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I actually thought MMOs were a really fun concept until Everquest (and its myriad of sequels) happened.
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Fuck this year. Lost my second oldest cat too (my older 16 years old also passed this yr) just 11 years old.
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We also lost our cat this year, nearly the same age. I still feel sad every time I think of it - I wish we could have kept him for 10 more years.
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She was best cat friends with the oldest cat and really just hadn't been right since she passed. There was a brief recovery where she got back up to a proper weight and was being herself then she basically fell off a cliff again.

She was really special to me as she was an outside stray rescued as a kitten. At the time she was so malnourished she couldn't even use her back legs. Probably amazing she made it to 11 but fuuuuck this feels awful.
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^ really sorry about your cats Image

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rene auberjonois just rejoined the great link. year couldn't end without another DS9 actor dying... i mentioned already when aron died, but i was watching through the show for the first time this year and have since finished, and seeing the actors die like this is really depressing.

the "what we left behind" documentary from last year - which i literally just watched yesterday, allowing me to see rene up and about in HD - talked about ds9 getting a resurgence of popularity thanks to a few factors (still-relevant or potentially even *more* relevant political commentary, today, things like its serialization actively benefiting from the binge-watching nature of streaming services) and even spitballed how to begin a hypothetical season 8. i had a little hope the show would somehow come back despite michael piller being dead, but i feel like that hope is squashed, now.
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Carroll Spinney, puppeteer and voice of both Big Bird and Oscar The Grouch has passed away at 85.
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Star Trek online did a great DS9 reunion only a few years ago. Everyone reprised their roles except Sisko and O'Brien and the missions are pretty good.
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Marie Fredriksson, Roxette dies at 61

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What. Shit! I thought she won her fight with cancer long ago.
Why does this thing happen all the time? I guess no one should ever feel safe. :( So fucking sad.
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^ lost someone close to the family yesterday to cancer. here's a vent -
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a few hours after i posted that bit on rene, my parents call five minutes away from the apartment telling me they're dropping by. very sudden, very strange. earlier in the day, i had been talking to them about how they were seeing a close friend of the family dealing with breast cancer, and i stated that "i should really go see her." we had had a discussion a week or two ago that it's probably likely this upcoming christmas is her last christmas and she's got a little less than a year left.

i've known this person my entire life and seen her on dozens upon dozens of occasions - i'm talking about someone close enough she spent parts of every christmas and thanksgiving with us. she was the high school sweetheart and wife of one of my mom's best friends (who is also my uncle's lifelong best friend). i grew up going on vacations and being on friendly terms with her family, and was, at points, friends to both her daughter (my age, who i was in chorus with at some point in high school) and son (a little younger, i'd spent a great deal of time with both on family vacations, visits, etc.). in all my time knowing this woman, she was one of the kindest, most amicable people i've ever met. i cannot recall seeing her angry so much as once. she was 56 and only a year or two fresh into being a grandmother and poised to be one of the kindest grandmas imaginable.

my parents get there, and i am told that "i need to sit down." i take a step back and point at them, immediately piecing it together, "ah, you're about to tell me someone is dead." my almost standoffish reaction a spontaneous attempt at not getting swept in tears, i suppose. she apparently passed just last night, and my parents didn't want to shock me over the phone - i imagine it probably hurt a lot for them to hear i wanted to see her when she'd just passed. she took a serious turn for the worse very recently, to the point that the last news i heard was only a couple of weeks old and very optimistic. she'd had breast cancer for well less than a year and was the kind to get yearly mammograms, but it was hyper-aggressive, took her quickly, and then she responded badly to some new treatment and just fucking died.

i hadn't seen her in months. everyone said she had like a year left. just, boom. felt like finding out an actor i liked passing of cancer was going to be the worst part of the day, but hey, why not take someone as good as family, too. i was devastated and having a hard time keeping it together. i'm still very upset and worried about attending the funeral with the shape of my mental state, this year.
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syd mead (86) just passed. aside from his obvious works, this guy was an influence to countless classic games' aesthetics (and directly involved in designing the craft for a forgettable pc engine game).
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Now with a 2020 death, drummer Neil Peart of Rush, rock on brother with the angels.
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Legendary Monty Python comedian, actor and director, Terry Jones :(
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Jo Shishido! Legendary chipmunk cheeks badass. 86 years old so can't be too sad about that, but RIP my dude.
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300 films too. Absolute legend.

It's sad but understandable that so many Japanese film stalwarts have died recently. Oshima, Wakamatsu and Suzuki all in the last decade. At least they all left behind such immense bodies of work to catch up on.
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Sumez wrote:Legendary Monty Python comedian, actor and director, Terry Jones :(
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BIL wrote:Shit. Image
Yet another one of those goddamn Bloomberg ads popped up when I clicked this. Being reminded, yet again, this man is spending over half a billion dollars just as an insurance policy to lay the groundwork to run third party and try to help Trump win just in case Sanders wins the nomination...

Really ruined the moment for me. Like someone dropping their pants and taking a shit in the punch bowl at a funeral.
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As much as Terry Jones is loved for his Python work, he made some fantastic documentaries in his later years devoted to disproving antique propaganda that's lingered to this day.

My favorite one was called "The Barbarians" I think, about disproving Roman propaganda about the Barbarian cultures they genocided, but youtube hasn't been cooperative in coughing up any links today.
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BryanM wrote:
BIL wrote:Shit. Image
Yet another one of those goddamn Bloomberg ads popped up when I clicked this. Being reminded, yet again, this man is spending over half a billion dollars just as an insurance policy to lay the groundwork to run third party and try to help Trump win just in case Sanders wins the nomination...

Really ruined the moment for me. Like someone dropping their pants and taking a shit in the punch bowl at a funeral.
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Mischief Maker wrote:As much as Terry Jones is loved for his Python work, he made some fantastic documentaries in his later years devoted to disproving antique propaganda that's lingered to this day.

My favorite one was called "The Barbarians" I think, about disproving Roman propaganda about the Barbarian cultures they genocided, but youtube hasn't been cooperative in coughing up any links today.
Yes, he did some excellent stuff! I'd lulled myself into a sense that he was larking about with Michael Palin somewhere... had no idea he was so ill. I always associate these guys with my dad's generation, keep forgetting they're a good ten-fifteen years older.

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Mischief Maker wrote:As much as Terry Jones is loved for his Python work, he made some fantastic documentaries in his later years devoted to disproving antique propaganda that's lingered to this day.

My favorite one was called "The Barbarians" I think, about disproving Roman propaganda about the Barbarian cultures they genocided, but youtube hasn't been cooperative in coughing up any links today.
Very interesting. Curious if these made it to DVD now.
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Kobe Bryant. Way too young. Damn.
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WTF?

EDIT: oh, helicopter. Scary shit. Nine dead total. EDIT2: including one of his daughters, holy fuck. EDIT3: Article identifying victims, bad stuff.
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By the way, someone should change the topic title from 2019 to 2020.
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xxx1993 wrote:By the way, someone should change the topic title from 2019 to 2020.
We're not ready to accept the 2020 ones.
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Now Chris Doleman of the Minnesota Vikings bit it. Brain cancer at 58.
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One quite relevant for western shmup fans... helvetica aka TheStupidOne, site owner and administrator of what's probably the oldest English Touhou fansite Maidens of the Kaleidoscope (shrinemaiden.org), has unexpectedly passed away. No details of how or why are known yet, we got the news only yesterday.
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That's so sad! She couldn't have been that old either. ShrineMaiden was such a big part of spreading the series to other fans. My sympathies to her family.
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According to her profile on the forum, she was 32.
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Kirk Douglas has passed away at 103. ( :shock: )
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Specineff wrote:Kirk Douglas has passed away at 103. ( :shock: )
Damn -- that's a good run!
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