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Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by MonkeyClub »

slivanes wrote: post #16

My 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.

> My teenage daughter made an irregular visit to my study about an hour ago to let me know of this news.

She probably needed a hug?

(I'm opening my mouth on something that's not my business, cause I've often missed such cues in the past - you can always make up for one you missed, but it's better if you catch it in time. Again, pardon the interjection.)

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by Darmody »

cududa wrote: post #29
cowmoo728 wrote: post #19

This 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 ha…

You don’t need to share your theories on someone’s death to the world. It’s not your place and serves no purpose. When I had a friend that was well-known in the tech world pass, all sorts of people came out with conspiracy theories on what his “real” cause of death was. To the bereaved, coming across random theories just hurts. Outside of that, opining without any medical expertise or insights on how he died serves n…

He was talking about the type of cancer the thinks technoblade had.

And you know what? He wasn't wrong.

Quote from his website.

    > In honor of his memory, a portion of the proceeds from all online orders will be donated to a wonderful organization called curesarcoma.org

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by philjackson »

LilBytes wrote: post #9

"In his message, Techno, who reveals his name is actually Alex, talks about how the money from merch and other “sell-out” pushes over the last year is being used to send his siblings to college, if they want to go, along with thanking his viewers for giving him such happy moments—all while a slideshow of images showing him throughout various points of his treatment are shown on screen." What a beautiful legacy. Fuck…

"No dead brother pressure"

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by bovermyer »

_nalply wrote: post #34
explodingwaffle wrote: post #26

22 is far too young. I've been watching his videos since 2017- the picture in today's video of him in a hospital bed with his 10 million subscriber play button absolutely destroyed me. He used to joke all the time about hitting 10 million subscribers as if it could never happen, and the fact that it did is a monument to all the time and effort he put in- should've lived to 100 million. A reminder to us all- life is p…

> 22 is far too young Yesterday I had a stroll at the local cemetery. We discovered children tombs. One girl died when she was six years old. I can't imagine how hard that was for her parents.

My best friend's son drowned at 5. To say it was devastating would be a severe understatement.

Now, over a decade later, he still gets deeply depressed around two days - the day his son died, and the day his son was born.

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by cfcosta »

Asraelite wrote: post #35
cududa wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don’t need to share your theories on someone’s death to the world. It’s not your place and serves no purpose. When I had a friend that was well-known in the tech world pass, all sorts of people came out with conspiracy theories on what his “real” cause of death was. To the bereaved, coming across random theories just hurts. Outside of that, opining without any medical expertise or insights on how he died serves n…

The comment is 90% just talking about that type of cancer, irrespective of whether Technoblade had it. It's a bit extreme to try and stifle discussion just because we don't know with complete certainty that it's what he had. You probably shouldn't do it in an obituary or something but this is just a HN thread.

And not only that, it was really informative. I never had heard of this kind of cancer, and the description was short and extremely on-point. Now I know it is a thing, that it has (possibly) not seen enough attention, and that it is hard (and in many cases impossible) to heal.

It's literally the kind of comment I want to see here.

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by ivolimmen »

frays wrote: post #31

Thank you HN, I did not understand why this was such a big deal to my son and seeing this go straight to the front page of HN has helped me understand why he cried over an online "entity". Good luck to all the parents, children and anyone else affected by his death out there. Rest in peace Technoblade.

Yeah same for me. My daughter send me a message this morning about it and I responded a bit like a jerk on the message and my youngest send me a message that she was crying about it. Watching this also made me tear up... will amend this with my daughter

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by jugg1es »

bovermyer wrote: post #46
_nalply wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 22 is far too young Yesterday I had a stroll at the local cemetery. We discovered children tombs. One girl died when she was six years old. I can't imagine how hard that was for her parents.

My best friend's son drowned at 5. To say it was devastating would be a severe understatement. Now, over a decade later, he still gets deeply depressed around two days - the day his son died, and the day his son was born.

I found my son floating in the pool at a beach rental house when he was 3 (the pool door was broken). I managed to revive him with CPR and he's totally fine now. Years later, I still feel trauma from it. I often think about what my life would be like if I had found him a minute later. I feel deeply for your neighbor.
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