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Game Critic John 'Totalbiscuit' Bain Passes Away - MMORPG.com News
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But in that case...I'd hope I did enough good for people to remember that as well. So on a more positive note. I did TB was amazing game critic and I do think he did a lot of good in the gaming industry, I loved his WTF is... series the best out of them all.
He never once got bribed to do good reviews or worried much about saying something negative in fear of losing advertisers, he always said the truth about the game...the bad and the good.
My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul
We know that TB made occassional mistakes. We also know that he had a degree of mental illness and has been facing possible death (and eventually certain death) since 2014. Can you even imagine how much of a toll that would have upon your mind if you were in his shoes?
Also, it is highly inappropriate to compare this man's minor, frankly insignificant transgressions to those of a domestic abuser, murderor, or dictator.
You can talk about murderers, despots, abusers, whatever; but for all we know he was none of those things so at best it's a poor defense of tasteless actions and at worse it demonstrates a very warped idea of civility.
As to Totalbiscuit; God speed you angry bastard. You will be missed.
He simply commented on games in both ways good and bad.Even Angry Joe is identical,he is not all critic,he quite often says he loves certain design ideas.
Imo John seemed a bit more commercialized,like he was being paid sometimes to promote or talk about games.I could say the same about Angry Joe as we,,originally quick to comment on bad designs and payment plans but now more or less also sounds a bit like a paid sponsor.
I could draw such conclusions based on for example John would have a talk show with 3-4 people but talk about a totally non relevant game,a non popular game or a game that really most never even heard of ,so yeah sometimes seemed sponsored.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
That's the problem with trial by social media, there is no standard of what evidence is acceptable, rarely any character witnesses or witnesses to the facts, no consideration of past convictions or lack of them, no judge and a mob for a jury.
The man had his comment sections and social media disabled for the past couple years of his life for a reason. He could no longer take the constant baseless harassment by pieces of shit like those seen above. They've been sending death threats to a cancer patient and his family for years now. And because these people are embarassingly predictable, they instead of being content to quietly celebrate the death of a man who once said something that could be interpreted as slightly unfavorable to them years ago, now publicly spit on his fresh grave.
This isn't a signature, you just think it is.
Its kind of interesting how some here think he should be immune to criticism because he was a popular game critic popular the keyword. Do you run obituaries for others that died in the same day? I guess I am a pig.
Telling others their grieving or mourning is wrong and/or ineffective is downright insulting and shows a great lack of respect, maturity and decency.
When you die prematurely due to a horrible disease and there is a thread about you, we will honor your wishes and beliefs, this however is not the place for them.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
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When others said, "actually we believe something different for these reasons," you took the time to insult and talk down to us. You religious types are so offended at the idea of other belief systems even existing that you become the very thing you claim to hate - intolerant.
This world has had so very many gods. Who is to say that the Norse were wrong? Or the Greeks? Or the Hindu? Or the Buddhists? Or the Taoists? Or the Mayans? Or the Aztecs? Or any other religion that has ever existed or will ever exist? Or maybe, just maybe, the atheists - the one group that have existed since the beginning of human history - are correct.
Declaring yourself one thing is to inherently reject other ideas. The test of your character then becomes seeing how you treat people who made a different decision. And you, as yet another person who claims persecution while bashing someone else's skull in with a Bible, have failed that test.