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Giant Bomb |OT 17| I'd Like To See His Old Man Pecker
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This argument has been going on for years and there is never any consensus. The one constant is that the people who aren't happy clash with the people who are, and the people that don't have any issues with the site generally advise those who do that they changed. This explanation that hey man you changed not them so just move on with your life because I'M still having a blast - that sort of hand waving can be particularly annoying for someone that still loves the site and has genuine, level headed complaints. I know I have my gripes with it and I still have the same taste as ever AND I can clearly see how the site changed to bring on those gripes. I also know better than to complain because my particular issues have no chance of getting resolved.
Over the years it has become quite clear that Jeff isn't all that interested in the opinion of the user base when it comes to steering the website. I'm not saying this in anger or bitterness - it's just how it is. I mean he built it from scratch so it's his dang right to do as he pleases. I have a lot of respect for Jeff in how he bounced back from a bad situation and made something like GB the place it is today. Of course that same approach is one of the reasons the website isn't really growing as much as it could, because they don't really like listening to feedback.
if this was the case then the new hitman, xcom, civilization, and total war games wouldn't be as well received as they are
Are you saying that's not what happened? It's very much my impression, too. And it's not coming up much on the other GotY stuff I've seen.
On this Beastcast Dan again talks about his fear of hanging stuff. He needs to use picture hanging strips. They're what I use and they're great.
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Yep, that's why it got my vote. It makes sense as an Era title.
If you turn off every video as soon as you see the MiSTer it becomes much more manageable.
I've seen this sentiment a few times on Era too, also buried behind "Maybe I'm just old but..."
We're not ready for Tampa Rorie
Eh, he's right about some of them. The line between Instagram influencer and some Twitch streamers is quite thin. The egos on some of them is ridiculous, it's like we created a new class of people.
edit: Just to clarify, I don't care if they are "real gamers" lol
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Using the upcoming box as an example of positive communication with fans on their schedule is hilarious. It often leads to more confusion than clarity.
I love every single time Dan brings up buying a house and thinking it will be super simple and Bakalar just gets so angry.
You don't have to watch everything, turns out. In some ways volume is necessary (but not sufficient) to provide viewer choice.
This post goes on a bit but picking out some perfectly reasonable issues and sensationalising them into something else that suggests there has been abuse that demands Giant Bomb throw their families in a volcano and shit out videos while chained to a PC is definitely a trend from the people in here who cant stand to see Giant Bomb get any sort of criticism.
"Maybe send out an email once in a while or update supporters like people on Patreon do" becomes "wow you want Giant Bomb to open a video sweat shop"?
I know Alex is mostly a US trucker, but still, there's new trucking CONTENT.
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Pretty much
People subscribe to GB for different reasons, I do it to support their annual events - so it would be appreciated if they just kept us more informed. I don't think a quick "hey guys, two weeks in SF takes a toll on us, so don't expect any cross coast podcasts this year, but instead we'll do XYZ etc" is a lot of ask, instead of it just being another thing that quietly disappears like GDC interviews or E3 show floor stuff.
It's Dan. At some point he is showing up at work and somehow can chose between five houses.
Speaking of events, did they ever say anything about The Big Live Live show they used to do like every year? is that ever coming back? was so much fun ^^
re: Beastcast discussion I'd get rid of South Park before Family Guy in a heartbeat. Hell you could make the case that South Park led to the edgy randomness of Family Guy in some regard.
Tough. South Park probably had more good episodes than Family Guy, which has zero, but it's also edgy centrist nonsense and transphobic to boot.
So fuck 'em both, but I'd get rid of South Park if I had to choose, because fuck enlightened centrism. People watch South Park and actually get their political takes from it, so it's ultimately more harmful imo.
Do not ask me why because I couldn't tell you but I was somehow a GameRankings loyalist since I was using that site way, way past time everyone had moved on to MetaCritic so this makes me sad.
Alex saying he would prefer a world where there were no Seth MacFarlane contributions reminded me how that guy was booked to be on one of the flights that were flown into the WTC so we indeed came very close to living in that world. If parallel worlds are a thing its probably the one like right next to our's.
I don't care about his comedies, but The Orville is the best current version of Star Trek. It's first couple episodes doesn't know whether it's trying to be a comedy or a sci-fi show but once it dives in to the characters and makes the comedy secondary the show found it's footing and became really good.
Sidenote: Pizza Hut is garbage besides their breadsticks. Somehow they even fucked up bringing back the P'zone.
Dan's not associating Pizza Hut with the sit down places is completely weird especially when he's talking about when he was a kid and when it was best known for all it's sit down aspects. The design of the building, the cups, the salad bar. They most certainly used to be the sit down of pizza places.
Sidenote: Pizza Hut is garbage besides their breadsticks. Somehow they even fucked up bringing back the P'zone.
Dan's not associating Pizza Hut with the sit down places is completely weird especially when he's talking about when he was a kid and when it was best known for all it's sit down aspects. The design of the building, the cups, the salad bar. They most certainly used to be the sit down of pizza places.
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I would say they fucked up how the P'zone used to be. They took it away for a long time and recently brought it back. It's smaller, more crust than filling, they changed the coating and seasoning on top. Overall it's just worse than it used to be before they took it away. My guess is it started to cost too much how it was made for the price they were trying to sell it at.
Yeah, that sounds like they brought it back, designed it to be cheaper to make because the margins are already thin, and ruined it in the process.
The dream of the Lo Cal P'zone Cal Zone is over, another thing that the millennials supposedly killed.
Dinosaurs ending (the show) is still one of the most messed up but technically fitting ends to a family sitcom.
don't wipe out the babyVinny truly wants to wipe out these faces from television history?
I still don't know many people that actually order pizza hut. Pizza hut around me is still very much seen as the place you go when you want a sit down place but also still want pizza.
Smaller mom and pop pizza places get ordered around here more than any real chain besides Donatos, which is still a more local chain.
I've never been in a sitdown Pizza Hut. The few times I've had Pizza Hut has only been through delivery.
Do you not have many pizza places around you? I'm genuinely curious if it's a lack of choice thing or something along those lines.
I could probably list 10 places that would deliver pizza to me and I'm not even in a major city and I'm somewhat out of the way from a smaller city. Surprisingly none of those places would be large franchises because most of them are more in the city and won't deliver far enough for me. Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, Dominoes all I can't really get by me, but I wouldn't really order them anyways because of just how many pizza places I have in a smaller city. Out of all of these pizza places there are really only 2 that have a sit down presence that isn't just a couple tables in front of a walk up area. Which is why around here Pizza Hut is more seen as a sit down place, than ordered.
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