Do we know how his mom died? My guess is cancer. And, you're right. He does have a lot of sadness floating around him. Wasn't he a mamma's boy as well?
Yeah I believe it was cancer as that may be partially why he would do charity streams for PCRF. I’m not sure if he was a total momma’s boy, but both of his parents had their issues (as anyone does) and I think he had a strained relationship with them at some points in his life. Which is probably a source of some of his guilt that he deals with.
The article about her death does not mention a cause, just the fact that she passed away in hospital. He has mentioned during a charity stream before he has had at least one family member pass away from cancer (I am unsure if those are the exact words he used but that was definitely the jist of it) but I do not think he has specified what family members he was talking about. It does seem like she was his preferred parent out of the two.
I was always under the impression that Vinny's last name was Lang, I think that was even implied in Joel's first Windows destruction video where he made Vincent Lang his username.
Vince Lange is the default name for Bonzi Buddy’s installer. This is what started people joking about how his last name is Lange. I inserted a picture from Joel’s video and a separate video to show that it is the default name. Here’s Joel’s video, timestamp for Vince Lange is 46:50. You can see where it automatically is filled when it pops up. https://youtu.be/Yy318EfvbCM
This is correct, though I think based on older stories Vinny has shared in the past about his family, it sounds like he still holds some resentment for his dad because he wasn't financially responsible at times (ironic considering his profession based on the interview about his dad's disapperance), and that there was physical abuse and possibly cheating involved. He said there were moments where they were able to afford going to the Bahamas, and then other times where they were nearly flat-out broke because of his dad (I think there was also a mention of a gambling addiction in his family, but I could be mistaken). That said, I did find it touching that he showed off his mother's Led Zeppelin IV vinyl during his Record Collection video recently.
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The booru was shut down because of Fred dick spam. New booru still accepts Vinny art, it's just him who stopped showing it on stream. Unsurprisingly, the amount of art has dwindled after he stopped doing art streams, I checked the first few pages and it's all Joel.
aka another trip to wildwood.
And I miss his shovelware games streams.
feel free to try it out lol. me personally i have reason to believe his eyes would widen, he'd ask you where you heard that and then he'd leave and avoid you for the rest of the day.
It's forbidden knowledge that we must take to our graves.
100%!! I hope I didn't sound too creepy in my original message. I was just curious at what others might think would happen. Obviously, I don't want some rando shouting his name out at a convention. I just can't really recall a time he's ever gotten fully angry on stream... besides raging at games, of course. You'd think that something like anger would translate to a real life scenario, no? If somebody does ever do that, I hope that he, rightfully, puts the person on blast and makes them feel ashamed.
There was a stream that was archived in the Mega.NZ file on page 603 of this thread titled "2012-04-15 - Skate 3 glitches and derps", and around the 18:20 mark Vinny reads out someone named Anthony Palmieri in the credits, and he ends up not reading the rest of the names in the credits because of how awkward it was. I can only imagine how unsettling it would be for him, let alone anybody, to be approached by a stranger and be addressed by his full government name.
