The Community Spotlight 2020.07.04

3 years 8 months ago

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am honored to be your host this week as we look back at the best community offerings from the last week! Over the years, I have tended to stay away from "themes" outside of the E3 and GOTY versions of the Spotlight. The sole exception, of course, is whenever the anniversary of Ryan Davis' passing rolls around. Seven years is an absurd amount of time to think about, but that's where we are at. I know there are many of you who joined the site after Ryan's passing. I'm not going to use this Spotlight to shame you or make you feel like you are not a valued part of this community. I do however hope that in sharing some of my favorite Ryan moments that you understand how great of a person he was and how his spirit lives on in how this site has evolved over time. As always, feel free to share your thoughts and thanks to Ryan in the original tribute thread by Rorie on the day of his passing.

  • CORRECTION: Last week I suggested Abby was logging off from social media forever, and have been corrected by several community members that I was wrong and her Tweet only meant that she would be offline for the week of their vacation. I apologize for the misinformation.
  • In response to recent events, Ben is cancelling their video series on Them's Fightin' Herds, and the series in general has been re-titled.
  • If you are in need of some GOOD NEWS, it honors me to inform you the speedrunning community has embraced Vinny's back-flipping and backwards walking technique for BioForge and dubbed it "The Caravella Method." I guess we can look forward to Vinny appearing in an episode of Summoning Salt.

Tweets Of The Week

Clips Of The Week

Much like the Tweets section, I decided to share some of the best representation of Ryan's character from YouTube. Obviously, I likely missed some classic Ryan moments, so feel free to post your favorites I may have missed in the comments!

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Marino - Brad Lynch

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