A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
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Re: A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
#2Great read, there are many other examples. One example I read in a Wired magazine many years back, of a World of Warcraft mass funeral and mourning in some place.
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#3This is beautiful. It's amazing how the good side of the Internet really shines through in these pieces. Things like the 7,000-word script and professionally-narrated audio story for the kid to listen to are examples of how people sometimes go out of their way to do an amazing thing for little to no recognition, and that's what makes it even more wonderful.
I believe this is what Internet communities should aspire to be like, to cut through the toxicity and memetic warfare and just do something great together.
Re: A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
#4I was holding it together until the end when I saw the Elite tribute in the Hearst (a hand flipping the bird with the message "PILOTS NEVER DIE THEY JUST RESPAWN ON ANOTHER STATION").
This is the Internet at its best for sure, but I'm more taken aback at the resolve of this kid - staying positive and doing what he loved right up until his last moment. It's heartbreaking and inspiring all at the same time.
Godspeed, Commander.
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#5I couldn’t find it inspiring, only heartbreaking and anger-inducing. It makes me so geared up to think how shitty the world is to some people who have done nothing to deserve it and so generous to some who have done everything to not deserve it. Just one more reminder of how the world really feels like one wretchedly sick joke concocted in the mind of a wretchedly sick fuck.
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#6Man... just woke up, checked HN as usual, and now I‘m up in tears.
Communities like the ones from Elite Dangerous or EVE Online really tend to shine in such moments. I‘m... I don‘t know what else to write. Dang it.
o7
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#7Great read, there are many other examples. One example I read in a Wired magazine many years back, of a World of Warcraft mass funeral and mourning in some place.
Or like the one from Norway from a few monthes ago, where the parents did not know he had friends until WOW players meet up in his funeral and a lot of players around the world mourned him in the game
https://www.bbc.com/news/disability-47064773
Re: A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
#8I couldn’t find it inspiring, only heartbreaking and anger-inducing. It makes me so geared up to think how shitty the world is to some people who have done nothing to deserve it and so generous to some who have done everything to not deserve it. Just one more reminder of how the world really feels like one wretchedly sick joke concocted in the mind of a wretchedly sick fuck.
Karma
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Re: A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
#10beautiful tribute by the community.
o7