The Community Spotlight 2023.11.11

Welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, am happy to be your host as we look back at the best community creations from the previous week.

Right off the bat, I want to thank everyone who streamed and donated during the community Extra Life event last weekend. The community streams alone raised over $35,000, which is actually a record for the Giant Bomb team when you subtract staff contributions to the team total.

Here are some basic stats as of 11/11/2023. The Giant Bomb Extra Life team is in the top 20 on the leaderboards. With the staff streams underway, that is only bound to get better. The top fundraiser for the team is Anthony Thomas/atrainn at $6,159. Not a single member of the team is currently sitting at $0. Everyone has at least one donation.

Cool new merchandise is coming to the Giant Bomb store in the future! There's new clothes on the horizon, but the big one has to be hand-carved and woodcut printed Giant Bomb Posters from Just A Jar Press! Just be warned, because these are handmade posters, only 100 uniquely printed posters will be available as well as 10 Limited Edition + numbered holofoil prints.

When it comes to an update with the video player and missing podcasts in the RSS feed, dtoast made a statement on the site. He's talked to almost every member of the engineering team and the team is aware of the issues, the product manager is aware of the issues, and the engineering manager is aware of the issues. He's still reporting and advocating for what he can along the way and thanks everyone for sending in bug reports and tickets and understands people's frustrations.

Giant Bomb's Extra Life 2023 Information

It's time to enjoy the staff streams for Extra Life 2023! That's right, after hosting over a dozen community streams, the site will now be moving to hosting a smattering of in-person studio-based streams for your pleasure. If you are wondering when all of this will happen, here are the times!

• Saturday, November 11th
  • 9AM-3PM Eastern: Grubb & Friends
  • 3PM-3AM Eastern: Giant Bomb West ft. GameSpot Friends
• Saturday, November 18th
  • 12PM-8PM Eastern: Giant Bomb Midwest ft. The Windbag - Live from the Dancave

And as was the case last week, here are the important links to all of the articles and donation pages for you to review and consider. For those asking about streaming well after Extra Life's Game Day event, that's fine! I would ask that you ping me on social media @GBDudersFeed on Twitter and @gbdudersfeed.bsky.social on Bluesky so your streams get some extra attention. Extra Life doesn't reset its donation pages until the start of 2024, so, you have until December 31st, 2023 to donate and stream!

• Giant Bomb Extra Life Updated Article - Has EVERYTHING about the site's plans for the next three weeks!
• Giant Bomb's Individual Donation Page - Donate HERE during the main Giant Bomb Extra Life Streams!
• Giant Bomb's Extra Life 2023 Announcement Thread - Now being updated DAILY with details!
• Dan Ryckert (Giant Bomb Staffer) - DONATION GOAL OF $7,440
• Shawn McDowell (Giant Bomb Social Media & Team Captain) - DONATION GOAL OF $100

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