John "Totalbiscuit" Bain (July 8, 1984-May 24,2018)

What, serious?

R.I.P.

Totalbiscuit was one of my favorite personalities in the gaming community. I listened to his content while studying pretty much from my freshman year until I left with my Bachelor's I loved his 'WTF is?' series and he introduced me to a lot of indie games I wouldn't have played otherwise.

Such sad news. He will be greatly missed.

This was just uploaded roughly 8 hrs ago (at the time of this post).

Unfortunately.....

Damn, I really enjoyed his content.

Rest well, man. May they have gotten the FOV right wherever you are now.

RIP TB! Games have died a little...

RIP, didn't really agree with him at later point in his life, but still unfortunate.

Can't say I really paid much attention to TB and as such his passing does not really mean anything to me but I can't help but feel a little bit sorry for him as 33 is pretty young to die from cancer, always thought he was older?

Youtubers like him helped bridge the gap between gaming culture and the mainstream. I actually believe this is important. He was also very scrupulous in his assessment of the industry in general. I particularly liked his PC port reviews, basically the only guy who did that kind of thing. Most reviewers don't bother with PC specific reviews. He will be missed.

A BioWare employee celebrating his death, stay fucking classy?
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Funny funny stuff, personally I am of the opinion that just because somebody dies does not mean we should not speak honestly about them and if they were a massive cunt then we should not cover that up, I find shedding fake tears over somebody you never really cared for in the first place is far more disrespectful than speaking the truth so I can't really fault anyone taking jabs at the dead.

That said I did not pay too much attention to TB personally so I don't really know too much about him or what the person is referring to however knowing the quality of the people Bioware and EA hire these days and knowing that being a mere supporter of Gamergate is enough to get these people's knickers in a knot it does not surprise me that these guys would be happy about TB's death and it does make me question the validity of the accusations made in their tweets. These are the types of people who will shed tears at the death of Osama Bin Laden because he was an "oppressed minority" yet celebrate the death of somebody like Hitchens because he cared more about the truth than peoples personal feelings.