The Community Spotlight 2022.10.01

Welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host as we look back at the best community-created works from the previous week. With the site's staff girding their loins for the first in-person live studio event in over two and a half years, sentiment is at an all-time high. Speaking of which, if you still are confused, the Great Giant Bombathon: LIVE will be an all-day stream of in-person content starting at 12 PM EDT on Wednesday, October 5th. Nonetheless, we are getting ahead of ourselves! Without further ado, let's get into the site-related news and wonderful things the community has been up to recently.

News

It's time to review a new batch of news and information about the pull t-shirt designs. First, and foremost, Giant Bomb is not going to reprint the recent shirts until they find a new merch partner. The store has been shut down and is on "hiatus" until further notice. An email about shirt refunds should've gone out to everyone who tried to buy one. If your order has been cancelled and you did not get a refund, please drop a comment in the previous thread. If you are wondering what the end-goal might be, Rorie believes that the site will reprint the new designs and its previous merchandise in a few months but it will involve a whole different billing/shipping situation.

We have a few programming notes. First, to fans of JeffJeff's Bizarre Adventure, the podcast will return on the week of October 10th. Also, some have been asking how Jason is doing he used PTO to visit family and friends in Florida and ended up sick and stuck there due to Hurrican Ian. He's safe, but send him you best wishes on Twitter if possible.

It was a good week for staff members appearing on other sites as guests. Jeff Bakalar guested on the 99 Questions Podcast and you should give it a listen if you want to hear him talk about the current direction for the site as well as hockey, the great state of New Jersey, the raw energy of an alpaca, Danny DeVito, slime thievery, and pinball. Tam and Jan were interview by the official Naruto English account about their favorite story arcs in the franchise.

Some are reporting that non-YouTube site-hosted videos are NOT uploading or progressing at 8000 kbps anymore. If you have noticed this problem, please drop a comment in the bug reporting thread about this specific issue.

Finally, Giant Bomb's Extra Life Team finally crossed the 30 members mark! Also, with a little more than a month to go, the team has already raised over $2,000! If you are interested in joining, please click the link! If you can't join, please consider donating to any of the team members still at $0!

Tweets

Galleria

Live in New York! The Great Giant Bombathon LIVE! (By: @jearum)

HOLY SHIT! To mark the impending start of the Giant Bombathon LIVE! jearum decided to make a poster to commemorate the event. What they ended up making is one of the most impressive works of Giant Bomb-themed art I have seen. Also, below the full poster I have a few close-ups jearum posted on their Twitter which you should consider following and supporting.