RIP video game blogger Shamus Young

[Roguey]

It's also a fairly depressing reminder that we will all die before we get through even 1/8th of our Steam backlogs.

This is funny and also very likely what I'll be thinking on my death bed.

 

[Pound Meat]

why fewer people than those who would attend *my* funeral?

I don't even know enough people to qualify for a funeral.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

is it only us or is this the saddest generation ever?

 

[HeroMarine]

Still can't believe he's really gone.

 

[Comrade Goby]

Damn any more not completely gone commentators like him?

 

[Grampy_Bone]

I looked up the old Spoiler Warning crew and it looks like not one mention of Shamus from them. What colossal shitbags.

 

[Semiurge]

A lot of people dying from heart problems lately. Bad coincidence I'm guessing although I wouldn't know.

How dare you shift the focus to Covid when a man is dead!!1 Literally shaking here

Spoiler

This is me practicing for covert ResetEra operations

 

[conan_edw]

That's very unfortunate and sad to hear, he's one of the people who I really enjoy seeing their content. I got hooked up on Cities: Skylines because of him and enjoyed it quite a lot. I hope his family overcome this.

 

[Comrade Goby]

I looked up the old Spoiler Warning crew and it looks like not one mention of Shamus from them. What colossal shitbags.

Not a surprise

 

[Elzair]

I looked up the old Spoiler Warning crew and it looks like not one mention of Shamus from them. What colossal shitbags.

Not a surprise

What was their problem with him?

 

[Grampy_Bone]

I looked up the old Spoiler Warning crew and it looks like not one mention of Shamus from them. What colossal shitbags.

Not a surprise

What was their problem with him?

He refused to adopt a 'code of conduct' or ban commenters they didn't like.

While playing Life is Strange, a discussion took off over the morality of depicting a parent striking a teenage girl. One commenter specifically called the act 'justified' in the context of the game, which triggered the hell out of Mumbles. Mumbles also made overtly lewd comments about men (the men on the show never did such things), and frequently showed an enthusiasm for cannibalism, but hitting a girl is Not Okay you guys. (It also came out that the commenter was not a native english speaker, and probably should have used the word 'understandable' instead of justified, he just didn't have the best vocabulary. But none of that mattered.)

Mumbles had a freakout and pushed for nuking the comments, while the other losers on the show lined up behind her as white knights. Shamus agreed the commenter's opinion was wrong but refused to ban him, perhaps in an impressive display of loyalty or maybe stubborn conviction of his principles. In any case he didn't stream again for a long time and I think it took a toll on the blog. The other faggots didn't have their own following except for Chris, and proceeded to bash the hell out of Shamus and the fanbase off-site.

*edit* (Lol nope, my memory sucks, Mumbles actually left before this whole stupidity. It still feels like she had a hand in it somehow as the white knighting was always strong with the cucks.)

 

[taxalot]

What a Shamus to die so Young.

 

[AndrewCC]

Grampy_Bone

proceeded to bash the hell out of Shamus [..] off-site

Did they really? I thought they just avoided ever mentioning that Spoiler Warning had a "golden age" on another platform.

 

[HeroMarine]

Some old Shamus and Spoiler Warning drama: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/spoiler-warning-and-twentysided-drama.114861/

 

[whydoibother]

He should have started lifting weights. Inactivity, poor diet, and poor heart health go hand in hand.

"Just lift, bro" really isn't good advice for people who die young. If you are dying young, there almost certainly was something wrong with you that you aren't at fault for. Even living a horrible live, it takes decades to bring a healthy body to ruin.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Grampy_Bone

proceeded to bash the hell out of Shamus [..] off-site

Did they really? I thought they just avoided ever mentioning that Spoiler Warning had a "golden age" on another platform.

Huh, after reading that drama thread I realized my memory compressed several different events into one narrative. Mumbles left before the Life is Strange meltdown. She was the one most aggressively attacking the site and commenters.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Some old Shamus and Spoiler Warning drama: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/spoiler-warning-and-twentysided-drama.114861/

Reading this again its interesting to see the microcosm of internet 2.0: Codes of Conduct, "Safety and inclusion," and all the elements of the socjus/anti-racism zeitgeist coalescing in one place.

Every stupid cliche of millennial/zoomer wokesters is there:

-Rank authoritarianism coupled with gutless cowardice; they want to control the discussion but not take responsibility for it. It's always for the sake of unnamed "others" who must be included and made to feel "welcome" (by banning everything the speaker personally dislikes).

-Women as unilateral moral arbiters and sacred cows; beneath agency but above reproach. Note that this has shifted to blacks and trannies now, with women starting to rankle at the demotion in the hierarchy.

-Blame shifting, DARVO, etc. The discussion 'got heated' but Josh and Chris were the ones throwing the heat while their target calmly and reasonably made his point. At no point did they attempt to discuss or debate, rather they insisted that the act of disagreement itself was immoral and a must not be allowed. You see this EVERYWHERE now, it has completely displaced law, reason, logic, facts, evidence, or science.

Twenty Sided was just a stupid blog but this crap is everywhere, in your school, your work, every major game publisher.

 

[Norfleet]

Man, people these days just fall over dead left and right, it seems. Meanwhile during a period of relative quiet, I went and made sure I wouldn't be falling over dead like that by getting two redundant robot hearts installed. You people ought to get at least one, it's not healthy having only one of something you actually need.

 

[Larianshill]

Damn shame. I loved the DM of the Rings.

 

[mondblut]

Sucks. DM of the Rings was awesome.