It's sad to see someone that young die... but well, everyone dies
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indeed, but seriously you don't expect yourself to die before even hitting middle-age :/ It's different story when someone older dies (still painful ofc!), and totally different when someone goes away before they even have a chance to raise their kid :(
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This saddens me deeply... I have a quote from Totalbiscuit on my mmo-champion signature from long ago. He will be missed greatly, one of the few youtube personalities I ever watch/enjoyed.
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Boy, does this hit me hard...
I have enjoyed the antics of the usual TGS group (TB, JC, Dodger and Crendor) for years, and TB always seemed to me like the dad of the group. He always was looking out for us gamers, even though some didn't appreciate what he did. He always took it personal, like that time with G2A. The games industry also needs more voices like his to rise, to defend us.
He's going to be missed, a lot. I hope Genna and Orion find strength and peace in this time.
Also OP, just in case you think it's worth it: a close family friend of TB's and Genna has created a GoFundMe campaign for Genna to handle the economic nightmare that they must be looking to face right now (TB was treated in America after all). I would say that they are pretty much covered right now, but you might want to add a link to the post anyway:
https://www.gofundme.com/TotalBiscuit
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Sorry for late reply, was out of home for almost whole day, added edit.
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Saw this earlier, thought it should be shared here.
The person who tweeted this is a Bioware employee https://archive.li/UuEJw
As I wrote someplace else, regardless of how people found him, being his fans or not, I think he did a lot of good things for gaming & consumer right but aside from that he had a wife who he loved and she loved him. I'm just confused as to what kind of a person would use someone's death as a platform to feel good about themselves. Disgusting.
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People like that just deserve to be ignored to oblivion. Nothing worth my time can be gotten from what they say.
Thanks for the heads up about yet another reason to boycott EA.
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What is it with Bioware and the garbage people they hire?
I'm sure there's a lot of good people there too but when you see things like this or Manveer Heir's racist tweets from a couple of years ago, you just gotta wonder what their screening process is.
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A company isn't responsible for everything their employees do or say. There are hundreds of individuals with their own opinions, issues and varying degrees of behaviour. A few bad apples doesn't make the tree bad.
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A few bad apples doesn't make the tree bad.
Interesting, the version I heard is "a bad apple spoils the bunch".
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No, of course not... but Bioware employees seem more vocal than most. How often do you see Apple or Microsoft employees make comments like that? Those are much larger companies and it happens far less often.
Bioware in particular seems to have a problem with this.
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Thing is,we are talking about a "tree" (megacorp) thats corrupt to its core.And you know what they say about apples "not falling far from the tree" (though,in this case,the "bad apples" are attracted to it)...
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EA's getting its employees in accordance with gender quota bullshit & pro-SocJus sentiments.Politics are worth more to them than actual skills or merit.
No surprise that this leads to their games ending up as steaming piles of digital shovelware.
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He was one of programmers from some of the worst EA games, i dont think he needs game journalist to point that out,
Mass Effect: Andromeda , Star Wars: Battlefront II . Need for Speed: Rivals , Army of Two
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To be fair, failure of these are mainly results of horrendous monetization and game design decisions. He might be a horrible human being (struggling to even call him human...) but as a programmer he could not really affect the way these games were made.
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Im not talking about his skill as a programmer, or him as an individual, but the quality of the product overall. Just like no game reviewer or jornalist went after him in particular.
These games show the type of practices few game critics try to expose, and theres no way in hell that their or anyone's criticism of these games was not expected or warranted.
When you have a resume like this. he could say Bain was far favorable to the indie scene, sometimes maybe an unwarranted prick to others, but none of those games deserve any positive response.
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Leave it to EA or the SJW degenerates on their payroll to once again show just how much of a piece of shit their megacorp truly is.
Fuck EA.
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Who would imagine a company like EA, would have ville workers with no moral standards. I'm speechless
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EA as a publisher gives only money and cares about numbers, not actual people.
EA as developer make only sports games (which are decent unless you want to play online) and some non-PC games
Bioware as a developer has human resources employees (which in most companies are 90% women) who pretty much choose who gets invited to an interview. Then head of HR and some of the devs choose who gets the job.
So if you are gonna shit on someone for hiring people you don't like, that would be head of HR. I am pretty sure you can find these people on linkedin if you really need names.
You can shit on EA for adding randomized pay-to-win microtransactions or for having the most horrible support in the world (at least Valve send you a copy-paste message, you can't even get in contact with EA's support)
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Eh...what?Last I checked,the HR department is pure EA.The studio's owner has full control of that process and sets the recruitment standards.Check the openings on Bioware's website-you'll find that EA is the employer.BW might have recruiters,but approval comes from corporate HQ.
Blaming this whole thing purely on the head of HR that simply acts in accordance with corporate policy is nothing short of silly.
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This is not how big companies work, but I won't argue.
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Safe to say he won't have a job come Monday morning.
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Apparently he has already killed off the info about him being an EAware employee.A sign of impending "resignation",perhaps?
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can go both way, can be poor damage management - maybe he thinks noone noticed and noone will report it to his employer, wouldn't be the first time when someone tries to change their personal data post-factum to pretend they are someone else.
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your interpretation seems to be the right one - https://twitter.com/CaseyDHudson/status/1000442738578370561
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Can't say I'm surprised.The way the guy offed his info about him being a part of EA/Bioware immediately reminded me of how "Andromeda's" lead facial animator got sacked.There's even pretty much the exact same "former employee that didn't represent us,no siree" damage control spiel,too.EAware never changes.
Still,good riddance to bad rubbish.Its always nice when utter bullshit has consequences from time to time.Unfortunately,I doubt that this is the last time we'll hear from this sort of crazy scumbags on corporate payroll.
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apparently he didn't have to wait till monday https://twitter.com/CaseyDHudson/status/1000442738578370561
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rhetoric, he wasnt at Bioware to begin with, but he is still working at EA.
So are the other 2 controversial developers.
People should stop demanding justice and simply stop purshasing EA games
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you're not doing it right unless you piss some people off. that's why you just let the haters hate as you go about your day.
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What I find even more telling is how the SJWs are pissing on his corpse despite his thinly-veiled attempt to kiss up to them a while back (remember the "transphobic joke" mess from a while back?).Yet another nail in the coffin of the sentiment that one can get on their "good side".
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"transphobic joke"
You mean the Trap meme, that was actually a reference to an old podcast that included TB.
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Reference or not,it didn't stop TB from going full "thought police" and getting the guy kicked out.Quite the change from something like this,wouldn't you say?Especially since that particular tweet led to,well...this.
I don't understand why TB thought that this move would be a good idea.
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A good chance that the cancer treatment drugs he had to consume had a role in those tweets and possibly the CoxCon situation.
Edit: Less likely cancer treatment drugs had a role with the tweet in response to @miracleofsound which TB published the tweet in 2015 - the earlier stages of his colon cancer.
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I agree, I just didnt follow TB, so i had to confirm.
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oh shit, what a fucking scum of the earth o.O
Like I needed another reason to consider EA to be the worst gaming-industry company on the planet...
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It sucks that he had to be dead for us to hear this, because as much as i dislike Jim Sterling, i always break out laughing when the AAA industry shows how upset and salty they get over his opinion.
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Yeah. Need to get this off my chest but I've been seeing way too many people throwing too much shit around about a dead man.
Never cared much about TB myself, but those sociopaths doing stuff like that really cross several lines. And a lot of them like to throw around "the legacy doesn't die with the person" to justify their shit behavior. Which is a really weak excuse. At the very least you could have waited a few weeks and give the next of kin proper time to process and grieve. And after that you could write up something more tasteful than "YAY HE'S DEAD. THE NAZI WHO SAID SOME MEAN THINGS THAT TIME IS DEAD.".
I'm also really surprised in a really bad way that so many people are still so hung up over this GamerGate kerfuffle, 4 years later. It's like they haven't been able to find anything else worth living for in the meantime.
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To be honest, i only know the name, i have never watched anything from him.
But sad new.
RIP.
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Used to watch his videos :( so sad, may he rest in peace.
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Traps are gay, and his voice will be missed. How will I watch Starcraft now?
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instead of watching, play - with his Announcer Pack ^^
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Whenever the phrase "game critic" comes up, I think of TB. He was a contemplative man who inspired others to ask questions, sometimes difficult ones, of themselves. I have always found his commentary beneficial.
Good-bye, John. You will be missed.
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Bain was an asshole. He was stubborn, egotistical and at times just as toxic as the community he bred and then disowned. Largely because he was so passionate about games and the game market. This passion and stubborness made it hard for him to evaluate things from other's perspective and from a non emotionally charged point of view, although he was not incapable of reflection, just rarely. And he was willing to admit when he didn't know much about a topic and not just give an uniformed opinion.
His passion was best expressed in the influential charges agaisnt anti consumer practices from publishers, and anti criticism developers, along with various other practices he was very vocally agaisnt, such as framerate locking.
He was great to his wife and kid (which unlike his internet personality actually matters,) and it is a shame he died in such a horrible way at such a young way.
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Yeah, as someone who supported him and liked most of the stuff he did, I can admit that he could be really unlikeable when he applied himself to it.
But I liked him a lot most of the time, and one cannot deny that he lived for the gaming community as a whole. He fought several battles on our behalf and won some of them. The industry will hurt without him, and it really needs people to step up to the plate and fill the hole he leaves (I have my eyes on SidAlpha personally).
Also, he could be stupidly funny when he tried to and when he was around the right people. I sure would like to have met him.
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I watched almost all of his WTF videos. He was one of the best gaming critics out there. That doesn't mean I always agreed with his personal tastes, ours were quite different, actually. But his opinions were always backed by valid arguments and brilliant logic. If everybody could tell the difference between an opinion and a taste, they would appreciate his approach much more.
He fought cancer with dignity and left this world with dignity. He did a lot for a PC gaming, for PC gamers. The work he started must go on.
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yeah, I watched all WTFs as well, arguably no other YTber did as much for indie gaming as TB did, he was able to rise sales from almost-zero to top-indie-game-of-the-month with a single welll explained video. And that's what I loved about WTF series - he did not focus on most popular series that would get him the most ad revenue - he mostly focused on more niche stuff that did not already got covered by big websites to promote smaller guys who did something great, even if not most popular.
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Popular YouTuber, streamer, e-sport commentator and gaming critic TotalBiscuit died today at age of 33 after years-long battle with cancer. Rest in Peace you magnificent bastard.
https://www.pcgamer.com/game-critic-totalbiscuit-dies-at-age-33/
For anyone intrested, GoFund me page authorized by Genna Bain fundraising for her and their son Orion: https://www.gofundme.com/TotalBiscuit
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