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My first impression of Jeff Grubb was him being an asshole on twitter and endlessly dunking on Sonic fans for no reason. Punching down is never a good look and he was doing a lot of it.

That's colored everything I've ever heard of the guy since then. And if you search his account for "Sonic" he's still doing it! Constantly! All the time! This man lives to rile up Sonic fans like Sonic the Hedgehog personally killed his dog or something.

I want to believe he's a normal human being. I remember the Galloping Ghost video he did with Jess and Dan and he had this really fun big brother energy that I thought was charming. But also he's positioning himself like he's trying to be an enemy, you know?

I have gone back and forth on the current state of Giantbomb. When Jess and Jason got laid off I kind of fell off pretty hard and you could definitely feel the vibe of the site get really sad for a while. Then around February of this year I started getting back into their stuff...

And discovered that the current crew is, like, raunchy as hell? In a way that's far beyond what Gerstmann and the old crew would ever touch. And like, I don't think I'm much of a prude (despite keeping it relatively clean on this blog), but sometimes they hit on really nasty grossout humor that crossed a line for me.

And then, like, every now and then I'll see clips of them just being really aggressive and adversarial with each other, there are times where Dan's competitiveness runs rampant over everyone and he seems like he's going too far... just kind of a nightmare in a lot of little ways.

Plus, like, I'm not a wrestling guy. It'd come up some times in the old guard, but it never felt annoying and was kind of kept to sort of a minimum since only Gerstmann and Alex were really in super deep. Gerstmann was a lapsed fan, too, so he was grumpy and had kind of a distance from it anyway.

But Dan does not shut up about wrestling and the rest of the crew is constantly needling him for factoids and every time I hear Dan say "For Shoot?" instead of "For Real?" I want to grab and shake him until the rocks in his head fall out. And again: seems like he's more dedicated to "being annoying because it's funny" and I personally do not enjoy torturing myself as a form of entertainment.

Shelfconfidence BPC

So Dan worked in video games (his first dream) for 20 years or so. Now he is working with @WWE (his second dream) probably 20 years or so.

Jeff Gerstmann: Fast and the Furious is about fucking FAMILY. Shaw fucking kill-- Shaw killed Han. He should not have been a good guy-- They, they READILY accepted-- One of my main problems with the last Fast and the Furious movie was how readily they accepted him into the fold. 'You suck, anyway I guess we need ya.' And at the end of the movie, all was forgiven. Like that guy killed--

Dan Ryckert: He's a bad guy.

Jeff Gerstmann: He's a bad fucking guy.

Dan Ryckert: If he killed a member of my family, I would not let him hang out with me and drink Coronas on my rooftop.