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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: Geekboy1011 on October 22, 2013, 09:13:14 pm
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We are sad to inform you that one of our old-time moderators and friends took his life this past weekend. Tribal (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=profile;u=19) was a Support staff member who joined at the start of this era of Omnimaga back in the fall of 2008. He was also a member of the community before Omnimaga: he joined Cemetech a year prior, in September 2007. In this time, Tribal did not start or work on many projects with the community; instead he devoted his time around to talking with people engaging in good conversation and making sure that the peace was kept when it needed to be. He moderated our IRC channel back when it was on Dragonfire, and continued to do so all the way into the arrival of Omninet and the botnets that connected it and EfNet. With this we are asking people that knew him well to sign this form so we can print a card out for the family and send it to them to show our sympathy and support.
The memorial service for tribal was yesterday(friday the 25th). One of our members, Rcfreak0, went to this service to show his condolences to the family and to pass along a card that had everyone who contributed it. May he rest in peace and live on in memory and heaven for along time to come
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You will be greatly missed tribal. I've known him for quite a few years. I was the one who found out that he passed away from his uncle calling me and his mom contacting me about it. At first I didn't want to believe it, but sadly it is true. I'm very sad that this happened.
On a side note, his nick on irc *is* still online, and will stay on since I host it. I'm not taking it off because I don't want anyone impersonating him at all. Currently I am the only one with access to his efnet bnc. Any activity is from me or my znc freaking out like it does sometimes.
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I didn't save what I sent through the form sadly, but as I said basically, I was shocked to hear this earlier from Juju when we were hanging out. You were always a great friend, helpful in many ways and now since about 3 PM when I heard about this, I think about you every 30 minute or so no matter what. It already feels like there is some extra empty space on Omnimaga now even if you weren't that active in recent years. You will always be remembered by us and I wish I could have been able to help (even if that is hard within the limits of Internet).
Farewell friend. :'(
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I will personally be making sure some flowers are sent on behalf of omnimaga as a community he will be missed :(
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I didn't know him/didn't ever see/chat with him, but I give my sympathies to his family.
This is especially sad for me, however, because this is the 3rd suicide of a person I knew/knew of in the past 6 months.
The first was of a concert band member and member of the robotics team, during the summer.
The second, also during the summer, was of a neighbor whose dad leads a cover band my mom plays in.
Now the third is of Tribal, and he will be missed, though I did not know him, I know of what he had done.
I only wish I could have helped these people find a better way to deal with their problems. :'(
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Farewell, my friend. You will sorely be missed. May your memory be forever with us.
When I learned it from Geekboy, I was shocked at fiirst, then I invited DJ over to talk about it in front of a beer. Plus that wasn't really a good time for me, I had a big exam the next day I worried I didn't studied much, but I think I did good.
That's pretty much the first time I heard the suicide of someone I knew (other than various suicides and car accidents of people I barely knew), it barely happened back in 2010 though, and one of my favorite teachers in college died or cancer this summer at 35.
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well fuck, um...
i'm not sure how this sort of thing is supposed to work, um.
don't any of the rest of you go doing this, ok? ;_;
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I will personally be making sure some flowers are sent on behalf of omnimaga as a community
thanks, geek.
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We will all sorely miss Tribal. There is little I can bring myself to say. I don't know what to say in this moment. All I can say is if anyone else feels they need to talk I know I am personally available. If anybody needs to rant at someone about anything. See if I'm on IRC and if I'm not there, just send me an email at [email protected] or PM me on the forums. I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I'm here to help any way I can.
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I didn't know you and probably haven't even seen/met you on IRC in my time here. It's sad to see this happen. My sympathies to your family and everyone else. I don't really know what to say so to join shmibs: fuck :'(
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Tribal was a cool dude. He was great to talk to and was one of the older members still active on Omnimaga. It sucks that this happened. As everyone else said, I was shocked when I heard about it; I really was not expecting this to happen.
My sympathies and best wishes go out to your family.
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I didn't know tribal too well, he was pretty much inactive when I joined though I occassionally chatted with him on IRC. This really makes me feel sad. I really don't know what to say other than what shmibs said: fuck.
I will personally be making sure some flowers are sent on behalf of omnimaga as a community he will be missed :(
Thanks.
Edit:
..Messgae..
I don't know, but this typo made me feel slightly better somehow.
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I didn't know you and probably haven't even seen/met you on IRC in my time here. It's sad to see this happen. My sympathies to your family and everyone else. I don't really know what to say so to join shmibs: fuck :'(
I'm joining you too.
Early death is sad. The earlier, the worse. Also, suicide is one of the worst ways to die. :(
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R.I.P :-\
(ps: small mistake in the Google form: Messgae -> Message)
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I didn't know you either, but this is just sad! I feel for your family. :'(
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I didn't know you either, but this is just sad! I feel for your family. :'(
Likewise. R.I.P. :'(
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Although I have had many long periods of complete absence, I do remember back when Tribal used to be more active on IRC.
All in all, I can't say that I really knew him, but he did seem like quite the nice guy.
I'm sad that he didn't get the help and support he could have used, but it's not always as easy to know when somebody needs help. The most broken people can seem to be the most strong ones from the outside. My condolences to everyone that knew him. It's saddening, but I respect a man's choice over his own life, may it ever be such a hard one. May he rest in peace.
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I remember when we used to play Minecraft...
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Although I have had many long periods of complete absence, I do remember back when Tribal used to be more active on IRC.
All in all, I can't say that I really knew him, but he did seem like quite the nice guy.
I'm sad that he didn't get the help and support he could have used, but it's not always as easy to know when somebody needs help. The most broken people can seem to be the most strong ones from the outside. My condolences to everyone that knew him. It's saddening, but I respect a man's choice over his own life, may it ever be such a hard one. May he rest in peace.
yeah the issue is that some people don't express their feelings as much or they do it too late, then come the issue about not knowing each others' address/phone in most internet friendship cases or not being aware that someone does (in my case in late 2010 I was lucky because Eeems found my address in Omni hosting account then gave it to juju).
Also, for some people such as me, when we feel this down, we talk less than when feeling moderately down. I really hope no one else here has plans to do something similar.
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yeah the issue is that some people don't express their feelings as much or they do it too late, then come the issue about not knowing each others' address/phone in most internet friendship cases or not being aware that someone does (in my case in late 2010 I was lucky because Eeems found my address in Omni hosting account then gave it to juju).
Also, for some people such as me, when we feel this down, we talk less than when feeling moderately down. I really hope no one else here has plans to do something similar.
I tend to lock myself in as well. I've been through depression for a long while and have been feeling better for the past half year with my antidepressant pills. Sadly, those don't always work. I hope that if anyone here faces any bad thoughts, issues or personal problems, we can support each other for the general better being. I know I'm an on/off sidekick member here, but I quite love some of you guys.
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Not trying to offend here, but religion helps with depression. A lot of depression is caused by a subconscious awareness of guilt.
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yeah the issue is that some people don't express their feelings as much or they do it too late, then come the issue about not knowing each others' address/phone in most internet friendship cases or not being aware that someone does (in my case in late 2010 I was lucky because Eeems found my address in Omni hosting account then gave it to juju).
Also, for some people such as me, when we feel this down, we talk less than when feeling moderately down. I really hope no one else here has plans to do something similar.
I tend to lock myself in as well. I've been through depression for a long while and have been feeling better for the past half year with my antidepressant pills. Sadly, those don't always work. I hope that if anyone here faces any bad thoughts, issues or personal problems, we can support each other for the general better being. I know I'm an on/off sidekick member here, but I quite love some of you guys.
Yeah I got suggested sometimes to use anti-depressants before, but given horror stories I heard from my family about those, I was afraid that the side effects would make things worse, damage my health and getting addicted to the point where I am forced to take them forever. I don't want to do drugs to escape my problems (when any).Not trying to offend here, but religion helps with depression. A lot of depression is caused by a subconscious awareness of guilt.
That can work too, although of course it requires that you aren't strongly against religion like some people. But even if you aren't practicing or don't believe, for example over here a priest sometimes visit the hospital to give hope to the people there. I thought that was nice actually.
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That can work too, although of course it requires that you aren't strongly against religion like some people. But even if you aren't practicing or don't believe, for example over here a priest sometimes visit the hospital to give hope to the people there. I thought that was nice actually.
You'd never see this happen over here.
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I can't say I knew Tribal either, but I'm going to second everyone else and say I feel for his family and everyone who knew him, here or otherwise. It is a terrible loss. RIP.
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By the way, I thought about putting In memory of Tribal at the beginning of some of my next calc game releases (with Omni URL or logo) before the title screen appears, particularly the next RPG if it happens soon. Do you think it would be a good idea or not?
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If you wat to dedicate the game to it by all means go for it. he was worth it
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Indeed. Also I saw some programmers dedicating games to their girlfriends or lost friend/family member before, even some commercial games IIRC, which is why I got that idea. Plus Tribal was really great.
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It's a common practice in games, movies, TV episodes, even books (actually, in books, they always do that). So yeah, do it, mention him in the credits.
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Wow, this is a shock. I barely knew him too, but this is just sad. :'(
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Wow, this comes to a shock to me as well. Tribal was always a real chill dude when I talked to him. Suicide always hits me hard. I lost an Uncle to it early on it life. My condolences to the family.
Not trying to offend here, but religion helps with depression. A lot of depression is caused by a subconscious awareness of guilt.
You can believe what you will, but I think your comment is out of place here.
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If/when Star Trek MP comes out, if Sorunome is cool with it, I'm thinking that should also be dedicated to Tribal.
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The memorial service for tribal was yesterday. One of our members, Rcfreak0, went to this service to show his condolences to the family and to pass along a card that had everyone who contributed it. May he rest in peace and live on in memory and heaven for along time to come
and actually artofcamelot that statement is not out of place it is his view and he can express it. long as he doesn't push it on anyone religion talk is acceptable
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I'm personally planning to do it if there is ever a Super Sonic Ball clone for the 84+CSE and/or HP Prime, same for RPGs, but of course RPGs are a long kind of projects so they would most likely not be finished for months.
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The memorial service for tribal was yesterday. One of our members, Rcfreak0, went to this service to show his condolences to the family and to pass along a card that had everyone who contributed it. May he rest in peace and live on in memory and heaven for along time to come
The flowers you guys sent looked really nice, and as for the card, It took a little bit of fine print to fit everyone's signature and comments into the card. His family says thanks.
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It took a little bit of fine print to fit everyone's signature and comments into the card
Well, I guess that's only a good sign :)
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If/when Star Trek MP comes out, if Sorunome is cool with it, I'm thinking that should also be dedicated to Tribal.
yup, totally fine with it :)
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Oh, it is sad to hear that one of Omnimaga has passed away. I was aware of his username on IRC and at some point in the ARS (?), though never talked to him personally. Nevertheless I know enough to say that his presence will be sorely missed at Ominmaga.
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Geekboy by the way have you gotten both my signature and juju's in time? I wrote it on his tablet but I wasn't sure if he had time to send it to you.