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Rebecca Heineman has died

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Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by empressplay »

djmips wrote: post #20
amatecha wrote: post #8

Very sad news. This one hit pretty hard for me as not only was she so awesome and contributed so much to so many great games, but the short timeline between "oh dang I have cancer and we're fighting it" to, well, today... was just way too short :(

You are not alone. I can only think that her post about being very vulnerable after chemo from immune system supression made me realize how lucky you have to be to beat cancer with chemo.

My understanding is the cancer had already metastasized by the time it was discovered. Chemo was always a hail Mary sadly :(

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by some_furry »

CursedSilicon wrote: post #5

I was lucky to catch some of Becky's livestreams on YouTube over the years. More than a brilliant programmer she was truly a kind soul. She never approached topics with any kind of ego. Just a joy and love for the things she'd worked on and the people she'd worked with

Yeah, that's the impression I got from everyone who's saddened by her loss.

We lost a legend.

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Post by cast4 »

As a retro-enthusiast, I was captivated by the stories she shared in her interviews, particularly about working on the cancelled Half Life port to Classic Mac OS (supposedly it even ran on 68k Macintoshes, How amazing is that !?). She said that she still had a CD of the gold master on her shelf. I really fear that work may never see the light of day now...

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Post by sevenseacat »

DonHopkins wrote: post #19

This breaks my heart, I will miss Burger Becky, she was the sweetest kindest person and a legendary programmer. https://www.burgerbecky.com/becky.htm The first "Boom & Bust" episode of Netflix's series "High Score" series told the story of her winning the first Space Invaders U.S. national championship as a kid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Score_(TV_series)

I knew I'd seen her somewhere before, that was it!

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by splitbrain »

Offtopic: several of the embedded Bluesky posts at the end of the article show "The author of the quoted post has requested their posts not be displayed on external sites." Seems not to phase the PC Gamer "journalists".

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by DerekL »

splitbrain wrote: post #38

Offtopic: several of the embedded Bluesky posts at the end of the article show "The author of the quoted post has requested their posts not be displayed on external sites." Seems not to phase the PC Gamer "journalists".

It's faze, not phase. It's a common mistake.

Re: Rebecca Heineman has died

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Post by superultra »

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 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 indictment of the inequitable K shaped economy we’ve built, and hopefully fixed in the future.

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