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Total Biscuit arguing for no used game sales

If you read his twitter comments he sounds like a prick in all of them.

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Such sad individuals, both TB and CliffyB, and no, CliffyB isn't trolling, he thinks so, but he's just an idiot.

Proven true when he was at Giantbomb during E3 and he didn't have a leg to stand on when Jon blow was throwing so much truth at him.
 
This guy is so full of shit, I didn't know he was this bad. He refuses to accept that the hashtag helped in any way, shape or form and says it's the equivalent of saying a phone could have helped. How those are supposed to be similar, beats the shit out of me, but I could just be stupid (good possibility I admit).

It was a cog in the machine and one that got the entire thing moving imo. Also, he keeps resorting to extreme nitpicking to derail any argument.
 
This guy is so full of shit, I didn't know he was this bad. He refuses to accept that the hashtag helped in any way, shape or form and says it's the equivalent of saying a phone could have helped. How those are supposed to be similar, beats the shit out of me, but I could just be stupid (good possibility I admit).

It was a cog in the machine and one that got the entire thing moving imo. Also, he keeps resorting to extreme nitpicking to derail any argument.

Shut up cog, you're not a social media mover.
 
Proven true when he was at Giantbomb during E3 and he didn't have a leg to stand on when Jon blow was throwing so much truth at him.

Link please.

I do not get the hate for TotalBiscuit. Yes, sometimes his comments are a bit over the top, but he gets his point across very well without to much immature speech. I am one to listen to people I do not agree with all of the time to broaden my view.
 
Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 3m
If to made a forum post, wrote a blog, recorded a podcast, actively made the decision not to preorder the XBone, you made a difference.
Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 2m
The point is that putting in effort shows you are serious. Clicking a button does not. Remember the MW2 "boycott?"
Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 1m
If you actively make an effort, you deserve results.
Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 5m
And that's really the only point being made here, as much as people would like to claim otherwise.
I'm guessing the first tweet is examples of effort.

Plus the classic point:
Chandler ‏@ReadTheChandler 3m
@Totalbiscuit isn't telling all your friends helping to in a very small way?
Totalbiscuit ‏@Totalbiscuit 2m
@ReadTheChandler very small being the operative word
Then...
ヅラ ‏@TKarrde23 47s
@Totalbiscuit @ReadTheChandler But a blog post that only those same friends read somehow is exponentially better? Okay.
Totalbiscuit
‏@Totalbiscuit
@TKarrde23 @ReadTheChandler it's not hard to grasp. Effort gets you taken seriously, laziness does not

My though would be, how many mens efforts equal retweeting "laziness"? In terms of change/impact. I guess it depends on who the person is. A shareholder for example has more power but in some quarters an average consumer is better served with social media than official channels.

This will go on all night, I'm off to bed.
 
lol ok i get getting banned from a individual user channel on Twitch because someone got butthurt but how do you get banned from Twitch itself? haha
Join popular channel for most popular game on Twitch, do not nice thing, IP banned.
They IP banned you from even viewing videos? Clear your cache if your login is saved and directing you to a banned page.
Tried that. Getting streams to work on Twitch is very spotty now. Can barely get any of them to work. Usually only works if I watch through a secondary website like SpeedRunsLive, GiantBomb, etc, etc. Not being able to login is fine but not being able to view streams sucks. Hard to argue though, I pretty much did deserve it.
 
Wow first time hearing about this Totalbiscuit guy. Sounds like a grade A douchebag.

Not so much a douche as much as not afraid to voice his opinion even if it is the unpopular one of thinking the used game industry (gamestop) is harmful and a switch to a digital console could be beneficial. He makes pretty good early access and first impression videos as well as having a pretty good podcast with other TGS members I would highly recommend giving them a watch.

A lot of people here are just butthurt because he called the people that only retweeted the hashtag lazy and want to crusade against him even tho he congratulated them on the movement being a success and commended the people who put in more effort.
 
totalbiscuit writes like a man who hasn't been able to take a dump in a decade.

i was a hoity cunt over #ps4nodrm and i've just taken it as a lesson that, even in videogames, cynicism has its boundaries.
 
I love the delicious irony. This guy's attempts to deter everyone's efforts to change the DRM issues through social media turned out, in fact, that his own tweets were completely irrelevant in the course of what had happened.
 
Not so much a douche as much as not afraid to voice his opinion even if it is the unpopular one of thinking the used game industry (gamestop) is harmful and a switch to a digital console could be beneficial. He makes pretty good early access and first impression videos as well as having a pretty good podcast with other TGS members I would highly recommend giving them a watch.

A lot of people here are just butthurt because he called the people that only retweeted the hashtag lazy and want to crusade against him even tho he congratulated them on the movement being a success and commended the people who put in more effort.

No, he's a douche, why are you defending him? By his tweets the only one butthurt here is him. Those tweets are stupid, he's not voicing an opinion, he's being a clueless moron.
 
Not so much a douche as much as not afraid to voice his opinion even if it is the unpopular one

people always talk about strident voicing of opinions as though its an act of laudable bravery and not the garbage that fuels the jerry springers of the world.

defending opinions is what takes both courage and intellect, and not surprisingly, TB doesn't bother.
 
Total Biscuit is not accepting being wrong gracefully.

But I'm personally waiting for Ben Kuchera to admit that #PS4NODRM was more than "farts in the wind". They were, instead, Farts of War.
 
Fucking disgusting. Completely deplorable. False equivalence at its worst. I like his game videos, but it's impossible to have any respect for this guy after this.

Yeah, for someone that rages on twitter about fallacies he seems to commit a huge amount himself.
 
from the Xbox thread:

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(while he until this day fights for freaking Fov sliders)

edit ffs dom!

Wow that is pretty disgusting. I actually liked the man when he started casting SC2. I was happy for him when he got his youtube channel set up properly and started getting revenue. I was sad when I heard the story about him and his wife not being able to live together because of visa. I was happy when he finally reunited with her.

I have to stop following him now though. TB just lost a fan today.
 
No, he's a douche, why are you defending him? By his tweets the only one butthurt here is him. Those tweets are stupid, he's not voicing an opinion, he's being a clueless moron.
The tweets from the people saying "OMG we did it guys we made the change suck it TB" are also stupid and made by clueless morons that can't let it go.

people always talk about strident voicing of opinions as though its an act of laudable bravery and not the garbage that fuels the jerry springers of the world.

defending opinions is what takes both courage and intellect, and not surprisingly, TB doesn't bother.
The entire video that started this thread defends his opinion on the used game issue. We don't have to agree with it but we shouldn't dismiss it. As for his tweets he has stated why he thinks the hashtags were lazy but he tweets like a fucking maniac so I am not going to go and dig those out.
 
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