How Rick May’s death shows how awful the TF2 community is

[Staffy]

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.

[Ravenant]

Not gonna lie, saying that nobody should care about or respect Rick May just because they had no personal relationship with him makes the guy who created the original write-up posted here come off as way more insensitive than anyone looking for generic internet brownie points.

[jungus]

I don't think it's wrong to step back and appreciate someones work, but the part that I think many have an issue with is the obsession with a guy they didn't even knew existed prior to his death. If you ask me, the title screen and music was enough of a "tribute" to the VA. I think they added the statues just to please the morons who were crying about Rick May. TF2 is a first person shooter and not a graveyard, which ironically, the community has been dancing on for several weeks now.

[Cummercock]

tbh, This guy is coming off more like a neck bearded, redditor scumbag than the people who are making posts for the stupid, pointless internet points. I honestly don't really mind the players who everyone has a hate boner for right now. Most if not, all are kids, its pretty damn obvious. Kids can easily be taught what is right and wrong. Though, it is annoying to see a large number of them. The posters and all that were nice imo though, most of them actually had time and effort put into it.
Valve did the right thing, they didn't pander it out nor they didn't make it all corney, try to profit off of it and turn it into a 12 year old girl's insta post. Just some neat statutes for the whinning doo doos and some fitting music. I've had almost no bad memories of the statutes.

Staffy eredeti hozzászólása:

There is absolutely no reason to care about Rick May. You don’t know him and he does not know you. There is no reason to respect him, no reason to admire him and no reason to be grateful.

I don't need to personally know a person to respect and admire them. I don't know about you but when someone I hardly even know dies, I'm obviously going to feel sorry for them and pay my respects as long as they weren't Charles Manson or something. Those people do have family members and friends who loved them. Not everyone is an edgy, insensitive bastard. Rick May dying for me kinda shows the game's age and how Tf2's time is coming to an end.

[jd]

Agreed , saw a video of a person saying how tf2 was a big part of his life and Rick May's death was felt by him , he demonitized the video and didn't go on whole speeches just a small tribute , it was fine by me but then there's people in the comment section making memes about his death just to boost their ego by getting upvotes or people who will show up a month later just saying f for the same reason i.e - upvotes . None of the people knew him , can bet most never played the game but just have to interfere and take a person's death as an opportunity to "gain popularity"

[Hyer Womba]

urazor eredeti hozzászólása:

Rick May doesn't care a bit about any of this anyway. He's dead.

you arent wrong

[Tsunade]

Who the ♥♥♥♥ cares
If people want to mourn someone, let them mourn that someone.
If people want to use the death of someone to get 'Internet points' then go ahead who cares

[[ANTI-VAC] RANDY]

I agree with this. The community is milking the ♥♥♥♥ out of his' unfortunate passing. there's nothing wrong with being sad about the news, we all were, hearing people like that die isn't fun. The group of 12 year olds going around with "RIP RICK MAY" in their username and raging at people who kill them are one of the biggest issues still going on.

[jungus]

Totalitarian ✪ eredeti hozzászólása:

I agree with this. The community is milking the ♥♥♥♥ out of his' unfortunate passing. there's nothing wrong with being sad about the news, we all were, hearing people like that die isn't fun. The group of 12 year olds going around with "RIP RICK MAY" in their username and raging at people who kill them are one of the biggest issues still going on.

I heard someone say that they wish they could have gone to his funeral. I want to say that he was joking, but this is the TF2 community we're talking about here.

[Cummercock]

FunkyFlesh eredeti hozzászólása:

Totalitarian ✪ eredeti hozzászólása:

I agree with this. The community is milking the ♥♥♥♥ out of his' unfortunate passing. there's nothing wrong with being sad about the news, we all were, hearing people like that die isn't fun. The group of 12 year olds going around with "RIP RICK MAY" in their username and raging at people who kill them are one of the biggest issues still going on.

I heard someone say that they wish they could have gone to his funeral. I want to say that he was joking, but this is the TF2 community we're talking about here.

That's just dumb video game communities in general. Most are either kids or people who have never been in a social situation.

[[ANTI-VAC] RANDY]

FunkyFlesh eredeti hozzászólása:

Totalitarian ✪ eredeti hozzászólása:

I agree with this. The community is milking the ♥♥♥♥ out of his' unfortunate passing. there's nothing wrong with being sad about the news, we all were, hearing people like that die isn't fun. The group of 12 year olds going around with "RIP RICK MAY" in their username and raging at people who kill them are one of the biggest issues still going on.

I heard someone say that they wish they could have gone to his funeral. I want to say that he was joking, but this is the TF2 community we're talking about here.

Funny how alot of these guys only have a couple hundred hours on the game and have only been playing for less then a year lmao

[CookieClicker :)]

Staffy eredeti hozzászólása:

we have the most upvoted post on the 12 year old TF2 subreddit be a Rick May one.

Why post this on Steam, then?

[Staffy]

Wish I could mark multiple quotes as answers. This went alot more peacefully than I expected.

[MrScammerMan]

Staffy eredeti hozzászólása:

Wish I could mark multiple quotes as answers. This went alot more peacefully than I expected.

I tend to like to be civil when I argue in the forums

[lol no]

Bacon Alligator eredeti hozzászólása:

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.

I've never found a post about this before that could explain my thoughts and feelings this well towards this.

[DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP]

100% agreeing with you minus the "why should you care" part, each life is important and should be cared for (unless that person did something uforgivable), Rick May was a good voice actor tho so he deserved some "respect" if you shall, but not this milkin they have done to him!