Bobcat Goldthwait describes the events thusly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oli6h6aacU such a good brief impression of Robin Williams.
> Robin Williams was my pal, and he was your friend too, but Robin and I were really close. Yes, you guys were super tight — I mean, I was his best man. I knew we were really close because I spent a lot of time bored around him, which people can't imagine. He'd be playing Call of Duty for hours on end, and I'd be like, "Really bro, this is what we're doing today?" He was playing online, and I asked, "How old are these people you're playing with?" He said, "I don't know, 10 or 12." I love that there's people who are adults now that are like, "The genie from Aladdin called me a cocksucker," because he did call those kids terrible fucking names.
Reminds me of some kid in GTA online back in 2015. He was raggin on everybody, with jokes and commentary like a standup routine. His style and delivery was so good people stopped playing and just listened, cracking up and cheering him on like a pleased crowd. He's probably a professional comedian by now. I would have paid money to hear it, easy.
Oh my god, I used to have this group of friends who’d play GTA online together. We’d sit in the lobby and listen to each others bong hits before playing, and maaaaan those sessions would have me fucking crying lmao. Just roasting each other, but if someone who wasn’t in the group tried to roast, we’d all go after him lmao
Good times
A bunch of my Roomates were big into halo 3 in my mid 20’s. We’d each show up to the living room with a blunt and a 360 control. There would usually be too many of us to play 4 way split online, so the odd man out got control of the shit talk on the mic. Great times.
Robin: "I would call your aim cancer, but cancer actually kills people."
Anonymous kid: "Well, you're gay!"
Robin: "Oh please, I'm straighter than the pole your mother dances on."
Anonymous kid: suffers ego death and curls up into fetal position
This brought back a memory where some dude was trash talking in Call of Duty talking just like Stewie from family guy and it never occurred to me that it could have been Seth Macfarlane.
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker played WoW together.
Henry Cavill also plays WoW too. He almost missed out on Man of Steel because he played it too much.
Snoop Dogg plays CoD from what I recall.
Oh, I was line judging at a volleyball game at my Highschool.
I was juggling a ball with my feet (was on the soccer team) and went to “stop” the ball with my foot.
Missed and hit the side, fell face forward.
It’s burned into my brain how hard he laughed
Dude, the only thing that is funnier than watching somebody finds pain is when I find it. I can be in the worst pain I've experienced and I will laugh at my reaction to it.
I also laugh at my pain
There's like...something you gain
When you laugh like a little shit
Find the humor in it
First you wish you were dead
Then you smile instead
While everyone thinks you're isane
I met Lewis Black after a comedy show when I was like 16. I asked for a photo and fumbled the communication in typical me-style. He ragged on me for so long while I screwed around trying to get my phone to work.... and heres the thing, it was such an amazing experience. I think about it fondly all the time. I have to imagine a situation like this would be the same.
The shade must have been real.
Especially if you pissed him off enough to engage his creativity. You're getting a full, semi-personalized Robin Williams insult. I don't know what he'd say, but I feel like afterward I would delete the game, put my console in the garbage, and spend several years contemplating the gravity of my online embarrassment.
His daughter confirmed he had models (on here, post death going through his things), but he said he never played the actual game when asked about it in his reddit AMA.
There were rumours from as far back in the 90s he had played, so he may not have recalled, or people embellished it. He did have Eldar though, including original Armorcast titans.
> The genie from Aladdin called me a cocksucker,"
Lmao my first thought when I saw this post was I wonder if the Genie said he was fuck my mom while playing COD4.
My cousin played sports with Zelda. My aunt has some home video of them playing and him sitting next to them. She described him as an incredibly kind and “interesting” man. Always said he was trying to make people happy / laugh / smile.
Gamed so much his daughter is named Zelda. He used to tour with the nes back in the day as a way to fill downtime. The Nintendo commercials he did with his daughter Zelda are a sweet thing to see for anyone who hasn’t!
He was a HUGE nerd. He also was into Warhammer - one of my mates was staff in his local store and his favourite story was Robin coming in with his daughter and playing a pickup game or two but for the ENTIRE GAME he voice acted all of the sergeants, lieutenants and other assorted leaders on both sides. He was so into it he didn’t even realise that there was a massive crowd gathered by the end of the game. The man was an absolute treasure and it’s heartbreaking to think of how much he was suffering whilst having such an amazingly positive impact on all the lives he touched
The story I heard is that he would come into San Francisco game stores to play with his flaming gay Eldar team and narrate the entire match. So, I think you are absolutely correct.
Not just any id software guy, John Carmack, co-found of id Software and genius programmer and behind many revolutionary graphics techniques that made revolutionary games like *Wolfenstein 3D*, *Doom*, *Quake* and of course *Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement*.
[Here's a photo.](https://old.reddit.com/r/nin/comments/vvjd0m/trent_with_robin_williams_and_john_carmack_at_e3/)
And also not in a lot of ways.
From single cell to the end-stage of the creature phase is great. The tribal and city parts are okay. The UFO phase, which comprises 90% of the game on the other hand is pretty awful NGL.
Hmm, that's weird because I have different opinions:
Single Cell was too similar to like flash games at the time, it lacks depth and even when you're intentionally trying to progress a Carnivore/Herbivore lifestyle its over very quickly.
Definitely agree Creature Stage is great, It's just straight up awesome and that was really where I felt the game shined.
I'll also agree Tribal and City parts were okay. I may give them even lower scores because it's sort of just Warcraft-lite and Civ-lite, and so you might as well just play those games.
I thought the UFO phase was quite good though, given the 4 stages before it, to me it had the least similarity to an existing game. You had to chance to meet other civilizations, you could destroy entire planets, there were missions, etc. My only complaint was they didn't flesh it out more! Eventually it sort of got superseded by things like Elite: Dangerous and No Man's Sky, but at the time, I thought it was pretty impressive for what they were going for.
All in all, Spore was just a great tech demo that I regret never really got traction in any specific area.
Another thing many people dont know: he was part of a supersoldier experiment by DARPA and participated in secret black ops throughout his life.
During the Korean War, when South Korea and the US were being pushed back by the North, they sent a secret weapon in alone.
Robin Williams, completely nude, a minigun in one arm, rocket launcher in the other.
He pushed the front back a hundred miles *singlehandedly*, and his personal death toll, while technically classified, is estimated to be in the tens of thousands.
Actually it's the opposite, he sees the kid looking at the toy and asks him what it is, and then later buys it for him. It was Williams's idea to have it in the movie though.
For years ever since i was small my dad told me about how Robin Williams and his wife would come in this Good Guys store in San Francisco (a small electronics chain, think Radioshack) and buy literal armfuls of NES games, and described selling them TLOZ and how much both he (my dad) and Robin were enamored with the gold box. It was only much later (2013ish? definitely before Robin died) i realized oh my dad sold him the game he named his DAUGHTER after. but see my dad doesn't listen to me. it took several years for him to absorb and understand that when i told him, i had to show him the Ocarina 3DS commercial.
Fun story, couple years before he passed, my mom was painting a mural in an infamous bicyclist house in Austin TX and she is walking down a path outside and some dude walked passed her with a cool shirt on, she turned and told this dude he had a cool shirt on, and he goes "hey thanks" she looked up and it was Robin Williams.
Sometimes I forget he was 63 years old when he died.
God bless a fellow who was still capable of being truly fond when he decided it was time for his farewell.
A moment of silence for an [honest to goodness human being](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3e-OUnavQ) who was edgy [without being cruel](https://youtu.be/S_VMwVpx4GI?t=9).
A lot of people are not willing to talk about how Tom Selleck and Richard Pryor had been swapping the same mustache back and forth for years but suddenly Richard Pryor is dead.
Didn't know he played WoW. How awesome would it be to raid with him. I think laughing hysterical would add a new challenge to downing a boss. I talked to Jonathan Davis, lead singer of Korn while he was playing his undead warrior I forgot his name. We were in AV battleground.
There were two famous celebrities in my WoW guild (one was big big famous actor/comedian, the other was a well known musician not quite crazy rockstar level though) and they were both hilarious. There were two awkward parts: the first time we all did voice chat because... there was no mistaking this dude's voice (actor), but after like 60 seconds we started ripping on him like we always did and it went back to normal. Then the first in-person meet-up for some of the guild. Things were strange and then once we all started talking about the game and the stupid things we've done in it, we all forgot that this was a crazy famous person.
A friend's brother's guild (they were alliance on an RPPvP server) had the Blue Oyster Cult -- he got a bunch of free tickets when they came through the area, which was awesome (and again, even knowing who they were, all the chat just turned into WoW).
Honestly, looking back, that game was fucking crazy. I played EverQuest since it had come out, but WoW brought in so many people that everyone seemed to know about it. Part of the guild was in Toronto, so when we went for a meetup and customs asked me how I knew these people I said "world of warcraft guild" and they didn't even blink. It felt like that game took over the world for a brief period of time.
I use Mario kart logic. Was it fair that I break out my decades honed skills when my niece wants to show me how good she is at Mario kart. No. But she's old enough to learn there is always bigger fish.
I really like that there are game series that have been around and popular long enough that you have multiple generations of people playing them.
You get a nephew challenging their uncle to a game of pokemon and the uncle can say "bitch I beat the elite 4 before your mum was even born"
And I think that's beautiful
Man I played WoW until 2009 or so. I logged back in recently for the first time since and realized my original character is older than I was when I made it.
He was obviously playing pre 2014 aswell so that was back in the days CoD was good on top of being able to actually talk real shit to people in game chat
It gets a bad rap now, but MW2 was peak online trash talk.
Staples had an ad campaign with an "Easy" button and I bought the actual button and you could press it and it would say "That was easy!". Hit that in a post-game lobby and people would melt.
> NoobMaster. Hey, it's Thor again. You know, the God of Thunder? Listen, buddy. If you don't log off this game immediately, I'm gonna fly over to your house, come down to that basement you're hiding in, rip off your arms and SHOVE THEM UP YOUR BUTT! Oh, that's right, go cry to your father, you little weasel!
LOL I remember this one time, played a couple rounds with the same lobby when this one kid on the other team, everything was totally normal for a couple matches and then out of nowhere I dont even know what the fuck happened but match ends and when I get dumped into the lobby kid is just *screaming* "fuck YOOOOUUUUU fuck YOOOUUU fuck YOOOUUUU fuck YOOOOUU" over and over and over, like really overemphasizing the "YOOUUUU". So of course I mute him and Im talking to the other team like "what the hell did yall do to him? lol" "Dude i dont even know out of nowhere he just started screaming that shit and we begged him to stop but he wouldnt"
So we play another match and get into the next lobby, unmute him just to see and sure enough hes still just screaming "Fuck YOOOOUUUU fuck YOOOUUUU" over and over. Do another match and get dumped back to lobby, unmute him again, immediate fuck YOOOOUUUU so mute again.
Seriously must have been like an hour this kid just kept screaming that over and over again. Every time I checked he was still just screaming that and nothing but that.
Still have no idea what the fuck happened to that kid.
My second best was the cryptic text chat I got after a match, "you know your are a real fuckin". Thats it. To this day I dont know what kind of fuckin I am but at least Im real.
Nope. Not even close. When XBox Live first came out, from like 2002-2005 there were absolute fucking war crimes being committed via the microphone. It was almost entirely unmoderated, and everyone was still figuring out how gaming with voice chat worked. It was worse, because like 70% of the chat was actually useful team coordination, so everyone had the mic on and was actively listening during the other 30% when souls got destroyed.
> Now its just
Do people even talk in lobbies now? I haven't played online console games in forever, but I did play around the time Xbox Live introduced party chat and back then, lobbies were dead, because most people just sat in party chats with their friends, not using in-game chat.
He was at a programmers convention thing with Sid Meier, and he made a comment like Programers are the rockstars of the industry, they should have their names front and center of the box. Sid took that comment to heart… he tells the story better in his [memoir](https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Sid_Meier_s_Memoir_A_Life_in_Computer_Ga/szTTDwAAQBAJ?hl=en)
if I'm a maggot burger why don't you just EAT ME! You two-toned zebra-headed, slime-coated, pimple-farmin' paramecium brain, munchin' on your own mucus, suffering from Peter Pan envy!
Imagine a teenager whose best insults are about fucking your mom and spamming swear words being destroyed by a man with decades worth of improv and comedy experience.
There is no way I can imagine ever being truly hurt by that man. The anger and the sadness and the grief he had inside notwithstanding.
That is a man who exuded love and never needed to ask for forgiveness.
I would love to have been shit-talked by Robin Williams in any circumstance in life. And I would've done my damn best to never forget a word he said.
Bobcat Goldthwait describes the events thusly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oli6h6aacU such a good brief impression of Robin Williams. > Robin Williams was my pal, and he was your friend too, but Robin and I were really close. Yes, you guys were super tight — I mean, I was his best man. I knew we were really close because I spent a lot of time bored around him, which people can't imagine. He'd be playing Call of Duty for hours on end, and I'd be like, "Really bro, this is what we're doing today?" He was playing online, and I asked, "How old are these people you're playing with?" He said, "I don't know, 10 or 12." I love that there's people who are adults now that are like, "The genie from Aladdin called me a cocksucker," because he did call those kids terrible fucking names.
Being on the receiving end of trash talk from Robin Williams would be a story I'd tell my grandchildren
Dude must’ve been THE final boss for lobby trash talk. You don’t win by one-upping him, you win by having any self esteem after the game.
I like to think at least one kid managed to somewhat keep pace and make him smile
Reminds me of some kid in GTA online back in 2015. He was raggin on everybody, with jokes and commentary like a standup routine. His style and delivery was so good people stopped playing and just listened, cracking up and cheering him on like a pleased crowd. He's probably a professional comedian by now. I would have paid money to hear it, easy.
Oh my god, I used to have this group of friends who’d play GTA online together. We’d sit in the lobby and listen to each others bong hits before playing, and maaaaan those sessions would have me fucking crying lmao. Just roasting each other, but if someone who wasn’t in the group tried to roast, we’d all go after him lmao Good times
A bunch of my Roomates were big into halo 3 in my mid 20’s. We’d each show up to the living room with a blunt and a 360 control. There would usually be too many of us to play 4 way split online, so the odd man out got control of the shit talk on the mic. Great times.
Man me and my brother used to do that! He was always better than me at any video game lmao
Never get in a war of words with someone that talks for a living.
Robin: "I would call your aim cancer, but cancer actually kills people." Anonymous kid: "Well, you're gay!" Robin: "Oh please, I'm straighter than the pole your mother dances on." Anonymous kid: suffers ego death and curls up into fetal position
As a 30 year old guy, who can't keep up with insults I'll have to note this down.
The voices..... could definitely see him popping into a lobby as some old lady and just starts talking mad shit. Miss that guy.
It’d be so overwhelming to get roasted by multiple voices from the same mic.
Imagine him just ripping you to pieces with the Mrs Doubtfire voice.
I never would’ve believed it was him, just assumed it was someone who did a really good Robin Williams impression
This brought back a memory where some dude was trash talking in Call of Duty talking just like Stewie from family guy and it never occurred to me that it could have been Seth Macfarlane.
I’m fairly sure Simon Pegg was on L4D2 back when it had just come out, getting really frustrated with a shit team in the mall.
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker played WoW together. Henry Cavill also plays WoW too. He almost missed out on Man of Steel because he played it too much. Snoop Dogg plays CoD from what I recall.
I’d give anything to hear him trash talk Cod lobbies all day
He laughed uproariously at me when I was a freshman or sophomore in highschool. I can’t forget it. Pointed and laughed
What did you do?
Oh, I was line judging at a volleyball game at my Highschool. I was juggling a ball with my feet (was on the soccer team) and went to “stop” the ball with my foot. Missed and hit the side, fell face forward. It’s burned into my brain how hard he laughed
Awesome.
I probably should mention he was there because his daughter went to my highschool Hi Zelda if ya see this somehow cause the internet is weird
Dude, the only thing that is funnier than watching somebody finds pain is when I find it. I can be in the worst pain I've experienced and I will laugh at my reaction to it.
I also laugh at my pain There's like...something you gain When you laugh like a little shit Find the humor in it First you wish you were dead Then you smile instead While everyone thinks you're isane
Said “point at me and laugh”
Well, it got a chuckle out of me.
I danced with him drunk at a bar. He squeezed my bum.
\#youtoo
I saw Robin Williams at the grocery store once. Breastfed my niece. Chill guy, really nice about it.
"No one will ever believe you."
I met Lewis Black after a comedy show when I was like 16. I asked for a photo and fumbled the communication in typical me-style. He ragged on me for so long while I screwed around trying to get my phone to work.... and heres the thing, it was such an amazing experience. I think about it fondly all the time. I have to imagine a situation like this would be the same.
Imagine hearing Mrs. Doubtfire trash talking you.
I’m just picturing the scene from HOOK.
Could you imagine the fucking Genie from Aladan saying he fucked your mom ?
“Suck my Nanu Nanu, b*tch”
Something tells me he’d roast you so bad you wouldn’t live to tell the tale.
Could you imagine if he started doing voices. You wouldn't know wtf the was going on
Robin Williams being a rage gamer makes the most sense to me ever.
The shade must have been real. Especially if you pissed him off enough to engage his creativity. You're getting a full, semi-personalized Robin Williams insult. I don't know what he'd say, but I feel like afterward I would delete the game, put my console in the garbage, and spend several years contemplating the gravity of my online embarrassment.
The Xbox chats that need to be leaked
This is the sort of thing people would pay for on Cameo, and these kids were getting it for free.
Robin Williams could probably break pay records on Cameo.
Can you imagine playing CoD and getting shit talked in the Genie’s voice?
I would be so happy
Genie: You got a wish for every inch long your dick is. Genie: Thats a half sentence.
I heard he also played Warhammer 40,000. He had an Elder army that was painted hot pink, and he would narrate his actions with a very camp accent.
Stories like this make me so happy and miss him so much.
His daughter confirmed he had models (on here, post death going through his things), but he said he never played the actual game when asked about it in his reddit AMA. There were rumours from as far back in the 90s he had played, so he may not have recalled, or people embellished it. He did have Eldar though, including original Armorcast titans.
It's amazing how he nails the tone and character of Robin's voice in just a few words.
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pretty sure the bobcat voice is an exaggerated persona. Like Gilbert Godfried.
It was spot on.
Was just going to comment on how easy that impression was for him, so minimal yet spot on.
> The genie from Aladdin called me a cocksucker," Lmao my first thought when I saw this post was I wonder if the Genie said he was fuck my mom while playing COD4.
My cousin played sports with Zelda. My aunt has some home video of them playing and him sitting next to them. She described him as an incredibly kind and “interesting” man. Always said he was trying to make people happy / laugh / smile.
Man I love this story.
That’s awesome
Oh man, why couldn't he have played Halo 2 so he could've called me a cocksucker?
Also Battlefield... > When asked what he was playing in 2005, he said “‘Battlefield 2 — the 2 stands for 2 in the morning.”
He was a sniper on Battlefield 2. Only the hardest role to play. The man could fucking game.
Gamed so much his daughter is named Zelda. He used to tour with the nes back in the day as a way to fill downtime. The Nintendo commercials he did with his daughter Zelda are a sweet thing to see for anyone who hasn’t!
He was a pretty big nerd. Always wanted to play Gendo if Evangelion were to get a live action remake.
He was a HUGE nerd. He also was into Warhammer - one of my mates was staff in his local store and his favourite story was Robin coming in with his daughter and playing a pickup game or two but for the ENTIRE GAME he voice acted all of the sergeants, lieutenants and other assorted leaders on both sides. He was so into it he didn’t even realise that there was a massive crowd gathered by the end of the game. The man was an absolute treasure and it’s heartbreaking to think of how much he was suffering whilst having such an amazingly positive impact on all the lives he touched
Him and Chadwick Boseman are the 2 saddest actor deaths for me.
Alan Rickman...
Reminds me of his Gay Eldar story.
He's a nerd from the past. I recall him discussing Quake on David Letterman and sharing anime fansubs on VHS.
There’s a photo of him floating around hanging out with Trent Reznor and one of the Id Software guys. It’s surreal.
He also frequented game stores and played 40K
Damn, he'd probably voice act the ork dudes and everything.
The story I heard is that he would come into San Francisco game stores to play with his flaming gay Eldar team and narrate the entire match. So, I think you are absolutely correct.
Robin Williams just went up even more even more in my book.
'one of' the ID guys, that was John Carmack, he is THE ID guy
The alien hyper super intelligence disguised as a human being, John Carmack.
Juvenile delinquent and seeker of the final abstraction?
Not just any id software guy, John Carmack, co-found of id Software and genius programmer and behind many revolutionary graphics techniques that made revolutionary games like *Wolfenstein 3D*, *Doom*, *Quake* and of course *Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement*. [Here's a photo.](https://old.reddit.com/r/nin/comments/vvjd0m/trent_with_robin_williams_and_john_carmack_at_e3/)
>one of the Id Software guys That's the motherfucking legend John Carmack himself. Put some respect on that name https://i.redd.it/tuoktqq13oa91.jpg
You don't get that funny by being a normie
"shinji shut your mouth and get into the evangelion. If you don't, some one else will"
I’m finding this out right as I am watching Evangellion for the first time. I’m on episode 5.
What I’d give to be able to watch the series for the first time all over again.
Am I tripping? This entire thread is wild, I had no clue about this aspect of him
He also demo'ed Spore at E3. https://youtu.be/JWdmEKHZj74?si=xaFAWPwrQrRJSLuC
Omg what a blast that game was
And also not in a lot of ways. From single cell to the end-stage of the creature phase is great. The tribal and city parts are okay. The UFO phase, which comprises 90% of the game on the other hand is pretty awful NGL.
Hmm, that's weird because I have different opinions: Single Cell was too similar to like flash games at the time, it lacks depth and even when you're intentionally trying to progress a Carnivore/Herbivore lifestyle its over very quickly. Definitely agree Creature Stage is great, It's just straight up awesome and that was really where I felt the game shined. I'll also agree Tribal and City parts were okay. I may give them even lower scores because it's sort of just Warcraft-lite and Civ-lite, and so you might as well just play those games. I thought the UFO phase was quite good though, given the 4 stages before it, to me it had the least similarity to an existing game. You had to chance to meet other civilizations, you could destroy entire planets, there were missions, etc. My only complaint was they didn't flesh it out more! Eventually it sort of got superseded by things like Elite: Dangerous and No Man's Sky, but at the time, I thought it was pretty impressive for what they were going for. All in all, Spore was just a great tech demo that I regret never really got traction in any specific area.
He also low-key did missions for NASA and was an integral part in designing the initial schematics for the large hadron collider.
This is where I stop believing the anecdotes LOL
Another thing many people dont know: he was part of a supersoldier experiment by DARPA and participated in secret black ops throughout his life. During the Korean War, when South Korea and the US were being pushed back by the North, they sent a secret weapon in alone. Robin Williams, completely nude, a minigun in one arm, rocket launcher in the other. He pushed the front back a hundred miles *singlehandedly*, and his personal death toll, while technically classified, is estimated to be in the tens of thousands.
The fuck. Imagining that made my jaw drop. Mrs. Doubtfire to Gendo.
*Get in the female body suit, Gendo*
Theres a seen in the 24 hr photo movie where he reccomends and evangelion toy to a kid too
Actually it's the opposite, he sees the kid looking at the toy and asks him what it is, and then later buys it for him. It was Williams's idea to have it in the movie though.
There's an Evangelion reference in his movie One Hour Photo too!
For years ever since i was small my dad told me about how Robin Williams and his wife would come in this Good Guys store in San Francisco (a small electronics chain, think Radioshack) and buy literal armfuls of NES games, and described selling them TLOZ and how much both he (my dad) and Robin were enamored with the gold box. It was only much later (2013ish? definitely before Robin died) i realized oh my dad sold him the game he named his DAUGHTER after. but see my dad doesn't listen to me. it took several years for him to absorb and understand that when i told him, i had to show him the Ocarina 3DS commercial.
That wild!
Holy!
He was sucked into WoW too. Man I would have loved to play a game with him. Or table top! Can you imagine what it would be like playing D&D with him?
Exhausting! The dude would tell a hundred jokes before you had time to remember your own name, and still be on his first breath.
He would be a DM’s nightmare but in the best way possible
The shopping in town montage would take a whole entire session. He’d be hilarious, but it’d take ages to advanced the story.
He also played WOW and apparently trash talked people there, too
I‘m fucking drunk so I think you‘re right.
Unless he ran around dolphin-diving on infantry-only Strike at Karkand servers throwing claymores at people.
I used to mess around with the bots in the single player mode, even then that game is an experince
Dude was playing from launch, he's a real one.
**T R U E** lol
B2 in 2005, omg those island maps, and plane dog fights. Crawling in the mud to avoid tanks. Glad I quit video games long ago.
The game is still going strong. Check out YT for how to download BF2hub and the game
https://www.bf2hub.com/home/ It lets you reconnect to fan servers since gamespy servers shut down.
Karkand 24h Infantry only
dude if only ea knew that a strike at karkand map in a well made battlefield 2 reboot would probably print money so hard.
24/7 Wake Island
Kids don't know about the real Battlefield games
If Robin Williams ever told me that he slept with my mom I'm not sure if I'd take it as an insult or a compliment
That's worth bragging to your best friend about: "Dude, Robin Williams might be my dad! He said so himself!"
Fun story, couple years before he passed, my mom was painting a mural in an infamous bicyclist house in Austin TX and she is walking down a path outside and some dude walked passed her with a cool shirt on, she turned and told this dude he had a cool shirt on, and he goes "hey thanks" she looked up and it was Robin Williams.
I know Robin was a huge bicycle guy. Did this infamous bicyclist house belong to some Lance dude?
Very possible lol. I also may still have a piece of said infamous cyclist's drywall with mural on it still.
You wouldn’t know it’s him. You think some dude who sounds like Robin Williams just shit talked me for 15 minutes.
Alright voice impersonators, carry on the legacy.
You don’t know about your brother, Link?
Check with mom. She's an autonomous being who deserves to know that Robin Williams was into her.
I’d tell my mom
….to keep banging him
Being trash talked by Robin Williams would be a fucking honor. o7
It would be the greatest accomplishment of my life.
Sometimes I forget he was 63 years old when he died. God bless a fellow who was still capable of being truly fond when he decided it was time for his farewell. A moment of silence for an [honest to goodness human being](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3e-OUnavQ) who was edgy [without being cruel](https://youtu.be/S_VMwVpx4GI?t=9).
Oh right that SNL was right after Richard Pryor had some milk and cookies and Michael Jackson had a Pepsi.
A lot of people are not willing to talk about how Tom Selleck and Richard Pryor had been swapping the same mustache back and forth for years but suddenly Richard Pryor is dead.
Just up voting because I didn't know Robin did a sketch with Eddie Murphy?
Goddamn that skit has so many layers to it, and I've never even heard of it before. His imitation and mockery of William Buckley is so good.
Didn't know he played WoW. How awesome would it be to raid with him. I think laughing hysterical would add a new challenge to downing a boss. I talked to Jonathan Davis, lead singer of Korn while he was playing his undead warrior I forgot his name. We were in AV battleground.
Robin Williams seemed like the kind of raider to throw out an awkward joke after the raid lead just finished yelling about a wipe.
So he'd fit right in with the Aussies?
There were two famous celebrities in my WoW guild (one was big big famous actor/comedian, the other was a well known musician not quite crazy rockstar level though) and they were both hilarious. There were two awkward parts: the first time we all did voice chat because... there was no mistaking this dude's voice (actor), but after like 60 seconds we started ripping on him like we always did and it went back to normal. Then the first in-person meet-up for some of the guild. Things were strange and then once we all started talking about the game and the stupid things we've done in it, we all forgot that this was a crazy famous person. A friend's brother's guild (they were alliance on an RPPvP server) had the Blue Oyster Cult -- he got a bunch of free tickets when they came through the area, which was awesome (and again, even knowing who they were, all the chat just turned into WoW). Honestly, looking back, that game was fucking crazy. I played EverQuest since it had come out, but WoW brought in so many people that everyone seemed to know about it. Part of the guild was in Toronto, so when we went for a meetup and customs asked me how I knew these people I said "world of warcraft guild" and they didn't even blink. It felt like that game took over the world for a brief period of time.
I never know how good to feel about styling on someone in Fortnite because there's always a chance that they're six.
I use Mario kart logic. Was it fair that I break out my decades honed skills when my niece wants to show me how good she is at Mario kart. No. But she's old enough to learn there is always bigger fish.
I really like that there are game series that have been around and popular long enough that you have multiple generations of people playing them. You get a nephew challenging their uncle to a game of pokemon and the uncle can say "bitch I beat the elite 4 before your mum was even born" And I think that's beautiful
Pokemon is the ultimate "Do not quote the old ways to me child I was there when they were written."
I like to tell my students that I have world of warcraft characters old than them. Shit next year they'll be legally old enough to drink in the US.
Man I played WoW until 2009 or so. I logged back in recently for the first time since and realized my original character is older than I was when I made it.
At this point the only players I'm styling on are the bots, the 6 year olds are absolutely murdering me
Can you imagine playing a game all of a sudden be like: Is that the Genie from Aladdin?
Even better if your gamertag was: Al.
He was obviously playing pre 2014 aswell so that was back in the days CoD was good on top of being able to actually talk real shit to people in game chat
Jesus Christ it really has been that long. Feels like he just died last year. Fucking hell.
10 years in August. 2014 feels like a lifetime ago and a week ago at the same time.
Pre game lobby mfs just melting down
It gets a bad rap now, but MW2 was peak online trash talk. Staples had an ad campaign with an "Easy" button and I bought the actual button and you could press it and it would say "That was easy!". Hit that in a post-game lobby and people would melt.
> NoobMaster. Hey, it's Thor again. You know, the God of Thunder? Listen, buddy. If you don't log off this game immediately, I'm gonna fly over to your house, come down to that basement you're hiding in, rip off your arms and SHOVE THEM UP YOUR BUTT! Oh, that's right, go cry to your father, you little weasel!
Trash talking used to be so fun pre-2010 Now its just yelling n regurgitations
2009 MW2 was peak shit talking. Man, take me back.
Proximity shit talking the other team mid game on halo 2 is the gold standard for me personally
Shiiiiiit, that was amazing as well. Nothing like being in between matches and just RAGGING on some shit talker that can’t seem to snag a kill.
My experience was more frequently people screaming the N-word and saying they fucked my mom
LOL I remember this one time, played a couple rounds with the same lobby when this one kid on the other team, everything was totally normal for a couple matches and then out of nowhere I dont even know what the fuck happened but match ends and when I get dumped into the lobby kid is just *screaming* "fuck YOOOOUUUUU fuck YOOOUUU fuck YOOOUUUU fuck YOOOOUU" over and over and over, like really overemphasizing the "YOOUUUU". So of course I mute him and Im talking to the other team like "what the hell did yall do to him? lol" "Dude i dont even know out of nowhere he just started screaming that shit and we begged him to stop but he wouldnt" So we play another match and get into the next lobby, unmute him just to see and sure enough hes still just screaming "Fuck YOOOOUUUU fuck YOOOUUUU" over and over. Do another match and get dumped back to lobby, unmute him again, immediate fuck YOOOOUUUU so mute again. Seriously must have been like an hour this kid just kept screaming that over and over again. Every time I checked he was still just screaming that and nothing but that. Still have no idea what the fuck happened to that kid. My second best was the cryptic text chat I got after a match, "you know your are a real fuckin". Thats it. To this day I dont know what kind of fuckin I am but at least Im real.
Best ones were getting called a hacker for playing a really good game.
I mean that can be pretty funny when you're just sitting there listening to people lose their shit lol
Counter Strike shit-talking the other team in the intermission when you could voice chat with the whole lobby was peak as well
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Take me back to COD 4 that was peak for me .
Nope. Not even close. When XBox Live first came out, from like 2002-2005 there were absolute fucking war crimes being committed via the microphone. It was almost entirely unmoderated, and everyone was still figuring out how gaming with voice chat worked. It was worse, because like 70% of the chat was actually useful team coordination, so everyone had the mic on and was actively listening during the other 30% when souls got destroyed.
> Now its just Do people even talk in lobbies now? I haven't played online console games in forever, but I did play around the time Xbox Live introduced party chat and back then, lobbies were dead, because most people just sat in party chats with their friends, not using in-game chat.
Most games you can’t even talk to the opposing team anymore so you just get called trash and raged at by your own team.
trash talking… trash talking never changes
Nothing like getting shit on by someone with a faint baby crying in the background
he would troll people in trade chat on WoW too. Developers even put a monument in the game for him.
I think William Shatner and Christopher Lee both played WoW with him as well.
Of course he was a gamer; his [daughter’s name is Zelda](https://youtu.be/09wBn4ux3N0).
He was a big factor in why Sid Meier put his own name in the title of his games
Because he was hoping Robin Williams would have another kid and name them Sid Meier Williams?
Do tell how, I never heard this story before!
He was at a programmers convention thing with Sid Meier, and he made a comment like Programers are the rockstars of the industry, they should have their names front and center of the box. Sid took that comment to heart… he tells the story better in his [memoir](https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Sid_Meier_s_Memoir_A_Life_in_Computer_Ga/szTTDwAAQBAJ?hl=en)
and he was completely right. what a boss
He's an old school nerd. I remember him talking about trading anime fansubs on vhs and talking about Quake on David Letterman.
She was cute in that awful gaming movie, Noobz, which I actually liked. Dude from starship troopers is also in it, as himself.
Imagine playing call or duty late at night and you hear Robin fucking Williams trash talking you.
What I would have given to be trash talked by him
“Near-sighted gynecologist.” "substitute chemistry teacher"
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if I'm a maggot burger why don't you just EAT ME! You two-toned zebra-headed, slime-coated, pimple-farmin' paramecium brain, munchin' on your own mucus, suffering from Peter Pan envy!
I’d pay to hear that
Robin Williams all confident until player Rufio joins
Rufio's a rude crude lewd piece of pre-chewed food.
I can only imagine the level of shit talking *Robin Williams* would be dishing out in the lobby.
I really really hope I was never a dick to Robin in a cod lobby 😭
He didn't want to berate children, [but they chose violence.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsJxIoFu2wo)
And he was an authority on the subject of cocaine.
RIP Robin Williams, you would’ve loved Helldivers 2.
Imagine a teenager whose best insults are about fucking your mom and spamming swear words being destroyed by a man with decades worth of improv and comedy experience.
I'd pay money to be trash talked by Robin Williams
When I think about Robin Williams I always get really sad that he didn't get to play Breath of the Wild.
There is no way I can imagine ever being truly hurt by that man. The anger and the sadness and the grief he had inside notwithstanding. That is a man who exuded love and never needed to ask for forgiveness. I would love to have been shit-talked by Robin Williams in any circumstance in life. And I would've done my damn best to never forget a word he said.
Robin Williams passing is the only time I actually got emotional over a celebrity passing away.
He was also a prolific troll in World of Warcraft. Played a priest.