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Posted by satchmo on Thu Dec 15th at 5:58pm 2005

I was dropping off some dry cleaning this morning before work, and I ran into one of my patients from my previous employment. She said to me "You're such a good doctor. We all missed you when you left the practice." Nothing brightens up my day like a good compliment.

That got me thinking, however. I told my wife that if something were to happen to me, she must log on the SnarkPit and tell you guys what happened to me. Even though we're thousands of miles apart, we share our joy and sorrow, perhaps even more so than our close friends near us.

No one else can really relate to the geeky elation when we get a certain setting for light_environment or a particular lightmapped shadow to work just right. No one can understand the devastation when an error destroys the map. That's why we come here. We are the only ones who can relate to each other in our mapping world.

So, make the proper arrangement in advance. So one day, if an accident were to befall on you, we know what happened.




"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge



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Posted by Underdog on Thu Dec 15th at 6:28pm 2005

Yes. My family knows to drop a line.

You know that scene where Ace Ventura leaves the Monk monastery? <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">




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Posted by G4MER on Thu Dec 15th at 6:53pm 2005

NO, because the first rule of the snarkpit is your dont talk about the snarkpit.



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Posted by omegaslayer on Thu Dec 15th at 10:24pm 2005

? quote:
NO, because the first rule of the snarkpit is your dont talk about the snarkpit.

/agree



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Posted by habboi on Thu Dec 15th at 10:40pm 2005

I always used to think about that and wondered how people on the internet would find out I was gone...Perhaps in time they'd realise.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Thu Dec 15th at 11:07pm 2005

When someone disappears everyone just assumes they grew tired of visiting. Having a loved one let the forum know would be the only way they'd realize what happened.




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Posted by satchmo on Thu Dec 15th at 11:58pm 2005

For all we know, Orpheus could be dead or in a coma. We would never know because his family wasn't instructed to inform us.


"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge



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Posted by Hugh on Fri Dec 16th at 12:14am 2005

If I get close to death, I'll put it in a will...

"My benificiary must visit 'The Snarkpit' and 'Myspace' and 'let everybody know' that I'm 'dead.'"

But yeah. They don't know/care now, since neither do I, nor you. :P




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Posted by wil5on on Fri Dec 16th at 12:26am 2005

I really have no idea what would happen. Obviously my IRL friends would find out, and that news would spread, but not to this forum. Its possible someone might come on my computer and use my msn account to tell everyone, then news would get here. Its also possible that someone might come to Snarkpit to give the news, since some of my IRL friends know of it. However, I think that would be unlikely.


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Posted by Biological Component on Fri Dec 16th at 12:50am 2005

Interesting concept...

...I never thought of this.



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Posted by French Toast on Fri Dec 16th at 3:05am 2005

At 14 I'm not planning on dying any time soon, but I'll often talk with my brother about anything interesting said here.

It's mostly about what movie to see next based on the reviews in Recently Watched. Thanks Crono, I'm off to King Kong this weekend <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Underdog on Fri Dec 16th at 3:17am 2005

? quoting French Toast
At 14 I'm not planning on dying any time soon,

Morbidity aside and all that, damned few actually plan.




There is no history until something happens, then there is.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Dec 16th at 4:38am 2005

? quoting UD:
Morbidity aside and all that, damned few actually plan.



Very true, but he's probably still got four more years to go before he realizes his own mortality. It took me until I was 18 myself to realize I'm not invincible (getting into a car crash can really wake you up).

So anyway, let's not ruin it for him.

As for whether or not my family or friends would get you guys word if anything happened to me, that's not a possibility. No one really knows I visit this site daily, because my friends aren't into this type of thing, and my parents just wouldn't get it. My dad can barely turn on the computer, he has no concept of online forums or communities <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by satchmo on Fri Dec 16th at 5:29am 2005

I wouldn't rely on my parents for anything remotely related to computers in a thousand years. It took me four years to teach one of them how to check the email, and after four months or so, their Yahoo email account expired because they haven't checked it for too long.

Thank goodness my wife is a computer programmer. I'll depend on her to spread the word.



"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Dec 16th at 5:40am 2005

In the beginning, my dad would have my mom print out the emails, and he'd read them and then handwrite replies for her to type up and send out. My mom got sick of this really quickly, and then made him learn how to do it himself... but it took a long time. He can do it now, but if anything goes wrong (like if a window pops up or a disappears) he has no idea what to do. It's as if the computer is completely unintuitive for him.




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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Dec 16th at 6:25am 2005

I've nobody to log on for me. Maybe if it pans out with this Russian girl from college, I'll make her my "internet beneficiary." lol




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Posted by Gorbachev on Fri Dec 16th at 8:01am 2005

Apparently my girlfriend had come browsing here and one or two other sites I frequent when I was hospitalized for a week and she wasn't able to see me. Something to remind her of me, I would imagine if I 'snuffed it' she might go and post about it.




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Posted by (-[PREDATOR]-) on Fri Dec 16th at 3:04pm 2005

Maybe everyone from Snarkpit should write testimony, where will be wrote "Write a post in website "www.snarkpit.net" in General Banter Forum that I'm dead. Delete my all e-mail accounts e.t.c. ...". I have never imaginated my friends and family reaction after my death as I can't imagine "live" (what happen) after I will die.




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Posted by LAzerMANiac on Fri Dec 16th at 3:45pm 2005

In case something happens to me, I'd probably ask one of my relatives to send everyone on my contact list an Email, IM or a forum post about whatever has happened.



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Posted by satchmo on Fri Dec 16th at 4:58pm 2005

The problem is...do your relatives and family member know all of your online haunts?


"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge




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