EPTTotalBiscuit has passed away - Page 6
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37032 Posts
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xenonn40
United States282 Posts
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Thaniri
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AskJoshy
United States1625 Posts
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lestye
United States4178 Posts
On May 25 2018 09:34 JimmyJRaynor wrote: some game whose name i can not recall.... it was a multiplayer game where every person individually controlled a single unit in a giant 30+ player RTS game; 1 person on the team was the actual RTS game player. you needed 30 or 40 or 50 players to have a single RTS "1v1" game any how.. the game sold 100,000 units... it bombed... they paid TB to play the game for a very short time like 2 days or something. TB did it because he loved the previous version of this odd RTS game. The game was selling <500 units a day by the time TB featured it. in 2 days the game sold another 40,000 units... all on the back of TB. just wow. a 1 man marketing machine. I think that was common. I'd imagine we'd see a ton of testimonials from indie devs that wouldn't maintained the amount of early success without him. lets not forget that he even heavily promoted league of legends in the early days and reached numbers Riot didn't think was possible (He got to the "design a champion" perk with the Referral program) | ||
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WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
SGDQ is coming up next month, and while it's for MSF and not PCF, it'd still be remiss for there not to be some concerted effort to get his name into a (few) game(s). | ||
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Royalal
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LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
I remember meeting him at an MLG event in 2011 when he was one of the main casters, he did so much for the Starcraft community and the gaming community as a whole. 33 is far, far too young. | ||
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Circumstance
United States11403 Posts
He mentioned this sort of competitive gaming thing he was involved with. I didn't know what he was on about. I never understood a lot of the stuff he and the other hosts talked about, though I had gathered that it had to do with WoW a lot of the time. But one time, I actually decided to look at this weird game of his. I didn't get it, but the intensity of the players and the casters and the fans blew me away. Turned out he had dragged me into one of the most infamous GSL finals in history - Hyun vs Sniper. And I loved it. I loved slowly understanding what this thing called Starcraft was, and what it meant. It led me to TL, and to LRing. And it led me to esports, and what's now one of the major passions of my life. This memorial post comes from Austin, which had been travelled to for the sake of attending Dreamhack. And competing in it. For the second time. In another game that, in large part, I had been introduced to thanks to a series of videos highlighting it from TB. My condolences go out to Genna and Orion, neither of whom deserved to have ever gone through any amount of the horrid things that have happened to them in life. While what we know about Orion is limited, a highly sensible decision on the part of his highly sensible parents, we know plenty about the strong, intelligent, generous, and unbreakable person that is Genna Bain. Privacy now. Then support. She deserves all of both that the world could offer her. John Bain, rest in peace. You touched lives around the world, and changed quite a few along the way. You were a tireless advocate for what you thought was right in the industries you were a part of - videos like Garry's Incident are a gold standard. You practiced what you preached, refusing to give review scores and spearheading the practice of labeling sponsored content. You handled controversy well, constantly doing all you could to shake off the toxic groups that had latched onto you from a controversy that changed after it was too late to untangle yourself from it. I'll always regret not shaking your hand at Dreamhack Austin 2016. You led me to become this mess. And I thank you for everything, from the bottom of my heart. A world of gamers salute. | ||
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ToXavieR
Cuba19 Posts
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Icarus2
China109 Posts
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renaissanceMAN
United States1840 Posts
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mierin
United States4943 Posts
On May 25 2018 09:58 Thaniri wrote: We can only strive to emulate his tenacious will to live in our own lives. Lest we forget how precious and short life truly is. I couldn't have said it better. RIP. | ||
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chipmonklord17
United States11944 Posts
Rest in Peace TB | ||
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franzji
United States583 Posts
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AzAlexZ
Australia3303 Posts
Total Biscuit is and will always be a hero loved by the Starcraft 2 community scene with all his contributions to this wonderful game. Every single one of his SHOUTCRAFT tournament will remain the best ever. Rest in Pepperino (RIP) and may god bless his lovely soul. | ||
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StorrZerg
United States13919 Posts
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kawoq
Guatemala357 Posts
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dgwow
Canada1024 Posts
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ilikeredheads
Canada1995 Posts
this is a tremendous loss for the gaming community | ||
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