It's Good to be Missed

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.

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

Yes. My family knows to drop a line.

You know that scene where Ace Ventura leaves the Monk monastery? :sad:

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

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

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

/agree

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Posting And You

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.

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.

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.

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

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. :razz:

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One day you'll know what you're talking about, I can hardly imagine

Maps! - Audio blog!

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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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

Interesting concept...

...I never thought of this.

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
:smile:

French Toast said:
At 14 I'm not planning on dying any time soon,

Morbidity aside and all that, damned few actually plan.

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

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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 :smile:

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.

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

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.

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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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

depends. when you know someone irl that thinks alike then there's no reason why you should'nt tell him. Like my bro is a tfc fanat that freqents the uktfcl forums, he knows i come here. but i would never ask him to post here in the event of something happening to me. i'll leave that to him. when something would happen to him i would post it on uktfcl.

But to someone that isnt game-minded, i would never mention that i even come here.

lets just agree, if i stop coming here for more than a month without me posting that i leave this place, then anyone who wonders where i am may presume something unfortunate happened to me :smile:

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These words are my diaries screaming out loud

I can relay on my bro wich will somehow realize i must have been on some forum somewhere in my favorites.

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The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

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).

Actually, that hit me last year. One of my buddies that I used to
smoke pot with died from ODing on cocaine or something crazy like that.

I think you have to tell them explicitly. When you die, they're going to be preoccupied with grief, planning for funeral, and dealing with regret and depression. I don't expect them to think of an online forum.

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

satchmo said:
I think you have to tell them explicitly. When you die, they're going to be preoccupied with grief, planning for funeral, and dealing with regret and depression. I don't expect them to think of an online forum.

In all seriousness, no family member is going to give a damn about some internet web site. I doubt that we will ever read a post dealing with a death of a fellow member. It hasn't happened here in all the time I am aware of. I bet out of 2000+ members that someone has kicked the bucket.

Sadly, damned few people really take online experiences seriously enough to give notice of a death of their children/parents.

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

satchmo said:
I
think you have to tell them explicitly. When you die, they're going to
be preoccupied with grief, planning for funeral, and dealing with
regret and depression. I don't expect them to think of an online forum.

In all seriousness, no family member is going to give a damn about
some internet web site. I doubt that we will ever read a post dealing
with a death of a fellow member. It hasn't happened here in all the
time I am aware of. I bet out of 2000+ members that someone has kicked
the bucket.

Sadly, damned few people really take online experiences seriously enough to give notice of a death of their children/parents.

I remember a thread here where the brother of a member told the member
had died in a car accident. Turned out to be a false alarm though.

As you say, I doubt family and friends would even think of informing online communities or online friends.

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

Yeah, wasn't that about some project lead or webmaster whose sight was hacked?

I know your family members probably don't care, but I am sure you do. Don't you want us to know what happened once you're gone?

And if you care, I am sure your family members would care too, knowing that you care. But they probably don't know that you care, unless you tell them that you care.

And if that's not convoluted enough, you can do the chicken dance now.

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

satchmo said:
I know your family members probably don't care, but I am sure you do. Don't you want us to know what happened once you're gone?

And if you care, I am sure your family members would care too, knowing that you care. But they probably don't know that you care, unless you tell them that you care.

Lets just say that I care enough about each and every person here to not see your theory proved out shall we?

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

Yeah, wasn't that about some project lead or webmaster whose sight was hacked?

There was one here on snarkpit as well, written by one of our members.

The concept of dying is so hard to grasp for me, I'd rather not think about what happens afterwards. :sad:

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

Didnt vash made that topic or so?

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The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

Didnt vash made that topic or so?

Yep, it was him.

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

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.'"

Thats a brilliant idea! I'll remember that seriously! That would work effectively.