Nitpick, but the title is missing the 'n' in "technoblade".
Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died
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#12Nitpick, but the title is missing the 'n' in "technoblade".
Fixed, thanks
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#13Nitpick, Technoblade isn't known for creating mods, he's known for creating online video content, mainly on youtube and twitch.
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#14I hope that in 20 years, we can all look back and say "how did we not solve cancer earlier". Good luck to everyone battling it, and anyone affected.
Recent wars didn't exactly help with funding health sciences. Seems to be a few questions around our specie's priorities as of late. Still fighting over dirt and who has the highest or fancier sandcastle.
It's a pity we can't compete on cures created or something more useful like, I don't know, carbon removed from atmosphere. There's an interesting competition worth winning.
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#15I hope that in 20 years, we can all look back and say "how did we not solve cancer earlier". Good luck to everyone battling it, and anyone affected.
Recent wars didn't exactly help with funding health sciences. Seems to be a few questions around our specie's priorities as of late. Still fighting over dirt and who has the highest or fancier sandcastle. It's a pity we can't compete on cures created or something more useful like, I don't know, carbon removed from atmosphere. There's an interesting competition worth winning.
It's what I keep thinking about whenever I watch the tv show For All Mankind. It would be so much better if we competed on things that are actually important.
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#16My teenage daughter made an irregular visit to my study about an hour ago to let me know of this news. I let her know that I didn't know this Technoblade, but this news seemed to hit my usually tough exterior daughter pretty hard, so he had some type of positive impact to my family. It is a touching tribute video they released.
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#17rip
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recent wars didn't exactly help with funding health sciences. Seems to be a few questions around our specie's priorities as of late. Still fighting over dirt and who has the highest or fancier sandcastle. It's a pity we can't compete on cures created or something more useful like, I don't know, carbon removed from atmosphere. There's an interesting competition worth winning.
It's what I keep thinking about whenever I watch the tv show For All Mankind. It would be so much better if we competed on things that are actually important.
Nah, everybody’s at the mall scratching his ass, picking his nose, taking out his credit card out of a fanny pack and buying a pair of sneakers with lights in them
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#19This is speculation but his symptoms and age appear consistent with metastatic osteosarcoma (bone cancer that has spread, typically to the lungs). Osteosarcoma treatment has not had a breakthrough in decades, so it's a very bad cancer to get. Surgical techniques have gotten more effective at preserving limb function, and there are more tools to ameliorate symptoms from aggressive chemotherapy, but the fundamentals haven't changed since the late 1970s. It's also very sad because this often chemoresistant cancer primarily affects adolescents in their growth spurt years around age 15.
I hope that a more effective treatment can be found soon for this cancer too. It's upsetting that so much progress has been made on so many varieties of cancer, but there are still some varieties that are a big question mark.
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#20My teenage daughter made an irregular visit to my study about an hour ago to let me know of this news. I let her know that I didn't know this Technoblade, but this news seemed to hit my usually tough exterior daughter pretty hard, so he had some type of positive impact to my family. It is a touching tribute video they released.
It's hitting me harder than I'd have expected, I think it's partly due to how much fun his videos always are and how positive he always seems to be. Even going back and rewatching his earlier videos of his cancer updates, he still has me laughing (and now, crying too) at his self-directed morbid jokes. The Great Potato War is on my top ten of all time (if not top five) youtube videos list: he's hilarious, the optimization is insane, it's such a trivial thing it seems it could only be done for the love of the game, and it also reminds me of what it's like when I'm optimizing a piece of code. Just hunting for the smallest advantage in the most obscure places. It's just sad to see someone who's brought so much joy to so many people go through that.
Usual caveat that I don't know him as a person, only what he shows through his videos, but even the fact that he worked to keep his identity unknown draws me in more: he wasn't in it for the money or fame, he was just a guy who loved the game and loved sharing it with others.