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@zombiepie: It certainly seems pretty egregious. I appreciate you seeing this series through all the more for it (because I'd understand, truly, if you didn't!)

He has a right to speak his mind, of course, but at the end of the day (or night, I suppose), it's a drunk/high guy ranting on stage about commonly-held opinions on the games industry at present. There's nothing brave, insightful, 'legend'-ary or 'hero'-ic about anything he said, or in what he did. If these are some people's standards for those things...my word, they need to expand their minds.

And I'm sure the rest of the team working on the game love him for doing this. /s

That's excellent! Hats off to your fiancee! (In what is a particularly English phrasing of cheer. Guess where I'm from?) In response to your question, I haven't made or received any GB-inspired baked goods, but this post demonstrates that GB's is a rather fun logo for cakes. I might have to bake something GB-inspired at some point, I think.

Also, a very happy belated birthday to you, fellow duder!

This is a great idea. I'll try to narrow it down to five or so that come to mind (apologies for lack of timecodes on a few of these):

1. From the episode on 06-14-2011 - All of the 'Duke Nukem' improv. My brother and I quote these to each other to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMX057YAwN0

2. From the episode on 06-18-2013 - The segment where Vinny talks about the 2013 E3 Sony Press Conference/the audience applauding the idea of paid multiplayer, leading into a conversation about Sony, EA and Madden. Aside from being hilarious, it's an instance of the Bombcast being a source of comfort whenever I feel dismayed at publishers' behaviour or, in this case, the dispiriting support of anti-consumer practices by would-be consumers.

(Timestamp is 2:08:30 onwards - the segment's also been collected in this video.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLZc-2BUByY

3. From the episode on 09-16-2014 - Jeff's Satellite Radio Adventures. Dan's incredulity throughout is wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8r2hLcF5Nk

4. From the episode on 12-16-2014 - In which a fan's wife describes her impressions of the Giant Bomb crew so far. A brilliant series of sketches.

(Timestamp is 2:37:11 onwards - segment also collected below.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WirfHfMKLX4

5. From episode 494: Fievel Fight on 08-15-2017, at 2:38:02 - discussion of Ben's accents/accent studies at 'Oxford' (timecode also applied in Youtube link below.)

https://youtu.be/NIT6rSWXc88?t=2h38m2s

Congratulations to the best damn video game site on the net for five hundred Bombcasts!

EDIT: And also this! (from 03-29-2011) - Jeff 'Big Dog Pitbull' Gerstmann's hip-hop radio station call-in ("WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE STATION, WHO DOES IT FOR YOU?")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaO5gwyVcsg