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Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by squigz »

geenat wrote: post #80
squigz wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you know that? You're making assumptions based on nothing. You know people die of cancer in Canada too, right? You know people die of preventable illnesses in Canada too, right? Stop pretending we're perfect. Anyway it simply does not matter if you are right - this is not the time or place for it.

My mother had it detected well in advance, and is currently being treated, the cancer is in remission now. I doubt Rebecca ever got that chance. Sure, surprise late stage cancer happens, but it's often caught when you get semi-annual checkups.

Once again, how do you know that? Or are you just making assumptions based on your pre-conceived ideas of how all 350m people in America live their lives?

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by walthamstow »

ido wrote: post #25
Dedime wrote: post #11

Admittedly I didn't dive much into this to get the full context, but it's saddening to me that a legendary game designer had a GoFundMe. I was hoping achieving that level of status in a traditionally well-paid industry would leave one well off, financially.

The games industry is not traditionally well paid, unfortunately.

Video games are an art form, the downside is they pay like one too.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by stavros »

Dedime wrote: post #11

Admittedly I didn't dive much into this to get the full context, but it's saddening to me that a legendary game designer had a GoFundMe. I was hoping achieving that level of status in a traditionally well-paid industry would leave one well off, financially.

I was hoping one wouldn't need to be well off to get treatment for an illness, but that's the US for you.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by einpoklum »

thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #6

Many years ago I played one of her works, Bard's Tale 3: Thief of Fate and enjoyed it very much. It was a masterful blend of RPG, dungeon crawl, and puzzles and had a memorable soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru5kg35dNso Having a bard in your party let you choose a soundtrack and their songs brought magical effects. For example, the Rhyme of Duotime let your party attack more frequently in combat: https:/…

It seems Bard's Tale 3 can be played on the DosBox emulator:

https://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=188&letter=B

... which is available for many platforms, including Windows and Linux:

https://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1

although the latest version of DosBox seems to be from 2019, so maybe others can suggest a more actively-maintained emulator.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

#85

Post by stavros »

simondotau wrote: post #48
superultra wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The United States is the wealthiest nation on the planet according to Forbes, richer than the subsequent three nations combined. It’s a tragedy that our own citizens are not the direct be beneficiaries of that wealth. I think a lot about the scene in Star Trek IV when McCoy is in a hospital and says “what is this the dark ages?” Gofundme is like a kafkaesque tragic absurdity that - hopefully - will be looked at as an…

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> As for whether this represents a "kafkaesque tragic absurdity" we would need intimate knowledge of a lifetime of financial decisions. Maybe she was really bad with money, and frittered it away in casinos. Maybe she was amazing with money, and donated to others more than will ever be donated to her.

As someone in a nation with socialised healthcare, no you don't. It's a Kafkaesque tragic absurdity, and this sentiment of "maybe she was bad with money" sounds a bit like "maybe she was holding the live hand grenade wrong".

The US is maybe the only developed nation where this happens, insurance exists because massively unlikely, massively expensive events are very hard to budget for. It's not the person's fault if they didn't manage that.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by razakel »

philipallstar wrote: post #59
simondotau wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody is advocating for eliminating a market-based system. My country (Australia) has both single-payer and a market-based private healthcare system.

You can imagine how that system, like most, is actually getting its medical advancements from the US.

This is a comforting lie Americans tell themselves to justify being ripped off.

You pay double the OECD average, and more per person for healthcare than the Swiss - and that's only counting the publicly funded parts!

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by ascagnel_ »

nebula8804 wrote: post #63

What a true legend. The amount of people she has touched with her work is enormous. Feeling a bit of regret. I feel like I made a poor first impression on Rebecca when I first met her a few years back at VCF East. I saw her again recently but was suffering from severe undiagnosed sleep apnea so much so that I was practically asleep at the event. I didn't know about the cancer. Thought I would have another chance. Thi…

> I saw her again recently but was suffering from severe undiagnosed sleep apnea so much so that I was practically asleep at the event.

Go visit a pulmonologist and get a diagnosis. Getting one and starting on a CPAP was life-changing for me.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by 1313ed01 »

einpoklum wrote: post #84
thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #6

Many years ago I played one of her works, Bard's Tale 3: Thief of Fate and enjoyed it very much. It was a masterful blend of RPG, dungeon crawl, and puzzles and had a memorable soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru5kg35dNso Having a bard in your party let you choose a soundtrack and their songs brought magical effects. For example, the Rhyme of Duotime let your party attack more frequently in combat: https:/…

It seems Bard's Tale 3 can be played on the DosBox emulator: https://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=188&letter=B ... which is available for many platforms, including Windows and Linux: https://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1 although the latest version of DosBox seems to be from 2019, so maybe others can suggest a more actively-maintained emulator.

DOSBox-X is a port that is actively developed and has many features missing in vanilla DOSBox.

There are a few other ones as well. DOSBox Staging is one. Magic DOSBox seems to be the most popular on Android. There is some iOS port as well.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by 7952 »

simondotau wrote: post #48
superultra wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The United States is the wealthiest nation on the planet according to Forbes, richer than the subsequent three nations combined. It’s a tragedy that our own citizens are not the direct be beneficiaries of that wealth. I think a lot about the scene in Star Trek IV when McCoy is in a hospital and says “what is this the dark ages?” Gofundme is like a kafkaesque tragic absurdity that - hopefully - will be looked at as an…

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The fact that you need intimate knowledge is evidence of the Kafkaesque nature. It describes a world where virtue doesn't exist except for the case of financial planning (which often equates quite well to luck).
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