This week, the gaming world lost a prominent personality too soon when it was announced that John “Total Biscuit” Bain had lost his multi-year battle with cancer. Just a few days ago, Bain shared a message of hope that, despite his declining health, he would continue to deliver quality content to fans. Given that, it came as a shock when Bain’s wife Genna announced that Total Biscuit had passed away.

While Bain’s fans mourned his passing, not everyone was struck by shock and sadness upon hearing the news. In fact, some members of the gaming media and development community reveled in Total Biscuit’s passing.

Most surprising of those that celebrated John Bain’s death was former BioWare developer David Crooks, who wrote several tweets that were in extremely poor taste. Crooks has since removed the Tweets and even taken his Twitter account private, but nothing on the Internet gets truly removed these days.

According to followup tweets from Crooks, it seems like the BioWare employee took umbrage with Total Biscuit's criticisms of Mass Effect 3. Bain had plenty of detractors, from folks in development to fellow gaming media colleagues to gamers themselves, but disliking Bain’s rhetoric, his position on certain topics, or even his political affiliations is one thing. Celebrating a person’s passing at such a young age (33 years old) is another.

As gamers, we all have conflicting viewpoints on video games, the process of making games, and which aspects of the hobby are good and bad. John Bain was very outspoken, which is common for someone who uses the YouTube platform to make review videos. It’s part of his appeal: he never shied away from speaking his mind, even if it might ruffle a few feathers.

But in the end, Bain was still a fan of video games like anyone else and he was a major figure in games criticism. So even if there were some people that disliked him or were even happy to hear about his passing, sharing that information publicly is ill-advised.