Do not use bigotry or inflammatory language towards another person, whether they be a part of the stream or in the chat. This rule also applies to Giant Bomb alumni. All eras of Giant Bomb are enjoyed here, and trying to start a discussion about how you dislike a Giant Bomb member/era will only get you warned or banned.
No complaining if a video you voted for loses the vote. This is a community vote after all, and your vote is just a single part of that. You are free to leave and come back if you don't like the current video.
Links are allowed, but AutoMod will catch every message that is posted with a link for review first.
No vote-shaming.
What videos are included in this stream? There are over 10,000 videos, which is every video GiantBomb has done since it began, including unarchived/lost streams.
What happens if no one votes? Then the bot, GiantBotForever, will randomly pick a video that wasn't one of the voting options.
Are there any videos excluded? Yes. The full list of exclusions are in a pinned comment on the Discord.
Are video podcasts excluded? No. Outside of videos that could cause issues, nothing is excluded.
Why does the stream go down for a few seconds every 48 hours? Twitch doesn't allow ANY channel to be live for more than 48 hours at a time. Therefore once the stream hits 48 hours, it goes down and then comes back up. When it happens it'll be back in about 30 seconds.
Where is the Mystery voting option like GBI had? Removed. While I do like the idea of a Mystery Box option, I believe it's better to just incorporate a normal 5th option which will a higher chance of bringing in something that would be voted on.
In the top left of every video, there is a countdown that says "Next Poll". It counts down to whenever there are 5 minutes left in the current video.
Once that timer hits 0, the "GiantBotForever" bot will put 5 options in chat for everyone to vote on what they want to play next.
To cast your vote, type in !vote, followed by a space, followed by a number 1-5 corresponding to which one of the 5 videos you want to see next. If you want your vote to be anonymous, you can also whisper the bot your vote.
On some Sundays, GBF will have it's own "Community Day" where you will vote on a single video series that the stream is revolved around for that day. For example, today is only "Demo Derby", or today is only "Mario Party Party".
You'll still be able to vote on what video comes next as well that sticks to the theme for the day.
Here's a history of when and what GBF Community Days have been so far:
This Bluesky account is mainly used as a "Recently Played" history of videos have been played on the stream.
