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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 greggh »

lofatdairy wrote: post #70

This is unbelievably sad news. During the pandemic, when my mental health wasn't doing so great, I fell into the Youtube minecraft rabbit hole and Technoblade was one of my favorites. My condolences for his friends and family, I'm glad he was surrounded by loved ones to the end.

This right here.

I know I am much older than his average viewer. But that just doesn't matter. His wit, humor and delivery were everything I needed in my darkest moments over the last couple years. My mental health would be far worse if it wasn't for Technoblade's content making me laugh when nothing else would.

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Post by e40 »

bentoncreation wrote: post #56

My teenage son knocked on our bedroom door last night after we'd all gone to bed. He was crying and told us his cousin had just texted him the news, and then he watched the video. We watched it again together. I cried and hugged him and we talked about it a little bit. My kids were so isolated during covid lockdown, we were getting really worried for their mental state. They weren't seeing other kids their age, they…

Parasocial relationships can have an extremely strong effect on people. My son was similarly effected by the suicide of a youtuber a few years ago. My son was 18 at the time, just out of HS and struggling. This person is someone he had followed for years and was public about his struggles and was doing better, then this happened.

The unintended side effects of the world we have built are many, and some are impacting our children in ways we couldn't have forseen.

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by ziml77 »

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…

Read past the first line. My kneejerk reaction was that it was terrible to speculate the type of cancer. But the rest of the comment makes it clear that he was not guessing to sound smart, he was doing it to inform and start a discussion on that type of cancer.

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by the_only_law »

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…

This is the second person in the streaming or eSports community I've read that's both very young and died of cancer recently. I'm kinda terrified now. Especially because I've been treating my health with a very "fix it later" attitude.

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by light_hue_1 »

Cancer research funding is laughably low. These deaths not necessary. They are a choice that we make as a country.

NIH spends $6 billion on cancer research every year. Google alone spends $31 billion on research activities every year.

A single company literally spends 5 times more money doing research on how to serve ads better, than we spend as a nation on curing cancer. Truly pathetic.

Cancer kills 1 in 4 people or so. We haven't increased funding for cancer research in 20 years. Direct costs of cancer care are over $200 billion per year in the US alone.

If you compare cancer to the moon landing. The moon landing cost about $500 billion inflation corrected. It will take 100 years before we invest that much money in cancer research at the current rate. We're talking about hundreds of millions of people dead for no reason.

Once people begin to think of these deaths as a choice we make to needlessly let people die, we'll finally be able to invest the resources necessary to stop cancer.

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by bdn_ »

Komodai wrote: post #73
neckardt wrote: post #13

Nitpick, Technoblade isn't known for creating mods, he's known for creating online video content, mainly on youtube and twitch.

There was no mention of mods?

HN titles are often edited after posting, so it's possible the original title misrepresented this.

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by d2049 »

bentoncreation wrote: post #56

My teenage son knocked on our bedroom door last night after we'd all gone to bed. He was crying and told us his cousin had just texted him the news, and then he watched the video. We watched it again together. I cried and hugged him and we talked about it a little bit. My kids were so isolated during covid lockdown, we were getting really worried for their mental state. They weren't seeing other kids their age, they…

Slightly off-topic question out of curiosity and without malice - is it normal for teenagers to talk to their parents about emotional issues and cry in front of them? It's been suggested to me this is a typical thing and it sounds great, but I never did this after getting to middle school age.

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Post by gigglesupstairs »

d2049 wrote: post #78
bentoncreation wrote: post #56

My teenage son knocked on our bedroom door last night after we'd all gone to bed. He was crying and told us his cousin had just texted him the news, and then he watched the video. We watched it again together. I cried and hugged him and we talked about it a little bit. My kids were so isolated during covid lockdown, we were getting really worried for their mental state. They weren't seeing other kids their age, they…

Slightly off-topic question out of curiosity and without malice - is it normal for teenagers to talk to their parents about emotional issues and cry in front of them? It's been suggested to me this is a typical thing and it sounds great, but I never did this after getting to middle school age.

Grief. Does that to you. There is a sense of loss and grief in the OP’s teenage son and hence he cried. Sounds pretty human and normal no matter the age.

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Post by jcpst »

d2049 wrote: post #78
bentoncreation wrote: post #56

My teenage son knocked on our bedroom door last night after we'd all gone to bed. He was crying and told us his cousin had just texted him the news, and then he watched the video. We watched it again together. I cried and hugged him and we talked about it a little bit. My kids were so isolated during covid lockdown, we were getting really worried for their mental state. They weren't seeing other kids their age, they…

Slightly off-topic question out of curiosity and without malice - is it normal for teenagers to talk to their parents about emotional issues and cry in front of them? It's been suggested to me this is a typical thing and it sounds great, but I never did this after getting to middle school age.

Probably depends. Even in my own family, the amount of emotional openness between the kids varies.
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