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Staffy 16 mag 2020, ore 15:29
How Rick May’s death shows how awful the TF2 community is
NOTE: This thread was created by different person who asked me to post this. I do agree with few points though. Take a breath, here we come.

I’ve waited about a month for the whole situation to calm down because that reduces the chance of infants that dwell here getting mad at a TF2 thread. I have an issue when a bunch of people protected by the sensitivity gang decide to milk some guy’s death for all its worth. Pretty much everything TF2 related was flooded with crappy posts and posters related to the Rick May’s death. The so call tributes to him are obviously ways to get those lovely imaginary internet points. Unfortunately, there’s more than a few people that keep upvoting every single Rick May post. As a result, we have the most upvoted post on the 12 year old TF2 subreddit be a Rick May one. There is absolutely no reason to care about Rick May. You don’t know him and he does not know you. I bet 99% of the community a day before his death had no idea who Rick May is. People like saying they’re celebrating his work. What work? 30 minutes of voice acting over a span of 13 years? I’m pretty sure we haven’t heard any of his oh so praised voice acting in four years. There is no reason to respect him, no reason to admire him and no reason to be grateful.
Some TF2 community members love lying to themselves and everyone else that they’re grateful for nothing so they can gain internet points. Some take it a step further and preach about how amazing it is that Valve invested no effort into putting buggy statues on all maps, which further worsened the effects of the massive wave of idlers/griefers (friendlies) which has been caused by Rick May’s death.
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Messaggio originale di Bacon Alligator:
I think Valve did as much as they should've to pay their respects for Rick May.

They didn't put out a small story about all of their experiences working with him. They didn't write a paragraph explaining why they were doing what they were doing as a memorial to his work. They didn't plaster the statues all over the place but kept them off to the side on red side and made sure most of them weren't in the way of players. From what I can tell, only about 3 orchestra players were needed to record "Saluting the Fallen" which was TAPS with a simple percussion build up in the beginning. They kept it short and simple, but also made it last throughout May so as to pay their respects for the years of work but not overpower the game and subsequently the work he put in to make the game the iconic game it is.

I could also be totally reading way too deeply into it and it could be that the people on the TF2 team wanted to do something larger but they only have like 3 people including Robin and they just wanted to push something out to not look ungrateful. Either way, whether by default or by choice, what's been done to commemorate Rick feels sufficient. People only know him as the voice of The Soldier, so there's no reason to commemorate him as much more in-game.

But for all of you virtue signaling asshats that feel the need to show off that you're a goody-two-shoes and post RIP threads on Steam, Reddit, and /v/, change your Steam name to some variation of "RIP Rick May," force servers to do salutes to Rick, etc.
You need to stop because you're actually disrespectful.
You've done literally nothing to contribute meaningfully to Rick's life. You did nothing to raise awareness to what was happening with his cancer. You did nothing to help his career or family. Rick's family deserves the attention for going through their loss. Say your peace about feeling sorry for the family's loss and move on. Don't act like you care when days before his death you were playing without a care in the world.
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Cyronova 16 mag 2020, ore 15:31 
Personally I don't mind, but a TL;DR would be nice.
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Staffy 16 mag 2020, ore 15:38 
Messaggio originale di Masked Luigi (MU for Smash):
Personally I don't mind, but a TL;DR would be nice.

1) Most of "tributes" are for those "internet karma points"

2) There's no reason for you to care about Rick's death as you didn't knew him and his work consisted of 30 mins of voice acting over a span of 13 years.

3) Some peeps in commuinity love to call themselves grateful. Some take it a step further and preach about how amazing it is that Valve honoured solldier's voice actor with effortlessly putting buggy statues on maps, which lead to massive wave of idlers/griefers/friendlies/call them whatever you like.
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droplet 16 mag 2020, ore 15:43 
Messaggio originale di Masked Luigi (MU for Smash):
Personally I don't mind, but a TL;DR would be nice.
TL;DR people in the community are using Rick May's death to virtue signal and it's causing a ruckus
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Cyronova 16 mag 2020, ore 15:43 
Messaggio originale di Staffy:
Messaggio originale di Masked Luigi (MU for Smash):
Personally I don't mind, but a TL;DR would be nice.

1) Most of "tributes" are for those "internet karma points"

2) There's no reason for you to care about Rick's death as you didn't knew him and his work consisted of 30 mins of voice acting over a span of 13 years.

3) Some peeps in commuinity love to call themselves grateful. Some take it a step further and preach about how amazing it is that Valve honoured solldier's voice actor with effortlessly putting buggy statues on maps, which lead to massive wave of idlers/griefers/friendlies/call them whatever you like.
Didn't mean to come off as rude, I meant don't mind as in I don't mind reading it. I should have made that more obvious. Yeah, the community is a problem.
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No Time to Explain 16 mag 2020, ore 15:44 
Who goes to another person for them to write their steam forum posts. Is he like banned or just like shy or something?
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(っ● ‿ ●)っ 16 mag 2020, ore 15:45 
Messaggio originale di Staffy:
2) There's no reason for you to care about Rick's death as you didn't knew him and his work consisted of 30 mins of voice acting over a span of 13 years.
there are definitely reasons to care even if you didn't personally knew him
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Staffy 16 mag 2020, ore 15:48 
Messaggio originale di ุ:
Who goes to another person for them to write their steam forum posts. Is he like banned or just like shy or something?
Probably 1st
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droplet 16 mag 2020, ore 15:49 
Messaggio originale di (っ● ‿ ●)っ:
Messaggio originale di Staffy:
2) There's no reason for you to care about Rick's death as you didn't knew him and his work consisted of 30 mins of voice acting over a span of 13 years.
there are definitely reasons to care even if you didn't personally knew him
makes me wonder a bit how the other VAs are doing
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Staffy 16 mag 2020, ore 15:49 
Messaggio originale di obcapers:
Messaggio originale di (っ● ‿ ●)っ:
there are definitely reasons to care even if you didn't personally knew him
makes me wonder a bit how the other VAs are doing
VAs? What/Who are these?
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No Time to Explain 16 mag 2020, ore 15:50 
Messaggio originale di Staffy:
Messaggio originale di ุ:
Who goes to another person for them to write their steam forum posts. Is he like banned or just like shy or something?
Probably 1st
Wait you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ don't even know why? But... He asked you to do it?
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droplet 16 mag 2020, ore 15:50 
Messaggio originale di Staffy:
Messaggio originale di obcapers:
makes me wonder a bit how the other VAs are doing
VAs? What/Who are these?
voice actors
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skooma 16 mag 2020, ore 15:52 
mfw a screenshot of one of the statues got over 16k upvotes on reddit :darkarue:
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Staffy 16 mag 2020, ore 15:53 
Messaggio originale di obcapers:
Messaggio originale di Staffy:
VAs? What/Who are these?
voice actors
As far as I know only Nathan Vetterlein [scout], Robin Autkin Dawnes [ medic] and Ellen McLein [admin] are somewhat active.
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Et tu, B? 16 mag 2020, ore 15:54 
Messaggio originale di Staffy:
Messaggio originale di obcapers:
makes me wonder a bit how the other VAs are doing
VAs? What/Who are these?
Voice Actors (Male) Voice Actresses (Female) are the people who voice a character in a piece of media, usually a film, TV show, cartoon, ETC.
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Staffy 16 mag 2020, ore 15:54 
Messaggio originale di ุ:
Messaggio originale di Staffy:
Probably 1st
Wait you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ don't even know why? But... He asked you to do it?
Some people would call him shady, but his my steam friend afterwards.
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