i never got the impression that austin left his EIC position because he was looking for something else. he's focusing on his writing and Friends at the Table Patreon, and he's working on the The New Day comic for Boom. He seemed to want to be out of the video game industry proper.
I wasn't faulting Austin for feeling overworked. It is just something that really started to wear on me week in and week out listening to that podcast on my way to work or home "Oh god another Monday we made it...etc." There is such a thing as vibes and positive and negative energy.
very sad they got too embarrassed playing a weird broken romhack trying to convert Mario 1 into 2 to ever go back and play the real Japanese Mario 2
this is an extremely healthy way to approach your job and a weird contrived reason to dislike someone.
More seriously I think it's more that Tim's strength as a content producer is in producing scripted or at least directed content, which is great for a place like Kotaku but pretty different from the live and unscripted content that Giantbomb focuses on.
It's easy to forget when he's still on the waypoint podcast all the time
There's only 2 options for Dan here. The WWE will either break his heart and completely change his mind towards his feelings towards a lot of it or it'll pull him in deeper and he'll be 24/7 Champion this year, be an on screen manager and/or whatever else they want him to do.
I skipped that since I just didn't wanna watch Raw but I saw clips and it was worse than expected lmao.
and as much as I liked what Waypoint now vice gaming did, it's clear the higher ups there didn't mesh with that format, hence why the gaming content from vice is undeniably different now. Not exactly sure of the payment arrangement he has with vice since he is no longer technically employed there but I would guess he isn't contributing what he does out of kindness, and since the change up I haven't seen any new endeavors from him with the newfound freedom he had and wanted. The long form expose style journalism style experiment at vice unfortunately failed for one reason or another and I really can't see him landing at another gaming site. So yeah I'd be all for Austin returning to GB where he would atleast be contributing more then he is now as a shadow of his former role at vice
And you want Waypoint of all sites to deliver that for you? That's on you.
Tim has actually been a pretty prolific podcaster in the past. He was one third of Insert Credit for years along with Frank Cifaldi and Brandon Sheffield, or my personal favorite podcast ever, Violence Island. He's done plenty of unscripted work.
As someone who listened to the shack news podcast way too long because I liked Garnett at 1up, Vinny is nowhere fucking close
Would be the best move. Jeff thrives when he has the opportunity to understand Young Fokes.
We got people in this thread complaining about Austin having the audacity to say hes tired, all it would take is for Jeff to bring up the pains of being old once and suddenly hes being a negative nancy bringing down the vibes & harshing the mellow
That sounds more like a shot at Dan's attention-span than anything, to me.
West needs some feminine energy. They currently have the decadent energy of a boys college dorm room.
