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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

2 years

My promise to you is that if you follow these accounts I will at least, at a minimum, put a profile picture on them.

Brad Shoemaker (@[email protected])

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

Anyone who wants to both-sides political violence and extremism from today on can shut the fuck up forever.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

Today was my last episode of the Giant Bombcast. Friday is my last day with the company. After spending a third of my life helping to build this thing, it's tough to make my fingers even type that out. (Seriously, what?)

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

Ah heck, what was I gonna do, NOT keep working with these guys?

nextlander

@nextlander

3 years

Hello universe! Welcome to Nextlander, a new podcast and streaming project from @vinnycaravella , @bradshoemaker , and @alex_navarro . If you want to learn all about what we're doing and how you can support us, check out our Patreon!

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

Crap, I have to remember how to work this thing again, don't I

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

There will be plenty more to say later as I figure out what the future holds, but for now I just want to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who supported us all this time, and all the people who have helped me and worked with me along the way to get where I am.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

The one thing I will not wait to say is that it's been one of my life's great honors to get to work with @VinnyCaravella for this long. He is exactly as talented, hardworking, and decent as you think. There's nothing I wouldn't trust him with.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

Remember the name of every empty husk who sold out this nation’s future. Never forget who did this.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

1 year

Getting drunk on good whiskey and deep into some dated summerjams, lot of memories flooding back. 10 years is a long time. Miss you brother.

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Brad Shoemaker

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Brad Shoemaker

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7 years

lol

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

5 years

Weird how Republican presidents keep betraying their office and the nation, over and over, for like 50 years. What are the odds!

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

1 month

I've been slowly losing my mind the last few days, staring at that tweet and grappling with the fact that someone is actually trying to reinvent good old scorecalc.xls

dannyodwyer

@dannyodwyer

1 month

look, at funny as this, back in the early early days of GameSpot the reviewers literally filled in a form with 5 or 6 categories (graphics/gameplay/etc) that generated a game’s final review score using an algorithm none of them knew or had access to.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

@DanRyckert @giantbomb Dan this is one of the most validating things I have ever read about us, thank you

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

2 years

Congrats and best of luck to the new, existing, and (god help us) returning Giant Bomb folks who are charting a new course today. This is a helluva good start, eager to see what y'all get up to!

World’s Famous Giant Bomb

@giantbomb

2 years

It's time

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Brad Shoemaker

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

@DanRyckert @MattBodega Nier Automata is like, what if Kojima was good

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

Hey stop arguing about fucking Star Wars unless it's the one where a budding despot rots out the structures of a formerly robust democracy and turns it into an autocratic nightmare.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

ANNOUNCEMENT: We're not taking emails anymore.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

5 years

Please stop saying "looter shooter." Just... please.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

Every day you think he's hit bottom and every day he finds a way to sink even lower.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

...Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They....

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

Please decouple your sense of self-worth from your media consumption habits, everyone will like you more.

Patrick Klepek 🎃

@patrickklepek

3 years

This is genuinely one of the reasons I’ve stopped reviewing games, beyond making peace knowing I’m a better reporter than a critic. The obsessive and creepy culture war over scores, the message board threads trying to *predict* Metactiric averages. No thanks.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

5 years

"Freedom isn't free. But our shipping is after $70."

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

The wealthiest people on the planet aren’t satisfied with what they already have. They can’t be happy till you have nothing left. A society can’t function this way.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

Read every word. We can't let this institutionalized sadism continue to define our society or we are doomed.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

Still some room on this lock screen, Tuesday, what else ya got

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

These women are heroes.

Astead

@AsteadWH

6 years

NEW: I spoke to the women who confronted Jeff Flake in that Capitol Hill elevator. w/ @NirajC

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 months

In honor of E3, please enjoy this pic of a 16-year-old @patrickklepek at a fine Italian restaurant

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

Glad to know the law no longer applies if you're a sufficiently sadistic racist.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

8 years

The future is now.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

Today was the day he became Dan Ryckert.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

@ybbaaabby Rosie is ready for a smooch

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

4 years

This thread is essential reading.

Dark Tesla aka Steve Scrub

@Dark_Tesla

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“Wow. Cops killed a black man. Look at this video, he was begging for his life and they were laughing." "That's terrible. But fortunately, they can be prosecuted for murder. "Oh, my. You're new to America, aren't you? The prosecutor will decline to indict." "What? Why?"

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

God this is incredibly touching.

Justin Epperson

@sprsk

7 years

Golf is imbedded in the Switch firmware and JP internet is calling it an “omamori” or charm from Iwata (he coded the game himself)

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

Flying with some ghosts of E3s past.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

5 years

Here's us talking over like an hour of Apex Legends, which unsurprisingly seems good as hell.

Apex Legends (It's Actually Finished)

Brad journeyed to exotic "Los Angeles" to play Respawn's new battle royale game. This is his story.

www.giantbomb.com

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

1 year

Took me about 10 minutes in the new No Man's Sky VR update to say "holy fucking shit" three or four times and then firmly conclude it's the coolest thing I've seen in VR to date.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

I for one am just shocked that the people who accused their political opponents of being criminals turned out to be criminals themselves.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

At the end of the day this is what it comes down to. This isn't sustainable. Something is going to break.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

2 years

@dannyodwyer @MadFriarAvelyn keep going, i believe in you

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

The cynicism is unreal. Republicans in Congress have no principles beyond their own wealth and power. Banish them from government.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

How is this not the most shared thing on the Internet

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

Video games honestly feel trivial today, a garbage day in what lately seems like an endless succession of garbage days.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

Anybody up for a little beach bbq?

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

5 years

On some level, all I ever wanted was a job where I could put this specific piece of artwork on things.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

Hey did you know that pretty much the entirety of this website will be in one place for tomorrow's Bombcast? You do now. Send emails accordingly! bombcast @giantbomb .com

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

OK cool, good to know.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

#PS4share

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

In the last 12 days I've had the flu, then a case of hand foot and mouth disease, and now bronchitis. If anyone has a freshly dug grave you're not using right now, I... just need to lie down for a minute.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

@patrickklepek the greatest tragedy is missing out on the utter contempt he would have had for all the bullshit that's happened since he passed

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

5 years

Outer Worlds is easily one of my favorite games of the year. I played it nearly every waking minute this weekend and I'm really not one to marathon through games.

Jeff Gerstmann

@jeffgerstmann

5 years

We’ll talk more on the podcast today but real quick here: The Outer Worlds is really great.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

5 years

@ybbaaabby we like to get fancy around here

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

oh silly game

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

5 years

Think about how deep in the personality cult you have to be to look at this and see strong or even coherent leadership.

Trish Regan

@trish_regan

5 years

EXCLUSIVE: I have obtained a copy of ⁦ @realDonaldTrump ⁩’s letter to #Erdogan . ⁦ @POTUS ⁩ warns him to not “be a tough guy! Don’t be a fool!” Says he could destroy Turkey’s economy if #Syria is not resolved in a humane way. Details tonight at 8pm #TrishRegan #FoxBusiness

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

2 years

What if someone made an open world where everything was unique and you never did the same thing twice. It sounds so obvious when you put it like that!

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

This quote from the first chief of the Gestapo has been stuck in my head since I read it back around the time of the election and was worried things like this were coming and knew they'd need people to carry them out.

Steve Kim

@Fobwashed

6 years

That there are people willing to do the work necessary to separate children from their parents and put them in cages is sickening. That people support the politicians that allow this evil shit to happen is despicable.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

With all this Sony news, we figured @GameOverGreggy would be the perfect Bombcast guest tomorrow. Send in your Qs! bombcast @giantbomb .com

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

if you needed yet more evidence this world is unjust and cruel

Matt Kessler

@MattBodega

6 years

The way @bradshoemaker ’s eyes lit up and then grew dark when he thought he was seeing a new Viva Piñata…my heart aches for that sweet boy

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

1 year

The utmost respect for putting Gettin Jiggy With It on here, the man just did not give a fuck.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

Secretly, the whole point of starting this thing was to have an excuse to make people play State of Decay with me.

nextlander

@nextlander

3 years

For our first ongoing series, @bradshoemaker is gonna take the rest of us into the world of State of Decay 2 and show us what survivin' in this hellworld is all about! Come join us!

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

Took time out of E3 packing to make fancy oatmeal w/ chicken habanero sausage and eggs over easy in honor of Bourdain. RIP.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

8 years

Finally got this year’s GOTY deliberation madness edited down and assembled. Here’s the final runtime. Starts 12/26, 9am PST!

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

4 years

Here, click through this for a while, you probably need it.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

More than all the hijinks and bluster he was just a true friend, loyal, supportive, and kind. I'm crushed. Rest well in Valhalla Tor -- there will definitely, for sure never be anyone quite like you.

Tor Thorsen

@thorsen1nk

3 years

Crazed GI meets a bassist from Poison (as played by the indelible @bradshoemaker ). H'ween 2004.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

I recall Ryan and I cackling to hear we'd hired someone named TOR THORSEN--then the actual guy somehow still overshadowed his own titanic name. He disabled his own fail-safes and just went for it, constantly. I think he'd already lived an entire lifetime and more before I met him

Tor Thorsen

@thorsen1nk

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The late, great Ryan Davis (1979-2013) playing THE BIG LEBOWSKI's Walter Sobchak at a out-of-fucking-control party, Halloween 2004. Miss you so much, dude.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

Surely there's an equally competent jurist out there who doesn't lie all the time, or think the president can commit crimes with impunity, or try to assault women at parties? I ain't no lawyer but that seems like a reasonably low bar.

Sheldon Whitehouse

@SenWhitehouse

6 years

#Kavanaugh ’s blanket denial cannot be reconciled with her specific recollections, and the @FBI needs time to take proper witness statements. Lying to an #FBI agent in a formal interview is a crime, and an impeachable offense.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

"Sure, maybe he committed crimes, but were they the RIGHT crimes?"

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@frankthorp

6 years

GRAHAM: "Campaign finance violations, I don't know what will come from that, but the thing that will hurt the President the most is if, in fact, his campaign did coordinate with a foreign govt like Russia, anything short of that is probably going to fall into partisan camps"

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

8 years

Some small but important business getting done.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

a little digging has revealed my original high school-era Quakeworld dir to be extant on my NAS, complete with all the skins that auto-downloaded from whatever servers i was playing on back then. brace yourself for significant '90s

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

2 years

@austin_walker just astonished that you managed to tweet this *before* they announced an HD Live a Live

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

8 years

I feel lightheaded.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

4 years

Here's this week's Bombcast -- huge thanks to @austin_walker and @VinnyCaravella for making the time to stop by.

637: Slow Off King

Austin Walker and Vinny Caravella drop by during a tumultuous week to talk current events, Valorant, Monster Train, PS5 and Xbox Series X compatbility (backwards and forwards), the coming Sega...

www.giantbomb.com

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

8 years

I am in control of my fate. I make my own choices.

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Brad Shoemaker

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7 years

same

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

5 years

Started to make a same energy joke but just holy shit

Sam Stein

@samstein

5 years

Dem Source on WH meeting: "POTUS cut Schumer off and said that Gen Mattis was: “the world’s most overrated general. You know why? He wasn’t tough enough. I captured ISIS. Mattis said it would take 2 yrs. I captured them in 1 month”"

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Brad Shoemaker

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3 years

There isn't a game--or arguably anything else--on the planet that made a bigger impact on who I am and where I've ended up than Quake, which turns 25 today. @willsmith and I got all nostalgic about its sprawling legacy on this week's @sweatpantstech

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

id Software's Quake came out 25 years ago this week, and it also changed both of our lives. In this episode we wax nostalgic about the astonishing legacy of technical innovations Quake brought to...

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

7 years

@austin_walker can't be said enough. anybody who says fascism can be joked about or ignored till it goes away is living in a comfortable fantasy land

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

Chris Avellone working on a new Dying Light is one of the most exciting things you could say to me in an E3 presentation.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

@DanRyckert @McDonalds also wanna give a big shout out to thesportcoat on eBay who hooked me up with my own miracle for like $32

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

5 years

That's quite an image

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

Feels like 2018 is clasping its bony fingers around my neck and trying to drag me back in. YOU SHALL NOT HAVE ME O DEMON YEAR

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Brad Shoemaker

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9 years

I hope this isn't too morose, but playing AC Syndicate just makes me wonder what @taswell would have thought, because he loved those games.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

@Yelix am i allowed to contribute here because this one is VERY topical

Giant Bomb - Brad Loses it

From the Sony Gamescom 2013 video

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

3 years

@DanRyckert i've always known you to have a positive attitude about expanding your outlook on the world, but... this and taking apart that GameCube are really messing with me

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Brad Shoemaker

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3 years

@frailgesture @VinnyCaravella @alex_navarro fond memories of coming into the GameSpot office on the weekend and finding you, shoeless, playing KOTOR or whatever around the clock

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Brad Shoemaker

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8 years

I’m just over here installing a game from disk as one does in this year two thousand and sixteen.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

8 years

I ripped and tore until it was done. What a great goddamn game.

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Brad Shoemaker

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9 months

@sstarkm thank you for immortalizing a strange artifact of my child brain! one of the more flattering moments of my career

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

10 years

Imagine the ice cold burns Ryan would have been handing down over the last two months. Just think of it and smile.

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Brad Shoemaker

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7 years

@PaTRIcKklEpEK i aM IN pOsSESsIon oF sOmeThiNG VeRy preCioUS tO YoU

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Brad Shoemaker

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5 years

Seems to be a misperception about the Death Stranding footage embargo as overly burdensome or heavy handed. The truth is restrictions like that are pretty common, we just usually aren't so hot to cover a game that we can't wait till the video shackles are off.

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Brad Shoemaker

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6 years

Did not expect one of the most exciting things at E3 to be a new Tetris game, but then I don't expect much of anything that happens these days.

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Brad Shoemaker

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7 years

@MattBodega it’s a pathetic indictment of our species that it only took one lifetime for people to forget the worst calamity in history

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Brad Shoemaker

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7 years

I played a bit of Mario Odyssey last week and that game is weird in the correct way. We’ll have some video up later today.

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Brad Shoemaker

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6 years

good god limerick twitter is wild

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Brad Shoemaker

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5 years

Good morning! I spent a day with @Respawn 's new battle royale last week, and it is extremely _______ ___ _____. We'll have a bunch of gameplay footage and an interview with the director here in a little bit.

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Brad Shoemaker

@bradshoemaker

6 years

This is all that needs to be said about the bullshit cover story that anything from yesterday is on the up and up. It's nonsense.

Robert E Kelly

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As Trump rushes to build a Russo-US "special responsibility for maintaining international security," recall that Russia's GDP is now smaller than that of Brazil, Italy, Canada, and S Korea, states we normally think of as middle powers. I'm not sure most people realize this; /1

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6 years

@ybbaaabby *quietly drops plan to push Meowscular Chef in year-end awards*

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26 days

I played this and can confirm: it rules

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@LordBalvin

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AY YO DEATH SPRINT 66 IS MARIO KART BUT INSTEAD OF DRIVING YOU’RE FREE RUNNING AND YOU CAN KILL EACH OTHER THIS SHIT LOOKS GAAAASSSS. 🏃🏽‍♂️

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2 years

Few weeks ago I ripped open the factory bag on an adapter (with an ATI logo!) that was prob pushing 15 years old. Finally, finally had a use for it. Maybe the most glorious moment of my life.

Lemuel Lyes

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2 years

Last month I did the unthinkable and finally threw out that box of unloved cables that I've dragged with me through adulthood. Today I realised that I needed one of them and have no idea how to find a replacement. CONSIDER THIS A WARNING TO YOU ALL

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