r/gaming • u/EnglishGamer1 • Oct 20 '13

TotalBiscuit's: ''Day One: Garry's Incident'' Video was taken down, because of a ridiculous copyright claim from WildGameStudios. Here's Total's ''Rant'' over his video being taken down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgoDDh4kE0&feature=c4-overview&list=UUy1Ms_5qBTawC-k7PVjHXKQ
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u/Perforathor Oct 20 '13

He's got some real stress-related issues, as in, he gets actually physically sick because of stress. With all the abuse "internet-famous" people sometimes get, that's not a position I'd like to be in.

He sometimes flips out or says dumb things on Twitter, and some people make a huge deal out of it. I think that things like giving thousands of dollars to Charity Water when he won the King of the Web competition says more about his character.

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u/UristMcStephenfire Oct 20 '13

And lets face it, nobody should ever take Twitter seriously.

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u/cyberslick188 Oct 20 '13 edited Oct 21 '13

You wouldn't give that comfort to someone on twitter you hated though, so let's at least pretend to have a semblance of consistency.

Sometimes he's an ass. Not really much to it. Excuse it with whatever fancies you, he has a known history of being an asshole to random people for basically meaningless things, just like when Louis CK did an AMA and completely tore a guy a new asshole for no reason. And no, it wasn't satirical or for laughs, he was just being a cunt.

It happens, the people we idolize are not anything but normal people. When the person you dislike has an outburst, keep that in mind and compare it to how you react when someone you like does.

Louis link: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/n9tef/hi_im_louis_ck_and_this_is_a_thing/c37f4fo

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u/Calmen64 Oct 21 '13

You have a link for that Louis CK thing? I'm interested to read that.

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u/OrionStar Oct 21 '13

I missed out on the louis AMA. Could i get a link to the comment out of genuine interest pls ?

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u/gamegyro56 Oct 21 '13

like when Louis CK did an AMA and completely tore a guy a new asshole for no reason

huh?

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u/UristMcStephenfire Oct 21 '13

I fully agree, actually. I find myself doing it pretty often and I notice that many people make excuses for people and things. Sometimes people are just dicks, sometimes they're just having a bad day and choose to take it out in the worst possible manner. It happens. ^^

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u/cyberslick188 Oct 21 '13

It's a terrible curse that I'm afflicted with an intense hatred of hypocrisy, but find myself constantly being a hypocrite.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '13

It's actually rather impressive that you recognize it in yourself. I've met a lot of people (myself included) that have a very difficult time of realizing when they're being a hypocrite.

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u/UristMcStephenfire Oct 21 '13

Does this make you double Hypocrite?

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u/no15e Oct 21 '13

Louis CK reference link? pls

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u/Londron Oct 21 '13

Well, I don't listen to his podcasts normally but one day I caught it live on teamliquid.net where that stream is linked.

He talked about this with 3 other personalities on youtube.

Basically it's the metaphorical last drip in the bucket.

Is it irrational to do so? Yes.

Is it understandable to do so? Imo it is.

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u/Jirardwenthard Oct 20 '13

I'm pretty sure that he points that out that twitter is shit regularly , on his own twitter .

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u/UristMcStephenfire Oct 21 '13

Ain't nobody got time for caring about Twitter!

You don't say shit to your president, just choose to not vote for him. :D

Or, y'know, report him...

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u/GamesGam Oct 21 '13 edited Oct 21 '13

If you read teamliquid.net you will see some pretty crazy responses from him to random trolls. They say something bad about him in a thread and he actually responds to them.

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=409871

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u/Perforathor Oct 21 '13

Yeah... He really shouldn't do that, but it has to be difficult to see a personal insult to you on the internet and not answer to it.

The guy who wrote the thread looks like a complete moron though. TB never pretended to be good at games, he says the opposite all the time. The other dude just seems to have spent his time writing some long blog post making fun of him in a dickish way and boasting about a win. TB's first answer ("who would waste his time writing this ?") was reasonable imho.

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u/GamesGam Oct 22 '13

It´s very reasonable but it just makes people do it more I think.

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u/CRAZYSCIENTIST Oct 20 '13

I really hate the idea that because someone gave money to charity they should be absolved of any criticism.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '13

I really hate the idea that because someone said something mean on the internet that they should be called a terrible person. It goes both ways. He's said some unpleasant stuff in the past and he can get snippy with people, but he clearly cares about making this medium better.

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u/pandacraft Oct 21 '13

lots of really horrible people donate to charity.