Hello and welcome to another edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host as we look back and enjoy the best user-created offerings from the previous week. Well, this was certainly a week. There have been mass cancellations of schools and many of us are now living under various states of emergency. I wont go any further in discussing COVID-19 as many of you have enough breaking news-based anxiety, but please keep safe. Wash your hands; don't touch your face; isolate yourself if you get sick; and don't forget to tell your friends and family that you love them. On a lighter note, given the circumstances, I think we can all agree the staff absolutely hit it out of the park with their at-home live streams. While I personally missed a majority of the morning streams, I found Jan and Jason's streams to be especially entertaining. Likewise, Jeff playing Super Mario Bros. Special might be the best new Giant Bomb video series of 2020 yet. With all that out of the way, let's jump into the site-related housekeeping!
Thanks everyone for joining us for the streams this week. Still adjusting to the new normal but we'll be back next week with some more stuff.
— Giant Bomb (@giantbomb) March 14, 2020
- Currently, all signs point to Giant Bomb needing to stream video content from home for another week. If there are any changes follow Giant Bomb on Twitter.
- Design lead, Dan Auer, and director of engineering, Will Carle, celebrated their fifth-year anniversary of joining the CBSi family. Use the link to send your thanks for everything they've done the past five years.
Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run
Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run X Announcement Thread (By: @thatpinguino)
It;s that time of the year again! That's right, it's time for the Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run! For those unaware, the Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run is a long-running spring-time charity event hosted by Giant Bomb community members, myself included! Use the link above and donate what you can!
Here's a link to my personal donation page. If you enjoy the Community Spotlight or my activities with the GB Duders Feed on Twitter, help me reach my goal of $2,500 raised for Pencils of Promise, a charity that builds schools in developing nations like Ghana, Guatemala and Laos! Small amounts are appreciated!
Tweets Of The Week
Clipped maybe the best possible moment in Super Mario Bros. Special so far @giantbomb @jeffgerstmann https://t.co/nknQeyhZvS
— CC Kirby (@_cckirby) March 13, 2020
I ate all those pizza rolls and had to lay down on the floor in my living room for a while.
— Giant Bomb Out of Context (@giantbomb_ooc) March 10, 2020
- Jeff Gerstmann, 2010
@unastrike One of the best perks of having kids =D pic.twitter.com/l3ptunXsos
— Steve Kim (@Fobwashed) March 12, 2020
the giant bomb phoenix down clip is 10 years old today 🎉https://t.co/KzAYc3Sw3S
— Shaun (@shaun_vids) March 9, 2020
Community Activities
Unofficial GB Warzone PC Discord (By: @buds312)
If you are interested in playing Call of Duty: Warzone with some fellow users, here's a link to the announcement thread of a user-run Discord server! Learn how you can join the fun using the link above!
Giant Bomb West Coast Regiment(By: @binarydragon)
Speaking of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, The community has a new "West Coast" regiment that is accepting new members! If you are interested, here's the link to sign up!
Giant Bomb EU PC Clan Now Has Spaces! (By: @casualblue)
To any European users interested in playing Tom Clancy's The Division 2, the EU PC Clan now has spaces! Just use the link below to let out a yelp that you're interested in joining!
Giant Bomb Galleria
Giant Bomb Inspired Hand Washing Guides (By: various)
Over on Twitter, a lot of Giant Bomb users have taken to https://washyourlyrics.com/ to create hand-washing guides using Giant Bomb quotes or songs the Giant Bomb staff have expressed a liking to. Feel free to have a go at it using the link and feel free to share your creations here for inclusion next week!