Obituaries

[Mongrel]

P.ELVIS

[Thad]

Ramona Fradon, co-creator of Metamorpho, trailblazer, and artist's artist.

[Mongrel]

Former Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney

On the positive side, you could say he advanced environmental legislation quite a bit and was one of the world's foremost leaders in the concerted anti-Apartheid campaign of the 80's.

On the other side you could also say he did so badly that he utterly destroyed the genuinely centre-right tory party we once had, reducing it to just TWO federal seats, leaving an opening for not just one, but two extremely destructive and rage-catering regional parties (one of which went on to become our current tory party), that his blundering on constitutional reform gave that process such enormously negative and torturous connotations that no political party has so much as whispered about constitutional amendments since and may not do so again for decades or even ever, no matter the need (i.e. for senate or voting reforms), or that he was later caught taking fat bribes from various lobbyist random goons in the form literal unmarked brown envelopes filled with cash, which was some impressively amateur hour shit for a goddamned ex-Prime Minister.

Goodbye Brian, I'm sure wherever you are, you and Ronny Regan can sing awkward "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" duets once again.

[Büge]

Akira Toriyama.

[Thad]

Damn. 68 is too young.

[Mongrel]

Aw shit, damn, no. :(

[Upthorn]

Can't believe Toriyama was only 68...

[Friday]

Never been a Dragon Ball fan, but his artwork was a big part of my childhood and life nonetheless. Dragon Warrior 3 has some of the most memorable, if not the most memorable enemy sprites for me, in any game, period. And of course there's the rest of DQ and CT as well.

RIP. A true giant.

[Thad]

M. Emmet Walsh, unforgettable character actor from ‘Blood Simple,’ ‘Blade Runner,’ dies at 88

[Mongrel]

The sniper from The Jerk too.

[Thad]

Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79

[Thad]

I was looking at Tracy Torme's credits on IMDb and learned that he died in January at the age of 64, of complications from diabetes.

He doesn't have a lot of credits this century, but he co-created Sliders and wrote for TNG.

Also I think his dad was like a musician or something.

[Thad]

Joseph Lieberman, senator and vice presidential nominee, dies at 82

He died the way he lived: scolding Democrats for not being more like Republicans.

Maybe after work I'll play some Doom in his honor.

[KingRoyal]

To honor him, pay some more on your next insurance premium. It's what he would have wanted

[Thad]

You know, as attractive as both those options are, I think I'll go with the Doom thing.

[Friday]

I have played a lot of Doom and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that I am absolutely what Joseph Lieberman feared Doom and violent videogames would turn me into: a people-first socialist

[nosimpleway]

Also extremely gay, though I don't think his loathing of LGBT+ had anything to do with his loathing of video games. It's just something else he would disapprove of.

[Friday]

I was gonna put this in the other thread for stupid crap that is named after me but somehow at this moment I think it belongs here

[Thad]

Also extremely gay, though I don't think his loathing of LGBT+ had anything to do with his loathing of video games. It's just something else he would disapprove of.

I hate to be in the position of defending the guy, but about the only positive thing I have to say about him is that he was progressive on gay rights back when that was still an unpopular position.

[Mongrel]

I was gonna put this in the other thread for stupid crap that is named after me but somehow at this moment I think it belongs here

The rich clang of perfectly-timed head-on-metal wallops is like, the pinnacle of the art of the pratfall.