If you're like me, you like to watch old Giant Bomb videos when you're bored or just have some free time. However, there's so many videos to go through, you often times skip over a multitude of gems from their archives. Thinking of this, I thought it'd be cool to have a simple button that loads up a random video from GiantBomb.com.
So I made something just like that! Using Javascript and Angelfire, these links load up a random video page from GiantBomb.com, each separated by categories. You could either just click these links or keep them in your Bookmarks to click at anytime!
Got to love those Quick Looks. Gameplay backed with hilarious and informative (but mostly hilarious) commentary from the Giant Bombers themselves!
Random Quick Look
The Giant Bomb Offices. From mailbags to auto-tune freestyling, it's a wonder how they get any work done down there.
Random Office Video
Video game movies. Will there ever be one that actually relates to the game it's based off of? Find out with Ryan as he watches terrible video game movie after terrible video game movie.
Random TANG
Mondays. Fat lasagna-eating cats hate them, Giant Bomb staff members love them. Recall what Giant Bomb covered in the past with I Love Mondays!
Random I Love Mondays
With every Monday comes a new Question of the Week! See what everyone had to answer to these questions with the weekly response videos!
Random QOTW
GiantBomb.com is a video game website foremost. Watch and listen to what the staff thought about various games in their Video Reviews!
Random Video Review
Not a lot of video game event take place in Sausalito, which means these guys have to travel around quite a bit. PAX, E3, TGS, GiantBomb.com will traverse the world to bring you the latest in hilarious videos!
Random Event
With these travels come meeting with people who make games, in which Giant Bomb asks them various questions hoping to get a response from them that'll fill their curiosity about video games. I like to call those things "Interviews!"
Random Interview
GiantBomb.com, being the video game website about video games, often make videos both about video games and not video games! Like these! (Uncategorized videos)
Random Video Feature
Beat the Persona 4 by playing 20 to 60 minutes a day? Is that even possible? GiantBomb.com thought so and proved it! Relive the magic all over again with Vinny, Jeff, and Charlie as they try to enter the Meat Dimension! Oh, and save people from dying, I guess.
Random P4 Endurance Run Episode
Energy drinks, video games, and evil Swedish candy! Listen on with the Giant Bomb crew with their weekly Bombcast!
Random Bombcast
Brand new Endurance Run, twice the fun! Follow Vinny and Jeff AND/OR Brad and Ryan as each of them tries to get through Deadly Premonition and see who can tell the most jokes! Isn't that right, Zach?
Random DP Endurance Run Episode
Do you like video games? Do you like playing online? Then this feature is for you! Every Thursday at 4PM Pacific, you can jump online and play with the fine-ass folk at Giant Bomb for a Thursday Night Throwdown! Don't have the game they're playing? No problem! Follow along with their live Justin.TV broadcast or check out their archives to view a previous TNT!
Random TNT
With the new paid membership program comes the new Whiskey Media Happy Hour! A jam-packed hour filled with fun and nonsense, scripted and non-scripted! Join Giant Bomb, Comic Vine, Tested, Screened, and the rest of the entire Whiskey Media staff as they bring you a smile to the faces of all. That is, if you're a paid member, of course.
Random Happy Hour
[NEW]
When Ryan completely axed the latest WiiWare and DSiWare releases portion from the Bombcast, Jeff went ahead and did what any man who is slowly going insane would do: Start up his own podcast filled with nothing but him reading the latest WiiWare and DSiWare releases! Listen in as Jeff brings himself to the brink of madness and takes you down with him with the NintenDownload X-Press! ...Nope! No train jokes here!
Random NintenDownload X-Press
So, these aren't really the most elegant scripts for this, but I'm not really the most elegant coder. And they also get the job done. Again, just drag these links to your Bookmarks and you could have a random GiantBomb.com video in front of you with a simple click of the mouse!
Oh, and I haven't tried these in anything but Firefox, so sorry if they don't work. And sorry for making this sound like an infomercial. Well, I'm only sort of sorry for that.
[EDIT]
Alright, sorry about the weird issues with loading and script errors. Didn't know my bunk coding would do all this. I'll try to smooth everything out when I can.
[EDIT 2]
Okay, so everything should be a tad smoother now, so make sure to replace those old bookmarks with these. This new method should fix a lot of previous problems without causing any new ones, hopefully. If there are, let me know and I'll get to fixing it.
[EDIT 3]
Added the Deadly Premonition Endurance Run and did some minor updates to the coding.
[EDIT 4]
Added Thursday Night Throwdown.
[EDIT 5]
Added Whiskey Media Happy Hour and cleaned up coding a little bit here and there.
[EDIT 6]
Added the NintenDownload X-Press.
Watch a Random Giant Bomb Video With This!
Your buttons work but I keep getting this error message when ever I first visit this page.
A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.
Script: http://media.giantbomb.com/media/image/js/FancyZoom_10004.js:1
Wow I just got this crazy error on this page.
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A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.
Script: http://media.giantbomb.com/media/image/js/FancyZoom_10004.js:1
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@ky326:@Jack_Daniels:
Hopefully this should be fixed now. Sorry about that.
@ajamafalous:
Not anymore! Thanks for pointing that out!
@Zero_: "Pretty much, he's just made an array of all the current videos. (which would've taken him aaagees!)"
Eh, more like an hour or two.
I have watched several office videos using this. Thank you for making my thursday a little more awesome.
Done and done!
Random Endurance Run Episode
@ThatFrood:
The Video Things are placed in the Random Feature list.
Added Random Bombcast link.
Random Bombcast
Now that we have an entire week of it down, I added a new link for the Deadly Premonition Endurance Run!
Random DP Endurance Run Episode
Remember, every time a new video is posted, all links are automatically updated.
" Now that we have an entire week of it down, I added a new link for the Deadly Premonition Endurance Run!...I love you.
Random DP Endurance Run Episode Remember, every time a new video is posted, all links are automatically updated. "
Random office video is awesome, great to see some of these again, didn't really want to look through the features to find them. So far I've watched Jeff's Gin video, the Coney Island hotdog toaster vid and now watching the Mythic Coke Chug Challenge again. Good stuff. :D
Thanks to all for the great feedback! I really appreciate the kind comments and the knowledge that all this comes of at least some helpful use to you all!
Now with at least a month's worth of Thursday Night Throwdowns, how about a new link that directs you to one of the numerous archive videos from each TNT? No? Well, too bad.
Random TNT
They should somehow add this to the website. It's pretty great when bored, I mean I've seen most everything already.
You know, I thought the same thing at first as well, but then after implementing it at dbz1995's request, I've found it quite useful myself. It's not for watching the Endurance Run in a randomized order, but for letting you relive a classic moment from anywhere during the Endurance Run without having to sit through its entirety. I've definitely went "Oh man, now I remember this part! This was hilarious!" quite a bit using it.
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