Board 8 > R.I.P. TotalBiscuit

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Was he a LPer or something?

He was basically THE PC games reviewer, with a very very critical eye towards performance specs
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TB was fantastic. This is a damn sad day, even if most of us who knew of him saw it coming.
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Sad day. Co-Optional was appointment listening on Tuesdays and his chemistry with Jesse and Dodger was top notch.
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Damn that sucks. Ive been following him for a long time and really liked his content. I knew his time was almost up but I thought he had a couple of more months.
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Fuck cancer man. He was taken way too soon from this world. :(
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This needs a morning bump
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Geezus, inviso. Can I cheer when you die? Your comments here are horrible. You admittedly don't even know the guy, and we're trying to have a moment to honor someone that had an impact on the gaming community.

I knew he had cancer for quite some time. I'm honestly surprised he lasted as long as he did. I thought 3 years ago he said he had only months to live. I was really shocked when I continued to see videos from him up until fairly recently. I didn't subscribe to him, but he generally made salient points and he was easy to listen to. I appreciate him and didn't realize he was only 34 at the end. Same age as my sister.

edit: never mind, 33 going on 34. My sister was 34 going on 35.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Eddv posted...

To me, he will always just be the guy who put himself on the line to promote gamergate even after it devolved into the rabid anti woman campaign it became.

Sucks for his family but....I have nothing good to say about him.

To be fair he did later renounce them. He genuinely seemed to be in it for the Ethics in Gaming Journalism, but once he realized how insanely toxic things were, he told them to piss off.

Hes also stuck up for various progressive causes even when his fan base hated him for it, which I admire.

I respect TB. Hes one of those things like Rick and Morty where his fan base is the worst part of his existence. He really became the rallying force behind the PC Master Race crowd, but I dont think he was that awful himself.

Cool enough for Dodger, cool enough for me

I guess i had stopped following the story by then. Or, more likely, Wang continued putting words in his mouth.

I dont really PC game and never encountered him elsewhere.
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For his sake I hope heaven isn't in 30 fps.

RIP
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

For his sake I hope heaven isn't in 30 fps.

RIP

I laughed.

I hate myself, but I laughed.

azuarc posted...

I knew he had cancer for quite some time. I'm honestly surprised he lasted as long as he did. I thought 3 years ago he said he had only months to live.

You'd be astonished at the pace of progress in the oncology field. All cancers will be cured/turned into manageable chronic conditions in our lifetime. Book it.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

azuarc posted...

I knew he had cancer for quite some time. I'm honestly surprised he lasted as long as he did. I thought 3 years ago he said he had only months to live.

You'd be astonished at the pace of progress in the oncology field. All cancers will be cured/turned into manageable chronic conditions in our lifetime. Book it.

No they won't.

Not as long as crap like Susan G Komen and others still exist to steal ungodly amounts of money that should be going to it.

Eddv posted...

I guess i had stopped following the story by then. Or, more likely, Wang continued putting words in his mouth.

He basically realized that you could be critical of video game journalism (which he was until the end) without being associated with or fanning the flames of a hate group, and told them to stop acting like he was one of them just because they shared some common ideas.

He was very much what a GGer would consider an SJW. He just happened to also hate mainstream media.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

azuarc posted...

I knew he had cancer for quite some time. I'm honestly surprised he lasted as long as he did. I thought 3 years ago he said he had only months to live.

You'd be astonished at the pace of progress in the oncology field. All cancers will be cured/turned into manageable chronic conditions in our lifetime. Book it.

You are probably not far off man.

My aunt has been battling cancer and went with standard chemo that failed. She's been doing an experimental treatment for the Cleveland Medical Institution for over a year now. She is doing better than ever and the cancer seems to be almost gone now. She was one of the fortunate ones to be given the actual drug and not the place on and test ones.

The plan is, if enough results are conclusive, to sell this drug in any pharmacy. Like you could just pick it up in Walmart.
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https://twitter.com/GennaBain/status/999890634532995072

just found this a bit amusing in regards to this.
feels a bit like the legend around Osamu Tezuka's last words, except this is certifiably true
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UInstinctGogeta posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

azuarc posted...

I knew he had cancer for quite some time. I'm honestly surprised he lasted as long as he did. I thought 3 years ago he said he had only months to live.

You'd be astonished at the pace of progress in the oncology field. All cancers will be cured/turned into manageable chronic conditions in our lifetime. Book it.

No they won't.

Not as long as crap like Susan G Komen and others still exist to steal ungodly amounts of money that should be going to it.

Going into what? Drug companies have an incentive to continue research because turning cancer from an acute to a chronic condition is worth literal trillions of dollars in revenue.
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Not quickly enough. I'm down to one blood relative left after losing everyone else to the crab over the last 14 years.
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Sad.

He was only a Week younger than me.
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It's pretty much impossible to 'cure' cancer considering it's caused by random DNA mutagenesis, but we'll see some very effective treatments in our lifetime. We're getting better at targeted therapies of things that are specific to the cancer cells thereby alleviating detrimental, noncancerous cell death. We've gone from a shotgun approach towards more rational based drug design.

Anyway RIP Totalbiscuit. I always enjoyed your 'WTF is...' series of videos.
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RIP TB, the boardgame community is surprisingly aware of him. I had no idea he made awesome Secret Hitler videos.
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I dunno, shooting cancer with a shotgun sounds effective to me
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Oh it is, but people tend to get mad when other parts of their body get shot too.
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Yeah you could theoretically cure cancer by consuming bleach nonstop. But all your cells would die and we don't want that.
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Jakyl25 posted...

I dunno, shooting cancer with a shotgun sounds effective to me

About as effective as fighting cancer.

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Jakyl25 posted...

He was very much what a GGer would consider an SJW.

not really, though some reactions do come off similar, with the key one being his reaction to the guy who asked "are traps gay?"

that said, he also very much hated the SJW types, outrage culture as a whole (which overlaps heavy with SJWs), and people who aren't willing to hold discussions of issues/ideas. he very much focused on the principle of arguing about ideas. his association with GG comes in a few ways, though i'm not particularly fond of a pissing fight in a topic about his death. the guy's impact on the industry was enormous and it's unfortunate that he won't be around to see more of the fruits of his labor.
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Oh I agree that he hated outrage culture

My point was that he held very progressive social viewpoints, and to a lot of angry folk, that gets you labeled as an SJW.

He would have been just as dismissive of people upset with a woman in BFV as he would with people upset that KC:D was so white, if they came at it the discussion full of anger.
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Wanglicious posted...

not really, though some reactions do come off similar, with the key one being his reaction to the guy who asked "are traps gay?"

Also I was unaware of this, but his response

https://i.redd.it/wt6a2rfpo6bz.png

makes me respect him even more.
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yeah, he would've.
and he'd have gone to bat for both. and probably did in KC:D/Vavra's case at some point.
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People who promote Gamergate do not deserve to be celebrated
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Jakyl25 posted...

My point was that he held very progressive social viewpoints, and to a lot of angry folk, that gets you labeled as an SJW.

oh yeah, this is very much true. i'm in a discord server with a number of these angry, pro-gamergate folks. they were cheering tb's death, and "sjw" got thrown around a lot
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DeepsPraw posted...

People who promote Gamergate do not deserve to be celebrated

You can PM me for the sake of not cluttering the thread if you want, but could you remind me what Gamergate is? I've dug around and seen it interpreted as everything from a drama between a former couple, to an ethics investigation and a commentary on social mores. Just don't know how it'd be anything more than a minor blemish at best.
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DeepsPraw posted...

People who promote Gamergate do not deserve to be celebrated

They seem like Cancer, tbh.
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The comments show how dehumanised people have become. The future is going to be interesting...
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