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Giant Bomb Thread #5 - We love you, Ryan Davis

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kvothe said:
He made some comments about him and Ryan mulling over the idea of just saying "Fuck all this videogame stuff, let's just do our own thing," making it sound as if they were both sort of tired of the industry. Without Ryan there, could be that he becomes even less enthusiastic.
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Even sounded like it was the first time they heard that what with that deafening silence that followed.
 
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bender said:
That's human nature I guess. If nothing else, this is a good reminder to show appreciation to those around us that we love.


Jeff hasn't seemed super enthusiastic in a long time. I was just hoping it was generational fatigue but maybe he needs to try something different.
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I think that's also part of the long overdue current generation consoles and games. He seemed really psyched and enthusiastic during and after E3 about the next generation.

He loves games too much to leave the industry entirely I think. I hope. The only thing he doesn't seem to like are those exec. meetings at CBSi and all the politics that are involved. It's all too formal. He seemed to have way more fun in the first GB office and at Whiseky Meida where he had ownership on what, how and when he wanted to do something.
 
At the same time Giantbomb is Jeff's baby, I really doubt he would leave it. To go do what? I don't think hE's the kind of guy that would go dev side.
 
kvothe said:
He made some comments about him and Ryan mulling over the idea of just saying "Fuck all this videogame stuff, let's just do our own thing," making it sound as if they were both sort of tired of the industry. Without Ryan there, could be that he becomes even less enthusiastic.
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He also said that it wasn't just he and Ryan who had talked, they had also spoken to Max Temkin about it and were thinking about a theater in Chicago.

Now, I'm not saying they had a plan, but it had progressed a little beyond the idle "we should do THIS".
 
kvothe said:
He made some comments about him and Ryan mulling over the idea of just saying "Fuck all this videogame stuff, let's just do our own thing," making it sound as if they were both sort of tired of the industry. Without Ryan there, could be that he becomes even less enthusiastic.
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I get the feeling Jeff is going to take a hiatus from this whole website thing for a while, pull a Dave and just lay low and live life for a bit. Maybe not now. Maybe he stays and gets the site rolling again but I see a long break in that dudes future.

It would suck to not hear Jeff talk about video game bullshit but he seems like he has been in need of break from it for a while. If he does take a break I hope its just that. A break.

Love that dude. People kind of jokingly call him the Ebert of video games but HE IS the motherfuckin' Roger Ebert of video games.
 
I posted this in the Ryan thread, but I thought I'd put it here as well.

This Year has produced a memorial best-of for Ryan. It's just over two hours long and contains some of Ryan's best moments on The HotSpot and the Giant Bombcast. You can download the MP3 here (Direct link/RSS/iTunes also).

Some words from the introduction:

To wit, I am glad to present to you today an assembly of some of his most memorable moments selected by his fans and by listeners to our program. What we’ve got for you here is pretty simple: it’s two hours worth of Ryan at his best. Along with the more memorable moments you guys picked out I dug into my vault and selected some deep cuts that tend to go overlooked. You’ll hear stuff from 2006 all the way up to 2013. I’ve done my best to make it as streamlined as possible—I didn’t want this to just be another six-hour Bombcast best-of; this is a celebration of Ryan and all that he gave to us.

Right now it’s relatively bare-bones—just clips played in the way I’ve ordered them—and I say that because I’m working on a second version of this memorial show that will include songs off Ryan’s Summer Jams playlist. I want to produce something that we’ll be able to keep on our MP3 players; something to put on while driving, something to put on when it’s summer time. If you’ve listened to our best-ofs for the program Blue Jam, that should give you an idea of what I’m going for: basically just songs sandwiched between each clip. It’s something that’ll take a while though, because it takes thought and engineering and most crucially time, so while I work on it a little bit each day, here’s a plainer version of that, again, just two hours of clips. Also for old-times sake I’ve included some songs by the Suburban All-Stars. I hope that you enjoy it and I hope that it serves as a good reflection of how important and beloved Ryan was. He will certainly be missed, but he leaves behind a tremendous legacy that ensures he will never be forgotten.
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Playlist:
Introduction / Some of the Real / Uh Uh Uh Uh Uh / Charge Super Shot Healthy Energy / Did You Play Skyward Sword? / You’re Part of the Problem / If I’m Not Playing The Division I’m Not Living / Cake

Stop (The All-Stars) / This Fucking Narc / Ryan vs. Brad 1 / I Love Mongolian Barbeque / Did You Pre-Order? / Best Buy / Gay Sexual Content / Cake vs. Pie / What the Fuck Are You Saying? / The Debate of the Century / Saxophones Are Shit / Muh Balls / The Move / Yeast / Designated Hitter / Never / It’s Right Here / Ryan vs. Brad 2

Girlfriend / Breast Milk / Up on the Hill / Ketchup / The Pearls Caught in Mid-Air / When Men Shriek / Whack It Off / Silky the Fairy & Saucepan Man / David Cage’s Don’t Shit Your Pants / Enjoy Your Massage / Cannot Control the Clown / Shhhhhhhhhh

In the Can In the Can / Ryan vs. Brad 3 / Robots Don’t Have Feelings / Swowrds / You Are All Assholes / David Meatballs / I Bet She Does / Gaming for Me Is a Religion / …Baby One More Time / Fading Out Now
 
ZanzibarBreeze said:
I posted this in the Ryan thread, but I thought I'd put it here as well.

This Year has produced a memorial best-of for Ryan. It's just over two hours long and contains some of Ryan's best moments on The HotSpot and the Giant Bombcast. You can download the MP3 here (Direct link/RSS/iTunes also).

Some words from the introduction:



Playlist:
Introduction / Some of the Real / Uh Uh Uh Uh Uh / Charge Super Shot Healthy Energy / Did You Play Skyward Sword? / You’re Part of the Problem / If I’m Not Playing The Division I’m Not Living / Cake

Stop (The All-Stars) / This Fucking Narc / Ryan vs. Brad 1 / I Love Mongolian Barbeque / Did You Pre-Order? / Best Buy / Gay Sexual Content / Cake vs. Pie / What the Fuck Are You Saying? / The Debate of the Century / Saxophones Are Shit / Muh Balls / The Move / Yeast / Designated Hitter / Never / It’s Right Here / Ryan vs. Brad 2

Girlfriend / Breast Milk / Up on the Hill / Ketchup / The Pearls Caught in Mid-Air / When Men Shriek / Whack It Off / Silky the Fairy & Saucepan Man / David Cage’s Don’t Shit Your Pants / Enjoy Your Massage / Cannot Control the Clown / Shhhhhhhhhh

In the Can In the Can / Ryan vs. Brad 3 / Robots Don’t Have Feelings / Swowrds / You Are All Assholes / David Meatballs / I Bet She Does / Gaming for Me Is a Religion / …Baby One More Time / Fading Out Now
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That's awesome, downloading it right now.
 
ShockingAlberto said:
I doubt we'll get anything next week, either

Earliest I see content coming back is week after next. They shouldn't push themselves right now.
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I could see some of the smaller stuff coming back next week. Patrick even said he was close to doing a Spookin' with Scoops this week, so I wouldn't be surprised if we get something like that next week. But yeah, the bigger stuff (TNT, UPF) will probably be gone for two weeks at the minimum.
 
ShockingAlberto said:
I doubt we'll get anything next week, either

Earliest I see content coming back is week after next. They shouldn't push themselves right now.
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It doesn't really help that there's very little to nothing come out right now. Even if they wanted to come back, what is there to talk about?
 
funkystudent said:
I get the feeling Jeff is going to take a hiatus from this whole website thing for a while, pull a Dave and just lay low and live life for a bit. Maybe not now. Maybe he stays and gets the site rolling again but I see a long break in that dudes future.

It would suck to not hear Jeff talk about video game bullshit but he seems like he has been in need of break from it for a while. If he does take a break I hope its just that. A break.

Love that dude. People kind of jokingly call him the Ebert of video games but HE IS the motherfuckin' Roger Ebert of video games.
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Jeff has said the Bombcast isn't going to end. He said they will be back. And while he announced he's pulled out of PAX Australia, he's committed to going to PAX Prime. I don't think hes pulling out of this website thing. He's just still grieving.

I've gone through something similar (a friend around my age that I grew up with who died), and we weren't even best friends, but it took a while for me to cope with it. I happened to have been laid off around the same time so it was a double whammy. I ended up staying in my bed and playing Ace Attorney for weeks. It really took me a good month before I could start to try to do normal things again.

In the future? Maybe if they keep going and it just isn't fun to go into work every day, then yeah, I could see it happening down the line.
 
LiK said:
Well, Alex recently played TWD 400 Days and Patrick is playing Rogue Legacy.
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I'll give you 400 Days, but Rogue Legacy already got a QL and they talked about it on the prior podcast quite a bit.

infinityBCRT said:
Jeff has said the Bombcast isn't going to end. He said they will be back. And while he announced he's pulled out of PAX Australia, he's committed to going to PAX Prime. I don't think hes pulling out of this website thing. He's just still grieving.
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People keep saying he's committed to PAX Prime, but I can't find where he says that. The reason I ask is that I'm going to Prime, and I'd already come to terms with the fact that the GB panel was going to be cancelled.
 
Patryn said:
It doesn't really help that there's very little to nothing come out right now. Even if they wanted to come back, what is there to talk about?
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I kinda wanted to see Jeff and Vinny run around demon-infested Tokyo, fusing Jack Frosts and Pixies and Vinny trying to whack demons with swords and missing.

But obviously that's just my selfish dream.
 
kvothe said:
He made some comments about him and Ryan mulling over the idea of just saying "Fuck all this videogame stuff, let's just do our own thing," making it sound as if they were both sort of tired of the industry. Without Ryan there, could be that he becomes even less enthusiastic.
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Thanks. Yeah, I can see that. I feel like with any job you'll get tired after it from so many years. As far as I know Jeff has been doing this pretty much all his adult life.

I can see it either going two ways. He sticks around because he doesn't want to let go of his and Ryan's baby. Or this will be more of an excuse to leave. Personally I don't see him leaving for a little while though. With the new generation coming I think there's reason to be excited about games again. I definitely found myself not playing as much over the last year or two since there hasn't been anything too new and exciting. It's been a lot of sequels and shooters. That's probably why The Last of Us is so refreshing.
 
I can see Alex and Patrick doing some videos like they've been doing already, the Bombasticas and that.

With Jeff, I don't think he'd ever truly quit the industry or anything like that. He always sounds a bit jaded but then something catches his imagination and you remember, woah. This guy LOVES video games. Burnout Paradise was his go-to when he got fired from Gamespot, his love affair with Skylanders is well documented (in several textbooks) (probably) and who knows what will appeal to him next. But I think there will be something that helps.
 
The reality with grieving of any kind is that you're not really past the first part until you've had the funeral and the gathering of friends and family to formalize the collective letting go of the departed. Until that's occurred it's not going to be easy for any of them in truth, which obviously makes any of their jobs that much harder. I wouldn't expect to see much in the way of content until then, and personally I'm OK with that because if anything has come out of this tragedy it's that these guys well being matters to a great many of us.
 
kaskade said:
Thanks. Yeah, I can see that. I feel like with any job you'll get tired after it from so many years. As far as I know Jeff has been doing this pretty much all his adult life.

I can see it either going two ways. He sticks around because he doesn't want to let go of his and Ryan's baby. Or this will be more of an excuse to leave. Personally I don't see him leaving for a little while though. With the new generation coming I think there's reason to be excited about games again. I definitely found myself not playing as much over the last year or two since there hasn't been anything too new and exciting. It's been a lot of sequels and shooters. That's probably why The Last of Us is so refreshing.
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Not to get too sappy about it but gaming needs Jeff's voice and perspective for the crazy years ahead. Impossible to get inside his head at a time like this but for purely selfish reasons I hope he comes out of this hungrier and better than ever, MF DOOM style.

I didn't get the sense that the Chicago/Temkin idea was an escape as much as it was an opportunity to try being purely comedic in front of a non-gaming related audience, which should totally still happen as well. Who wouldn't want to imagine a world where Jeff is a hilarious comedian doing characters on Comedy Bang Bang? I hope there's room for both, but it's too soon to know where any of this ends up right now.
 
While we're talking about the GB Catalog of videos, anyone know the video that features some of the crew doing dance moves in what looks like a dark basement, probably at their first workplace?

Seen @ 1:00 of this
 
Dany M said:
I feel like many in here are overassuming the grieving the crew is going through and will go through.
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I don't know man, grief's a fucked up thing. One minute you'll be fine about everything, the next it'll screw you up so badly you'll want to hide from the world.

I lost my dad 5 years ago, and in the immediate aftermath it was a case of saying "It's fine, seriously" to everyone, and attempting to get on with everything as normally as possible. I had a week off work and attempted to busy myself with everything as much as I could. Then after that, it hit me like a fucking train. I imagine the GB crew are going through the same thing... Don't forget, Ryan wasn't just a colleague, he was a damn good friend to all of them.

The bombcast this week was the start of a process that's probably going to take months, if not years to finish. Stuff still hits me every now and then and it stings like a bitch, but I don't have to broadcast live video to thousands of people every week...
 
Lonestar said:
Thanks, and crazy enough, never knew about the Iphone App, and it seems to be better than trying to visit the site on my ipod and attempting to watch video's that way.

Thanks Giant Bomb!
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I really doubt the app still works. It was obselete years away and I don't think they ever fixed it since they redesigned the site to make it work on cell phones.
 
winstano said:
I don't know man, grief's a fucked up thing. One minute you'll be fine about everything, the next it'll screw you up so badly you'll want to hide from the world.

I lost my dad 5 years ago, and in the immediate aftermath it was a case of saying "It's fine, seriously" to everyone, and attempting to get on with everything as normally as possible. I had a week off work and attempted to busy myself with everything as much as I could. Then after that, it hit me like a fucking train. I imagine the GB crew are going through the same thing... Don't forget, Ryan wasn't just a colleague, he was a damn good friend to all of them.

The bombcast this week was the start of a process that's probably going to take months, if not years to finish. Stuff still hits me every now and then and it stings like a bitch, but I don't have to broadcast live video to thousands of people every week...
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Yeah. Grieving is such a personal thing and is so incredibly different from person to person, I think it's a bit risky to make any assumptions on severity of grief either way. The guys will be able to move on when they're ready, there's really nothing more to say about it.

Lonestar said:
Thanks, and crazy enough, never knew about the Iphone App, and it seems to be better than trying to visit the site on my ipod and attempting to watch video's that way.

Thanks Giant Bomb!
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Pick up the Giant Bomb Video Buddy if you want a mobile app.
 
Myomoto said:
Yeah. Grieving is such a personal thing and is so incredibly different from person to person, I think it's a bit risky to make any assumptions on severity of grief either way. The guys will be able to move on when they're ready, there's really nothing more to say about it.



Pick up the Giant Bomb Video Buddy if you want a mobile app.
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Think that is the app that showed up on the store when I searched. Seems to work fine. Guess it's different than the "original" one.
 
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