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BearPawB

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Maybe it was the story he wrote about a UK journalist not disclosing her relations to Square -Enix when hyping up the original Tomb Raider remake? The UK journalist in question pulled out the libel card and Rab got fired from Eurogamer.

Or am I thinking of a different guy?

Yeah that's him. But Idk, looking back, i don't see why I had a negative reaction to him.
Lol. I guess it's unfair of me to dislike someone without remembering why...Because looking back on that he was clearly making some fair points.
 
I keep forgetting we are on GAF. Where a genuine question wondering how people spend their working day translates in to "those lazy fuckers are sat on their arse all day!"

...

Dan and Alex are in a similar number of Quick Looks. Dan has written more reviews this year. Alex posts trailers. However, Dan also podcasts for 3 hours a week and runs (at least) two premium series and an extra premium podcast. If you broke it down to raw numbers and one of them had to be laid off - which would you choose?

You can't possibly expect us to answer that kind of question when we have no idea of what everything Alex does for the company. Obviously nothing wrong with criticism, but hypothetical questions like that are just odd, especially when none of us except the crew know what "the raw numbers" actually are.
 

Noaloha

Member
Rab's making movies now. I'm pretty sure that's his main passion and career direction. He recently released a fantastic little indie horror (filmed for under a grand) called The House Of Him. Easily one of the most interesting films I watched last year. Fair warning: it is very much not a comedy.
 

Dazzler

Member
oh man I'd love Rab Florence to get the gig but hasn't he got a family? Doubt he'd up and move from Scotland to New York

Seems pretty entrenched with the local gaming scene there too
 

Zaph

Member
Rab's making movies now. I'm pretty sure that's his main passion and career direction. He recently released a fantastic little indie horror (filmed for under a grand) called The House Of Him. Easily one of the most interesting films I watched last year. Fair warning: it is very much not a comedy.

You weren't kidding...

A misogynistic masked killer prepares for the routine slaying of his 27th victim, Anna, in the comfort of his own home. As Anna struggles to break out of the role the killer has chosen for her, the dead women in the walls and floors play a last desperate card.

I'm intrigued. Once I'm done marathoning HoC, I'm all over this.
 

demidar

Member
LPs isn't just screaming into a mic. Actually playing the game doesn't take too long, it's the editing, community interaction, forming contacts and outsourcing other kinds of work (like graphics design and theme music), dealing with companies (getting asked to do special functions or appearances, requesting review copies, talking with YouTube/ad companies to get pay in order), designing and setting up merchandise and expanding the brand. Let's Play'ers work a full 8 hours just like everyone else and it's not all fun.
 

tchocky

Member
oh man I'd love Rab Florence to get the gig but hasn't he got a family? Doubt he'd up and move from Scotland to New York

Seems pretty entrenched with the local gaming scene there too

Well he is playing Rez on an IMAX screen so what could GB offer to top that..
 

frostyxc

Member
GB is doing a commentary track on Rocky 4 on the same day as Tested.com is releasing a commentary track on the movie Brazil...

Two worlds! hahaha

While I doubt either track is going to be that great, I can't imagine listening to Norm and Will trip over themselves for two hours (or 90 minutes if it's the studio edit) trying to one-up each other at pointing out things they read on the trivia page of IMBD. I'm sure their mixer committed suicide after about five minutes and the commentary track is mostly just empty silence.

I'm not for suicide, but I understand the audio mixer's motives.

As for Dan and Drew... it could be okay, I guess. It can't be worse than what The Comedy Button does, right? A child throwing a temper tantrum for 90 minutes would be better than what they do, though. I'll give Dan and Drew's a short tryout.

I wish Joe Bob Briggs would do more DVD commentaries. *sigh*
 

LiK

Member
LPs isn't just screaming into a mic. Actually playing the game doesn't take too long, it's the editing, community interaction, forming contacts and outsourcing other kinds of work (like graphics design and theme music), dealing with companies (getting asked to do special functions or appearances, requesting review copies, talking with YouTube/ad companies to get pay in order), designing and setting up merchandise and expanding the brand. Let's Play'ers work a full 8 hours just like everyone else and it's not all fun.

just having to constantly commentate and keep people entertained during the slow parts of any game is actually pretty tough. I admire LPers who can keep a full LP consistently fun to watch even during "boring" or "slow" parts. talking while playing is also incredibly hard.
 

skynidas

Banned
Seriously though, how much goddamn free time do you have to consume the amount of content that came out recently?

i have watched all of it and i don't have too much free time. things like d and d and unprof fridays i put it on the background while i'm doing other stuff. some quick looks too.
 

demidar

Member
just having to constantly commentate and keep people entertained during the slow parts of any game is actually pretty tough. I admire LPers who can keep a full LP consistently fun to watch even during "boring" or "slow" parts. talking while playing is also incredibly hard.

Yeah. Even talking coherently in front of a camera is hard, then you try and be funny of interesting on top of that for a solid 30 minute 1-take block. But it's easier if you have someone to bounce off of like a Giant Bomb QL.

Seriously though, how much goddamn free time do you have to consume the amount of content that came out recently?

Between Giant Bomb's new throng of content and the Super Best Friends running like, 3 LPs at once right now, I am super behind in everything. And Metal Gear Scanlon's just starting up again! I still haven't watched the latest Jar Time, and I really like those features.
 

Purple_Tentacle

Neo Member
This Trivial Pursuit QL is great. I have a Hopper inspired Giant Bomb poster, signed by two of the four guys playing, hanging above me as they fail to pick 20th century artists.
 

daydream

Banned
Out of lemon flowers
loosed
on the moonlight, love's
lashed and insatiable
essences,
sodden with fragrance,
the lemon tree's yellow
emerges,
the lemons
move down
from the tree's planetarium

Delicate merchandise!
The harbors are big with it-
bazaars
for the light and the
barbarous gold.
We open
the halves
of a miracle,
and a clotting of acids
brims
into the starry
divisions:
creation's
original juices,
irreducible, changeless,
alive:
so the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb.

Cutting the lemon
the knife
leaves a little cathedral:
alcoves unguessed by the eye
that open acidulous glass
to the light; topazes
riding the droplets,
altars,
aromatic facades.

So, while the hand
holds the cut of the lemon,
half a world
on a trencher,
the gold of the universe
wells
to your touch:
a cup yellow
with miracles,
a breast and a nipple
perfuming the earth;
a flashing made fruitage,
the diminutive fire of a planet.
 

Zaph

Member
If you guys want even more bedroom content, Danny's got you covered

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LegoArmo

Member
The ending to Red Dead sounds great, except I thought it was the end before that and turned the game off.

I guess I still haven't actually "finished" it.
 

daydream

Banned
Hearing how they talked about RDR again made me realise that I need to stop fucking around. Ordered both Red Dead games shortly after.
 

Archaix

Drunky McMurder
Watching the Rugby QL... before Danny takes Dan to Ireland, can we get Jeff to teach him how to Mixlr? I think his entire trip needs to be recorded in history.
 

bionicpuppy

Giant Bomb Producter/Bufu Caster
Yea sometimes I flip my brain in corporate mode and wonder why on earth are Vinny and Alex getting paid for literally two Quick Looks a week.

I'm sure they'll pick up speed once their studio is done but also at the same time I wonder how much of a shock it'll be to finally have to work.

And, yes, I know it's not a 1:1 fair comparison but there are YouTubers making single handedly more money with tons of more content than GB combined and they work with a simple home setup. If a YouTuber can do 1080p/60 videos with a $150 Blue Yeti and a $300 capture card connected to a PC the two people doing an hours worth of content a week with a higher budget makes me scratch my head.

I just have no clue how inefficiently they spend their 8 hrs a day...

/rant

You should just ask us rather than wonder. There are no secret conspiracies happening. What do you want to know?
 
Hearing how they talked about RDR again made me realise that I need to stop fucking around. Ordered both Red Dead games shortly after.

If you didn't pickup the GOTY edition you should also get Undead Nightmare, it's basically the B movie spin off of Red Dead and it has a good chunk of new content as well.
 
I'm waiting for the Red Dead Redemption remastered edition. Gonna take a while :)

Yeah I REALLY want to play it. The ending gives me 3:10 to Yuma vibes (not a huge spoiler, as the ties are fairly vague), but I don't own a PS3. It looks like it's not available on PS Now either, so the only chance I'd have of playing it would be either a Remaster or a PC port.
 
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