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@black_turtle: I could have worded my post better, as it was more a reaction to the more dramatically ridiculous notions that people have been coming up with. There's definitely more than a non-zero chance that corporate wankery was involved. But even that could mean a lot of things, ranging from malicious to utterly benign. The point is we don't know, and we don't know what we don't know. I think a lot of people are rightly cautioning against jumping to conclusions. Of course it sucks that we don't know the real story, but spinning our best conspiracy theories doesn't exactly help clear the air either.

I don't really take issue with anything you said, except: being optimistic about about the New Crew is not the same thing as defending their corporate bosses. There's absolutely room to suspiciously side-eye RV while appreciating that the rest of the staff are probably just making the best of a bad situation.

In the end it's the people that matter, and there's still a lot of incredible talent here at GB who seem resolved to keep going. They're on the inside and understand the situation better than I do, and I don't feel like I need to mistrust their motivations or judgement. They seem excited to rebuild, so I don't think it's wrong to be excited along with them.

Meanwhile, Jeff himself is Still A Threat. I'm excited for him to finally be in business for himself after being stuck under corporate weirdos for his entire career. Since his outlook is so immediately optimistic, it softens the blow to GB in my mind, and I'm probably not alone in that.

Yeah, the fact is, it's proven to be a net gain when people have moved on to pursue new projects. Giant Bomb lives on, and there's more wonderful spin-offs than you can shake a stick at. The only downside to me is that it's nigh impossible to keep up with them all, lol.

IMO the site was already on a good trajectory. Jess has been a great addition to the site, been loving Lucy & Tamoor's contributions, way into Jan's new management of the Voice Mail Dumptruck, and the energy level in general has been improving on the Bombcast. Locking in Tamoor, Lucy, Grubb, and then adding Dan on top of it all? I'm excited!

Absolutely gonna miss Jeff Gerstmann on the site, but he's left it in fine shape. Thrilled to see where Giant Bomb goes from here, as well as how Jeff's new thing shapes up!

I have a feeling this was the whole idea, but dang if Gerstmann isn't leaving us with a beefy, awesome lineup. I adore every single human on that list.

Good luck and keep on with the saga, friends ! <>

Jeff's sudden departure is certainly surprising, but there's literally zero reason to assume foul play -- especially with the other personalities involved. It's normal to wonder and speculate, but g'damn, one can at least wait a *little bit* before making a bunch of bad faith assumptions, right?

Taken on its face, I think it was a great video that shows the current staff is ready to have some fun and keep the project going. Obviously we'll miss Jeff, but he's leaving us with a strong-ass lineup. Jan, Jess, Bakalar, Tamoor, Lucy, Grubb, Jason, Rorie, and friggin' Dan Ryckert?! Dang! Frankly I'm *extremely* excited to see what they do!

New year, still here! Thought I'd drop in for my annual bump. Did I miss anything big? Nahhh, surely not...

I'm gonna do my best to update the list with 2021's GotY as the articles drop this week, just to keep the list nice and cohesive. (Though their official index page is nicer to use!)

In the meantime, if anyone wants to take a convenient look at yesteryear, it's all there in the first post! Seek out your favorite year! Relive some memories! Pick a random one! Hell, Jimmy, I don't know what you do with this list! I'm just here to keep it up!

Here's to our health and well-being in 2022! Wishing all y'all the best.

Soul Calibur 3 on PS2 had a known bug where, if you delete any game data (from a different game) that was older than the Soul Calibur 3 save, it gets corrupted. I played a hell-ton of SC3 and unlocked practically everything, so that was definitely a bummer at the time.

I also remember accidentally saving over my completed Dark Cloud 2 file while playing around on a new file. That was a game that always defaulted the cursor to the top of the list no matter which save you loaded last, and... well, eventually I messed up, lol

Most recently, a few years back I lost my nearly-got-all-the-shrines Breath of the Wild save on the WiiU. Still not sure what happened exactly. Just seems like the data got borked. I eventually started over on the Switch version and finished the fight.

I'm open to them experimenting with a wider swath of topics. To me it's even interestingly well-timed, because lately I've been feeling especially fatigued with all the games coverage I'm consuming (GB, Waypoint, MinnMax, Nextlander...). The saturation -- the overlap -- is real, and it has me feeling like I should make some difficult cuts. One can only listen to so many conversations about the same subject, lol

But different topics means less overlap, so even if I do the unthinkable and cut the Bombcast out of my rotation, these videos offer something else that's a bit different from what I've been tuning into for the last decade+, and that's attractive to me right now. They may well just keep me watching GB even after I enact a scorched earth policy upon my podcast feed.

ngl, I'm 100% ready and willing to let Jan Ochoa push me over the edge and rekindle my nigh-forgotten passion for Power Rangers. I love every Power Rangers tangent he's given us, so a whole show about it sounds perfect.

If being unionized were a pre-requisite to talking about unions, then there would literally be no unions.

Progress on this subject is frustratingly slow, but normalization of the subject is a decent first step. The more people there are discussing the virtues and advantages of unionization, the more those things become common knowledge. One of the biggest things in the way of workers' rights (aside from self-interested corporate machinations) are the misconceptions around unions, and those misconceptions don't go away unless we have more people talking about them in good faith. Encouraging the practice.

Those voices are good and important regardless of their card-carrying status.

Could mean something. But also multiple things can be true. They can believe Red Ventures a good path forward for GB as well as personally preferring to do something more detached from the corporate life, and it may well be as simple as that.

It's natural to wonder, but I figure there's no reason not to take their statements at face value right now.