Giant Bomb Mega Thread

[DANGERMAN]

shit, is it too late for me to change my mind

[Sly Reflex]

It's OK, I still think you're a massive cunt.

[DANGERMAN]

Because I was internetless for a week I listened to my first Bombcast in months. It was the xbox reveal one, it was a bit difficult to gauge because a lot of the discussion points hadn't come up when they were recording. I didn't enjoy it enough to go back to it regularly but it was as much as I've enjoyed one in a long time.

Apparently this weeks one is a bit of a mess, Nag might like it though from what I've read. The big news (ish) though is that Patrick is leaving. He's still going to be with Giant Bomb but he's going to be working from Chicago. Like most of the internet I've had my problems with Patrick, I've always thought he gets way too much hate, and is a lot better that other members of the team (he's no Vinny mind). I do think he made Giant Bomb more interesting though, there's a bunch of stuff that I don't think would have had coverage on their site if it wasn't for him

[Sly Reflex]

Stick around for the co-op for hilarity.

[DANGERMAN]

Ryan Davis has died. He only got married a week or so back too

[retroed]

This is incredibly sad news.

[retroed]

Ryan Davis, 1979 - 2013

Giant Bomb has suffered a profound loss.

Ryan Davis passed away on July 3rd. He was 34.

Obviously we’re all stunned over here. Ryan was a good friend to all of us. It’s odd to remember that, for someone who could be so acerbic at times, and despite knowing him for almost a decade, I honestly don’t recall ever actually being mad at him. He had an unconventional type of kindness that expressed itself more strongly the longer one knew him, and despite his teasing nature, he always managed to make his close friends feel loved when his attention turned towards you.

Many of you know that Ryan was recently married. In the face of this awfulness, many of us will at least always remember him as we last saw him: outrageously, uproariously happy, looking forward to his next adventure with the biggest grin his face could hold.

The consolation we can feel from that is miniscule compared to the hole that Ryan’s absence will leave in our lives. That’s not a hole that is possible to fill; it’s just something that we’ll just have to get used to walking around with, and that will not happen for a long, long time.

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/ryan-davis-1979-2013/1100-4685/

I have such respect for this man. I've been listening to him since the GameSpot presents The HotSpot days.

I'm going to miss 'It's TOOOSDAY and you're listening to the Giant Bombcast'.

RIP Ryan.

[retroed]

https://vine.co/v/haiIlp9jxlU

Fuck's sake, man.

[retroed]

Live tribute by the Harmonix guys on now.

http://www.twitch.tv/Harmonixmusic# Edit: it's over now.

Also, https://twitter.com/taswell/status/352413837326163968

[DANGERMAN]

not to be too ghoulish but the fireworks picture from his wife was heartbreaking

[retroed]

I know.

[retroed]

http://www.twitch.tv/thanksryan

[Hendo]

Fuck.

Weirdly, I went looking for summer tunes to add to Spotify so I googled "summer jams Spotify" and found a playlist he made and I've been listening to that. That was a couple of days ago.

[retroed]

Well this has just made me crack a smile.

http://youtu.be/qHL2Cpb1618

[retroed]

Olly Moss tribute:

Ryan's dad (who has been posting lots of pics of Ryan as a child):

[retroed]

Banner at a Raw match.

Graffiti.

There is a Bombcast this week. Available to download now. I'll be listening later. Did I mention my hay fever is really bad today? *rubs eyes*

[retroed]

I was doing OK until the last few minutes of the podcast.

GameTrailers Bonus Round remembering Ryan Davis, ft. Michael Pachter

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/563vf4/gametrailers-com-remembering-ryan-davis

[Hendo]

The podcast was a great listen, loads of great stories. Ultra sad at the end, gotta feel bad for those guys.

[HandsomeDead]

Great company. I'm sure he'd find this darn funny.

[retroed]

That was mentioned on the podcast.

After an overwhelming number of requests, 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 (RSS/iTunes also).

Some words from the introduction:

As far as organizations go, Giant Bomb is rare in one important regard: all five of its chief members are incredibly genuine and by all accounts are incredibly good people. Find me any other company or workplace where there is not one unsavory character or rotten apple in the bunch. This is an exceedingly rare entity. And at the forefront of that was Ryan Davis, designated host of much of Giant Bomb’s content, and the man responsible for keeping charge and wrangling together this group on a weekly basis. He was part of a band of five outstanding people, it is a testament to Ryan that he positively shone. In a room full of stars Ryan was a supernova. Through a mono recording alone he radiated joy, goodness and kindheartedness, an effect that was amplified whenever the crew left the audio stage and appeared on screen or in person. He had a sharp wit, and his humor was infectious and delightful. And in our realm of podcasting, he was an excellent host and producer of content.

But there is a remarkable fact about Ryan’s life that ensures he will always live on and never be forgotten. He was part of a very public endeavor—there are hours of recordings of his voice and there are hours of him on video. There are always going to be new people signing up to Giant Bomb, people who have never visited the site before, that will find out about Ryan and will make their way through all the audio and video content he produced. In one or two years there will be new members that knew nothing about Giant Bomb and are only discovering the character of Ryan Davis now. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that ten years from now people will still be listening to Ryan Davis and watching him on the internet. People will still be doing that in twenty years, in fifty, and even, I would wager, in a hundred. The content he produced will travel places and take forms none of the cast could have imagined. Giant Bomb has an enormous and dedicated fanbase. There are Giant Bomb fans everywhere, from all walks of life and in all manner of positions. There will be Giant Bomb fans taking their memories, and even their devices full of Bombcasts into all kinds of new realms. If in fifty years mankind is regularly travelling into space, to the Moon or to Mars, there is a good chance that one of us will be on one of those spaceships—I personally will do my best to make this happen! The charmingly garrulous voice of Ryan Davis will be ringing out in zero gravity and on new frontiers. Ryan Davis the man may be dead, but his character, his comedy, his voice, his ideas, thoughts and stories will live on for many years to come.

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.

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