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John Bain (Aka Totalbiscuit) has passed away [READ OP]

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Wololo

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NotLiquid said:
I had a feeling the writing was on the wall since the last update on his current state of being but this is still just all too surreal to process.
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Yea I think he knew. He did say he left out specific details so people wouldn't guess how much time he had left. Very sad. Fought till the end
 
Carl2291

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Oct 27, 2017
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Man that sucks. Fuck cancer. I've followed TB since his early WoW days.

2 days ago he mentioned on Twitter that physically, he was feeling better and he just needed a few days rest.

Rest in peace John. You're gonna be missed.
 
AmuroRX

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Oct 25, 2017
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Rest in piece. He was one of the early online personalities I followed. I've seen him grow and mature into the role. I look up to his commitment to his family, his work, and morals. He made mistakes, but always worked toward growing and learning from them. He was one of the greats.
 
Dio

Dio

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Oct 25, 2017
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possibly the guy that made me into being more pc oriented in my gaming, and introduced me to game podcasts. while expected, im still shocked. may you rest in peace, tb
 
Milennia

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Been there since the beginning with him, I am unbelievably beside myself despite knowing this was inevitable after his second terminal announcement, RIP
 
Buyao

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May he rest in peace. My thoughts and prayers go out to his friends and family. He fought a good fight and I hope he didn't suffer that much pain at the end.

My mom passed away last year due to lung cancer and she was in so much pain that she had to spend most of the time in bed when cancer spread to her spine and arm.

Seriously, fuck cancer.
 
MegaBeefBowl

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I feel sick.

I feel like I've been there from the beginning with WoW Radio, Blue Plz, Cataclysm Beta, and WTF is.... He deserved every inch he got in life.
He convinced me that using Youtube as a platform for informative game coverage was worth paying attention to.

This is a punch to the gut. It was inevitable after every announcement of his declining health, but it doesn't change the impact.

Nobody can deny he put up one hell of a fight.
RIP.

When John announced his illness, he admitted that the symptoms were present for a long time. He dismissed them and didn't seek out medical opinion. If any of you notice health irregularities, please for the love of god get checked out.
 
RadioactiveLobster

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Oct 27, 2017
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This sucks. Fuck cancer.

John was one of the main people I followed and I always like to hear his opinion/thoughts even if I didn't always agree with them. He fought for the consumer and the gamer and he fought his cancer as hard as anyone I've ever seen.

RIP
 
BrentoLand

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Oct 29, 2017
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I've had people in my family suffer and pass away from cancer. No one deserves the pain it brings to them and their loved ones,

Fuck Cancer
 
Dernhelm

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Oct 25, 2017
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God, last I heard he actually felt a bit confident in his treatment.

His poor family.

No one deserves to go out like this.
 
Reven Wolf

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Oct 25, 2017
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Rest in Peace John.

You got me into PC gaming, and so many other awesome things (blood bowl was awesome and I can't believe hadn't played it before).

I've listened to the podcast for years and it always brought a smile to my face.

Fuck cancer, and you fought like hell.
 
Luminaire

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Oct 25, 2017
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RIP brave soul.

Always held onto some glimmer of hope that there'd be a miraculous breakthrough...
 

UtterlyPerplexed

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Oct 25, 2017
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Having cancer is serious enough, but it's especially heartbreaking to see it claim someone who at the age of 33 should be in their prime.

RIP, TotalBiscuit. The notable legacy you've left on the PC gaming scene cannot be adequately expressed.
 
Muditā

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Apr 21, 2018
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When faced the passing of someone meaningful in my life I always come back to this Buddhist teaching from Ajahn Brahm:

Grief is what we add on to loss. It is a learned response, specific to some cultures only. It is not universal and it is not unavoidable.

I found this out through my own experience of being immersed for over eight years in a pure, Asian-Buddhist culture. In those early years in a Buddhist forest monastery in a remote corner of Thailand, Western culture and ideas were totally unknown. My monastery served as the local cremation ground for many surrounding villages. There was a cremation almost weekly. In the hundreds of funerals I witnessed there in the late 1970s, never once did I see anyone cry. I would speak with the bereaved family in the following days and still there were no signs of grief. One had to conclude that there was no grief. I came to know that in northeast Thailand in those days, a region steeped in Buddhist teachings for many centuries, death was accepted by all in a way that defied Western theories of grief and loss.

Those years taught me that there is an alternative to grief. Not that grief is wrong, only that there is another possibility. Loss of a loved one can be viewed in a second way, a way that avoids the long days of aching grief.

My own father died when I was only sixteen. He was, for me, a great man. He was the one who helped me find the meaning of love with his words, "Whatever you do in your life, Son, the door of my heart will always be open to you." Even though my love for him was huge, I never cried at his funeral service. Nor have I cried for him since. I have never felt like crying over his premature death. It took me many years to understand my emotions surrounding his death.

I found that understanding through the following story, which I share with you here.

As a young man I enjoyed music, all types of music from rock to classical, jazz to folk. London was a fabulous city in which to grow up in the 1960s and early 1970s, especially when you loved music. I remember being at the very first nervous performance of the band Led Zeppelin, at a small club in Soho. On another occasion, only a handful of us watched the then-unknown Rod Stewart front a rock group in the upstairs room of a small pub in North London. I have so many precious memories of the music scene in London at that time.

At the end of most concerts I would shout "More! More!" along with many others. Usually, the band or orchestra would play on for a while. Eventually, though, they had to stop, pack up their gear and go home. And so did I. It seems to my memory that every evening when I walked home from the club, pub, or concert hall, it was always raining. There is a special word to describe the dreary type of rain often met with in London: drizzle. It always seemed to be drizzling, cold, and gloomy as I left the concert halls. But even though I knew in my heart that I probably would never get to hear that band again, that they had left my life forever, never once did I feel sad or cry. As I walked out into the cold, damp of the London night, the stirring music still echoed in my mind, "What magnificent music! What a powerful performance! How lucky I was to have been there at the time!" I never felt grief at the end of a great concert.

And that is exactly how I felt after my own father's death. It was as if a great concert had finally come to an end. It was such a wonderful performance. I was, as it were, shouting loudly, "More! More!" when it came close to the finale. My dear old dad did struggle hard to keep living a little longer for us. But the moment eventually came when he had to "pack up his gear and go home." When I walked out of the crematorium at Mortlake at the end of the service into the cold London drizzle--I remember the drizzle clearly--knowing in my heart that I would probably not get to be with him again, that he had left my life forever, I didn't feel sad; nor did I cry. What I felt in my heart was, "What a magnificent father! What a powerful inspiration was his life. How lucky I was to have been there at the time. How fortunate I was to have been his son." As I held my mother's hand on the long walk into the future, I felt the very same exhilaration as I had often felt at the end of one of the great concerts in my life. I wouldn't have missed that for the world.

Grief is seeing only what has been taken away from you. The celebration of a life is recognizing all that we were blessed with, and feeling so very grateful.
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Although I won't know John Bain the way others have, I think it is clear from the many posters here that he touched a lot of our hearts in ways that we may not have understood until now.
 
MrNewVegas

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MegaBeefBowl said:
I feel sick.

I feel like I've been there from the beginning with WoW Radio, Blue Plz, Cataclysm Beta, and WTF is.... He deserved every inch he got in life.
He convinced me that using Youtube as a platform for informative game coverage was worth paying attention to.

This is a punch to the gut. It was inevitable after every announcement of his declining health, but it doesn't change the impact.

Nobody can deny he put up one hell of a fight.
RIP.

When John announced his illness, he admitted that the symptoms were present for a long time. He dismissed them and didn't seek out medical opinion. If any of you notice health irregularities, please for the love of god get checked out.
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I'm always paranoid of cancer. If anything is off I see a dr. The problem I have is they brush it off every time.
 
EnlightenedMint

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Oct 25, 2017
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God damn, RIP.

He did a lot of good for the sc2 community and kept with it longer after many moved on, he will be missed by so many.
 

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holy fuck. Never thought I would see the day.

You fought hard, hope the people you left behind find peace after your passing. RIP.
 
Aztechnology

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Oct 25, 2017
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Fuck Cancer, fuck it. Nothing hurts more than, for me at least, believing we're closing in on better treatments with immunotherapy etc.
 
Canas Renvall

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RIP man, didn't watch a lot of his stuff but now I'm compelled to. Nobody should have to suffer like that and at least he's no longer in so much pain.

Fuck cancer.
 
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