Xdrive05
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I’ll echo some others here. This feels like saying goodbye to college friends at graduation. I checked out shortly after Metal Gear Scanlon, save for dropping in occasionally for a Quick Look or a presser feature. I had been there from the beginning, since Gerstmanngate and Arrow Pointing Down--hell, since the HotSpot days before that. I still file Greg Kasavin into the same partition of my brain as Giant Bomb, no matter how many awesome games he creates in his post-journo life.
Up until around 2015 I basically never missed a bombcast or video feature of any kind. I got to “know” these people and their flaws, quirks and sensibilities. They partied, got married, had kids and bought houses. They died.
From the way gaf describes the last few years of Giant Bomb, I left at just the right time. It sounds like they enlisted for the culture wars in an especially annoying way. I’m sure I would have found it insufferable and it would have made me genuinely disappointed at these people I invested so much time and attention in up to that point. Instead, I get to remember them in the way you remember your dorm-mates with whom you used to share endless hours of fun, before they would go on to become antisocially debilitated alcoholic divorcees in their late 30s.
Shout outs to:
Up until around 2015 I basically never missed a bombcast or video feature of any kind. I got to “know” these people and their flaws, quirks and sensibilities. They partied, got married, had kids and bought houses. They died.
From the way gaf describes the last few years of Giant Bomb, I left at just the right time. It sounds like they enlisted for the culture wars in an especially annoying way. I’m sure I would have found it insufferable and it would have made me genuinely disappointed at these people I invested so much time and attention in up to that point. Instead, I get to remember them in the way you remember your dorm-mates with whom you used to share endless hours of fun, before they would go on to become antisocially debilitated alcoholic divorcees in their late 30s.
Shout outs to:
- Jeff for getting fired for his principles. You did a whole thing. You took big risks at the right time and it worked. Your shit seems burned out these days, but you’re also the only dude to hold my attention for hours at a time using a Mason jar.
- Ryan for the boundless fun, being the heart & soul of GB, and TANG! Thank you for giving your life for justice.
- Vinnie for the classy video work, the fun stories about your life and family, and for your quirky gaming tastes and OCD tendencies, to which I’m sure many of us related.
- Brad for being the middling knowledge PC/tech enthusiast. At least you tried, and I always got the sense that you were genuine about that stuff.
- Alex for… doing that one funny video of a shitty truck racing game. That was your one lane that worked. I hope you are less miserable wherever you go next.
- Dan for bringing Giant Bomb back to life after Ryan. You did a lot to make it fun again.
- Drew for being a value adding intern, really establishing yourself in the group. And that boss ass gif.
- And to all the third-fiddle crew, you nebbish Jesse Eisenberg and Janeane Garofalo clones who hate videogames, and yet got hired there for your stunning personalities and mailing list memberships, well, congrats on the paychecks I guess. You filled a lot of air with painful mediocrity, which is a solid con.
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