The Neighborhood Spotlight 2024.03.30
by Marino – Brad Lynch on
Gotta catch this out previous to the discontinue of the fiscal quarter.
Hi there, Large Bomb Neighborhood and welcome to the latest version of The Neighborhood Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, am as soon as extra honored to be your host as we mediate about abet at the solely neighborhood creations and blueprint-linked news from the previous week.
PAX East 2024 may maybe well be over, but when you overlooked the event or may maybe well perhaps not shield the stay streams when they came about, all the pieces is readily available to your viewing pleasure NOW! Right here’s an inventory of the Large Bomb employees panel appearances and Large Bomb panels each and each on the positioning and elsewhere:
- Kinda Silly Game Showdown – w/ Ify Nwadiwe, Jeff Grubb, & Jared Petty
- Dandoko Dare – PAX East 2024
- Voicemail Dump Truck 108 | PAX East 2024 [Video] & [Audio Only]
- The Large Beastcast: Never Been a Higher Beastcast! – PAX East 2024
![Many thanks to AlwaysBeClothing for capturing this moment with Patrick and Rorie.](https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_super/0/8273/3563984-0362005659-35623.jpg)
No longer gonna lie. Seeing The Beastcast RSS Feed replace for the first time in years received me and when you in actuality prefer something touching from PAX East, that is an image that @alwaysbeclothing captured while attending the event.
![Time flies by...](https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/0/8273/3563992-3893088105-GJ3ZO7xWMAAl7DK.jpg)
There are about a updates relating to bugs on the positioning. After extra than one folk reported seeing dim screens when making an are trying to stumble on videos on the positioning, the video player has been re-prioritized as a high field that requires a straight away resolution. The identical goes for the rising quantity of of us that are making an are trying to resume their premium subscriptions but are having their most standard fee forms rejected. This explicit field appears to be like explicit to PayPal, but it still shouldn’t exist and is in the works of being resolved.
Within the extinguish, I in actuality beget a new anniversary to exhibit. March 29th marked the 14th anniversary of when @marino and I joined the Large Bomb Moderation team. Fourteen years is a lengthy time to bag anything, now to not mention be committed to a novel source of entertainment and past-time enthusiasm, but right here we’re. I in actuality had been on this blueprint making an are trying to invent it a right and fun reputation for fourteen years. To no doubt hit home how powerful issues beget modified, that is the PM that invited Marino to the moderation team; bonus aspects to anybody who remembers a majority of those names.
There are so powerful of of us that I’m able to still make a selection assembly on this blueprint and interacting with in the early days of Large Bomb that achieve no longer seem to be any longer right here, and there are also a quantity of you I in actuality beget solely only in the near past met. To each and every body of you, alongside with of us that will never be taught this, know that you’re liked, loved, and welcomed right here. You’ve got all made the closing fourteen years incredibly engaging as well to enlightening. If truth be told, if it had been no longer for you, I would no longer proceed to bag this very characteristic. As a excellent man as soon as opined, it be been a lengthy boulevard getting from right here to there.
Galleria
Dan Tonight! (By: @jearum)
That you simply may maybe well must probe jearum for particulars on what they had been pondering with this one, but in line with Mike posting an image of Dan next to a banana, jearum decided to mediate Dan as Mac Tonight but in fruit beget.
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Right here We Goku Again (By: @ogto)
I construct no longer even know the design it’s miles probably, but Dan has acknowledged that he has forgotten all of DBZ Kai. Equally anxious, ogto imagined Large Bomb doing one other DBZ podcast but has a proposal on what to call it….
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Grubb – I Owe You An Apology Meme (By: @kone)
After Grubb apologized to Jan for his Cyclops lack of knowledge, Kone took a big gamble to pounce on him to generate a transient work of Photoshop-based mostly goodness. This Shaq meme may maybe well never die and I’m all right here for it.
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Jeff Grubb, The Gambler (By: @chucktowski)
So… plainly Grubb modified into as soon as no longer lying about winning $10okay from doing a humorous epic wager on hockey. To hit home Grubb’s contemporary reputation as an elite gambler, chucktowski made this work of “art work.”
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I Don’t Even Know What To Call This (By: @KinguAmoz)
I on the total beget an effortless time relaying the context to employees-linked art work on the Spotlight but this one is a doozy. On social media, somebody shared a crocheted nude version of their conception of a “preferrred boyfriend” and somebody identified that the consequence seemed care for Grubb. Grubb has now considered this crocheted work of “art work” and would not know techniques to react. Over on Twitter, KingAmoz made this to beget a study out and atomize Grubb from his denial.
I may be perfectly supreme, I debated if I needed to share this due to uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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Tweets
14 years ago this day, ZombiePie and I grew to alter into moderators on @giantbomb. Easiest 2 other mods from my invitation DM are still right here. We’re very old fashioned.
As progressively, the leisure of us convey sorry for the total polls ZombiePie has made in chat over these 14 years. pic.twitter.com/8dODKVxQNv— Brad Lynch (@MarinoV1) March 29, 2024
Nowadays modified into as soon as Jim Ryan’s closing day at PlayStation so let’s all recall a moment to be aware his greatest contribution to the video games change.https://t.co/oAwWgCgCuI
— lex luddy (kiryu’s roommate) (@BasicalliLexi) March 29, 2024
I’ve said this previous to, but having something to mediate about forward to per week that summer season modified into as soon as a immense deal for me and a quantity of alternative folk. And monitoring all those stats modified into as soon as fun.
I supreme wish I’d had the foresight to trace 100% non-Cumbersome Combos. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/X9JzIU9JLV— Brad Lynch (@MarinoV1) March 23, 2024
Video
The Death of Jois Jane – An Racy Large Bomb Superman 64 Blight Club Sequence – (Episode 2) (By: Predicament Giraffe)
Once more, Predicament Giraffe is abet on YouTube with one other version of their Racy Large Bomb series! This one takes what I mediate just isn’t any doubt one of many solely person moments from Blight Club outside of the peaks of Mike’s Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero series.
Activities
Solar Ash Is The seventh Game Of UUGPGC Year 3! Construct By April 8! Ticket All Spoilers! (By: @bigsocrates)
![Have any of you checked out Solar Ash before? Now is the time!](https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/0/8273/3564005-6976383718-GJjpgd3bAAAXGQT.jpg)
The Large Bomb Game Pass Game Club has selected Solar Ash by Heart Machine because the following sport! Construct you may maybe well even beget any non-spoiler pointers on this motion-adventure title?
The GB Album Club 057 – Kentucky by Panopticon (By: @unclejam23)
This version of the Album of the Week Club is for Kentucky by Panopticon! What bag you invent of Panopticon’s mix of dim metal with bluegrass and activist and environmental messages? Join the dialogue and conversation over right here!
Blogs
I’m Going To Write About The Original Alone In The Sad Reboot Because No One Else Will (By: @arbitrarywater)
![This is definitely a clever goof.](https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/0/8273/3564000-2697381406-GJ34ugBaYAA4lrs.jpg)
ArbitraryWater is an educated on the Alone in the Sad franchise AND dubious dread video games. With their latest blog on the positioning they overview the latest Alone in the Sad sport and share why they learned it to be a thoroughly 7/10 abilities.
Mento’s Month: March ’24 (By: @mento)
Mento is right here to discuss the video games from March that they played and (optimistically) enjoyed! Fighting CHAOS ended up being their “Game of the Month” but you be taught the leisure of their gaming highlights.
Indie Game of the Week 363: A Little to the Left (By: @mento)
![I'm always glad to see another person appreciate Jack and CHAOS in all its glory.](https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/0/8273/3564006-0675168134-GJt7DLLbkAAhU5_.jpg)
Mento also has a brand contemporary version of their “Indie Game of the Week” characteristic on the positioning and this one is all about A Little To The Left! Did they catch pleasure from its mix of cozy art work and family organizational gameplay?
Working My Shoot Friends Playing An RPG As A Kayfabe Gimmick (Trying For Extra Terms To Expend) (By: @wulfbane)
WulfBane roped about a of their friends into an Avatar Legends pen & paper RPG campaign! How are issues going up to now? Be taught all about it, and share solutions on techniques to RP in the realm of Avatar, in the blog linked above.
What’s The Finest Video Game: NBA Inside of Force 2002 (By: @imunbeatable80)
![Of Xbox's sports game line, I think I miss Top Spin and Amped the most.](https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/0/8273/3564010-2528172642-GJy0Ka-acAAz6Kb.jpg)
imunbeatable80 is on the positioning with a brand contemporary version of their “What’s The Finest Video Game” characteristic and this one is ready NBA Inside of Force 2002! Consider when Xbox had its like sports activities video games in case they received Dreamcast-ed by EA? (Editor’s Existing: Additionally due to EA Sports activities wasn’t on Xbox Are living)
Virtual High and Middles Half 2 of three Mr. Cyberpunk‘s Half in A Long War +
Virtual High and Middles Half 3 of three Holiday Special (By: @infantpipoc)
infantpipoc’s retrospective on The Matrix movie series to rate the 25th anniversary of the first movie wraps up with a stories of The Matrix Reloaded, Revolutions, and Resurrections. Be taught why they fancy/abhor the sequels to the first movie, and positively admire The Wachowski’s ingenious audaciousness infrequently.
The Label Of Contra: Operation Galuga Reveals The Severe Label Increases Of Some “Smaller” Games (By: @bigsocrates)
![From hell's heart I stab at thee, this is the best scene ever made in the entire Matrix series.](https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/0/8273/3564012-3469062630-GJuB7GLaUAAS3MJ.jpg)
bigsocrates decided to give Contra: Operation Galuga a shot and penned a blog on why its a signal of the rising ticket of smaller online sport projects, which is an understandable sort, but on they still fight with for my share.
I’ve Been Playing Games On Console Since The NES And This Game Correct Showed Me A Glitch I could maybe well Never Seen Earlier than! (By: @bigsocrates)
Likewise, bigsocrates gave RoboCop: Rogue City a shot and shares a barely monstrous flee-in with a computer virus that they mediate speaks to the need for contemporary video games to still beget the chance of manual saves. Have you ever been screwed by auto-assign solely video games?
Discussion Threads
Most up-to-the-minute Mess 2024: Spring Compare-In (By: @allthedinos)
![Will this be the end of Dan as we know it?](https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/0/8273/3564007-5897955407-GJjuAVXaEAAir7k.jpg)
We are a quarter of the potential done with 2024 and there are already front-runners for “Most up-to-the-minute Mess” in the realm of video video games. ALLTheDinos is the one who runs the neighborhood vote casting for this category and is taking early solutions on what to position on their listing of nominees.
Basic Blight Club Records! Alex Navarro Is Subjecting Dan To Two Games! (By: @zombiepie)
CALLING ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS! There is some barely major news concerning the potential forward for Blight Club! Right here’s a summary of what went down over the weekend at PAX East 2024, and be a part of every person in praying for Dan!
Stellar Blade Demo Impressions Sharing Thread (By: @spacemanspiff00)
Sooo… how a quantity of you may maybe well even beget checked out the demo for Stellar Blade? Does the sport beget any assets as antagonistic to what every person else is talking about? Join the neighborhood conversation about its “vogue,” sci-fi surroundings, and swiftly-paced gameplay mechanics.
Fetch-Two Buys Gearbox Interactive For $460 Million From Embracer, Which Embracer Offered For $1.3 Billion (By: @zombiepie)
![Finding pictures of this character from the front was harder than I thought it would be.](https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/0/8273/3563997-7414010027-GJ37NdIagAAbgw5.jpg)
Fetch-Two Interactive System, Inc. is shopping for Gearbox System LLC for $460 million, but no longer all of Gearbox! Fetch the particulars on the news and be a part of the Large Bomb dialogue if that is a supreme or monstrous change for Gearbox by clicking the link.
What Is Your Accepted Pokémon Of Gen 1? (By: @topcyclist)
Call me standard, but I care for Charizard and Blastoise as well to the legendary birds in generation no doubt one of Pokémon. Additionally, Bulbasaur is tiresome. This is a dialogue about the solely and coolest Pokémon, no longer dumbest taking a stumble on plant-dog-care for issues!
Lists
Fighting Games and not using a Movement Inputs or Mixture Enter Special Strikes (By: @bluejay)
![This list is genuinely impressive! Check it out if you haven't already!](https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/0/8273/3564004-9492125032-GJjnc7IbUAA-FFy.jpg)
We now beget an INCREDIBLE contemporary listing that wants YOUR HELP! BlueJay is engaged on an inventory of each combating sport that has “no Movement Inputs or Mixture Enter Special Strikes!” Portion solutions right here!
Werecats (By: @jacobproper1)
As JacobProper1 lays out in this listing, there appears to be like a handful of cat-care for online sport characters or of us that may maybe well willingly rework into tom cats that are no longer werewolves. They’re making an are trying to construct an inventory of every example of this and you may maybe well in actuality be at liberty to send them solutions of characters they’ve overlooked.
Wiki Of The Week
![There are some INCREDIBLE shots of the Giant Bomb panels on this wiki page!](https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/scale_small/0/8273/3564009-8333541668-GJUseRLXcAAc-Ed.jpg)
Gigantic props to @marino for no longer solely taking TONS of photos of Large bomb’s panels at PAX East 2024, but additionally sharing their other photos of what took reputation at the conference. Even when you had been no longer ready to befriend, you may maybe well extra or much less image what it modified into as soon as care for thanks to Marino’s tireless effort to rob all the pieces.