RIP John Peter Bain, AKA TotalBiscuit, and fuck cancer. If you wish to help out the Bain family in these trying times, consider donating here: www.gofundme.c...
RIP John Peter Bain, AKA TotalBiscuit, and fuck cancer. If you wish to help out the Bain family in these trying times, consider donating here: www.gofundme.com/TotalBiscuit
You know.. in a way he did his job literally even after he died.. pointing out gamings/developers bullshit exposing david crooks as the piece of shit he really was.. I did not always agree with total biscuit but I held a lot of respect for him and I really enjoyed his podcasts.. I don't think they will be the same with out him. I am glad that they are still trying to carry on with them though. I think total biscuit would have liked that
Yes, EA/Bioware clearly lost it a few years ago and their games have been pretty shitty since ME2. Overall the games industry is pretty toxic these days. Years ago it was mainly small teams working on games they wanted to make, while having fun at the same time. But now it's full of people who can't take criticism, lack skill, SJWs, feminists, etc and run by salesmen who's only interest is their bonus pay. It's why we see mostly rubbish games now and it's why I left it myself.
11 months later but yes he did. It almost appears that the Video Game Industry held back while he was alive but has truly begun to reveal it's true form for the past year.
> Be David Crooks > Only work experience and qualifications are in a relatively small industry with minimal job opportunities > Mock the death of a beloved Game critique and commentator > Gets fired from Bioware > Now has basically no other qualifications and is blacklisted from working with any studio with the slightest shred of self-respect Congratulations.. You played yourself.
avp251 it doesn't matter. companies in the eyes of the public don't hire people who say and do controversial things on social media, like I don't know speaking ill of the fucking dead.
Youre very naive if you think companies give a shit about what the public says Kamiya is always roasting people on Twitter and hes still the guy directing Bayonetta
digital homicide can always regroup and rebrand....its a bit harder to change an individuals name.....both the name digitial homicide and David Crooks are DOA....but ultimately id say an answer to your hypothetical and rhetorical question.....is that id place David Crooks higher simply because he would have to change his social security number and completely erase david crooks and become johnsmith968504987654321
I think that just makes this video funny. He is so immature and stupid, for someone who is a software developer. I used to think you have to have a high IQ, but then I guess IQ doesn't mean you won't do something as rude and self-damaging as this? I liked TotalBiscuit, but I knew he was eventually going to die after he announced that. I just didn't expect it to be now. I was in a hospital, being treated for a similar illness, when he announced that he has cancer. :\
Matej Šuňavec , the guy uses the phrase 'delicate snowflake' without irony 2:05 Never underestimate just how stupid and callous people like that actually are..
Arti It's baffling why'd he even do that, i mean if you're gonna do wrong, do wrong *right* He should've kept this shit to himself instead of boasting on *social goddamn media* if that's how he felt, now he's rightfully on a lot of people's shitlists
Like my dad always said before he passed "misery loves company" People like this lead miserable lives themsleves so they work very hard to bring everyone else down to their level.
Groundbreak Games. As my dad said "if transference doesn't work try denial, if denial doesn't work try transference". This seems to be a case of transference so I'm sure the denial will come soon.
Groundbreak Games or, ya know, he just didn't like totalbiscuit since he trashed his games, which is a totally normal way to feel about something like that, and this was just a way to release that anger, doesn't mean he's miserable, just salty.
Seriously? TB was one of the more sympathetic voices towards Andromeda! Even this year on his podcast, he was still recommending it as a decent game. Oh, he pointed out the problems in his initial WTF video, but he still made it clear he liked it. And this asshole flipped his shit over that? Christ.
Wasn't just ex-bioware but a current bioware Anthem lead animator Mike Jungbluth also defended and encouraged David Crooks. EDIT: Mike Jungbluth apologized. EDIT: archive of what Mike said in replies.
There was a LOT that TB said that I wasn’t too much a fan of. But I had enough Humanity in me to give what condolences i could for his family and friends. This dude had a grudge and a petty one at most. Grow up
Right!? Nobody is forced to like each other, and some people make it so easy to hold a bad opinion of them, but there are lines that are typically only crossed by children playing dares in places they >think< are private or anonymous. To come knowingly from an adult and in a public space is pretty sad.
There is a difference between 'not faking it' and deliberately taking a shit on someone during a tragedy. You can still air your grievances without being a douchebag about it. :P
It is pathetic that Mr. Crooks did it after TotalBiscuit died. Not because it is morally wrong, but because he did it once TotalBiscuit couldn't fire back anymore. He is a coward
I am not big totalbiscuit fan or at all but this is really tasteless and disrespectful to the dead. Especially to someone who died of something as horrid of cancer.
Just a bunch of keyboard warriors pretending to care. Same kind of people that change their social media pictures to some countries flag every time some terrorist murders people. Of course there's a double standard at play, because nobody really cares about disrespecting the dead, they care about disrespecting the dead who they liked, or they do it to look good.
TheGrouchyGamer When you die, you will fade from this world and all that you have accomplished will go with you. Unlike John Bain you impact will fizzle out and vanish instead of becoming a roaring fire burns forever. But Im sure someone like you has made peace with their inevitable, irrelevance already.
He was fired apparently. Casey Hudson said he was a 'former employee'. Whether he was kicked out on his ass before or after his disgusting tweet is debatable.
Total Bisquit himself was not a stranger to going on batshit crazy insult tirades online, to the point he hired someone to manage his Twitter and deleted his Reddit account. Still, 4 years of chemo and death from multiple organ failure is something I wish on nobody, so I've gotta respect the man, even if we ideologically disagreed, he was a contribution to the gaming world. My heart goes to his family in this time of grief.
Yeah I disagreed with quite alot of TB's opinions and stuff, but i loved the guy, specialy the friendships with Jesse Cox, Crendor and Dodger; was lovely listening to them on podcasts~
It's not the kind of thing you'd wish on your worst enemy. Even if there were serious grievances between Crooks and TB, it costs nothing to rise above yourself for a handful of tweets. Even if you feel the urge to highlight things you felt he did badly on, you can still do so with a pinch of class or dare I even suggest... restraint, given how severe the circumstances of his death were. Unless the guy was proven to have intentionally done something wholly morally repugnant or was a key player in some atrocity, then by acting so callously you only highlight your own flaws. Political opposition can drive people to do awful things, but when the fight ends in such a manner, even if you personally feel relieved at their passing, you don't have to rescind your opinions or even offer them false graces; just put your sword away. If you feel your fight still needs to be fought and they must be brought up as example, that's fine, just direct away from their grave and over to where it is relevant. Eesh.
Glad to see humanity. Shows there is still some intelligent insight left in the world. Good on you guys. Even though we don't agree, we are still people...
TB's heaven is a full-fledge options menu with any graphical setting you can name that can automatically tweak any game to the perfect possible settings without bizarre shit like what happens to Need for Speed Rivals. Hell is a 30FPS lock with a missing options menu and unskippable cutscenes.
If David Crooks has worked on two of the worst games to ever come from BioWare _and_ having TB slam him for his specific area of development, perhaps he should consider the fact that he's shit at what he's doing?
Manager: So, David. I see you'd like to work for (insert company). Well, i'm just gonna look over your resume and your application. David: Okay.... Manager: It says here under "accomplishments" that you mocked the death of an incredibly influential man on the internet without any reservation and chose not to just keep your opinions to yourself. Possibly damaging the image of past employers such as Bioware. David: Yeah, but... Manager: Oh, don't worry David. We've got a way to take care of that. It'll be as if none of this ever happened. David: Alright... Manager: So David, what i'm going to do for you is place this application and resume right here into this paper shredder. David: What wha- Manager: AAAAAAANNNNNND it's gone. David: Wait what?! Manager: It's gone. It's all gone. It never happened. David: But what about my application and resume!? Manager: What application and resume? I don't see either of those things. David: Yeah, because you just destroyed them! Manager: Which means you have no reason to be talking to me right now so please leave the property. This area is reserved for potential applicants. Next!
+cosmosofinfinity Except that one misfortune wasn't deserved at all, whereas the other would very much be deserved on the grounds that the person in question is a total piece of shit.
I never liked totalbiscuit, and while he was alive, I wouldn't have had a problem with a developer going at him for any negativity caused by him or his followers. But guys dead man, seriously.
Ninja Sushi the person he said that said something equally as bad if not worse about him and his family, anyone would respond in an extremely angered way such as that. Good job just copy pasting the same comment though
John Bain was not perfect and my opinions of him are mixed, but what really boils my blood about David Crooks' tweet wasn't that he laid out at TotalBuscuit at a bad time. Its that he specifically waited until he was dead and couldn't defend himself against Crooks. Its almost like he was afraid that TotalBuscuit's reply would calmly pick it apart and make him look like a fool, so Crooks waited until John Bain was dead so he couldn't hit back. What a fucking pathetically cowardly way to go about that.
Bain wouldn't have defended himself for years even he hadn't cancer. Her disabled/didn't read YT comments. His twitter was run by PR. He retired from reddit. He could dish out but couldn't take hits. The only time he defended himself after he retired from social media was when a Video of his behavior became viral, telling somebody to "Get Cancer and die"
I find it ironic that David Crook is happy about TotalBiscuit death because when I last looked at an Xray of my fathers cancer, instead of massive tumors there were copies of Mass Effect: Andromida riddled throughout his colon, destroying his cells.
I just find it ironic that in trying to vent about someone they deemed as 'garbage', they did so in the most garbage manner possible and basically achieved nothing but to prove that they were more garbage than the person they felt the need to vent about. Random side-note, tip of the hat to TBiscuit.
Same here. Even if you didn't agree with everything he said or did, it's just disrespectful and downright discussing to make a joke about the guy's passing when he literally hasn't been dead even a week.
Tiger Bears Same. No one deserves to die that young because of something as fucked up as cancer, not to mention being mocked posthumously like that. RIP.
The ultimate irony? Mass Effect: Andromeda, a game Crooks worked on heavily at BioWare, was one of the few games John actually praised upon its release, when no one else really did at the time.
Nope. The ultimate irony is that he went around saying "Hope you get cancer and die" and he himself got it. That my friend is the ultimate irony. Rip Totalhalibut.
+Fursen Not only did TB apologized for that, the guy he insulted actually posted on twitter after TB's passing to not piss on his grave and voiced his condolences. The fuck are you still going on about?
I would be willing to bet he only apologized because he himself got cancer. What, you think he apologized to all the other people he told to die or some shit throughout his life? Bullshit. Condolences to his family, but he was a smug asshole.
When I was on school someone bullied me and he died in a car crash the year after he got out of school. Even I mourned this man's death. He had a little sister and two wonderful parents. Those people don't deserve backlash for the mistakes others have made . And we must always find it in our hearts to forgive. David crucks or whatever truly is a horrible human being as that first comment had suggested.
I didnt like TB. But waiting till someone dies to release your built up tension just shows the world how scared you was of that person. TB just beat you again. What a petty, scared, unaccomplished lil man , blaming your downfalls on a recently deceased man.
Thank you, even if someone didn't like him or his opinions, choosing now to shit on this man after he has died is cowardly. Why couldn't some of these people talking about him now say some of these nasty things when he was alive and able to defend himself ? People are soo low it's disgusting.
I can understand not liking someone, but they should still respect the grief of his family and friends. David Crooks has no notion of empathy or respect for the suffering of others, what a terrible person.
I know I don't have the popular opinion here, and I'm not going to change anyone's mind, but I don't mind David Crooks did here. And before I go further, let me say I love TB and was subscribed to his channel. But anyone who has lived any kind of life, (and even more so in TB's kind of life) is going to leave behind at least a few people who hate them. Why are we lying to ourselves about that? Why are you offended by that? By the nature of choosing one side in life, you ARE going to make enemies on the other side, and that's OK. There is a phrase that goes something like "You can tell a lot about a man by the enemies he chooses to make." It's not like I have not have loved ones pass away. Overall, I couldn't care less what mean or nice things anyone else said, I just wanted my loved ones back. But I hate the actively self-delusion that you seem to want. There are some people who are happy that TB is dead (cause by cancer or other means or not), and that is fine. There will be people happy that those people are dead and so on until the end of time. People get weird around dead and start changing what reality is. Death and hatred are natural, and that is OK.
And just like that, David Crooks is officially on my shitlist. Nobody should have their death mocked and joked about, especially someone who left such a positive mark on the internet.
he is probably going to be fired for this so he is probably going to regret his garbage. thousand of people are tweeting and sending this to bioware and EA (or he is already fired I guess)
TB wasnt exactly a nice person, a bit of a SJW in some aspects. But he was an ally of gamers and a gamer himself. We need more people like him, so no. Internet isnt better off without him.
Everyone keeps copying and pasting this everywhere, but he apologized and said he was stupid for saying that. Also the fact that it's from 2011 doesn't help either.
Saint Alphonse i bet you are a friend of Crook. The dead guy has dealing cancer for several years and even though I don't know about him, he is still a human being. Please don't insult to the dead guy. Maybe right now you are stay alive and healthy, but when a disease comes to you, then you will know how terrible your life when you are dealing with your disease for a long time.
soo i can insult him after a month, year ? and pls dont say this bullshit that insulting dead guy is wrong, just because he's dead, if u think it is, in that case tell me how much hitler was a great guy ps: i dont know this guy TB, i just dont like this bullshit when people say "u cant say anything wrong on him, because he died"
What a disgusting human being. I truly hope he doesn't get a job in this industry in the foreseeable future. R.I.P. John Bain, what an absolutely saddening event.
Social media is becoming less and less of a safe place for toxic people to expose themselves and frankly that is a good thing. Crooks' pariah status is well-earned.
If people can't take harsh criticism from critics then maybe don't bother looking or listening at them or better yet, you're in the wrong line of work.
"This guy said bad things about games I was a small part in the making of, so it's good that he died!" How pathetic a human being must one be to not only think this, but write it on social media as if it were acceptable? What mental deficiency allows you to celebrate the death of a person because he didn't like your creative endeavor? I won't celebrate your own professional suicide, Mr. Crooks, but I certainly WILL call it "well-deserved".
Savage Jesus It's called being a decent person who does not revel in a person's death like some morbid vulture. You really can't throw a stone nowadays without it landing on a piece of shit. I never could get into his videos but I wouldn't wish his death upon my worst enemy. Also, your homophobic preschool level insult shows a severe lack of mental acuity and lack of drive to get out of your mother's basement.
I don't know who was better, (1) this guy, (2) the girl who did a presentation titled "I hate men", or (3) the guy who said 9/11 should be remembered as being about oppression of brown people and that he didn't want white people to enjoy his games. Nice work Bioware!
Mister Ree Oh yeah, he definitely will. Imagine his next job interview. "Yeah, I'm applying for this new job because I got fired for attacking a man who died of cancer." He more or less ended his future.
Are you people seriously surprised Bioware has another piece of shit employee? They are the company that had an employee making racist remarks ever other week for over 2 fucking years & did nothing about it. & Crook wasn't the only Bioware employee that went to twitter to celebrate TB's death there were a couple other. Just look it up if you want to see it. Bioware is a trash company & has been for quite some time
And yet TB was one of the more sympathetic critics of Andromeda. He pointed out all the graphical and gameplay issues, but he still thought it was a decent game, even recommended it after the patches.
*me reading the title*: this is definitely clickbait, there's no way... *me watching the video*: damn... And that guy had the audacity to call other people "rubbish".
Man this guy and the feminist have been going nuts since TB died. It's like they couldn't do it while he lived because they were too afraid of him but for some reason didn't take his fans into consideration that we would call them out on being scum.
It's sad that people want to celebrate a man's untimely death just because they disagreed with something he said. Another form of cancer that needs to be eradicated.
tenalpoen it's kinda sad that he died from something he wished upon someone else too. Hope people overall stop behaving like anyone involved in this, both like TB and like crooks.
Yah man. I had a parent die of cancer, so while I'd never want that on anybody, I also have a hard time feeling sympathetic to anyone that wishes that on another person even in passing. This Crooks guy may be an ass, but it doesn't seem to be much more than Bain was from what I've seen.
People act like TB was secretly internet hitler, and he wasn't. He was a man, who made mistakes like we all do. It's funny to see people bringing up the same vague ("He was toxic", "his fanbase did x", "gamergate hurhurhur") or handful of specific examples of TB at his lowest ("get cancer" tweet, which he and the guy made amends about), while ignoring the vast amount of good things he did with his life and his time. We're not scrubbing his legacy we're just emphasizing the good things to remember him, because it's been, what, 1-2 days since he passed? Christ these people are vultures. They need some goddamn empathy.
Empathy has existed for a spec of dust in the path of all organisms that have lived, a method of preserving organisms of a species for natural selection. We kill and eat the bodies of countless animals and most don't feel a thing, yet when we insult the dead of humans it becomes a travesty. This is simply because we are used to it - it's how "things work". The offence caused is simply selfish to our species. It's only seen as bad to insult the dead if you cared about them, or if you were taught the reason being: "because they're dead". Thinking about it more deeply, why should we care about the dead? We waste time on people that exist no more, we could focus on the ongoing suffering of the world but we don't. Culture and traditions seem to impede the progression of the empathy that you express.
Well, he is one of the devs that work on Star Wars Battlefront 2. Nuff said. So David... I got to ask. Do you get a sense of pride and accomplishment for tweeting those tweets?
Possiblekim Personally I wouldn't dare ask that question, the answer might turn an already shitty situation into a worse one (although there is not much room left).
The tweets didn't cost Credits, Gems or any other made-up currency, so there couldn't possibly be any "pride and accomplishment" coming from them. P&A are reserved for paid extra content. :D
Bioware and Total Biscuit share something in common - they both died of cancer. RIP John Bain. I may not have agreed with you all the time, but your passion for reforming the gaming industry can’t be understated.
Svarthofde Of course. No more honorable a feat than to pick a fight with a dead man. If he wasn't already private I would spam tb reviews at him from multiple twitter accounts.
It worked for Edgar Allen Poe, his popular postmortem autobiography was written by huge douche bag Rufus Griswold. Griswold wholesale made shit up about Poe because Poe gave him a negative review.
@Paul Rippcord: Poe had the last laugh though. Everyone knows who Edgar Allen Poe is, as well as all the things he wrote. No one has heard of Rufus Griswold.
Lets hope someone makes a Frame in his honor. Though I've never met or saw him, I know he left a big impact in this world. Hopefully everyone picks up where he left off
Yeah he did something similar with One Finger Death Punch when it was released. So sad. I heard TB was "retiring" and feared the worst but it makes this no less devastating. Poor Genna :( RIP John, miss you already....
I just don't understand how people who do these things think they'll turn out. Did he think the public would rally to his side and join in spitting on TB's grave? Him being fired seems to be the only logical thing that could've happened.
They seem live in a bubble where there are no dissenting opinions and ironically no real diversity so yeah maybe he did think that everybody shares his opinion
Not to turn this into a Us/Them or Left/Right thing but this is the usual mindset of the modern Liberal/Leftist/SJW/PC person. Their views are the right morally right views and so they can mock even a dead person and feel justified because the dead person was commiting "wrong think". I may heavily Heavily HEAVILY disagree with Anita Sarkessian and think she needs to stop BUT I wont be posting celebrations or that the world is a better place when/if her death is reported. She is at the end of the day still a human being and there is a certain level of respect that is owed another human being.
memnarch129 "Not to turn this into a left/right thing" Immediately makes it a left/right thing. The dude was a shithead, pure and simple, there's no need to inject your personal bias into it.
He didn't have the balls to say that to Mr. "bad rubbish"'s face while alive... I wonder why? I am soooo sorry that there are people out there that dislike the games you work on, and are vocal about it! But why do you have to be a "whiny child" and "snowflake" about it?.. The irony. Grow some cojones, finance your own game, and make it exactly to your liking, since you seem to know whats best for all...
I followed TB's content, and never agreed fully with anything he ever said or did. Sometimes, I even felt put off myself from his thoughts and opinions. I accepted that I would never likely agree with his views, but his content was nonetheless top notch. In his passing, I do wish his family the best. What David did was simply inexcusable, as no matter how much distaste you may have for someone, it just isn't right to vent and slander them post-mortem. TB deserves better, even if you disagree with him or his actions. Cancer sucks, and hopefully, he'll rest in peace now, free of the daily pain. Shame on you, David. Bringing more unneeded rep trashing to your already hurting company. If you aren't already fired, you likely will be, and this definitely hurt your career going forward.
I liked TB for his consumer advocacy, and highlighting indie devs. But I rolled my eyes at his “60fps or bust” attitude, he actually cheated himself out of some great gaming experiences because they were 30fps. And while he tried to play his PC elitism off as tongue in cheek, at times he was just a snob about it. Still, those are not reasons to hate a man. Opinions are just that, opinions.
Arella Jardin You almost baited me into arguing with you over fps. All I'll say is that I'd rather play on low settings with 144fps than on ultra with 30 fps.
I would, too. I have an One X, and if a game has the option to play at 60fps on 1080p, I’d pick that over the 4K mode at 30fps. I’m hoping next gen, Sony and MS prioritize cpus over gpus. However, if there’s a great game that only has 30fps, I’m not going to bypass it over such a thing. That’s something TB did, and even Jesse and Dodger would look exasperated with him sometimes. “Hey, wanna share in this wonderful experience we”re having?” “Nope, 30fps, I’m going to go play more Star Wars Galaxies on my phone.”
Arella Jardin You know what’s absurd? I thought he was waaaaaaay too kind on WTF is Mass Effect: Andromeda? I’m not sure what the heck this guy is all pissed about.
I think in this specific case, TB deserves a lot of respect in his passing because he did try to do a lot of good for the community. But I don't agree with the principle here as a whole. "No matter how much distaste you may have for someone, it just isn't right to vent and slander them post-mortem". There are a lot of powerful people who have done really horrible things (most obvious example, Hitler) , in which case I think it is fine to criticize their behavior and say good riddance. Not wish for their death necessarily, but just to say that the world is better off without their behavior.
The only thing that should really be said to David Crooks at this point is, "Good luck finding another job." Considering that he very clearly shot himself in the foot, likely lost his job at Bioware, and no self-respecting gaming studio will hire him, he has invalidated whatever education he went through to get where he is now. It's kinda sad that his hate-boner cost him years of his life effectively.
Good thing he bought new shoes, at least he can hide his newly and brutally shot foot lol, what an asshole, regardless how you felt regarding TB’s ideologies it is inexcusable to praise his death, a human’s life is full of good and bad moments, it is sick.
The damage of sharing your thoughts, how unsightly Margret! Let us tarnish this man's reputation as we don't approve of him. Damn, we're going back to the 1900s with this stuff.
He's the one who tried to tarnish Totalbiscuit's name because Totalbiscuit gave negative thoughts on games he was a part of. He tarnished his own name, we didn't have to do anything. In fact, we haven't done anything, it's his employer that fired him after they saw the tweet. Normally yes, I am against people being fired for their beliefs, but this wasn't about beliefs. This was about Crooks being butthurt years after Totalbiscuit negatively reviewed his games, and then chose his opportunity now that Totalbiscuit can't defend himself to try and tarnish Totalbiscuit's name as some terrible person. He had an agenda, an sought to slander someone who was dead and couldn't rebut those claims because anyone with half a brain would be able to do just that. Tl'DR This wasn't about beliefs, it was about someone throwing a temper tantrum and trying to make Totalbiscuit out to be a monster, and he only revealed his own colors as a monster in turn. His termination is the result.
its not in bad taste or cowardly, especially if you talked shit about him BEFORE he died, but i guess only he gets to call out people and make fun of them right? because he has plenty of times called out people and talked shit about them so we cant do the same about "total asshole" right?
thelasthallow not when he just died of cancer, dude you realize a lot of people are mourning his death and insulting his memory right now will turn grief to focused rage. Wait some time before pissing on a grave don't do it when the family and friends and fans are watching.
Aw boohoo he did his job and that upset you? He's a critic, or he was, it doesn't matter if you disagree with him or if his job caused trouble to others but that doesn't justify talking shit and laughing at the death of a man who was literally fighting for his life, who had to thank God for being awake for one more day. David's actions should be enough to get him fired from his job and to bring shame to his family. I would be ashamed to be the son of such horrible human being. No, of such horrible humanoid pile of shit.
I think bringing shame to his family is a bit too far. He is responsible for his own actions, therefore he will have to deal with his own consequences.
Jeezas freakin' Christ, a person dies and so many are so tasteless in their remarks. So you didn't like the man, can't you just keep it to yourselves? It's like he was a war criminal, or did something personal to you. Let the man rest and people mourn. Even if you considered TB to be a total jerk in life, does that justify being a piece of shit to him in death? Celebrating a person's death shows just how this world is messed up. People not only are completely disrespectful, but only show they hold grudges over stupid shit for so long. So you have a stupid opinion, great. Everybody has one, it doesn't even care if you're right or wrong. The man passed away and there's nothing he did really worth so much hatred. Let it go.
Part of me needs to point out that there are multiple cultures around the world where celebrating one's death is expected. Now, I know that's not what you're referring to, but I need to point it out anyways. Not every culture sees death as something bad or sad, some see it as just another step in life.
Well, yes I understand what you mean. But I'd say there's a huge difference between that and what is happening on this instance. On cultures that celebrate one's death, it's usually people that cared for the deceased that do the celebration, not people that hated said person, or that were merely trolling for the sake of douchebaggery. Good thing to point that out though, so it's completely clear what we're talking about here =)
Even if that was the case, what's the point of backlashing when the person is already dead? It'll only hit those who were close to the person, not the person herself. And those people are innocent in all of this. Say all you will, there is absolutely no justification for this, even if TB was to blame as well.
No need to get so philosophical over the matter, I think it's a bit simpler than that. Is TB around to hear others complaints about him? No. Are his loved ones responsible for any bulshit he pulled? I'd say no as well. So... no, death doesn't clear all sins, you're right. But to go after a guy that just died seems petty and unreasonable. Let people mourn, and use some common sense on your expression of feelings about him. Plus, it seems you're describing him as some power mad dictator that killed people for speaking out against him. It's true that I didn't know TB all too well, but that doesn't seem the case too. :P I've never seen a celebration of a person's death that didn't look like a dick move. We wouldn't be talking about this if it was the mere conversation that TB was far from perfect. No, some douchebag actually tweeted he was glad he died and did a several post rant on the matter. That's at least as shitty, if not more, than anything that TB ever did. And whilst one could even argue that the punishment fits the crime (not that I agree with that standpoint), the criminal in this case is already dead. Did the ones around him warrant enough hatred to go through this? I mean... FFS, even if you have the need to express TB wasn't cool, you CAN at least not say you're happy about his death. It's just ridiculous.
Nah sorry, can't say I'm avoiding the problem, and I'm not defending him either. And are you actually saying his relatives "deserve" this? Now that's a shame. Hope you never get to witness someone say they're happy a relative of yours died. Somehow, that doesn't seem peachy fine, at all. It doesn't stop the grieving process, but it sure as hell makes it worse. Way to go internet, what a great win for mankind. *clap clap* Yes, people had beef with him and it doesn't magically go away because he is dead. But you also seem to think that since people suffered by his hands, they're also magically entitled to having the same behavior or worse. Why? His behavior was reprehensible and this isn't any better. And it should be, if that was really the point. So my question is... Are you willing to continue to argue with a dead person? And in such hateful manner? If that's what makes you happy, then suit yourself. To me, it just seems toxic. Some people prefer to change things and not continue a shit cycle that by the looks of it, seems to go on for a very long time. So please, learn to let go or at least aknowledge that the discussion of TB's behavior could be done in a way much more productive than shouting to the world that you're happy that he's dead. It certainly made the subject a very hot topic, but it could have also been done in a much less douchebaggy fashion. ^^
What makes this even more upsetting is that mr. crooks implies that there are others in the gaming industry that feel the same way as he does of TB's passing. You can imagine what people like him think about the other content creators who are still alive like Yong Yea, Jim Sterling, Sid Alpha ect.
I feel like half of the gaming industry wants Jim Sterling dead. If TB elicits this much of a reaction I can't imagine how much disdain there is for someone as blunt and unapologetic as Sterling.
you dont have to look far, sometimes it feels like the real reason gaming is going down the shitter is because devs cant put down the fucking twitter. I dont know why tech sectors have made twitter a part of their business networking but its dangerously counter productive, employees waste company time catching a brain parasite from the twitter hive-mind and they are daily a single bad post away from creating a PR nightmare for their company.
TB was actually getting bashed all over Twitter right after news broke that he died.... it wasn't anyone big on the platform, but one of the people bashing him had likes upwards of 60k on the tweet. It's sad and disturbing that people would do that.
You missed out. I watched tons of his videos usually before game release and his vocabulary of words reviewing cannot be touched. He was like a superstar rapper for video game reviews. Go back and watch some of his videos and see what I mean. Almost all of his stuff is spot on in his own words which makes him totally unique top quality.
I love how the people who hated him are going on a rampage and getting told off and ravaged by everyone else. Like the guy posting the old TB tweet where he told someone to "get cancer and die", without ever mentioning his apology later down the line. Or the couple of other idiots who are so enraged by the fact that a person they loathed got more respect and recognition in his death than they ever will (because, surprise surprise, they're disgusting people) that they're trying their hardest to slam on the guy's death. The fact that some sad individuals are so overjoyed by his passing only serves to show how great of an impact this man had on the industry, games journalism, TH-cam, and the gaming "community" as a whole. If he hadn't stirred up things, made his voice heard, gone the extra mile, he wouldn't have as many friends or as many enemies. Rest in peace, John. The world grows a little dimmer without you.
So if this dev apologizes, you'll forgive him? See how stupid that sounds? Most of us understands TB only apologized because he said that back when he wasn't as famous. Of course he's going to be more "PC" with his word choices later on, ESPECIALLY now that he has cancer himself.
A Ninja Nah, we just acknowledge hypocrisy when we see it. Just because you're 3 feet under doesn't mean your previous actions don't mean anything. Apologizing for something fucked up doesn't make anything right.
@@welkingunther4298 this is a little late but, they arent comparable. The person tb said to have cancer was not in anyway affected by cancer. A stupid remark, yes, but not a hurtful or impactful one. Example: if i were to call you a "blind asshat", it is a dickish thing to do, but is clearly exaggerated as i doubt you are blind. If you died and i came out and said "finally he died". What part of that statement can be taken as hyperbole: none, because you died and i am mocking you, while acknowledging your death.
@@MiorAkif It's the same shit though.If I started to tell people that I hoped their pet died a painful disease, and then it happened to myself, I deserve no sympathy in that case, and one of the few rare cases karma plays out. You might disagree because TB is a celebrity, but I'm sure if some random said that shit, you'd think as I do. I wish his family well and all those affected, but you can't just wish a harmful disease that MANY people are facing today and are heavily affected by. What if the person TB said to get cancer and die had a family member that died of it? Again, he's a celebrity, so he gets a pass, just like how celebrities taking drugs is considered a norm while a normal civilian who does it get 20 years in prison. Sorry, I don't buy into that.
I love how as the tweets get more and more disturbing AND desperate, you can clearly see how he tries to justify his reasoning and motives. You can literally FEEL falling down the gaping chasm that is his mind. And we are talking about a full grown adult here
Change Ex Bioware Dev to person. He shouldn't have done that AT ALL. Especially he waited for him to die to say so. He didn't try confronting him. The fuck.
In all honesty TotalBiscuit could be a bit of an ass at times, be extreme on things etc. but it doesn't excuse the dev in question essentially saying it was a good thing that he died. Like it or not he was influential in gaming in a few respects, for the better or worse and you gotta at least respect him.
Not only that but he was a son, a father, and a husband. His family is currently grieving, and its terrible to celebrate in somones death because they stepped on your toes once or twice.
a bit of an ass is quite nicely said .. he was a total douche and many times his so called critisism was just he being uninformed of what he is actually talking about.. look i really disliked TB but i have to also admit what that dude let out on twitter is just too extreme
I don't get why so many gamers are suddenly caring about TB. The dickhead went full SJW over the past couple years, hopping on board with the very mentality that is destroying the gaming industry. My condolences to his family, but the gaming industry is better off without him.
Alan, I think you missed the part where I pointed out that he became one of the problems that the gaming industry faces. His "normal attitude" became very SJW over the past few years. He became the very thing he originally spoke against. Why would gamers not be glad such a horrible voice is no longer around to negatively impact the industry? I'm not saying celebrate his death, I'm saying we, as gamers, should be glad he can no longer poison the industry. Would you, as a gamer, not be glad if Anita or Zoe or the rest of the SJW "gamers" were no longer around to harm the industry? He became the thing he built his fame on speaking out against.
Well, he considered himself a cynical person, one look at his TH-cam tells you that. He was never on TH-cam to be nice and candy coat shit. He was always honest with his opinions, which are going to ruffle feathers regardless of whether or not he meant to ruffle them.
A years gone and I'm reminded of this. It's ok to have an opinion, and to have not liked Bain. But when you go on a rant about it at such a sad time for all involved, you just sound like a crazy bitter individual who can't accept that sometimes, somewhere, there are those who disagree with you. TotalBiscuit, you are missed.
David just ruined his life. You don't mock the death of someone. You especially don't do it when the person is a big figure in your industry and you want to stay employed. By doing this, Dave just marked himself as a red flag and no company will *_EVER_* hire him. Now he has a useless degree he spent thousands on and useless job experience. lmao.
Totalbiscuit was literally a figurehead of the critique community for video games. He had possibly the largest platform of any one singular game reviewer on the planet. Check your own fucking reality
The eye can only see 29.4 fps so it would be useless. Sidenote: What really is the point of saying "rest in peace", it's not going to stop people from digging up bodies and TB can't feel any peace or anything else - he's dead. Meh, more of a criticism of phrases in English than anything else.
Holy shit... I mean yeah tb said a load of stuff I disagreed with and personally I didn't really like him but wow, what a horrible thing to do to a man who had just died...
Mocking the dead? Seriously? TB said some dumb things in his life, but he was far from an evil person, and he's dead. I hope to god the follows Crooks for the rest of his damned life, such disrespect. Rest in Peace Mr. Bain, you'll be missed.
You'd have: Digi hom, That random vietnam/south east Asian developer who wanted to take jim to court/the Alt-right and maybe the left (in need to virtue signal hard that their virtuous) all lining up to do the same.
1. TB died this young only because he had cancer early, Jim is pretty much just as young so who knows, maybe the entire Digital Homicide would die before Jim does 2. Fact was, TB was always technical in his viewpoints and there were always reasons behind him trashing on something (whether they are objectively true or not is another story), and it's rare to see him focus fire on a certain dev over multiple games, aka it was never too personal. TB probably didn't even know who this David Crooks was. The video said Crooks just happy for TB's death because TB trashed some games of his before. This guy is actually a nobody. This is the reason why this scandal is stirring up this much attention. No one expected this. 3. Jim and DH on the other hand had a long battle history with nasty (but justifiable) videos from Jim and ridiculously delusional actions from DH. They are nemesis now 4. DH as a studio pretty much has no respect from anyone at this point so really, I don't think DH doing or saying anything to Jim's hypothetical death would cause backlash at all. Would be surprising if they don't
You best hope he doesnt die this early....if he does then there will be no people to call out the bullsh that videogame companies do without hiding behind their moms.......you may say there are people out there who do that, but let me tell you they always either hide or preffer to wisper about it and hope they didnt heard....not Jim nor John...they werent afraid to say it like it is.!!!!
I'm not a fan of TB, but I understand and respect his impact on the gaming and TH-cam industry. Absolutely disgusted someone would revel in the death of an innocent person simply because they don't agree, especially when they share the same industry. Even in death TB was able to show us the dark side of game development. A fitting farewell IMO. RIP Bain, your contribution to gaming will not be forgotten.
ǝsınɹɔ ɯoʇ The attitude has become very shady at times. ME:A just was a very bad ME game,the game would've been a lot less scrutinized with a different name.
Definitely. Who thinks it’s a good idea to mock the death of someone who is respected by millions of people. I hope he got a lot of karma because he wouldn’t feel the same way if it was someone close to him. Absolutely disgusting excuse for a human.
I'll be honest, I didn't like Totalbiscuit either. If you want to know why, it's because he had a big mouth and thin skin. That is to say, he invited criticism with his words and actions, but he always hid away from any criticism that actually came. That however does not make him a horrible human being, much less one deserving of having someone dance on his grave on twitter like this. Despite his character flaws, he did a lot of positive things for the gaming community and was respectable as a professional insomuch as aside from being kind of a douche he never did anything unethical or intentionally detrimental, and on his good days did provide the internet with some quality entertainment and information. Some of my favorite TH-camrs in fact can attribute Totalbiscuit playing a significant part in the starts of their careers.
Pedro Gomez, It's not. It means that you are going to piss a lot of people off, but also that you are going to not be able to handle the retaliation. Which is what happened with TB, he shut himself off from pretty much all sources of feedback because it was literally making him sick. He very often said things that would anger people, received retaliation on it, and then stressed himself to the hospital. I am not exaggerating here either.
Well he did get verbally abusive with his wife because she voted for a 3rd party during the 2016 election and not Hilary. I'd consider that as a bad person, someone who doesn't allow other people to have different opinions.
xxJing he was one of the best PC game reviewers ever, a bit convoluted at times but his bias usually never took over a review even with things like warhammer 40k which he and i both love vehemently.
I don't care how much you disagreed with a critic of your work, this sort of behavior is just despicable. I hope David Crooks never gets a job in the games industry again after this tirade, he doesn't deserve to breath the same fucking air as true creative minds.
RIP John Peter Bain, AKA TotalBiscuit, and fuck cancer. If you wish to help out the Bain family in these trying times, consider donating here: www.gofundme.com/TotalBiscuit
he covered that by "cancer", edgy boi
YongYea agrer
YongYea A huge loss for the world. May his memory live on forever.
YongYea I didn't like his content but at the end of the day as my grandmother said "it was some mother's son" an unfortunate Irish saying
I do not like this David Crooks....
#FuckCancer
In death, Total Biscuit inadvertently revealed the true nature of some of these devs.
You know.. in a way he did his job literally even after he died.. pointing out gamings/developers bullshit exposing david crooks as the piece of shit he really was.. I did not always agree with total biscuit but I held a lot of respect for him and I really enjoyed his podcasts.. I don't think they will be the same with out him. I am glad that they are still trying to carry on with them though. I think total biscuit would have liked that
Yes, EA/Bioware clearly lost it a few years ago and their games have been pretty shitty since ME2.
Overall the games industry is pretty toxic these days. Years ago it was mainly small teams working on games they wanted to make, while having fun at the same time. But now it's full of people who can't take criticism, lack skill, SJWs, feminists, etc and run by salesmen who's only interest is their bonus pay. It's why we see mostly rubbish games now and it's why I left it myself.
Martyrdom kill.
11 months later but yes he did.
It almost appears that the Video Game Industry held back while he was alive but has truly begun to reveal it's true form for the past year.
that they are honest and true? sweet.
How to kill your career in 10 minutes starring David Crooks.
How to die of stage four terminal cancer starring John Bain.
Yeah, basically.
You guys are mighty salty about this.
So was this guy salty because TB criticized some of Bioware's shitty games?
DickBurns 👍
This is incredibly disgusting. So you wait until the man is dead to speak out? Definition of a coward.
Actually he spoke out 4 years ago when all of his friends did. Not that he made any more sense back then either.
When the guy was alive, that's one thing but immediately after his death? The ex-Bioware Dev is a scumbag.
Hey, literally the week Hugh Hefner died, the first Transgender "Woman" joined the playboy mansion.
Notice each tweet has exactly one like
He liked them himselves
@@cillirpepper6454 lmao
Pretty ironic how the man David Crooks hated the most still cost him his career even after passing away.
"Ironic. He could hate anyone... but couldn't save himself."
iExPreZz not really, brings prick was all his own actions
Poetic if you ask me haha.
iExPreZz Some folks just can't keep it in their pants or their mouth.
How dare you use my picture.
> Be David Crooks
> Only work experience and qualifications are in a relatively small industry with minimal job opportunities
> Mock the death of a beloved Game critique and commentator
> Gets fired from Bioware
> Now has basically no other qualifications and is blacklisted from working with any studio with the slightest shred of self-respect
Congratulations.. You played yourself.
Charlie C >video games are the only field he could work in
LMFAO
Charlie C hey... I hear it is pretty hard to play yourself these days... Nah it's actually pretty easy
I hear he’s trying for the high score.
I say its worth it, glad that cancer fuck is dead lol
I'll only play myself if the game runs at 60 fps
how to decimate your career in ten seconds or less 101
He is literally unhirable now
Oh yeah no, he might as well start applying at his local McDonalds but even then, he may or may not get the job.
Being associated with Bioware already did that.
avp251 it doesn't matter. companies in the eyes of the public don't hire people who say and do controversial things on social media, like I don't know speaking ill of the fucking dead.
Youre very naive if you think companies give a shit about what the public says
Kamiya is always roasting people on Twitter and hes still the guy directing Bayonetta
Top 10 Career Suicides
Is this above or below Digital Homicides entire online presence?
Honestly hope his career in the gaming industry is ruined.
Zealox y
digital homicide can always regroup and rebrand....its a bit harder to change an individuals name.....both the name digitial homicide and David Crooks are DOA....but ultimately id say an answer to your hypothetical and rhetorical question.....is that id place David Crooks higher simply because he would have to change his social security number and completely erase david crooks and become johnsmith968504987654321
I think that just makes this video funny. He is so immature and stupid, for someone who is a software developer. I used to think you have to have a high IQ, but then I guess IQ doesn't mean you won't do something as rude and self-damaging as this? I liked TotalBiscuit, but I knew he was eventually going to die after he announced that. I just didn't expect it to be now. I was in a hospital, being treated for a similar illness, when he announced that he has cancer. :\
Career Suicide by Twitter: The most popular form of career suicide
TokuTickler he must have been on something otherwise I can't imagine somebody in his position executing something so stupid despite his opinion
Matej Šuňavec
, the guy uses the phrase 'delicate snowflake' without irony 2:05
Never underestimate just how stupid and callous people like that actually are..
Or if you worked for EA, career advancement. Cause it might make fat cats happy.
His was the equivalent of diving headfirst into a woodchipper.
When Trump next?
"HI industry! Don't hire me!"
hahah yeah, that tweet was tantamount to this.
And I sincerely hope that's how it plays out.
probably.
Arti It's baffling why'd he even do that, i mean if you're gonna do wrong, do wrong *right*
He should've kept this shit to himself instead of boasting on *social goddamn media* if that's how he felt, now he's rightfully on a lot of people's shitlists
That's practically social suicide
Like my dad always said before he passed "misery loves company" People like this lead miserable lives themsleves so they work very hard to bring everyone else down to their level.
Groundbreak Games. As my dad said "if transference doesn't work try denial, if denial doesn't work try transference". This seems to be a case of transference so I'm sure the denial will come soon.
@Seanza evil as hell
MileyCyrusPartyUSA
You do know that both of them have made up and moved on.
Am miserable, can confirm.
Groundbreak Games or, ya know, he just didn't like totalbiscuit since he trashed his games, which is a totally normal way to feel about something like that, and this was just a way to release that anger, doesn't mean he's miserable, just salty.
The man worked on Mass Effect: Andromeda and Battlefront II...YIKES.
Alessandro R Jinkies
Alessandro R imagine my shock
At least two bad games eh? I guess he learned how to deal with criticism of his bad games from the Romaine brothers.
No wonder they were so shitty, they have his "crooked" fingerprints all over them XD
Seriously? TB was one of the more sympathetic voices towards Andromeda! Even this year on his podcast, he was still recommending it as a decent game. Oh, he pointed out the problems in his initial WTF video, but he still made it clear he liked it. And this asshole flipped his shit over that? Christ.
Wasn't just ex-bioware but a current bioware Anthem lead animator Mike Jungbluth also defended and encouraged David Crooks.
EDIT: Mike Jungbluth apologized.
EDIT: archive of what Mike said in replies.
Here is an archive of what that shitstain Jungbluth said archive.is/Nma1W
Sean SMEGHEAD Well would you look at that? His account is private too. Man, people are getting protective with their information huh?
Thanks for the archive ParasiteX.
This comment should get upvoted af
Bioware has already became such a disgrace to the industry, all they do is now feed human garbage.
RIP TotalBiscuit. RIP Bioware.
He knew the only time he could criticize John was when he was gone.
Cause John would've slayed him.
Isai Baez even then he still lost. Now everyone hates him. And he's definitely got on some blacklist.
Agent 005 He's a human?
Agent 005 Unfortunately we are the same species as him
There was a LOT that TB said that I wasn’t too much a fan of. But I had enough Humanity in me to give what condolences i could for his family and friends. This dude had a grudge and a petty one at most. Grow up
Right!? Nobody is forced to like each other, and some people make it so easy to hold a bad opinion of them, but there are lines that are typically only crossed by children playing dares in places they >think< are private or anonymous. To come knowingly from an adult and in a public space is pretty sad.
LOL you don't have to like everyone and fake it all the time. Bashing his death was harsh but TB rubbed that dude raw.
There is a difference between 'not faking it' and deliberately taking a shit on someone during a tragedy. You can still air your grievances without being a douchebag about it. :P
“I didn’t like him but hope he’s out of pain now.”
Boom. Good example on how to do it
Total Biscuit told someone to "get cancer and die" then later got cancer and died. Karma don't play that shit.
It is pathetic that Mr. Crooks did it after TotalBiscuit died. Not because it is morally wrong, but because he did it once TotalBiscuit couldn't fire back anymore. He is a coward
Exactly what I was thinking. Shit just makes me sick to my stomach man I swear
It's pretty standard. On social media they vomit some garbage out to smear or insult someone and then block them before they have a chance to respond.
Savage Jesus throw in some more buzzwords and maybe you would have an impact.
Savage Jesus Someone likes South Park a bit too much.
Yeah. It’s fucked up. Then TotalBiscuit’s soul came back and swiped that losers job from him. Rest In Peace.
I am not big totalbiscuit fan or at all but this is really tasteless and disrespectful to the dead. Especially to someone who died of something as horrid of cancer.
Why should you respect someone that isn't alive, doesn't exist anymore?
Kinda a waste of energy to respect, might
wow you are clearly an ignorant child.
Just a bunch of keyboard warriors pretending to care. Same kind of people that change their social media pictures to some countries flag every time some terrorist murders people. Of course there's a double standard at play, because nobody really cares about disrespecting the dead, they care about disrespecting the dead who they liked, or they do it to look good.
Don't diss World of Warcraft
TheGrouchyGamer When you die, you will fade from this world and all that you have accomplished will go with you. Unlike John Bain you impact will fizzle out and vanish instead of becoming a roaring fire burns forever. But Im sure someone like you has made peace with their inevitable, irrelevance already.
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some indie studio will probably hire him, or he'll open one himself.
Knowing EA they'll probably give him a raise.
He was fired apparently. Casey Hudson said he was a 'former employee'. Whether he was kicked out on his ass before or after his disgusting tweet is debatable.
Total Bisquit himself was not a stranger to going on batshit crazy insult tirades online, to the point he hired someone to manage his Twitter and deleted his Reddit account. Still, 4 years of chemo and death from multiple organ failure is something I wish on nobody, so I've gotta respect the man, even if we ideologically disagreed, he was a contribution to the gaming world. My heart goes to his family in this time of grief.
Yeah I disagreed with quite alot of TB's opinions and stuff, but i loved the guy, specialy the friendships with Jesse Cox, Crendor and Dodger; was lovely listening to them on podcasts~
It's not the kind of thing you'd wish on your worst enemy. Even if there were serious grievances between Crooks and TB, it costs nothing to rise above yourself for a handful of tweets. Even if you feel the urge to highlight things you felt he did badly on, you can still do so with a pinch of class or dare I even suggest... restraint, given how severe the circumstances of his death were. Unless the guy was proven to have intentionally done something wholly morally repugnant or was a key player in some atrocity, then by acting so callously you only highlight your own flaws. Political opposition can drive people to do awful things, but when the fight ends in such a manner, even if you personally feel relieved at their passing, you don't have to rescind your opinions or even offer them false graces; just put your sword away. If you feel your fight still needs to be fought and they must be brought up as example, that's fine, just direct away from their grave and over to where it is relevant. Eesh.
Glad to see humanity. Shows there is still some intelligent insight left in the world. Good on you guys. Even though we don't agree, we are still people...
Sneakysneaky88 very well said! Cheers to you m8.
It takes a special kind of coward to kick a dead man.
What is it with Bioware and incredibly horrible devs? Remember that mega racist guy?
Bozo Clown actually he did exist lol and he was pretty forward about being racist but that’s not really the point which jack was trying to get across
Cory Aimck don't mind him, he's completely a dumbfuck trying too hard to be a troll..
how mega racist is racist?
Guitarstudent you mean how racist is mega racist?
Manveer Heir was his name and he's still racist. just look at his twitter. No one would hire his ass so he went to make his own studio.
$10 TB is criticising heaven right now.
Man, if they don't have a FOV slider up there he will be so pissed.
TB's heaven is a full-fledge options menu with any graphical setting you can name that can automatically tweak any game to the perfect possible settings without bizarre shit like what happens to Need for Speed Rivals.
Hell is a 30FPS lock with a missing options menu and unskippable cutscenes.
TheGrayMysterious you forgot to mention that hell is full of escort missions and you only have a 0.00001% chance to even get rare loot
madcat789 I never bet against sure things.
Heaven is unlocked framerates and options menus to get lost in. And all the indie games where those things don’t matter, that he can play.
If David Crooks has worked on two of the worst games to ever come from BioWare _and_ having TB slam him for his specific area of development, perhaps he should consider the fact that he's shit at what he's doing?
Critical Role Highlights which were those 2 games?
It's not hard to guess.
Probably DA:I and DA2, or maybe he worked on...ass effect andromeda.
Mess Deffect Andromeda and Star Scams Battleloot 2
Dork Born Not in this case they're not.
Dork Born what a silly comment.
Manager: So, David. I see you'd like to work for (insert company). Well, i'm just gonna look over your resume and your application.
David: Okay....
Manager: It says here under "accomplishments" that you mocked the death of an incredibly influential man on the internet without any reservation and chose not to just keep your opinions to yourself. Possibly damaging the image of past employers such as Bioware.
David: Yeah, but...
Manager: Oh, don't worry David. We've got a way to take care of that. It'll be as if none of this ever happened.
David: Alright...
Manager: So David, what i'm going to do for you is place this application and resume right here into this paper shredder.
David: What wha-
Manager: AAAAAAANNNNNND it's gone.
David: Wait what?!
Manager: It's gone. It's all gone. It never happened.
David: But what about my application and resume!?
Manager: What application and resume? I don't see either of those things.
David: Yeah, because you just destroyed them!
Manager: Which means you have no reason to be talking to me right now so please leave the property. This area is reserved for potential applicants. Next!
Thanatos420 This is too funny. From what I'm reading in the comments, he's now out of a job.
+cosmosofinfinity Except that one misfortune wasn't deserved at all, whereas the other would very much be deserved on the grounds that the person in question is a total piece of shit.
South Park 😂😂
I just got some 1984 vibes
cosmosofinfinity That's okay, empathy isn't unconditional.
"Ex-Bioware"
For good reason i hope and forever
Salokin Apparently they tossed him into the EA Motive department.
I mean its not like Bioware is any good, its a trash Company and everyone from the glory Days (Kotor, NWN, Baldurs Gate) left Bioware long time ago.
Let's see him afford running shoes without a job
Mass effect Andromeda shows Bioware has died.
Cheeeseo It’s kinda sad cos DA: Inquisition was a great game
Who goes on a Twitter Rampage an hour and a half after someone dies?
Says a lot more about you than the deceased
that happened in 2011 god fucking dammit
Jack Gisicki @seanza "wtf I actually said that? I'm a total cunt" -also totalbiscuit
It's a total cowardly move to attack someone AFTER they died. Was he too afraid to bring it up before he died, you know, to his face?? Seriously.
the US president?
WHo goes on TH-cam and laugh at biscuit?
I do.... loll he dead.
He never did anything for us, bane just hate everything in life
I never liked totalbiscuit, and while he was alive, I wouldn't have had a problem with a developer going at him for any negativity caused by him or his followers. But guys dead man, seriously.
David McCooey or at the very least wait a couple weeks to post about it, dont start talking shit practically the moment they die. So fucked.
Total Biscuit told someone to "get cancer and die" then later got cancer and died. Karma don't play that shit.
Yeah but in TBs defense- most people get cancer.
i say lot of people get cancer. but those people were pure evil
Ninja Sushi the person he said that said something equally as bad if not worse about him and his family, anyone would respond in an extremely angered way such as that. Good job just copy pasting the same comment though
John Bain was not perfect and my opinions of him are mixed, but what really boils my blood about David Crooks' tweet wasn't that he laid out at TotalBuscuit at a bad time. Its that he specifically waited until he was dead and couldn't defend himself against Crooks. Its almost like he was afraid that TotalBuscuit's reply would calmly pick it apart and make him look like a fool, so Crooks waited until John Bain was dead so he couldn't hit back.
What a fucking pathetically cowardly way to go about that.
Bain wouldn't have defended himself for years even he hadn't cancer. Her disabled/didn't read YT comments. His twitter was run by PR. He retired from reddit. He could dish out but couldn't take hits.
The only time he defended himself after he retired from social media was when a Video of his behavior became viral, telling somebody to "Get Cancer and die"
Either way, waiting until someone dies to tear them apart is still a fucking craven thing to do.
Of course I agree with you. Losing his job is his instant Karma.
I suspect he was already between jobs when he posted it, but that CAN'T be good for his resume. lol
And then he hides under a rock when things get hot under his heels. Maybe he's waiting for everyone to die so he can finally retaliate.
I find it ironic that David Crook is happy about TotalBiscuit death because when I last looked at an Xray of my fathers cancer, instead of massive tumors there were copies of Mass Effect: Andromida riddled throughout his colon, destroying his cells.
John Diaper this comment made me feel bad and good at the same time oh god looool
Comment of the Month, for sure.
Let's just hope your father doesn't actually have cancer!
How do I response to your comment sir. I'm not sure
Nice... and sad at the same time.
I applaud you sir
John Diaper thank you for making us laugh in these times
And developers cry that the community is toxic...
Ironic isn't it XD
Agent 005 I view "toxic" as way to disagree with someone in a crude manner; something "uncalled for" like this man in the video
the criminal cries out in pain as he strikes you.
I believe toxic is when someone disagrees with something someone says or does and they decide to be a dick about it.
All i have to respond to that with, is
"We learned from the best."
Picking a fight with a dead man when the body is still warm....SO BRAVE!!!
MafiousBJ Yeah and doing it from Twitter because he knows if he does it in RL, he might just join the deceased.
I just find it ironic that in trying to vent about someone they deemed as 'garbage', they did so in the most garbage manner possible and basically achieved nothing but to prove that they were more garbage than the person they felt the need to vent about. Random side-note, tip of the hat to TBiscuit.
I was never a fan of TotalBiscuit, but his passing was a real shock to myself and many, and this story is absolutely disgusting.
Same here. Even if you didn't agree with everything he said or did, it's just disrespectful and downright discussing to make a joke about the guy's passing when he literally hasn't been dead even a week.
Tiger Bears Same. No one deserves to die that young because of something as fucked up as cancer, not to mention being mocked posthumously like that. RIP.
yep. If you think someone a terrible person, don't criticize them through being a terrible person
Respect for the dead is all but gone
Pajamapants Jack yep
I wouldn’t say THAT, but what crooks did is just stupidly disgusting
The Professional Asshole agreed
Only if you're a complete piece of human garbage.
Respect for the dead is gone because respect for the living is.
The ultimate irony?
Mass Effect: Andromeda, a game Crooks worked on heavily at BioWare, was one of the few games John actually praised upon its release, when no one else really did at the time.
Nope. The ultimate irony is that he went around saying "Hope you get cancer and die" and he himself got it. That my friend is the ultimate irony. Rip Totalhalibut.
He APOLOGIZED for that. Why does no one mention that?
+Fursen Not only did TB apologized for that, the guy he insulted actually posted on twitter after TB's passing to not piss on his grave and voiced his condolences.
The fuck are you still going on about?
I would be willing to bet he only apologized because he himself got cancer. What, you think he apologized to all the other people he told to die or some shit throughout his life? Bullshit. Condolences to his family, but he was a smug asshole.
People never seem to let those axes stay dull, apparently. To go by David C.'s utilized saying.
When I was on school someone bullied me and he died in a car crash the year after he got out of school. Even I mourned this man's death. He had a little sister and two wonderful parents. Those people don't deserve backlash for the mistakes others have made . And we must always find it in our hearts to forgive. David crucks or whatever truly is a horrible human being as that first comment had suggested.
I don’t know if I should care about the person Who Bullied you or not
😞Goddamn
Poor car.
I didnt like TB. But waiting till someone dies to release your built up tension just shows the world how scared you was of that person. TB just beat you again. What a petty, scared, unaccomplished lil man , blaming your downfalls on a recently deceased man.
Bozo Clown what
Bozo Clown
, Get off the internet kid. And go learn some life lessons.
You certainly are a bozo.
Bozo Clown has a robot icon and unorincaly says white boy as a insult.
Thank you, even if someone didn't like him or his opinions, choosing now to shit on this man after he has died is cowardly. Why couldn't some of these people talking about him now say some of these nasty things when he was alive and able to defend himself ? People are soo low it's disgusting.
I can understand not liking someone, but they should still respect the grief of his family and friends. David Crooks has no notion of empathy or respect for the suffering of others, what a terrible person.
I dont like him but that doesn't mean i wanted him to literally die and for his family to grief
As I expected from a Crook. The name fits it all.
No, just him, I guess.
Fucking disgusting, no honor, no sense of respect for the dead, or as a human being
I know I don't have the popular opinion here, and I'm not going to change anyone's mind, but I don't mind David Crooks did here. And before I go further, let me say I love TB and was subscribed to his channel. But anyone who has lived any kind of life, (and even more so in TB's kind of life) is going to leave behind at least a few people who hate them. Why are we lying to ourselves about that? Why are you offended by that? By the nature of choosing one side in life, you ARE going to make enemies on the other side, and that's OK. There is a phrase that goes something like "You can tell a lot about a man by the enemies he chooses to make."
It's not like I have not have loved ones pass away. Overall, I couldn't care less what mean or nice things anyone else said, I just wanted my loved ones back. But I hate the actively self-delusion that you seem to want. There are some people who are happy that TB is dead (cause by cancer or other means or not), and that is fine. There will be people happy that those people are dead and so on until the end of time. People get weird around dead and start changing what reality is. Death and hatred are natural, and that is OK.
And just like that, David Crooks is officially on my shitlist. Nobody should have their death mocked and joked about, especially someone who left such a positive mark on the internet.
I'm sure he'll be very broken up to hear he's on U1GX's shit-list.
Bipedal Sheep hey, he’s practically on everyone’s shitlist right now.
he is probably going to be fired for this so he is probably going to regret his garbage. thousand of people are tweeting and sending this to bioware and EA (or he is already fired I guess)
already fired, so "shrug"
Really? Good.
david the crook indeed.
I didn't realize that total biscuit passed away, my condolences to his fans and family
Hear, hear.
Terminal cancer sucks...
Saint Alphonse because you just want to hear what pleases you? No, the internet needs more voices like TB. May he rest in peace
TB wasnt exactly a nice person, a bit of a SJW in some aspects. But he was an ally of gamers and a gamer himself. We need more people like him, so no. Internet isnt better off without him.
Take your edge somewhere else.
"Oh man this reviewer passed away, finally I can insult him and he won't criticize me!"
- David Crooks
It's high-tier soyboy cuckery.
What a whimpering manchild.
He will get what's coming to him. Lots of people respect(ed) TB.
Everyone keeps copying and pasting this everywhere, but he apologized and said he was stupid for saying that. Also the fact that it's from 2011 doesn't help either.
7 fucking years ago, if I had to stand up to every single sentence i wrote online that long ago i'd be fucked
david crook dont prottec
stupid attac
but most importantly he aint coming bacc
I may not like TB but dont insult the man who just died
Saint Alphonse nah people like YOU are part of the problem
Saint Alphonse calm down Mr edge
Saint Alphonse i bet you are a friend of Crook. The dead guy has dealing cancer for several years and even though I don't know about him, he is still a human being. Please don't insult to the dead guy. Maybe right now you are stay alive and healthy, but when a disease comes to you, then you will know how terrible your life when you are dealing with your disease for a long time.
Lol it takes a real coward to not give grievances out towards someone until they die, goes for you too saint, you baiting coward
soo i can insult him after a month, year ? and pls dont say this bullshit that insulting dead guy is wrong, just because he's dead, if u think it is, in that case tell me how much hitler was a great guy
ps: i dont know this guy TB, i just dont like this bullshit when people say "u cant say anything wrong on him, because he died"
What a disgusting human being. I truly hope he doesn't get a job in this industry in the foreseeable future. R.I.P. John Bain, what an absolutely saddening event.
At the very least, it seems Bioware just removed him from their Contacts list.
He didnt say it to his face when he was alive which makes him a pussy. He fully deserves to get shit on
Yeah let not hire people for their disgusting opinions. social justice warrior.
Social media is becoming less and less of a safe place for toxic people to expose themselves and frankly that is a good thing. Crooks' pariah status is well-earned.
If people can't take harsh criticism from critics then maybe don't bother looking or listening at them or better yet, you're in the wrong line of work.
"This guy said bad things about games I was a small part in the making of, so it's good that he died!"
How pathetic a human being must one be to not only think this, but write it on social media as if it were acceptable? What mental deficiency allows you to celebrate the death of a person because he didn't like your creative endeavor? I won't celebrate your own professional suicide, Mr. Crooks, but I certainly WILL call it "well-deserved".
Savage Jesus the internet sure is fun huh?
Savage Jesus It's called being a decent person who does not revel in a person's death like some morbid vulture. You really can't throw a stone nowadays without it landing on a piece of shit. I never could get into his videos but I wouldn't wish his death upon my worst enemy. Also, your homophobic preschool level insult shows a severe lack of mental acuity and lack of drive to get out of your mother's basement.
Savage Jesus trolled the libtard epic style 😂😂😂😂👌👌👌
Libtard? What? That makes no sense in this context.
Yeah seriously
And Bioware wonders why we don't like them anymore. They keep employing human garbage like this guy.
The main problem with diversity hires. They`re hired for their identities, not their abilities or character.
Russell Brown david crooks is a white man. Being a toxic sjw isn't dependant on skin color or gender.
I don't know who was better, (1) this guy, (2) the girl who did a presentation titled "I hate men", or (3) the guy who said 9/11 should be remembered as being about oppression of brown people and that he didn't want white people to enjoy his games.
Nice work Bioware!
Ex bioware dev.
♩Someone is about to lose their jooooob♩
If you look at his twitter the part that had his job desc. is now deleted LOL
and probably alot of friends
hope he loses more. sick fuck.
Mister Ree Oh yeah, he definitely will. Imagine his next job interview. "Yeah, I'm applying for this new job because I got fired for attacking a man who died of cancer." He more or less ended his future.
Are you people seriously surprised Bioware has another piece of shit employee? They are the company that had an employee making racist remarks ever other week for over 2 fucking years & did nothing about it. & Crook wasn't the only Bioware employee that went to twitter to celebrate TB's death there were a couple other. Just look it up if you want to see it. Bioware is a trash company & has been for quite some time
The guy worked on Mass effect Andromeda...'nough said.
And yet TB was one of the more sympathetic critics of Andromeda. He pointed out all the graphical and gameplay issues, but he still thought it was a decent game, even recommended it after the patches.
Jeez and here I thought Fem Ryder was the stupidest face I associated with Mass Effect Andromeda. Not anymore.
i liked the game don't kill me please
Of course YOU did Revan! In all seriousness though, nothing wrong with that. It's why we have this thing called an opinion.
So if Mass Effect Adromeda was an exceptional game would it make what he said any better?
David Crooks is a spineless coward.
nah he is a hero and everything he said was great.
thelasthallow only a true coward attacks a man after his passing
Use your aggressive feelings!
i do, all the time. especially against people that really deserve it, also i think the rebels are actually evil and the empire are the good guys.
As quoted by Buzz Lightyear:
"You are one sad strange little man..."
Ahhhh Doki Doki
The dude has "crook" as his lastname... poetic.
*me reading the title*: this is definitely clickbait, there's no way...
*me watching the video*: damn...
And that guy had the audacity to call other people "rubbish".
Jokes on him. You mess up with the deceased, the end up in a mess.
Man this guy and the feminist have been going nuts since TB died. It's like they couldn't do it while he lived because they were too afraid of him but for some reason didn't take his fans into consideration that we would call them out on being scum.
I mocked the passing of TB as well. Get over it. Not everyone liked the guy and for good reason.
it's messed up, both sides of retards are calling him both an sjw loser as well as a women harassing gamergater.
these people seem to be scum.
avp251
If you think everyone that ever talked shit about you deserve to die of cancer, you need some serious help.
It's sad that people want to celebrate a man's untimely death just because they disagreed with something he said. Another form of cancer that needs to be eradicated.
tenalpoen it's kinda sad that he died from something he wished upon someone else too.
Hope people overall stop behaving like anyone involved in this, both like TB and like crooks.
I know. I didn't like a lot of things TB said and did.
I'd never wish cancer on anyone, but it's not my place to judge.
Total Biscuit told someone to "get cancer and die" then later got cancer and died. Karma don't play that shit.
Yah man. I had a parent die of cancer, so while I'd never want that on anybody, I also have a hard time feeling sympathetic to anyone that wishes that on another person even in passing. This Crooks guy may be an ass, but it doesn't seem to be much more than Bain was from what I've seen.
Ninja Sushi And he apologized. But it's always convenient to leave that out eh?
ANYONE who can speak on the death of another human in this manner I am convinced has lost a great portion of their own humanity.
Exactly. Like saying the world is better because someone that criticized what you guys to is awful. I’m glad that people didn’t let it go unnoticed.
His last name suits him.
well said.
"Slayer"
Am I the only one who thought you were talking about John for a second? I mean since his last name is "bain"
Getting cancer suits who said this: "@Seanza get cancer and die" - Totalbiscuit on Twitter
MileyCyrusPartyUSA that sounds like a joke honestly
People act like TB was secretly internet hitler, and he wasn't. He was a man, who made mistakes like we all do. It's funny to see people bringing up the same vague ("He was toxic", "his fanbase did x", "gamergate hurhurhur") or handful of specific examples of TB at his lowest ("get cancer" tweet, which he and the guy made amends about), while ignoring the vast amount of good things he did with his life and his time. We're not scrubbing his legacy we're just emphasizing the good things to remember him, because it's been, what, 1-2 days since he passed? Christ these people are vultures. They need some goddamn empathy.
Empathy has existed for a spec of dust in the path of all organisms that have lived, a method of preserving organisms of a species for natural selection.
We kill and eat the bodies of countless animals and most don't feel a thing, yet when we insult the dead of humans it becomes a travesty. This is simply because we are used to it - it's how "things work".
The offence caused is simply selfish to our species. It's only seen as bad to insult the dead if you cared about them, or if you were taught the reason being: "because they're dead".
Thinking about it more deeply, why should we care about the dead? We waste time on people that exist no more, we could focus on the ongoing suffering of the world but we don't. Culture and traditions seem to impede the progression of the empathy that you express.
Well, he is one of the devs that work on Star Wars Battlefront 2.
Nuff said.
So David... I got to ask.
Do you get a sense of pride and accomplishment for tweeting those tweets?
Possiblekim Personally I wouldn't dare ask that question, the answer might turn an already shitty situation into a worse one (although there is not much room left).
The tweets didn't cost Credits, Gems or any other made-up currency, so there couldn't possibly be any "pride and accomplishment" coming from them. P&A are reserved for paid extra content. :D
Possiblekim I get it know, to see those tweets you gotta pay 5 dollars in micro transactions per tweet
Possiblekim i don't see how he could have any pride when he hid his account afterwards like a little bitch.
cosmosofinfinity David also work for EA... in a galaxy far far away
TotalBiscuit's show was greatly enjoyable. I'm thankful for his efforts.
Bioware and Total Biscuit share something in common - they both died of cancer.
RIP John Bain. I may not have agreed with you all the time, but your passion for reforming the gaming industry can’t be understated.
Peanus Benis bad taste is the best fucking taste
Sarok Whenever I see someone use the word “toxic” I get the impression they mean ‘people who disagree with me’
Sarok can you give some exemples?
Sarok How about giving us examples to what you've said?
Give an example, otherwise you're just a complete idiot @Sarok
Everybody knows a true man waits for someone to die before viciously attacking them...
Svarthofde Of course. No more honorable a feat than to pick a fight with a dead man. If he wasn't already private I would spam tb reviews at him from multiple twitter accounts.
We have another name for them.
Cowards
It worked for Edgar Allen Poe, his popular postmortem autobiography was written by huge douche bag Rufus Griswold. Griswold wholesale made shit up about Poe because Poe gave him a negative review.
Paul Rippcord Then that must not be allowed to happen again! (not that I think it will, considering the positive support Totalbiscuit garnered)
@Paul Rippcord: Poe had the last laugh though. Everyone knows who Edgar Allen Poe is, as well as all the things he wrote. No one has heard of Rufus Griswold.
Meanwhile The Warframe Devs mourned for him, like RESPECTABLE HUMAN BEINGS.
Right at the beginning of Prime Time too. Wish I didn't see that clip...
Lets hope someone makes a Frame in his honor. Though I've never met or saw him, I know he left a big impact in this world. Hopefully everyone picks up where he left off
Yeah he did something similar with One Finger Death Punch when it was released.
So sad. I heard TB was "retiring" and feared the worst but it makes this no less devastating. Poor Genna :( RIP John, miss you already....
Nashley91 Ok
I will not buy from Bio-ware or EA until they fire that garbage human.
He does not work for Bioware he was a FORMER employee
After the contreversy he did got fired from Bioware and he can no longer work in another company .
@@hailanluu2169 he did?
@@Twittershouldceasetoexist yes
Theyll always be crap regardless who they fire or hire.
I just don't understand how people who do these things think they'll turn out. Did he think the public would rally to his side and join in spitting on TB's grave? Him being fired seems to be the only logical thing that could've happened.
Psychopaths without empathy.
They seem live in a bubble where there are no dissenting opinions and ironically no real diversity so yeah maybe he did think that everybody shares his opinion
Dylan Cherry clearly doesn't think before he speaks or tweets... Hope he has bad karma
Not to turn this into a Us/Them or Left/Right thing but this is the usual mindset of the modern Liberal/Leftist/SJW/PC person. Their views are the right morally right views and so they can mock even a dead person and feel justified because the dead person was commiting "wrong think".
I may heavily Heavily HEAVILY disagree with Anita Sarkessian and think she needs to stop BUT I wont be posting celebrations or that the world is a better place when/if her death is reported. She is at the end of the day still a human being and there is a certain level of respect that is owed another human being.
memnarch129
"Not to turn this into a left/right thing"
Immediately makes it a left/right thing.
The dude was a shithead, pure and simple, there's no need to inject your personal bias into it.
Crooks handled the situation in the most immature way imaginable
gamesandguitars003
Doesn't make it right.
Nope, he could've visited the family and thrown a Geiger counter at them.
Superlative much?
Lukegotjellyfish
Of all things, why a Geiger counter?
No, because I'm in higher education and learn shit that i have no other use for :p.
Cancer and radiation are linked.
Dying at 33 is too early to die
Cancer don't give a fuck about people's age.
He was only 2 years older than I am right now... :(
maybe I should count my blessings, for cancer makes no discrimination...
I'm stunned when i find out he was just in his 30s. I thought he was in his early 40s. Damn..
People have died earlier, think about it like this he doesnt have to listen to toxic people bitch anymore.
Terminal cancer sucks.
He didn't have the balls to say that to Mr. "bad rubbish"'s face while alive...
I wonder why?
I am soooo sorry that there are people out there that dislike the games you work on, and are vocal about it!
But why do you have to be a "whiny child" and "snowflake" about it?..
The irony.
Grow some cojones, finance your own game, and make it exactly to your liking, since you seem to know whats best for all...
I followed TB's content, and never agreed fully with anything he ever said or did. Sometimes, I even felt put off myself from his thoughts and opinions. I accepted that I would never likely agree with his views, but his content was nonetheless top notch.
In his passing, I do wish his family the best. What David did was simply inexcusable, as no matter how much distaste you may have for someone, it just isn't right to vent and slander them post-mortem. TB deserves better, even if you disagree with him or his actions. Cancer sucks, and hopefully, he'll rest in peace now, free of the daily pain.
Shame on you, David. Bringing more unneeded rep trashing to your already hurting company. If you aren't already fired, you likely will be, and this definitely hurt your career going forward.
I liked TB for his consumer advocacy, and highlighting indie devs. But I rolled my eyes at his “60fps or bust” attitude, he actually cheated himself out of some great gaming experiences because they were 30fps. And while he tried to play his PC elitism off as tongue in cheek, at times he was just a snob about it. Still, those are not reasons to hate a man. Opinions are just that, opinions.
Arella Jardin You almost baited me into arguing with you over fps. All I'll say is that I'd rather play on low settings with 144fps than on ultra with 30 fps.
I would, too. I have an One X, and if a game has the option to play at 60fps on 1080p, I’d pick that over the 4K mode at 30fps. I’m hoping next gen, Sony and MS prioritize cpus over gpus. However, if there’s a great game that only has 30fps, I’m not going to bypass it over such a thing. That’s something TB did, and even Jesse and Dodger would look exasperated with him sometimes. “Hey, wanna share in this wonderful experience we”re having?” “Nope, 30fps, I’m going to go play more Star Wars Galaxies on my phone.”
Arella Jardin You know what’s absurd? I thought he was waaaaaaay too kind on WTF is Mass Effect: Andromeda? I’m not sure what the heck this guy is all pissed about.
I think in this specific case, TB deserves a lot of respect in his passing because he did try to do a lot of good for the community. But I don't agree with the principle here as a whole. "No matter how much distaste you may have for someone, it just isn't right to vent and slander them post-mortem". There are a lot of powerful people who have done really horrible things (most obvious example, Hitler) , in which case I think it is fine to criticize their behavior and say good riddance. Not wish for their death necessarily, but just to say that the world is better off without their behavior.
What a "brave" individual, someone who will attack a person who's dead and can't defend themself. Also appropriate that his last name is Crooks.
He should have stolen himself a conscience.
bitsoi75 of course he has to attack TB when his dead. If he was alive he would trash his ass like he did with hundreds of crooks before.
The only thing that should really be said to David Crooks at this point is,
"Good luck finding another job."
Considering that he very clearly shot himself in the foot, likely lost his job at Bioware, and no self-respecting gaming studio will hire him, he has invalidated whatever education he went through to get where he is now. It's kinda sad that his hate-boner cost him years of his life effectively.
Good thing he bought new shoes, at least he can hide his newly and brutally shot foot lol, what an asshole, regardless how you felt regarding TB’s ideologies it is inexcusable to praise his death, a human’s life is full of good and bad moments, it is sick.
The damage of sharing your thoughts, how unsightly Margret!
Let us tarnish this man's reputation as we don't approve of him.
Damn, we're going back to the 1900s with this stuff.
He's the one who tried to tarnish Totalbiscuit's name because Totalbiscuit gave negative thoughts on games he was a part of. He tarnished his own name, we didn't have to do anything. In fact, we haven't done anything, it's his employer that fired him after they saw the tweet.
Normally yes, I am against people being fired for their beliefs, but this wasn't about beliefs. This was about Crooks being butthurt years after Totalbiscuit negatively reviewed his games, and then chose his opportunity now that Totalbiscuit can't defend himself to try and tarnish Totalbiscuit's name as some terrible person. He had an agenda, an sought to slander someone who was dead and couldn't rebut those claims because anyone with half a brain would be able to do just that.
Tl'DR This wasn't about beliefs, it was about someone throwing a temper tantrum and trying to make Totalbiscuit out to be a monster, and he only revealed his own colors as a monster in turn. His termination is the result.
Never has "Crooks" been a more appropriate name.
Mocking the dead is often in poor taste and holding a grudge because of critical remarks is just petty some people need to grow up. RIP Total Biscuit
Its ALWAYS in bad taste 😕 Its always petty. Its always cowardly.
its not in bad taste or cowardly, especially if you talked shit about him BEFORE he died, but i guess only he gets to call out people and make fun of them right? because he has plenty of times called out people and talked shit about them so we cant do the same about "total asshole" right?
thelasthallow not when he just died of cancer, dude you realize a lot of people are mourning his death and insulting his memory right now will turn grief to focused rage. Wait some time before pissing on a grave don't do it when the family and friends and fans are watching.
This dude’s real name is actually called Crooks? Seriously?
Can you even make this stuff up?
Aw boohoo he did his job and that upset you? He's a critic, or he was, it doesn't matter if you disagree with him or if his job caused trouble to others but that doesn't justify talking shit and laughing at the death of a man who was literally fighting for his life, who had to thank God for being awake for one more day. David's actions should be enough to get him fired from his job and to bring shame to his family. I would be ashamed to be the son of such horrible human being. No, of such horrible humanoid pile of shit.
I think bringing shame to his family is a bit too far. He is responsible for his own actions, therefore he will have to deal with his own consequences.
Jeezas freakin' Christ, a person dies and so many are so tasteless in their remarks. So you didn't like the man, can't you just keep it to yourselves? It's like he was a war criminal, or did something personal to you. Let the man rest and people mourn. Even if you considered TB to be a total jerk in life, does that justify being a piece of shit to him in death?
Celebrating a person's death shows just how this world is messed up. People not only are completely disrespectful, but only show they hold grudges over stupid shit for so long. So you have a stupid opinion, great. Everybody has one, it doesn't even care if you're right or wrong. The man passed away and there's nothing he did really worth so much hatred. Let it go.
Part of me needs to point out that there are multiple cultures around the world where celebrating one's death is expected. Now, I know that's not what you're referring to, but I need to point it out anyways. Not every culture sees death as something bad or sad, some see it as just another step in life.
Well, yes I understand what you mean. But I'd say there's a huge difference between that and what is happening on this instance. On cultures that celebrate one's death, it's usually people that cared for the deceased that do the celebration, not people that hated said person, or that were merely trolling for the sake of douchebaggery. Good thing to point that out though, so it's completely clear what we're talking about here =)
Even if that was the case, what's the point of backlashing when the person is already dead? It'll only hit those who were close to the person, not the person herself. And those people are innocent in all of this.
Say all you will, there is absolutely no justification for this, even if TB was to blame as well.
No need to get so philosophical over the matter, I think it's a bit simpler than that. Is TB around to hear others complaints about him? No. Are his loved ones responsible for any bulshit he pulled? I'd say no as well. So... no, death doesn't clear all sins, you're right. But to go after a guy that just died seems petty and unreasonable. Let people mourn, and use some common sense on your expression of feelings about him.
Plus, it seems you're describing him as some power mad dictator that killed people for speaking out against him. It's true that I didn't know TB all too well, but that doesn't seem the case too. :P
I've never seen a celebration of a person's death that didn't look like a dick move. We wouldn't be talking about this if it was the mere conversation that TB was far from perfect. No, some douchebag actually tweeted he was glad he died and did a several post rant on the matter. That's at least as shitty, if not more, than anything that TB ever did. And whilst one could even argue that the punishment fits the crime (not that I agree with that standpoint), the criminal in this case is already dead. Did the ones around him warrant enough hatred to go through this?
I mean... FFS, even if you have the need to express TB wasn't cool, you CAN at least not say you're happy about his death. It's just ridiculous.
Nah sorry, can't say I'm avoiding the problem, and I'm not defending him either. And are you actually saying his relatives "deserve" this? Now that's a shame. Hope you never get to witness someone say they're happy a relative of yours died. Somehow, that doesn't seem peachy fine, at all. It doesn't stop the grieving process, but it sure as hell makes it worse. Way to go internet, what a great win for mankind. *clap clap*
Yes, people had beef with him and it doesn't magically go away because he is dead. But you also seem to think that since people suffered by his hands, they're also magically entitled to having the same behavior or worse. Why? His behavior was reprehensible and this isn't any better. And it should be, if that was really the point.
So my question is... Are you willing to continue to argue with a dead person? And in such hateful manner? If that's what makes you happy, then suit yourself. To me, it just seems toxic.
Some people prefer to change things and not continue a shit cycle that by the looks of it, seems to go on for a very long time. So please, learn to let go or at least aknowledge that the discussion of TB's behavior could be done in a way much more productive than shouting to the world that you're happy that he's dead. It certainly made the subject a very hot topic, but it could have also been done in a much less douchebaggy fashion. ^^
"He's pissed me off in a dozen ways, but at least I've never been threatened by his force."
And yet you waited until his death to say that.
What makes this even more upsetting is that mr. crooks implies that there are others in the gaming industry that feel the same way as he does of TB's passing.
You can imagine what people like him think about the other content creators who are still alive like Yong Yea, Jim Sterling, Sid Alpha ect.
I feel like half of the gaming industry wants Jim Sterling dead. If TB elicits this much of a reaction I can't imagine how much disdain there is for someone as blunt and unapologetic as Sterling.
you dont have to look far, sometimes it feels like the real reason gaming is going down the shitter is because devs cant put down the fucking twitter. I dont know why tech sectors have made twitter a part of their business networking but its dangerously counter productive, employees waste company time catching a brain parasite from the twitter hive-mind and they are daily a single bad post away from creating a PR nightmare for their company.
I don't know how much many big companies even care about people like Jim tbh. I can't see Ubisoft or EA giving a shit about him
TB was a consumer advocate. Jim Sterling is in bed with half the industry and only attacks easy targets. They're not comparable.
TB was actually getting bashed all over Twitter right after news broke that he died.... it wasn't anyone big on the platform, but one of the people bashing him had likes upwards of 60k on the tweet. It's sad and disturbing that people would do that.
You missed out. I watched tons of his videos usually before game release and his vocabulary of words reviewing cannot be touched. He was like a superstar rapper for video game reviews. Go back and watch some of his videos and see what I mean. Almost all of his stuff is spot on in his own words which makes him totally unique top quality.
I love how the people who hated him are going on a rampage and getting told off and ravaged by everyone else. Like the guy posting the old TB tweet where he told someone to "get cancer and die", without ever mentioning his apology later down the line. Or the couple of other idiots who are so enraged by the fact that a person they loathed got more respect and recognition in his death than they ever will (because, surprise surprise, they're disgusting people) that they're trying their hardest to slam on the guy's death. The fact that some sad individuals are so overjoyed by his passing only serves to show how great of an impact this man had on the industry, games journalism, TH-cam, and the gaming "community" as a whole. If he hadn't stirred up things, made his voice heard, gone the extra mile, he wouldn't have as many friends or as many enemies. Rest in peace, John. The world grows a little dimmer without you.
Yeah honestly, fuck those people.
They basically condone pissing on a guy's grave by pathetically painting him as some sort of monster.
So if this dev apologizes, you'll forgive him? See how stupid that sounds? Most of us understands TB only apologized because he said that back when he wasn't as famous. Of course he's going to be more "PC" with his word choices later on, ESPECIALLY now that he has cancer himself.
A Ninja Nah, we just acknowledge hypocrisy when we see it. Just because you're 3 feet under doesn't mean your previous actions don't mean anything. Apologizing for something fucked up doesn't make anything right.
@@welkingunther4298 this is a little late but, they arent comparable. The person tb said to have cancer was not in anyway affected by cancer. A stupid remark, yes, but not a hurtful or impactful one.
Example: if i were to call you a "blind asshat", it is a dickish thing to do, but is clearly exaggerated as i doubt you are blind. If you died and i came out and said "finally he died". What part of that statement can be taken as hyperbole: none, because you died and i am mocking you, while acknowledging your death.
@@MiorAkif It's the same shit though.If I started to tell people that I hoped their pet died a painful disease, and then it happened to myself, I deserve no sympathy in that case, and one of the few rare cases karma plays out. You might disagree because TB is a celebrity, but I'm sure if some random said that shit, you'd think as I do.
I wish his family well and all those affected, but you can't just wish a harmful disease that MANY people are facing today and are heavily affected by. What if the person TB said to get cancer and die had a family member that died of it? Again, he's a celebrity, so he gets a pass, just like how celebrities taking drugs is considered a norm while a normal civilian who does it get 20 years in prison. Sorry, I don't buy into that.
I love how as the tweets get more and more disturbing AND desperate, you can clearly see how he tries to justify his reasoning and motives. You can literally FEEL falling down the gaping chasm that is his mind.
And we are talking about a full grown adult here
I honestly felt bad for the guy, clearly he's mad for no good reason and came off like a child throwing a temper tantrum.
This is beyond rude that a ex bioware dev is mocking the passing of totalbiscuit.
Saint Alphonse #Edgelord, what is your fucking problem?
Saint Alphonse this guy is trolling. I bet you never have any disease or feeling sick in real life
Saint Alphonse i'm sorry but what did i do to deserve to die by cancer?
you got your 12 minutes of fame congrats edgelord
Change Ex Bioware Dev to person. He shouldn't have done that AT ALL. Especially he waited for him to die to say so. He didn't try confronting him. The fuck.
In all honesty TotalBiscuit could be a bit of an ass at times, be extreme on things etc. but it doesn't excuse the dev in question essentially saying it was a good thing that he died. Like it or not he was influential in gaming in a few respects, for the better or worse and you gotta at least respect him.
Not only that but he was a son, a father, and a husband. His family is currently grieving, and its terrible to celebrate in somones death because they stepped on your toes once or twice.
a bit of an ass is quite nicely said .. he was a total douche and many times his so called critisism was just he being uninformed of what he is actually talking about.. look i really disliked TB but i have to also admit what that dude let out on twitter is just too extreme
I don't get why so many gamers are suddenly caring about TB. The dickhead went full SJW over the past couple years, hopping on board with the very mentality that is destroying the gaming industry. My condolences to his family, but the gaming industry is better off without him.
Alan, I think you missed the part where I pointed out that he became one of the problems that the gaming industry faces. His "normal attitude" became very SJW over the past few years. He became the very thing he originally spoke against. Why would gamers not be glad such a horrible voice is no longer around to negatively impact the industry? I'm not saying celebrate his death, I'm saying we, as gamers, should be glad he can no longer poison the industry. Would you, as a gamer, not be glad if Anita or Zoe or the rest of the SJW "gamers" were no longer around to harm the industry? He became the thing he built his fame on speaking out against.
Well, he considered himself a cynical person, one look at his TH-cam tells you that. He was never on TH-cam to be nice and candy coat shit. He was always honest with his opinions, which are going to ruffle feathers regardless of whether or not he meant to ruffle them.
A years gone and I'm reminded of this. It's ok to have an opinion, and to have not liked Bain. But when you go on a rant about it at such a sad time for all involved, you just sound like a crazy bitter individual who can't accept that sometimes, somewhere, there are those who disagree with you.
TotalBiscuit, you are missed.
David just ruined his life.
You don't mock the death of someone. You especially don't do it when the person is a big figure in your industry and you want to stay employed. By doing this, Dave just marked himself as a red flag and no company will *_EVER_* hire him. Now he has a useless degree he spent thousands on and useless job experience.
lmao.
Hopefully it'll turn out this way.
hopefully that's how it will be, but he works for EA so..
What exactly are you wasting your time trying to say here?
Ignorance coupled with a self-like. Nothing to see here.
Totalbiscuit was literally a figurehead of the critique community for video games. He had possibly the largest platform of any one singular game reviewer on the planet. Check your own fucking reality
i hope heaven is in 60fps, rest in peace TB
Unlocked framerates, and options menus that you can get lost in.
With FOV sliders, as far as the eye can see :'(
The eye can only see 29.4 fps so it would be useless.
Sidenote: What really is the point of saying "rest in peace", it's not going to stop people from digging up bodies and TB can't feel any peace or anything else - he's dead. Meh, more of a criticism of phrases in English than anything else.
Baklava
As wellnas old-school great cheat menus
What this ex-Bioware dev did say to TotalBiscuit was truly disgusting and unnacceptable.
Not just ex-bioware, Anthem's lead animator Mike Jungbluth defended and encouraged David Crooks.
Sean SMEGHEAD Whoa, really? That's just really disgusting.
Yeah. His Twitter is also protected atm but there are archives flying around.
Sean SMEGHEAD I see. I guess he doesn't want to face the backlash by doing that cowardly action.
I'm really starting to consider boycotting Bioware because of these shitty people in the company.
Holy shit... I mean yeah tb said a load of stuff I disagreed with and personally I didn't really like him but wow, what a horrible thing to do to a man who had just died...
Mocking the dead? Seriously? TB said some dumb things in his life, but he was far from an evil person, and he's dead. I hope to god the follows Crooks for the rest of his damned life, such disrespect. Rest in Peace Mr. Bain, you'll be missed.
Elfandspartan And I thought only Logan Paul was this stupid.
Who is BioWare again..?
BioWare are the people currently making anthem for EA. they also made the mass effect series
That's too much of a compliment, mate. They're worth less than the turd that goes down my toilet.
They will be R.I.P. BioWare 2019 when Anthem is revealed as just another Destiny MMO and leaves my (Former) favourite Dev in ruins.
A developer not short on making bad decisions, and has hired a variety of despicable people over the years
Didn't BioWare close in 2014? Oh wait. Wishful thought.
I bet if jim sterling die one day the guys from digital homicide would do the same thing
You'd have: Digi hom, That random vietnam/south east Asian developer who wanted to take jim to court/the Alt-right and maybe the left (in need to virtue signal hard that their virtuous) all lining up to do the same.
1. TB died this young only because he had cancer early, Jim is pretty much just as young so who knows, maybe the entire Digital Homicide would die before Jim does
2. Fact was, TB was always technical in his viewpoints and there were always reasons behind him trashing on something (whether they are objectively true or not is another story), and it's rare to see him focus fire on a certain dev over multiple games, aka it was never too personal. TB probably didn't even know who this David Crooks was. The video said Crooks just happy for TB's death because TB trashed some games of his before. This guy is actually a nobody. This is the reason why this scandal is stirring up this much attention. No one expected this.
3. Jim and DH on the other hand had a long battle history with nasty (but justifiable) videos from Jim and ridiculously delusional actions from DH. They are nemesis now
4. DH as a studio pretty much has no respect from anyone at this point
so really, I don't think DH doing or saying anything to Jim's hypothetical death would cause backlash at all. Would be surprising if they don't
You best hope he doesnt die this early....if he does then there will be no people to call out the bullsh that videogame companies do without hiding behind their moms.......you may say there are people out there who do that, but let me tell you they always either hide or preffer to wisper about it and hope they didnt heard....not Jim nor John...they werent afraid to say it like it is.!!!!
Lmfao
There'll be more than just dh
To this day this guys tweets are still protected. Looks like the ghost of TB may be haunting hahaha
I'm not a fan of TB, but I understand and respect his impact on the gaming and TH-cam industry. Absolutely disgusted someone would revel in the death of an innocent person simply because they don't agree, especially when they share the same industry.
Even in death TB was able to show us the dark side of game development. A fitting farewell IMO.
RIP Bain, your contribution to gaming will not be forgotten.
ǝsınɹɔ ɯoʇ The attitude has become very shady at times.
ME:A just was a very bad ME game,the game would've been a lot less scrutinized with a different name.
I mean, if you're trying to blacklist yourself in the entire industry you work for, this is a pretty good way to do it.
walmart is always hiring
It's like people forget how to be adults as the years go by.
How to destroy your career in under one business day
Definitely. Who thinks it’s a good idea to mock the death of someone who is respected by millions of people. I hope he got a lot of karma because he wouldn’t feel the same way if it was someone close to him. Absolutely disgusting excuse for a human.
I applaud BioWare's instant reaction, letting a systems programmer go is a really hard choice.
David Crooks needs to write a book titled "How to Completely Destroy Your Career"
L Huppler i really really hope he does destroy his career and i hope he apologizes and never get his job back
I'll be honest, I didn't like Totalbiscuit either. If you want to know why, it's because he had a big mouth and thin skin. That is to say, he invited criticism with his words and actions, but he always hid away from any criticism that actually came.
That however does not make him a horrible human being, much less one deserving of having someone dance on his grave on twitter like this. Despite his character flaws, he did a lot of positive things for the gaming community and was respectable as a professional insomuch as aside from being kind of a douche he never did anything unethical or intentionally detrimental, and on his good days did provide the internet with some quality entertainment and information. Some of my favorite TH-camrs in fact can attribute Totalbiscuit playing a significant part in the starts of their careers.
xxJing having a big mouth and thin skin is a good thing.
Pedro Gomez, It's not. It means that you are going to piss a lot of people off, but also that you are going to not be able to handle the retaliation. Which is what happened with TB, he shut himself off from pretty much all sources of feedback because it was literally making him sick. He very often said things that would anger people, received retaliation on it, and then stressed himself to the hospital. I am not exaggerating here either.
Well he did get verbally abusive with his wife because she voted for a 3rd party during the 2016 election and not Hilary. I'd consider that as a bad person, someone who doesn't allow other people to have different opinions.
Pedro Gomez Like what the other guy said, it ain't good.
xxJing he was one of the best PC game reviewers ever, a bit convoluted at times but his bias usually never took over a review even with things like warhammer 40k which he and i both love vehemently.
Wow, that's truly as low as it gets.
I don't care how much you disagreed with a critic of your work, this sort of behavior is just despicable. I hope David Crooks never gets a job in the games industry again after this tirade, he doesn't deserve to breath the same fucking air as true creative minds.
AGREE. Have some respect for the deceased.