Seriously, Fuck People

[zehydra]

So a guy decides to fake illness in order to get attention.

Lots of people feel sorry for him and decides to play his mod to make him happy.

People encourage others to donate to charity for the benefit of charity.

I see one dick and others doing something nice. Getting mad at "people" seems wrong, but that might just be me...

It's typical on the Escapist to see brooding misanthropy from people having a bad day every now and then.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Somebody lied to get something they want?

Colour me surprised, I've never encountered such behaviour before in my life ¬_¬

Still makes me smile when somebody is genuinely surprised that somebody would do that

 

[Yopaz]

So a guy decides to fake illness in order to get attention.

Lots of people feel sorry for him and decides to play his mod to make him happy.

People encourage others to donate to charity for the benefit of charity.

I see one dick and others doing something nice. Getting mad at "people" seems wrong, but that might just be me...

It's typical on the Escapist to see brooding misanthropy from people having a bad day every now and then.

Misanthropy I can deal with and to some degree understand, but I dislike generalizing humanity based on one person. Especially when the same story tells of others being decent human beings.

 

[Keoul]

This is actually funny . Why? Because he said so many times in his message that his story was not a lie . Usually when people insist they aren't lying , they are lying . People who tell the truth , generally , not insist they are telling the truth because they naturally assume the opposing party will believe them because it's the truth .

OT: What's so bad about pretending to have cancer? What i find sick about this story is that people went and checked the guys facebook to verify his story . Now THAT's sick . We really live in a world were people can check anything about you via the internet . Scary . This is why i don't have facebook .

TL;DR: Facebook is evil.

I actually read the story and here's the quote of the actual post

Spoiler

If you've been on the irc in the past half hour, then you probably already know.

I've been battling with leukemia for the past year of my life. However, no matter how much chemo I went through the cancer just wouldn't go into remission. I'm at the point where I have a week or two to live, according to the doctors.

As such, I'm tying up loose ends before I croak.

So, with that in mind, I just want to thank all of you for putting up with me as long as you did. I'll be the first to admit that I was a honest to god brat when I was active here. And yet, I made friends. I made hacks. Hell, one of mine even got featured for a bit there!

My one regret is that Notte Luminosa never got Let's Played by someone worth a damn (read: anyone). So someone get on that. Or not. Not like I'll get to see it, anyways.

So keep on chugging, [Omitted] Don't ever change. Except when necessary.

By the way I'm purposely not listing the website cause OP doesn't want it here to add more publicity to the chap and I just know you guys can't resist going there if I provided the link.

So he went ahead and lied to an entire community, pretended to have a fatal condition for publicity and you're saying the only issue with this story is that they found him on facebook? For all we know they checked because they wanted to make sure that he actually died and if so to send condolences, considering how many people were fooled I doubt they were calling bullshit from day one.

But I agree with your TL;DR Facebook is the epitome of all evil and I'll never touch the stuff again.

 

[axlryder]

Yeah, I saw that Proton Jon let's play. Game was boring. Got through like an episode. I don't know why people hack SMW only to make it look way worse than the original. I couldn't give less of a fuck about the cancer thing though. What the dude did was virtually harmless. Yeah, it's a dickish, manipulative thing, but I can't see why I should care. What came of it? Some dudes did some let's plays and some people donated to charity. Some guys who visited the same forum as him and (let's be honest) probably didn't care ALL that much about him thought he bit the dust. People bite the dust all the time, I doubt it was really emotionally breaking anyone. Worst thing that happened probably was that people who actually had to deal with cancer might have felt their experiences were being insulted and their emotions manipulated. Yeah, undoubtedly sucky, but not something I can bring myself to get riled up over. I've lost family to cancer and had a cancer scare myself once, so I don't think I'm lacking empathy. I just don't think it's that big of a deal in the long run. All in all, whatever.

 

[zehydra]

So a guy decides to fake illness in order to get attention.

Lots of people feel sorry for him and decides to play his mod to make him happy.

People encourage others to donate to charity for the benefit of charity.

I see one dick and others doing something nice. Getting mad at "people" seems wrong, but that might just be me...

It's typical on the Escapist to see brooding misanthropy from people having a bad day every now and then.

Misanthropy I can deal with and to some degree understand, but I dislike generalizing humanity based on one person. Especially when the same story tells of others being decent human beings.

I think it's something they'll eventually grow out of. I don't really see it as a problem, just immaturity.

 

[Scow2]

How about instead of "fuck people" we go with "fuck that guy." Seems more fitting.

No, please don't. We don't want ANY chance of him reproducing.

 

[AngloDoom]

Cancer seems a popular fall-back. A friend of mine put a video up on Facebook years ago when I was trying to ice-skate for the first time and looked like Bambi on ice. The very first comment on that video was:
"Pussy. I hope he died. I just wasted two minutes of my life."
When my friend replied with: "No-one forced you to watch this video" they then said:
"Actually that wasn't me who posted that it was my autistic brother who has cancer so FUCK OFF!"

The internet.

 

[krazykidd]

This is actually funny . Why? Because he said so many times in his message that his story was not a lie . Usually when people insist they aren't lying , they are lying . People who tell the truth , generally , not insist they are telling the truth because they naturally assume the opposing party will believe them because it's the truth .

OT: What's so bad about pretending to have cancer? What i find sick about this story is that people went and checked the guys facebook to verify his story . Now THAT's sick . We really live in a world were people can check anything about you via the internet . Scary . This is why i don't have facebook .

TL;DR: Facebook is evil.

I actually read the story and here's the quote of the actual post

Spoiler

If you've been on the irc in the past half hour, then you probably already know.

I've been battling with leukemia for the past year of my life. However, no matter how much chemo I went through the cancer just wouldn't go into remission. I'm at the point where I have a week or two to live, according to the doctors.

As such, I'm tying up loose ends before I croak.

So, with that in mind, I just want to thank all of you for putting up with me as long as you did. I'll be the first to admit that I was a honest to god brat when I was active here. And yet, I made friends. I made hacks. Hell, one of mine even got featured for a bit there!

My one regret is that Notte Luminosa never got Let's Played by someone worth a damn (read: anyone). So someone get on that. Or not. Not like I'll get to see it, anyways.

So keep on chugging, [Omitted] Don't ever change. Except when necessary.

By the way I'm purposely not listing the website cause OP doesn't want it here to add more publicity to the chap and I just know you guys can't resist going there if I provided the link.

So he went ahead and lied to an entire community, pretended to have a fatal condition for publicity and you're saying the only issue with this story is that they found him on facebook? For all we know they checked because they wanted to make sure that he actually died and if so to send condolences, considering how many people were fooled I doubt they were calling bullshit from day one.

But I agree with your TL;DR Facebook is the epitome of all evil and I'll never touch the stuff again.

Okay with this added information i can see why it'S so bad . Doing it for publicity is pretty terrible i agree.I hereby retract my answer . But keep my facebook comment valid.

 

[Robot Number V]

Wait...Doesn't the fact this his scam WORKED say something positive about humanity? I mean sure, one guy acted like a enormous asshole, but a whole bunch of people decided to do something nice for a cancer patient. Based on a lie, sure, but they didn't know that.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

So that must be the background behind this video then.

 

[Roxas1359]

Well I'm pissed off and it's all over a Super Mario World rom hack. What happened was that a person, who I will not name because they don't deserve the publicity, decided to make a rom hack of SMW called Notte Luminosa and it went relatively unnoticed. But because this waste of a human felt his game wasn't noticed enough so he decided to fake having Leukemia and said his last wish was to have his game let's played by some one so several let's player began playing it in order to fulfill his wish. But after about a week some mods at a rom hack forum found the bastard's facebook page where he had been posting regularly and had even posted a picture where he was perfectly healthy. The one good thing that could come out of this stunt is that since some of the let's players decided to request their viewers to donate to cancer charities so maybe someone else's life was saved from the money that was donated. *sigh* I just wish some people could just leave this planet.

Yeah I was miffed when I found out about it too. I had recorded about 6 episodes of Notte when I found out and they were going to be edited so I deleted them. One good thing came from this dick move though: more people donated to Cancer research. Now that doesn't excuse Yanama for tricking many famous LPers, and myself (not famous XD), into thinking he had Leukemia, but karma is really gonna get to him.

 

[Bad Jim]

What i find sick about this story is that people went and checked the guys facebook to verify his story . Now THAT's sick.

Whoever visited his facebook page may have had honorable intentions. Maybe to offer condolence. Maybe to tell him that they'd started a playthrough. Maybe someone visited his page for reasons entirely unconnected with his tragic tale and may even have opened his facebook page before reading his leukemia post.

 

[Terminate421]

I remember Doug Walker promoting this guy. He probably fell for it too.....

What an asshole (the faker, not Doug)

 

[Mr F.]

Plenty of worse shit to hate humanity for. Hell, I know people who have done worse (I do not particularly like them though). But as for people in general?

Naw, Don't fuck people. Lots of us are wonderful! The fact that this little shite is going to end up feeling the pain of this bullcrap for quite a long time, especially if the non game related media decide to spin this as a 'Gamers are pathetic scum' story (Which I sorta hope happens) means that what he did does not really matter in the grand scheme of things.

Fuck me I am tired, Totally and utterly trashed. Time to sleep.

EDIT:

What this guy said.

Wait...Doesn't the fact this his scam WORKED say something positive about humanity? I mean sure, one guy acted like a enormous asshole, but a whole bunch of people decided to do something nice for a cancer patient. Based on a lie, sure, but they didn't know that.

Yeah, every cloud, this sorta has one hell of a silver lining. Money was given to cancer charities and the essential human decency of a bunch of dudes shone through.

Time to pass out methinks.

 

[Signa]

Who does this guy think he is? Sterling Archer? "Did I mention I have cancer?"

 

[William Dickbringer]

Well I'm pissed off and it's all over a Super Mario World rom hack. What happened was that a person, who I will not name because they don't deserve the publicity, decided to make a rom hack of SMW called Notte Luminosa and it went relatively unnoticed. But because this waste of a human felt his game wasn't noticed enough so he decided to fake having Leukemia and said his last wish was to have his game let's played by some one so several let's player began playing it in order to fulfill his wish. But after about a week some mods at a rom hack forum found the bastard's facebook page where he had been posting regularly and had even posted a picture where he was perfectly healthy. The one good thing that could come out of this stunt is that since some of the let's players decided to request their viewers to donate to cancer charities so maybe someone else's life was saved from the money that was donated. *sigh* I just wish some people could just leave this planet.

should have known well it was nice seeing protonjon let's play a rom hack talk about blast from the past for me

 

[WanderingFool]

Well I'm pissed off and it's all over a Super Mario World rom hack. What happened was that a person, who I will not name because they don't deserve the publicity, decided to make a rom hack of SMW called Notte Luminosa and it went relatively unnoticed. But because this waste of a human felt his game wasn't noticed enough so he decided to fake having Leukemia and said his last wish was to have his game let's played by some one so several let's player began playing it in order to fulfill his wish. But after about a week some mods at a rom hack forum found the bastard's facebook page where he had been posting regularly and had even posted a picture where he was perfectly healthy. The one good thing that could come out of this stunt is that since some of the let's players decided to request their viewers to donate to cancer charities so maybe someone else's life was saved from the money that was donated. *sigh* I just wish some people could just leave this planet.

Not sure if this is really thread worthy. Not exactly an Earth-shattering revelation here. People will do dickish things so long as it serves them in some way. Atleast his dickishness got people to donate to cancer charities.