TotalBiscuit 33-75% off sale on GOG.com

[kane_magus]

Hrm.

On the one hand, it's like... are we really doing that whole "here's a sale based on some random D-list Youtube 'celebrity's' favorite games" thing even on GOG now? *weary sigh* (On the bright side, I guess, at least it'sAt this point I'd actually rather it not be TotalBiscuit[1] and not fuckingand instead be Pew Die Pie[2] this time. [But

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[owsf2000]

You know, I think I've only ever watched one of TB's posts. Likely that one you linked way back when he was ranting about the "problem" of used games. Probably left enough of a bad taste in my mouth to never bother watching another video of him.

[kane_magus]

The only other time that I can recall off-hand that I referenced one of his videos in one of my posts (aside from the huge honking thing I wrote yesterday) is here, and I remember mostly agreeing with him in that one.

[owsf2000]

Hm. Could have sworn the 28min video was linked to me by you. Could have been back in the IRC days or something as I rarely go looking for this stuff myself. Looking over the used game arguments he brought forth back then, I still completely disagree with it.

He brings up Gamestop and GAME primarily as reasons why it's horrible. And to that point I'll agree. Buying used games at Gamestop and GAME at 5 dollars off New prices is indeed detrimental - but at that point it's the gamers doing it to themselves.

They don't HAVE to buy gutted games to get 5 bucks off - and we know they buy those games because in a lot of cases the NEW copies of those same games are in the exact same condition anyway. What games should do is demand the new product to be unopened, like I do. Rather than just buy used copies to save a couple dollars just because it's the same condition.

Ok I think I'll stop before I launch into a rant about that again. ^_^

[kane_magus]

Yeah, I don't remember ever having seen his "I will now ramble about games media for just under 30 minutes" video before now. That was just the first thing I found yesterday when I did a Youtube search for "TotalBiscuit GamerGate" (and it's apparently the only video actually made by him on the topic, at least that shows up in that search anyway, though I seriously doubt it's the only time he's ever talked about it anywhere).

The only other videos of his I remember posting about before are the "Why I think Bioware has gone too far with Mass Effect 3" video I just linked you to in the previous comment and, of course, his "The Devil's Halibut - Used Games" video which I linked to in the post itself above. I agreed with his ME3 video for the most part, but, same as you, I thought he was mostly way off-base with his anti-used games video, aside from his justified condemnation of GameStop/GAME/whatever. It was just that he seemed to mistakenly believe that "GameStop/GAME/whatever" == "all used games everywhere" and that's where I think