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TotalBiscuit has passed away...
7 years ago
As the title says, John Bain "TotalBiscuit" has passed away...
He died yesterday after fighting cancer for 4 years, it had been in remission for a while but then it reared its ugly head again last year and his community managers posted a message on the TotalBiscuit Reddit page about that he's retiring as a game critic and instead would focus what little time he had left on his family as well as have fun.
During his fight against cancer, he had undergone extensive chemotherapy, but the post on Reddit said that they were no longer effective as his body had adapted to it all and worst of all, the cancer had spread to his liver.
As you'd guess, there's a lot of sadness in the gaming community as a whole with his passing, especially among other game critics like Jim Sterling and Angry Joe as well as YouTubers like Jim Caddick "Caddicarus" and Ethan Klein "H3H3 Productions".
John will be dearly missed by everyone, especially since he was one of those who was fighting against the shady business practices of the Triple A industry with how they entice people with pre-order exclusives and other such things along with cutting finished portions of games up and selling them as "DLC" as well as calling out companies that issue spurious DMCA takedowns and such against critics on YouTube for saying that their game is bad, like the infamous Day One: Garry's Incident debacle which saw TB become the target of such a takedown by the game's developer after he had done one of his famous "WTF is..." on it.
He rightfully criticized the game for how poorly made it was and he also fought against the developer when they took down his video, he in the end won against them.
https://www.pcgamer.com/game-critic.....ies-at-age-33/
Rest in peace, John, your life was taken too soon....
He died yesterday after fighting cancer for 4 years, it had been in remission for a while but then it reared its ugly head again last year and his community managers posted a message on the TotalBiscuit Reddit page about that he's retiring as a game critic and instead would focus what little time he had left on his family as well as have fun.
During his fight against cancer, he had undergone extensive chemotherapy, but the post on Reddit said that they were no longer effective as his body had adapted to it all and worst of all, the cancer had spread to his liver.
As you'd guess, there's a lot of sadness in the gaming community as a whole with his passing, especially among other game critics like Jim Sterling and Angry Joe as well as YouTubers like Jim Caddick "Caddicarus" and Ethan Klein "H3H3 Productions".
John will be dearly missed by everyone, especially since he was one of those who was fighting against the shady business practices of the Triple A industry with how they entice people with pre-order exclusives and other such things along with cutting finished portions of games up and selling them as "DLC" as well as calling out companies that issue spurious DMCA takedowns and such against critics on YouTube for saying that their game is bad, like the infamous Day One: Garry's Incident debacle which saw TB become the target of such a takedown by the game's developer after he had done one of his famous "WTF is..." on it.
He rightfully criticized the game for how poorly made it was and he also fought against the developer when they took down his video, he in the end won against them.
https://www.pcgamer.com/game-critic.....ies-at-age-33/
Rest in peace, John, your life was taken too soon....
