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- nymphetamine, on 03/14/2009, -3/+287http://i44.tinypic.com/1672l48.jpg
- wannaBdug, on 03/14/2009, -0/+235Guess it's something now to be thought of when creating your will. I bequeath my character and password to little Johnny please carry on the fight.
- RyeBrye, on 03/15/2009, -1/+170Whenever someone signs off of IRC, I assume they are dead. If they sign back on again, I assume it is their ghost.
- sarchosis, on 03/15/2009, -4/+141I remember when I played WoW, our guild master was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and after the day he was supposed to go in for surgery, he never came back. We had no way of contacting him outside of the game and our forums, so we were forced to assume the worst. It didn't just mean losing a guild leader and having our game suffer, but we also lost a friend. RIP Aras of Cenarius
- inactive, on 03/14/2009, -2/+137"He set up a site called Deathswitch, where people can set up e-mails that will be sent out automatically if they don't check in at intervals they specify, like once a week. For $20 per year, members can create up to 30 e-mails with attachments like video files."
So if you forget to chek that account on Deathswitch you are dead, sounds stupid to me. - raz98, on 03/15/2009, -1/+112Something a little related to this.
Some time ago, I was reading the forum for the Longest Journey 2 - Dreamfall game (an adventure game, some of you probably know it). On this forum was a guy who was ranting about the long time the developers (Funcom) took for making the game, because he wanted to play it sooner. So I decided to reply to this guy, and told him that games take a while to develop, they are not so easy to make, etc.. I was somehow rude in my post, almost wanted to say "why do you hurry so much" or something like this...
After 2 years, the game was released,and I was curios how this guy would comment it. I search in the forums, but from a very active member, he stooped abruptly and didn't post anything after a certain date. On the forum I couldn't find anything, but I did a little research on the internet after his icq ID, and found out his name. Then searching his name I found out that this guy died. He was pretty old, and maybe that was the reason for his always complain about the long time they developed the game he was waiting for. I felt bad about the way I talked to him... - pingpants, on 03/14/2009, -6/+110"Did he drop any good loot?" One for the ages.
- deathfix, on 03/15/2009, -3/+106That's pretty ***** geeky, sir.
- memper, on 03/15/2009, -5/+108But who will let my Digg contacts know they killed me with teh lolz?
Disclaimer: I don't really have any Digg contacts.
I guess if I died, I'd want you all to bury me. for good.
And digging me up would take on new meaning. - sexybobo, on 03/15/2009, -0/+91How do we know you haven't already died?
- RyeBrye, on 03/15/2009, -0/+91"how would you stop it from checking once you died?"
It would be a very well written script. (I WAS JOKING!) - sexybobo, on 03/15/2009, -0/+84Both my sisters already have instructions on who they need to contact and who to give my steam account to.
- RyeBrye, on 03/15/2009, -1/+83I'd write a script to check it for me, just so I don't forget.
- buckrogers1965, on 03/15/2009, -0/+73I plan on writing a script to replace me so nobody knows I am dead. Attach Eliza to all my chat accounts. Send random links to political stories to an email list I am on.
For digg I'll just copy and paste someone else's high scoring comment from an earlier duplicate posting of the same story. - Intention, on 03/15/2009, -0/+73Who hasn't faked their own death online.
- Ajajadude, on 03/15/2009, -0/+59Knowing my ability to forget things (and get bored and stop visiting websites), I'd last a month before my family found out I had "died".
Not a bad idea, but it sounds like there could be some kinks to be worked out. - skatoolaki, on 03/14/2009, -4/+63After the death of an acquaintance in Second Life, it got me thinking as well. I live a pretty active online life - not just in gaming, but in many personal websites/blogs and social networks. How would my online friends, who are as important and special to my life as day-to-day friends, know of my passing? Would they be left to wonder if I'd just disappeared or left them over a recent misunderstanding?
Leaving a way to contact online loved-ones is important in today's world. What I did is tell my thoughts to a trusted online friend. Giving her my contact email/passwords (which I knew I could trust her with), I informed her on how to get in touch with gaming and social networking friends, and how to put notice on my website & notify my blog readers. I then gave her name and contact information to my mother my sister and told them to use it should something ever happen to me.
It's really something we all should think about if we have an active online social life. - Durrok, on 03/15/2009, -0/+58How insightful poopisthenewpee.
- Thugacation, on 03/15/2009, -32/+87Did he drop good loot?
- inactive, on 03/15/2009, -1/+54I used to be in a CS clan, and I got this email.
Subject: Sad news - server owner died
Message: And we can't get the server's password. Sorry but we have to move servers..
This isn't a joke.. it was pretty ***** up - inactive, on 03/15/2009, -1/+51MY real name is Niall Griffin. There's like 4 guys named Niall in the US. If you hear of one of them dying, put it together.
- Xizer, on 03/15/2009, -3/+53BIG SCARY INTERNET TOUGH GUY IS SCARY
- raz98, on 03/15/2009, -0/+49"thank"you cizzlebolicious. Well I had no idea that he was old when I talked to him. And he was always complaining on the forum about the long period this game was developing and I found it strange that he kept mentioning this. I wasn't very rude with him, just a little arrogant maybe, by telling him he doesn't know how "game industry works" and that newer games take long to develop. But if I knew he was old and the reason for his complain was that he probably knew he will not live that long, of course I wouldn't have said anything...
- Flipperbw, on 03/15/2009, -1/+49His script didn't prepare for that
- Mipit, on 03/15/2009, -0/+48Aww, In his final moments in life, he told us how he died.
- drufus, on 03/15/2009, -4/+51hi, im the internets... you must be new.Flex that e-toughness, yar!
- Brododium, on 03/15/2009, -2/+48Well, I for one sure... *aaack* (foam at corner of mouth)
*thud* - inactive, on 03/15/2009, -0/+45How about one of those services to notify people when you go to prison.
- mharber, on 03/15/2009, -1/+46My cousin died in May of '06 and he had invested a bunch into 2 characters in Everquest... I knew there was some value there that I could potentially sell and help his family with burial costs-- but I was blown away by the support from his clan. After cracking his yahoo account to find his online login credentials (not hard by the way), they ended up sending $1000 to me via PayPal and were very sympathetic (seemingly more so than people that had actually met him, which seemed odd to me). Anyways, I think this is a good idea..... dugg!
- DrunkCowOfDeath, on 03/15/2009, -0/+41Buried.
- JakeW, on 03/15/2009, -2/+41No, you wouldn't find him. You'd bitch and moan about this idiot's insensitivity towards your loved one's death.
But you won't ever meet him. I promise. So don't say you'll go to his house and rape/beat/kill him. You just won't. - 40yrOldVirgin, on 03/15/2009, -0/+38@GodsTwin: I would like to inform you that I'm still alive.
- Nishnabotna, on 03/15/2009, -0/+36Hmm, he must be dead. (!)
- Danltn, on 03/15/2009, -1/+37Looks like sexyamydoesntwantu
- staffa, on 03/15/2009, -0/+36I don't think violating Blizzard's ToS is going to be a compelling reason for anyone to not log in a person's account to inform their friends of said person's passing.
Oh what is Blizzard going to do, ban the guy's account, he's dead Jim, don't think he gives a ***** anymore. - ProjectGSX, on 03/15/2009, -0/+35Personally, when I die, I will be horribly disappointed it no one makes a sarcastic remark.
- superterrorizer, on 03/15/2009, -0/+35Pacemaker of Surprise +8!
- Cglass, on 03/15/2009, -0/+33My only question is, how many nialls are going into your coffin?
- Inverno, on 03/15/2009, -0/+31Joe has I WoW account. I don't like Joe. I tell Blizzard Joe's dead and I want to log on his character to tell his friends. Blizzard gives me the information. I log in and destroy all of Joe's items, give away his money, change his password, tell his friends things they won't like, and then delete his account.
Joe, who's a bit of an obsessive and isolated guy, finds he can't log in. Once he sorts things out with Blizzard they get his account and gear back for him. He logs in and discovers everyone he knows hates him. Joe kills himself. Joe's family sues Blizivision into oblivion. Warcraft shuts down, crippling the world economy.
Is that what you want sir? - Smiley09, on 03/15/2009, -0/+31Makes sense to leave some kind of access to let people to, just in case...
Now... who to instruct to delete terabytes of porn... - inactive, on 03/15/2009, -7/+37How every WoW gamer should go out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJVolaC8pw - LawScholar, on 06/25/2009, -9/+39Today, this kid on Xbox Live called me a *****, and I was like...what if you never logged back online...and I never got to hear you call me a ***** again?
It got me thinking about life. - yacks, on 03/15/2009, -0/+29Delete Porn? Are you nuts?
- superterrorizer, on 03/15/2009, -1/+30You know, I had an online friend who died in a car wreck 2 and 1/2 years ago, I just noticed she stopped getting online. I found out a couple of months later from a mutual acquaintance who was committed to letting all of her friends know that she had passed away, If not for this person, I would have always wondered what had happened. it was a very sad circumstance and it was still like losing a very close friend.
- oda1, on 03/15/2009, -0/+28It's also true for online chat. I use to chat with this chic 'sexyamywantsu' almost every day, and the chats would never be less than 30 minutes and often would exceed 2 hours. One day, she signed offline -- and stayed offline.
RIP Sexyamywantsu. - JoeF8577, on 03/15/2009, -2/+30but pretty cool too...
- GodsTwin, on 03/15/2009, -2/+29Well you have to admit it's a lot catchier than passing on your last name.
- visionaryIX, on 03/15/2009, -0/+26Buried for no real relevance whatsoever.
- Archer007, on 03/15/2009, -1/+27http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7104/indexv2.png
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