East people were also lined up super early and I heard all the enforcers completely confused as to what Giantbomb is and why anyone lined up. Im not sure what the room selection process is like but it would be nice if they had as big as a room as possible.

I'm also surprised why it's only been livestreamed once. Crazy how even in gaming circles so many people don't know what Giant Bomb is or who the staff are.

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@bakkelun said:

Is it just me that's going crazy for that "mic-humming" that's apparent throughout!?

No

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Putting "Ninja" in your job title is so god damn stupid. This stuff is so out of control.

Or you're a Juggalo.

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@bakkelun said:

Is it just me that's going crazy for that "mic-humming" that's apparent throughout!?

There is (but it gets a lot better after 7 minutes). Drew said earlier in the comments that PAX's local recording equipment didn't work properly for this panel, so they had to use the sound from the boom mics on their cameras. Which is obviously not ideal.

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The Gamebomb bit was absolutely fantastic. Kudos to John Drake and the gang. Good stuff.

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I thought before watching this "Oh surely the questions wont be awful again this year"

Then almost immediately "Oh fuck the trolls this is all bad videogames ahhhhhh twitter"

Self fulfilling prophecy

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They all died a little inside at the sight of those 1989+ born Millennial smartphone gens in the audience.

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Just starting to watch but WHY IS THAT ROOM SO SMALL?! PAX had to tweet out to stop lining up so early for the GB panel but they gave them a smaller room? That's def a smaller room than they've had in years right?

Well, GB always want to be the last panel in a room on Saturdays because that way they can go longer because there's no one after them. If they were willing to take other slots I'm sure they'd get into a bigger room, but because of that "demand" it's all about who's also at that time slot. I think that the Penny Arcade guys' D&D thing was in the biggest theatre at that timeslot, and probably something else that's fairly big at the same time.

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This was a lot of fun! Keep on doing your shit GB :D

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@cassus: If you're talking about when Patrick is introduced, they're saying "Scooooops."

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It's so weird when this isn't livestreamed to hear them talk about it and reference events at it. Now we finally find out what happened to Alex before Sunday's Rumble. Only it isn't a surprise because we've seen Friday's rumble. Can't be helped really, hopefully next time this can be livestreamed. Though then again, I dunno, maybe San Antonio doesn't have that going yet.

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@amyggen said:

@tournamentofhate said:

Just starting to watch but WHY IS THAT ROOM SO SMALL?! PAX had to tweet out to stop lining up so early for the GB panel but they gave them a smaller room? That's def a smaller room than they've had in years right?

Well, GB always want to be the last panel in a room on Saturdays because that way they can go longer because there's no one after them. If they were willing to take other slots I'm sure they'd get into a bigger room, but because of that "demand" it's all about who's also at that time slot. I think that the Penny Arcade guys' D&D thing was in the biggest theatre at that timeslot, and probably something else that's fairly big at the same time.

The worst part is they're always telling us to get off the floor when we're so early because of fire code stuff but no one ever listens so it requires you to basically be a huge douchebag (like me!) to try and be at the the head of the line.

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I held my socks over a bulb that ignited the dust particles and frayed fibres. High level shit.

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When Alex got kicked in the face by Dan, it just felt right.

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@amyggen said:

@tournamentofhate said:

Just starting to watch but WHY IS THAT ROOM SO SMALL?! PAX had to tweet out to stop lining up so early for the GB panel but they gave them a smaller room? That's def a smaller room than they've had in years right?

Well, GB always want to be the last panel in a room on Saturdays because that way they can go longer because there's no one after them. If they were willing to take other slots I'm sure they'd get into a bigger room, but because of that "demand" it's all about who's also at that time slot. I think that the Penny Arcade guys' D&D thing was in the biggest theatre at that timeslot, and probably something else that's fairly big at the same time.

The worst part is they're always telling us to get off the floor when we're so early because of fire code stuff but no one ever listens so it requires you to basically be a huge douchebag (like me!) to try and be at the the head of the line.

Yeah, I saw that the Pax lines Twitter account had to urge people to calm down at one point. That room seemed way too small for GB, but when you have what is probably one of the best spots on the schedule (last show on Saturday) I guess you take what you can get.

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Every single time they do a panel, I wonder how they are going to top the last one. Then, they go ahead and top the last one, every time. Bravo once again, gents.

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awesome!

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That... was beautiful :)

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What can i say? great, just great, also, i´m wondering if Alex should hire that russian bodyguard for the next pax rumble

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The gamebomb stuff was really unfunny.

maybe that was the point?

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@drewbert Thanks for all the audio changes! You're the bee's knees my friend. Thank you so for all the hard work put into getting this out. Still surprised it came out today, woof, good on you.

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The gamebomb stuff was really unfunny.

maybe that was the point?

Nope you're just too sophisticated for comedy.