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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
September 11 2009 04:54 GMT
#21
R.I.P

Sorry, that's all I can say. Anything else would get me thinking about things I'd rather not.
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
wok
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States504 Posts
September 11 2009 05:32 GMT
#22
A very good friend of mine bit the dust a few weeks ago in circumstances I still am not clear about. So I mean.... given the choice between being dead and not being dead, at least for the time being, being dead seems like the bitchier situation.
I'll race you to defeatism... you win.
RebirthOfLeGenD
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
USA5860 Posts
September 11 2009 05:34 GMT
#23
I have something similar that happened to me almost exactly a year ago. (The anniversary of his death was last Monday, I believe)

Without this friend of mine I don't even know where I would be right now. He was my neighbor, and my all time best friend. We were best friends since I was a year old and I am 19 now. Last year when I started College during the second week of classes I found out that he had died. He had just moved from down the street to his parents house in Florida to attend University of Florida. He had to drive his dad to the airport and got home really late and tired. He left his car running in his garage while he slept and when his mom couldn't reach him for over a day she got her neighbor to go check in the house, he was dead in his bed due to carbon monoxide poisoning. A friend I knew since I was a year old was dead, the one friend I could always count on being there right down the street had died.

The reason I say this is relevant is because without him I would of never gotten into any video games. Especially starcraft. He used to play StarCraft all the time and was always like 30x better than me. I would only ever get into clans because he was so good and I'd just be a tag along. We used to play together all the time, during the summers we would be at his house almost every day just playing tons of games switching on and off. I dunno if anyone remembered these clans it was from like 6 years ago I'd say, if not more. We were in HS( together, something called DsX and I think a couple of others. The main one was HS( though. He was HS(Fr0sT.

But starcraft wasn't the only game he got me into. He also got me into RPG games, like Diablo, Mario RPG, the Zelda franchise. I literally cannot even begin to imagine who I would be if I had never met him, I know starcraft would most likely not even be a part of my life and it has had an immeasurable impact on me. I have played since around 2000, 9 years of my life. Soon to be 10. That would mean I have played starcraft the majority of time that I have been alive and for a couple of years I played it for hours a day.

But if he had never gotten me into it, if I had never looked up to him all my life, if he was never there to always be amazing at everything, where the hell would I be? I honestly have no idea whatsoever.

I still miss my friend, this summer just wasn't the same. He would just always call me to play some sort of crazy sport. Either backyard football, or wiffleball or something. It was just odd to not receive any call this summer at some ridiculous hour planning some sort of unrealistic game of football that he somehow always managed to throw together, or when he somehow managed to throw a wiffleball like 60mph and was able to pitch for 7 inning without his arm dying (wiffles balls are incredibly hard to pitch for a long period of time) Most people I know die after like 2-3 innings. I am just going to miss all that.

RIP Pat Farrell, aka HS(Fr0sT
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Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Singapore1442 Posts
September 11 2009 07:36 GMT
#24
On September 11 2009 12:23 omfghi2u2 wrote:
I remember being part of an online forum back a while ago. There was this member that always made intelligent and funny posts. Some people even got to know him in real life. It came as a shock to the forum when we found out he committed suicide on the day of his birthday.

Sorry to hear about your friend mate.

I knew of this girl on a forum who was a few years younger than me, not very well personally though. She committed suicide about a year ago and a few close forum friends were devastated as well.

May your friend RIP
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Hassl3
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States16 Posts
September 11 2009 08:42 GMT
#25
It's always sucks to lose people. Stuff like this always reminds me of mortality and how fragile life is. RIP.
WeSt
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Portugal918 Posts
September 11 2009 09:11 GMT
#26
Sorry to hear that
I knew this swedish dude from another game (elasto mania, lol) and chatted with him quite often for about 3-4 years untill someone in an online forum of the community stated that he was his neighbour and he and his family had died during the night. Cause: gas leak = explosion, big fire, etc. It was pretty sad and tragic.
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