Ok I was getting a little less sad but now I am very sad.
I did not need to see that
This really got to me.
He died of the same cancer my bappa died of, they honestly seem cut from the same cloth from what I can tell.
Rest in peace, buddy.
I completely forgot about his dog up until that point. Only makes it even worse.
The twitter post made me realized Totalbiscuit's twitter avatar is Kumo's face.
I don't really feel comfortable with further tweets on this account. (Maybe the GoFundMe to raise awareness... maybe...)
I feel like Genna should have used her own account for this tweet though. It just feels wrong to use a... dead man's twitter...
That said, this tweet is SO SAD!
She is going to carry on the Totalbiscuit name as far as I'm aware. She's going to continue making content and hosting co-optional podcast so she can continue to support herself and their son. At least, that seemed to be John's intention before he passed.
Honestly, she's fully capable of that from what content we've seen from her both on the podcast and the duo wtf is'
Haven't been this depressed since Leonard Nimoy.
After getting some good news last week, it feels like quite a surprise, a big part of me doesn't want to believe any of this.
Bye John.
Nobody can top you, but I hope someone else comes along to tell me about great little games nobody else talks about in similar, great detail.
He made that post when he was retiring, not dying. I'm sure they didn't expect this to happen so soon, and funerals cost thousands.
This is getting fucking ridiculous.
https://twitter.com/radicalbytes/status/1000172781214953472
https://twitter.com/erikkain/status/1000202817171173376
I've never seen somebody this petty, what the fuck.
He just can't help but always go full McIntosh.
They're still bitching about GamerGate it seems like. I don't even know why; it barely even made a difference in the end and everyone who it was meant to call out ultimately got away scot-free. Plus TB's only involvement with it was merely refusing to outright condemn it.
I think they're just trying to make an example out of him to project an aura of invincibility. "Even TB couldn't take us down, so don't anyone else even get the idea to try!"
Rumor mill is that game journos are gonna start making hit pieces in an attempt for one one final smear campaign. I honestly hope we don't see this happen, because why would we want a GamerGate 2.0, but knowing the types of troglodytes that we're dealing with leaves me with little hope.
I hadn't even watched much of his content beyond the "WTF is" videos recently, but I followed him on Twitter and frequently saw his tweets about his opinions, daily struggles and retweets of cute dogs and so on, and I actually liked seeing them for some reason. I didn't even want to think too much about him passing for a while but it's just kicking in now that he's totally gone, forever.
I keep thinking about his tweet where he confessed to yelling at his doctor who suggested stopping treatment just a month ago, and he didn't want to, he just wanted to survive at all costs. I thought he could've had a few months or even another year, but no, the fucking disease just decided that was it. It's fucked up. Rest in Peace, dude.
Wouldn't be surprised. Despite having none of its actual intended effect in the long run, GamerGate gave a lot of corrupt gaming media folk a good spook and they're probably desperately hoping it never happens again. And whether he wanted to be involved with the movement or not, TB is still seen as a figurehead for GamerGate and they might figure that postmortem hit-pieces will further tarnish its already-miserable legacy and further discourage anyone from trying something similar again.
Plus if they successfully discredit him, it also devalues everything he said in the name of consumer advocacy. That makes life easier for said corrupt gaming media figureheads: the ones who receive payment and cushy treatment from publishers behind the scenes in exchange for essentially acting as an additional corporate PR mouthpiece while under the guise of unbiased reporting, hawking whatever anti-consumer BS that industry execs are currently trying to push when they're expected to properly inform people.
Would get shut the fuck down so hard and so quick. If they really are this oblivious, they'll do it... if they are at all self-aware of the stupid shit they spout, they won't dare.
Never underestimate stupid.
And if it reaches the people it needs to reach anyway, they won't care.
And then it inevitably backfires because these idiots can never get anything right
They got away against GamerGate itself, even after that GameJournoPros leak showed how mortified they were that their golden ticket was in danger of being taken away.
Could it backfire? Possibly. While I agree it likely won't have the effect they wanted, backfiring is a strong word. I doubt anyone who decides to write a smear piece against him will suffer any lasting consequences. Any media outlet who still harbors people like this is likely already complicit with the incestuous behavior the writers are trying to protect - as in: Kotaku, Polygon, and possibly even the Big Two (IGN/GameSpot).
dunking on a person (who died of cancer no less) is so vile, i don't care what you think he did. whatever you think he did (which is nothing, he was by all acounts a really nice guy even if i wasn't a fan of his), if you're celebrating his death, you're worse. facts
Perhaps it's highly childish and spiteful of me to do so, but I've been keeping tabs on some people on twitter and other such sites with an especially high profile and jobs in the industry who have been especially toxic about TB's passing.
These people are fucking assholes and they're a threat to the PR of any company that hires them, so I'm going to make pretty damn sure that their stupidity goes on record. I'm also keeping it around in case the rumored smear campaign that's being set up by game journalists who heavily disliked TB actually happens.
You call it childish and spiteful. I would call it "stop hitting yourself"
Just make sure to use something like archive.is as well so they can't go "I did not say that. Those tweets were edited"
Make sure it's read only so people don't add garbage to it. Use an archiving service instead of screencaps too.
Nice words coming from the man whi tweeted this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/radicalbytes/status/64951362127015936
Thanks for the advice. I'm going to put up a read-only folder access link here and make a list document where people can add names.
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