Talk:Jeff Gerstmann

message: In a recent Giant Bombcast Jeff mentioned that he is colour blind? He was talking about a Nintendo game that primarily involves colours and he said that he didn't know whether to tell the worker that he was colour blind or just pretend he wasn't. He seemed serious but that could just be his humour. Is it true? And if so is it worth mentioning?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.208.96.96 (talk) 19:09, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colour Blind? 

message: Rich Gallup often makes allusions to various gaming competitions Jeff won in his youth, and he also seems to be somewhat of a fighting game expert. One might assume this is how he got involved with games journalism in the first place. Does anyone have any specific details of what he might have won that they can add with citations? Monkeyhousetim 10:20, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't have any citations, but I know that he recieved an NFL Blitz '99 arcade machine for winning a tournament at E3 in May of, I think, 1999.  He also participated in an Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 ladder at a local Scandia. I don't remember where he finished, but it wasn't in the top three. --LoneStranger 18:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gaming champion? 

message: There are several YouTube videos of Jeff Gerstmann playing Wii games while sitting down, particularly Wii Sports.  The fact that other Gamespot staff have were standing up during the review might indicate and inclination of bias on Mr. Gerstmann's part, if only his resistance to fun.  Another note is that the Wii is a more active console than most and he appears to be either too lazy or perhaps too embarrassed to be more active on camera.  Please observe the Youtube video of him playing Wii Bowling and notice how he sits down and side-arms the controller as if that were accurate and complains that it is not.  The resistance to at least try to play the games fully should be considered as coloring his opinions.  -Concerned Wikpedia User.
: That's called a "conspiracy theory". I've also noticed that he wears darker colors while playing Wii games, indicating his complete lack of objectivity. His overuse of harsh-sounding consonants like "Z" and "K" to add negativity to Wii reviews is also a warning sign.203.131.167.26 09:48, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's because he's extremely fat, making it hard to stand or move around a lot.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.63.184.74 (talk) 07:52, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suspect Reviewing Technique? 

message: By the tone and information in this wiki page, I get the impression that he wrote it HIMSELF. It's too informal and biased towards him and contains little "quirks" that nobody would know except him and nobody cares about except him.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.148.148.42 (talk • contribs).
:I think that the updates are made by his fans.  There are a lot of young folk who would love to have his job writing about video games and look up to him.  I think it's pretty evident if you visit some of the Gamespot forums. --LoneStranger 18:46, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, Wikipedia:Fancruft..;) – Dreadstar † 19:06, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: At least they are trying. :-) Steve Dufour 22:13, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perspective? 

message: Could someone please fix all the swearing on his page?  I didn't think anyone would have the time to do all that. Moenbro 13:16, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some one needs to fix this. 

message: He did not replace Rich Gallup.
Rich was replaced by Vinnie Caravella (I guess this is the way it's spelled)
Anyway the spelling does not matter. I'll just remove the sentence. Vmerling (talk) 00:10, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replacing Rich Gallup 

message: I'm a little uncomfortable with the claims being made that Provo left Gamespot in protest over the firing. As I understand it, Provo was a freelance reviewer, and so really wasn't employed by Gamespot in the normal sense of the word, and therefore didn't really resign from Gamespot in the normal sense of the word. Additionally, if he was a freelancer, he wasn't in any privileged position to know what 'really' happened, so the sentence is misleading insofar as it suggests that the resignation of an insider like Provo proves that something fishy was going on. Any ideas?--Beaker342 (talk) 06:03, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Frank himself writes on his blog (http://frankprovo.livejournal.com/2008/03/19/) that he "basically left in response to [Jeff's firing]". --Comrade-HW (talk) 04:39, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frank Provo 

message: Does the Brad Shoemaker section belong in the Jeff Gerstmann article? Has he said that his leaving is related to Jeff's termination? If it was, the article should make that clear.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Totallybananas (talk • contribs) 17:15, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like a bit of synthesis. I haven't been able to check the original source. The ref the editor linked is a blog, the real story appears to come from a podcast on the gamespot website. Unless Brad Shoemaker explicitly says this is a direct cause and effect of Gerstmann's firing it probably doesn't belong. AtaruMoroboshi (talk) 19:57, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brad Shoemaker 

message: Can we shed more light on the personal section?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.170.66.176 (talk) 17:11, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is he married? 

message: The article claims that Jeff was born with the name "Jefferson", but I cannot find confirmation of this anywhere else. Most instances of his name are simply "Jeff", with the *very* rare "Jeffery". It seems possible that those sparse "Jeffery"s are false assumptions of his true name, but given that I cannot find another instance of "Jefferson" outside of forum posts, I feel I must call that into question. Is there anyone who can find official documentation of his full name?98.112.119.246 (talk) 05:19, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe "Jefferson" has been used on podcasts (HotSpot, Giant Bombcast), but I'm not sure whether those are serious or just goofing around. Reach Out to the Truth 21:19, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Name? 

message: Should the history of his involvement with Giant Bomb be updated to reflect the death of Ryan Davis (a co-owner of the website, and colleague since his time at Gamespot)?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.140.136.52 (talk) 22:26, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The death of Ryan Davis 

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