This is so dead on.
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I guess I’ll use this thread as an opportunity express the disdain I‘ve developed for GB (even though the opinion definitely doesn’t seem unique):
Been watching them since the beginning. After 1up.com died, I was jonesing for some unique and well-produced, long-form games-related video content. I guess I was hoping GB would fill the void... and they did, to a certain extent. But their product was trash. Even while I watched/listened to it, I knew it was trash. But I always used it as that perfect, distracting side-media while I worked out, or grinded out levels in games.
I never liked anyone on the GB crew except Vinnie... the rest are, in my opinion, terrible humans. Alex is embarrassingly insecure and lashes out like a 10-year-old at everyone; Jeff is an overall disgusting human being who somehow escaped his destiny as Southern California Wal-mart manager #488503; Ryan was the most clever of the bunch, but still a gaping asshole, and it was painful to watch someone so unhealthy just sit around, play video games and act smarter than everyone else; Brad tries too hard to sound intelligent; Dan was the kind of guy who needed his ass kicked but always hung out around nerds so nobody was able to check his obnoxious personality; Ben is a woke mongoloid with an annoying voice who should probably be a janitor somewhere; Jason is another painfully unhealthy looking individual and his awful posture and total lack of muscle tone drove me INSANE; Patrick Klepek was (and still is) painfully nerdy; Austin Walker was THE OG GB triple-threat of overweight, woke and pretentious; and Abby... I don’t know if there’s ever been a more annoying female in any form of media than this chick... she surprises me again and again with how little she knows about games, and when I see her I smell cat and musty attic.
It blows my mind the site has survived this long; hopefully it dissolves. I wish Vinnie the best though.
(First post... sorry for the negativity)