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    Ryan Davis was a GameSpot editor and co-founder of Giant Bomb. He was solely responsible for founding batmanbatmanbatman.com and cocainemountain.com, and went by the online nickname of "Taswell." Ryan passed away on July 3, 2013. He is gone but never forgotten. We love you, Ryan.

    Where did "scan the background" originate?

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    #1  Edited By liquiddragon

    I remember Ryan saying "scan the background, scan the background" with an annoying kid voice a number of times and while I found it funny, I never actually knew what that was in reference to.

    Does anybody know what I'm talking about? I swear I'm not just imagining things.

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    It was from a game called You’re in the Movies that used the Xbox live vision camera. The director would say scan the background at some point and Ryan, along with Jeff, mercilessly mocked it.

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    I forgot all about that game. It was dumb and didn't work terrific buuuut it was still pretty fun.

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    @paliv: @locovoco: Okay, thanks. Weird, they don't do it in the QL, they're not even mic-ed. I'll have to take your word for it.

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    @liquiddragon: It’s in some Bombcasts at the end of 2008, like November/December. I was just listening to them when I couldn’t sleep while recovering from surgery a couple months ago.

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