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Rug Burn Junky on 11/9/2009 at 21:54

I don't think it's possible for me to overstate what fluke meant to me on these boards, but today it (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=70853#post70853) intersects pretty profoundly.

june gloom on 11/9/2009 at 22:23

Quote Posted by Kolya

I wouldn't count on it.

I'm sorry you suck at making e-friends. But I have quite a few who would be upset. And besides, you saw how TTLG reacted when I went on vacation for a couple weeks. Just the other day a prominent member of the Doom community died of brain cancer. He was 22. The outpouring of emotion from the entire community- including people who didn't even know him- said a lot. To say nothing of the effect fluke had on TTLG!

My point is, in this day and age of the internet and massive interconnectivity it is now very weird when someone just disappears, especially if they spend a lot of time in a given community. I've found peoples' blogs where the most recent post was a family member announcing the blogger had died. Sometimes said blogs are rather boring, but sometimes you get a harrowing account of the person's illness, their feelings and emotions as they near the end. I stopped reading those after a while. Too depressing. The worst was a person who'd committed suicide; the last post was by a family member who stated that the person had given no outward signs, but a read through the person's blog revealed a slowly detoriating psyche, assailed by a long string of bad luck, that devolved into paranoia, despair and eventually the bullet.

blah blah tl;dr

Kolya on 11/9/2009 at 22:38

It was a joke, dethtoll. I'm sure you have lots of friends, on the net and otherwise. I find the testament part a bit creepy if you're not old or ill or anything, but that's up to you.

june gloom on 11/9/2009 at 23:29

How is it creepy? You never know what's going to happen. You could walk into your utility room and die of a washing machine accident. Then what happens to all your stuff, and who's going to tell the internet circles you run in what happened?

Kolya on 11/9/2009 at 23:40

Well then, this might interest you: (http://www.deadmansswitch.net/)

Mr.Duck on 12/9/2009 at 03:04

: prodsthreadderailers :

Respect, plz.

JoshAnnie&Jenna on 12/10/2009 at 05:21

Hi everyone. It's Nicole.
As you may be aware, I occasionally drop by to catch up and to see whether Drew gets a mention now and again.
Imagine my huge surprise to see this!!

Thank you so very much. xxxxx

Update.
Annie now has 3 kids and Josh has 4. That's 7 grandkids.
:D

Nicole

Tocky on 12/10/2009 at 05:42

It is my fondest wish that his progeny multiply and take over the world. We can always use more like him. Good to hear from you.

Mr.Duck on 12/10/2009 at 21:23

In more than one way, Fluke lives on.

Cheers JA&J!!!

:)

gunsmoke on 12/10/2009 at 23:00

Wow, that's great! The dynasty lives on.