nckillthegrimace
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When you wrote about games, was your Game Informeresque nom de plume "The Manga Maniac?"
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When you wrote about games, was your Game Informeresque nom de plume "The Manga Maniac?"
2015 GOTY categories Overwatch could win during 2016 GOTY:
- Best Surprise (Blizzard making an FPS? based on their cancelled MMO? and it's good???)
- Best Looking Game
- Best Music
- Best Short-Time Game
- Best New Character (D.Va I guess...)
- Best Debut
- Best Multiplayer
- Best Moment or Sequence
- Best Styyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyle
- PLEASE STOP (can't use credits for summer games item)
- Worst Game of the Year (Sombra ARG)
- Best Game
- Best Surprise (Blizzard making an FPS? based on their cancelled MMO? and it's good???)
- Best Looking Game
- Best Music
- Best Short-Time Game
- Best New Character (D.Va I guess...)
- Best Debut
- Best Multiplayer
- Best Moment or Sequence
- Best Styyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyle
- PLEASE STOP (can't use credits for summer games item)
- Worst Game of the Year (Sombra ARG)
- Best Game
Sigh so publisher it is... Worst case scenario then... This fucking sucks.
I'm betting Ubisoft since a bunch of his friends went there... The only way this could turn out ok is if he ends up at Ubisoft Montréal so I could pay him and Eric Pope a beer.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I would be surprised if it wasn't a publisher tbh
I mean, journalism is a shaky business. I imagine now that Danny is married, he wants something more secure.
Mononoaware
Banned
One thing I'll never understand about the american work force is how people never seem to want to stay anywhere. I know the reasons, more money, or getting bored at a place...I feel like working for a company like Giant Bomb though would be such a dream, that I wouldn't care if I wasn't the richest man in the world, because I'd probably be the happiest.
I would NEVER want to work for a game publisher especially, because...well most of them are run by assholes, lol. I have more integrity than working for someplace I hate. I used to work at a job that I hated for much of my life, and it wasn't until I quit and looked for something I really loved doing that I started to feel happy in my life.
I would NEVER want to work for a game publisher especially, because...well most of them are run by assholes, lol. I have more integrity than working for someplace I hate. I used to work at a job that I hated for much of my life, and it wasn't until I quit and looked for something I really loved doing that I started to feel happy in my life.
Yeah, he's going to a publisher
Didn't his stuff on The Point kind of come back to consumer advocacy a lot of the time? Feels like a weird move to go publisher side after all that. Though I guess that depends what his role would be, maybe it wouldn't be as much a conflict of interest as it seems in my head.
i did literally have an anime two-page regular column at the back of one of the mags...
Piston Hyundai
Member
whoa there, isn't it a little early to be pitching new thread titles
Going from a neutral reviewer/journalist to a a shill lobbyist job for a PR department where he'll have to harp on how great the product is no matter the actual quality of said product is really fucking terrible.
Not that he was the most impartial in the industry to begin with I guess but anyway.
Not that he was the most impartial in the industry to begin with I guess but anyway.
MadLaughter
Member
Dunno if he's going to the game dev side, this is a little open to interpretation but I read it as him staying in media:
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Man I need to get back to manga instead of playing overwatch all the time.
nckillthegrimace
Member
He could be some sort of industry ombudsman.
He could... Detect some hits...
https://twitter.com/patbaer/status/771358519765430272
there is a nude Kelsey Grammer on Alex's twitter
there is a nude Kelsey Grammer on Alex's twitter
BUNTING1243
Banned
Kinda crazy he had to actually say that. I bet they love everyone speculating so hard on these decisions.
I selfishly really hope Danny stays in media. Dude is absurdly talented. Maybe he's going Patreon
Piston Hyundai
Member
Yep. That entire video is a lot of fun. It's a shame they can't do man-on-the-street stuff more often.
Its not like they doing it on purpose my dude.
I haven't heard any talk around here about it. But I'm just a lowly editor, so who knows.
SunDimension24
Member
Mononoaware
Banned
Lol yeah, I finally watched it, and that just cracked me up every time he randomly appeared.
Why on earth did this video not appear on the site before now? It's probably the best e3 video in years lol
actually didn't realise it was him standing in front of the statue lol
danvin is pretty great, kinda wish the ny thing was perm
also hey guys i'm gonna start posting here after long time lurk
Piston Hyundai
Member
actually didn't realise it was him standing in front of the statue lol
danvin is pretty great, kinda wish the ny thing was perm
also hey guys i'm gonna start posting here after long time lurk
that's great, but you know the drill
we're gonna need the GB daddy verdict
soundscream
Member
Why does it always take them so long to start interviews? Do they wait until they have a number of good candidates so they are not doing endless interviews?
Mononoaware
Banned
Yeah, it feels like the time it took to hire Austin after Patrick left, was longer than the time Austin was actually with the site
small crew and busy schedule. i cannot imagine what it takes for them to even set up proper interviews for the day without sacrificing much needed time. they probably get alot of applications.
soundscream
Member
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Oh man I'm so glad I checked out that E3 video that was great
BUNTING1243
Banned
Oh boy that's taken on a different meaning since we did this last time
soundscream
Member
Obviously, but the question was why it takes them so long to post the job.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Probably because the process has to go through CBSi.
soundscream
Member
They aren't some alien construct that is unfathomable to our human brains, its a videogame website. There is no way that setting up for the open position at giantbomb takes 2 months.
yea, i agree.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Or maybe let's not pretend to know the corporate structure of a gigantic corporation.
Mononoaware
Banned
I have no basis for any of my opinions or thoughts on the matter, but it seems like they went back to CBSi, things in general are a lot more slow moving than before.
I would love to just be a fly on the wall where GB for a week, and see what they do every day. Part of what I think happens a lot with CBS is meetings...higher ups wanting to know exactly where their money is going, and why. Sounds like that might waste some of their time...because outside of that, I don't know what the hell could take up so much of their time sometimes.
Making content looks like it couldn't be easier with their current setup. Everything is in place, all they have to do is hook up a game, and press go practically. They've demonstrated that's all there is to it sometimes, like on UPF. Yet we still rarely, if ever get content like The Old Games show anymore, or not frequent enough Ranking of Fighters. I can't help but even just feel they've gotten super lazy with how they handle UPF, because a lot of the time it's just "let's bring this game up on steam now"...god dammit, pull out the Wii U and check out Game & Wario miiverse again, or bring in a turbografx-16, or SOMETHING fresh and different.
The amount of times they use emulators now instead of real hardware when looking at older games is also just disheartening.
I would love to just be a fly on the wall where GB for a week, and see what they do every day. Part of what I think happens a lot with CBS is meetings...higher ups wanting to know exactly where their money is going, and why. Sounds like that might waste some of their time...because outside of that, I don't know what the hell could take up so much of their time sometimes.
Making content looks like it couldn't be easier with their current setup. Everything is in place, all they have to do is hook up a game, and press go practically. They've demonstrated that's all there is to it sometimes, like on UPF. Yet we still rarely, if ever get content like The Old Games show anymore, or not frequent enough Ranking of Fighters. I can't help but even just feel they've gotten super lazy with how they handle UPF, because a lot of the time it's just "let's bring this game up on steam now"...god dammit, pull out the Wii U and check out Game & Wario miiverse again, or bring in a turbografx-16, or SOMETHING fresh and different.
The amount of times they use emulators now instead of real hardware when looking at older games is also just disheartening.
soundscream
Member
If CBSi takes 2 months to post for a job because of there inability to get things in order they would not be able to function.
Every job and corporation has its own level of stupid minutia but there is no way they are that bad.
soundscream
Member
This is probably the reason. Austin was known, Dan played knives COD with Jeff in a hotel room (the true way to Jeffs heart), and Jason probably gave Vinny a cable at E3 in the past.
Fjolle
Member
When Patrick quit they had the job posting up weeks before he announced it.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
That would explain why they took a while to put up an application. They do a test run with Dan for a month, then decide if he will want to move there, then open the app up for either San Fran or NY
NumberThree
Member
Cool thread.