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TotalBiscuit has passed away.
Dhalphir
don't you open that trapdooryou're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
don't you open that trapdooryou're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
Long battle with cancer, finally lost. He fought to the end. Man gave a lot to the developing online games content creation scene, he'll be a big loss.
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I'm leaving it at that, despite more being warranted to say of him.
Part of me wants to dig up some of his top 10s and give them some due attention.
Also I'm 6 years older than him; which is close enough to still hit home.
Goddamnit cancer. God fucking damnit.
RIP.
His Terraria lets plays with Jesse Cox were probably the first Let's Plays I ever watched, and were what got me watching more of those over the years.
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I have always had a big respect for what he has done for PC gaming and e-sports. The world is a little less bright today for sure.
Streaming 8PST on weeknights
Man, fuck cancer.
Did he ever reverse himself with regards to his positions in GG?
I'll miss his voice amongst the rest of the industry for sure.
He didn't. And I'm bummed that he had to pass while still desperately on the wrong side of something so important to an industry he was passionate about and made contributions to.
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He was known for doing 'first impressions' rather than reviews. Basically just loading the game up, going through the options screen, playing the first half hour of the game (skipping spoilers if necessary) and telling people how the game felt. This was back before every game had 300+ youtube reviews, and you were reliant on heavily biased IGN reviews ("they didn't pay me for the 10/10 review, but they do pay me") or edited gameplay videos from the late, great gametrailers.com.
He was responsible for getting many console ports fixed or lambasted, GREATLY increasing the quality of ports over the past ten years. He also railed against anti-consumer marketing techniques like pay-to-win microtransactions and pre-order bonuses, which heavily impacted the industry. The meme of him and FoV sliders and 60FPS is real, but this was another pro-consumer (that's you) stance that helped players with seizures and motion sickness, while also making sure that big publishers like EA weren't giving you a shoddy product while still charging full price.
He also was an extremely ethical person, revealing when he was being paid for certain content and promotional videos back when many (read: nearly everyone) did not. He also refused to do a video on The Witcher 3 because he had done promotional content for The Witcher 2. Considering how popular TW3 is/was, he probably would have gotten several million views on what would have been at least an hour long video (read: he gave up $$$$$$$$$$). But he didn't, because he didn't want to betray his userbase.
If you've ever played Warframe, Starcraft 2 League of Legends, used Steam or a host of other games, you should thank TB for his work in the industry. His contributions to the PC gaming hobby and industry can literally not be understated.
Alternatively, maybe let people mourn in their own way?
Personally it feels disingenuous to ignore the reality of who the person was. TB was well known for being a great voice in the industry that had some problematic povs on things. That's not a dig on his character or what he did for the industry at all. It's the reality of what happened.
That said, death of a person is rarely a good thing, and my sympathy is with those who grieve him.
My brother knew him from back then as well, since he was involved in PlanetSide Radio and they knew eachother pretty well over mIRC and early chat stuff, though that didn't carry on till today it's still a bit personal for him.
I'm going to put the GG commentary in spoilers, since I don't think it's particularly relevant, but I feel it should be cleared up for those who think TB was tainted by it.
He will be missed. Literally, I don't have any other steam curators or youtube people who I know/like/trust to direct me to interesting games that tend to fly under the radar.
His opinions on nebulous internet drama are completely irrelevant. His contributions to the PC gaming industry are titanic. If you don't think it's ethical for a media critic to disclose their ties to the creator of the content they're reviewing, then I can see why you'd disagree.
Apparently, no, we can't.
I haven't heard anything about it since when it first came up, and I couldn't care less about nebulous ((of a concept or idea) unclear, vague, or ill-defined) internet (a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols) drama (a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces ). I appreciate the extreme logical leaps and virtue signalling @TychoCelchuuu. I was responding to someone who made a comment on my post, and (I feel) attacked a someone I care about, @TychoCelchuuu.
I have absolutely no intent on talking about gamer gate because I have absolutely no interest in it. I do have an interest in speaking upon the character of someone who has just died.
You don’t understand! People who disagree with me are bad ! Fuck sake guys act like adults and take it to pm if it’s so freaking crucial.
I don't think anyone here is going to argue that GG wasn't a terrible blight on social media. The short of it the issue is that TB was involved in GG for a while, and the question is whether or not he was being misogynistic. Given his fairly liberal views of the world, I highly doubt that.
I think TB wanted GG to be something that it wasn't; I can't imagine him as an alt-right GG supporter, and it makes a lot more sense that the puddle he stepped in turned out to be a well. Regardless, we can't ask him now - and it was pretty clear in the last few years that he didn't want to talk about it.
The fact that you dont think its disrespectful to use a casket as a fucking soapbox to stroke a hate boner you've been stroking for years, unable to take a single day off of it..unable to let the body even cool the fuck down before you start, much less make a separate thread about it, says more about you than it does anyone else.. and its a fucking disappointment.
Seriously, one day. You and others couldnt show some base human decorum to keep your hate boners in your pants for one day. This isn't god damn Jimmy Savile or fucking Manson we're talking about, its guy on the internet, with one issue and view you didnt agree with, and you couldnt show the base human decency to put your hate boners in your pants for one day and reserve your opinions. Couldnt go create a thread for this topic thats so important as must be discussed, Couldnt not dance on his freaking death announcement.
Exactly, I'm not even angry..I'm just disappointed about the whole fucking thing.
I appreciate his contributions to my hobbies, he will be missed.