Christ, some of you fucking people.
Some of you people are genuine vultures. What do some of your comments accomplish, exactly, except for the visceral feel of taking a dump from on high on a person you seem to hate?
Because every time someone praises a person who made people fear his powerful influence turning their way, it reasonably makes my blood boil a bit.
I think the TB situation with GG is far too simplified than what people actually give credit for, especially in these threads which instantly turn to shit.
TB, for better or worse, always criticized gaming journalism. He had so for years and years before GG blew up. When GG came around he, unfortunately, legitimized it due to that inherent distrust of the media, ignoring the sexism and false hoods the actual story presented. He didn't do enough to amend for what GG turned into and his roll in giving a hate movement cover.
This is mainly because TB was pretty good at covering games, and really fucking bad at anything related to intersecting issues in gaming culture. His hot takes and lack of understanding on basic concepts made him insufferable for lots of contemporary issues, which was part of the reason I stopped listening to him. He liked to build straw mans and get angry when people called him out. Almost reminds me of Colin Moriarty, someone I also enjoyed for his contrarian views but have ran away from due to his crazy train ride the last few years.
It sucks because TB did do a lot of important things. Guy was one of the key players in the SOPA fiasco, and obviously what he's being remembered for in this situation which is his roll in getting so many people in the west interested in SC2 competitive play.
Enough with the bolded. Sorry to focus on you because it's not just you, but: it did not turn into anything. It was that from day 1. Fuck, it was that from day like... -12.
He knew about it. He commented on some of it. He just cared more about supporting their inane whining about journalism than not supporting their harassment. And that's at best, compared to signal boosting it or letting his many many followers go at someone.
TB was so f**king naive when it came to Gamergate and trying to talk about gaming journalism for real, but you are silly if you believe he actually supported harassment towards women in the industry and he was "part of the movement".
He talked with GG people about games journalism ergo he hates women and he is a bigot. Eh.
He deserves that. Made so much for StarCraft 2.
He wasn't fucking naive. He commented on those women directly too.
Even at best, he wasn't ignorant of the fact that he was helping people who were harassing women, he just
didn't care. He cared more about his own goals than that his actions helped more women get harassed, especially when he was signal boosting people involved.
But he backed away from GG, check post #121.
What can you do? You guys won't even bother to research things a bit, you just see that single tweet being brought up over and over again and you already made up your minds about him. A lot of shit happened between that tweet and him dying, one of them is him distancing himself away from GG.
It's like some of you have never heard of redemption, very few people are above it.
He never truly backed away from GG, nor did he ever redeem himself.
You can't just say that when the situation's so bad that the people he hurt are harassed by his fans whenever they bring it up.
Very cool and deserved. The gaming community misses you TB.
I don't
Disgusting
Truthfully, I think it's incredibly disgusting insulting someone when he's not here to defend, so it's pretty insane seeing all this hate against John.
I'm happy ESL doesn't give two fucks about this type of comments.
When were they ever able to discuss this?
Fans like you love to go on about respecting the dead, but prior to that when people did speak up, the line was about attacking someone with cancer... which predated him doing this, so what are you supposed to do? And meanwhile, there's the pretty obvious reason of not speaking up before now:
getting harassed more.
Don't worry, though, his fans come out in droves to harass anyone who speaks up about what he did on Twitter so I think he'll be fine.
People shouldn't receive death threats and other harassment. There are plenty of shitheads on the internet who harass and threaten people, but TB wasn't one of them.
Except: he was.
