Goodbye Dan!

As they announced on UPF. Every one wish Dan good luck as he leaves Giant Bomb. Who will take his place? Where will he go? GBeast? Taco Bell? Iron Galaxy? Maybe we will find out this Tuesday on the Bombcast...

They didn't actually announce anything though....

Bye Dan. I am sure Danny will miss you.

Is he actually leaving, or transferring to the NY office?

While I found the way they handled this and Austins farewell to be funny, the ambiguity of Dan's departure is a bit frustrating.

Seriously? is he leaving?

but did they? It was confusing and ambiguous as fuck. He could just go on that roadtrip with johnny?

Best way to do this announcement honestly

I thought it was nicely done. I reckon he's joining the East crew.

RV trip with Johnny V?

Bet he's doing the road trip they discussed at E3 with John Vignocchi

I hope its the weinebego and not NYC. Johny V was tweeting Dan about it so I hope this means its for real.

-Gary-

Dan would be a fantastic addition to the GBeast studio.

Is this related to the baldness? Was *that* ever explained?

I kinda hope not. Maybe it was mostly Austin's influence but I've come to view the east crew as being more serious about criticism, and while I like Dan and his humour in a lot of things I don't see that as being a good fit? Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised though.

Bye Dan!

What the fuck is going on?

He agreed he would leave town if he lost - he lost.

THESE are the facts.

Anyone have any favourite DAN moments?

That was the craziest and most hilarious ending to a UPF I've seen in my time on this site lol. Still a ton of people in chat wondering what the hell happened.

He is just leaving town, not GB, I guess. There is somewhere else he could go... :)

I doubt he would have been talking about more Hitman competitions with Brad just yesterday if he was planning on actually leaving the site.

Unless that was part of the swerve too! :0

@dr_insane: I created one of those then deleted it myself when I saw this one already had replies.

I deleted mine so we can consolidate on this one.

Should I feel guilty because I secretly wish the way they announced it was real? Because that is totally the way we got rid of the annoying neighbour kid back in the day.

No clue what's happening cause I haven't watched the latest UPF but good luck Dan? On your future endeavors?

@dystopiax: I think the three would be a great team and I believe they would end up making awesome content. While I do see what you mean about GBeast being a little more serious about how they cover games, it's still Giant Bomb none the less.

GB will have to start going all Misery on the new hires.

If he's moving to New Jersey like it seems like he is, I seriously doubt this is a goodbye.

The inevitable Dan/Vinny Kerbal mishaps will be legendary. Can't wait.

He might be leaving town, but for how long?

https://www.reddit.com/r/giantbomb/comments/4u5ifl/announcement_dan_ryckert_ama_august_2nd_2016/

Posted by Vinny:

YOU HEARD ME.

Dan Ryckert, in celebration of our upcoming 10k subscriber milestone, has graciously agreed to host an AMA on our wonderful subreddit about a website about video games.

The AMA is expected to occur after the Live Bombcast recorded on that Tuesday. This post will be updated to reflect any new information.

Tell your friends, loved ones, enemies, strangers you met in the odd smelling elevator today! Because duders, we have much, much more planned.

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Isn't he just going on the road trip with johnny V?

I'm sad to see him go, but the way they went about announcing it was interesting at least.

This is a Pax wrestling thing. Calling it now.

I"M PANICKING

The goodbyes from Jason, Brad and Jeff were funny.

Could have done with a pre-recorded bit with Drew in tears or something, that would have been class.

Bye bye dan and good luck.

This is a work!

I don't understand. Why would anyone move to New Jersey?

Really funny way to announce this but I hope they tell us where Dan is going soon. I'd like to see him join GB East but I have a feeling he is moving on to something else.

This is a confusing start to my Canadian long weekend.

I think Dan is leaving to be a wrestler. His twitter today kinda makes it look like that.

Maybe Austin hired him for that site he went to :D :D :D :D :D

Imagine.

I'm in the UK and I fell asleep as they were playing the Tetris thing. Music woke me up.........huh. :)

@planetary: That is where his GF is from.

It may help explain this from earlier: