Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host as we look back at some of the best user-created works from around the web. First, I want to thank all of your who heard out the personal request from the staff and moderation team regarding the recent news surrounding Abby leaving the site. If you missed it, yes, Abby will be leaving Giant Bomb at the end of November, but please avoid rampant speculation about possible hires and additional lay-offs or site leavings. As I said last week, these are stressful and confusing times and you can avoid adding to that stress by keeping all of what I have written about in mind. With that out of the way, it is worth noting we have a ton of positive news about the future! In fact, let's jump into it right now!
- Here's a quick reminder that the Giant Bomb staff are playing around with Twitch-only streams. Now, don't freak out, as the staff are using these streams to test out new audio and video set-ups and alternate streaming recorders before they debut them to the proper Giant Bomb community. For example, Jeff tried a new emulator core and streamed a bunch of Japan-only games earlier this week. Rorie, on the other hand, used their personal Twitch account to stream to stress test their home internet connection. If you want to avoid missing out on these "secret" streams, consider following the appropriate accounts and enabling notifications. Again, don't freak out if you miss any of these streams as they are mostly technical re-jiggerings for the most part. Nonetheless, keep on the look out for some "interesting" content in the future!
- In case you missed it, Vinny posted another update in the "Official Thread About Site Goings-On!" Use the link to get a better idea about the staff's plans for the previous week and the technical issues they had to work around to make every video a possibility.
- Giant Bomb West has some incredibly exciting news: they are getting a bigger studio! When it is safe to return to the office, the site got the greenlight to make a bigger and better studio for free and premium content. This is also connected to earlier Tweets from Jan of him by himself in the old podcast studio.
Tweets
— Dr. Tracksuit (@TracksuitMD) October 21, 2020
Did it work? pic.twitter.com/qEVHzzuu2B
— Steve Kim (@Fobwashed) October 20, 2020
Whoever ends up being responsible for moving Shaq, please handle with the care and reverence that I did during the move in 2015. pic.twitter.com/CbYL3xCZw3
— Brad Lynch (@MarinoV1) October 21, 2020
That one time @_janjerome haunted @VinnyCaravella in @giantbomb's Phasmophobia stream >,< https://t.co/ZkvVNTsFKW pic.twitter.com/D7nYXRtxum
— Steve Kim (@Fobwashed) October 19, 2020
Damn, I'm going to miss @ybbaaabby being at GB pic.twitter.com/qR0InmDHw9
— 🎵 Storm Blooper | *Hire Me* | 📼 Enerjawn (@Storm_Blooper) October 23, 2020
Art
To get in the spook spirit of Halloween, jearum whipped up this this Junji Ito inspired poster design. If you enjoy it. don't forget to use the link to show your support. As always, remember to support artists with credit however you can!
Videos
SpeedTree | Giant Bomb | GDC 2010 (By: VinnCo Archive)
Here's another blast from the past from the VinnCo Archive YouTube account! Remember that time when Ryan earnestly interviewed a demo person for SpeedTree at GDC? If you haven't seen this one, it's a true delight!
Community Activities
GB's Folding@Home Team - Join Us To Help COVID-19 Research! (By: @forcen)
The Giant Bomb community Folding@Home team continues to help the program's COVID-19 research despite a drop in active users! Learn how you can join the team and help fight COVID-19!
Genshin Impact Friend Exchange (By: @meatsofevil)
Calling all Genshin Impact players! We now have a community friend exchange thread and it is platform agnostic! Just post your info using the link and hookup with some other users!